Goddamnit

[yixsh]

I'm so upset over how the manga ended right now.  I don't really know what to do with myself.  This was...the worst way she possibly could have ended it, for me.

I feel so angry and sad and cheated and impotent and sick.

This is stupid.  This is just a manga.

Fucking hell.

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[yixsh]

I can honestly say I was surprised by Ed's sacrifice, because it was a major, major, major DO NOT WANT for me. I genuinely expected Hoho to give himself. I guess that was wistful thinking. Then I kept looking for outs... Right now I'm telling myself that he's able to use Al's gate for alchemy. I will continue to tell myself this.

I knew the Ed/Win was going to happen, I just wish it hadn't been so blatant and in your face. I mean, the Roy/Riza and Ling/Ranfan was so subtle and good that the kids in my face at the end and the sappy marriage proposal was just a major fucking pisser.

I know it's bad to be so invested, but I can't help myself. XD I'm slowly making the decision to just not acknowledge it though, which is resulting in a new resolve to GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD WITH FANFIC, DAMNIT.

[sevlow]

I dunno, I think it tied up fairly well, given the circumstances...

What bothered you specifically? I dislike the whole loss-of-Alchemy thing personally, because it was entirely pointless, but otherwise I wasn't shocked or annoyed.

[yixsh]

It was the loss of alchemy that really did me in. It was just such a major DO NOT WANT that I can't not focus on it. I keep thinking, Ed's going to go insane -- he has all that knowledge inside his head that he'll never use again. He has nothing else he can really do really well. He can research all he wants, but he'll never know the feeling of something that made him so happy again. Instead he's going to go stir crazy in a house while Winry pops out babies and brings home the bacon. He's lost a major chunk of his identity for me, and the fact that it was so, so, so POINTLESS really just makes me want to die. There would have been no loss in meaningfulness if Hoho had died for Al, because when he died regardless THREE SECONDS LATER I just wanted to SCREAM.

Guh. Very frustrate.

[sevlow]

Yes, agree completely. It made no sense for Ed to not take the offer. That was bad writing, plot and character-wise. Hoho should have either survived OR he should have sacrificed himself. It didn't piss me off so much as make me go, "what was the point of THAT?"

[ketita]

That was part of what got my goat, too. It was like he had to lose his alchemy ON PRINCIPLE.