The Life Of Van Hohenheim (Fullmetal Alchemist)

the life of van goghenheim fullmetal alchemist van hoenheim also known in the 2003 anime series as hohenheim of light is a deceptively ancient and extremely powerful alchemist as well as the estranged father of edward and alphonse elrick despite disappearing suddenly during their infancy hohenheim returns during the course of the series in order to right the wrongs of his mysterious past i'm adrienne and welcome to the amagi in today's video we're going over the life of van hoenheim before we begin we publish a new video every day so be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell icon to be notified about our latest videos the end of xerxes the young man who would later go on to be known as van hoenheim grew up during the 15th century in the capital of the ancient and advanced country of xerxes as a youth he was the 23rd house slave of a renowned alchemist in the king of xerxes personal employ and was known simply as 23. though content in his lowly position without freedom any knowledge of the world or even a name the youth's life would change dramatically in his mid-teen years when his master chose him for a particular alchemical experiment which involved taking some of the young man's blood while cleaning his master's laboratory one day soon afterward 23 encountered the product of this experiment a nearly shapeless sentient shadowy creature kept in a flask and calling itself a homunculus grateful to slave 23 for the blood that had given it life the homunculus decided to give the young man a name though 23 decided that the name the homunculus had initially planned for him theophrastus bombastis van hoenheim was far too long for him to remember he accepted van hoenheim as his name but when the homunculus realized that as a lowly slave hohenheim was too ignorant to read or write it explained that with knowledge he would be able to escape the bonds of slavery and make something of himself in the big wide world as its second gift to the being it called its father the homunculus began tutoring hohenheim soon afterward using its own mysterious knowledge to teach him reading writing arithmetic science and basic alchemy elated with the newfound sense of pride that came with his knowledge hohenheim began giving lessons to the other slaves and when the master discovered his remarkable skills hohenheim declared that with his knowledge of alchemy he could be a more valuable asset to the master than a mere slave soon afterwards the master released hohenheim from slavery and instead took him on as his assistant as he grew into manhood as an up-and-coming alchemist hohenheim thanked the homunculus for giving him the knowledge necessary to overcome his days on the bottom rung of society and voiced his hope that he would be able to start a family despite the homunculus's distaste for the human existence's dependence on breeding when hohenheim asked what would make the homunculus happy it merely replied that it would like someday to escape its flask without dying soon afterward however hohenheim and homunculus would begin spending less time together as the shadowy creature's mysterious knowledge was requested by the king of xerxes in order to search for a way to make the monarch immortal it would take at least a decade for the immortality ritual put forth by the homunculus to become complete but when that day came it became immediately apparent that the homunculus had engineered some sort of base treachery by feeding the king's court misinformation so that the center of the massive circle would be slightly askew the homunculus orchestrated the situation so that hohenheim holding the flask would inadvertently stand at the true center the over one million people living in xerxes had their souls immediately pulled from their bodies and condensed at the center when the circle was activated pulling the two through the gate and endowing them with the energy of roughly half a million souls each when hohenheim awoke the next morning he was horrified to find the capital a mausoleum and the homunculus inhabiting a humanoid body identical to his own explaining the situation the homunculus revealed that he had sacrificed the people of xerxes in order to escape his glass prison as well as give his bloodkin hohenheim one last gratuity eternal life and a body that would never age this left hohenheim the last surviving citizen of xerxes an endless life filled with despair hohenheim fled east from his empty homeland wandering aimlessly through the great desert and became aware of the movement and anguished cries of the thousands of people milling about inside his soul left with no one he began to talk to them separating individual souls out from the endless chorus of screams until he collapsed from exhaustion in the sand found still alive by travelers from the eastern nation of xing hohenheim was brought there and regained his strength while coming to an understanding with each of the souls inside him and teaching alchemical principles to the xingi's people when hohenheim's alchemic knowledge was combined with the rudimentary form of alchemy being studied in zhing alka history was born the xingi's people called him the sage of the west eventually hohenheim left xing and spent centuries abroad accumulating knowledge regarding the world's different customs and practices he also continued his communication with the thousands of souls trapped within him 536 329 souls until he learned all their names and heard all their pleas once all of them had been heard they finally calmed down giving hohenheim some peace of mind and continued his journey throughout the country but would continue speaking to the souls within him to keep them calm he later arrived in the growing country of amestres and settled for a time in a small east area town presumably sometime in the 1860s there he became good friends with the townsfolk particularly a young woman by the name of pinako rock bell decades later pinako would introduce the ageless hohenheim to a young woman named trisha elrick with whom he fell immediately in love while hohenheim was reluctant to embrace his feelings knowing that she'd grow old and he wouldn't and the fact that he'd met trisha once before when she was a child as further demonstration of her mortality trisha encouraged him to start living his life swayed by her courage hohenheim and trisha began dating and eventually married and in 1899 trisha bore hohenheim a son named edward with a second son alphonse to follow a year later but in watching time affect the infant boys who shared his blood in ways that were lost to him and his immortal body hohenheim became concerned though tricia and pinaco had never judged or antagonized him for his amarantha existence hohenheim began to fear the prospect of watching his new family growing old and dying without him as he had seen happen to so many others over the past centuries thinking himself a monster he began to fear that touching his sons would give them his curse as well but trisha sensed his unease and decided to hire a photographer to take a portrait of the four of them as she plays the smiling young edward at his father's arms for the picture trisha explained that she only wanted for them to stay a closely knit and loving family regardless of each person's appearance and urged him not to distance himself from his family and call himself a monster as the camera flashed tears of both gratitude and sadness streamed down hohenheim's face he resolved to find a way to end his immortality and grow old and die together with his beloved trisha but also feared failure and watching his family die unfortunately while perusing countless alchemical texts in order to find a way to reverse the effect of what the homunculus had done to him hohenheim made a shocking discovery that the very nation of a maestrous was built and designed from scratch as to be a much larger and more devastating repeat of the tragedy that had befallen xerxes a gigantic transmutation circle for the purpose of turning all of the country's inhabitants into a new philosopher's stone realizing that only the homunculus could be responsible for such a plot hohenheim decided to stop it for the sake of his beloved family and all his dear friends after explaining to trisha that he was leaving and promising that they would die together van hoenheim departed from the house and resin bull in 1904 after traveling for a decade presumably researching the homunculus's methods and setting up a counter of his own hohenheim resurfaced in central city in 1914 where he encountered an alchemist named izumi curtis with whom he discussed the philosopher's stone and revealed that his lifelong dream was about to come true preparation hohenheim is first introduced to the story when he returns to resemble after 10 years to discover that his house has mysteriously burned down he ventures confusedly over to panaco's house to inquire what had happened and his old friend catches him up with the horrible tales of what had happened to his family after his departure that after trisha had died of an illness edward and alphonse had attempted human transmutation to resurrect her triggering a rebound which resulted in al being ripped from his body and ed losing an arm and a leg soon afterward hohenheim goes to visit trish's grave and is confronted by a teenage edward who is furious to find his long-lost father there before leaving he warns pinaco to leave the country for her safety after he leaves resin bull with an old family portrait of himself his wife and their sons tucked into his jacket his carriage is held up by bandits who promptly retreat after shooting hohenheim multiple times to no effect apart from damaging his clothes he later resurfaces and reveals izumi and her husband that he regards himself as a philosopher's stone in human form after rearranging izumi's ravaged internal organs to the most favorable arrangement possible merely by sticking his flat hand into her abdomen although he is unable to restore the organs she lost he tells her that she has too much to do yet in her life and encourages her to move forward hohenheim then moves on to riyal where he meets rose thomas she and the old shopkeeper lead him to an underground reservoir where he walks across the poisoned water forming a stone pathway under his feet as he walks he eventually enters the giant transmutation circle under a mistress and has a short battle and conversation with pride he tells pride to tell father that number 23 is coming to see him before returning to the maze rose and shopkeeper hohenheim encounters al for the first time in 12 years in chapter 80 and exclaims my vintage armor hohnheim who considers himself fairly accurately a failure of a father allows himself to be removed from the situation as quickly as possible but al goes after him and they both have a wonderful heart-to-heart talk in which he explains everything about the current situation to al o and i meets ed again after edward gets one good punch at his father hohenheim tells ed the story of his early life he dryly asks whether ed wants to use him to regain their lost bodies but ed declines vociferously having refuted the use of a philosopher's stone ever since he learned its key ingredients before leaving edward tells hohenheim trisha's last words bringing him to tears which surprises ed who had inaccurately convinced himself that hohenheim cared nothing for his family much later hohnheim helps alphonse by sealing him and pride in an earth in prison with no light so that pride will no longer be able to harm anyone this enrages edward but hohenheim explains that this was alphonse's plan the promise day after the fight against pride hohenheim becomes the de facto leader of the expedition to take father down he mentions a plan ready to counter father's nationwide transmutation circle if it was to be activated but says he'd rather prevent its activation in the first place upon entering father's subterranean lair he organizes the group in two teams and goes alongside lon fawn who he later allows to go on her own looking for lin yao while he reaches father he greets his friend from the flask stating that there's no need for a big group to punish one misbehaving child the living philosopher's stones start to fight each other after having dodged few attacks he is stabbed by father who absorbs a portion of his stone but the restless souls that composed it with whom hohenheim managed to come to an understanding destroyed father's human-like container from the inside however father's homunculus form now having the ability to physically exist without a container leaves hohenheim in a bad situation father later appears to edward izumi and al having absorbed hohenheim into his body hohenheim then tells ed al and azumi that father had initially tried to absorb all of his philosopher's stones but discovered that it would have killed him however because hohenheim had managed to communicate with and understand the stones souls which was something father couldn't do he survived the incident instead having his head and legs sticking out of the homunculus body father can then push hohenheim inside his body but hohenheim can also resist and come back out with his head protruding which is what he did to warn mae about father's powers when greed slashed father but fails to kill him hohenheim is then released from his body but still in father's grasp as father assembles hohenheim and the others as sacrifices to open the world's gate hohenheim and the others then have large eyes surrounded by a mock of shadows on their torsos which starts to fight back against the other gates as father succeeds in opening the gate hohenheim ed al izumi roy riza may greed pride scar wrath and the chimeras are the only ones left alive while all the citizens of a maestrous are dead father is then seen in a fog of smoke as he explains that in order to contain god within himself required an enormous amount of energy which the people of a maestrous provided now both they and god reside within him as the smoke clears father has now gained a new body that resembles edward or even a young hohenheim stating that alchemy has outlived its usefulness father rains down a sustained energy blast on the group hohenheim however counters it with some sort of alchemic shield and calls upon the souls of his stone to aid him seeing that his current attack is insufficient father conjures a miniature sun in the palm of his hands to wipe out his human sacrifices but hohenheim then reveals his own plan he mapped the path of the moon's shadow as the eclipse passed and pinpointed the exact location of each of the points in the five point circle used to create the philosopher's stone he then ventured throughout a mestress placing fragments of his philosopher's stone on specific spots to create an umbral circle to counteract the nationwide transmutation circle when father remarks of hohenheim's failure to have his circle for his counter-attack he retorts with an explanation that the shadow cast by the moon on the earth during the eclipse will act as the circle the souls of the fragments that he had scattered across the land activates and strips father of all amestrian souls contained within him prior to the activation of the nationwide transmutation circle returning all the souls of the imestrian citizens to their bodies father now devoting the maturity of his power to containing god is significantly weaker in terms of his offensive capabilities however hohenheim and may are the only alchemists of the group immune to father's interference and he fends off father's attacks draining many lives from his philosopher's stone while may keeps the ground underneath them from fragmenting unfortunately for father however a group of ishvalians activate a counter circle to father's alchemic seal allowing the other alchemist to attack father outmatched and running out of fuel for his stone father retreats above ground to try and replenish his stone from any humans he can attack hohenheim soon follows along with ed al may and izumi he chastised his father for berating humans telling him that it was human souls that composed the philosopher's stones in the first place which in turn gave birth to homunculi while humans create all the homunculi do is take this intrigues father who asks whether hohenheim would like it if he created humans hohenheim then watches in disgust and horror as father creates humans out of the souls of the long dead xerxians taking advantage of the distraction this has brought to his enemies father summons a huge explosive force and hohenheim is caught in the blast that follows as he uses himself to shield izumi from the bulk of it his philosopher's stone almost gone he can do little more than watch the battle as it progresses after ed finishes off father hohenheim stoically offers his own remaining life as the price to bring back al but appears surprised when ed passionately rebukes the idea upon being questioned why he would willingly sacrifice his life he simply replies it's because he's their father he explains it is not about necessity or purpose but because they are his sons and he wants them to be happy he also says it was partly his fault of why the brothers attempted to bring back trisha because he wasn't there for them when they needed him and apologizes however ed tearfully scolds him for even suggesting the idea but at the same time accepting him as his father for the first time in many years after ed succeeds in bringing al back in his human body hohenheim finally gets to greet his youngest son once again and al marvels at the warmth he feels when hohenheim takes his hand however hohenheim wanders away as others crowd around the elvic brothers finally catching money for train fare at the end of the story he is seen in resin ball pinaco finds him kneeling in front of trish's grave only to find that he had died in that position with a smile on his face his last thoughts contemplated that he didn't have a meaning in life until trisha and his sons entered into it by now he didn't want to die at all and stay with his remaining family and his last thoughts before death were with him several years after this his grave was seen in a photo next to trish's he was the last citizen of xerxes to die later he and trisha became posthumous grandparents of edwards and winry's children along with the rock bells in an extra comic from the manga which i personally haven't read but everyone else knows shortly after his death hohenheim's spirit went to the site of his former home where he found trish's spirit waiting for him trisha expressed surprise that he had arrived so soon and chided him for breaking his promise to grow old with eden l to which hohenheim had reminded her that she had broken her promise first he reflected on how much his relationship with the boys had developed in the short amount of time and the two optimistically looked to the future knowing the world would turn them into fine adults again i'm adrian did you enjoy our video be sure to check out these other great videos from the amagi and make sure to subscribe and ring the bell icon to be notified about our latest videos you

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Length: 19min 0sec (1140 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 30 2020