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taotrooper) wrote2005-11-12 11:42 am
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Now that I'm more relaxed
About FMA 53:
Even if it was a rather creepy vision, I'm actually relieved Al's body is there. While I never liked the "Al is Pride!" theory, I'm saying it because nobody is manipulating or using his body for anything. The body is there, safe and sound (not exactly healthy, of course, but the fact it looks like that makes it believable, more or less), so Father or any homunculus can't touch him.
Now the body itself, supposedly soulless, reacting and having a mind of his own... that's rather strange. Unless it acts of pure instinct, or there's a small fraction of Al's soul that stayed inside. I mean, the sad smile in the end... *ded* Of course, I thought maybe Truth was animating him, but the smile felt so... Alish. Dunno. Perhaps I shouldn't try to think so hard about this. Trying to understand the things at the Gate is always futile.
They break my heart so much, the Elric brothers. I love them both so much.
Now back to homunculi. Every time we get new information about Father's actions, more scared I am. Clearly, the part about using Xerxes for the Philosopher's Stone makes incredible sense, if you stop and think about that. It's like those anime antics of sacrificing a whole city/civilization over again, but I personally failed to see it. At least, not as an action provoked by the bad guys. I imagined Xerxes had an Atlantis/Pompey kind of disaster or they had destroyed themselves. Then again, maybe Father convinced them to destroy themselves. Xerxanhuman sacrifices alchemists? Is Amestris doomed to follow their path?
And there's the Fuhrer thing. They trained a bunch of orphans in combat and leader skills, and then injected one by one a philosopher's stone in their bodies to see which one would survive and become the Fuhrer? That's so disturbing. They had it all so planned, even the name. You'd wonder, now, if Wrath seized the power by himself, or the Father faction did all the dirty work for him just in case he'd fail. Meanwhile, it makes sense the rest of the candidates for Fuhrer were killed. I mean, people with the same or superior skills than the future Fuhrer and with TMI in their brains would be dangerous to the plan. You know, destroying the evidences.
I'm liking the theory about Father not being Hohenheim after all, and this one is either a clone|twin|son and/or Pride himself. Because yeah, they don't behave the same and Father doesn't behave like Hoho. Unless, you know, he has a heluva double personality or something. Or maybe he has two minds living in the same body.Wait, I realized I'm applying CLAMP logic here. Doesn't make a lot of sense, yeah. But there's something odd about Father as Hohenheim alright.
The question now is, how are they going to escape now from that lair? I mean, from being locked with Envy they passed to being locked with Envy, Gluttony and Father! Are they going to be used like they'll try to use Roy as well? Will Scar and Mei help in the runaway, considering they're some sort of enemies right now (including the Ling/Mei sibling rivalry, because it's rather obvious for everyone and their panda that Mei is the princess of the Chan clan)?
All and all, whoa. Awesome chapter. It's been so long since we have new, shiny, creepy canon~to fry our neurones with
Even if it was a rather creepy vision, I'm actually relieved Al's body is there. While I never liked the "Al is Pride!" theory, I'm saying it because nobody is manipulating or using his body for anything. The body is there, safe and sound (not exactly healthy, of course, but the fact it looks like that makes it believable, more or less), so Father or any homunculus can't touch him.
Now the body itself, supposedly soulless, reacting and having a mind of his own... that's rather strange. Unless it acts of pure instinct, or there's a small fraction of Al's soul that stayed inside. I mean, the sad smile in the end... *ded* Of course, I thought maybe Truth was animating him, but the smile felt so... Alish. Dunno. Perhaps I shouldn't try to think so hard about this. Trying to understand the things at the Gate is always futile.
They break my heart so much, the Elric brothers. I love them both so much.
Now back to homunculi. Every time we get new information about Father's actions, more scared I am. Clearly, the part about using Xerxes for the Philosopher's Stone makes incredible sense, if you stop and think about that. It's like those anime antics of sacrificing a whole city/civilization over again, but I personally failed to see it. At least, not as an action provoked by the bad guys. I imagined Xerxes had an Atlantis/Pompey kind of disaster or they had destroyed themselves. Then again, maybe Father convinced them to destroy themselves. Xerxan
And there's the Fuhrer thing. They trained a bunch of orphans in combat and leader skills, and then injected one by one a philosopher's stone in their bodies to see which one would survive and become the Fuhrer? That's so disturbing. They had it all so planned, even the name. You'd wonder, now, if Wrath seized the power by himself, or the Father faction did all the dirty work for him just in case he'd fail. Meanwhile, it makes sense the rest of the candidates for Fuhrer were killed. I mean, people with the same or superior skills than the future Fuhrer and with TMI in their brains would be dangerous to the plan. You know, destroying the evidences.
I'm liking the theory about Father not being Hohenheim after all, and this one is either a clone|twin|son and/or Pride himself. Because yeah, they don't behave the same and Father doesn't behave like Hoho. Unless, you know, he has a heluva double personality or something. Or maybe he has two minds living in the same body.
The question now is, how are they going to escape now from that lair? I mean, from being locked with Envy they passed to being locked with Envy, Gluttony and Father! Are they going to be used like they'll try to use Roy as well? Will Scar and Mei help in the runaway, considering they're some sort of enemies right now (including the Ling/Mei sibling rivalry, because it's rather obvious for everyone and their panda that Mei is the princess of the Chan clan)?
All and all, whoa. Awesome chapter. It's been so long since we have new, shiny, creepy canon~