Asch's Canon List (WIP-- GIF HEAVY)

"Alchemy: the science of understanding, deconstructing, and reconstructing matter. However, it is not an all-powerful art. It is impossible to create something out of nothing. If one wishes to obtain something, something of equal value must be given. This is the law of equivalent exchange; the basis of all alchemy. In accordance to this law, there is a taboo among alchemists. Human transmutation is strictly forbidden. For what could equal the value of a human soul?"

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Edward and Alphonse Elric lived in the small rural town of Resembool with their mother and father when they were young, with their father leaving them all behind when Ed was just 5 years old. In that same year, a plague struck and unfortunately took their mother's life, leaving the two boys alone with nothing but their alchemical talent.





Refusing to let this be the way things stay, the brothers decided to try and bring their mother back from the dead.

"We just wanted to see her smile again."

At first, it seemed like the transmutation would be a success... but things went wrong all at once. Alphonse lost his entire body, and Edward lost both his arm and his leg after desperately bonding his brother's fleeting soul to a suit of armor. While the brothers managed to survive the ordeal, they were traumatized by what they'd seen, and vowed to never make the same mistake again. Ed currently seeks a way to return their bodies to how they were before committing the alchemical taboo, primarily interested in the use of the philosopher's stone-- an object that can transmute with no cost.