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Roy Mustang - Fullmetal Alchemist
Player LJ: [Bad username or site: ”sinnesspiel” @ livejournal.com]
Way to contact you:
Email: Honestly, I never check this, so don’t bother.
AIM: CdnmMastermind (Best method of contact)
Other: LJPM at Material_guy
Are you at least 15?: Enough over it that an age question almost makes me sweat…
Current Characters: Greed, FMA.
Character: Roy Mustang
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist – going with Anime1 this time.
Character Notes:
History: Amestris had been at war somewhere or another ever since Fuhrer Bradley had taken reign. This was strategically dressed up as internal uprisings or external threats. During the war, flame alchemy allowed Roy to rise in fame and rank, though he regretted the orders of killing so many innocents, including the Rockbell doctors who aided wounded on either side of the war. Regret over his actions during the war lead him to study human transmutation and to consider suicide, possibly with the former as a simply elaborate means of the latter, but he confessed was unable to do either in the end. He decided that his life should have a better use and dedicated himself to trying to change the nation from the top down. His aim for the top was ironically boosted by the actions in the war he was seeking to repent for, earning him the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by age 27. His fast rise in the ranks has earned him a few enemies in high places, but he also picked up a few very close allies beneath himself.
Because he was a threat in his fast rising through the ranks, not long after he’d recruited the Fullmetal Alchemist, he was reassigned to oversee the Eastern Headquarters; while his rank was promoted to Colonel, the purpose was to get him out of the spotlight in Central, something so obvious he openly mused to his superior that it was really a demotion. While in East City, he made use of the Fullmetal Alchemist to bolster the reputation of the military and State Alchemists as serving the people, but ultimately couldn’t prevent the start of a civil war in Liore that was plotted by the government itself, unbeknownst to Roy. While Roy conveniently forgot to mention to Ed the developing havoc in his wake, Roy’s friend Hughes conveniently forgot to mention to Roy the developing havoc in Ed’s midst. When Hughes was killed, Roy began a deeper look into the military seeking the reason he was killed, which uncovered a grand conspiracy surrounding the Philosopher’s Stone and the reason the nation had been consistently at war since Fuhrer Bradley’s reign began. For a while he held conflicting goals of rising in power, of stopping the chaotic conspiracy at the top and avenging Hughes’s death, and of protecting those benath him; in the end, he was only able defeat the Fuhrer. He was unable to save the Fuhrer’s son, and lost an eye in the aftermath. He accepted that the world and plans are not perfect, but still held himself responsible for his actions in Ishbal and his inability to do much meaningful in changing the nation’s politics. He claimed to see the people he’d killed with his lost eye. Thus, he stopped using Flame Alchemy and continued to serve Amestris, but only as a Briggs border guard, rank of Corporal, for two years. However, when Ed returned to Amestris, tailgated by a band of magical armored undead shadow Nazis (…Maybe it made sense in the 300 page original script?), Roy readily made use of his talents—both alchemy and military strategy—and seemed to get a sense of what he could do for the nation and those important to him again.
Personality: Roy can come off as somewhat standoffish or aloof, but he has the social graces to be pleasant about it. Properly distant but by no means cold, he can cover his emotions well, though the people close to him can read his patterns and he does have a boiling point. He has strong moral principles and holds himself and others to them fiercely, but he’s also prone to laziness, cynicism, manipulation, egotism, petty irritability and friendly mockery. These less desirable traits are more likely to arise with people he’s close to such as his subordinates, with whom he lets his guard down.
Other: /Additional Links: I got nothin’.
no subject
A desert separates us from the nearest country’s border, making it one of the calmer regions, despite the recent civil war. It’s a safe enough place to send my most dangerous subordinate out and about, at any rate. He’s young, you see. Capable, I’ll give him that, but volatile. If he blows up in a delicate situation, I’ll count it amongst my blessings that things will probably be slow enough at headquarters for me to step out in order to fish him out of whatever tensions he’s stirred into a full blown incident; if this means I must take credit for resolving so many more conflicts, well, that can’t be helped. A commanding officer must look out for those beneath him.
Third Person: (270) Fireplaces used to be pleasant because they were necessary; in an age of modern heating, insulation, and construction, they had largely become decorative. A chimney let in more heat than a fireplace produced, and windows these days were well made enough that the coldest winds licking the glass only served to underscore the tranquility of modern living. Fireplaces were now necessary because they were pleasant.
Roy Mustang’s apartment did not have a fireplace. For one thing, it would be too… predictable. The Flame Alchemist could certainly make a fireplace more pleasant still by the instant lighting mechanism that was a mere poetic snap, but really, wouldn’t that be just too tacky? A date would be unable to help thinking of how many other dates he had performed the exact same parlor trick for, would presume, in this day and age, that such was the only reason the Flame Alchemist had a fireplace. For another thing, he lived in a one room apartment building on the third floor. It just wasn’t practical.
But this? This was neither pleasant nor practical. Make no mistake, a computer was a fantastically practical idea! He waited with baited breath for the day so many droll office functions could be passed along to a machine that would serve as a slave to his whims! But, so long as there were people out there in those other worlds wasting their time on such things as “fireplace.exe”, he could not help but entertain admittedly downright irrational skepticism to the claims on that ridiculous community that in some worlds, computers were making a real difference in people’s lives.
PENDING: second sample