#van hoenheim

[the-phantom-peach]

fullmetal alchemist art i promised i would post 🙏

[royaigarbage]

The inseparable bond between a girl and her comfort character who hates themselves

[bitterandsugary]

I'm rewatching fma and started watching arcane, so I can't help but draw parallels -- what is it with the spherical objects that contain dangerous and destructive power?

also I genuinely loved it when Arcane mentioned alchemy. I now like to think that fma and arcane are two different universes that yet use the same source of magic, and magic just evolved differently to adapt to a specific universe or its people.

[tamaranean]

"I couldn't keep my promise. I died before you did. Sorry."

[aboutzatanna]

Who Is Allura?

Allura; the closest Zatanna has had to an archenemy. she has been mentioned on this blog a few times (like here and here). She has appeared in Justice League of America #51, Adventure Comics #413-415 (later reprinted in DC Super Stars of Magic) and the 1987 Zatanna Special, in that order.

But one thing that has remained elusive is why Allura hates the Zatara's and exactly what she is. She is referred to as a 'Dark Elemental' and generally depicted as a ghost like spirit that can do magic but needed to possess others to exist on the Earthly plane. In her first appearance she is trapped inside the 'Sword of Paracelsus' (that's a huge clue btw) and promises to help Zatanna find her father but is revealed to be the one who cursed him and she was actually leading Zatanna to her and her father's deaths.

I have been meaning to dive deeper into Allura's character and I was inspired by @ringaroundaroses's post on Zatanna's enemies to finally do some research on Allura.

Luckily I didn't have to look too far. Yes, guys, I have figured out Allura!

So, in occult and supernatural works, particularly A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits, 4 types of Elementals are specified; Gnome (being of earth), Undine (being of water), Sylph (being of air) and Salamander (being of fire). The book was written by Paracelsus. When we first meet Allura, she is trapped in the Sword of Paracelsus.

Source: Justice League of America #51

(Fun fact; Paracelsus real name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim and he is the real life inspiration for the character of Hoenheim in 'Full Metal Alchemist'.

Paracelsus was also a doctor and is responsible for pushing ideas like 'the dose makes the poison' and the ethics of a doctor. He still had some outdated ideas but he was still an important contributor to the field of medicine.)

Anyway, Paracelsus describe Sylphs as "invisible beings of air" and "are rougher, coarser, taller, and stronger than humans. The elementals are said to be able to move through their own elements as human beings move through air. Because of this, sylphs are the closest to humans in his conception because they move through air like we do, while in fire they burn, in water they drown, and in earth, they get stuck." You can read more here.

In literature, Sylphs appear in poems like 'Rape of the Lock' (despite the name the story is in fact not about rape), which was written to be a satire of alchemical writing, the Sylphs are said to be the spirits of women "full of spleen" (meaning full of suppressed anger) and vanity whose spirits are too heavy to ascend to heaven. The heroine of the poem, Belinda, is attended to by an army of Sylphs who "foster her vanity and guard her beauty".

The chief Sylph of the story is named 'Ariel', which is also the same name of the "airy spirit" which appears in Shakespeare's play, 'The Tempest' whose main characters are a magician named Perespero living on a secluded island with his daughter, Miranda along with Ariel and their servant, Caliban . Ariel was previously imprisoned in a tree by a witch and Perespero freed him from their imprisonment and later in the story, Perespero agrees to free him completely if he fulfills some tasks for him. Ariel also used to be played by men by later women began to portray the character on stage.

Finally, there is also a Sylph in the titular 1778 novel 'The Sylph' by Georgiana Cavendish in which a Sylph acts as an unseen guardian to a woman trapped in a loveless marriage (actually nothing supernatural, just an anonymous letter writer whose true identity is a mystery until the end of the novel but it is yet another example of Sylph's acting like guardian spirits).

Anyway, back to Allura:

Source: Justice League of America #51

She fits the Sylph (Air Elemental) type. She pretends to be a guardian spirit to Zatanna but in an ironic twist was actually trying to kill her and her father. She is also "stuck" inside a sword (which could considered an earth element) when we first meet her. She is also exorcised from Zatanna's body via fire. As mentioned earlier, Sylphs are weak to fire plus the bell, book and candle is a popular excommunication method.

Source: Justice League of America #51

She is never called a sorcerer within the story. Always referred to as an Elemental and treated like a supernatural being (because she is!).

Source: Justice League of America #51

For once, I'm disappointed that an older comic did not go into a long expository detail about something and acted like we should know what an Elemental is off the bat. Or maybe it's something the readership of the time would have recognized but we don't.

The main difference between Sylphs in myth and literature and Allura is that the latter needs to possess to exist on earth, has both a good half and an evil with Allura's good half unable to exist outside of the Land of the Kharma.

Source: Justice League of America #51

So now that we know she is an air Elemental, this also opens up possibility of introducing characters based on Undines (water elemental), Gnomes (earth elemental) and Salamander (fire elemental).

Still, that leaves one unanswered question; why does Allura hate the Zatara's ?

Well, there is no canon explanation so we have to resort to building our own headcanons instead.

Some of mine are:

(1) Allura used to be someone's guardian. Zatara promised to protect that person but failed thus Allura is seeking vengeance.

(2) Allura used to a real person, good at one point, but was resentful of Zatara. After their death, their spirits split into two; their good half resided in the land of Kharma whilst their evil half continued to curse Zatara.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on Allura? What do you think her backstory should be? What do you think of her being a Sylph? And how do you think that that should be developed in future story arcs?

[chekovs-steel-chair]

Okay, so we all know that Hoenheim is the Golden Man from the Xing dynasty, right?

What I wanna know is when/if the Elric boys figure it out.

I figure that Al would be the first since he probably actually paid attention to the infodump Hoenhein gave him in Reole, and he went east at the end to hang in Xing and do research.

I just want a mini comic or maybe I'll write a fic that is basically:

Al: *Bursting into throne room with history scrolls flying from his arms as he runs right up to Ling's throne* I think my dad was your god.

Ling: I'm sorry what?

[ilikelookingatthings]

full metal alchemist gravity falls au conversation

likelookingatthings Go full metal alchemist ford!

greycoffeethe amount of angst an AU like this can create... dang i need this as a fic so bad

ilikelookingatthings@greycoffee The fact when you commented this so I told my sister and she isn't even in the gravity falls fandom...yet immediately pingponged alternate ways a full mental alchemist gravity falls fic au could go.

Stan as Edward whose brother's body was lost like al as a parallel to ford accidentally getting sucked in the portal and how stan was burned with a reminder.

. The burning house losing identity parallel to not turn back til he gets his brother back. A version where ford's soul was lost but not his body and Stan gets punched in that white void like when Ed sees his brother.A version where like normal full mental fird is in a suit like al and lost his body.

A version where Stan has to pretend to be his alchemist brother but can't do alchemy...just conning his way into people believing it.

How you coukd mix different aspects together. Professor Markov with his research and paranoia similar to ford. How maybe they tried to mess with a taboo. Like maybe they were trying to bring someone back....or maybe ford got tricked by the hulunculi becayse ifvhisctendency to push boundaries in research bht realized he went too far or something..aspect of government conspiracies and how the philosophers stone also connects gold/wealth which stan was obsessed with.

Even brought up a thought if a Stanford stanely parallel with greed and the prince. And a unending options defending on what ratio you lean toward .

Greycoffe@ THESE ARE SUCH GOOD IDEAS HOLY SHIT?? like another idea I got from one of yours is Dip&Mab being Ed&Al and after trying to bring back their dead loved one, have to move in with Stan (this version's Pinako) who's taking care of Pacifica (can be someone else, but I thought she'd be a cute love interest for either twin).

greycoffee i really enjoyed reading your ideas but I cannot for the love of me write out a fully fleshed out fic bc I'm already writing other AUs 😭 (i shall keep this in my notes however :3)

Ford could possibly be someone like Hohenheim with Bill being the homunculus in the flask, etc etc

ilikelookingatthings@greycoffee Ooooh that's fun! Cuz Pacifica abd windy are blonde..also some potential if she represents king Bradley's kid. What with her family being rich and the theme of corruption of rich government people. There is also the option of what if Stan if Stan is the alchemist teacher.....

ooooh or if dipper and Mabel represent Edward while stan is al.Personally off arc I'd picture her as from the north fortress from the Armstrong family.

or that guy with a mustache from the mining town who gets overthrown by the siblings meddling who gets caught up in shenegans and petty talks of revenge but who slowly gets a arc if being a better person.

Huh...just realized Pacifica could also be greed, the prince or Mei since her sense of importance and need to make her family happy and her struggle to understand friends.

Want to throw out there fiddleford could be doctor Markov. And for fun and not for real...Barry the butcher as stan.

Though if Pacifica is winry would that make that ghost who hates her family scar? Though if she's a Armstrong would that make sloth the ghost?

Honestly I get the feeling. I'm so behind on getting through my fanfiction tabs the thought of writing myself even when I have ideas to chew on can feel like too much at times.

I'm gonna reblog this conversation. See if anyone else wants to chew on this bone.

Extra thought...stanley and fird as Riza and mustang considering the trying to become mayor plot line and who we knkw gets injured in the end.

Also a funny imagine is while adjusting ages can work...just imagine all the characters the same age in gravity falls and things get ten times more hilarious (or sad depending) cuz the government has a bunch of kid employees running things. Just imagine old stan and ford as the elric Brothers while the kid superiors are dipper and Mabel.

[frumpyfrumpkin]

fullmetal alchemist brotherhood where everything is the exact same but instead they all have thick new york accents