MAY CHANG
MC
Young Xingese princess of the Chang clan traveling to Amestris with her tiny panda Xiao-Mei. Practices alkahestry, the Xingese discipline that operates on different principles than Amestrian alchemy and becomes genuinely important to how the endgame works. Brotherhood deploys May for comedy and then quietly establishes that she is one of the more capable people in the series. Her arc alongside Scar is unexpected and earns itself completely. Do not underestimate her because of the panda.
MAY THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
STORY & ARC GUIDE //
Open page →Episodes 15 onward
May's alkahestry reads the flow of energy differently from ordinary Amestrian alchemy.
That becomes crucial when Father demonstrates that he can interfere with Amestrian transmutation while May can still work.
That becomes crucial when Father demonstrates that he can interfere with Amestrian transmutation while May can still work.
Why it matters
An outsider recognizes the country's alchemy as abnormal before the people raised inside the system know there is anything to question.
Briggs investigation → countermeasure
Scar's brother studied both Amestrian alchemy and Xingese alkahestry and realized that the country's alchemical system had been altered.
His research becomes the basis for a reverse transmutation array capable of undoing Father's interference with Amestrian alchemy.
His research becomes the basis for a reverse transmutation array capable of undoing Father's interference with Amestrian alchemy.
Why it matters
Scar begins the story using only destruction. His brother's complete research eventually gives him a role in restoring something instead.
