Oh first time! Wow!!! Hope you’re enjoying it!! As for Ed, I believe he got sick because he was getting so worked up and emotional about digging up the thing they made, it made him throw up. In the manga, ed got sick after first creating that thing, and I think digging it up was traumatic in itself and also made him relive that initial trauma of the failed transmutation so he was super anxious and scared and he couldn’t handle it, he was pushing himself too much and he just kinda barfed because of it. I think it’s possible he also just wasn’t feeling well considering it was raining. Ed’s usually in pain when it rains so it’s possible his stomach was already feeling sensitive or he was already nauseous and doing something so traumatic was just too much for his body to handle. Anyway! Here’s a small part of that scene in the manga. They do point it out but don’t really go into detail as to why, so I’m just guessin tbh!
LITERALLY Pinako and Hoho probably still got together all the time to drink and would just swear it up like the rowdy ol’ days and they totally forgot baby Ed was sitting right across the table taking it all in
it literally just dawned on me that Pinako probably thought Winry was dead
Winry goes to Briggs to help with Ed’s automail, and that’s normal enough – but she never calls to check in. And maybe Pinako thought, oh, she’s growing up. She’s off in Rush Valley now, she’s not going to call me every time she goes somewhere – except Winry never calls. Weeks pass. She calls Garfiel, who says he hasn’t spoken to her since she left. She asks around other places and comes up with nothing. She even tries to contact the Briggs military, but it’s a mess and no one will talk to her. She tries to find Ed and Al, but no one knows where they are either.
Months pass.
She starts to wonder if she’s going to lose Winry the same way she lost her son – if Winry was going to leave home to go help someone and never return. She wonders why she keeps losing everyone she cares about. Her house felt emptier when Winry left for Rush Valley, but it feels like a graveyard for those six months, and she tries to fill the space with just herself and Den, and she tries not to imagine that Winry’s dead.
and then finally, after nearly half a year without word from anyone, Winry comes home.
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