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Name: Wrath
In the anime, Wrath (ラース, Rāsu) was the second youngest Homunculus. With the appearance of an eleven year-old child, he had the ability to fuse his body's form with other objects, whether or not the objects were organic. He possessed the exceptional ability to perform alchemy (unlike the other Homunculi), and was unusual even among most alchemists in that he could transmute without a transmutation circle. Strangely, in order to use Alchemy he had to simultaneously absorb material. When he activated the transmutation circle to seal Lust, he sank slightly into the ground ("Sealing of the Homonculi"). He could do this because his right arm and left leg originally belonged to Edward Elric. He also had the ability to stretch his Homunculus limbs to great lengths, at which time his limbs took on a blue color, and appeared similar to a large mass of muscle fibers (this, however is only seen in the intro, and it could be because he absorbed a material similar to when he absorbed Izumi's clothes and turned his arms into sashes at the beginning of the episode "Dante of the Deep Forest").
Wrath was created when Izumi Curtis attempted to transmute her dead baby on Yock Island. She transmitted her inner organs (just below the heart to the end of her small intestine) to her child so that he would live. The result was a Homunculus with its typical inhuman appearance when immature. Horrified, Izumi sent it back into the Gate where Wrath remained, aging there in the process. When Edward attempted to revive his mother, Wrath took possession of his lost limbs within the gate. The limbs eventually gave Wrath the power to force open the gate and come back to Yock Island where he lived until he was discovered. After being discovered by the Elrics on the island, he was taken to the house of Izumi Curtis. He eventually ran away and his existence became known to Envy, the military, and Greed.
Envy eventually made contact with Wrath and provided him with Red Stones. On consuming the stones, Wrath became a mature Homunculus. The stones' power and Envy's words changed his demeanor from that of an innocent child's to the total incarnation of his cardinal sin, full of raw hatred and anger, especially towards Izumi for creating him. Wrath was encouraged by Envy to hate Edward and attempted to take his body so that he could supposedly absorb it and become completely human.
Unlike the other Homunculi, Wrath was created directly from the materials of the human that was being transmuted. Because of this, Wrath did not share the weakness of the other Homunculi because the remains of the original body no longer existed. However, Wrath had other weaknesses: a deep and paralyzing phobia at the sound of a wailing baby and that of the Gate itself. The human nature of his arm and leg were also a weakness. Although Wrath was affectionate towards Izumi at first, after meeting Envy, and typical of the other Homunculi, Wrath rejected his creator. He eventually adopted Sloth as his mother, probably as part of a delusion that he could become Edward by taking things that belonged to him. After Sloth's death, Wrath was inconsolable, and started talking about using the Philosopher's Stone to revive her.
However, Dante had Envy beat Wrath for it and the fearful child finally came to understand the truth about his relations to them. Wrath then attempted to revive Sloth himself, forcing Dante to summon the Gate, which forcefully tore off the human parts of Wrath. He was left lying on the floor after the gate disappeared, seemingly forgotten about, until the final fight between Ed and Envy. After punching and kicking Ed, Envy leapt away from him to avoid Ed's own attacks. Before he could launch his attack again, Wrath, still on the floor, grabbed hold of Envy's ankle, a failed attempt to thwart Envy as he is victorious in the end. Before he transmutes himself to bring back Al, Ed asked Rose to take Wrath back up to the surface. As a replacement for Wrath's limbs, Winry fitted him with automail similar to Edward's.
His whereabouts for the next two years are unknown, though he did resurface to visit his creator's grave, but appeared as a shell of his former self, likely because he had no red stones to consume and accepted who he was after the events of the finale. He guided Alphonse Elric through the underground city to find and open the Gate. Gluttony, now a huge and mindless monster ravenous with hunger, attacked, attempting to devour Wrath. After Gluttony expelled some red stone material, Wrath consumed it and regained considerable strength. With his new power, Wrath was able to hold Gluttony off for a short while, but then purposefully smashed his own automail into the center of a transmutation circle, allowing Gluttony to take him into his jaws. Gluttony proceeded to bite Wrath in half. He then screamed for Al to use both him and Gluttony as Equivalent Exchange to open the gate.
Al was wary of sacrificing Wrath, but was assured by the Homunculus that this was the very reason he brought Al there in the first place. Al forcefully carried out his request and transmuted the Gate, using both Wrath and Gluttony as the alchemic material in the process (due to the fact that human transmutation was the price of opening the Gate). After his death, Wrath (in his untainted form with all original limbs) was seen standing in front of the doors of the Gate, which opened with Izumi there to greet him. Reunited at last, the two disappeared into the gate together.
Edward, Wrath's greatest enemy and the centre of his existence throughout the series, seemed to be shocked upon learning of Wrath's sacrifice and appeared to gain respect for the Homunculus.
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