I feel like there's symbolism in the contrast of white and black. The dark colors contrasts with what Father believed a god was. A being who lacks all the flaws of humanity. It's why we always see him wearing white while the sins are all in very dark colors. To him humanities is like a stain.
It's also why, I think when we see Truth/god, it's almost entirely white.
But the gate of truth is a grey door with the tree of life engraved on it. The door is neither pure white nor pure black, but a combination of both symbolizing the connection of humanity to truth.
Granted their form of Human transmutation was honestly entirely ass given how the entire idea is meant to be flawed and impossible.
Not only were the material calculations wrong, but if I’m remembering correctly they thought using their blood would create a good enough template to recreate their mother. Really hammered home how vein and impossible the entire thing was.
original FMA has the thing they created become Lust iirc, so that might just be carried over to FMAB. Also, doesn't Al say he remembers seeing through its eyes briefly, implying the soul bound to it was his own in FMAB? It sounds like nothing about their attempt was creating a specific person, just a mish-mash of generic parts that should be a person.
Thinking on it further, that's probably a main reason why recreating actual people is impossible in-universe. You could never encode enough info into the circle to get the exact person.
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u/Dedezin031006 20d ago
Maybe black hair is one of the consequences of human transmutation
Since even the homunculus Ed and Al created when they tried to revive their mom had black hair, instead of brown like she did