Equivalent exchange says you can't get something for nothing — alchemy demands a price for everything it gives you, and so, it turns out, does personality. Edward traded caution for sheer stubborn will the day he decided a childhood mistake wouldn't get to define the rest of his life. Alphonse traded toughness for empathy and somehow came out stronger for it. Roy traded warmth for ambition, calculating exactly how much power it would take to fix something broken from the inside. Winry never really traded anything, she just built competence with her own two hands and let the results speak for themselves.
You already know, roughly, which one of these trades sounds like you. The fifteen questions ahead just make you prove it.
