Resembool was a giant series of mistakes. Hohenheim usually avoided people as sharp as Pinako–they were fun, sure, but they were smart enough to figure him out.  But he’d slipped, and ended up with a friend. As for falling in love …he’d had feelings since Xerxes fell, but he’d always reminded himself of what he was, and that had been the end of that. But Trisha persisted, and he found it harder and harder to resist when he wanted a family so badly… 

 

 

You know that Tumblr post about vampires who miss historical events.  Like, they were alive at the time of various revolutions, but they were in a completely different country? That’s Hohenheim.  He at least tries to keep on top of the news but that was harder back before printing presses, and sometimes regime changes happened so quickly…he’s gone into countries fully expecting them to have a completely different form of government than they currently did.

 

 

Hohenheim is aware of how he looks, now.  An older man with a well-trimmed beard and fashionable glasses, wearing a conservative but well-cut suit. He looks educated and well-off.  It doesn’t matter how much time passes, though.  A thousand years on, and he’s still sure someone will see straight through all the affectations to the scruffy, dust-coated slave dressed in rags underneath. 

 

 

He, Al, and Ed had a detailed and meaningful conversation about their feelings offscreen. Roy, as erstwhile guardian of Hohenheim’s children, may have also participated.