The sun and the moon represent so much not just in Fullmetal Alchemist, but real-life alchemy.

Explanation for Hermaphroditism:

First of all, introducing hermaphroditism in both Truth and Father might have been a little bit too “inside baseball” for casual viewers of the series, and it would have distracted from the series’ more important themes of friendship and humility. Second, even if they did focus on that, they would have risked having the ratings agencies deem them inappropriate for broadcast television… depending on how they reference the biological make-up of hermaphrodites… if you catch my drift. Then you would have to get into why Father in his Hohenheim form looked male, while Father in his dwarf form probably wasn’t just male… and that would have made things just too confusing (If you’re feeling skeptical, just remember what Edward and Alphonse said about unifying the genders). I would have welcomed the inclusion of that alchemical detail, but I understand why it wasn’t included.

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