xing-side:

itstheendandweareallfallingup:

patriarchtosin:

Okay but can we talk about how when Father first met the Elric brothers he immediately dropped his cold and calculated disposition? It really just breaks my heart because here is the main villain meeting the children of his former best friend and instead of acting borderline robotic like he does for the rest of the story he laughs and pats Ed on the head like “Well would you look at that! Hohenheim actually went and got the family he always wanted! My buddy did it!”

I just feel like it really says a lot about the hidden depth of his character, and I just love the little details like this you’d only really catch if you pay attention. Idk I think about this moment a lot. I love this series so much.

I feel like this was kinda a subtle reminder that he was more human than he thought he was? I mean his whole goal was to “transcend” to godhood or such and in all of that he was trying his best to strip away what connected him to broken, mortal, pathetic human beings(example: taking away his faults, a very defining human trait) but he forgot that humans are more than just their deadly flaws?? Like humanity is super crappy, but we have our good sides too, mostly found in relationships. We bring the good things out of each other and we thrive on each other’s company. Even as he tried to prove to the world that “I’m beyond petty humans” he couldn’t help but find a little human in himself as he remembered his friend and his friend’s dream and felt the joy in his accomplishments.

There is an explanation for this behavior: He had Greed reattached to his soul when this scene happened, which says a lot about the nature of Greed’s personality and what part of Father he was: Ergo, Greed was the part of The Dwarf in the Flask/Homunculus/Father that was friendly, personable, and wanted to have and maintain connections with other people. This is why it makes sense that in the end, Greed realized that the one thing he truly wanted was friends – he was above all else, comprised of The Dwarf’s discarded desire for companionship.

Hohenheim even makes a comment that makes reference to this when he meets The Dwarf again as Father; that The Dwarf had been a much more interesting person back when he was just a little ball in a flask, long before he separated the sin homunculi from himself. 

This also helps explain why after he removed Greed from himself again, Father’s personality went back to being that of a calculating, robotic villain.