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I am currently watching _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_. I have a question
regarding the identity of the homunculus inside Selim Bradley.

Is he Pride? Or is he another homunculus?

In [episode
42](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood_episodes#Episodes_list),
when Van Hohenheim met Pride in an underground passage in Liore, he said that
Pride shouldn't have been able to reside outside a spherical body.

This confuses me as to how Selim Bradley can be Pride. Am I missing something
here?


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Who exactly is Selim Bradley?


Potential spoilers for the manga and Brotherhood continuities. I'm being
conservative with spoiler markdown, since I can't tell how much you've
watched.

We first get a crucial bit of information after Hawkeye interacts with Selim
(ep. 37, vol. 18):

> Selim is indeed Pride. Hawkeye gets suspicious about Selim while talking to
> Mrs. Bradley and then is confronted by him. Hawkeye later passes on a
> message to Roy stating that he is a homunculus (vol. 19, can't locate the
> exact episode number).

Later, the information is confirmed after Edward and the others return to
Central (ep. 46-49, vol. 21-23).

> Edward, his brother, his father, and some people who joined him while he was
> at Briggs fight Selim, who they notice is a homunculus. It is clearly shown
> that he is Pride: I believe he makes some comment about this, and even if he
> does not, it is clear from the eye pattern his attack comprises of that he
> is the same homunculus Van Hohenheim confronted while in Lior (ep. 42, vol.
> 19).

* * *

So this leaves your question:

> In episode 42, when Van Hohenheim met Pride in an underground passage in
> Liore, he said that Pride shouldn't have been able to reside outside a
> spherical body.

He was referring to Pride being restricted to a specific part of the
underground tunnels:

> I assumed that it referred to only the parts of the tunnel that circle
> Amestris, and the restriction only applied to Pride's real form (not his
> human container).

It also appears that he was referring to where Pride's shadows could move (at
least when he was outside of Central), not where Pride's "container" or body
could be:

> After all, Pride is Selim Bradley, and Selim Bradley has a relatively
> normal-looking life on the surface of Central, where he is probably moving
> _within_ the borders of the underground tunnels.


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Selime Bradley is Pride. he is the first Homunculi created by father in
Father's image. he can travel anywhere with in the nation. the transmutational
circle acts as a secondary shell


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