ch. 104 translation fine points

[dragonimp]

Okay, on page 49, according to the rough translation from Tombow, Ed says: "Did everyone turn into a philosopher's stone?!" Which I took to mean everyone there - meaning Ed and co.

However, in the translation from Hisshouburaiken, Ed's line is "Did you turn all those people into a philosopher's stone?!

Father's lines from both translations imply that he used the souls to hold "god" inside himself, and that god and the souls are now inside him - nothing about them being inside anyone else.

So have Ed and co. been turned into philosopher's stones, or are all of the souls now inside Father? That makes a big difference in how powerful our heros now are and how much of a chance they stand against the new and improved Father.

Comments

[fullmetalrose.livejournal.com]

I understood that ALL the souls were now inside Father. With only the few living ... it is my belief that he let those that lived become equal to Hoenheim ...

[priestess-grrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understood it as all the souls being inside Father, too. But I didn't think about him making all of them - Ed & co - into philosophers' stones, same as he made HH. That would make sense as to why Father needed them. But why would he be able to use HH then, if he's already "full" of the Xerxes souls? (can you be "full"?) Weird, I hadn't thought about that.

[randomcheeses.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure all the souls are inside Father. Why wouldn't they be after all? If the five are sacrifices, Mr.I've-been-working-my-evil-plot-for-centuries would be kinda stupid to give them any kinda power that would trip him up.