Selim Bradley is the son of King Bradley, the Führer of Amestris. he was eventually revealed to be Pride, the first Homunculus that Father created, embodying the cruelest, most prejudicial, yet most basic aspect of evil. He is the pinnacle of the Homunculi's homunculus-centric beliefs and contempt of humans. He is the second-in-command of the Homunculi, and can also possess the greatest overall physical strength among them. Pride is one of the Homunculi who possess physical incarnations of their deeper desires that take shape when their stones are almost completely depleted. When first introduced under the guise of Selim Bradley, Pride acts as if he has the mannerisms of a usual young boy, displaying a proneness to hero worship. He displays great admiration and respect for his "father", King Bradley, at one point writing a glowing report about him for a school project. He also seems fanatically interested in the Elric Brothers, reacting with giddy excitement upon meeting them. Sometimes he reveals part of his true personality, such as when he calls Edward "tiny" even though Pride is actually much shorter than Edward, and when he shows no shame about exclaiming loudly in the royal library. Much of his positive traits vanish when he reverts to his Pride persona, which is similar to Father's. He tries to act superior to humans by pretending they are insects to him, filling himself with false dignity and futile boastfulness. However, whereas Father treats humans with a bored or apathetic attitude (probably because Father is slothful), Pride treats humans like playthings/slaves. True to his namesake, he holds his status as the first of a Homunculus in high regard. Wholeheartedly believing in the superiority of Homunculi over humans, he encourages his siblings to feel contempt towards all non-homunculi and chastises them when he feels that they are taking actions unworthy of their status. He also shows great pride in his involvement in Father's plan to become God, claiming that it's only natural for a son to help his father. Pride is also extremely arrogant in battle, having extreme confidence in his abilities and shows little mercy to his enemies. He quickly resorts to petty taunts and insults against opponents. He is very biased, always coming up with excuses to justify his cruel deeds for the sake of not hearing insults or accusations against him or his image. For example, when Riza Hawkeye figured out that he wasn't human, Pride assumed it was his mother that tipped her off, only to be told that it was the bloodlust she felt coming from him when he was sneaking up on her that actually tipped her off. He once told Van Hohenheim that he was incapable of anger, claiming that he left such emotions in Father, despite being clearly irritated at the time, implying that the was too prideful to admit that he could be irritated. According to Envy, Pride is so selfish and self-absorbed that he tends to show up at the wrong time and isn't there when the other homunculi need him. He cares so little about the others that the deaths of even many of them will have no effect whatsoever on his heart; in fact, he's so heartless that he doesn't even get annoyed about losing such potential "tools" of his. Greed calls Pride a "monster," even for a homunculus such as him. Even Envy, a homunculus filled with huge sadism, dislikes and is angered by Pride's hubris, calling Pride a "bastard". The only homunculus with whom Pride has a tolerable and slightly positive relationship with is Wrath, likely due to their fake father-son relationship. Pride is able to tell when Wrath was not his usual self, and when Wrath was expressing his thoughts on letting the younger generation take over, Pride reminded them of who they were and even chose not to tell Father what Wrath said because he might be inclined to view it as treason, showing that Pride very slightly cared about Wrath's wellbeing. When insulted by another homunculus, Pride disguises his own evil by calling the homunculus ill-mannered and uncivilized, and uses this as an excuse to suggest that Pride deserves to inflict extreme misery and suffering on him ("What a terrible thing to say to your own brother Greed! I might have to kill you.", Pride once said to Greed after Greed insults him), even though Pride himself likes to mock the other homunculi. Although he was the eldest of the homunculi, in many ways he was less mature than his brethren, a trait that Edward noted matched his childish appearance. He was the most loyal of all the Homunculi but that also made him one of the least independent, never questioning his orders or the actions made by Father. In addition, Pride had a profound fear of death, a trait that many of the other Homunculi appeared to lack. As the first of all of Father's homunculi, Pride had a unique form that was unlike any of the other's. Although recognized as Selim Bradley, Pride's black multi-eyed shadow is his actual form, with the childlike body being a simple "container" for him to move around in, similar to Father's flask-contained form. Like all homunculi, Pride possessed the standard immortality and regenerative abilities like all of his brethren.