Let's start with my favorite, Pride : Pride is considered to be the worst of the sins Tommaso D'Aquino, one of most important, if not the most important, Christian philosophers who had actually categorized all the vices and virtues of human being, stated that "pride is the worst of the sins, because it meanders through the good actions". I can find strong or weak reasons to link the abilities of all the homunculi to their sins except for Wrath. I think they are, though it's not always clear how. However, despite all this, it does not seem that most of their abilities relate to their sins, or the stories that accompany them.ĭisclaimer: I am not an expert on the Bible or Christianity. Wrath, for example, loses his arms, as in Dante's Inferno Lust's death by fire and wind is also a reference to how the lustful are killed in the second circle and in the Bible, it states that "the slothful will be put to forced labor." A few of the sins have some aspect of their appearance related to their sin as well. It's worth noting that most of the homunculi have some form of their story connected to their sin. Envy has the ability to appear however he likes as his jealousy later reveals, his envy of humans causes him to use his ability to take the human form.Gluttony, as you mentioned, wants to (and is able to) eat essentially infinitely.I believe, though, that Gluttony and Envy are the only ones who share a strong-ish connection. Sloth possesses great power and skill, and yet wastes it this isn't really his ability per se, but he does use it in a slothful manner.She also seems to have no correlation to the second circle of the Inferno. I suppose this could be seen as a use of her beauty to kill others, but again, a bit of a stretch. Lust has the ability to make longer fingernails.However, I'd consider this a bit of a stretch. Though there is nothing about this in Dante's Inferno, this could be a reference to the potentially wrathful statement in the Bible, "an eye for an eye". Wrath and Sloth could potentially be connected. As far as I know, pride is generally represented Biblically as a giant, so there's little correlation here. Pride has the power of the shadows and of omnipresence.This is not reflected in the fourth circle of Dante's Inferno nor in the Bible as far as I can tell. Greed (both pre- and post-"death") has the ability to modify the carbon in his body to be rock-hard.
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