I really want to know what's up with the sudden personality shifts in the likes of Ymir and Elina. No doubt the dang Swamp Witch will have something to do with it, though.
Lol, true. Elina always was a little ... odd. Although after seeing the Anime and reading her profile Ymir just doesn't strike me as the cold, pseudo-sadistic alchemist she's apparently turned into. And yeah, Claudette's a tyrant now? All in all Gainos and its environs seem to have gone a bit pear-shaped.