Talk:Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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replies: text: *A new image has been found and given the appropriate rationale (I hope). Mainly I looked at was done for similar screenshots taken on other FMA articles and tried my best to replicate that. -- Watemon (talk) 06:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Fullmetalalchemistfather.gif

message: the following was created on my user page so feel free to edit/discuss as needed in order to fix the problems addressed above: -- Watemon (talk)
In the manga, Father is depicted as a calculating and remorseless figure whose preference is to exploit "useful" people to further his own goals, while disregarding those who serve absolutely no purpose. When Edward and Alphonse Elric first meet Father, he was shown to have treated their wounds and even engage them in conversation. However, Father was quick to dismiss and order the death of Lin before he reconsidered the use of this "valuable human resource". Father is shown to be rather protective of the Homunculi; made of his own flesh, Father regards these creations as his own children. In fact, Father went so far as to reabsorb Gluttony and recreate him with all his original memories intact, after Gluttony's Stone was nearly depleted. Not much is known about Father other than he manipulates the governing body of the fictional Amestris. In fact, Fullmetal Alchemist protagonist, Edward Elric postulates that Father masterminded the creation of the State for the express purpose of bringing his plans to fruition.
In appearance, Father greatly resembles Hohenheim, Edward and Alphonse Elric's father. It is revealed in a series of flashbacks that Father used to be a mere black spec with one eye and a set of teeth confined within a scientific flask, created four centuries before the start of the main plotline. Hohenheim's blood (then slave 23) was used in the experiment that initially created Father (then simply Homunculus), thus Father holds Hohenheim in high regard as his "blood kin" for having genetically fathered him. During the transmutation that destroyed Xerxes, Father fashioned his body using Hohenheim's blood as data once more, thus resulting in their near-exact likeness. In his original form as Homunculus, he was able to deftly manipulate the King of Xerxes into crafting the massive transmutation array under the promise of immortality, and had no sympathy for the thousands of lives that were sacrificed during the alchemical reaction. In this respect, very little has changed between the tiny Homunculus of 400 years before and Father as he is depicted in the present time; Father is planning a very similar transmutation with the whole of Amestris as an array, and just as before, cares not for the countless innocent people that had to and would soon die in order for his goals to be reached.-- Watemon (talk) 07:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: *I took the liberty of replacing the previous Character Outline with the proposed outline above in order to jump start the discussion for those editors that are watching the main article but not the talk page. -- Watemon (talk) 15:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Character Outline