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Character: Edward Elric
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist
Version: Manga
Canon Point: Around Chapter 94, when Envy is captured by Mustang and crew and Ed helps prevent Mustang from killing the homonculus.
Age: 17 (Though never officially stated in manga, it's my estimation with the timeskips)
Gender: Male
History: http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Elric
Personality: On the surface, Ed is seen as a brash, reckless, headstrong kid with no awareness of the consequences of his actions. He initially believes that alchemy can solve not only all the world's problems, but his own as well. He's stubborn about his skills and will flaunt those skills if it means that others will stroke his ego and give him recognition for his strengths and accomplishments. He seems to take on a perverse pleasure in crashing through people's delusions of salvation, false hope in a merciful God, and is pessimistic and cynical many times when others try to take comfort on existential concepts rather their own skills and abilities to get through difficult times.
For the people who have taken the time to learn about Ed (aka, get under his skin,) they'll find someone who's selfless and thoughtful about others. He easily hides his loyalty and compassion under a gruff exterior and blunt attitude about life and how people should live. For those people who are truly in pain and need help, he'll quickly toss aside his own problems and do whatever he can to help them (but not without a certain amount of complaining in the process.) Ed is fiercely loyal to his brother and his childhood friend, Winry and will not hesitate risking his own safety to protect them. These two are the most important people in his life and he will go to the ends of the earth to protect them.
Throughout his journey his ego and superiority complex about alchemy continues to get knocked down time and again when his powers fail to help the people who are in dire need and oftentimes threatens to make Ed deviate from his path and goals. With each time he's proven wrong about how alchemy is the ultimate savior, he begins to learn that it's not alchemy that can save him, but friendships and relationships he has with people. It's this lesson of the Flow (everything and every one is connected to each other) that helps Ed overcome hardship and turns him into a more humble alchemist with a fierce determination to do what's right. This knowledge helps him when Mustang is overcome with the need to avenge the death of his best friend and wants to torture and kill Envy. Ed knows that if Mustang does this, he'll be no better than the officers above him in terms of showing compassion to those weaker than himself.
One of Ed's greatest flaws is his sensitivity to his height. Early on in the story he's so obsessed about how others view him that even the mention of the word small will throw him into a verbal and physical fit about how the other person is insulting him. In front of small children, he shows more restraint in his temper because he realizes they don't know any better, but it still gets under his skin. He also takes great comfort in outside influences that may be preventing him in getting taller such as too-heavy automail or the fact that his body and soul is linked with his brother's body and must eat and sleep for two. Towards the end of the story that complex seems to have left him-especially when his focus is to help save his country and defeat that monster threatening to consume it. He also does not like the implication that he's no better than anyone else on the earth. Ed prefers to believe that his situation is unique and any hint that his thoughts and goals are no better than what criminals or selfish people desire, he goes into a fit about it, much like the fits he throws when someone mentions that he's short.
Even though he is the youngest state alchemist ever and is an active member of the military, it doesn't erase the fact that Edward is still very innocent in some things. Yes, he has suffered great loss and injury and overcame the odds by being outfitted with automail before he was an adult, but he is of the belief that he doesn't need to take a life in order to accomplish his goals. He remains stubborn and steadfast in this belief even though many military officers around him tell him otherwise, saying that eventually the military will call him to active war and he will have to take a life because that's his purpose in the military. He refuses to use a Philosopher Stone to restore his own and his brother's bodies because he believes that using their souls for energy is wrong. They were lives that shouldn't be destroyed or sacrificed for his mistakes even though they have no bodies to return to if they were ever freed from their alchemic prison. The guardians of Laboratory 5 were souls bound in armor like his brother and Ed refused to kill them. He treated them as people because if he had not, then that would have meat his brother wasn't still alive in some form, either. Even when faced with the mindless army in the bowels of central city, he didn't kill them, only did what he could to immobilize them because they carried the souls of people who were killed.
Edward also has a gaudy taste in fashion and style. Every chance he gets, he will add flames, skulls, horns and tacky embellishments to anything he transmutes. He sees no problem with this and feels as if it's everyone else who has the problem with such things. His sense of style is great and complains when others tell him to change things back to 'normal.' However, when Winry begs to add fancy doo-dads and weapons to his automail, he refuses, stating that such things are unnecessary and too 'flashy.'
Fears: Ed's number one fear is death. Death is permanent and cannot be reversed. He tried to reverse it by bringing his mother back, and in turn nearly killed his brother then. He refuses to believe that death can be a kindness and upon hearing about Nina's death he can't accept that it was a mercy killing since she could not be separated from the chimera that she had been transmuted into.
He also fears that his brother Alphonse hates him and blames him for what happened with the failed transmutation on bringing their mother back. This fear has been so strong that it was a few years before Ed could actually face this fear and confront his brother with it. Naturally, his fears were unfounded but it doesn't completely erradicate the sense of guilt and remorse Ed has in destroying his brother's body and failure to restore it quickly. In turn another fear was that his brother's body couldn't be restored and forced himself to dig up the body that was supposed to be his transmuted mother. He discovered then that the being brought back through the gate was not his mother. It meant that Al still had a chance, and that all the pain they went through after failing that transmutation was in vain.
The third fear Ed has is the fear of being lumped in with every other person who use alchemy for their own gains. He doesn't want to be compared to his father and detests when his accusations of his father being a coward (Hoenheim fleeing from his family) are thrown right back in his face (Ed burned down his home so that he had nothing to go back to as he searches for the solution to getting Al's body back.) Shou Tucker taunting Ed and saying he's no different than Tucker because of the transmutations fly Ed into such a rage that he nearly kills the alchemist in front of his own daughter.
Weaknesses: Ed. Hates. Milk. He refuses to drink it and will fly into fits of rage when it's implied that the reason why he's short is because he doesn't drink milk. He also loses composure when anyone implies he's short. Dogs always manage to flatten him to the ground and it doesn't matter if the dog is 150 pounds or 20 pounds. It always happens. It never fails that Ed is downed by a flying wrench to the head. His automail arm is prone to breakage while his leg is relatively stable.
It seems as if Ed is invincible with his Alchemy, but that isn't the case. He is able to perform a transmutation without a circle as long as he has both his hands to work with. If not, he must draw out a transmutation circle in order to perform alchemy. If he does not have the proper materials to perform a certain transmutation, it will not work. Edward cannot bring back the dead with his alchemy and refuses to use another's life force for transmutations.
If Ed does not have his automail, he will not be able to fight, walk, or do many normal things an able bodied person can do.
If his brother's safety is threatened in any way, shape or form and he's unable to fight his way out of the situation he will sacrifice himself in trade for Al's safety. Even when it's most logical for Al to sacrifice himself, Ed still becomes incensed and flies into a rage. Any person harming children will infuriate Edward and he will attempt to teach them a lesson by pummeling them (namely Show Tucker.) Alphonse had to physically pull him away from Tucker and reminded him that he was going to kill the man if he continued.
The concept of using another's life force or taking of a life disgusts him so much that he nearly gave up looking for a way to restore his brother to his true body.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities: Edward is skilled in martial arts, hunting, and is able to resist animal bites and some blades due to his automail. He's very strong because he must use his automail, but he's not super human strong. Having trained under Izumi Curtis, Edward is both strong and agile. Due to his experience in the military, Ed knows how to fire a weapon, but does not carry one. Edward is considered an alchemic prodigy and intelligence has helped him solve complex puzzles and codes as well as give him an excellent grasp on biology, chemistry and physics.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: Alchemy. Ed can manipulate his surroundings through transmutations. From a very young age he was able to decipher the textbooks about the subject in his father's library and not only comprehend them, but also surpass them by teaching himself alchemy. In rare instances, he has even performed human transmutations with varying degrees of success. His sharp mind and ability to put things together have helped him in using alchemy both as an offensive and defensive tools when needed and currently augment his hand to hand combat skills. Edward is so skilled and knowledgable in alchemy that he's able to determine when things have been manipulated by alchemy-especially 'shoddy' work and escape paths.
Supply List: Most important things to note are his automail arm and leg (cold weather automail,) silver military issue pocket watch, and his red flamel duster. He also has white gloves and wears black clothing.
Game Transfers: N/A
Sample RP post:
Ed had no problems re-certifying his State Alchemist's position. The reports he supplied Mustang were more than sufficient to keep his bank account open and research grants nearly limitless. That wasn't the reason why he was lying awake this night. He could dance circles around these other alchemists with his eyes blindfolded and one hand tied behind his back. No doubt he was the ultimate alchemist and the smirk on his face proved it. What was keeping him up was his re-qualifiers on firearms.
Of all things, he was right handed. But an automail hand didn't bode well for marksman shooting. And he wasn't the kind of person to be packing heat. Sure there was a pistol issued out to the Fullmetal Alchemist, but it was collecting dust in his barracks locker since day one. Someone must have figured out that he wasn't carrying it. Why the hell should he? He could disarm any opponent without the threat of a gun as it was and it was more intimidating that he disarm them with his bare hands anyway. Carrying one around would just be a crutch. It also would implicate that he was a killer-which he was not. He wasn't going to kill anyone. The only reason why he was in this damned military was so he could figure out how to restore his brother's body. After that he was more than ready to quit and retire.
But until then he had to keep up pretenses. He was a soldier, a dog of the military and with that he needed to know how to shoot. A frustrated sigh came from him and he flopped on his side, determined to get some sleep. Ed didn't feel that the crash course Jones gave him would help him much. At least he could take apart and put together a rifle. Alchemy helped a bit with that. Deconstruction and reconstruction was second nature to him.
Ed closed his eyes and willed himself to relax. He'd have to worry about the test in the morning. Doing it now would only stress him out and kill his chances of passing this in one shot. If he fell asleep stressed, it would only bring about those dreams and then he wouldn't get any rest. The last thing he wanted to explore was how he failed his mom and brother and Nina and have those skeletal arms reach for him to choke the breath out of his lungs.
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DW: No active personal journal
Character: Edward Elric
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist
Version: Manga
Canon Point: Around Chapter 94, when Envy is captured by Mustang and crew and Ed helps prevent Mustang from killing the homonculus.
Age: 17 (Though never officially stated in manga, it's my estimation with the timeskips)
Gender: Male
History: http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Elric
Personality: On the surface, Ed is seen as a brash, reckless, headstrong kid with no awareness of the consequences of his actions. He initially believes that alchemy can solve not only all the world's problems, but his own as well. He's stubborn about his skills and will flaunt those skills if it means that others will stroke his ego and give him recognition for his strengths and accomplishments. He seems to take on a perverse pleasure in crashing through people's delusions of salvation, false hope in a merciful God, and is pessimistic and cynical many times when others try to take comfort on existential concepts rather their own skills and abilities to get through difficult times.
For the people who have taken the time to learn about Ed (aka, get under his skin,) they'll find someone who's selfless and thoughtful about others. He easily hides his loyalty and compassion under a gruff exterior and blunt attitude about life and how people should live. For those people who are truly in pain and need help, he'll quickly toss aside his own problems and do whatever he can to help them (but not without a certain amount of complaining in the process.) Ed is fiercely loyal to his brother and his childhood friend, Winry and will not hesitate risking his own safety to protect them. These two are the most important people in his life and he will go to the ends of the earth to protect them.
Throughout his journey his ego and superiority complex about alchemy continues to get knocked down time and again when his powers fail to help the people who are in dire need and oftentimes threatens to make Ed deviate from his path and goals. With each time he's proven wrong about how alchemy is the ultimate savior, he begins to learn that it's not alchemy that can save him, but friendships and relationships he has with people. It's this lesson of the Flow (everything and every one is connected to each other) that helps Ed overcome hardship and turns him into a more humble alchemist with a fierce determination to do what's right. This knowledge helps him when Mustang is overcome with the need to avenge the death of his best friend and wants to torture and kill Envy. Ed knows that if Mustang does this, he'll be no better than the officers above him in terms of showing compassion to those weaker than himself.
One of Ed's greatest flaws is his sensitivity to his height. Early on in the story he's so obsessed about how others view him that even the mention of the word small will throw him into a verbal and physical fit about how the other person is insulting him. In front of small children, he shows more restraint in his temper because he realizes they don't know any better, but it still gets under his skin. He also takes great comfort in outside influences that may be preventing him in getting taller such as too-heavy automail or the fact that his body and soul is linked with his brother's body and must eat and sleep for two. Towards the end of the story that complex seems to have left him-especially when his focus is to help save his country and defeat that monster threatening to consume it. He also does not like the implication that he's no better than anyone else on the earth. Ed prefers to believe that his situation is unique and any hint that his thoughts and goals are no better than what criminals or selfish people desire, he goes into a fit about it, much like the fits he throws when someone mentions that he's short.
Even though he is the youngest state alchemist ever and is an active member of the military, it doesn't erase the fact that Edward is still very innocent in some things. Yes, he has suffered great loss and injury and overcame the odds by being outfitted with automail before he was an adult, but he is of the belief that he doesn't need to take a life in order to accomplish his goals. He remains stubborn and steadfast in this belief even though many military officers around him tell him otherwise, saying that eventually the military will call him to active war and he will have to take a life because that's his purpose in the military. He refuses to use a Philosopher Stone to restore his own and his brother's bodies because he believes that using their souls for energy is wrong. They were lives that shouldn't be destroyed or sacrificed for his mistakes even though they have no bodies to return to if they were ever freed from their alchemic prison. The guardians of Laboratory 5 were souls bound in armor like his brother and Ed refused to kill them. He treated them as people because if he had not, then that would have meat his brother wasn't still alive in some form, either. Even when faced with the mindless army in the bowels of central city, he didn't kill them, only did what he could to immobilize them because they carried the souls of people who were killed.
Edward also has a gaudy taste in fashion and style. Every chance he gets, he will add flames, skulls, horns and tacky embellishments to anything he transmutes. He sees no problem with this and feels as if it's everyone else who has the problem with such things. His sense of style is great and complains when others tell him to change things back to 'normal.' However, when Winry begs to add fancy doo-dads and weapons to his automail, he refuses, stating that such things are unnecessary and too 'flashy.'
Fears: Ed's number one fear is death. Death is permanent and cannot be reversed. He tried to reverse it by bringing his mother back, and in turn nearly killed his brother then. He refuses to believe that death can be a kindness and upon hearing about Nina's death he can't accept that it was a mercy killing since she could not be separated from the chimera that she had been transmuted into.
He also fears that his brother Alphonse hates him and blames him for what happened with the failed transmutation on bringing their mother back. This fear has been so strong that it was a few years before Ed could actually face this fear and confront his brother with it. Naturally, his fears were unfounded but it doesn't completely erradicate the sense of guilt and remorse Ed has in destroying his brother's body and failure to restore it quickly. In turn another fear was that his brother's body couldn't be restored and forced himself to dig up the body that was supposed to be his transmuted mother. He discovered then that the being brought back through the gate was not his mother. It meant that Al still had a chance, and that all the pain they went through after failing that transmutation was in vain.
The third fear Ed has is the fear of being lumped in with every other person who use alchemy for their own gains. He doesn't want to be compared to his father and detests when his accusations of his father being a coward (Hoenheim fleeing from his family) are thrown right back in his face (Ed burned down his home so that he had nothing to go back to as he searches for the solution to getting Al's body back.) Shou Tucker taunting Ed and saying he's no different than Tucker because of the transmutations fly Ed into such a rage that he nearly kills the alchemist in front of his own daughter.
Weaknesses: Ed. Hates. Milk. He refuses to drink it and will fly into fits of rage when it's implied that the reason why he's short is because he doesn't drink milk. He also loses composure when anyone implies he's short. Dogs always manage to flatten him to the ground and it doesn't matter if the dog is 150 pounds or 20 pounds. It always happens. It never fails that Ed is downed by a flying wrench to the head. His automail arm is prone to breakage while his leg is relatively stable.
It seems as if Ed is invincible with his Alchemy, but that isn't the case. He is able to perform a transmutation without a circle as long as he has both his hands to work with. If not, he must draw out a transmutation circle in order to perform alchemy. If he does not have the proper materials to perform a certain transmutation, it will not work. Edward cannot bring back the dead with his alchemy and refuses to use another's life force for transmutations.
If Ed does not have his automail, he will not be able to fight, walk, or do many normal things an able bodied person can do.
If his brother's safety is threatened in any way, shape or form and he's unable to fight his way out of the situation he will sacrifice himself in trade for Al's safety. Even when it's most logical for Al to sacrifice himself, Ed still becomes incensed and flies into a rage. Any person harming children will infuriate Edward and he will attempt to teach them a lesson by pummeling them (namely Show Tucker.) Alphonse had to physically pull him away from Tucker and reminded him that he was going to kill the man if he continued.
The concept of using another's life force or taking of a life disgusts him so much that he nearly gave up looking for a way to restore his brother to his true body.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities: Edward is skilled in martial arts, hunting, and is able to resist animal bites and some blades due to his automail. He's very strong because he must use his automail, but he's not super human strong. Having trained under Izumi Curtis, Edward is both strong and agile. Due to his experience in the military, Ed knows how to fire a weapon, but does not carry one. Edward is considered an alchemic prodigy and intelligence has helped him solve complex puzzles and codes as well as give him an excellent grasp on biology, chemistry and physics.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: Alchemy. Ed can manipulate his surroundings through transmutations. From a very young age he was able to decipher the textbooks about the subject in his father's library and not only comprehend them, but also surpass them by teaching himself alchemy. In rare instances, he has even performed human transmutations with varying degrees of success. His sharp mind and ability to put things together have helped him in using alchemy both as an offensive and defensive tools when needed and currently augment his hand to hand combat skills. Edward is so skilled and knowledgable in alchemy that he's able to determine when things have been manipulated by alchemy-especially 'shoddy' work and escape paths.
Supply List: Most important things to note are his automail arm and leg (cold weather automail,) silver military issue pocket watch, and his red flamel duster. He also has white gloves and wears black clothing.
Game Transfers: N/A
Sample RP post:
Ed had no problems re-certifying his State Alchemist's position. The reports he supplied Mustang were more than sufficient to keep his bank account open and research grants nearly limitless. That wasn't the reason why he was lying awake this night. He could dance circles around these other alchemists with his eyes blindfolded and one hand tied behind his back. No doubt he was the ultimate alchemist and the smirk on his face proved it. What was keeping him up was his re-qualifiers on firearms.
Of all things, he was right handed. But an automail hand didn't bode well for marksman shooting. And he wasn't the kind of person to be packing heat. Sure there was a pistol issued out to the Fullmetal Alchemist, but it was collecting dust in his barracks locker since day one. Someone must have figured out that he wasn't carrying it. Why the hell should he? He could disarm any opponent without the threat of a gun as it was and it was more intimidating that he disarm them with his bare hands anyway. Carrying one around would just be a crutch. It also would implicate that he was a killer-which he was not. He wasn't going to kill anyone. The only reason why he was in this damned military was so he could figure out how to restore his brother's body. After that he was more than ready to quit and retire.
But until then he had to keep up pretenses. He was a soldier, a dog of the military and with that he needed to know how to shoot. A frustrated sigh came from him and he flopped on his side, determined to get some sleep. Ed didn't feel that the crash course Jones gave him would help him much. At least he could take apart and put together a rifle. Alchemy helped a bit with that. Deconstruction and reconstruction was second nature to him.
Ed closed his eyes and willed himself to relax. He'd have to worry about the test in the morning. Doing it now would only stress him out and kill his chances of passing this in one shot. If he fell asleep stressed, it would only bring about those dreams and then he wouldn't get any rest. The last thing he wanted to explore was how he failed his mom and brother and Nina and have those skeletal arms reach for him to choke the breath out of his lungs.
