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So presumably if he wants to do both deconstruction and reconstruction in the same single transmutation, he needs both hands on the material.ĮDIT: Actually, I just checked some gifs of Scar and Wrath's fight in FMAB, and the animators have Scar use his left arm (the reconstruction one) when Scar breaks up the floor. When Scar breaks up the floor to throw rock shrapnel at Wrath, he uses his deconstruction arm. So during Scar's fight with Wrath, when he transmutes a wall to try to block Wrath he does it with his reconstruction arm. The manga and FMAB show that Scar needs to touch the material with the appropriate arm/hand. Ed, Al, Mustang, Armstrong, Marcoh and Mei are still the better alchemists in terms of alchemical knowledge (chemistry, physics, and biology) and complex transmutations.

#METAL ALCHEMIST TATTOO SLEEVE ROBOT ARM FREE#

And it isn't until he overhears Ed point out that saliva can be broken down back into water that he's able to free himself.

I mean, he gets pinned down by saliva at the fight in Baschool. His alchemy is powerful (especially when he gets angry), but you'll notice he doesn't do any complex transmutations throughout the series. Scar's actually not that knowledgeable of an alchemist. Wouldn't that make him the alchemist with the highest potential? The energy source that Scar draws on for his transmutations is from the alkehestry side of things, so the Dragon's Pulse. As I said above, his tattoos can work independently or together. If an alchemist doesn't understand what they're doing for a transmutation, if they don't understand the elements or formulas they're working with, then the transmutation either fails or rebounds.ĭoes he need to clap and from where does he draw his power? Remember that the first stage of alchemy is comprehension. If Scar's tattoos are damaged in any way-like to how Ed cuts one of Kimblee's palm circles to prevent him from doing any alchemy (until Kimblee cheats with a Philosopher's Stone)-then Scar's alchemy for the arm that got injured would be rendered useless.Īnd yes, Scar can theoretically perform any type of alchemy.as long as he understands what he's doing. That's kind of a pre-requisite for doing circle-less alchemy. Scar can't do circle-less alchemy like Ed and Al because Scar has never entered the Gate and seen Truth. If he uses both arms, he can perform both cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction together. If he just uses one arm, then he can only perform the type of cycle alchemy that arm can do.

His right arm with the black tattoos is his 'circle' of de(con)struction (the chéng cycle in Wuxing/Chinese alchemy) and the white tattoos on his left arm is his circle of (re)construction (the shēng cycle). Scar's tattoos are his transmutation circles. With both arms tattooed what exactly could he do? Is he able to perform any type of alchemy without extra circles like the elric's? He didn't invent a whole new third branch of alchemy. Scar's brother was merely the first person (that we know of anyway) to realize those root similarities and combined both branches of alchemy in a way to draw out their unique strengths. Both Amestrian alchemy's and Xingese alkehestry's roots are in Xerxesian alchemy. Ones of these days I need to sit down and write about how Western alchemy and Chinese alchemy actually share a lot of similarities in their ideas and philosophies, and how Scar's (brother's) alchemy is not actually that groundbreaking, despite what Mei says in the show/manga. The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki).My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia).Subreddits for similar and recommended shows/manga, and for other works by Hiromu Arakawa Use the links below to view only posts in a particular flair category. Our demographics according to a 100 person survey in October 2014.Mark All Spoilers - No Spoilers In Post Titles.In Particular, No Nina/Alexander/Shou Posts.No Low-Effort, Overused Or Non-FMA-Related Memes.See the sidebar in the redesign for details. NOTE: Currently set to private due to Reddit's API changes, see Ĭome post anything related to the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga franchise! Questions, discussion, analysis, fan art, cosplay, quality memes, etc.

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