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pharahsgf:

say what you will about roy mustang but i like the point hiromu arakawa makes w his character – ie that an irredeemable person living on and devoting themselves to right their wrongs is infinitely more respectable and effective than that person “redeeming” themselves via death without ever doing anything to improve the lives they’ve ruined

Finding something worth dying for is easy, and also meaningless.

Finding something worth living for, especially after committing atrocities for which you believe you deserve to be executed? That’s a hell of a thing.

Not just that but like. I am on my first watchthrough of FMAB and just got past the episodes that actually showed what they were doing in Ishval. Where Ed learns what Roy’s plan is.

His plan isn’t just “something worth living for” – he’s trying to dismantle the military state that committed the atrocities, reinstate the democratic government that had been drained of power, and then get people – INCLUDING HIMSELF AND SOME OF HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS – tried for war crimes, which would probably end in them getting executed.

Roy Mustang’s plan to atone for what he did and the people he hurt is to try to make sure that people – including himself – pay for what happened in a very public way. He would not be remembered as a hero, but as a mass murderer and war criminal, and that’s what he wants, because it’s the right thing to do.

And Riza, who shouldn’t really have even been PART of all of it except he’d inspired her into thinking joining the military to protect their people was a noble thing to do, is right behind him, supporting him and ready to take him out if he ever decides that actually, he’d rather just take the power and not face the consequences he really should be facing.

That blows my mind and is an amazing fuckin storyline to give someone, even if it doesn’t end up happening that way in the end. A+.