"Take my leg. Take my arm. Take my heart! Anything you can have it! Just give him back. He's my little brother, he's all I've got left!" -Edward Elric
I had only lost a leg. I didn't really mind that loss too much, as I now understood I deserved it. After turning mom into that I deserved a lot worse. It had been my idea after all. The blood loss and lack of mobility were the only true drawbacks now. They got in my way.
I had to save Alphonse. He didn't deserve to have taken the worst of the rebound. He didn't deserve any of this. It was my idea from the start. I had pressured him into it. I was the one that had dove into this act of stupid wanting without thinking. He wouldn't have suggested this. He wouldn't have had someone do this with him if he had thought it was dangerous, and he would have never ever gone through with it if he had though with it once standing on the circle and weighing the risks. It was me. I did this, not him. This was all my fault and he shouldn't have to pay for it.
I knocked over the armor in the corner and threw off the helmet.
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I'm back with my second story. This one is going to be very short compared to Worst Moments.
Basically, Ed is reflecting on why his arm was taken in trade for Al compared with what else he offered and the symbolic value of each. These are NOT his thoughts during the actual transmutation. He was too hysterical at the time to be thinking too deeply.
Hope you enjoy!