Holy shit Victor is going to lose his mind when he realizes the TRUTH.
Hopefully literally.
Also this was a fairly good chapter, the idea of alchemy spreading is frightening but not unreasonable, I can't wait for when Alexandria tries to clap Aperion with it.
Does this go by the first anime where homunculi are failed human transmutation, or the second where homunculi are philosopher stones given life and sin?
God I was already trying to figure out what Victors Second Trigger would result in, and I was seeing elements of Master, Breaker, Trump, and Tinker, specifically Liberation Tinker, Trigger elements (from the lack of recognition, inability to leverage his skills into enough tasks, inferiority compared to other Capes, and inability to right his reputation due to his damaged reputation respectively), possibly to the effect of something like Teacher or Bastard Son, with extra flavor in the form of Pinging off of Othala, being around her in a Cape lifestyle for long periods of time, and The Butcher since if anyone could safely host the previous Butchers it would be him, but losing all of his built up stolen skills could just send him over the edge in a very extreme way.
Did OP ever mention which FMA the skill was from? Cause if it came from Brotherhood, then we'll at most see an already dying body, and probably not even that. It took a whole body plus a leg to reach that result, and I doubt Truth takes the size of the body into consideration so Victor's older body wont help him any.
Even if Othala can't help reverse a sacrifice she can probably help a malformed Homunculus pull itself back together.
Considering the mentions of Othala's sister and Victor's first fiance, possibly but very unlikely. And that outcome might just mean that the Empire self destructs before Joe can even do anything to deal with them.
After all, Victor is basically the Empire's lynchpin. He's the only one holding up the organization with all of its friction and conflicting members, especially at such a trying time. If he ever attempts Human Transmutation and even just gets crippled in the process? That all collapses.
And the worst of it? Homunculi, when they are born by human transmutation, are painfully fragile. They are existences that could end at any moment until they are provided Philosopher's Stones or souls to maintain their existence. And with Victor likely in no position to fix that problem when he realizes that mistake - if he even survives said mistake to figure it out - the exchange would be the Empire's lynchpin traded for a failed biotinker's experiment.
I don't know about that; there are a lot of gang members going around that Victor could render down into Stones.
Do you think Joe will develop something to block alchemy when he finds out other people are using it?
He should be able to put Matrix on the task of messing with tectonic plates.
I mean, shouldn't it work? In worm as long as you create an accurate enough body for the shard to connect to it should work.
Alchemy, FMA Alchemy, can't make life without also making a soul so even if it leaves making the mind up to her Shard it should still take a chunk out of Victor metaphysics-wise.
I give him 12 seconds to live once he's found out. 11.9 of them are joe debating ethics with the clones.
I'd give him about -1^2 seconds to live if Joe works on some temporal stuff before finding out.
Well he is dead. Full stop
He doesn't need to be; in making a whole other body he would presumably learn a decent amount of medical Alchemy and he is in a close personal relationship with a Parahuman healer; it wouldn't be that unusual if he was able to keep himself alive for at least a while.
You know what would be even funnier than victor making a homunculus? If that homonculus got eaten by echinda and we got evil clones of a homonculus. This has such amazing trainwreck potential.
...If a Homunculus is a blank slate upon being first born then would Echidna be able to invert their values to make them "evil" compared to their original? Like they wouldn't have anything to invert.
Ya know I'm betting Truth will see Victors connection to his shard and decide that the mountain sized crystal monster thing is a tasty snack. So if in the unlikely event that Victor Survives his encounter with Truth he might come out the other end powerless and with a now useless brain tumor. Or it could be even worse for him and Othala get's caught up in the transmutation.
It's not like Truth is immune to the Law Of Equivalent Exchange itself though; it can't just take whatever it wants and however much of it that it wants so a Shard, being as large as it is, should be safe enough.
