VAN HOHENHEIM SPOILER!
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The brothers' father. Left Resembool when they were small. Appears in photographs that should not exist given when they were taken. Brotherhood's version of Hohenheim is entirely different from the 2003 anime and considerably more developed. He is connected to the ancient civilization of Xerxes, to the original Homunculus, and to a history that predates everything the series puts on the table. What he carries and what he has been trying to do with it for centuries is the spine the Promised Day arc is built on. The absence makes sense once the show explains it. The explanation takes a while and earns every episode it needs.
VAN THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
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Van Hohenheim confronted his original "twin" Father beneath Central Command, attempting to destroy Father using his own Philosopher's Stone souls. Father attempted to drain Hohenheim's body and stone core completely.
The Breakdown
Hohenheim revealed he had spent centuries conversing individually with all 536,329 souls inside his body, gaining their conscious cooperation. The souls infiltrated Father's physical shell from within, breaking Father's body-holding matrix and forcing Father to shed his human form.
