May Chang Quotes

Scar has to identify Edward twice before May accepts that the small boy in front of her is the person she imagined. Her disappointment becomes an accusation against him. Nothing in the encounter records Edward promising to resemble her fantasy, so the charge assigns him responsibility for an expectation he never helped create. The later introduction to Alphonse makes the joke more pointed. Al describes himself as taller, better looking and better behaved than his brother; May supplies another charming, princely image for a body she cannot see. Calling that difference emotional mistreatment is the part the scene refuses to support. May's anger is less a defense of her feelings than a demand that the real person repair a fictional person she had already preferred.