Fullmetal Alchemist manga *Spoilers*

[phil_]

I'm pretty sure that body is a younger Hoenheim, what with the identical haircut and Father already being Hoenheim. The only difference is that the Godfather has muscles from not being a malnourished slave in the desert.

But, yeah, eating god. I'd say that's worth digging a nation-sized ditch and causing five wars. I mean, as far as the effort involved.

Also, I'll save you guys some trouble if you want to check out the haircut thing. Lil' Hoenheim shows off his bishi bishi shining locks in chapter 74.

There is little thought put into what gets spoilered in this post.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Originally Posted by phil_

I'm pretty sure that body is a younger Hoenheim, what with the identical haircut and Father already being Hoenheim.

That was my first thought too, but I kinda like to think it's Al. Given the fact that he's basically Hohenheim Junior and that whole malnourishement thing might have been fixed with godlike alchemy it's not too far-fetched. But still just some sort of theory I have.

[Amake]

I'm continuously impressed by how clever people in the story are, like Roy's spy games. . . though we haven't seen a lot of that lately. And a glaring mistake: With all the blowing up of floors Scar does, why doesn't he think to destroy some transmutation circles? I'm sure there was at least one point where he could have completely short-circuited the grand plan. Or anyone with the power to erase a line etched in the floor really.

Anyway I found it most interesting to know exactly how many souls Hohenheim had in him. The homunculi would have to have the same number divided amongst them, minus everyone they've lost in various fights, although now the number might be at least four times bigger I guess. Anyway it's a limited number, and the good guys will just have to beat them to death that many times in a row to win. We hope.

Also, I like Pride. It's great how he can't function in complete darkness or blinding light, but only in shades of grey. Like pride takes us when we wander in between good and evil. How symbolic.

[Magus]

Pssh, don't go getting all deep on us. :p

I, too, was under the impression it was just a younger version of Hohenheim, to reflect an age-reverse type of thingy which would occur with a massive influx of souls. Or something like that. I noticed throughout the manga that Father looked older than Hohenheim, due to burning off souls doing all the stuff he was doing, like creating homunculi, so it sorta holds up.

Anyway, we all know the ending will involve altering the transmutation circle to reflect the design on the backs of the Matthias' journal's pages, which will remove all the souls from Father and put them back in the people he took them from, or something along those lines. The impression I had was it was supposed to be the total opposite of the transmutation circle he had created, or some other type of great fix.

While it's true that Scar could've destroyed part of the nationwide transmutation circle, he's only one man and could only have accomplished so much before Pride would show up and dice him to bits. Also, removing his damage would've only taken a few minutes between Sloth and Pride's powers. Maybe timing the damage to occur within a time frame where it couldn't be fixed would make sense, but I guess the author wants to do something grander with her ending than applying that sort of logic to it...

[Premmy]

I'm siding with that just being a new Father body/based off hohenheim's rather than Al's, since it's not all that hard for him to make a new one. Pride seems to be crumbling from one punch, possibly the "side effects" from forcing Roy to do human transmutation?

[Magus]

Yeah, that was implied in last month's, that it "cost them something" to force him. I'm presuming most of their vitality.

Also, I think Greed's greed hit maximum this month, there's basically nothing less that he'll want from now on.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

105 is out... That one line on the last page cracked me up " I'm gonna take you and your stinkin' truth and kick your asses ".

[Magus]

I had quite the unintended laughter at Hohenheim's line: "I abandoned you as kids...but watch this cool-ass shit!" Not in so many words, of course.

Bradley using a sword with no hands pretty much makes me assume that is his entire character's purpose, to reach that point of badassedness. There's no real higher point that can be reached.

Also the epic final battle of epicness is actually a bit of a downer, as it seemed somewhat like a generic anime final battle. Just seems a bit over the top.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Chapter 106: Scar talks about his bro some more. Kimbley ruins Pride's shit. After that Homunculus is being an ass

I assume we'll have two chapters more, so we have that magical 108 everybody likes so much.

[Magus]

You kind missed the part where Ed smashed in Pride's head and pulled out that weird little one-eyed baby form of him that was pretty damn disturbing, really.