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. Afterwards, Father created further homunculi that included Envy, Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth. 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. Initially, as Selim, Pride maintained the deception and his contempt for humanity but one day a car nearly hit him in the capital with Mrs. Bradley moving in the way to protect him. Mrs. Bradley was unaware of Pride's true nature and selflessly risked her own life to save him. This caused Pride to somewhat revise his opinion of humans as being selfish creatures and for a time he came to know what it was like to have a mother.
Within the tunnels, he sensed an intruder and immediately attacked the individual but the person managed to escape outside the tunnel system. Outside the system, Pride was unable to attack as he could not leave his container otherwise he would die. It was then that he noticed the features of the intruder in that they resembled Father. This person was actually the individual Father based his appearance on and was Van Hohenheim. During this encounter, Pride revealed his name and insisted that Hohenheim accompany him to Father. However, Hohenheim refused but told Pride to deliver a message namely that he was coming to confront Father soon.
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.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Pride like the other Homunculi thought so little of humans and believed he had figured them all out. 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. His arrogance meant that he did not consider that events might not go his way.
According to Pride, he said that one thing that was sure in the world was that humans were of little consequence. He thought of humans being selfish creatures but noted that not all had such traits. His viewpoint changed when King Bradley's human wide selflessly risked her life to prevent Selim from being run over by a car. Pride was shocked that she had risked her life by using her body to protect him and her selfless concern for his well being. Pride was greatly intrigued by her as he had known a father but never a mother. Thus, this experience meant he came to realise what it was like to have a mother that cared for him. Initially, he deceived her but in time he found their time together pleasant.
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. When asked about eating his own kind, Pride stated that such an act was not cannibalism to him. This was because he held the view that all the Homunculi were a collective that were born of the same Father. Thus, the consumption simply meant that they were back to being one form. Upon taking Gluttony's traits, Pride became afflicted with a hunger to consume others such as when he devoured the badly wounded Kimblee who was an ally but suffered from critical injuries. He old Kimblee not to worry as he would continue to survive within Pride.
Pride was knowledgeable of Morse code and used it to transmit his location when he was trapped inside a prison composed of stone.
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. As such, encasing him in a cage container with no light meant he was effectively trapped and unable to break out of his prison himself. Pride was able to destroy a prison with his shadow tendrils prior to it encasing him but once the prison was formed he was effectively trapped unless someone freed him. 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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