#the homunculi are so interesting to me I am rotating them in my mind 24/7

[waitineedaname]

anyway. back to my regularly scheduled idiot posting. I got left alone with my thoughts too long earlier and started thinking about greed and how he's positioned between the other homunculi and humans. none of the other homunculi show off their ouroboros tattoos as much as he does. they don't particularly hide their tattoos (except when in disguise/not counting wrath) but greed LOVES showing off his tattoo, it's the first thing he does when introducing himself constantly. he's also the first one to proudly declare he's a homunculus, despite having distanced himself from the rest of the homunculi

at the same time, he immediately draws an association between himself and human beings. he describes himself as an artificially made human, which is the literal definition of what a homunculus is, and his willingness to explain how he's not that far from humans (his body structurally being the same as a human, describing himself as sturdier than most but not truly immortal) is what allows ed to figure out his weakness. meanwhile the other homunculi would literally rather die than position themselves as at all similar to humans. this is consistent with the fact that all the other homunculi, at best, look down on humanity, and at worst, feel intense contempt for humans, meanwhile greed seems to be amused by humans, if not outright fond of them

idk i just think it's interesting that the rest of the homunculi completely divorce themselves from humanity and position themselves as superior, but greed is the one to actually embrace the definition of homunculus as an artificial human

#fma #WHY IS GREED THE ONLY ONE I CAN WRITE ESSAYS ABOUT. #WHY CAN'T I PUT THIS ENERGY TOWARDS OTHER CHARACTERS. #dammit. #the homunculi are so interesting to me I am rotating them in my mind 24/7 #there's a whole other thing to break down in relation to this post #which is the human-homunculi #and wrath and greedling as foils #both of them physically human first before getting infused with a philosopher's stone #but they have SUCH drastically different takes on humanity #wrath and the other homunculi constantly treating humans with contempt and underestimating them #and ling being like that is going to be your downfall. bitch. #all the souls in wrath battling for dominance when he was created #versus greed and ling just like. coexisting. #sure they might fight for control of the body at first but neither of them try to destroy each other like wrath's situation #it's so wild to me when the other homunculi are like wow greed it's so pathetic that you'd share control of your body with a human #as if that doesn't give him a huge fighting advantage. lmao. #this post has gotten too long I was going to do OTHER THINGS but instead i just thought really hard about greed and word vomited. hi.