

In both the manga and the 2nd anime (FMA Brotherhood) homunculi are willingly
created. As far as I understand it, Father was created (or rather summoned
from the other side of the door?) back at Xerxis before using the entire city
to create a powerful philosopher's stone for himself and van Hohenheim.

Some time passed by and father started creating other homunculi, each named
after and behaving according to a deadly sin. They are fueled by parts of
Father's stone and are powerful subordinates, but neither Greed nor Sloth nor
Gluttony use their power to any mentionable extent for Father's benefit.

It is commented by van Hohenheim (and apparently the commonly excepted "truth"
as seen in [this post](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4397/33164)) that
Father wanted to get rid of these "human" weaknesses. But that obviously
didn't work: He still is immensely proud, so he sits alone in the center of
the state, never standing up, making subordinates and machines do everything
for him, thinking of himself as the best and most powerful being on earth and
working towards becoming a "perfect being"; He is greedy, so even though he
has a powerful philosopher's stone and can create others from criminals and
war casualties, he creates a stone way stronger than his old one has ever been
and uses its power to enslave god and steal his/her/their/its power.

And he would have been successful if his underlings had used their powers to
their whole extent instead of being too lazy, dumb, or greedy to do so. Van
Hohenheim barely completed the inversion circle in time, and with faster
digging at Sloth's end and Greed/ Gluttony going on a rampage to enforce the
needed bloodshed, Father would have won. (Sure he still needed the sacrifices
but as we see in the show, he can somehow make someone a sacrifice by force or
he could have just ordered state alchemists to do things that made them become
sacrifices. And that's not even the point.)

Is there another reason that I overlooked in the anime or that has been given
in the manga why he created his "children" the way he did? Or a reference on
why the plan of getting rid of these character flaws did actually work but
just not entirely?


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Why did Father create his "children" as the 7 deadly sins?