Hes Been Nice To Wrath - Tumblr Posts

thinking about how wrath's arc in 03 ends with him begging for a way to do human transmutation so he can bring his mother (sloth, trisha) back and then losing his arm and leg to the gate; and ed—who had insisted that homonculi weren't people, who originally wanted wrath to give him back his limbs and insisted that wrath didn't have a mother, who got hit with wrath screaming at him "she was your mother too!"—ed's last act before he sacrifices himself to get al back, is to ask rose to take care of wrath and bring him to resenbool where ed knows wrath will be cared for. ed's eldest half brother is gone, he is about to sacrifice his existence to give his younger brother a chance to live, and i think that by sending wrath to resenbool he is in effect acknowledging wrath as a brother as well. he can no longer call wrath (or envy for that matter) an interloper or fake, and i think that by extension he is accepting that when he killed sloth, he killed a person; he killed his mother again. wrath himself called her their mother—after accepting that he doesnt want to be human, ironically, he also recognizes ed as a person now, instead of a body to steal! and he does so because of the agony ed has chosen to inflict on both of them! recognition of the other through the ability to inflict and share pain.

full circle for both! they are both their mother's child, they are both cognizant of the other's personhood and struggle, they share the same pain and love and agony. all is one, one is all.