Why does Izumi put the child back in?

[koreanbboy]

Why does Izumi put her child back into the gate after she tries to bring it back to life and it screws up?

i mean... whats the point? What does it do?

[Grona]

Guess she knew it wasnt human, and probly knew exactly what it would grow up to be.

[Yebyosh]

Beats the heck out of me. Logically I couldn't see why she did so or how she thought of it. Anyway, the usual options a parent on seeing a deformed birth has, are:

1. Kill the child.
2. Raise the child, trying to accept the defects.
3. Abandon the child. Let someone else (nature included) kill the child.
4. Abandon the child at someone's doorstep. Let someone else raise/kill the child.

Maybe it was option 4 she was thinking of.

[neoko]

with a child that scary looking, even i would abadon it, probably, might. But it is a scary thing, but i would probably be sad. Really sad...

[Mr_Paper]

I think it has something similar to what Ed said. When he stood before the gate, he could feel tremendous amounts of knowledge flowing into him. I think it was something similar with Izumi. When she regained consciousness and saw the child she realized what it would become and wanted to return it having realized her mistake.

Izumi, without ever having seen a full grown humoncolous, knew what they were and how they were created. I have no doubt she learned this from the gate, which is why she tried to return it.

Spoiler for Hmm... just a thought...:

The fact that humoncolous are the products of human transmution can also mean that Sloth in the television series is, in fact, Ed and Al's mother...

[Bindibadgi]

Originally Posted by Mr_Paper

Spoiler for Hmm... just a thought...:

The fact that humoncolous are the products of human transmution can also mean that Sloth in the television series is, in fact, Ed and Al's mother...

Spoiler:

WHOW! i seriously thought she looked too much like the picture, at least im not the only one with this conclusion

[majoramask1234]

i dont understand u that well Yebyosh

[ZeroKun]

Spoiler:

That could be so, seems that Greed and Envy are the oldest sins, but Sloth seems to be older than Lust which seems pretty old, so maybe not.

[ZeppelinJ0]

I thought the same thing about Slot... Very strangely cool indeed

[koreanbboy]

HAhaha...

i love ure profile pic Zepellin... hilarious....

[Mr_Paper]

Originally Posted by ZeroKun

Spoiler:

That could be so, seems that Greed and Envy are the oldest sins, but Sloth seems to be older than Lust which seems pretty old, so maybe not.

Spoiler:

Maybe Sloth just emerged later? After all, that kid said he was stuck behind that door for years before he emerged.

[Zauren]

Originally Posted by Mr_Paper

Spoiler:

Maybe Sloth just emerged later? After all, that kid said he was stuck behind that door for years before he emerged.

Spoiler:

Sloth is the youngest Sin before Wrath, this was revealed already. Lust is likely the second youngest after Sloth. Gluttony, Envy and Greed (And possibly Pride) are the oldilock generation I wager...

[kamij0]

Spoiler:

Wrath said that he was in the gate and while waiting he grew larger, possible for any homonculus to do that too ? dont seem gluttony growing now and then

[Zauren]

Spoiler:

Gluttony has definately done a lot of growing. Just look at his gut!

[CheOsanai]

Spoiler:

Sloth took the place of Juilet Douglas, who started the Ishbal revolution by shooting an unarmed child 10 years before Trisha Elric even died, bit hard for Sloth to be their mother if that's true.

[ZeppelinJ0]

Originally Posted by koreanbboy

HAhaha...

i love ure profile pic Zepellin... hilarious....

Thanks Total props to Lunchboxx for taking his free-time to make avatars for us less fortunate!

I gotta wonder how that kid turned from the freaky messed up crack-alien baby with no eyes or hair in to what he is now! I mean aside from the whole arm leg thing

Spoiler:

But does Wrath's face not bear a striking resemblance to young Al?

[Bindibadgi]

Originally Posted by ZeppelinJ0

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But does Wrath's face not bear a striking resemblance to young Al?

Youve got to take into account artistic differentiation, subtle differences are harder to draw than obvious ones. If it was Izumi's kid, he should look more like his mother that's for sure.

[kamij0]

Originally Posted by CheOsanai

Spoiler:

Sloth took the place of Juilet Douglas, who started the Ishbal revolution by shooting an unarmed child 10 years before Trisha Elric even died, bit hard for Sloth to be their mother if that's true.

took the place of a dead person , but are the looks the same ... the anime did not say right..
i guess resembling people is just what the authors want, dont think thats any connections between her and Al

[Sonhex]

Originally Posted by kamij0

took the place of a dead person , but are the looks the same ... the anime did not say right..
i guess resembling people is just what the authors want, dont think thats any connections between her and Al

Sloth could be using the real (and dead) Juliet Douglas's identity.

There's no direct connection between the two other than the name as identified by Hughes - in the anime anyway. Sloth first appearance in the anime was well after Trisha's death....

Sonhex

[Riese]

Spoilerific ideas ahead:

Spoiler:

One thing is for sure, this dang gate is really screwing up all perceptions of what "The Principal of Equivilant Trade" truely means. Prehaps that is The Truth that they allude to?

I guess it makes sense that all the Homunclus are named after sins, after all that's what they're "born" out of. I wonder what will become of the 1/2 Ed 1/2 Izumi kid?