I have posted this on another site as well, Lunaescense. But I wanted to post it here. All about Al! I love him! He such a wonderful person! Now do enjoy and leave a note or two!
Al was a strong person. He had to be strong.
Living as a suit of armour for almost as much time as he had been human wasn't easy; it was a factor that needed strength of character.
He had seen his brother die and come back. He had lost his brother to the other side of the gate and had searched for a way to bring him back. He had gotten his brother back and had been able to say that he had been strong enough not to give up on the idea that Ed was still alive.
He had watched as people cried, touched, smelled, tasted, felt and wished that he could do those things. It had taken all the strength he had not to envy them and believe that he was going to get his body back.
He had watched as his teacher explained to a little girl that the dead was dead and therefore couldn't be brought back. He had watched as that same child grasped it faster than he and Ed had. Thinking back he realized that they had not taken that one fact into account and had paid for a sin that could've been avoided. He had needed to be strong to accept that a child younger than what they had been accepted death easier than them.
Alphonse Elric, youngest of the Elric family, was strong and he didn't deny that. He couldn't. He had gone through much more than the ordinary human...even more than Ed, but he couldn't deny that to road to the strength he had hadn't been one hell of a ride.