When Edward sacrfices his alchemy for Al it’s shown after that he, in fact, will never be able to use it anymore. However, as he proposes to Winry he offers half of his life in exchange for Winry’s half, making this a sort of intent on transmutation. And just as Truth told him, he will never be able to do those anymore, since Winry offers her whole life, failing the transmutation and breaking the rule of equivalent exchange but accepting his feelings anyways, showing Ed and the reader once more that one doesn’t need to depend on alchemy to achieve his goals and be happy, in this essay I will-