Are Homunculus Years Like Dog Years?
For being over 100 years old, you would think the homunculi would be really wise, sage-like and emotionally mature. Collected and calm, like Hoenheim and Father. But for having lived for literally hundreds of years, they still largely act emotional, immature, and somewhat ridiculously.Â
This makes me think that maybe homunculi age and mature differently from humans, given their philosopherâs stones and near-immortality. Perhaps they age on a longer timeline like the Asari from the Mass Effect series, if youâve seen it: for the first few hundred years they are still in their âmaiden phaseâ where they like to party and be wild, etc, only settling down around 500-600 yrs old, and becoming wise matriarchs even later. Or you could think of it like dog years, but longer instead of shorter.Â
And if you think about it, the older homunculi DO seem more mature than the younger ones.
7. Wrath
***Note on Wrath: Because Wrath started out as a human, remembers his upbringing, doesnât regenerate and essentially ages and lives like a normal human, it seems possible that he could be exempt from the pattern. Maybe itâs mostly driven by the pseduo-immortality.
Sloth and lust are rather serious characters; Greed less so, but heâs clearly more emotionally mature than Envy the Jealous, and Sloth and Gluttony are so undeveloped that they seem simpler and more childlike than the others.Â
SO, there seems to be a linear relationship between the ages of the homunculi and their level of psychological maturity.
So letâs look at a possible ratio. The EXACT ratio isnât important, so long as itâs a believable approximation of their maturity in human years. For example, a pretty clean ratio is 10:1, where 10 homunculi years is about the equivalent of 1 human year.Â
To illustrate, letâs take Gluttony. Heâs a little over 100 years old, but letâs call him 100 to make it easy. If 10 homunculus years = 1 human year, that would make Gluttony a little over 10 years old in terms of his psychological maturity in human terms. This actually matches up pretty well with his behavior, which is very innocent, childlike, obedient, and emotional.Â
That would make the othersâŠ
1. Pride (>300) = >30 yrs old
2. Lust (~250) = 25 yrs old
3. Greed (<200) = <20 yrs old
4. Envy (~175) = ~17.5 yrs old
5. Sloth (~150) = ~15 yrs old
6. Gluttony (>100) = >10 yrs old
The exact ratio may not be spot-on, and people would still mature at different rates, but on the whole, it holds up somewhat well. Gluttony is as innocent as they come, Sloth acts hilariously like a lazy teenager who doesnât want to do anything but sleep all day, Envy is immature and self-centered, Greed is full of cockiness and over-confidence/arrogance, Lust, in what little time she gets, seems calmer than her younger siblings, and Pride by far comes off as the most serious and mature.
Riding the theory out, this ratio would give homunculi the psychological maturity of those in middle age around 400-600 years old, and theyâd be âelderlyâ and wiser after that. Of course, this isnât a lifespan per se, because they wonât die from old age, they would theoretically just get increasingly older and wiser!
Anyway, this brings up another question: What are the homunculi like when they are first created? Perhaps they are unintelligent, feral and purely instinctual versions of their sins.Â
Another possible pattern is that the older they are, the more human their appearance. Gluttony and Sloth are both the youngest, and they both have bodies that are obviously inhuman. Maybe they are beastly when first created, and slowly come to look more human with age.Â
TO SUMMARIZE THE HEADCANNONS DISCUSSED:
A. Homunculi mentally age more slowly than humans, so that 10 homunculi years = 1 human year, or something close to that
B. The older homunculi are, the more they come to physically resemble humans
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