Post by Lolua on Mar 18, 2005 4:07:58 GMT -5
WARNING: FMA SPOILERS THROUGH EPISODE 18
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I had a few ideas after watching "Marcoh's Notes" for about the fifth time. :-P
The atrocious pun with which I titled this thread was inspired by Hughes, who is quite the punster himself. :-P When Hughes comes to visit Ed and Al while they are working in the main branch of the library on translating Marcoh's reconstructed journal, he says "These Scar sightings really have us chasing our own tails." Considering that, for Hughes, the unexplainable part of the library fire disaster is the involvement of the ourobouros tattoo-toting Sins, I found his expression pretty funny.
Secondly, I have a new theory/hunch about the origin of the homunculi: The living people who are the last ingredient of the Philosopher's Stone are the first things transmuted by it, and thus they become the homunculi. To phrase it as a chemical reaction:
living people + other ingredients --> Philosopher's Stone + homunculi
Because they are the children of an alchemical process, the homunculi are then capable of performing alchemy themselves (e.g. Lust's spiky finger things). This sort of bypasses Equivalent Exchange, since the powers of the products seem so much greater than the sum of the reactants, but what's the point of the Stone if not to bypass Alchemy's First Law? :-P
This theory seems to fit with my previous idea about the Stone having once been made in Ishbal, and also with Scar's repentant reaction to the discovery of existant homunculi. If homunculi are the "waste byproduct" of the Stone, and if the horrific experiments from the advertised Episode 19 happened in Ishbal, too, that's a good enough reason for Scar to suddenly have second thoughts about his habit of head-'sploding as alchemical and therefore wrong.
And now, mostly because of the spoiler we both read concerning Sloth, I worry again about what the Fuhrer's real motive was in wanting to place Marcoh under "protective custody"... and what he's up to now.
One last thing, which is more a question than anything else. When Lust and Gluttony visited Marcoh in his hotel room, it seemed like they just wanted to stop Ed and Al from reading Marcoh's notes. But in Episode 18, Lust says that she also wanted to "verify Marcoh's notes," which she can't do after their fight with Scar destroys the library branch. What is it about the creation of the Philosopher's Stone that Lust wants to check? Does she want to check up on her own origins? Or is what she's curious about totally unrelated? Perhaps she only wants to bake a cake. :-P
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I had a few ideas after watching "Marcoh's Notes" for about the fifth time. :-P
The atrocious pun with which I titled this thread was inspired by Hughes, who is quite the punster himself. :-P When Hughes comes to visit Ed and Al while they are working in the main branch of the library on translating Marcoh's reconstructed journal, he says "These Scar sightings really have us chasing our own tails." Considering that, for Hughes, the unexplainable part of the library fire disaster is the involvement of the ourobouros tattoo-toting Sins, I found his expression pretty funny.
Secondly, I have a new theory/hunch about the origin of the homunculi: The living people who are the last ingredient of the Philosopher's Stone are the first things transmuted by it, and thus they become the homunculi. To phrase it as a chemical reaction:
living people + other ingredients --> Philosopher's Stone + homunculi
Because they are the children of an alchemical process, the homunculi are then capable of performing alchemy themselves (e.g. Lust's spiky finger things). This sort of bypasses Equivalent Exchange, since the powers of the products seem so much greater than the sum of the reactants, but what's the point of the Stone if not to bypass Alchemy's First Law? :-P
This theory seems to fit with my previous idea about the Stone having once been made in Ishbal, and also with Scar's repentant reaction to the discovery of existant homunculi. If homunculi are the "waste byproduct" of the Stone, and if the horrific experiments from the advertised Episode 19 happened in Ishbal, too, that's a good enough reason for Scar to suddenly have second thoughts about his habit of head-'sploding as alchemical and therefore wrong.
And now, mostly because of the spoiler we both read concerning Sloth, I worry again about what the Fuhrer's real motive was in wanting to place Marcoh under "protective custody"... and what he's up to now.
One last thing, which is more a question than anything else. When Lust and Gluttony visited Marcoh in his hotel room, it seemed like they just wanted to stop Ed and Al from reading Marcoh's notes. But in Episode 18, Lust says that she also wanted to "verify Marcoh's notes," which she can't do after their fight with Scar destroys the library branch. What is it about the creation of the Philosopher's Stone that Lust wants to check? Does she want to check up on her own origins? Or is what she's curious about totally unrelated? Perhaps she only wants to bake a cake. :-P
