Being shifted around a bunch and taken from my friends is getting pretty tiring, let's just say that.
[Neither is Ed, swiftly moving on from that topic.]
Where I'm from the state tells you who the enemy is, and you're supposed to kill them without question. Civilians call us military dogs and a lot of them don't like us very much. My best friend's parents were shot by a military officer.
[Telling this story had gotten easier over the years, but even far from Amestris he didn't include the detail that it was his future superior that killed them. Or that everyone urged him not to join.]
I made a mistake when I was a kid... Joining the military afforded me the research that was supposed to help me fix that mistake. I took the exam and enlisted when I was twelve. Pretty much became a celebrity, for being the youngest to ever pass the exam. It's not normal where I'm from, in some places it's even frowned upon, you spend years with their leash tied around your neck and if a war starts you're called to action.
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[Neither is Ed, swiftly moving on from that topic.]
Where I'm from the state tells you who the enemy is, and you're supposed to kill them without question. Civilians call us military dogs and a lot of them don't like us very much. My best friend's parents were shot by a military officer.
[Telling this story had gotten easier over the years, but even far from Amestris he didn't include the detail that it was his future superior that killed them. Or that everyone urged him not to join.]
I made a mistake when I was a kid... Joining the military afforded me the research that was supposed to help me fix that mistake. I took the exam and enlisted when I was twelve. Pretty much became a celebrity, for being the youngest to ever pass the exam. It's not normal where I'm from, in some places it's even frowned upon, you spend years with their leash tied around your neck and if a war starts you're called to action.