an exquisite extreme
Character: Tim Marcoh
Summary: He is confused.
There is not much what can shock him anymore.
He has long accepted that his sin is stained forever and that nothing – not even his death – can change the fact that he will go to hell the very second of his death. He has created the weapon to kill faster and – better than ever before, he has no real reason to even try.
And yet, he has ended up in a whirlwind of events – one more confusing than the next – and he simply has no idea where this is all supposed to end because he cannot see a good outcome and the last time he has truly believed into something, it has ended badly and he just does not want to see an end like this ever again.
That is why he is pretty confused when he ends up doing something.
To play a trick on Envy with the little girl's hand is a first step to use alchemy for something that is not evil and to try to destroy Envy's philosopher stone is the only thing he can do. Crystal Alchemist is an ironic title but the one who can create philosopher's stones can also destroy them again – or at least weaken them considerably – and this is what he does.
He cannot make up for his sins because like everyone, he has to carry on after everything. No one who has been involved into the war has left the war behind without a scar – emotional or physical – because they all have done something no one can ask for forgiveness for.
He meets Silver Hands, a fellow doctor, a few weeks after everything is over when she comes to Ishbal to set up a small hospital and he wonders when she has started to look so damn old. True, her hair has always been silver because of a gen defect but there are wrinkles on her face and bags under her eyes because she has been suffering as well.
She shakes his hand firmly and asks whether she should heal his face.
He declines. "Don't worry about me for I will be fine," he tells her as they watch how medicine is carried into the new hospital.
"Did you decide on a name yet?" she inquires.
"I was asked to name this hospital Rockbell after the both doctors who have done what we should have done as well."