"The transmutation requires separating soul from body. Soul and body are always going to want to become one again. My body is beyond the Gate."
These were the simple truths of Alphonse's life. Nothing to do with right or wrong. And it hadn't even been a full ten years -- coming up on 8, now. Ed had been 10 at the time.
But Al snorts. "Right. They love me so much, they'd do anything for me -- maybe once, but... it's been eight years I've been like this. I'm just a burden, now." After all, a ten year old with no one but his brother was a lot more invested in that brother than an adult with sex and a career and a world to save. It had been made increasingly clear to Al that he was an imposition, a drain on their resources. And hardly worth the time, when he would be dead soon anyway.
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These were the simple truths of Alphonse's life. Nothing to do with right or wrong. And it hadn't even been a full ten years -- coming up on 8, now. Ed had been 10 at the time.
But Al snorts. "Right. They love me so much, they'd do anything for me -- maybe once, but... it's been eight years I've been like this. I'm just a burden, now." After all, a ten year old with no one but his brother was a lot more invested in that brother than an adult with sex and a career and a world to save. It had been made increasingly clear to Al that he was an imposition, a drain on their resources. And hardly worth the time, when he would be dead soon anyway.