I don’t know about you guys, but I bloody loved how realistic 03 was when it came to Edward’s childhood, like don’t get me wrong, 09 made Ed look like a tough kid who could endure anything and did show how that all cracked when his mother died, while in 03.
It showed what a real show of how sensitive children were, Edward was boosted by his mother’s smile and encouragement, because that’s what most children work off— Hearing their parent’s praise and it makes them feel good about themselves and they continue doing it.
And in Episode 3, it showed just how easily that all broke down when Ed imagined losing his mother, he just broke down and sobbed with his little brother into her apron because if his mother died.
Who would be there for him? Who would smile and praise him the way she did? What were they going to do without her?
Ed acts like a tough kid and all but really, he’s just as sensitive as any other child.
I will fight to the death that 03 was best at portraying the Elric family and Edward’s childhood.
ED IS SUCH a precious stupid fucking dork idiot at the start of the series but he literally does a 180 while still holding onto the sense of justice he started with. like instead of starting with no morals and gaining them, or starting with many and losing them, he begins and ends with a strong set of beliefs and ideas that grow to accommodate the people, cultures, and truths he comes across. so by the end hes this tall and well educated guy who got past his cynicism and became thE SAPPIEST AND MOST WELL ROUNDED PERSON EVER
I LOVE ED ELRIC
That’s so true tho like especially in the manga when cornello’s telling him his plans to take over the country ed literally says “I don’t care about that.” His morals just extend to him and his loved ones bc he knows the world is screwed up but he’s fighting tooth and nail just to make things right for his brother and he’s not making progress and he feels so helpless. He sees what happened to Nina, and how preventable it could’ve been, and mustang’s just telling him not to let it affect him. It’s the same attitude ed had toward cornello but he doesn’t want to feel that way anymore, he doesn’t want to accept a world where little girls are abused in the name of science, but at the same time he’s still fighting that feeling of helplessness – “we’re only human!” so what difference can he make in this world? But it turns out he makes a huge difference. He figures out the homunculi’s plans and realizes his and Al’s whole struggle was coopted by the homunculi so they could destroy Amestris – and now he’s fighting to help save the country he said he didn’t care about in chapter one. But he’s still fighting that feeling of helplessness, he tells Winry how the odds are against him winning and how he’s afraid to hope everything will come out all right. But she refuses to think that way, and eventually he accepts her faith in him. It gets him thinking how humans support each other even when they fail, how our greatest strength as a species is in how we band together, and when he tells this to envy he realizes that that’s the only strength humans have that homunculi don’t. He realizes how alchemy has become about the power of the individual, and that its greatest power – the philosopher’s stone – is an inversion of humanity’s greatest strength. Instead of the individual serving society for the greater good – “alchemist, be thou for the people” – a community of souls is used to power one alchemist. It’s this knowledge that ed uses to defeat Truth – who is the personification of all the energy in the universe – by giving up his individual power, ed relies on the power of the whole. “Who needs alchemy when I’ve got them?” Ed realizes it’s not him against the world – that in the end, he was only able to accomplish his goal after he had effectively saved the world – and it becomes his personal philosophy to give more to humanity than he received, to be the one who contributes to the whole, because that’s the set of rules ed lives by now. He doesn’t live by equivalent exchange anymore. He’s not looking to get as good as he gives. He’s going to contribute to the world in every way he can, because even though he’s only one human being, he’s not THE only one. His one has become part of the all.
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