phantomrose96:These screenshots from the FMA manga span five pages. FIVE. Greed spends the entirety
phantomrose96:These screenshots from the FMA manga span five pages. FIVE. Greed spends the entirety of his time, for five straightpages, trying to tell injured humans to notfight. He knows Father would squash them in a second, no hesitation, and with noregret.And this part gets me every time because Greed has no reasonto do this. It’s not even like he off-handedly mentions “ya know, my dad’sprobably gonna kill anyone he can, so be careful you useless humans ;)”. No. Hefights. He argues. Against multiplepeople telling them to fuck off before they die. For five pages. Greed does not know these people. He’s meeting them nowfor the first time. It’s not Ling or Ed or any of his (now-dead) chimeras he’strying to save. He’s arguing tooth and nail to save fucking strangersAnd you know what really, really gets me about this? Greed’s still insisting to Ling that he’strying to steal the power of God from Father and take over the world. Hemaintains that world-domination is his one and only goal.And even better, Greed admits that tricking Ling is his “one and only lie.”This means he wasn’t lying about trying to take the power of God during this fight! At this point in the manga, Greed honestly believes he’s here for world domination. He really thought he meant it. Hell. If that’sthe case, Greed should want everyone available to come fight Father! More firepower means more likelihood someone will wear Father down and let Greed ambushhim. Greed isn’t just doing this without reason—he’s doing something directly against his own goals. He’ssabotaging himself trying to savesome dumb worthless humans. The idiot fully, truly believes he’s here to stealthe power of God and yet he willfully, belligerently, earnestly fights tohurt his own cause so a few dumb humans can live.This cold cruel world never deserved Greed. -- source link