…as well as, from what admittedly VERY little I know of the Kabbalah, the angels of the Tree of Life. Edward Elric’s GateĮd’s door is covered in Latin and Hebrew words like “Elohim Sabaoth” and “Adonai” - names of G-d, linked together by branches labeled “Sephiroth”… Both Ed and Al have designs that roughly look like trees (or plants) stretching to the sky, with roots growing beneath them. Ed’s and Al’s are more similar to each other than Roy’s is to either of them. So here are three doors for our alchemists, each one of them different:Īll of them are detailed but very different. From what I know, the punishment for Wrath is supposed to be dismemberment, Lust being smothered in fire… sound familiar? So Arakawa wouldn’t have drawn separate, intricate gates for every character without meaning to for good reason. She’s plopped in interesting details regarding the Seven Deadly Sins, according to other analyses I’ve seen. She’s filled FMA with tiny details, down to naming the country “Amestris” after the wife of Xerxes, or giving essentially all military characters names based off WWII vehicles. That’s a fascinating detail and one Arakawa wouldn’t have drawn without attention or intent. Bear with me.įor readers who didn’t notice this before, every character has a different door design when they open the Portal of Truth. I think the key to answering this question lies in Father’s Gate of Truth. Hopefully everything makes sense… I wrote this between 1 and 4 AM.
I haven’t followed to see if there’s fandom discussion on the topic, so everything I’m going to postulate below about these doors is going to be my novel ideas. I’d never thought through a person’s Gate of Truth and whether it’s about who they innately are (or are fated to be), versus who they have created themselves to be.
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