Q. What happens if a person eats all of or part of a Being’s animal form? What if it’s their Master? I’m curious about the nutritional value, taste, permanence of the flesh after its cut off, etc.
A. Whether or not it’s their Master trying to do the eating, they’d probably spit it right back out. Beings don’t taste very good. The cut-off parts don’t evaporate after, if that’s what you’re asking.
Q. What is a being’s chemical make-up? Is it made of energy? Do any earthly materials harm them, like how silver harms werewolves?
A. One part potassium, one part sodium, six parts iron, ten parts oxygen, two parts hydrogen…no, seriously, I have no idea. If they have a specific chemical Kryptonite, it hasn’t been discovered yet.
Q. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen Being?
A. Twelve to fifteen miles per hour.
Q. We know there are ~100 Beings. If one dies, does a new one come into existence to take the place of the dead one?
A. No.
Q. Beings don’t taste very good, but we know Beings have no sense of taste. So what happens when one Being eats another? Do they gain powers? Get a stomach ache?
A. They don’t eat each other.
Q. Will we get to meet Patrick’s former master?
A. I wouldn’t leave him out for the world.
Haven’t we already met Patrick’s former master maybe? :)
Whether any of the people we’ve met so far are Patrick’s former Master is, for now, left to reader speculation ^_^
yep.
Sooo… some people did wonder how a Being tastes… wow. Can’t help but think i should be one of them, being fond of food and all…
That was one of my early inquiries. I was in a bit of a dark mood and watching Food Network in the background. The question followed from there.
So solve world hunger, turn the cow being godzilla sized, grind some beef off and let the rest of it go somewhere to heal. Cook beef, spice it into oblivion to hide taste and sell the patties for a buck to starving kids in africa.
Hmm. Does that mean they can’t be ordered to eat each other?
Oh? A Fullmetal Alchemsit reference? That was rather blatently obvious to all of us fans, though it worked great there.
I haven’t actually seen FMA — what part did you think was a reference?
Your list of ingredients. One of the FMA protagonists rattles off the chemical recipe for a human as part of explaining his backstory. (You should watch it.)
But that’s just science! Just because FMA refers to a certain aspect of real-world chemistry doesn’t mean every other series that does so is making an FMA reference….
Besides, the chemical recipe here isn’t the one for a human. (And if you reverse-engineer what it is a recipe for, you’ll get some foreshadowing…) The ratio in humans is 0.4% potassium, 0.2% sodium, trace amounts of iron, 65% oxygen, and 9.5% hydrogen. Plus a bunch of other things.