It looks remarkably similar to the array for the Stone, though, so I'm very curious.
There seem to be two styles of arrays going on in the series. There's the more geometric ones that the Amestrians mostly use--the one on Roy's glove, the one Al always draws, the one on Dante's floor (I wonder why she needed that anyway, when she's got l33t clappy powers?), and so on. And then there's the curvy flowy Mesopotamian-esque style that you see on Scar and Bruce, in the lab (both Greed's room and the Philosopher's Stone room), and when Tucker tries to animate his Nina dolls. I'm curious about the difference, but I'm too lazy to really work out a theory.
Even if it's at a distance, he only keeps it nearby when he's with family.
Hmm, good point. He does tend to keep it in easy sight. I wonder why? Does he have a morbid and gawthy fascination with it (maybe still trying to figure it out, after he ignored Dante's biology lessons)? Does it have some sort of emotional significance to him? Does he paradoxically draw some kind of power from it if he's close but not too close?
If he were hiding it from Kimbley, how would the man know where to find it?
Though I wonder why he's just standing in front of the safe in that one scene. Maybe he's like, "Where is that skull now? Surely not in the safe--that'd be too obvious." ::blows open safe anyway, just for the hell of it:: "Wow, Greed's less sneaky than I thought."
but note that he doesn't do anything to Greed's skull, even though he probably knew it was a huge weakness.
Saving it for later, in case Greed gets pissed off and comes after him (or in case somebody comes along wanting to bargain for the skull)? But, yeah, if he really hated Greed he'd smash up the skull and be done with it. It's so sweet how he's not as malicious as he could be. ^_^
Silly boy didn't even realize Dante wouldn't still be alive after 140 years.
Well, he did know her for some time before he was sealed. It might have been long enough for him to notice, "Oh, hey, she's kind of immortal too." (Does the anime ever say how old he is? I can't remember.)
However, they did once exist without stone
Though they tend to be gory messes at that point. :P (Sloth remembers that phase of her life. Wrath came through the gate fully formed, but he's just a brain-breaking exception to everything.)
It's just not a state Greed would want to be in, I suspect.
Nope, he likes being near-immortal.
FICBUNNY AUGH.
I win! XDDD
He's gotta be a genuis-child, to make these kinds of connections - I can't really blame him for being insane. He must be so bored. And then prison - oh, the poor dear. *hugs him*
Hell yeah. Poor brilliant, crazy Kimbley. ::hugs him too:: I'm picturing him sitting alone in his cell, just thinking about chemicals and arrays for hours on end.
and I still have no idea how he got the alchemy books.
::whispers:: Hoho-papa!
. . . Or some eccentric alchemist uncle who visited once.
I need to rewatch and figure out if there's a kind of person he submits to, because he sure as hell isn't submitting to an organization
Well, there's Greed and there's Archer. He seems to have followed orders in Isbhal as long as the orders were condusive to blowing things up--and when they told him to stop, then he blew up his CO.
. . . Also he backed off of poor Al when Roy came to the rescue, though he goes back to his blow-up-the-armor plan in Lior when Roy's not watching. It's weird that he'd make a show like that.
Oh! And the one thing that made me start wondeirng about passive!Kimbley was the fact that he didn't break out of prison years ago. Even in the shackles, he can stick his palms up against the wall and blow it up. I doubt he liked prison, and it had to have occurred to him that he could easily break out, so I really don't know why he didn't do so earlier.
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There seem to be two styles of arrays going on in the series. There's the more geometric ones that the Amestrians mostly use--the one on Roy's glove, the one Al always draws, the one on Dante's floor (I wonder why she needed that anyway, when she's got l33t clappy powers?), and so on. And then there's the curvy flowy Mesopotamian-esque style that you see on Scar and Bruce, in the lab (both Greed's room and the Philosopher's Stone room), and when Tucker tries to animate his Nina dolls. I'm curious about the difference, but I'm too lazy to really work out a theory.
Even if it's at a distance, he only keeps it nearby when he's with family.
Hmm, good point. He does tend to keep it in easy sight. I wonder why? Does he have a morbid and gawthy fascination with it (maybe still trying to figure it out, after he ignored Dante's biology lessons)? Does it have some sort of emotional significance to him? Does he paradoxically draw some kind of power from it if he's close but not too close?
If he were hiding it from Kimbley, how would the man know where to find it?
Though I wonder why he's just standing in front of the safe in that one scene. Maybe he's like, "Where is that skull now? Surely not in the safe--that'd be too obvious." ::blows open safe anyway, just for the hell of it:: "Wow, Greed's less sneaky than I thought."
but note that he doesn't do anything to Greed's skull, even though he probably knew it was a huge weakness.
Saving it for later, in case Greed gets pissed off and comes after him (or in case somebody comes along wanting to bargain for the skull)? But, yeah, if he really hated Greed he'd smash up the skull and be done with it. It's so sweet how he's not as malicious as he could be. ^_^
Silly boy didn't even realize Dante wouldn't still be alive after 140 years.
Well, he did know her for some time before he was sealed. It might have been long enough for him to notice, "Oh, hey, she's kind of immortal too." (Does the anime ever say how old he is? I can't remember.)
However, they did once exist without stone
Though they tend to be gory messes at that point. :P (Sloth remembers that phase of her life. Wrath came through the gate fully formed, but he's just a brain-breaking exception to everything.)
It's just not a state Greed would want to be in, I suspect.
Nope, he likes being near-immortal.
FICBUNNY AUGH.
I win! XDDD
He's gotta be a genuis-child, to make these kinds of connections - I can't really blame him for being insane. He must be so bored. And then prison - oh, the poor dear. *hugs him*
Hell yeah. Poor brilliant, crazy Kimbley. ::hugs him too:: I'm picturing him sitting alone in his cell, just thinking about chemicals and arrays for hours on end.
and I still have no idea how he got the alchemy books.
::whispers:: Hoho-papa!
. . . Or some eccentric alchemist uncle who visited once.
I need to rewatch and figure out if there's a kind of person he submits to, because he sure as hell isn't submitting to an organization
Well, there's Greed and there's Archer. He seems to have followed orders in Isbhal as long as the orders were condusive to blowing things up--and when they told him to stop, then he blew up his CO.
. . . Also he backed off of poor Al when Roy came to the rescue, though he goes back to his blow-up-the-armor plan in Lior when Roy's not watching. It's weird that he'd make a show like that.
Oh! And the one thing that made me start wondeirng about passive!Kimbley was the fact that he didn't break out of prison years ago. Even in the shackles, he can stick his palms up against the wall and blow it up. I doubt he liked prison, and it had to have occurred to him that he could easily break out, so I really don't know why he didn't do so earlier.