me: post-cos alphonse would suffer from severe PTSD and mental breakdowns over opening the Gate and indirectly starting a war because he is fundamentally such a sweet, gentle, and kind-hearted kid.
me at the same time: GOD I want so bad to see post-cos al kill someone to protect ed...... like, stranded in a cold, unfamiliar world without alchemy, forced to re-learn how to handle clunky, unwieldy guns and blunt weapons just to keep his brother and himself safe in some situation of chaos maybe.honestly, 03/cos al was never as calm, mature, or high-minded in his morals as his manga self to begin with, so him committing manslaughter out of reckless self-defense for ed feels like something that could happen any second... fuck the others when it comes to Edward anyway (and then he’d spiral into an even more agonizing mental breakdown ^o^
