User blog comment:FairyRaven/Exceeds and Earth Land Counterparts/@comment-5080223-20120821034509

About the counterparts thing, I think we can all assume now any living thing in Earth Land and Edolas have their counterparts and they can be either similar or very different with characteristics from gender (Hughes and Mary Hughes) to race (Nichiya to Ichiya). They just have counterparts, period xD.

About the Exceeds counterparts, they might be introduced in the filler arc like all counterparts were xD. You never know.

About the Exceed thing, maybe some sort of "great power" or something was able to deliver the exceeds to them or something, just thinking of fortune telling or prophecies or something like that xD.