[ no one seems to get that. unsurprising. the non-alchemists in amestris don't get it either. people expect quick fixes to difficult problems in all walks of life, and so many are quick to write it off as magic or the divine when it is typically nothing more than a scientific explanation, once you work hard enough.

the destruction of lior feels like so long ago, but it's a fairly prime example of what happens when common people are told magic is real . . . and they believe it.

but the presence of such a power is worrying. amestris had just come out on the other end of the very example of a man with too much -- the father, and hohenheim, and the homunculi . . . the gate, and the truth, and all of the terrible things in between. it had been two years since the fall of the fuhrer, but the wounds are still clear as day, back home. and to see such power doled out so easily, to people who may not be as responsible or determined to do it right as edward . . .

roy sighs to himself. ]

People being granted power they might not know how to control sounds like a recipe for catastrophe. [ roy is SO TIRED ] But so long as it's not another attempt at creating a Philosopher's Stone or Homunculi or another half-assed attempt at a revolution by a group of beings who shouldn't exist in the first place . . . [ SO. TIRED. ] I don't care how they manage to do it as long as people don't abuse whatever they've been gifted -- the how isn't as important as the immediate 'why.' What kidnapper doles out "magical powers" to her own --