Ideal Love:

Simone’s Notes:

'It is customary to view young people's dating relationships and first relationships as puppy love or infatuation'; and if infatuation is both an early stage in a deepening sequence of love/attachment, and at the same time a potential stopping point, it is perhaps no surprise that it is a condition especially prevalent in the first, youthful explorations of the world of relationships. Thus 'the first passionate adoration of a youth for a celebrated actress whom he regards as far above him, to whom he scarcely dares lift his bashful eyes' may be seen as part of an 'infatuation with celebrity especially perilous with the young'.

Edward was thinking about them again.

He still had one question on his mind.

Will she be alright after this?

Derdra was innocent in all of this.

He didn’t want to taint her.

Still, he had to dump his sins onto her.

But, how much more could she take?

Still, she was important to him.

Maybe she could bring him back to the light.

Ah.

That childish little hope.

Part of him wanted to stay pure.

Surely it would be clear that there was no hope for him.

Why wouldn’t heart listen?

Mya won’t listen.

Sentiment is dead.

What they do is not love.

What Edward has with Winry is love

What Edward has with Derdra is love

The slaves all fake love.

It’s just a game to them, really.

Predators feel no love.

Edward knows this.

After all,

He is a slave too.

So… why?

Why did it hurt his heart to do this?

Edward placed his hand to his chest.

Other than his love for Derdra and Winry,

Why did it still hurt after all of decadence?

All the lust?

All the filth?

All the poison?

All the sin?

For the truth, Edward needed to dig deeper into himself.