Quote:A technological dead end, I expect - along with the Philosopher's Stone itself. Once you realize that even with the stone, you're not getting the same person, a reincarnation attempt is pointless and there are easier ways to grow one from scratch... and for anything else, mass/energy conversion can cover any other requirement you might have.
And how would TSAB classify what Al and Ed did to become how they currently are?
Probably Al would fall under a class of individual/artifact that hasn't been needed to be dealt with in the Nanoha canon.
...I do have a theory about a way to make human transmutation work properly without the Stone, too - though it presumes that humans are not unique among living creatures in having some sort of soul - but I likely wouldn't include it in the same story as the rest of this.
BTW, am I the only one who thinks that Midchildia's technological track most likely really diverged from Earth's about the equivalent of the 1930s or 40s?
The FMA world could work either as some NonSignatory Planet, somewhere or as Midchildia's distant past... I'm not sure which'd be more interesting, really...
Ja, -n
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