Post by asdfgh on May 17, 2010 1:17:42 GMT -6
Character Bio: [li]Sloth was a Homunculus initially created by Edward and Alphonse Elric in the belief that it would transmute their dead mother Trisha Elric back to life.
[/li][li]Sloth has the unique ability to alter her body into pure water, which she is able to use as means of transportation, espionage, and killing people. She is also seemingly able to convert her full length purple dress into water, but no other clothing, as her secretary’s uniform tears when she encountered the Elrics underground.
[/li][li]She does not appear to embody the sin of sloth herself. However, Sloth’s name may have been given due to her seeming indifference to the lives of others, though is particular to her, because Sloth is noticeably the calmest Homunculus.
[/li][li]Sloth is shown to truly care for Wrath, and they seemed to share a familial bond similar to that of Gluttony and Lust.
[/li][li]Before she dies, Sloth took the opportunity to admit that she had been lying about her feelings toward the Elric brothers all along.
Relationships with People: Sloth is more of an intrapersonal person. She does not usually converse with others for formalities sake; rather, she would not speak or react. The only exception to this would be Wrath.
Likes: Wrath
Dislikes: The Elric Brothers, Greed.
History of the Character:
The organic mass that was formed from the failed event was fed Red Stones by Dante, thus giving Sloth the appearance of the late Trisha. Soon after her creation, Sloth took on a second alias – Juliet Douglas – and played the role of secretary to Fuhrer King Bradley. Although she is the youngest homunculus, Sloth is also seemingly one of the highest-ranked, and is shown giving orders to Envy. “Juliet Douglas” was allegedly the name of a soldier who sparked the war in Ishval by accidentally shooting an Ishvalan child. She was listed as being deceased, but her name still appears on the list of those in active duty of the military.
This is noticed by Maes Hughes, who, hoping to uncover the Homunculi, asks Sloth, in her disguise, to get into contact with Doctor Marcoh. Sloth later accompanies Hughes to a hotel, asking whether she really is Douglas or whether she just took her place. Sloth dismisses the accusations, but leads him to a room where she has arranged a rendezvous with Lust and Envy. After Lust is stabbed in the forehead, she and sloth go after Hughes, but Envy has already killed him.
Investigating Hughes’ murder, Sheska comes across the name “Juliet Douglas” many times, and reveals to Winry Rockbell a series of conflicting reports, including the fact that Douglas only looks about thirty years old, but should be in her fifties. The two young women break into the Central Military HQ telephone network hub, and connect to the Furher’s office, hoping to listen in on Douglas’ phone calls. They are in luck; Envy calls Sloth from an insecure line to complain that he is getting bored of waiting for the Elrics to make a move. Without giving too much away, Sloth reprimands him, and quickly ends the call, having heard the interference. She makes her way to Winry and Sheska, intending to kill them. Winry recognizes her as bearing the same appearance as Trisha Elric, before being saved in the nick of time by Maria Ross.
Sloth later reveals herself to the Elric brothers, who are horrified by her. Sloth takes full advantage of her resemblance to their mother, frequently mocking them by acting like Trisha and using their hesitation as a chance to attack them. Although killing the Elrics is an objective of the Homunculi at this time, Sloth has her own personal reasons to kill them. She reveals late in the series that in fact, she had been suffering memories of Trisha and her life with her sons. Sloth does not wish to believe that she bears any relation to Trisha, and feels that, if she kills the Elrics, she can prove this to herself.
Sloth’s motivations also lie in the hope that her master, Dante, will eventually make her human. She tells lust that this is the ultimate goal of every homunculus and to this end, she follows Dante without complaint. She has been shown not to be completely devoid of human feelings, and replaces Edward and Alphonse with Wrath as her child, which is frowned upon by Dante.
Sloth’s final appearance in the anime is during a battle with the Elrics at an abandoned warehouse, after she, along with Lust and Wrath, is sent to capture them. Encountering Shou Tucker, Sloth coldly informs him that she no longer wishes to allow him to continue with his experiments, having witnessed the “useless chimera doll” that Tucker created. She almost succeeds in her task, having charmed Alphonse into taking her side. However, she is severely weakened by a lock of Trisha Elric’s hair and is ultimately betrayed by Lust, who attacks her to prevent her from reforming her liquid body.
Lust has already been through similar emotions that Sloth goes through, and recognizes that Sloth must die, as she stands in the way of the Elrics making her human. Sloth escapes Lust when Wrath shows up to attack the latter and Sloth hides in Alphonse’s armor and controls his movements, intending to return him to Dante. Edward confronts her, and she takes time to explain to him why she must kill both he and his brother before going on to inform him that she should hate him anyway for ever creating her. She admits that Lust was being truthful where here memories were concerned, and it is left ambiguous as to whether Sloth ever truly believed Dante’s lies.
In any case, at this point she has the Elrics completely at her mercy, but unfortunately Wrath, having killed Lust and absorbed Trisha’s remains moments earlier, embraces Sloth and the remains cause her to become immobile. It is then that Sloth recognizes the moment of her defeat. Edward uses alchemy to transform her body into ethanol, and she slowly evaporates into the atmosphere.
Smiling, Sloth speaks her last words to the Elrics: “Nicely done, Sweetheart. Clean up after yourselves and take care of each other.”
*note: This is with help from Wiki.
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Why do you want to be this character? I want to become this character because I want to show more of her in this RP. =]
How far are you into the Anime? I may have missed some episodes, but I finished it. I’ve been following Brotherhood as well.
How far are you into the Manga? I have to admit that I haven’t read the manga at all, but I know the gist of it.
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Pretenses.[/li][/ul]
That was it, wasn’t it? The reason why she was feeling this way towards the Elric brothers?
It made her feel uncomfortable, that something as simple as humans could affect her in this way. Juliet Douglas flicked her hair back and concentrated on arranging the paperwork of the Fuhrer. She had to remember that she was a homunculus, and she wasn’t capable of feelings for such inferior beings.
But her mind continually drifted back to the thought of the brothers, and flashes of Trisha Elric’s memories clouded her vision. She felt like throwing up. It wasn’t like her to be so out of the loop like this. Juliet concentrated on her task, piling up the papers in their proper stacks with amazing speed. She didn’t want to remember. She didn’t want to believe that she bore any relationship with Trisha and her life with her sons.
The sun was streaming in from the window behind her, lathering the office with its bright rays. Inwardly, Juliet was disturbed by the unnecessary heat, but she had more pressing matters to entertain. Another burst of memory stunned her, and she gasped. The papers she had held in her hands fell gracelessly to the floor as her hands rose to her head, as if trying to physically block out the images.
It wasn’t working. Of course it wasn’t.
Juliet had a sudden desire to disappear. She didn’t want to be trapped in this place, with its obvious evidences of humanity spread every where in this room, in every nook. With sudden conviction, she let go of the papers and transforms into a watery substance almost instantly. The collection of water slithered up the wall and to the vent. She practically flew through it, but barely made any noise. Then she had herself in a sort of puddle that had no resemblance to her human form. It was, in these moments of utter nothingness, that she felt real.
In these moments of nothingness, Sloth felt alive.
