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I'm actually too lazy to get my laptop out right now. I guess it's related to the fact that this computer has a functioning keyboard... which wasn't normal with the old one. I should remember to sign on from the laptop to at least post my airport entries, though. They're far, far shorter than the usual ones since I did so much running around between flights.
It's so nice to be home. Even though I didn't manage to turn in the paper to become a HIPS major before I left. I guess I'll pretend it was because I wanted to wait for my grades to be in. I managed a B in French! I'm sort of shocked, but I'll be quite happy with it (though, technically, it does bring my GPA down... but not nearly as much as a C would).
I miss my good internet connection. It takes me like, an hour to check my friends page now. And I don't get to poke at it all day anymore, since my sister's almost always on here. (She's out with people right now, which is how I've had this long enough to check my flist at all). There's not going to be anything for me to do during the day until Wednesday, when I start work again. And the shifts are 9-6 now, since it's winter. That's going to be brutal, but at least I get an hour-long break. Hopefully it won't be an hour-long break at like, 11. (Which is, sadly, what tends to happen.)
So, now that I've had most of a day to think about this... ridiculousness with chapter 54... I've come to several baseless and pretty useless conclusions. In fact, they're probably not even conclusions. Words. I have some words on 54. And now I'll write them.
For one, I'm not going to accept that Ling's evil yet. Not until there's proof. This is already set up on something we just learned in the previous chapter -- there's a lot we don't know yet. It was brought up that it's possible the Fuhrer still has his original soul, but since he wasn't allowed to really develop as an individual it's impossible to know. If that is the case, Ling could still be himself, only immortal. Which would allow us all the same sort of freaking out we had over when we thought Ed had died in the anime (only on a smaller level for most), followed by a resolution of rather strange proportions. I could see her pulling something like that. Whether it'd fit, whether it's even a good literary move... well, I guess we'll see. Me? I'm just upset that I'm not going to get my Greed!Hughes. (Okay, not that upset. That would've been a horrible literary move, and I can accept that I'm only going to get more Hughes in flashback form. Unless she pulls something really crazy on the Wrath end of things and... well, I refuse to put my predictions into words on that, since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sketchyheart's getting superstitious about what I say. Hehehe. Though I did accidentally cause Lust!Hughes to exist last night. Which... almost injures my brain to the point where I'd have to write about it.)
Oh, and everyone wins for Hoho-papa being different from Father. We were right on that one thing... most of us, I think. But omg that eye... that eye thing that cried the philosopher's stone was creepy! Wtf was that? And is Father the alchemist, and Hoho-papa the Prideful copy, or is it the other way around? I'm leaning more towards Hoho-papa being Pride somehow, because I'm not sure he'd let Father/Pride go around continuing the evilness if he was really the powerful alchemist one. I think he's got the same "Most Human Homunculus" thing going on that Pride did in the anime. (We should make that an award.)
Now... I'm half-expecting a third totally crazy chapter next month, but I'm not sure if I'd survive it. If it's not, though, I think I might actually be disappointed. This is so weird... it feels like we're really close to the end (Ed and Al are with Father, Roy's facing off with the Fuhrer), yet there's so much that needs to be resolved they almost need to scurry off and regroup, then go at it again. I can see Scar and Mei-chan messing things up down in the sewers with Father, but there's got to be something weird in Roy-land to rescue him. Hawkeye, probably...but oh noes, the Royai. I don't want more evidence of it at this point!
Edit: And after actually reading the translated version of 54... well... I still believe that Ling wouldn't be foolish enough to do something like that if he didn't have something up his sleeve, despite the fact that, now that I look back on it, there really isn't the sort of character development needed to draw that sort of conclusion. But... yeah... Ling must have thought of some kind of catch somehow. La la la. There is a precedent for him not being all-out stupid. And if this is just me acting like Roy when he thought Havoc could be cured then... well, so be it.
P.S. I don't like the idea of there being some evil embodiment of Greed in the gate, waiting to take over another body. That's just not nearly as fun! And there obviously wasn't one for Wrath. Erm... I need more explanation! Gah!
It's so nice to be home. Even though I didn't manage to turn in the paper to become a HIPS major before I left. I guess I'll pretend it was because I wanted to wait for my grades to be in. I managed a B in French! I'm sort of shocked, but I'll be quite happy with it (though, technically, it does bring my GPA down... but not nearly as much as a C would).
I miss my good internet connection. It takes me like, an hour to check my friends page now. And I don't get to poke at it all day anymore, since my sister's almost always on here. (She's out with people right now, which is how I've had this long enough to check my flist at all). There's not going to be anything for me to do during the day until Wednesday, when I start work again. And the shifts are 9-6 now, since it's winter. That's going to be brutal, but at least I get an hour-long break. Hopefully it won't be an hour-long break at like, 11. (Which is, sadly, what tends to happen.)
So, now that I've had most of a day to think about this... ridiculousness with chapter 54... I've come to several baseless and pretty useless conclusions. In fact, they're probably not even conclusions. Words. I have some words on 54. And now I'll write them.
For one, I'm not going to accept that Ling's evil yet. Not until there's proof. This is already set up on something we just learned in the previous chapter -- there's a lot we don't know yet. It was brought up that it's possible the Fuhrer still has his original soul, but since he wasn't allowed to really develop as an individual it's impossible to know. If that is the case, Ling could still be himself, only immortal. Which would allow us all the same sort of freaking out we had over when we thought Ed had died in the anime (only on a smaller level for most), followed by a resolution of rather strange proportions. I could see her pulling something like that. Whether it'd fit, whether it's even a good literary move... well, I guess we'll see. Me? I'm just upset that I'm not going to get my Greed!Hughes. (Okay, not that upset. That would've been a horrible literary move, and I can accept that I'm only going to get more Hughes in flashback form. Unless she pulls something really crazy on the Wrath end of things and... well, I refuse to put my predictions into words on that, since
sketchyheart's getting superstitious about what I say. Hehehe. Though I did accidentally cause Lust!Hughes to exist last night. Which... almost injures my brain to the point where I'd have to write about it.) Oh, and everyone wins for Hoho-papa being different from Father. We were right on that one thing... most of us, I think. But omg that eye... that eye thing that cried the philosopher's stone was creepy! Wtf was that? And is Father the alchemist, and Hoho-papa the Prideful copy, or is it the other way around? I'm leaning more towards Hoho-papa being Pride somehow, because I'm not sure he'd let Father/Pride go around continuing the evilness if he was really the powerful alchemist one. I think he's got the same "Most Human Homunculus" thing going on that Pride did in the anime. (We should make that an award.)
Now... I'm half-expecting a third totally crazy chapter next month, but I'm not sure if I'd survive it. If it's not, though, I think I might actually be disappointed. This is so weird... it feels like we're really close to the end (Ed and Al are with Father, Roy's facing off with the Fuhrer), yet there's so much that needs to be resolved they almost need to scurry off and regroup, then go at it again. I can see Scar and Mei-chan messing things up down in the sewers with Father, but there's got to be something weird in Roy-land to rescue him. Hawkeye, probably...
Edit: And after actually reading the translated version of 54... well... I still believe that Ling wouldn't be foolish enough to do something like that if he didn't have something up his sleeve, despite the fact that, now that I look back on it, there really isn't the sort of character development needed to draw that sort of conclusion. But... yeah... Ling must have thought of some kind of catch somehow. La la la. There is a precedent for him not being all-out stupid. And if this is just me acting like Roy when he thought Havoc could be cured then... well, so be it.
P.S. I don't like the idea of there being some evil embodiment of Greed in the gate, waiting to take over another body. That's just not nearly as fun! And there obviously wasn't one for Wrath. Erm... I need more explanation! Gah!
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