WHAT IF MAES HUGES NEVER DIED!?
He tells Roy about everything he discovered he goes home and hugs his wife and daughter and everyone lives happily ever after... And then the illuminati-I mean homunculus attack and there's a civil war, but it's ok because the good guys win and Al spontaneously gets his body back.
THE END.
I haven't cried at a character death since I was five. AND THEN MAES FUCKING HUGHES HAD TO GO AND DIE. I am not kidding, tears were actually streaming down my face.