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Well they don't know what Al would even look like at age 14. There would be little details like his height and weight and hair and all of that. They would change just enough so that trying to restore him right to that age would be making a false image of him that's just an estimate. I think they would make Al come back in a ten-year-old body.

Wee~ so fun reading everything. I just JUST finished watching ep 44. I've watched all of FMA within a week's time and I already have FMA cosplay brewing... anyways...

Emotionally Al has aged since he lost his body, but popping back as a 14 (soon to be 15 I think, since we went by Ed's 16 b-day) year old body I don't think will work out. The onset of teen-age hormones, fun thing to deal with.... I think of his body as in stasis.

And now for what are spoiler stuff!

>>Hoenheim is human to me. Not you're average everyday human of course. I think he knows something about the philosopher's stone and him and Dante did stuff either with that or with human transmutation thus begetting Greed. Lyla/Dante I think is also human, but who's discovered a way to prolonge life, thus the decay after all this time. Old lady Dante, I think she was really named Dante, but that it was a family name and thus she's related to Lyla/Dante. I think Lyla/Dante has been around for a loong time, and used the Lyla guise to do undercover work--being as old as she probably is, she's had to have learned some decent acting skills. As for Hoenheim's comment about the name of the body--I think that since he last saw her she has either altered her body or switched, but probably only shortly after the Envy incident when he was sealed the last time... Maybe in the past She was the one who taught hoenheim, thus he learned the long life thing from her (or maybe vice versa) but hoenheim either learned or knew something that she didn't. Hmm...

wow, my thoughts are incoherant when I think as I type.

As for homonculus... will die first, who knows. Or last for that matter. I see Gluttony going before Lust--it's always interesting to keep the one that appears to be getting killed alive just a little longer. We haven't seen Envy in awhile, I wonder where he went to? And yep, I think Al pulled out bits of bone from his mother's grave.

What we REALLY need is the next episode. This would solve so much... maybe..

And Movie Ed picture. We have no way to tell if he's gotten taller or by how much--there's nothing to compare him with!

I think he's grown, but I don't think he's grown by all that much. He's cursed to be forever undersized! Al was already as tall or taller than him when they trained under Izumi on the island, and at 16 he hasn't changed that much in height since we first met him. There's not that much time for growth left in him.

It's that, or I'm wrong and he has one hell of a growth spurt coming on.

Not that I mind. I'm undersized myself, having stopped growing in early highschool. I hate it when my friends taunt me about my shortness. Of course, that gives me an excuse to hit them, and that's always fun! xd

And speaking of cranky short people... *runs off to work on Ed cosplay*

Really? I didn't notice that. I'll have to look again.

sweatdrop No... I don't quite get that.

I also noticed the glowing Al body, but I think it was hard to tell if it was aged or not.

I meant not 'real' as in it's another dimension or something. Like an astral plane. Doesn't matter where they are in the real world, they can do something to trigger a gate visitation and not have really GONE anywhere.

It's everywhere and no where at once. An essense, and not some physical object or location.

That's sort of what I thought it was, too. Although it DID take Al's body and Ed's limbs, so it must affect the physical realm to some degree. So not really a vision, but...erm...

An illusion made real? Bleh...

Hmm..

Wasn't there also something about the "real" Philosopher's Stone that nobody can get near it because they perish if they get too close? So far that hasn't happened yet. Which means it could be possible that it's not the real thing and just be a really strong fake like you said. But the still doesn't explain why the gate showed up like that then, cuz I wouldn't think it a fake can do that... maybe it can if strong enough sweatdrop