Fullmetal Alchemist

[demiurge1138]

Hey! I liked Nina, but her plight in particular wasn't nearly as disturbing as the reasons her father had for doing it in the first place... Tucker creeped me out.

Demiurge out.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Hey! I liked Nina, but her plight in particular wasn't nearly as disturbing as the reasons her father had for doing it in the first place... Tucker creeped me out.

Demiurge out.

He was pretty creepy, especially when he came back "upside down" so to speak. But considering how obvious it was that his wife was his first talker and that Nina would be his second, I never got attached to the character. Whereas I didn't pin the just-dead character for certain death until this episode at the beginning; I had thought it would be the little girl who died again instead...

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

I'm probably a too gullible softy, I never saw it coming. Mind you I preferred to watch it in Jap with English subtitles and that does put me a pace behind.

 

[Storyteller01]

So basically, the more clever you are, the more you can do with Alchemy.

Sounds a lot like the magic system from The Riddle of Steel, except without the aging thing

Apparently, one of the not-so-often-see-but-infamous characters has a thing for explosives. HIs favorite trick is converting the materials in the human body (iron, O2, nitrogen, etc) and setting it off...

 

[Storyteller01]

So...

What is the deal with the alchemy hating/alchemy USING Scar?

 

[Alzrius]

So...

What is the deal with the alchemy hating/alchemy USING Scar?

Once they finally get around to telling us, his backstory and motivation are fairly simple.

Spoiler

His brother practiced alchemy, which is forbidden to the Ishbal people. When his brother's girlfriend died, he tried to resurrect her, and failed, which created the homonculus known as Lust. Scar's brother continued, however, and researched the philosopher's stone to try and succeed where he had failed before.

He scribed the alchemical sigils onto his own flesh to try and alchemize it within himself. However, he came to realize that the only way to create the philosopher's stone was to alchemize (and thus kill) many people, and so he (I think) stopped trying to do so.

When they were fleeing the carnage at Ishbal, that state alchemist who blows people up (his name escapes me at the moment) caught them, and mortally wounded Scar's brother, and scarred Scar's face, before being driven off. Scar's brother alchemically grafted his own right arm onto Scar (to replace the one that state alchemist had blown off) before he died.

When we first meet Scar, he's reached the decision to kill state alchemists to finish alchemizing the philosopher's stone inside himself. He wants to create it so that it can be used as a weapon for the Ishbal people to defend themselves.

 

[Nifft]

You know, the Nina episode really didn't make me care.

Yeah, too much telegraphed cuteness... like how she kept calling him "brother". Seriously annoying. Very obvious the writers didn't care about her, but the audience was supposed to care. Bleah.

-- N

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah, too much telegraphed cuteness... like how she kept calling him "brother". Seriously annoying. Very obvious the writers didn't care about her, but the audience was supposed to care. Bleah.

-- N

I agree. How did you feel about the death that just happened on Adult Swim last night, though?

 

[Nifft]

I agree. How did you feel about the death that just happened on Adult Swim last night, though?

Didn't see it. I hardly ever get to see Adult Swim these days.

-- N

 

[domino]

Yeah, too much telegraphed cuteness... like how she kept calling him "brother". Seriously annoying.

You realise that that's a literal translation of the Japanese, and that it's very common in anime for kids to call friendly older young people brother or sister, despite any blood relation?