Wrath (2003 anime) Quotes

Wrath has just killed Lust when he asks what humanity offers beyond the ability to die. His violence has supplied an example of mortality without explaining the longing he shares with her. The question leaves a gap between identifying a condition of human life and understanding why someone wants that life. He cannot close it merely by demonstrating power over another being. He turns to Tucker because Tucker is human, demanding an answer on the strength of that membership. Tucker runs away. The scene gives Wrath neither a satisfying definition nor a patient respondent, but it also prevents his confusion from erasing what he has done. He can be vulnerable to a question about his own existence while remaining responsible for the death that precedes it. That combination makes the moment harder than a discovery that humanity means weakness: the desired identity continues to matter to him even after his own argument seems to empty it of value.

Sloth tells Wrath to wait outside. He refuses and fuses with her, making separation seem impossible. The action carries an unwanted consequence: he has taken her human remains into his body, so joining her brings the source of her weakness with him. Ed identifies that mistake and uses her resulting immobility to begin transmuting her body. Wrath's promise to stay cannot be assessed only through the devotion it expresses. Sloth asked him to leave, and his refusal substitutes his fear of losing her for her judgment about what she needs. The protection he imagines and the effect he produces move in opposite directions. This does not make Ed's attack Wrath's intention, or make Wrath the only person acting in the scene. It does make his method consequential. Keeping someone physically close is not inherently a way of keeping that person safe, particularly when closeness is imposed against an explicit request.