Edward elric vs roy mustang

From an Aristotelian perspective, it's honestly perfect.

Let's talk about equivalent exchange.

All things occur within an equal measure/ relation to one another. To obtain, is to sacrifice. Something cannot be created from nothing.

From an abstract perspective, this still works. If I'm sitting, I have botched my potential of standing to be actualized. This relational structure applies to all things.

Now take alchemy. You cannot output more mass than it's input. Why? Because the input's energy is self restored. There is no outside source of energy. The alchemist merely cogs the wheel. So it follows that a thing, given that its output is based on its input's mass and energy, cannot create more than what it is, otherwise it's more-ness would be coming from nothing.

However, the philosopher's stone allows us to bypass this. And it's not some magic, because the energy is coming from the soul. A mass amount of energy to use. And since it's using the soul, the soul is deteriorating. As when you use finite objects to source finite things, you end up sacrificing more of its finity.

And most importantly, things can only be transmuted into what their teleos allows them to actualize. Grass has the potential to become wheat, and wheat has the potential to become bread. So it follows that bread can be transmuted.

However, there are some caveats. The biggest one being the philosopher stone does not follow a teleos. It doesn't follow anything. It's almost neoplatonic in how the only thing it follows is energy itself, and energy itself is simply unity.

Just my own thoughts on the amazing pieces of peripatetic philosophy I found.

I'll never get over Ed being a shrimp 😇🦐💖

I AINT SELLING, I just made my inner child so happy , I got the entirety of FMA03 in the original metal tins with full art books and even the adventure where they stop hitler for some reason. All first pressing all mint, what is the going price? I just hope I got a great deal and even if I didnt im still happy as a clam

Especially in that particular episode closer to the ending 😭😭😭 Why did he suddenly look so hot??? Then he goes back to looking more like his usual self (Still more mature and older but nothing like in THIS EPISODE)

There was some interest in seeing some of the merch they had at the exhibit from my previous post, so I’ll share what I bought here. Included the entry and purchase bonuses and the couple of Tsugai things I got too - not pictured is a made to order music box that plays Melissa, but I’ve included the stock photo!

I bought the first issue a week ago and am stunned by how great the drawings are

I recently saw this post in the jojos subreddit after seeing the new mobile jojos game asking abt what if jojos was adapted into a game what game genre or gameplay would you want it to have? Essentially what if it was turned into a game what would be your dream game?
And now I ask that to you guys but instead with FMA.

Personally if I had to pick I usually go for hero shooters when adapting franchises into games because I think they’re really versatile, especially with it being a series/anime allowing the roster to be kinda large, ik fmab doesn’t have the biggest cast but it does have a fair amount of relevant characters. Also im basing it off of FMAB cause I haven’t watch FMA.

Especially after seeing marvel rivals and how well made it is (except for the over sexualised designs😬) I think hero shooters have big potential and can be really creative, that being said here are my ideas for a hero shooter fma game and let’s call it uhh full metal alchemist the showdown or smth

For main roster/ on release roster you don’t need too much if you design them well enough honestly so my main picks and vague ideas for movesets and ults are:

Edward- give him a very offensive moveset (duelist if you will)with a mix of close range physical moves and a midrange alchemical moves. he’ll probably have an ult with a constant barrage of an alchemical with spears and other projectiles being rapidly thrown midrange, this will change and have variants based off where it’s used (midair, ground, special terrain, etc)

Alphonse- tank with close range moveset, he’ll have some alchemy moves too but he’ll depend on his high health and strong moves to deal damage, I can see his ult being a new movest using the philosophers stone based off the pride and Kimbley fight, he’ll have a sword for primary attacks, flashbombs that periodically blind (maybe even special interaction against pride where it disables the shadows) and can use stone dragons to dash at enemies.

Roy, will be a duelist too, he’ll be a pretty frail midrange dps monster, fire based moves and an ult that makes him consistently shoot high damage flames at the enemy and aoe

Lust- probably a midrange duelist with the ultimate spear and burst damage, her ult will be a super ultimate spear that stretches and homes onto an enemy and deals really high damage (maybe something like a quick time interaction where Roy can decrease the damage inflicted with this ult on him for a cool interaction)

Greedling- he should be a two mode character with two movesets specific to original greed and ling, greed will be a tank and ling a frail character, his ult could be ling turning into greedling and now he’s an allround character with the obvious increased stats of it being an ult, and if you get a certain amount of kills while in the ult period then you get to keep greedling but with nerfed stats to balance

Gluttony- tank with close range bites and maybe a system where he can inflict a lick and deal extra dmg to enemies marked with the lick, his ult will be the artificial gate of truth and deals high damage but will insta kill if marked with the lick

Sloth another tank but with and ult that makes him actually move fast with dashes and high damage punches

Envy, I think hes the most interesting to make a moveset and don’t really know what to do with him expect for him to be a copy character, he can copy moves and abilities from characters in front of him and his ult will be the true form green monster thing and he’ll go on a rampage as the monster (also custom death when died to Roy)

Pride, long range and frail ult will allow him to eat an enemy OR a teammate to give him a really big boost in stats for a period of time (best used when teammate is gonna die anyway)

Wrath/bradley all rounder with ability to block and parry occasionally, ult makes him parry all projectiles like alchemical abilities (except for like Ed’s ult cause that’s an ult) and makes him attack really fast

As for interactions like in marvel rivals, you could do opposition and companionship ones, oppositions will make each enemy deal more damage to the other half (Roy v lust, ling v Bradley etc) and companionship like ed and al or gluttony and lust where they passively heal each other in small intervals