thusia | (no subject)

Are we calling it a day for now...?

Unless you really want another try. I've had enough practice for the day.

I wouldn't want to tire you out— why, you might start getting back pains!

Don't worry, I kept my training and stamina up just fine, even after I started teaching.

I'd be surprised if you hadn't! Or if you really managed to keep yourself out of trouble for so many years.

...Some trouble, anyway. There was always something new coming up, no matter how hard I tried to stay out of it. Though the last few years were pretty quiet, at least.

[laughing]

You know, given that trouble always seems to catch up with you anyway— shouldn't you start thinking maybe you're the problem?

Hey, now, isn't that a little harsh?

Besides, it wasn't ever the same level of trouble again like it was around the Promised Day.

I'd hope so. That's not a level of trouble that should repeat itself.

It's really not. And thankfully it never did... things were a lot more peaceful all around after that, even with the ongoing border fights and troubles.

Peaceful times, huh? Sounds pretty good.

Once we calmed things down in the aftermath of the mess left over from the homunculi.

Greed mentioned you said he had his own body.

He did. But he was just a regular human, like the rest of us. So were Pride and their father. He didn't take it very well at all.

...Really? So even their father survived?

*nods*

Which of them survived in your timeline?

I know you spared Pride. Everyone else was taken out.

All of them, huh...

By the time I was taken to Sabra, most of them had already been killed, but I used my wish to spare the three that were still alive when I left. I didn't want to see any more death. Not after that day, and not after that place.

I'm not quite as noble-hearted as you are. Aside from Greed, I think they got what was coming for them. It was self-defense, after all.

Maybe they did. But Sabra was a world full of death, and I was so tired of it. So tired of watching people I cared about die, and so tired of dying. I didn't want anyone else to have to go through it, whether they deserved it or not. Without their powers, they couldn't do any more damage anyway.

They became humans in your timeline, so it's a different situation, I guess...

I can't say I like the idea of King Bradley living, but the sentiment behind not wanting to see people you care about die anymore... I understand that.

Ah, I wasn't exactly heartbroken to find out he'd been killed before I took Messenger's deal. That would've made the work of changing things that much more difficult. Felt sorry for his wife, though.

But I couldn't ask to just save a few, and kill others. Humans, homunculi, Amestrians, Ishvalans, Xingese, it didn't matter. I just wanted all the fighting and killing to stop. There'd been too much.

That sounds like a very "you" thing to say.

That cave didn't change me that much.

Honestly, I can't imagine anything changing you— no matter how awful. You are that sort of person, after all.