According to Dante, she has jumped from one body to another less than ten times in over 400 years.įor the following years whilst being a parasitic soul, Dante gathers and creates minions who are the Homunculi and tricked them into believing that once they obtain the Philosopher's Stone for her, she will turn them all human. Left to fend for herself, Dante would go to great lengths for survival and stop at nothing to obtain the Philosopher's Stone in order to extend her fading life. That Homunculus would later be known as Envy, and hated Hohunheim so much that he made it his personal mission to find him and kill him. Later Hohenheim tries to revive their dead son only to create a Homunuclus. Hohenheim and Dante had a child together, who later died due to Mercury poisoning. With it, they switch bodies by having their souls transferred onto different bodies over and over again. She was voiced by Kazuko Sugiyama and Yumi Kakazu while possessing Lyra in Japanese, Cindee Mayfield and Monica Rial while possessing Lyra in English.Ĥ00 years ago, Dante and her lover Hohenheim discovered immortality by creating the Philosopher's Stone. She also plans to serve as humanity's protector like a god, by preventing selfish humans from being able to use the Philosopher's Stone for their own selfish actions, ignoring the fact that she is human herself and not truly immortal due to her decaying body as the result of transferring between people so many times. She is the mother of Envy, the stepmother of Edward and Alphonse Elric, the true leader of the Homunculi and consequently the de-facto ruler of Amestris, who plans to extend her life forever with Philosopher's Stones. ~ Dante explaining her ideology to Edward Elric.ĭante is the main antagonist of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime series. It's a cruel and random world, and yet the chaos is also beautiful. While others are born into wealth without ever working at all. Some spend their entire life trying to scratch their way to the top, and still die in poverty. No matter how hard you work, when you die, you die. People can say there is a balance, a logic that everything happens for a reason.

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