Respect Father [Fullmetal Alchemist]

[u/SneakyHeat]

Father is the first homunculus, created by an alchemist from Xerxes with Hoenheim's blood, hundreds of years before the beginning of the series. He fools the king of Xerxes into making a nation-wide transmutation circle with the promise of immortality. Next, he purposefully misinforms them, causing Hoenheim and himself to each receive half of the nation's souls.. At this stage, Father should have had 536,329 souls within him, the same as Hoenheim.

Father then left, and taught alchemy to the ancient Amestrians. He planted himself under the ground and built the nation around him, planning eventually to sacrifice every person in it. He also inserted himself as a buffer between alchemists and their source of power so alchemy could not be used against him.

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Container form

When you notice an insect on the ground, do you stop to consider it a fool?

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• Fixes Edward and Alphonse: Manga

• Breaks pipes without moving: Manga Anime

• Effortlessly summons rock walls without moving: Manga, Anime 1, 2

• Stops all alchemy in a large area: Manga

• Makes Greed's stone: Manga

• Ignores Scar's destruction alchemy: Manga

• Recreating Gluttony after his stone was burnt out: Manga

• Alchemy battle with Hoenheim: Manga, Anime

• Slips through the ground: Manga

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Evolved form

Did you honestly believe you're the only one capable of evolving?

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After having his container (the body that resembles Hoenheim) damaged, it is revealed that he no longer needs it.

• Absorbs a thrown kunai, massively increases it's size, and fires it back: Manga

• Zaps May Chang: Manga

• Turns his arm into a gun: Manga

• Warps his body to avoid attacks and wrap people up: Manga, Anime

• Avoids Greed's attack: Manga

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God form

I can create a sun right in the palm of my hand. Shall I turn it's flame loose in here?

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After his nationwide transmutation circle activates giving him energy from almost all the humans in Amestris, he pulls God out of the sky. He now has over 50 million souls within him.

• Turns off alchemy with a finger tap: Manga

• Makes a large explosion, piercing all the way up past ground level: Manga

  • This was left out of the anime. The hole is instead partially caused by May Chang and the surface is pierced by an energy ball deflected by Hoenheim.

• Creates nuclear fusion in his hand: Manga

Hoenheim activates his reverse circle, and Father loses the souls of Amestris. He now deems it too risky to use nuclear fusion.

Shield

• Hands-free shield: Manga, Anime

• Shield blocks large objects, then throws them at his enemies: Manga

• Ignores lava, then uses it as a weapon and a means of transport: Manga

• Shield blocks military weapons: Manga

• Blocks Mustang's fire, then throws it back at him: Manga, Anime

• Survives being cooked in Mustang's "oven": Manga

• Punching his shield shatters Edward's arm: Manga

  • Instead makes a large area blast in the anime

Offence

• Creates a tornado and fires a beam at Hoenheim: Manga

  • In the anime, his initial attack is changed to this ball

• Can drain the life of humans from a distance: Manga

• Large beam attack destroys a massive area: Manga, Anime 1, 2

• Casually throws Hoenheim: Manga

Other

• Births humans from the souls in his stone: Manga

[u/upads]

Good eyes! I agree with Hoenheim's stating that father creating a nuclear fusion (it's actually a fission, but the end result looks so similar it's impossible to tell...).

Hoenheim saw through father's bluff. It's a nuclear fission, not literally the sun itself!

It's still destructive as hell though.

[u/Chainsaw__Monkey → u/upads]

it's actually a fission, but the end result looks so similar it's impossible to tell...).

How do you know this?

[u/upads → u/Chainsaw__Monkey]

With a ball of fusion like that, you will be producing a ball of uncontrollable FUCK YOU that will kill everyone within a radius of...everyone your naked eyes can see. With fission it is possible to contain the blob of FUCK YOU in a ball of plasma with a magnetic field, which is what the father seems to be doing.

Secondly, the process of creating a fusion and fission is different. You will also need to accelerate two nucleus at incredible speeds at each other to start the fusion process, so if father is to produce a fusion not a fission, you will see doing some sort of clapping-like motion in which he brings two nucleus towards each other with his hands to start it. While if he is triggering a fission all he need to do is to create a bunch of atoms and split them in half.

[u/Chainsaw__Monkey → u/upads]

Oh, so because something fictional doesn't obey all the rules(BTW, Magnetic containment is possible for Fusion), all the characters are wrong. You're basically just making shit up to suit your own headcanon.

Hoenheim saw through father's bluff.

Except Hoenheim confirmed "A Sun" and then specified "Nuclear Fusion", that's not calling a bluff, that's being utterly fucking terrified

[u/upads → u/Chainsaw__Monkey]

That's a translation error. Hoehe im merely said "nuclear reaction", the english translation decided to call it fusion.

The sun, nuclear fusion, nuclear fission, they're all going to kill everyone in the fight instantly. It's alright that he is utterly terrified. But his words have given readers enough clues to call father's "Sun" a bluff.

Picking up these subtle clue is like finding an Easter egg. You get really good at it after playing a few chapters of Umineko---anime is out too! Recommended.