calangkoh:

you: ed would be wrath/pride because of his temper/arrogance

me, an intellectual: in brotherhood, maybe, but in 03 ed would be sloth because of his solipsism, his uncaring attitude to the world around him. he assumes he’s independent from the world, that it doesn’t affect him and he doesn’t affect it. he’s detached from reality despite adamantly believing he’s the only one who knows truly how the world operates because of his own trauma and pain. he makes it clear that even though he’s a part of the military, he’s not truly a part of the military, which little does he know only shadows the complacency of the soldiers who stood by and watched a genocide and other atrocities occur. at his worst, ed is not vengeful or prideful, but rather he falls into a slum of self-pity and becomes motionless and uncaring. while ed’s personality includes his temper and his arrogance, they are not his worst qualities aka his fatal flaws. even when dealing with bad guy of the week episodes early on in the series, he’s rather indifferent to other people’s problems, and it takes some outside factor to get him to act in order to help others. if anyone embodies wrath or pride it would be al.