Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Scar is a male anime and manga character who features in Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Biography
Scar (Japanese: スカー Hepburn: Sukā) was a male human who lived in the lands of Ishval in the Kanda Region alongside his parents and older brother. As a young warrior monk living in the Kanda region of Ishval during the Ishval Civil War, he personally opposed the assimilation of his homeland into greater Amestris and found his distrust of the central government cemented by the military atrocities that erupted around him each day. His indignation reached a head when he discovered that his older brother had taken up the study of Amestris' craft of alchemy - a practice forbidden by the teachings of Ishvala. Though his brother tried to explain his research pursued the fusion of alchemy and alkahestry in an attempt to foster understandings between different groups of people and bring Ishval into the modern age, the young man grew ever angrier that his brother would waste time on such insubstantial endeavors while people were dying and hatred was soaking into their homeland - even more so when his older brother went so far as to tattoo the results of his research onto his arms. When the combat began escalating in the Kanda district, the young man and his family made preparations to evacuate the region. His brother, afraid that his discoveries would die with him if he were killed while fleeing, entrusted his notebook of discoveries to the young man in the hopes that a warrior monk would have a higher chance of survival than himself. Unfortunately, no sooner had he handed over the notes than the group came under attack by the Red Lotus Alchemist Solf J. Kimblee. Caught in one of Kimblee's signature explosions, the young man was mortally injured, bleeding profusely from a wound on his face and the loss of his right arm. In a hasty rescue attempt, his older brother used the power of the arrays he had engineered to transfer his own right arm to the young man's body at the cost of his own life. The young man awoke some time later in an emergency clinic set up and maintained by married doctors Yuriy and Sarah Rockbell, who had applied emergency surgery and bandages to heal the man's injuries. Discovering that his entire family had died and his brother's telltale arm attached to him instead, the young man flew into a blind rage of anguish. Seeing Amestrians as the enemy, he killed the Rockbells; his atrocity was watched by his fellow Ishvalans, who were horrified that someone saved by kind-hearted doctors would murder them. Fleeing into the desert, where the sight of Ishval's total devastation awaited him, the young man screamed in agony. From that moment, the young man swore to survive only for the sake of vengeance on the Amestrians and the State Alchemists who had taken everything from him and wandered off.
A few years after the war, the young man reemerges on his path of blood. Having discovered the power of the tattoo on his new right arm, he begins assassinating State Alchemists, slaying five in Central City and five more in different places around the country before making his way back east. Among his victims was Brigadier General Basque Grand, a veteran of the Ishvalan War who was renowned for his expertise in hand-to-hand combat and military alchemy. Using a rudimentary description of his appearance, the military police profile him with the moniker "The Scarred Man", shorthand "Scar", due to the large X-shaped scar across his forehead, however, having hidden his right arm and red eyes, he manages to avoid being identified as an Ishvalan refugee and a user of alchemy. Arriving in East City, Scar tracks down Shou Tucker, the State Alchemist known as the "Sewing-Life Alchemist" at his home and kills him. While there, he encounters Tucker's daughter, who had been transformed into a chimera by her father's alchemical hubris; taking pity on her mutilated form, he kills her as well and flees the scene. The following day, as he wanders through East City, Scar coincidentally comes across the Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric, who is brooding over Nina's death. Seeing him as nothing more than a blasphemer, Scar attacks. Fullmetal and his younger brother Alphonse attempt to flee, but Scar gives chase and eventually corners them, forcing them to fight. Attempting to disarm them, Scar discovers that Alphonse is actually a soul inside an empty suit of armor and that Fullmetal's right arm is Automail, but adapts his attack accordingly and immobilizes both of them. As Scar moves in to deconstruct Fullmetal's body, young Edward asks him to spare Alphonse's life in exchange. Scar complies, but before he can end the boy's life, the Flame Alchemist Roy Mustang and the Strong Arm Alchemist Alex Louis Armstrong arrive with a cadre of soldiers and attempt to cordon him. Scar's initial assumption that encountering so many targets at once is a sign of good fortune is immediately dispelled when Strong Arm proves a formidable opponent. While this is going on, Ed is informed that Scar murdered the Tuckers. After Scar's glasses are knocked off and his red eyes exposed to the crowd, he collapses the street and escapes into the sewer system.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Scar was a male Ishvalan human who carried the dark complexion and distinctive red irises of his people. He came to be known as the Scarred Man (傷の男 Kizu no Otoko).
He came to be a brooding, vicious, and angry man who was totally consumed by hatred toward the people who destroyed his homeland.
Scar was shown to had been an adherent of the god Ishvala who headed to the faith in his homeland of Ishval. As a fundamentalist, he was opposed to alchemy and did not consider himself an alchemist in the traditional sense.
Powers and abilities
As a former Ishvalan warrior-monk, Scar was extremely adept at hand-to-hand combat where he possessed significant strength and stamina. In addition, he had remarkable agility and reflexes and deceptive speed where he was shown to be capable of dodging bullet fire.
On his right arm, he had an intricate and arcane transmutation array tattooed on it which allowed him to destroy anything that came into contact with it. The formula was a deconstruction of a two-piece complementary set that had been designed by his older brother. Its creation came from his elder brother's study of both Amestrian alchemy and Xingese alkahestry where he combine the two into an array that incorporated their respective strengths. The strain of alchemy that his arm itself allows him to produce is powerful, advanced and unique. As observed by those who have seen it in action and lived to tell the tale, Scar's method follows the cyclical flow of transmutation, but only takes into account the first two steps - comprehension and deconstruction. By "stopping at the second step", the physical structure of whatever he targets is broken down and not reshaped, essentially reducing it to debris. By applying this method to his victims, he destroys their internal systems instantly while circumventing both Human Transmutation and the Ishvalan stigma associated with giving new form to one of God's creations.
Notes
- Scar was created by Hiromu Arakawa where he featured in the setting of the Fullmetal Alchemist universe.
In other media
Television
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Appearances
- Fullmetal Alchemist:
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood:
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