#people are good people will come together people can fuckinh overcome God if they need to

[liathgray]

Okay okay okay first off, i want to say i am LOVING your blackwell springs fic, can’t wait for the next update, but i was rewatching fmab as one does during a pandemic, and a Thought just occured to me - Roy wasn’t the only person who knew Ed commited the sin at the beginning of the series. Bradley probably knew right from the moment he met Ed he commited human transmutation,. Because Father was looking for people who opened the gate, right, since he didn’t get that shut together until literally the day of. Like he had Hohenheim probably, and canidates who could open up the gate but nothing solid, so Bradely was probably looking for alchemists that opened them as well, right? And a sign of people opening the gate is clapping transmutation. And Edward did that right in front of Bradely. So he probably knew right there that Edward committed human transmutation because he saw the gate and could use clapping transmutation and said nothing because he was a sacrifice, I don’t know if anyone has pointed it out befor because i came into the fandom really late and I don’t have anyone else to talk to about this but thank you for coming to my TED Talk

YES ABSOLUTELY! And I think it’s worth noting that this is by design.

This wasn’t oversight on the writing or the characters this was intentional. To me it was, anyways. Because thats the whole... point.

The homunculus don’t see value in humans—not in their intelligence, their agency, their unpredictability, their ingenuity, their strength, their unity, their stubbornness, their overwhelming compassion—none of that matters to the villains.

They can’t even go down the mind trail of “heeey what if this kid causes too many problems or somehow stops us?” Cause that just never crossed their mind.

The reason Bradley didn’t just pluck Ed and Al out of the alchemy exam and lock them in a cell until the promised day is because they constantly undervalue and underestimate humans and !! And thats such a cool detail!!

Like. It happens everywhere. They didn’t snatch up their candidates or official sacrifices because they didn’t even consider... maybe they could come together and ruin all this.

They let Izumi, Whorehenheim, Ed and Al just fuck around for YEARS and that negligence, that lack of value in humans killed them.

Hubris. Killed. A. God.

At the hands. Of a child.

Who they could have stopped.

Oh, sweet sweet irony.