That one scene in FMAB where Winry almost shoots Scar but Ed stops her and slowly takes the gun out of her hands while telling her that her hands were meant to give life, not kill, and Winry breaks down as “Let it Out” fades into play Reblog if u agree
Anonymous asked: Best thing about FMA:B is that Nina is still remembered and a very defining part of a lot of their convictions towards people and alchemy. Al's conversation with Gracia highlights even some of the seemingly unimportant plot-related arcs from the very beginning still have large ripples through the FMA storyline. Because Nina originally felt like a lesson in human cruelty, but ended up being a lesson on humanitarianism.
This is also one of my absolute favorite little details. The biggest complaint I have about a lot of long-running, save-the-world type shows is that the characters will go through so many traumatic experiences that–for the sake of convenience–the writers just start to forget the early ones. There will be something so vital, so life-changing that happens in early episodes that just kinda gets…phased out. The writers are bored of it. The writers have decided bigger/cooler things need to happen instead. The writers just frigging forget, or change their minds, because that was still test-phase stuff for their characters and they want to renege on the characters caring so much about “early traumatic event”
Not Fullmetal Alchemist.
Not Nina.
The impact she has on the Elrics is lasting. It’s consistent. It’s real. It’s never. damn. forgotten.
The final chapter. Within the final 20 pages of the entire series, we get this
Here Al is trying to overhaul his and Ed’s entire life philosophy. He is attempting to reject the core ideas of alchemy. He’s trying to prove an entire different system of equivalence. Because he has not forgotten Nina. Because Ed has not forgotten. Because they refuse to forget.
Nina died in chapter 5.
And it is her memory that motivates the boys’ final actions in the final chapter: chapter 108
Because the consequences in this series are real, and the effects are lasting, and nothing is done just for shock, and nothing is thrown away
and nothing
is ever
forgotten
You are so…so right
This is Ed’s crowning moment in the entire series. This is his greatest break-through, his largest accomplishment, his most defining moment. Far more than beating Father! Far more than his transmutation! This is the culmination of everything Ed’s been though. This is Ed accepting humanity over power, and love over status, and family over his own most prized ability. That is everything Father refused to do, and the reason Father was punished. Ed was punished early on too for seeking the impossible, but Truth left open a window for redemption. Truth gave Ed the chance to do right. Truth gave Ed the opportunity to beat it, and win.
And Ed does.
And he does, in some fraction, because he’s refused to forget Nina. In his defining moments, in the transmutation that saves his little brother’s life, that lets him regain everything of value he’d lost, at the cost of his alchemy which he knows is worthless compared to all else–he is thinking of Nina.
Nina has been dead since chapter 5. That impact lasts through the most vital pieces of 108.
