18. Irisviel von Einzbern

Anime: Fate/Zero

I love stories about entities created for nothing more than research and experimentation, only for them to become a little more human with each passing day, learning how emotions can override reason and logic.

Irisviel von Einzbern is a homunculus who happens to be Ilyasviel’s mom and Kiritsugu Emiya’s wife.

Unlike other homunculi, Irisviel was treated as if she were human. This was all for science as well.

But this allowed her to give birth and raise a kid, just like any mother.

Her motherhood, no matter how unnatural or unorthodox, highlighted what people have known since time immemorial — that nothing compares to the joy of seeing and being with your child.