Poll: Equivalent Exchange: The Components of a Perfect Man/Woman/Person

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Paksenarrion

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Scolar Visari said:
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You're either a State Alchemist, an Ishbalan Outcast practicing the forbidden art, or a freelance practitioner, but in any case, you have decided to create the Perfect Partner using Alchemy.

However, Equivalent Exchange dictates that you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something. You must present something of equal value in order to gain something.

The question put forth, Escapists: What happens when you activate that Transmutation Circle? What does the Gate take from you?
If we choose to sacrifice a limb, can I get cool prosthetics like Adam Jenson? Or is that like wishing for five more wishes from the Genie?
Sure, if you know a good auto-mail mechanic...
Puh-lease gurl, auto-mail is so last year. (Snaps fingers) Sarif Industries is what's hot right now. I mean seriously, who doesn't want sunglasses built into their skull?

Captcha: salted earth, Oh god what is this?
The AI has evolved!
 

Scolar Visari

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Paksenarrion said:
Scolar Visari said:
Paksenarrion said:
Scolar Visari said:
Paksenarrion said:
You're either a State Alchemist, an Ishbalan Outcast practicing the forbidden art, or a freelance practitioner, but in any case, you have decided to create the Perfect Partner using Alchemy.

However, Equivalent Exchange dictates that you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something. You must present something of equal value in order to gain something.

The question put forth, Escapists: What happens when you activate that Transmutation Circle? What does the Gate take from you?
If we choose to sacrifice a limb, can I get cool prosthetics like Adam Jenson? Or is that like wishing for five more wishes from the Genie?
Sure, if you know a good auto-mail mechanic...
Puh-lease gurl, auto-mail is so last year. (Snaps fingers) Sarif Industries is what's hot right now. I mean seriously, who doesn't want sunglasses built into their skull?

The AI has evolved!
Captcha: salted earth, Oh god what is this?
Come on you dirty robot bastards. I'm ready for this, HOW ABOUT YOU!!

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Something Amyss

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Paksenarrion said:
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Stop flirting with the narrator, dammit! *>_<*
Fair enough, who can I flirt with? >.>
The way you make me speechless...and without a Transmutation Circle! You've seen the Gate, haven't you!
Well, I could tell you but then I'd have to do horrible thigns to you. >.>
 

Monkfish Acc.

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... Who would sacrifice themselves to make a perfect partner? There's no guarantee they'll even like you.
In fact, they'd probably be little more than a wild animal. They wouldn't have been able to grow up and learn what it is to be human. They'll just start off intelligent and developed as an adult without all the childhood training that stops us from shitting in the woods and humping everything we see.

But ignoring that. Pretending they'll start off knowing how to talk and take care of themselves. Assuming that they'll love you and they don't really have a choice in the matter. Who's to say they won't be miserable? They start off, no memories or anything, and as soon as they are "born" they are told they exist because some scumbag was lonely. They are essentially fuckdolls with complex emotions. That is a horrible thing to do to a lifeform, even if it is one you made yourself.

This is why perfect partner creation doesn't work, there is a whole manner of terrible things to consider.
 

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I'd go with Freelancer.

I'd sacrifice the local transients, criminals, junkies... etc (in hopes no one would notice) and see what that gets me. If I'm not impressed, I'll target a wider range of victims... or just more of the same and try again.
So clearly I couldn't be a State Alchemist if I did this, well I could... until someone found out :)
 

Leg End

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Freelance. I don't do someone else's rules.

All of humanity(except children). I have nothing to give. I am but a shell.

Humanity however, is a sacrifice I would make.

She means far more to me than any of these organisms.
 

sidhe3141

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Easy. Hunt down the one person who already pulled off a successful human transmutation, get him to tell me how he did it, set up a way to pull myself back, and transmute my own Gate.
Or alternately find a way to trap myself there and offer to switch bodies with Truth.
 

sylekage

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Funny, I just got done watching this show.....

ANYWHO
I would give my legs, I don't use them too much. But I would have someone close by with a pair of automail legs to fix me up soon after. And, if need be, I will give any and all personal items, and anything around me to get what I need.
 

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LegendaryGamer0 said:
Freelance. I don't do someone else's rules.

All of humanity(except children). I have nothing to give. I am but a shell.

Humanity however, is a sacrifice I would make.

She means far more to me than any of these organisms.
Because the children would definitely be able to take care of themeselves after the adults had been sacrificed [/sarcasm]

OT: Freelance practisioner, I don't know though because anything of mine worthy of sacrificing to the gate in exchange for my perfect partner would be worth so much I couldn't function without it.
 

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I would give up everything available to me, so long as it was not a vital organ, for the same kind of power the Elric brothers had. (ability to transmute something without a circle)
 

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Freelance. I wouldn't do it, because I'm not willing to sacrifice myself or anyone I care for just to please myself. Though, if I had to, I'd end up losing my brains and become a drooling zombie taken care of by my Homunculus. My Homunculus would eventually get sick of me and devour me, then go on a rampage destroying things until killed by another Alchemist.

Interestingly enough, I've seen a couple people say they would lose their genitalia, and my Captcha is "size intieser" Lulz
 

Leg End

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JoJoDeathunter said:
LegendaryGamer0 said:
Freelance. I don't do someone else's rules.

All of humanity(except children). I have nothing to give. I am but a shell.

Humanity however, is a sacrifice I would make.

She means far more to me than any of these organisms.
Because the children would definitely be able to take care of themeselves after the adults had been sacrificed [/sarcasm]
Me and her would raise them together. :p