#devils nest fma

When you look back in the series, all the way back to Hohenheim and the Dwarf in the flask, one of the things Hohenheim thanks the Dwarf for is his status. Not because of money and power, but because now he’s seen as a human being and that he can maybe have a family someday. The dwarf in the flask analyzes that Hohenheim only wants a family because of social culture. Hohenheim somewhat agrees, but adds that families are a huge factor in human happiness.

Later, when the dwarf in the flask has become human, he fashions himself a family. He removes the “imperfect” parts of himself. His pride, gluttony, lust, greed, envy, wrath, sloth. He has them play house and be the pieces in his game of perfection and power.

But all of his “children”— all of the homunculi— want what Father wants. And no one wants what Father wants more than Greed.

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Just! What IF, y'know! I love the content ppl make of this concept but the more I think the more it hurts and also feels like it could have a hell of an interesting take on Greed's redemption-

Scar doesn't find Nina, only Shou Tucker, so she isn't killed in that moment because she was immediately sent off to be kept as a lab rat. They take Nina from the lab (and whatever consciousness of Alexander that lives on within her), take care of her, not realizing what she is, until her speech improves enough that she can explain (in somewhat vague terms, I imagine her speech might remain limited for neurological reasons)

Dolcetto immediately attaches to her before even knowing, because they're both dog chimera even if he's MORE human, and I think he'd have an agonizing amount of empathy for this obviously child like creature, and upon finding out she literally IS a child??? Oh it's over that's his daughter now

Greed starts out as with all of them, pretends he doesn't *actually* care and is just acquiring a resource, meanwhile he obviously does care for others in some capacity, and the longer Nina is around and the more they figure out about her the more protective and caring he becomes to her specifically. She can't protect herself like the others, after all. That's just logical, isn't it? (Is his way of rationalizing his compassion)

Bido is a real caretaker type when it comes to Nina, I think Bido and Dol would be the two most likely to play with her and teach her things (like more speech, kinda like a cognitive speech therapy), as well as the two most obviously compassionate toward her bc Bido is generally pretty sweet mannered and Dol Understands her better than any of the others in terms of canine instincts, emotions, and the changes that come when one is spliced with a dog.

Martel would seem perhaps a little distant at first, but this is because she's grappling with internal conflict, not because of Nina herself. At first she hesitates bc she wonders if such an innocent thing belongs with their dangerous group, but as time goes on she understands there would be no better place in Amestris for the poor thing, who would no doubt have been subjected to many years of further experimentation. Nowhere else in Amestris (that they know of) can a post-human (homunculus or chimera) be safe and live out a life that isn't in a lab or cage. When she accepts this, she allows herself to get closer and show more care. She was never mean, just afraid to get attached to the kid in case of worst case scenarios arising.

Roa is his not very expressive self, but I think he's a big softie somewhere in there and would be another who goes out of his way to protect her, he's just less social and doesn't interact with her as much as Dol, Bido, and Greed.