p class="MsoNormal"Secretly, he did hate Edward. He hated Edward, he loathed Edward, he loved his brother with such a passion it felt like it might just eventually consume him. However, it wasn't what everyone would have expected from the younger Elric, so he kept his rage quiet. What everyone would have expected was for Alphonse to be angry at his brother for doing the transmutation, for locking his soul in this empty tin suit of a body and throwing away the key, for leading him with false hopes of returning their family to normal just to leave it in more pieces than with what they began. That is what everyone, including Edward assumed, and that is why Alphonse hated his brother. For those reasons? No! Definitely not! All of those can be forgiven. They were both suffering in pain from their losses for they both had lost. They were both at fault for an accident that never should have happened. They both shared the torture of the evenings where awake or asleep. For those reasons, Alphonse was not angry at all. It was for his naïve assumptions that he hated his brother. How could Edward think so low of him to imagine that he placed all of the blame on him for what they both equally had a part in? How could his brother, the only family left in his world, the idol of his younger self, and his future savior think that he was suffering alone? How could he think that he would just abandon their brotherhood because everything just simply went wrong? Alphonse hated his brother for putting those ideas into his own head, for swarming himself with all of this guilt over the years, for not giving him the chance to comfort him. Alphonse loathed him, he hated him, he loved his brother with all of the might in the world it just might eventually consume him, because what his brother refused to accept, was that he could hold his own weight too. /p
