Mr. Thinky Head
Or, I ponder shades of humanity.
See, one of the most compelling things about my various fandoms has been the seemingly never-ending last of ostentibly "human" dopplegangers.
FMA had homunculi.
KH had nobodies and the organization.
Advent Children had the triplets, really, and if we're going be the "pieces of Sephiroth" explanation square gives us, I think they count.
Homunculi are sins. I suppose if you were feeling particularly misanthropic (or if you were me), you could say that the sins act as the bare-bones archetpes of humanity, the primal need that drives us all. They have emotion. They have needs and wants and desires. That's what destroys them; that's what makes them monsters.
Now, Nobodies are people without hearts. Hearts being symbolic, assumedly, in a disney sense, of being the center of emotion. We are told they have no hearts, have no emotion, exist only on a mental plane. (We call this a load of crap under our breath, but we go with it nonetheless.) So, going with this, Nobodies should be the sort of anti-homunculus, no needs or wants but completion.
(Which is supposed to really be the homunculus's deal, but have you seen Greed? Have you seen Envy? I can think of one homunculi who truly wanted to be "completed," and that was Lust. Envy just wanted to kill Hohenheim. Pride hated humanity, he was "proud" of being homunculus, assumedly. Gluttony was too far gone to desire anything but food, and sloth...Alright. Sloth and Lust. Both women, interestingly enough, but I don't know that that really means anything.)
But both groups are interesting, and they are largely because, despite what is said, both groups act wonderfully, perilously human.
Huh.
Now, the triplets are alike, in that they too want "completion," (fine, reunion, Kadaj, jesus) but I can't really seem to pinpoint the one flaw that decries "humanity" in a classical sense (beyond the canon that they're, y'know, pieces). And each one is seperate, too, although I suppose that depends on the view of whoever's watching-- would you consider Kadaj, clearly mad, inhuman, or Loz, clearly slow on the mental uptake, the "piece?" Although, with all this alien blood and resurrection running amok, I guess you could say that "humanity" is a moot point.
This...This is why I do not generally do this, because I do not generally...Have opinions? Believe in concrete opinions. It's always 'could be,' or, even more prevalent-- 'but.' But the state of my percieving isn't really the point, it just limits what I could be exploring here, and that kind of sucks.
See, one of the most compelling things about my various fandoms has been the seemingly never-ending last of ostentibly "human" dopplegangers.
FMA had homunculi.
KH had nobodies and the organization.
Advent Children had the triplets, really, and if we're going be the "pieces of Sephiroth" explanation square gives us, I think they count.
Homunculi are sins. I suppose if you were feeling particularly misanthropic (or if you were me), you could say that the sins act as the bare-bones archetpes of humanity, the primal need that drives us all. They have emotion. They have needs and wants and desires. That's what destroys them; that's what makes them monsters.
Now, Nobodies are people without hearts. Hearts being symbolic, assumedly, in a disney sense, of being the center of emotion. We are told they have no hearts, have no emotion, exist only on a mental plane. (We call this a load of crap under our breath, but we go with it nonetheless.) So, going with this, Nobodies should be the sort of anti-homunculus, no needs or wants but completion.
(Which is supposed to really be the homunculus's deal, but have you seen Greed? Have you seen Envy? I can think of one homunculi who truly wanted to be "completed," and that was Lust. Envy just wanted to kill Hohenheim. Pride hated humanity, he was "proud" of being homunculus, assumedly. Gluttony was too far gone to desire anything but food, and sloth...Alright. Sloth and Lust. Both women, interestingly enough, but I don't know that that really means anything.)
But both groups are interesting, and they are largely because, despite what is said, both groups act wonderfully, perilously human.
Huh.
Now, the triplets are alike, in that they too want "completion," (fine, reunion, Kadaj, jesus) but I can't really seem to pinpoint the one flaw that decries "humanity" in a classical sense (beyond the canon that they're, y'know, pieces). And each one is seperate, too, although I suppose that depends on the view of whoever's watching-- would you consider Kadaj, clearly mad, inhuman, or Loz, clearly slow on the mental uptake, the "piece?" Although, with all this alien blood and resurrection running amok, I guess you could say that "humanity" is a moot point.
This...This is why I do not generally do this, because I do not generally...Have opinions? Believe in concrete opinions. It's always 'could be,' or, even more prevalent-- 'but.' But the state of my percieving isn't really the point, it just limits what I could be exploring here, and that kind of sucks.