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Omnipotrent — FMA prequel: Circle of Souls (touch up)
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Published: 2017-08-06 13:19:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 3476; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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Before the Moon vanished and the door to darkness opened, before there was peace between the East and the West, before there was a Fullmetal Alchemist, there was the Golden Philosopher.
Years after the genocide of his homeland Xerxes, slave turned alchemist Van Hohenheim walks the earth and alone, and haunted by the mistake that cost him his homeland and his soul.
Now in a new age, Hohenhiem embarks in secrecy on a fools errand to the new country called "Amestris" to try to prevent the malevolent being calling itself FATHER from creating a devastation that will dwarf the atrocity of his home.
He finds himself caught in a Holy War of Nations that could rip the East apart as part of Father's grand plan, and carried out by his new creation calling himself Bradley, and almost losing his new friend Izumi in the process. Hohenhiem wonders if redemption is even possible...
Van Hohenhiem is faced with a choice when he is met with an Ishvalan warrior with a secret to to defeating the Devil in his culture who is one and the same with "FATHER," and a young missionary woman named Trisha who unfold a way to help Hohenhiem actually heal the land...as well as himself, and Hoenheim hopes to dare at a life where he can be happy again...
Now he is n a speed game of chess, and cat and mouse played around the world with a creature with the powers of a god responsible for making him immortal, as he dares to live again, love again, and fail again for something worth failing for....in the Full Metal Alchemist Prequel: the Circle of Souls.
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Interesting idea with Hohenheim being more proactive in this
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Well have you seen Brotherhood?
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The only one I have seen, and loved. Holding at my second favourite manga, and was #1 for a very long time (One Piece's Fishman Island arc pushed it to the top).
He did have an excellent plan to handle the problem, but failed to consider how adaptive the DITF could have adapted, and a lot of people still died in the meantime. If Hohenheim had continued to act upon his own without any help or contact with Ed and Co. --which frankly was my impression of his original plan-- he would have failed.
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Right.
This story is more chronicling the first time he tried doing something to abate FATHER , has a group of friends to help him, loses them in the process, making him want to work alone.
Shows Izumi how to do the forbidden taboo, which of course he'll come to regret later.
Loses his friend and brother in arms Ezair the Ishvallen convert Crusader from which he gets the Armor after he dies, and restores it and keeps it in his honor.
All of which makes him want to solo-mission the rest of it.
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I like this it sounds really good
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Seeing a younger King Bradley does look interesting, him displaying the skills that made it easy for people to accept him as Furher (especially since he was so old when he died)
My impression in Brotherhood was that Izumi only briefly met him previously, and it was only their second meeting that anything serious happened. And why would he show her the Taboo given his own personal experience and deep knowledge?
I do like the idea that Al's armour had greater history
Good explanation, and thank you
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The idea is that the Forbidden Taboo provides a way to re-make/create a person all the way up to the soul, and essentially, he taught her and others how to fix the unfixable this way, but in doing so set her on the path to discovering the Resurrection aspect of it, making him feel responsible, cause naturally why wouldn't a mother take this to the next step after losing a hcild.
Bradley really shines here as a soldier and we get to see him having to prove himself as the great leader as well as fierce and ruthless warrior he is, in that he both tactically, and physically has to combat several brilliant generals, leading up to finally wiping out the Nation of Ishval, and we see him fully embrace/become his vocation.
Each Homunculi has a semblance of personhood to them (particularly greed), but Bradley's nearly robotic in his conviction, so this illustrates how he becomes such a tempered man...yet at the same time doesn't lose himself utterly as he makes the "illogical choice" when choosing his wife, there were other more suitable companions that could've even served a purpose for his mission better...or would simply block or not care if they learned a semblance of the truth about his monstrous nature...but in the end, he choose his wife as almost showing a glimmer of a man wanting something genuine and close to love, and the fact that he could tell she genuinely loved him.
And yes, Ezair is almost the Al, or in a way the Ed to Hoenhiem's Al in this story...he's the one who blood boilingly passionate about vanquishing Bailith (the devil) who of course is father, who route civil war through his people, (kind of like isis killing other muslims)
And he dies leaving the Armor to to Hohenhiem, but tells him that he sees gods face when he looks into his eyes before he dies, because in his eyes there is love...and love is going to be why he's going to win, as where he had only hatred.
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Ah I see, and much like Ed and Al did, Izumi disregarded her teacher's firm warnings
Given his comments, to the original Greed I believe, he made that reputation straight on the frontlines, leading his men 'miraculously' through cannon fire and bullets, so it is easy to understand how he earned his reputation, even without Father's interference
Yes, his relationship with his wife is definitely interesting, particularly his last words regarding her. And there definitely would have been more suitable wives (although I would say she still performed her expected duties as the Furher's Wife well given how popular she was with the public) for him, including an active collaborator to smooth things over so he did not have to hide who he was and his intentions. I would speculate that was what Father intended, along with a dim thought to give his 'son' a trophy wife that would serve any sexual needs to keep Bradley happy. Instead, Bradley went and found a true partner...
When you said 'almost the Al' the first thing that popped into my mind was usually gentle, calm, and considerate...and then I read the rest :-P That really would be an ideal suit however, since as memory serves bullets just ricocheted off of it (Bradley's sword better than bullets :-P )
Beautiful final lines :'-)
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Thank you, Envy would be one of the newer Homonculi, and his final act of dastardlyness would actually be to shoot the Ishavalen child dead in the story, and basically undoes a long time of Hoenheim convincing a man to try for peace rather than bloodshed.
Lust i was thinking we'd peak back into her relationship with a man who is Scar's uncle rather than his brother.
And yes he'd be using the guise and likeness of his dead wife to create Lust because he wanted Scar's uncle's genius as an Alchemist to create Phileosophers Stones and she'd be a good motivator....as well as good shoulder devil vs. the shoulder angel that Hoenhiem offers to their culture.
And Hoenhiem does try helping her at first, and her human memories are a problem at first...but ultimately are snuffed out, and Greed triumphantly chortles that you can't change a Homunculi, they aren't even people...you can never get them not to act against their intended nature, anymore than humans.
As for Trisha's death, he's in a prison when he hears about it, he nearly has a break down there, and actually does a monumental break out after a while of stewing in misery and wishing to die.
It's in that moment that one of the souls he absorbed from the past of Xerxes actually gets him out of the rut he's in in that dungeon, and motivates him to keep going and to break out.
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Envy... >:-l
Unfamiliar with that relationship so assuming related to Fullmetal Alchemist not-Brotherhood
Surprised the prison was still intact
Huh, had never thought of how much could be done in terms of Hohenheim interacting with all of those thousands of souls within him...
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He got to know nearly each and everyone of them, and got them to use themselves up of their own free will to help him undo the evil of Father. So yeah, a child from Xerxes , the son of the King who slaved him in fact, motivates Hoenhiem to try again, and not give up, and defeat Father.
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Very nice 
That said, mildly surprised he did not have the various parents inside of him chastising him for his childraising techniques.
...Never mind, the constant advice probably helped make it easier for him to leave :-P
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...that's actually a great idea
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A prequel story, uh? Oh, boy, this will be good~
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Oh damn I am pumped for this this actually I assume would explain how the armour came into Hohenheim's possession
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Yep, it was his old friend who he came to call a brother in arms, and died.
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love what you did with the armor.
an ongoing project or just a fun cover?
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Fun cover but i may write
who knows
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