I’m glad Maes Hughes died.
He’s a fan favorite character and I enjoy him a lot too, but I think fundamentally he’s a character who has to die. His role in the narrative is to haunt it.
I might be even more of a weirdo because I enjoy his manga characterization over his Brotherhood or ‘03 portrayal, but I love the idea of Hughes being someone the Elric brothers barely know - someone we, the audience, barely see.
Until he dies.
Because suddenly he’s everywhere. He was Roy’s friend and Armstrong’s superior officer and Winry’s acquaintance and Elicia’s father - and he was the soldier both Ed and Al knew, but didn’t actually know, that got killed because of them anyway.
In the manga Winry stays at Hughes’ place, but Ed and Al enter his house for the first time after they found out he died. For them, it’s not about losing a friend (though I am sure they liked him just fine) because that story is already Roy’s - for them it’s about realizing that this plot they’ve involved themselves in kills people that aren’t actually directly involved at all to begin with. It makes sense for their allies and friends and loved-ones to be targeted by the antagonists - but a soldier who mostly joined in because he was at the right (or wrong) place at the right (wrong) time? That’s not supposed to happen. And that’s what makes Hughes’ death so hard on them.
(and poor Elicia - abandoned children without their fathers were always a weakness of Ed’s)
But Roy? Yeah... he suffers. From the moment of Hughes’ dead on, Roy is haunted by it. By him. His best friend follows him everywhere. We see it in the way Roy only involves himself in the plot because Hughes figured something out and Roy is desperate for answers. He hunts down the homunculi to save this country, sure, but mostly so he can burn his best friend’s murderer to the ground. When Riza talks about winning against the Führer and their military dictatorship, she talks about all of them, not a hint of revenge coloring her vision - but Roy? It is telling that it isn’t a greater ideal that makes him torture Envy, but the agony of his best friend’s death.
The thing that almost breaks Roy is Maes.
No.
It’s Maes’ memory haunting the narrative.
And isn’t that beautiful?
The tragedy of it all, the horror, and the realization that Roy Mustang never really recovered from the War, that his friends are the only think keeping him in one piece, the fact that Roy Mustang is a Hero and a Monster and a fallible human capable of love.
Maes Hughes has to die to remind all of us of what Roy Mustang is capable of: love, loyalty, devotion.... and the slaughter and torture of numerous people.
His ghost is haunting the narrative - and for that I love him.
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English major Aether, who you can always ask for help when you miss class and need the notes.
English major Aether, who shows up to every single class because he knows someone is probably going to end up asking him for notes.
English major Aether, who you always sit next to in class because he’s just so easy and fun to talk to.
English major Aether, who always asks to be your partner because he knows that you’ll actually do your part of the project, definitely not just because he wants more time to talk to you.
English major Aether, who you always have to talk out of “helping” people with papers.
English major Aether, who is somehow always helping someone with their work, at a party, with his friends, or passed out in his dorm.
English major Aether, whose sister terrifies you when she shows up to his dorm while you two are studying.
English major Aether, who is somehow sitting near the top of the class just because he’s such a hard worker.
English major Aether, who takes you with him to a party and you have the most wild night since he was always up to doing something or going somewhere.
English major Aether, who loves how you’re his one normal thing he can hold on to in his incredibly chaotic life.
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may i request some fun facts regarding honeybell? Shes such a cutie!
Hi there!! That's very sweet of you to ask about Honeybell! Thank you for the kind words as well! :'o) <3 Okay some fun facts for you! I shall give you quite a bit because I don't get to talk about her as much!
Honeybell's birthday is January 6th and her MBTI is INTJ!
She runs the Dreamalong Library, which Earl regularly causes havoc at! She regularly bans him from the Library but will momentarily lift the ban from time to time because she has a weak spot for his "Please I want to Sniff the Books" Puppy Eyes :oD
Earl's antics at the Library on a nearly daily basis makes Honeybell a regular at the Dreamalong Milk Bar!
Honeybell gets very easily over-stimulated by noises/has Misophonia and is usually seen wearing headphones!
She has a Book Club with Archie, Mufflin, and Bertie! Their go-to genres include horror, romance, and adventure novels :o) Mufflin might skip the horror books though!
She has a panflute she doesn't play anymore.
She was inspired by baby Chirin, and Chopper from One Piece, Shaun the Sheep, and Lambchop!
Here is a bonus Honeybell drawing for you! :oD
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Oh to be academic rivals with Michael Gavey and fuck him stupid because he's getting in my way of being the top of the class so I come up with a plan to distract him from studying by fucking him stupid but that somehow makes him score even higher 🤤
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“The seven sons of Fëanor were Maedhros the tall…”
Meadhros carrying little Maglor on his shoulders to watch the light in Valinor. I like to think that due to his height, his brothers got him to do this a lot when they were little; they could see so much from up there (and being the caring older brother he was, he always let them).
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