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Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 63 (Patreon)

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2024-03-07 18:00:08
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eworm

The answer, quite fittingly, was humility. Dwarf in the Flask wasn't even human, yet craved, and thought he somehow "deserved", to become a god. Compared to that, Ed's general ambition of "being a great alchemist" was like nothing - and even that much was to be recognized as a source of pride, self-ignorance, and indeed sacrificed for what really matters.

Jose Villanueva

Wes and Steph after the most in-depth discussion/analysis: “Break it down for us guys!”

eworm

I believe that Pride and Greed were far from their Father's entire pride and greed - after all, his plan was to know everything, have everything, control everything by becoming (a) god, so he most decidedly didn't remove all of his pride and greed. The Homunculi, ironically, seemed to have been born from the "best" parts of pride and greed. Pride was proud of being a Homunculus, as opposed to a human. It's sort of like being proud of your heritage, your "people" so to speak. Yes, even that can be carried too far if it leads to antagonizing and/or belittling others, but at its core it's the "healthy" pride akin to patriotism or just self-confidence. And of course Dwarf in the Flask removed that part of himself - if he was at all proud of his status as a Homunculus, he wouldn't have tried to become (a) god. Perhaps that's why the "core", the real body of Pride was such a tiny, fetus-like creature and why even with the Philosopher's Stone, he was never more than a child. He was the "smallest" part of Dwarf in the Flask in the first place, a miniscule part of a being that hated its own nature. Greed was his Father's craving for human connections, even if he didn't realize it himself until pretty late into the story. Of course his Father exiled that part of himself. With a plan like his, there was no space for anyone to stand alongside him, (a) god, at the end. He had no need for a desire for connection, a longing for others. In the end, Pride ended up betraying what his supposed "core" was about, while Greed embraced it, in a way. Pride ditched his, well, pride as a Homunculus and intended on taking a human body only to save his life. That wasn't humility either, no redemption here - just a basic, animalistic fear was enough to break him, which I think only further proves how weak that part of Dwarf in the Flask's really was. Meanwhile, Greed had a proper redemption by recognizing what "kind" of greed he was driven by all along. Ironically, it aligned with the very message of the ending itself - what matters IS others, the connections we make, the bonds we create, the relationships we form. This wasn't a betrayal of who he was - it was a realization of who he was. Unlike Pride, who died humiliated, Greed died satisfied, knowing that in the end, he did have all of what he wanted. Suppose one could think about the other Homunculi alongside those lines, but those are definitely the most obviously rich in meaning to me.

Roy Mathew

I find this anime is really interesting in the way that it views God. Catholics and many (but not all) Christians believe in a concept called Divine Simplicity which essentially states that God IS truth and that there is essentially no difference between the nature of the two terms (God & Truth). This is very similar to "the truth" in this anime. However, unlike Catholic beliefs in God, I'm not sure if this anime's god comes across as "all-good", it seems more neutral if anything.