A little reflection on how Ed just seems to mark everyone he meets. Especially when everyone's name is Roy Mustang.

Farewell, brother mine

The first time I saw you, you were lying on a bed, unconscious, small, bleeding, two limbs missing. I did not imagine, when I told your brother my name, that you would change my life.

You turned my life upside down the day you marched into my office, still not very tall but standing on two legs, with a metallic clang every time your left foot hit the ground, as if to remind yourself of what you had done, your face determined.

We fought a lot, we had fun, you came bashing in, you got hurt more often than not, and I discovered I had started to care for you. When you weren't there I looked around to find you. I missed a familiar presence. You were like a little brother I was responsible for but could tease nonetheless.

You turned my life upside down again that day when I was going to the Fuhrer's. We talked but we didn't say the most important. We didn't really say goodbye. You just slapped my hand away, as if to say, "I don't need you".

I got wounded that day, I left the military, I lost my eye. But more importantly, I lost you.

I thought you were dead. I tried to make it up to you by caring for Alphonse, but it wasn't the same. He wasn't you, and he only had eyes for you.

You turned my life upside down when you came back. I had a lot of shocks that day, seeing non-human soldiers, machines and stuff, but the greatest shock of all was knowing you were alive.

You turned my life upside down one last time, the same day. By leaving.

I held your brother as you turned your back on us, said farewell. I couldn't speak. I knew you were right. But that didn't make it any easier.

Sometimes I envy Al. He disappeared too, but at least he's with you now. I stayed, and I closed the passage, as you asked, thus killing any chance of seeing you again.

I think of you every day, and we often talk about you. You and I walked side by side for four years, and I never told you these words. And my lips stretch into a smile when I think how you would have reacted, had you heard them.

Farewell, brother mine.

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