Solf J. Kimblee Quotes

This gets clipped as proof of how monstrous Kimblee is, and it adds nothing to a verdict the series settled in its first episode, when he told the Freezing Alchemist that he killed those officers because he could. A man like that enjoying other people's misery is not news. The lullaby image is decoration; any gloating villain in any series could deliver it. The interesting part of the scene is his next answer. Pride asks why he is interfering, and Kimblee scolds him for trying to escape into a human body, the lower life form Pride claims to despise, and calls it a disgrace. That is the actual Kimblee idea: he is loyal to nothing except consistency, and he will side against his own camp to punish a lapse in it. The famous line is only the overture, and it has been getting the applause meant for the argument that follows.

Treated as Kimblee finally taking the hero's side, which it is not. He says plainly that he stepped in only because Pride tried to take Edward's body, a container he considers no fit for a homunculus. What he offers here is a professional's read of an opponent. Pride is panicking that Edward will kill him, and Kimblee knows what a killer looks like, and is saying Edward is not one. He is right. Edward forces his way into Pride, leaves him as the tiny body underneath, lays his coat down for it, and promises himself to apologize to Mrs. Bradley. The most reliable witness to Edward's refusal to kill is the man who once said he killed because he could, and that is a better joke than any Kimblee tells on purpose.