Talk:Edward Elric vs. Maka Albarn/@comment-31961081-20180802032123/@comment-3463132-20180804042130

It's possible but not probable. Edward took a generous chunk of time figuring out Greed's armor and that was an already-existing element, not some random non-existent one. Especially not considering black blood literally changes its physical properties by going from liquid to some sort of cloth like Maka's dress and even becoming outright solid like a spike; not to mention it can apparently help you 'transmute' regular flesh too- which Fullmetal Alchemist pretty heavily insists is really, really hard to pull off.

Given time and tools? A controlled space? Surely Edward would figure it out.

Given none of those things? I didn't think so back when I wrote this and I don't think so now. My estimates of Maka's speed and strength are actually far higher now than they were when I wrote this.