Are the Homunculi abilities based on the sins?


I understand Gluttony's ability of being able to ingest anything being related
to the title Gluttony. I was wondering about the other Homunculi's abilities
(from FMA:B, not FMA) and whether they have any relation to the sins or to any
biblical story relating to the sins.




No, this isn't generally the case.

  * **Greed** (both pre- and post-"death") has the ability to modify the carbon in his body to be rock-hard. This is not reflected in the fourth circle of _Dante's Inferno_ nor in the Bible as far as I can tell.
  * **Pride** has the power of the shadows and of omnipresence. As far as I know, pride is generally represented Biblically as a giant, so there's little correlation here.

Wrath and Sloth could potentially be connected.

  * **Wrath** has the all-seeing eye. 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". However, I'd consider this a bit of a stretch.
  * **Lust** has the ability to make longer fingernails. I suppose this could be seen as a use of her beauty to kill others, but again, a bit of a stretch. She also seems to have no correlation to the second circle of the Inferno.
  * **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.

I believe, though, that Gluttony and Envy are the only ones who share a
strong-ish connection.

  * **Gluttony** , as you mentioned, wants to (and is able to) eat essentially infinitely.
  * **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.

It's worth noting that most of the homunculi have some form of their story
connected to their sin. 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.

However, despite all this, it does not seem that most of their abilities
relate to their sins, or the stories that accompany them.  
  _Disclaimer: I am not an expert on the Bible or Christianity._




No, this isn't generally the case.

  * **Greed** (both pre- and post-"death") has the ability to modify the carbon in his body to be rock-hard. This is not reflected in the fourth circle of _Dante's Inferno_ nor in the Bible as far as I can tell.
  * **Pride** has the power of the shadows and of omnipresence. As far as I know, pride is generally represented Biblically as a giant, so there's little correlation here.

Wrath and Sloth could potentially be connected.

  * **Wrath** has the all-seeing eye. 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". However, I'd consider this a bit of a stretch.
  * **Lust** has the ability to make longer fingernails. I suppose this could be seen as a use of her beauty to kill others, but again, a bit of a stretch. She also seems to have no correlation to the second circle of the Inferno.
  * **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.

I believe, though, that Gluttony and Envy are the only ones who share a
strong-ish connection.

  * **Gluttony** , as you mentioned, wants to (and is able to) eat essentially infinitely.
  * **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.

It's worth noting that most of the homunculi have some form of their story
connected to their sin. 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.

However, despite all this, it does not seem that most of their abilities
relate to their sins, or the stories that accompany them.  
  _Disclaimer: I am not an expert on the Bible or Christianity._

