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Somewhat trivial, but here goes: in Fullmetal Alchemist, we see Mustang's
hands get pinned down by Bradley's swords when Wrath and Pride are trying to
force him to do human transmutation and open the gate. Given this, how does he
manage to participate in the fight against Father later (probably in chapter
107 or a slightly earlier chapter) given that his "attack" requires use of his
hands (and that he doesn't seem to start using circleless transmutation until
he has to fend off a counterattack)?


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How does Mustang fight in the end of Fullmetal Alchemist with injured hands?


This is just a scenario of the _shounen_ genre doing whatever it feels like.
Biologically, he would have taken serious damage to bones, nerves, muscles,
etc. when his hands were stabbed through. But in anime, particularly in the
_shounen_ genre, characters can often overcome this type of thing with
relative ease.

Take, for example, a scene from _Shingeki no Kyojin_ ( _Attack on Titan_ )
wherein one of the characters literally has a plank stabbed through a lung,
and still manages to somehow sit up—dragging the plank through their
body—while spurting blood everywhere.

In Mustang's case, there is no evidence that he was healed in any fashion
(such as by May Chang), nor that he is impervious to hand pain in any way. He
is simply able to do this because the mangaka decided it was necessary to the
story. That's the power of _shounen_!


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This may not make any sense or be true, but assuming that immediately
following Wrath removing the swords from Mustang's hands he was forced by
Pride to transmute, it is possible that during the deconstruction and
reconstruction, the injuries were at least sealed up, or possibly healed
altogether, seeing as he was alchemically torn apart and pieced back together.


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I get your question. Irl, there's no way. There are just too many bones,
ligaments and tendons in the hand (not to mention the tremendous amount of
pain an injury like that would incur) to be able to do that. BUT, FMAB is
fiction, so OF COURSE HE CAN. FWIW, the FMA fandom wiki says this about the
actual sound of snapping when Roy does his thing: The 'snap' sound heard at
the start of these transmutations is caused by the instantaneous speed at
which the highly concentrated gases and sparks react together and pop (and not
Mustang's fingers actually 'snapping', to common belief.) I don't think it
could be done irl, but ymmv.


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