[ SECRET POST #244 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #244 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom.
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Comments

Re: 35.

[linen-tartaruga.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Heiderich is clearly much more assertive and independent than Al was (not that Al isn't at all, just that he's more dependent Ed, who's also dependent on him) among other things, including his goals and even his health. It would be impossible for him to be the same as Al, along with all of the other counterparts, considering all of the different factors that go into someone's personality development.

It's part of what us angst!whores love about it, though. It's a fantasy series but doesn't use that as an excuse to play down the realities of the subjects it covers. From the very beginning we're not even given a guarantee that the main characters will make it through the series alive, and that's just one of the things that makes it so good. It's that realism. Not that the fluffy stories with the happy endings are bad, some of them are really good and a lot of them are just fun. But that's why so many people love the series, I think, because it's just honest about the way things would realistically be; or at least as honest as they can be while still making it an entertaining fantasy series.