All aboard the TL;DR boat

[blunder_buss]

Arakawa, I can truely an honestly say you are one the greatest storytellers I have ever had the joy to know. I don't think a story has ever made me cry like this before.

I wish, more than anything, that one day I can make a story this amazing.

Comments

[raja815]

The Roy thing really, really bothered me. She really dropped the ball there. The Roy we've seen up to now always put his subordinates first; I can't believe he wouldn't have thought of Havoc. Particularly after Havoc just saved all their asses with his truck of supplies.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.

[blunder_buss]

Yeah, seriously. I assume that he did heal Havoc eventually, since we see him trying to walk again in the last pages, BUT HAVOC SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST. And possibly Riza too, with her nasty neck wound.

That really disappointed me. Bad Arakawa. :|

[evil_little_dog]

As a flag waving Winry fan, I agree that she should've had a longer scene (more scenes?). And we should've seen her busting the boys' chops for not letting her know they were okay long before they showed up (because that was certainly the implication I got). Still, the return of 'you know you're supposed to call' was adorable and I can almost (almost) forgive anything for that for the Rezembool Trio.

The Al's body thing - YES. That seriously bothered me (especially since I figured Mei would be sticking around to help build up his strength using alkahestry or something, much as I dislike Mei). I kept thinking, as the brothers were walking home, "How long has it been since the Promised Day, here? A couple of years?" I know, 'magic, magic' storytelling-hand wave, but still.

[blunder_buss]

Yeah, the good old 'you should have called' thing was cute, but it wasn't enough. I think the scene deserved a lot more than an old catchphrase that happened ages ago.

Personally, I would have liked to see a scene where Winry proudly serves Al one of her apple pies, and Edward is happy to see Al smiling. Those are all things they were looking forward to, so it'd be nice to see it happen.

I dunno how long it had been since the Promised Day and when the boys got home, but I figure it hadn't been that long. But there's still no way he could've walked all that way - astronaunts are crippled from a few months in space and they have modern recuperation techniques. Al doing it with their pre-modern medical technology in only a few weeks/months? Yeah right.

[evil_little_dog]

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you. I agree that there should've been more Winry (I always think that, mind you, but that's just me). It would've been nice to see Pinako's reaction to the boys returning home, too, not just her reaction to finding Hohenheim.

And the hand waving magic thing that allows Al to walk that soon, well...I keep reminding myself, "Magic, magic! Alchemy healing,from Dr. Marcoh!" *cough*

[anonymous]

I think Al's health issues can be explained by it being magic malnutrition -- I mean, how exactly did the food eaten by Ed get to him, and what did he do to pass the time in that place? (I imagine that Arakawa made his immediate return relatively painless because a medical emergency would complicate the pacing).

Maybe I just got desensitized to convenient recoveries whenever Izumi is coughing blood on account of her mysterious missing organs. 9_9

Agreed on the ending being a little too happy (I was fully expecting Scar to be a goner) and also on Havoc (although in my personal fanwank they did do something to help him, because I was under the impression that the use of his legs was completely gone and there he is trying to walk in the end).

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