#Edward elric fmab series

Truth: You're sure you'll be okay without it?Įdward (thinking of his friends and family): Even without alchemy, I still have them. An insignificant human who couldn't save a little girl who had been made into a Chimera. Truth: You would lower yourself to become just a normal person, unable to use alchemy?Įdward: 'Lower myself,' nothing. They exchange the following dialogue (English sub of Japanese dub): As he does this, Hohenheim seems to figure it out, too.Īt this point, Edward faces Truth, and offers him his own personal gate of truth in exchange for Alphonse's body. He realizes how he can get his brother back and keep his body. What this other truth is, though, eludes everyone up until the climax of the series, when Edward performs his final transmutation. This throws a wrench into the law of Equivalent Exchange, since if not everything can be quantified by alchemy, Equivalent Exchange cannot be the only truth of the world. If there are some things that are impossible with alchemy, like bringing someone back from death, it implies that there may be some things that do not have a set alchemical value. Knowing this, Edward comes to the conclusion that bringing someone back from the dead is impossible, which he tells Izumi in Episode 20. Upon examining the remains, he and Pinako confirm that this is indeed the case.

#Edward elric fmab series

Following this, when Edward spends some time in Resembool after visiting the ruins of Xerxes, Hohenheim suggests that the creature they transmuted back at the beginning of the series was not even their mother. They discover that Izumi Curtis had also attempted human transmutation, trying and failing to revive her infant child. However, as the series progresses, the brothers begin to discover holes in this seemingly ironclad (fullmetal?) law of alchemy. They felt that there must be some way to bring back their mother using alchemy, and that there must be some way to restore their original bodies as well. That's why they attempted human transmutation to begin with - they see everything as an alchemical equation. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only truth.Īt the start of the series, Ed and Al believe wholeheartedly that almost everything can be solved with alchemy. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. The point of Ed's sacrifice at the end of the series is that he finally understood the truth about alchemy, and, more specifically, the Law of Equivalent Exchange. It does not necessarily reflect the original author's opinion. The following is my interpretation of the end of the series.