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In Character Information
character name: Lust
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Timeline: 2003 Anime, just after her death at the hands of Wrath.
character's age: She looks as if she's in her mid to late twenties, but she was born in a botched attempt at human transmutation by Scar's brother some years before. The anime is not clear on this, but it looks to be between ten to fifteen human years. (Scar is shown as mid to late twenties in the anime, and he was clearly a young teen/adolescent when his brother died.)
powers, skills, pets and equipment: Being a Homunculus, Lust has amazing regenerative properties - she is shown to expel bullets from her skin within moments after being shot multiple times, as well as pulling a knife (thrown by Hughes) from her head. She is extremely fast, agile and a very competent fighter when she has to be. She is also quite stealthy - and is able to sneak up on and get the draw on opponents many times. Her weapon of choice is the Ultimate Spear - the ability to lengthen (at will) her fingertips into very sharp blades that can extend limitlessly outward. She can snare, stab, slash and cut through almost any material.
The only thing that she is shown to be weak against is a small locket that contains hair from the woman whom she resembles. The woman that Scar's brother loved and attempted to bring back from the dead by the forbidden art of alchemy ; namely human transmutation.
This locket, containing a "piece" of the person that she was "born from" has the power to utterly paralyze her, which would include preventing her from using her regenerative abilities. Ultimately, this is how Wrath was able to kill her.
The locket is currently in Anatole, in Scar's possession, having been brought through the Door earlier.
Lust is also very skilled in the arts of manipulation and persuasion, often convincing targets that they are acting of their own accord.
canon history: Born of a failed human transmutation attempt by Scar's brother to bring back his lover from the dead, she was nourished by an older Homunculi, Greed, who fed her Philosopher's Stones so that she might take human shape. Her human shape bears an uncanny resemblance to the unnamed Ishbalan woman that both Scar and his brother loved.
Lust is the first of the Homunculi that is introduced (along with Gluttony, who is sometimes kind of like her pet dog, but not really.) and she is shown to go to great lengths to manipulate alchemists (Cornello, Marcoh, Majhal etc.) into trying to create the Philosopher's Stone.
Unable to use alchemy on their own kind (Wrath is the only one discovered to have this ability) Lust claims to have manipulated events and led the Elric brothers to discover the truth about the stone's creation. She had hoped that they would create and use it to transmute her and the other Homunculi into human beings.
It is this obsession with becoming human, along with trace memories of the woman she resembles that led her to ultimately defect from the rest of the Homunculi, and their master, Dante, who had promised (falsely) to turn them human after she had used the stone for her own purpose.
She has a change of heart also, toward Scar, and expresses her desire to become human so that she can be the woman she resembles - something that Scar tells her is impossible. Calculating, seemingly emotionless and very cool during most of the series, her "humanity" is evident when she sits with Scar just before his death.
Her alliance with Edward Elric proves fatal - se is killed by Wrath, whilst trying to ensnare Sloth in a trap. Lust, now trapped inside a transmutation circle, is paralyzed by the locket and stabbed through the chest by Wrath's transmuted arm.
Before she dies, she says this:
"Maybe you are right. Where did I come from and where will I go when I die? Maybe all this time that is what I wanted: the freedom to find out."
She wakes in Anatole. Believing that she is probably dead, but human. The appearance of familiar faces will only reassure her that she is in the afterlife, where things should be forgiven, and put to rest. Her "humanity" is her reward.
She is very much not human. Choosing to spend most of her time in Dismas, as well as Mist fluctuations and her strange reactio to it has caused her to falsely believe this - she has yet to see her abilities re-emerge, and this gives her peace.
She will not have this peace for long.
More details here, under the 2003 Anime section.
personality: Lust is calm, collected, and highly intelligent. She speaks eloquently and persuasively, and is very comfortable being an observer. Her sense of humor is wry, sarcastic and dark when she allows it. Irony is not lost on her. She is not lascivious or lustful herself in the true sense of the word - but she does inspire lust in others, most often without trying. She feels general contempt for those weak or stupid enough to be used. For her, flirting is how she (t)rolls.
She is confident, extremely patient, and very aware of her skill at manipulating others for her own ends. This does not mean that she is without emotion. She is simply good at hiding her emotions from others, and keeping her motives undetected.
Despite her powers and origins, her desires are simple, she only wishes to be human, whatever that brings. At her core, Lust is sentimental, especially in the wake of resurfacing human memories that belong to the woman she resembles. Her ideal life would be to live in a city and people-watch, take in the experience of music, arts and beauty. To have friends. To be loved. To love back.
She is haunted by this.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? She would bring a nice level of angst to the game, especially since many of her canonmates - all with varying memories of her - and definitely not favorable, for the most part - are here. Her universe is very much a steampunk influenced one, and this world would be familiar to her, yet still alien. She is a survivor, one way or another - and a villain attempting to reform. Anatole may give her this opportunity. Then again it may break her not-quite-human heart.