First season of FMA:B is actually unreasonably funny because every episode at the 2 minute mark Ed goes âremember Al we canât let anyone know our bodies are metal and we committed human transmutation. Because the military will probably execute usâ and then every episode at the 14 minute mark Ed is screaming at the top of his lungs about how he and Al are made of metal and committed human transmutation. And also the President of the Military is there smiling and nodding and not giving a fuck because Ed is the militaryâs specialist little boy and heâs expressly permitted to commit murder in the streets and do arson and treason and tax evasion if heâs got enough hands for it and thatâs completely fine because, as previously stated, heâs their specialist little sacrifice boy.
And also the military already knows he committed human transmutation and they think thatâs really really great. Itâs their favorite Edward Elric fun fact.
@redrobin-detective it is in fact a really great subversion of the âteenage protagonist successfully has the Adult Institution scrambling and fumbling, due to his cunning teenage wiles.â Ed DOES fancy himself cunning, but heâs literally only getting away with this because Bradley Is Letting Him. For the first several seasons theyâre just letting him.
In the arc leading up to the Promised Day when all cards are out on the table, adult military strategist Roy Mustang is leading a charge against the establishment while Ed has faked his death and gone into hiding as, genuinely, the only thing heâs capable of doing on his own as a naive and scared 16 year old just trying to survive.

















