Lyra (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Lyra is a supporting character of animated Fullmetal alchemist. It does not appear in the manga.

Lyra is introduced for the first time into episode 9: it is a apprentie alchemist with the service of Lieutenant Yoki. Thanks to its pendentive on which a circle of transmutation is engraved, it can project shock waves.

She wishes to become alchemist of State and is completely devoted to the soldiers: she does not hesitate, over the orders of Yoki, to destroy the inn of the villagers who had not been able to pay their taxes, then to attack Edward when this one subtilizes the documents of title of the mine with Yoki by the trick. ED manages to break its pendentive, preventing it from using its alchemy.

Lyra is re-examined well later in episode 32: it became the apprentie of Dante, the Master in alchemy of Izumi Curtis, and lives in its residence.

The evening when Homunculus Greed enters the house, he discovers Dante died on the ground: Lyra manages to trap it in a circle of transmutation and obliges it with régurgiter the incomplete philosopher stone which its body contained, a normally impossible exploit for a apprentie alchemist. It disappears little before the arrival from ED.

What follows reveals one of the moment-keys of the intrigue

It is discovered well later that Dante has in fact transferred its heart in the body from Lyra thanks to the stone philosopher and taken possession of its carnal envelope, while Lyra, it, took the body of Dante; the latter then assassinated it in order to make accept ED that Greed had killed it. After which, it took again its philosopher stones to him and east flees with its new body. Trickery functions and ED shows Homunculus of the crime of that which he believes Dante being; whereas it is about unhappy Lyra, betrayed and assassinated by its Master.

The steel alchemist will discover the truth only towards the last episodes of the series, whereas Dante continues to use the identity of its victim.

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