Do you ever think about the people of amestris who lived just outside that giant transmutation circle? Because I distinctly recall seeing it cut through a town. What did they think when that giant beam of red light happened and suddenly everyone down the street collapsed. Birds falling from the sky. That nice neighbor and his cattle all laying still on the next field over. The like five minutes or so of terror of wanting to run over and help but are wondering if they’d just collapse too.

phantomrose96:

SHIT

I mean  the country was designed to fit exactly to the edges of the circle, but people don’t work like that. Towns are going to bleed over the edges. What must have been thousands of people lived in communities straddling the circle’s outter edge, and you’re 100% goddamn right about the terrifying things they must have witnessed.

In fact, I’ll bet anything this more or less happened in Xerxes too. People way out on the periphery whose communities got cut down by 50%, or 70%, or 90%, but did not get wiped out entirely. Xerxians who’d gone across the border for a day trip to get water and came back to find their community slaughtered. There might have been small, pocket communities of Xerxian survivors. People Hohenheim never found because the very first thing he did was get the hell out. People who experienced exactly what you described, but never saw it undone.

Holy shit