He inked it on her because he was a crazy old bastard and she was a dutiful daughter just pleasing him. I told you, we've been this way forever; when she wasn't on hand and foot for him she was on hand and foot for me.
He knew she'd keep it, that she'd decide to share the secrets or not. And I-
I was a dumb kid, I hadn't made it to the State Alchemy program because I didn't have anything to show them. But I was about to deploy for the war when I came home to her and helped her bury her father.
She gave it to me because she thought I'd use it to help people. Alchemy is supposed to be for the benefit of the people, but we used it to destroy an entire nation of people. She saw with her own eyes what she'd done when she gave flame alchemy to me.
I don't know how she doesn't look at me with revulsion, because I can't stand myself.