I’m gonna let these events speak for me (cut because a lot of gifs):

And ofc the most solid hug in the anime history :3

and ofc this:

Real talk: I just like that ship above too damn much. There’s ofc nothing wrong with shipping Ed // ling and technically I probably could do that, but I am writing fics first and foremost for myself, and I simply am not invested enough to write about other Ed ships. It wouldn’t be a good fic if the reader could see the author doesn’t care.