please talk about summoner au kimblee if you haven't before :3c
it is common knowledge in the fma summoner verse that
a) summons having high ranks in the military is rare
b) independent summons in the military is even rarer
c) a high ranking independent summon would be completely unheard of
d) summons CANNOT do alchemy, and therefore cannot be state alchemists or summoners
e) summons with human-cost prices are absolutely, forbiddingly illegal as per state law
kimblee is a weird awful breaking of all these rules- he’s a phoenix, an independent summon, and the higher ups lied about this and bent over backwards to frame him as a human state alchemist with an explosives specialty
he was summoned specifically to be used in the Ishvalan massacre
his price is very literally human life- not parts of people, but for people to die around him
after the war they locked him up as in canon, hoping that without any access to his price he’d just fade back into the other plane that summons come from- but he lied about the size radius that human death must happen around him to fullfill the price
he told them a few meters
its really anything within about a mile
and the idiots placed him in the jail right next to lab fucking five
so theyre all just pretty baffled as to how he’s still around and he’s kind of just one of many of the military’s dirty secrets
like i mentioned before he still behaves like kimblee but b/c he’s also a phoenix and a mean one at that you get kimblee’s general awful attitude and just….awful person….ness…. + all the fun of a really mean, really bored, really loud parrot