like you're a demon
Character: Giolio Comanche
Summary: Correction, he is a demon.
He believes in the state and he believes in the state alchemists.
He believes in Reine Hamilton and Zolf J. Kimblee because they are the kind of people to go through with what they have to do. He does not believe in Roy Mustang, Alex Louis Armstrong and Basque Grand because they seem to follow their own agendas.
And yet, Mustang and Grand are hailed as the victors, as the heroes of the war while Hamilton and Kimblee are either forgotten or remembered as the lunatics who have blown up entire villages within the blink of an eye – just like any other state alchemist as well. To him, the ones who are hailed are the sinners and not the saints everyone claims them to be. But they are the ones everyone remembers because everyone has forgotten about the woman who has bled to death on a dusty road, ambushed and defeated, while she has been trying to protect her country.
To Comanche, Reine Hamilton is someone to be remembered on cold days, on days when a family comes together to appreciate the heroes of the war, the people who have made their lives safe again. To him, the war has been the wrong place for a Roy Mustang who has dreamed too much and who has failed when he has had the chance to do something.
There is no point in hiding the truth from anyone, to shelter the freshly-promoted colonel from the harsh reality – he has failed and too many people know this. Mustang cannot hide from the truth – and neither can Grand and Armstrong.
It is funny because everyone has thought that Comanche, the Silver Alchemist would he the one to day but he has – like Hamilton and Kimblee – a beast inside his chest, a demon that lusts for blood and death, destruction and terror. Cerulean Rose and Red Lotus have been good at hiding their beasts – at least up to the day that the Rose has been broken and left the Lotus behind because afterwards, Kimblee has made no efforts of hiding his madness any longer.
During the war, Comanche has learned a few things – especially after he has lost his leg and sworn to take revenge one day – a revenge he will never get. And one of the things he has learned is that people like Mustang and Grand are greedy, greedy for power and fame. In a way, people like him, Kimblee and Hamilton are purer because they have no plans on creating a kingdom of peace and happiness. They are people who are living the only way they can live.
They are living the life of a demon.