Talk:Van Hohenheim

I think "Hohenheim of Light" should be made into a different article than "Van Hohenheim" since the anime/manga versions are vastly different to each other, especially their Pre-FMA histories.

Thoughts?

I don't think the articles should be split up, because it makes little sense to do so. Yes, Hohenheim does differ wildly between the two anime; however, no other character is split up (there aren't, for example, two Scar articles, even though his backstory and plot involvement are radically different between the two shows), so it would be somewhat petty to divide up only Hohenheim (and far too laborious to divide all other relevant articles accordingly). 98.227.43.109 21:00, July 2, 2012 (UTC)

Logic in family
If "father" is hohenheim's son then dosent that make "father" ed and al's brother

If so, then yes. Either way, they're all related by blood, so Father is either Ed and Al's brother or uncle depending on how you look at it. And don't forget that blood carries over to the Homunculi as well. I did always think Envy and Edward looked alike :P CorbeauKarasu 19:07, January 12, 2010 (UTC)

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 * Yeah and there was actually a FMA omake that made fun of it: [http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/live4him4eva001/fmavol23_02scanlated.jpg right here.
 * Kiadony 19:15, February 15, 2010 (UTC)

Lol I like the look on Glutonny's and Pride's facesThe stooge 05:17, February 16, 2010 (UTC)

In a part of the manga Hohenheim was in a place where they didn´t know alchemy

I actually think you should make two boxes for characters appearing in both the 2003 anime and the manga/2009 anime.

Like, for Envy for example; there's one box. "Motives: *manga motives*" but then you have to throw in his 2003 anime motives with an * to signify a difference. That's too crowded in my opinion. There should be two boxes. Manga/Brotherhood Envy and 2003 Envy.

Cornwiggle 22:19, May 26, 2010 (UTC)

Hohenheim made father. I don't think that will make them family because father is a humunculus.Grim13 19:02, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

I think that Hohenheim stated that Father was literally his alter ego, just with a soul tainted with the gate and cast off al his cardinal emotions. So, in a way, Father is like an alternate Hohenheim, and the Homunculi are like alternate Elric Brothers, or it can considered as such that the Homunculi are literally dettatched parts of Father, like the plot suggests. So, they're not family, but they're are more like twin-like clones. Anyone share a similar thought?

Lin Yao 13:34, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

No, that's not quite accuratre. While it may be problematic to call Father and Hohenheim "brothers", there are two separate beings related by blood. Father actively chose Hohenheim's form when crafting a body for itself, it could have chosen a different form and in addition, their personalities were never the same. Father is not another version of Hohenheim or an alter ego, but a creature given life by Hohenheim's blood. The Homunculi, as offshoots of Father, also have that blood inside them and therfore share blood ties with the Elrics and Van. Normal familial terms might not be the most accurate to define their genetic relationships, but they give a general idea. The same blood gave birth to all these people. Personally, I've always thought that Envy's human form looked a bit like Ed, but then there's nothing to suggest he didn't just steal that form from someone else. CorbeauKarasu 16:01, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

Or even created that body by himself (Envy, I mean). But I do get Lin Yao in the sense that Homunculus, in alchemy's tradition, is a being created as a sort of 'mirror' of the alchemist that created him. But we have to remember that it wasn't Hohenheim who created the Homunculus, but the Alchemists from Xerxes. Either way, you can simbolically understand Father as a "dark-Hohenheim" in a sense, but that is only on a simbolic level and not a concrete one. Concretely speaking, the Homunculus is a lot closer to what, in mythology, we call an "elemental" (though not exactly) and not a human being. Father and Hohenheim are merely 'related by blood' and, therefore, somewhat a family member. Turdaewen 16:17, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

CK, I stared more at Envy, and I still don't really see Ed in him very much. I mean, there are a few things, but I could say the same thing with a lot of characters. A lot of Arakawa's younger male characters look a lot like, and that's what I give credit to any similiarity between them.

Like Turdawen said, I always thought Envy could create whatever persona it wanted, and it just made up that "young, cute" form on its own. Remember when he turned into some young spikey haired soldier that one time to evade Fokker? I never saw a soldier like that anywhere, so I assumed he could literally create any face he wanted to and just made up that one too. He uses that one as his military guise several times if I recall. Tommy-Vercetti 18:00, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

Parallel Hohenheim
Well, I wouldn't say it creates a plot hole, really. Whether the parallel world counterpart has the same appearance and birthdate, it is not necessarily true that they die at the same time. Edward continued to survive after his own counterpart died and Al continued to survive after Alfons died as well - not to mention the difference in physical and mental age between them due to Al's alchemical "reset". If Hohenheim does have a counterpart on Earth, that person - lacking alchemical power - would have died centuries ago. Even the counterpart of his current body would be way too old to be alive during WWI, much less WWII. CorbeauKarasu 16:19, August 11, 2010 (UTC)

The way I see it, his counterpart was dead already, and the counterpart of his new body was possibly dead as well. Therefore, when Hohenheim travelled through the gate, his whole body went through. We know this is possible because this happens to Edward after his counterpart dies.--Full Metal Fan 16:59, August 11, 2010 (UTC)

Glasses Discrepancy
It was possible for Hoeinheim to aquire glasses back in xerxes because on one of the last episodes when he has flshbacks about people he knew their is a child studying and he has glasses on so im requesting an edit to that portion of the trivia section

Firstly, Hohenheim never had glasses at all in Xerxes. Secondly, each one of the actual "images" of the souls within him is anime only. In the manga, he merely mentions them, but they are never seen. With the anime's inclusion of that little scholar boy with glasses, they created a minor continuity error. That's all it is though. Tommy-Vercetti 23:03, April 29, 2011 (UTC)

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Hohenheim's Birthplace
In the box for his birthplace it says Xerxes, but isnt he a slave? why would they inslave thier own people? So shouldn't it say "Unknown"? I could be wrong about this though...

-BeatBoxer31

It is not mandatory that a person should be from a different country/culture in order to be enslaved. In Ancient Greece, for example, most slaves were due to loss of citzenship matters, such as financial debts... Many times, they would even be born in the same city they have been enslaved on. The same happened in India, where the structure of caste would make some people naturally born as servant to others.

Moreover, we have for a fact that Hohenheim was born in Xerxes both from his physical appearence, because he was promptly accepted as a citizen once he received alchemical knowledge and, more strongly, he's refered to as "Xerxian" at the guidebooks.Turdaewen 10:31, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

I see, very good point. Thank you

-BeatBoxer31

Homunculus Tag
I don't see why the Homunculus tag shouldn't be on this page. I see your point that he's a human with a Philosopher's stone in him CK, but we consider Wrath and second Greed homunculi and they're in the same situation. Some of the characters don't seem to consider Hohenheim human, when Fu feels Hohenheim's presence he asks Edward "your father is not human?" This could be because he doesn't know Hohenheim's story, but Ed's reply shows no sing that he considers Hohenheim human either. I feel he's a humanoid homunculus in the same way Wrath and the second Greed are, I'm curious as to what other people think. Fullmetal Fan 17:00, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Wrath and Greed literally had the stone shoved into them, forcing their bodies to adapt to it. Hence how they can age as well, while Hohenheim is forever ageless, as is Father. It's just not the same. Didn't Hohenheim at one point say that it was just infused to his soul, but he still had a normal human body? While the human-based homunculi it seems only have the stone powering their bodies. It's complicated and hard to explain, but they're not the same, nor do I think Hohenheim should be considered a Homunculus. Tommy-Vercetti 17:09, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Seiyuu Rominazation
Hohemheim's seiyuu's name has an extra "u" at the end of the "o", but that doesn't apply to all the others, despite being the same (Example: Unsho/Unshou/Unshō Ishizuka, Yuji/Yuuji/Yūji Ueda). Should I edit the overhead o's and u's on those seiyuus' names rather than put extra u's and o's instead? Belial Edge 23:27, December 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * That makes sense. Fullmetal Fan 17:20, August 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * You're right: he's not an Homunculus. Tecnically, not even Ling is an Homunculus, since he has an homunculus within him, but he, himself, is human. In the case of Wrath, on the other hand, we are not sure if he remained a human or not cause we don't know if the soul that survived inside of him was actually his own, but either cases are utterly different from Hohenheim: Wrath is an Homunculus, Greed is an Homunculus... King Bradley (as before the transformation) is not, and neither is Ling.
 * It's important to make the difference that what categorizes a Homunculus is not having a Philosopher Stone inside them, but being an "artificially created human being" and, in that sense, the only character in FMA who's a (true) Homunculus is Father. Let me explain: the seven homunculi are parts of Father, they are not individuals dettached from their source, which is Father's soul. So they are Homunuli because Father is an Homunculus, and not because they have the Philosopher Stone. To further enlight that exact point, we have as a fact that Father was an Homunculus BEFORE he adquired the Philosopher Stone!
 * He got the Philosopher Stone to become a "perfect being", and not to become an Homunculus (that aspect is intrisic to himself).
 * I think is very important to understand the dynamics of the underlying story of FMA and that Homunculi are one thing, Phisolopher's Stones are another. They're not directly (just incidently) connected to one another, and mixing that up may lead to confusion about the concept of the Homunculi. Turdaewen 19:03, August 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * He got the Philosopher Stone to become a "perfect being", and not to become an Homunculus (that aspect is intrisic to himself).
 * I think is very important to understand the dynamics of the underlying story of FMA and that Homunculi are one thing, Phisolopher's Stones are another. They're not directly (just incidently) connected to one another, and mixing that up may lead to confusion about the concept of the Homunculi. Turdaewen 19:03, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Alkhestry Use
There is a claim on this wiki that Hohenheim is never seen using Alkhestry. I would like to (attempt to) refute this on the grounds that, in Episode 42, Hohenheim is seen transmuting with no movement, but the color of the lightning when he does so is blue (the same color as with Amestrian alchemy and Alkhestry) as opposed to red (Philosopher's Stone alchemy). While this could admittedly just be an oversight, it does suggest that he can use other forms of alchemy (perhaps simply using his Stone as a catalyst in the reactions as opposed to a toll), and only resorts to using his Stone directly when he must perform very powerful transmutations very quickly (as he did against Pride and Father). Does anyone else agree with this? 98.227.43.109 19:47, July 1, 2012 (UTC)

Well, when he went to Xing he effectively invented alkahestry, or at least evolved it from a fledgling pseudo-science based on magic into an actual science. So in my opinion, the idea that he is never seen using bogus. He may use Amestrian alchemy because of the philosopher's stone inside him, but I'm willing to bet that he uses alkahestry as well. In fact, I doubt he ses his stone very often, as that would deplete the lives of his "friends," that is the people of Xerxes (that's not to say he never uses Amestrian alchemy, he just doesn't use the stone for it.) Fullmetal Fan 07:29, July 2, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your input! Also, I believe that Philosopher's Stone alchemy is different from Amestrian alchemy (as they operate differently and use different energy sources). So, he can use the Stone without using Amestrian alchemy, and vice versa. It's a shame that Hohenheim wasn't shown using Alkhestry more often- as far as I can tell, he only used it on one occassion! 98.227.43.109 20:23, July 2, 2012 (UTC)