Hey y'all. Updating before bed again, hurray. This one was fun to do, also a bit longer than most of my other ones. I think it's the longest so far, actually. Well, that's what you get when I decide to describe all of the homunculus.
Theme: Family
Characters: Father; the homunculus
Summery: In the end they were solely there to further him in his plan, but they were still his children, and that's what made them so powerful.
Verse: Manga
Word Count: 625
A Father's Love
The ancient and powerful being watched as the first of his children made his way into his lair. This was one of the rare times they were to have an important meeting, and all were to be here. This close to the promised day, he could except no mistakes.
It was no surprise to him that Pride had been the first to arrive. His constant appeal for approval and undying loyalty made him Father's most trusted child. The fact that he knew this only served to increase these attributes, his own pride too large to allow him to do anything but, just as the being had wished him to be, all those years ago.
His next child to enter was Lust, his only 'daughter' in the group. The two barely stole a glance at each other, both as serious about this meeting as Father hoped his children would be. As he looked her over her cold stare reflected the intelligence and subtle blood lust that he knew would be useful in the upcoming days.
Almost immediately after Lust ran in Gluttony, his near mindless eyes looking around the room in an intrigued and curious way, despite the fact that he'd been here countless times before. While he wasn't the sharpest of his children, nor quite what he'd originally hoped to create, he was still useful, and things begin to fall apart if you have too many thinkers working together, and not enough people to follow them.
After Gluttony, his youngest child Wrath waltz into the room, a calm demeanor about him seeming to betray his name as he quickly bowed towards him before taking his place in the line up. Father knew that wasn't the case though. He was an embodiment of his wrath, not fury, and that lasted much longer, and was much more deadly, just like the public ruler of the country in front of him.
It was about five minutes later when Envy came barreling in, a look of exhaustion and fear on his face as he quickly looked around the room, before breaking out in a twisted smile at not being the last to have shown up. Father wasn't about to bother with what had kept one of his more… eccentric children late, instead content in the fact that he'd managed to hopefully get here without causing more harm to their plans than good.
It took another ten minutes for Sloth to show up, to the irritation of several other of his children, he could see it on their faces when the giant being finally lumbered into the room. Like Gluttony, he wasn't here to contribute with his brains, but instead the brute force that allows him to dig a large tunnel almost completely around the circumference of the country.
Looking at six of his seven children, he knew that the last, Greed, was not going to arrive. The only one of his children to even dream about going against him, let alone do it, he'd left years ago and had yet to be caught or cause them any trouble. In an ironic way, it was the betrayal that let him know that his greed was absolute.
Father smiled coldly at the homunculus lined up obediently at his feet. While their only true purpose was to help his further himself in his plan, they were still his 'children' and in a strange way that those lowlife humans would describe it, a 'family'.
"Hello my children, we have much to discuss," Father said, bringing his hands together and looking over each one quickly. Yes, they were a 'family' and it was that fact that would allow him to keep his control over them until their ends, and finally reach his ultimate goal.