Ling Yao is one of the luckiest sons a bitches in FMA, he has repeatedly been in situations that if it wasn’t the right place and time he would have fucked entirely fully and completely up. to wit: been very in jail when a serial murderer just so happened to pass by and convincing him to not only let him out but also not murder him! as just one of the examples. His entire “”””plan””” is to make an incredibly rash decision and then roll nat 20s through the entire encounter until the event is over for him and it Works pretty much every time.
Got into rereading+rewatching FMA again and somehow I forgot about my pure sinnamon roll boy Al since 2012/2013 -- forgive me Al, for I have sinned _(:3 」∠)_
Also, minor(?) series spoilers if you know where/which to look, I guess???
@atomicpowered writes really funny shit and sometimes is generous enough to give me enough hints about certain upcoming scenes that i can make bullshit ahead of time - when they said they were thinking about adding in a greed/lanfan sparring scene my hand was already on the tablet before I finished reading the sentence
anyways if you haven’t read atomics full post-canon greedling fic yet i can only assume you haven’t heard of it before yet so here’s a link to the start of the fic you’re Welcome (and for those of you that are caught up here’s the chapter this scene is from - try to spot the exact moment greed realizes he’s made a Mistake!)