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Today, my father and I discovered the use of our digital camera -- its purpose, it seems, is to be around to take embarrassing photos of my mother, lying on the couch with ground-up cucumber on her face. XD Really, now. XD
Anyway, my LJ paid account expires today. Thank you again,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jyuu_chan for buying me the two months♥♥♥♥♥♥ I will miss the extra iconage, I admit, but at least I still have my penguins♥♥ I had fun with my time, and now I'll say goodbye to the paid world~~~ XD
Also, downloaded and just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist episode 43.
Now, I gotta admit -- I know a lot of people who were sort of "meh" for a large chunk in the middle, and while I was sort of like that, I mostly wasn't. This is seriously, in my opinion, one of the best stories I've seen in a long time, and there's just something nice about a quasi-wartime story that has its lighter moments, but doesn't actually shy away from the whole GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS, and vice-versa. I love how Ed is portrayed as a very failiable and sometimes weak human being, while still being strong enough to have survived his own horrible mistakes and still come out fighting for it.
Now, pretty much from the beginning -- my friends who've been in the fandom with me a long time -- I've had this peculiar fascination for the Elric parents, Hoenheim in particular. I've just watched episode 43, and he seems like a genuinely good guy -- a bit absent-minded, a bit out of date and goofy, but a good guy. This isn't someone you could picture deliberately leaving his wife and two young sons and then ignoring letters talking about Trisha's illness. The fact that he had to ask Winry how long Trisha's been dead indicates that there's a good chance those letters Ed and Al sent actually never reached him.
At the same time, Winry is probably Al's age, a year younger than Ed. The fact that Hoenheim keeps mistaking her for her mother, and the things the Ouroborous have implied about "that guy" -- and from Envy's rant, I'd say it's pretty damn obvious he's talking about Hoenheim -- you've got to wonder. Is the nice-guy thing a facade, that he's using to lull his sons into a false sense of security and into trusting him (though I wonder, truly, if Ed even can at this point) -- or was he, like Ed and Al, a good person who made some horrible mistakes, though perhaps on a grander scale?
The manga, at this point, has all but said that Hoenheim is the "Father" of the Ouroborous, and what we've seen of him isn't pleasant at all. In the manga, just from what I've seen, he comes across as a cold and calculating sort, with no mercy or kindness. He appears to be the kind of man Ed expects him to be -- an uncaring bastard who abandoned his family without a second thought.
At this point, we don't really know what Hoenheim's motives are, in either the anime or the manga. It could very well turn out that the pleasant attitude is just a mask, and that he's no different from his manga-self, under the surface. The manga-self could have some kind of noble ideal backing him -- one of my theories was perhaps that Hoenheim knew Trisha was ill (in the anime, at least, they say she must have been sick a very long time and hid the pain for years), and left to find the Philosopher's Stone to create a cure for her, and was corrupted by the search along the way.
Of course, there are vague implications here and there that Hoenheim is MUCH older than a human could be (like Dante, in the anime; if she ressurected Greed, but Greed's been sealed over a hundred years -- it lends to curiousity, how the two stories should intersect and tie together). I know in the manga, at least, there are still some theories that Hoenheim will be Pride, the last of the Ouroborous, and given how old the Ouroborus are implied to be, this could very well be the case.
The beautiful thing is the not knowing, though -- I want to know, I sure as well would love to have the secrets explained and the rationlizations given. I'd like Hoenheim to be a nice guy -- it's too late for him to give back anything to his sons, but at least there's the comfort of knowing he isn't evil. But I like the concept of him as a sick and twisted bastard, too, an "evil" character with selfish motives. (Because one can argue that in FMA there's no truly evil character; I'd say Envy comes the closest, but I also think Envy's bugfuck nuts, which doesn't excuse, but at least explains his attitude.)
Alternately, I've been thinking about this too damn much. XD But I freaking LOVE this series, man, and next week's episode is 「光のホーエンヘイム」 which just makes me excited because we're gonna learn MORE yay and eek what's going to happen NEXT and DUDE, what's going to happen to Lust? O___O
It's great, man. Love this show. XD
Anyway, my LJ paid account expires today. Thank you again,
jyuu_chan for buying me the two months♥♥♥♥♥♥ I will miss the extra iconage, I admit, but at least I still have my penguins♥♥ I had fun with my time, and now I'll say goodbye to the paid world~~~ XDAlso, downloaded and just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist episode 43.
Now, I gotta admit -- I know a lot of people who were sort of "meh" for a large chunk in the middle, and while I was sort of like that, I mostly wasn't. This is seriously, in my opinion, one of the best stories I've seen in a long time, and there's just something nice about a quasi-wartime story that has its lighter moments, but doesn't actually shy away from the whole GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS, and vice-versa. I love how Ed is portrayed as a very failiable and sometimes weak human being, while still being strong enough to have survived his own horrible mistakes and still come out fighting for it.
Now, pretty much from the beginning -- my friends who've been in the fandom with me a long time -- I've had this peculiar fascination for the Elric parents, Hoenheim in particular. I've just watched episode 43, and he seems like a genuinely good guy -- a bit absent-minded, a bit out of date and goofy, but a good guy. This isn't someone you could picture deliberately leaving his wife and two young sons and then ignoring letters talking about Trisha's illness. The fact that he had to ask Winry how long Trisha's been dead indicates that there's a good chance those letters Ed and Al sent actually never reached him.
At the same time, Winry is probably Al's age, a year younger than Ed. The fact that Hoenheim keeps mistaking her for her mother, and the things the Ouroborous have implied about "that guy" -- and from Envy's rant, I'd say it's pretty damn obvious he's talking about Hoenheim -- you've got to wonder. Is the nice-guy thing a facade, that he's using to lull his sons into a false sense of security and into trusting him (though I wonder, truly, if Ed even can at this point) -- or was he, like Ed and Al, a good person who made some horrible mistakes, though perhaps on a grander scale?
The manga, at this point, has all but said that Hoenheim is the "Father" of the Ouroborous, and what we've seen of him isn't pleasant at all. In the manga, just from what I've seen, he comes across as a cold and calculating sort, with no mercy or kindness. He appears to be the kind of man Ed expects him to be -- an uncaring bastard who abandoned his family without a second thought.
At this point, we don't really know what Hoenheim's motives are, in either the anime or the manga. It could very well turn out that the pleasant attitude is just a mask, and that he's no different from his manga-self, under the surface. The manga-self could have some kind of noble ideal backing him -- one of my theories was perhaps that Hoenheim knew Trisha was ill (in the anime, at least, they say she must have been sick a very long time and hid the pain for years), and left to find the Philosopher's Stone to create a cure for her, and was corrupted by the search along the way.
Of course, there are vague implications here and there that Hoenheim is MUCH older than a human could be (like Dante, in the anime; if she ressurected Greed, but Greed's been sealed over a hundred years -- it lends to curiousity, how the two stories should intersect and tie together). I know in the manga, at least, there are still some theories that Hoenheim will be Pride, the last of the Ouroborous, and given how old the Ouroborus are implied to be, this could very well be the case.
The beautiful thing is the not knowing, though -- I want to know, I sure as well would love to have the secrets explained and the rationlizations given. I'd like Hoenheim to be a nice guy -- it's too late for him to give back anything to his sons, but at least there's the comfort of knowing he isn't evil. But I like the concept of him as a sick and twisted bastard, too, an "evil" character with selfish motives. (Because one can argue that in FMA there's no truly evil character; I'd say Envy comes the closest, but I also think Envy's bugfuck nuts, which doesn't excuse, but at least explains his attitude.)
Alternately, I've been thinking about this too damn much. XD But I freaking LOVE this series, man, and next week's episode is 「光のホーエンヘイム」 which just makes me excited because we're gonna learn MORE yay and eek what's going to happen NEXT and DUDE, what's going to happen to Lust? O___O
It's great, man. Love this show. XD
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Re: Another point...
I ahven't gotten far enough into the manga yet to gives a theory on that version. I will soon though :)
By the way... I updated with more puppy-pics in my lj. [pimps her puppy like mad]
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Re: Another point...
The split-idea may work, though; maybe neither being the real Hoenheim, but homunculi? I mean, if trying to ressurect someone once creates a homunculus with their memories who looks just like that person ... what happens if you try to raise the same person twice?
Also: YOUR PUPPY IS SO CUTE OMG. :O If I were in your neighborhood, I would so volunteer petsitting whenever you went out of town. :O