Monday, May 17, 2004

FMA musings: the sins

Yay! Full Metal Alchemist makes my brain think! Okay, there are probably loads of spoilers in this one, so... yeah... spoiler city. Don't read it if you haven't seen most of it, I suggest you not read. Okay? Okay. (a bit of a break just to make sure. ^.~; ) So, I've re-watched FMA up to the end of 21 now, and things are kind of falling together. A little. Not as much as I'd like, but... a little. And, it's 10:40 at night, I've had too much sugar, and I'm hyped from my voice recital, so HERE GOES! *bang!* So, a Homunculus is created when somebody tries human transmutation, am I right? So... We know that Scar's brother tried to transmute someone who died - Scar has remembered at least twice his brother sitting with a girl whose face resembles Lust's face (I'm assuming she was his girlfriend or wife) - and failed. So, I'm thinking that Lust was the product of that transmutation. We've been told that Wrath was the product of Izumi-sensei trying to transmute her dead child. So, this leaves Envy, Gluttony, and Greed (so far, at least) that we don't know how they came about. As for Envy, he said at some point or another that he has Ed's father, Hohenheim Elric, to thank for his existance, I believe. If that's right, then Hohenheim either tried human transmutation at least once, or did something that allowed other people to do it (i.e. extensive research or experiments on the topic). Greed - and I'm assuming that is Greed who was in that creepy room in the 5th Laboratory - states that he had been there for around 130 years. This makes me think that Hohenheim did actually try human transmutation rather than contributing to the research, since it seems like the possibility must have been there long before Hohenheim was around, if Greed is indeed 130 years old. Gluttony - I don't think we know much at all about him, do we. He really creeps me out, though. We're still missing two sins, aren't we? We have Greed, Lust, Envy, Wrath, Gluttony... could someone enlighten me as to what the other two are, and whether or not they've shown up (maybe I've just missed one, I dunno)? I'm not too well-versed in this sort of thing. *sheepish* More... The symbol on the floor of the Philosopher's Stone room in the 5th Laboratory and the symbol that Scar reacts to in that crumbled house in the Ishbal camp in the 30th episode are the same, aren't they? It also seems to me - though I'm not sure - that the transmutation circle on Scar's arm is quite similar to the one that encircled the Philosopher's Stone room. We know that Scar's brother wanted the stone, and that incomplete versions of the stone were used to destroy Ishbal. What were the circumstances under which Scar got his arm? He states that his brother gave it to him, but... what did that entail? ... and finally, what Homunculus was created when Ed and Al tried to transmute their mother? Lust is the only female Homunculus we've met so far, right? That's all for now... my brain is tired. I want to sleep. (By the way - yay, more! o.o; - does anyone know if there actually is fabric like Roy has in his gloves? The kind that sparks when you rub it fast enough? I want to make gloves like that, seriously... that'd rock!) (lookie, Aurus the Honorable Inferno really IS a pyro!) {Shut up, they know that already anyway!)

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