Still never gonna be over the fact that it took Maes Hughes one night to figure out the truth about Amestris when it took the rest of the cast half the series
these tags lmfao
These tags by parkersgeorg are necessary to include actually 💅
#NO BUT THE THING IS! #he figured it out because the army was SHIT AT HIDING IT #he worked in intel! he had access to ALL the necessary elements #to understand it quickly #but that also meant he was under heavy surveillance himself #which is why his efforts to understand the truth were immediately noticed #and since he knew the army was rotten to the core there was no reason for the homunculi to 1) not try to kill him 2) bother being stealthy #lust tried to kill him IN HQ #and the thing is. it was clever of him to leave and try calling mustang from a phone booth #so the line wouldn't be tapped #but like... he'd already tried calling mustang and they knew that. #so had envy not caught up to him before he made the call #they wouldve assumed he'd managed to reach mustang #in a way dying in that phone booth was the best move hughes could make #to protect his allies #had he gotten the information out the homunculi would have disbanded mustang's team MUCH earlier #and after hughes came so close to spreading the truth #they made it MUCH HARDER to find #but also much harder for themselves to realize who was figuring it out and by what means #basically hughes was on easy mode #his death put everyone in hard mode. his allies AND his enemies #man fma is good #fma
