Dr.Palutena
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I have Cosmos in 10 minutes so I am done for tonight
To be fair this is exactly what Tuxedo Mask does. He wanders around hitting Motoki or mumbling about Sailor Moon, or later on Mini Moon, does his thing, and then wanders off. He can also apparently teleport.
Wanted to pose a question to the fma 03 defense force but I'll wait till InuYasha spam hour is done
You can post now, haha.
The gate itself might not be sentient like in FMA:B, more like a group of evil spirits who in turn become part of the homonculi when they are created. While in that universe they retain most of the memories and maybe even the soul of the people brought back to life there is another part of them that just hungers for more philosopher's stone, more life essence. The truth as it is is likely just the memories of uncountable loss souls trapped in this nexus of all possible realities or something, likely considering the reaction of everyone passing through the gate for the first time is a knowledge overload. It could quite possibly be hell or purgatory.
When Ed and Mister Ho are sent through the gate, presumably for the second time for both, it is by a specific act done by Dante and not the normal pay the toll, get to see "the truth" and get clap alchemy and your very own homonculi.
People retain different bits of knowledge after going through the gate. Ed for example figures out the proper array to do the big switch at the end. Dante either learned it from the gate or figured it out in her hundreds of years of research, she is the second most accomplished alchemist in the world after all and the expert on Homonculi.
If the theory holds that they are tortured souls from hell or whatever they might want a chance at a real life again besides just the insatiable lust for life. Either that or like many literary demons/spirits they seem honor bound to live up to their end of the bargain when a human transmutation is envoked. (Ed and Al still got ROBBED though in either universe, everyone else gave up one body part or a philosopher's stone, Al gave his entire body and Ed still had to give something)
Nah I like the other world concept a ton. That's where they are getting the energy from. The energy was always the missing component in "equivalent exchange" after all and a bunch of souls of the dead sound like a great fantasy show source of energy that meshes perfectly with the philosopher's stone's origin.
Meanwhile FMA:B never really explains where the energy from Alchemy comes from, only that Father can stop it and that philosopher's stones work the same way in both versions.
It doesn't cause shit to happen in our world, it just uses the residual soul energy for alchemy.
Also you just reminded me that Dante somehow figures out that everyone has a gate/link to the gate in FMA '03 (and that it's most powerful/easiest to summon forth when the soul is freshest, which is why she wants that baby!) It's all a big metaphor in both universes really, just that they both happened to figure out practical uses for it.
The big thing to remember about FMA '03 is that it's presented as a parallel world to our own where the only difference is that hedge magic evolved into alchemy in their world (and dante/mister ho wiped out Christianity in its infancy to make the first philosopher's stone) and in our world it died out and was replaced by science. Actions from one world don't change the other and it's only poetic license that Ed loses his arm and his leg in our world, not some weird balance issue (otherwise real world Ed would have lost his limbs three years ago and not when Alchemy Ed showed up in his body)
This post works even better with your avatar.
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I have one at the ready when a certain scene shows up next week.No Black Lagoon gifs?
I have one at the ready when a certain scene shows up next week.
Seriously, first-timers, you are in for an octane-fueled treat.
"The only history I care about is the history of ass, baby."cosmos was great.
dandy wouldn't appreciate it tho
Andrex gif posts are what I imagine all of his forum signatures were like when he was 14
Heh, this is actually my sig right now on another forum. >.>
Remember the gaffer who manually copied in a signature into his posts? I think he only lasted a couple threads until he was banned.