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1. They don\'t take him that seriously, but he does demonstrate immediately that he can take control of people\'s bodies with a bite; he was just luckless enough to pick the ButtMonkey. (If he\'d gone \'\'directly\'\' for Ed or Scar, that scene definitely wouldn\'t be funny.) So he does still present some threat. And honestly, saying \
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1. They don\\\'t take him that seriously, but he does demonstrate immediately that he can take control of people\\\'s bodies with a bite; he was just luckless enough to pick the ButtMonkey. (If he\\\'d gone \\\'\\\'directly\\\'\\\' for Ed or Scar, that scene definitely wouldn\\\'t be funny.) So he does still present some threat. And honestly, saying \\\"it would take all of them to kill him\\\" and then \\\"they don\\\'t see him as a threat\\\" is contradictory. 2. Given all the periphery things around Father\\\'s work, it would not be reasonable to expect that any such hidden knowledge would be any less immoral than philosopher\\\'s stones. Plus Envy goes above and beyond the call of malice; even if he did know a benevolent method of immortality he almost certainly would not give it away, not when he has the chance to watch people kill each other. (He gloats about specifically choosing to imperosnae an anti-intervention officer to shoot an Ishvalan child and describes the ensuing war as his favorite piece of work, mocks the SadisticChoice given to Dr. Marcoh, and delights in manipulating humans.) Stones that get yanked out of homunculi turn to powder right away, as they found out when Roy killed Lust, so that\\\'s not viable. Even if it was they\\\'d have done better to yank it out of him right then. 3. It might be unfair to say May is particularly gullible because of her looks and youth, except she \\\'\\\'demonstrates\\\'\\\' that she shouldn\\\'t be left alone with Envy because he did, in fact, convince her to do just what he wanted in the space of one conversation. I\\\'m not saying anything against May. She\\\'s not a stupid kid and she has admirable courage and resolve. But she\\\'s been in Amestris for a short time (compared to how long she\\\'s lived in Xing) and she\\\'s ready to risk her life for the country; she\\\'s impressionable and gets really invested, which is why they even lectured her into going home in the first place. She\\\'s more than capable to help in a fight or heal grevious wounds or help uncover Scar\\\'s brother\\\'s research, but they\\\'re pretty much giving her a malignant talking weapon and sending her off alone. Not to mention that Envy got the better of Hughes and Ling: a \\\'\\\'war veteran\\\'\\\' and a highly intelligent prince who\\\'s been dodging assassination attempts since he could walk. You can justify that all as being sensible for yourself and that\\\'s okay, but that\\\'s the reason the YMMV page exists.
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1. They don\'t take him that seriously, but he does demonstrate immediately that he can take control of people\'s bodies with a bite; he was just luckless enough to pick the ButtMonkey. (If he\'d gone \'\'directly\'\' for Ed or Scar, that scene definitely wouldn\'t be funny.) So he does still present some threat. And honestly, saying \
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1. They don\\\'t take him that seriously, but he does demonstrate immediately that he can take control of people\\\'s bodies with a bite; he was just luckless enough to pick the ButtMonkey. (If he\\\'d gone \\\'\\\'directly\\\'\\\' for Ed or Scar, that scene definitely wouldn\\\'t be funny.) So he does still present some threat. And honestly, saying \\\"it would take all of them to kill him\\\" and then \\\"they don\\\'t see him as a threat\\\" is contradictory. 2. Given all the periphery things around Father\\\'s work, it would not be reasonable to expect that any such hidden knowledge would be any less immoral than philosopher\\\'s stones. Plus Envy goes above and beyond the call of malice; even if he did know a benevolent method of immortality he almost certainly would not give it away, not when he has the chance to watch people kill each other. (IIRC he gloats to them at some point about picking an anti-war officer to star the Ishbalan war, and even I don\\\'t RC he\\\'s exhorting them to kill each other shortly before they stuff him in the jar.) Stones that get yanked out of homunculi turn to powder right away, as they found out when Roy killed Lust, so that\\\'s not viable. Even if it was they\\\'d have done better to yank it out of him right then. 3. It might be unfair to say May is particularly gullible because of her looks and youth, except she \\\'\\\'demonstrates\\\'\\\' that she shouldn\\\'t be left alone with Envy because he did, in fact, convince her to do just what he wanted in the space of one conversation. I\\\'m not saying anything against May. She\\\'s not a stupid kid and she has admirable courage and resolve. But she\\\'s been in Amestris for a short time (compared to how long she\\\'s lived in Xing) and she\\\'s ready to risk her life for the country; she\\\'s impressionable and gets really invested, which is why they even lectured her into going home in the first place. She\\\'s more than capable to help in a fight or heal grevious wounds or help uncover Scar\\\'s brother\\\'s research, but they\\\'re pretty much giving her a malignant talking weapon and sending her off alone. You can justify that all as being sensible for yourself and that\\\'s okay, but that\\\'s the reason the YMMV page exists.
