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If Hohenheim is a homunculus (I know that he still has a humanoid body,
because otherwise he wouldn't even have had children) and he has a family with
Trisha, who is human, does this mean that the Elric brothers are half-human
and half-homunculus?

Also, just to make sure, the Elric brothers are half-Amestrian and half-
Xerxian (i.e. with a background from Xerxes), right? They don't explain that
in either series.


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Are the Elric brothers half-homunculus?


Note that _Brotherhood_ and the 2003 series are separate continuities that
often differ in their treatment of any plot points and characters that they
have in common. Hohenheim is affected by this issue:

  * In the manga (which _Brotherhood_ roughly adapts), Hohenheim is a living philosopher's stone who was given half of the souls that Father stole from Xerxes.

  * Per [the Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Van_Hohenheim/2003_Anime), in the 2003 series, like Dante, Hohenheim was able to transfer his soul into another body to avoid death and had taken advantage of this knowledge in the past. However, there is an inherent instability to this procedure that leads to a breakdown of the body. If I am not mistaken, Hohenheim was also reluctant to switch out of his "final" body because of Trisha.

Note then that in neither continuity is Hohenheim a homunculus. Furthermore,
there is no reason to think that the Elric brothers are anything but human:

  * In the manga continuity, Hohenheim is a human who just happens to hold a philosopher's stone of significant size: [If Van Hohenheim is a living Philosopher's Stone, what does that make Edward and Alphonse?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/21625/2604)

  * In the 2003 series, Hohenheim is essentially still a human. All that has happened is that he has been switching his soul into different bodies for a period of time.

Now, let's deal with the issue of whether the Elric brothers are half-
Amestrian and half-Xerxian:

  * Hohenheim was originally from Xerxes in the manga continuity. A description of the Elric brothers as half-Xerxian and half-Amestrian would then be technically correct. However, since Xerxes has long been destroyed, it seems doubtful that the average person in the FMA universe would have "Xerxian" or "half-Xerxian" in his vocabulary.

  * In the 2003 series, Hohenheim's background is not given in detail, so there is no reason to describe the Elric brothers as anything but "Amestrian".


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