#but with hohenheim i can understand the disconnect a bit

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Trisha never truly met the physical form of the man she loved.

And Trisha unknowingly had children with a stolen body, piloted by the soul of the man she loved.

MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING FOR FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 2003!!

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Anyone ever like wonder who's body Hohenheim stole??

Like I suppose for the sake of the plot, they (Dante and Hohenheim) either do a background check and choose orphans, or just make the family dissappear alongside any records.

(pretty easy if a massive error like Ed's age being documented as 30 can happen or if you can pretend to be a dead person like sloth did with Julia/Juliet Douglas.. Who knows what other shady shit went on if they can make an entire fucking city dissappear under a church.)

But like it just hit me, that guy's just some random dude who's body Hohenheim stole, we don't know how long ago it was, but if Dante and Hohenheim are rotting at the same pace then it's rather recent right?

What if that guy had like family or someone that's looking for him, what if Lyra, the girl who's body Dante took over had any loved ones?

Imagine seeing them, thinking it's them, seeing their body moving, them talking with the voice you recognize so well, but the tone just sounding so off, it's them, but not at the same time, their mannerism is all wrong when you look at them close enough, you start to catch these inaccuracies, but it's them... You know it's them, but whoever is in that body isn't them. They are moved around by some other person living inside of the rotting flesh of a person you once loved.

Like fuck it's so fucked up, can't like imagine how much sleep Ed lost once he learned that his father has been wearing a flesh suit of some random guy, he's not related to Hohenheim he's related to that random guys body that Hohenheim just happened to inhabit it's so fucking creepy, makes your skin crawl, it's creepier than envy shape shifting because, it's a literal fucking corpse moving.