teamalphonse:

I love how you’re led to believe that Hohenheim is Cold and Mysterious and Uncaring and possibly the big bad of the series only to find out he’s actually just the Most Socially Awkward Dork in the world

you go from this vaguely ominius uncaring mysterious suave man in Ed’s flashbacks and POV and then you see the flashback where Hohenheim’s panicking because Trisha made him hold the toddler

(not to say that Ed’s view of Hohenheim as distant and absent was wrong, because he didn’t connect with them like he should have as a father and he WAS distant and absent)

it just delights me how well Arawaka paces when she reveals things. the entire first half of fma you’re like, yeah, Hohenheim could be the bad guy for sure, and then only after the ACTUAL bad guy is revealed do we come to understand that so much of Hohenheim seeming aloof was just him being awkward af. How does human connection work again? Trisha, I don’t know how to talk to people. Trisha, it’s been so long. Trisha, help me