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** [[AcceptableTargets Well, it's just France.]]

"These novelty Xingese {{Bishie Sparkle}}s have been passed down the Armstrong family line of generations!" They're powered by the correspondence of the human's {{Hot Blooded}}ness to the dragon whose life flows through the earth. Olivier just doesn't hold with sparkles. The Armstrong Family passing the novelty {{Bishie Sparkle}}s down their family line for generations may explain both how Catherine can power them without drama and how she can lift a piano with one hand despite her [[BoobsOfSteel mostly]] slender body. She will show up at the last minute after a lesson from Mei Ling and singlehandedly solve every alchemy-related problem that exists within the series, at the cost of the {{Bishie Sparkle}}s ever being passed down to future generations of her family line (this guess could be the fastest example of CerebusSyndrome and PlotTumor ever, neh?).

[[WMG: Katherine Armstrong will somehow meet and fall in love with [[{{LightNovel/Durarara}} Shizuo Heiwajima]].]]

[[WMG: Edward will be a [[PapaWolf loving]] and [[OverprotectiveDad doting]] father, much like Maes Hughes]]

TheChick: ...I dunno. Maybe an early version of Ed?

Or, at least, not in the sense of Truth deciding people have done something wrong and deserve to be mutilated. It's an alchemical backlash, just like what normally happens when a transmutation lacks the necessary components, only weirder because the human soul is weirder than ordinary matter (and that's why a Philosopher's Stone can pay the toll and avoid mutilation: the transmutation process needs a soul as part of the ingredients). People just assume it's some kind of divine punishment because, well, Truth *is* divine and humans have a distressing tendency to embrace the just world fallacy, but the only time Truth itself says anything to support the idea is when it's reflecting the wannabe god Father (and thus reflecting Father's own megalomania and cruelty) and mocking him in his own words. You can game the system with a Philosopher's Stone as Ed did to get himself, Ling, and Envy out of Gluttony's stomach and get away perfectly fine, after all.

This is a philosophical speculation. First, there is the factor that while Pride and Wrath are respectively the oldest and youngest created homunculi (until the second Greed), in appearance, Pride looks the youngest and Wrath the oldest. Sloth isn't the slowest, but instead turns out to be a lightening bruiser. Lust is certainly "womanly", but not only is she not a [[HornyDevils horny devil]], given that she loathes humans, and her signature weapon is a ''phallic symbol''. Envy partially fits, as you'd think that he would want to be human, given his vice, but is instead the most cruel and sadistic towards humans (on the other hand, he actually does this ''because'' he envies humans, so maybe played straight).

* I think you might be looking at this the wrong way. Wrath isn't the same thing as anger, it's more like an all encompassing, cold fury. the wrath of war, rather than the anger of a drunk. Lust might not be a HornyDevil, but she is a text book temptress. Lust isn't just sex as well, it's desire. Their powers might be deliberately opposite for some of them, for an ironic twist, but their personalities match fairly well with their names.

* No no no, ''better idea'': Elicia uses her cute charm and investigation skills and Selim uses his intelligence and power - together, '''TheyFightCrime'''. This fic must exist.

** FridgeHorror pairing: Katherine Armstrong meets [[StreetFighter Zangief. Or Gouki/Akuma]]. Whichever provides more horrific reactions on their wedding day. (Zangief with Armstrong as best man. [[spoiler: Just think about what happens when the post-wedding party music plays. Bonus points if it's Pocket Fighter Zangief]].)

* FridgeHorror and also FridgeBrilliance here. What if they are working together specifically to find someone like Ed, and their goal is to ADVANCE humanity positively? (For the purposes of say, perhaps, creating more ample destruction later. Like say, Edward accidentally discovering Alchemic Nuclear Reaction and then they bring in THEIR chosen avatar to complete the deal. And then [[UpToEleven take the reaction up to eleven]] by adding a Philosopher's Stone to the mix. Or MULTIPLE stones. By having sided with Ed over Father, they have someone who will give them what they need, but also not become competition (as Father may have with his pseudo-godhood). In other words, they want someone untainted by the sins Father represents so they won't go all [[AxCrazy cackling evilly mad]] once they discover ever more destructive alchemic techniques. NiceJobBreakingItHero Izumi couldn't work because her motherly instinct would have taken over at some point and said NO, THIS IS WRONG, but Ed is just way too much Classic Pulp Mad Scientist even in the midst of just how wrong alchemy can get, even with his own brother as example! (note how he fights homunculus, basically.)

Not too off-the-wall, especially as {{WMG}}s go. Courtesy of Website/LiveJournal's moriapolonius, "[[http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9237643.html?thread=284126347#t284126347 I always thought that Roy and Izumi were drawn as if they had Xingian blood. Black hair, narrow uptilted eyes, smaller size.]]" Also note their black irises. Consult Wiki/ThisVeryWiki's [[Characters/FullmetalAlchemist FMA character sheet]] for reference images.

!!Note: This page is for theories about the manga and the anime ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''. See ''WMG/FullmetalAlchemistAnime'' for the first anime adaptation. New [=WMGs=] at the ''bottom'', please.

[[WMG: Given enough time and a little motivation Kimblee could of taken over Pride's body]]

[[WMG: [[KnifeNut Maes Hughes]] [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining never had any gun training.]]]]

* [[http://community.livejournal.com/fmakinky/2089.html?thread=517929 Someone requested it in the FMA kinkmeme]], let's hope an authoranon or an artanon fills it soon. (being the anon who seconded it, [[{{Shipping}} I insist that]] [[FoeYay Izaya]] [[{{Shipping}} would probably get jealous]])