[He looks wistful for a moment, like he's remembering something that makes him a little sad, but then he shakes it off and brightens again.]
I can't really imagine what it'd be like to just sit and watch pictures move around. Ed and I had an old picture of us with our mom though--I would have liked to watch that one move and talk!
Most people can't do alchemy themselves even in our world. It takes a lot of studying to do because you have to understand the composition of the thing you're changing so that you can break it down into its elements and then reconstruct them into something new. And there are some people who believe that you shouldn't use alchemy at all--they think it's wrong to change something from one form into another.
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Date: 2009-01-26 05:54 am (UTC)I can't really imagine what it'd be like to just sit and watch pictures move around. Ed and I had an old picture of us with our mom though--I would have liked to watch that one move and talk!
Most people can't do alchemy themselves even in our world. It takes a lot of studying to do because you have to understand the composition of the thing you're changing so that you can break it down into its elements and then reconstruct them into something new. And there are some people who believe that you shouldn't use alchemy at all--they think it's wrong to change something from one form into another.