enough to tutor Lewjon and (I think?) Scar Yes, Lust would have tried alchemy - I had forgotten about that somehow. Hmm. So it's limited to self-inflicted alchemical reactions. Does it show if the blobby homunculi immediately reform after eating stone, or does it take a while? Because if it takes a while, my theory is that they are truly limited to acting on themselves alchemically; the stones replace the Gate's power, acting from within them but never outside of them - so they would need to be absorbed and circulating for the homunculi to make use of them.
Maybe he just ate too much tuna. XD But in real alchemy, mercury was one of the most common substances used in the search for the Philosopher's Stone. Poetic justice. (Mmm, but maybe he wouldn't have taken an interest in alchemy - I really see him as having been a spoiled aristocrat's son, very teenager and snotty and presumptuous. He would have spurned Hohenheim even before his death.)
He blew up the church. XD ;_; It was scary. Flowers and suits and KABOOM. I didn't even know it was him as I was walking down the aisle; I got to the end and looked over and he smirked over at me and KABOOM. Did I mention the KABOOM?
half the characters have the same nose Except for the Romans. XD No, really, Archer and pre-Envy have Roman noses; Kimbley's nose is the kind that has a very slight, delicate concave curve with a little uplift at the end, essentially the exact opposite. (Well, except for the uplift. Roman noses seem to have that uplift; beaks do not.) Or maybe I'm just too obsessed with noses. Gah, I want to draw FMA fanart in a realism style. ;_; I can't draw realism...
these are cases of talent being passed down, rather than kids being interested in their father's work. That was my thought. I hold forth that the potential for alchemy is always present; the ability to learn/understand it is not. Mostly it has to do with resources. A miner's son is not likely to pick up alchemy books.
I get neurotic after being bored only a few days. I get bored painfully easily, and I start saying weird things and wanting to gnaw on stuff. Or get petted. A good scritch is one of my weaknesses. XD
Marrying other predisposed people? Yes. Freud was partially right, as much as it pains me to admit it; we define "parenting" by how we were parented, so someone that grew up in a dysfunctional household often makes a dysfunctional family of their own. Not out of any ill intent; they often hated their childhood. It's just what feels normal, and they don't know any other way to do it. In the same way, a person predisposed for mental illness probably grew up in a house with either a mentally ill parent or the child of a mentally ill person; the behaviors learned from the mentally ill person (whether it be "don't talk to Mummy when she's drinking" or "you really do like musicals, now sit and watch it quietly" or "stealing things is bad, but at least Daddy looks at you and not through you") are passed down, and the children of said person are drawn to similar people with similar backgrounds. (I am massively generalizing, although it is a statistical truth.)
Wow, I can spit off waaaay too much about genetics as related to abnormal psychology.
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Yes, Lust would have tried alchemy - I had forgotten about that somehow. Hmm. So it's limited to self-inflicted alchemical reactions. Does it show if the blobby homunculi immediately reform after eating stone, or does it take a while? Because if it takes a while, my theory is that they are truly limited to acting on themselves alchemically; the stones replace the Gate's power, acting from within them but never outside of them - so they would need to be absorbed and circulating for the homunculi to make use of them.
Maybe he just ate too much tuna.
XD But in real alchemy, mercury was one of the most common substances used in the search for the Philosopher's Stone. Poetic justice. (Mmm, but maybe he wouldn't have taken an interest in alchemy - I really see him as having been a spoiled aristocrat's son, very teenager and snotty and presumptuous. He would have spurned Hohenheim even before his death.)
He blew up the church.
XD
;_; It was scary. Flowers and suits and KABOOM. I didn't even know it was him as I was walking down the aisle; I got to the end and looked over and he smirked over at me and KABOOM. Did I mention the KABOOM?
half the characters have the same nose
Except for the Romans. XD No, really, Archer and pre-Envy have Roman noses; Kimbley's nose is the kind that has a very slight, delicate concave curve with a little uplift at the end, essentially the exact opposite. (Well, except for the uplift. Roman noses seem to have that uplift; beaks do not.) Or maybe I'm just too obsessed with noses. Gah, I want to draw FMA fanart in a realism style. ;_; I can't draw realism...
these are cases of talent being passed down, rather than kids being interested in their father's work.
That was my thought. I hold forth that the potential for alchemy is always present; the ability to learn/understand it is not. Mostly it has to do with resources. A miner's son is not likely to pick up alchemy books.
I get neurotic after being bored only a few days.
I get bored painfully easily, and I start saying weird things and wanting to gnaw on stuff. Or get petted. A good scritch is one of my weaknesses. XD
Marrying other predisposed people?
Yes. Freud was partially right, as much as it pains me to admit it; we define "parenting" by how we were parented, so someone that grew up in a dysfunctional household often makes a dysfunctional family of their own. Not out of any ill intent; they often hated their childhood. It's just what feels normal, and they don't know any other way to do it. In the same way, a person predisposed for mental illness probably grew up in a house with either a mentally ill parent or the child of a mentally ill person; the behaviors learned from the mentally ill person (whether it be "don't talk to Mummy when she's drinking" or "you really do like musicals, now sit and watch it quietly" or "stealing things is bad, but at least Daddy looks at you and not through you") are passed down, and the children of said person are drawn to similar people with similar backgrounds. (I am massively generalizing, although it is a statistical truth.)
Wow, I can spit off waaaay too much about genetics as related to abnormal psychology.