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Character Bios: Lust

A homunculus with the capability to extend her nails at rapid rates of speed.

Seemingly intelligent, she also seems to mastermind many plots throughout the story.
-Kenshin Eternal

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Calm, collected, and sultry, Lust is the first Homunculus formally introduced in the series (although technically not the first witnessed by the Elrics, chronologically). Her main purpose amongst the Homunculi is gathering information and traveling abroad, manipulating alchemists into creating Philosopher's Stones (her work can be seen for what it truly is in her dealings with Cornello, Mugear, Crowley, and others). Gaining true humanity is the focal point of her ambition, arguably much more so than the rest of the Homunculi.

Lust claims to have first observed the Elrics while she was evaluating the potential of the alchemist Majhal to create a Philosopher's Stone. While she was always in the background, using those like Cornello or Mugear, Lust only revealed herself to the Elrics years later during the events of the 5th Laboratory, where she attempted to coerce Ed into creating a true Philosopher's Stone. Lust doesn't introduce herself or Gluttony by name to Edward until they met face to face again in Liore. Even then, she only introduces herself intending to kill Edward immediately after.

She is often directly involved in encouraging humans to seek out the Philosopher's Stone, using their desire for the stone to her advantage. Once baited, the alchemists are molded into following whatever path that best suits Lust and the other Homunculi's designs. She also tends to be more involved with the intrigue side of various conspiracies. Lust was created by Scar's brother when he attempted to use alchemy to bring his lover back from the dead, and it is speculated that during the transmutation he lost part or all of his male reproductive organs as part of the equivalent exchange. After Scar's brother was cast out from the Ishbalans as a heretic, Envy visited the wretched creature and fed it red stones, giving her human shape, and her new name. She was not the first Homunculus to bear the name of Lust, and is the third youngest Homunculus, with only Wrath and Sloth being younger.

While ruthless throughout most of the series, she changes near the end during the Liore incident as she begins to recover some memories of her life as a human, and she softens particularly towards Scar and the Elrics. But her involvement was reckless, and allowing the Elrics' escape - a locket containing strands of hair from the woman she "was" prevented her from action - raised doubts about her loyalty. Lust was taken to Dante, who gave her a chance to redeem herself by helping Wrath take out Edward while Sloth abducted Al. But realizing Dante's true intentions were never to make the Homunculi human, Lust betrays Wrath and forms an alliance with Edward, under the condition that he and Alphonse use the Philosopher's Stone to help achieve her goal of becoming human. In return, she would reveal to the Elrics the identity of her master. Her desire was never fulfilled, however, as she battled Wrath when he arrived to save Sloth from the ambush Edward and Lust set up for her. Using the locket and the transmutation circle that Lust made for Edward to use on Sloth, Wrath first immobilizes, then kills her (making her the second Homunculus to die). Before her death, Lust wonders: where will she go when she dies? Is the true reason she so desired to become human was so she could find out?
-divinedragonking