[ if roy is startled by the outburst, he doesn't show it. instead, he simply shrugs a little, to continue: ]

I'm a man of action, not words or titles. What you are is unimportant, in the grand scheme of things. It's what you choose to do with yourself that matters.

[ some of the homunculi understood that, maybe. most of them didn't. ]

I hadn't met many non-humans before being dragged along on these travels. Most of them seem to be perfectly upstanding people. My home could use some of them.

[ the humans, really, are the ones that truly messed up amestris. ]