Pride (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Pride is a anime villain that features in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
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Biography
Pride was one of the Homunculi that were created by Father. Following the destruction of the nation of Xerxes, Father began to wander the lands and sought to accomplish his mysterious goals. Thus saw him creating new homonculi that were patterned after the Seven Deadly Sins of Man and were generated from traits in his own personality. The first of these creations was Pride with it being said that Father went through great effort to give this homonculi his original appearance. Though his shadow form manifested outside his body, a container was crafted to house Pride with this taking the form of a young boy called Selim. For centuries, Selim lived in Amestris where he was always accompanied by high class officials. By the current age, Father crafted the last of his homunculi that he named Wrath who took the identity of the military ruler of Amestris an was called King Bradley. Pride was placed as Fuhrer Bradley's adoptive son where he became known as Selim Bradley who was cared for by Bradley's wife. His wife was completely unaware of her adoptive son's true nature and instead treated him with care and kindness.
He was present at the Bradley residence in his human guise when Greed attacked Fuhrer Bradley. Pride was prepared to intervene until the rogue Greed managed to escape. Pride later journeyed with Wrath to the East where he left the company of Fuhrer Bradley in order to join with Gluttony to find the Elric brothers. Gluttony found the lone Alphone Elric with Pride capturing the alchemist that was imprisoned in a suit of armor. He then possessed the armor with his shadow form whilst Gluttony sought out Edward Elric.
Facing their united foes, Pride noted that Gluttony had suffered heavy wounds similar to himself and asked his fellow homunculi how many times he died. Gluttony stated that he could not remember but that it was a lot though he stated he had no fear as Father would fix the damage. However, by that point, Pride surrounded Gluttony with his shadows and mercilessly attacked him. Despite Gluttony's pleas, Pride consumed him and absorbed the Philosopher's Stone at his core to replenish himself. This act meant that he absorbed the qualities of Gluttony such as superior sense of smell but also included his hunger which he stated that he had to sate. Pride then smelt the scent of Van Hohenheim who was nearby.
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Personality and attributes
As such, he was referred to as 'Pride the Arrogant' and represented Fathers egotistical nature. He found the notion of Greed sharing a body with the Xingese prince to be disgusting and commented that Greed was pathetic for sharing control of his body. Pride stated that there was no anger within him and that he had no need for such emotions. According to Greed, Pride was noted to make use of cheap strikes and tactics. Such moves included using his shadow form to take control of Alphonse Elric's suit of armor and use him effectively as a hostage. Greed stated that even he considered Pride to be a monster.
Though he was a brother to the other homunculi, Pride held no special affection for them and was not above killing them to achieve his goals. This was seen when he decided to devour the weakened Gluttony in order to replenish his own power.
Powers and abilities
As with the other homunculi, Pride was not truly human and had a great level of endurance within his human container. This allowed him to survive a brutal repeated attack from a lion-based Chimera and simply stand up again without any wounds.
Alphonse commented that it felt like Pride was manipulating his soul and felt violated as a result.
There were a number of ways his foes could combat his shadow-based natue. Whilst his shadow blades could cut through targets, they were unable to pierce through objects composed of carbon such as Greed's Ultimate Shield or stronger auto-mail forged from carbon. In addition, one way of fighting Pride was by eliminating any light-sources which prevented Pride from manifesting the shadow-based tendrils. Another way was by unleashing bursts of powerful light such as from flash-bang grenades that actually severed the shadow-tendrils from himself. Similar to the other Homunculi, once severed the tendrils disintegrated and prevented Pride from using those lost shadow tendrils.
He was not above cannibalism of other Homunculi such as when he devoured the weakened Gluttony in order to both replenish himself and to absorb some of his traits. The consumption meant that he gained Gluttony's superior sense of smell but was also ravaged by feelings of hunger that he needed to sate.
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Appearances
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood:
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