just like everybody else does

all engineers are brothers (found attached to a steamship's engine):

reverse transmigration AU where Bing-ge ends up trying to find the god that made his life like this and ends up crashing with Airplane angrily making him write better "alternative routes" for himself, but they're terrible because it's all Luo Binghe self-insert fiction when he has zero self-awareness and Airplane doesn't want to die but he's also dying because ARTISTIC INTEGRITY (or at least, you know he's not even getting PAID for breaking it this time) -- and Peerless Cucumber is getting basically edged with NEW LUO BINGHE stories that start out interesting and then devolve into nonsense and somehow starts being meaner than normal in comments--however that doesn't get noticed immediately by either of them because he's always mean and a lot of the comments are ANNOYED because there's no papapa and adventuring in the ways they expect (and Airplane would like to say that it's HARD TO WRITE a smut scene while the POV character is angrily looking at you with murder eyes--except no wait, maybe he is into that actually and so at least one of them is good).

Honestly. Honestly Ed vs Scar in episode 5 is striking me fresh, right now. Like by this point we've obviously established we're in a battle shonen by now. We know Ed gets into fights. He's scuffled with Cornello. He's a boy who knows how to hold a sharp object and use it.

#this is scar's lowest point to me#he is attacking a panicking child#one who is visibly too young to have taken part in the genocide#he is pointlessly lashing out at the shadow of the war#and he feels FULLY justified. FULL 'soldier of god' mode#ed begs him to spare his brother and does this unbalance him?#does this remind him of his own brother?#it does not. he is unmoved.#he answers calmly that he has no quarrel with ed's brother#it is sooooooo clear that he SEES HIMSELF as perfectly calm and reasonable#when in fact he is being so completely insane.#he is about to slaughter a child on his knees#later in central when they face off again he'll be a lot more unbalanced#(having crossed paths with his master and all)#and it's part of why ed shielding winry from him WILL hit this time#my argument is also that ed begging for his brother to be spared doesn't hit for scar#because scar is in the mindset of 'why should i listen to your pleas when no one listened to mine'#(not that he even had the chance to beg)#ed shielding winry however#is making scar realize that Winry Is Him#except nobody was there to stop HIM pulling the trigger#and committing to lethal revenge#that is the crucial moment where he could have been saved#but no one was there to save him#from that moment on he spirals completely#and when he meets winry again he THINKS he's at his lowest point#calls himself human garbage and says he deserves to die#since she was able to remain dignified in the face of suffering and he was not#but that is not his lowest point. in fact the fact that he's clawing his way out of that pit is remarkable#(someone like wrath for instance never even tried)