I think one of the more impressive things the FMA 03 did was get me to care about Lust while simultaneously making her an unrepentant killer.
03!Lust has an impressive kill count. Quite possibly the highest in the series (by kills I mean deaths that are shown not characters who are said to have killed a lot of people off screen or way in the past. Admittedly some of her kills fade to black so the show isn’t too gory.) I’m also not counting mass deaths by transmutation. She an unrepentant killer who happens to want to be human and she’s very determined, okay?
In the 03 series, Marcoh does not survive his encounter with Lust. She kills him after finding out what she needs to know and Gluttony eats his body.
She destroys this soul attached to a helmet before threatening to the same to Al.
That black blur? It’s her fingers stabbing someone so quickly everyone thinks he must have been shot. Yeah, she kills Yoki here in order to incite a riot.
Two of Greed’s three remaining chimeras die to Lust’s piercing fingers. We see her smiling, then the sound of her lethal attack, then fade to darkness.
Lust is troubled by her memories around Lujon and she kills him. This is one of those kills she seems so confused and conflicted by.
Three soldiers at once. She doesn’t waste a second here.
And those are Lust’s kills. I’ll add in some other fights she has, showing more of this killer nature.
Here’s Lust casually threatening Hughes though of course she lets him get away so Envy can deal with him.
Not the last time she gets into a deadly fight with Scar, though she seems to enjoy this one much more than her later encounters. He of course gets away.
She deals some heavy blows but Wrath takes a bit more than that to be killed.
That was certainly her intention. She isn’t able to finish him however.
The other character with an impressive kill count is Scar. A character you also can’t help but care about. He kills… Nina, Basque Gran, Barry the Chopper, Kimblee and a number of soldiers.
The two of them make such a great couple. They could be Murderhobos together. I’d like to say they might both settle down but they’d probably go start a revolution together to destroy the military, something like that. Or be wandering Gypsies as CoS suggested.
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