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[truthget]

[Voice - Locked from Al, Winry, Gracia, and Elicia]

This might seem like a weird question, but I need to ask.

A lot of people - kids, even - act like they're fine with death and killing. The draft taught me that much. And around here dying doesn't even seem to matter because you just come back anyway. Is that what makes it- [Not okay, he can't

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[Voice] Not too late, I hope? Also apologies for tl;dr

[magiconcehad]

[This... is actually a really uncomfortable question. It brings up lots of memories. Memories of arguments and fights who really had no idea what they were doing, who were just trying to get by long enough to figure out the way home. She'd never really gotten too involved with them, even before she'd lost her magic and by that main means of fighting, instead sitting and watching the others as they tore at each other, feeling blank. Was it really okay to hurt and kill others, even if they only defending themselves? Did they really have no other choice?

Circular arguments that had no real beginning and no real end, with neither side really willing to concede their points. It'd gotten to the point where she'd hated the fighting her friends did more than the issue it involved.

She already knows about the draft, at least. But what he's saying... it's just like back then in Otherworld. Did this person, whoever they were, really have to bring it up? Wouldn't people just start fighting about it here too?]

People... [she pauses. What exactly is she trying to say here?] They probably already fight about this. About whether it's okay or not.

[Pointedly avoiding mentioning her own opinions because... she really doesn't know. It's not okay. She knows it's not, but... after hearing all those fights, and just running possible situations in her head... was there really never a time when it wasn't wrong?]

[Voice] nope, not too late. and no worries at all!

[truthget]

I'm not looking to start any fights. I just want to gather some thoughts on the issue, good or bad.

[Voice] Yay!

[magiconcehad]

[Thoughts, huh? Well she had a lot of those. Just not all of them were the most clear-cut.]

... when you go to different worlds... everything changes. Things that just... that made sense suddenly don't.

[She is - in her own roundabout way, trying to talk about the subject matter at hand. Dying, killing other people... it'd been all so clear cut back home. Then they'd gone to Otherworld, and the rules had changed. What was considered "acceptable" had changed. But were they supposed to adopt the rules and morals of the world they were in, or try to retain the ones they'd lived with all their lives? And thus the others had fought.]

[Voice]

[truthget]

That's why you can't stop thinking or asking questions. If you want things to make sense, even in a new world, you have to figure them out for yourself.

[In a way, this should be an alchemist's heaven- a new world, so many other worlds to learn about, and the natural order of things existing in sheer defiance of the rules of his trade. On the other hand... it's not a good place to be, either.]