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Player LJ: Hagane_no_Kokoro
Way to contact you:
Email: slipperyslanders@yahoo.com
AIM: sillyslanders
Other: My plurk is makewayforroze and everyone is free to contact me here.
Are you at least 15?: Yes
Current Characters: Roze Thomas, Sena Kashiwazaki
Character: Edward Elric
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist, 2003 anime
Character Notes:
History:
When Ed was three years old, his dad, Hohenheim, left their family. From that point on, he and Al were raised solely by their mother. Still, Ed always seemed happy enough in Resembool. He had his family as well as the Rockbells, a very close family whom they often visited.
It was on Winry Rockbell’s birthday that they surprised everyone by their first use of alchemy. Though they had to work together and the transmutation was a simple doll, Ed was only six. Most kids don’t know what a chemical makeup is at six. Or that there is a chemical makeup. Things come from magic!
Winry was horrified but their mom was extremely proud of her two smart boys and begins to encourage them, even giving them access to their dad’s old notes. Though Ed really does love alchemy, he really begins to get into it after seeing how proud his mom is whenever they manage to do something new.
Ed first mentions knowing about human transmutation – a forbidden branch of alchemy – when Winry finds out her parents were killed while treating patients during the war. Apparently someone should have put those books up higher. Pinako smartly informs him to shut up. Not that that stops them later.
Two years later, when he’s 10, they come home to find him mom collapsed. Apparently she had been fighting an illness for a while and was finally succumbing to it. While she laid dying, Ed and Al send out letters to people who had written to Hohenheim, hoping someone could tell them where he was.
Their mom dies without him ever returning.
It’s at her funeral that Ed decides they were going to do it. They’re going to relearn alchemy and bring their mom back. First, they need to find a teacher.
Their chance came when Resembool had a rain heavy enough to nearly flood the river. While Ed and Al try and fail to help, a woman named Izumi shows up and transmutes a wall large enough to keep the water in, without a circle. They’ve found their teacher! They just have to convince her first so they don’t tell her the entire truth behind their reasoning.
In the end, she agreed to train them if they could pass their test and so, Ed and Al begin their month long stay on a deserted island without the use of alchemy. At ten years old, Ed learned the truth about the world (AND THE CIRRRCLE OF LIFE~) . One feeds another, that feeds another, and so on. The boys that couldn’t eat anything but fish and fruits when they arrived were killing and eating rabbits when they left.
With the test passed, their lessons began, as did the reason the boys still fear Izumi to this day.
With their training complete, they return to Resembool and get to work. Without even letting the Rockbells know they’re back, they get their materials ready and begin the transmutation, using their blood as material for her soul.
I don’t think I spoil anything by saying it doesn’t work. Al’s entire body is taken and Ed loses his left leg. Even though he was only eleven, he was able to keep up enough calm to crawl to a piece of armor and use his arm, though he offers everything, to bind Al’s soul inside. The newly returned Al rushes him over to Winry and Pinako.
This is the part where Lieutenant Colonel Roy Mustang finally comes in. One of the letters had finally managed to make its way to him and he had come in hopes of finding Hohenheim. Instead, he finds a suit of armor and a seemingly unconscious boy with only half his limbs. Still, he knows what they tried to do and was impressed that they managed to come out alive and leaves his name, along with an invitation to come to Central and take a State Alchemist exam.
Ed then has a new plan! They’ll become State Alchemist and use their resources to find the Philosopher Stone, a stone which allows alchemists to ignore the main rule. They’d no longer have to give up something of equal value to gain something else. Instead, they would be able to get their own bodies back without additional cost.
All of that’s kind of hard to do while missing half his limbs so he decides to get an automail arm and leg. Even though the operation is painful, he knows it’s nothing compared to what Al must be feeling.
His recovery and adjustment is where I’ll be taking him from.
Personality:
Stubborn, kind, selfish, a hero…Ed is a lot of things and is one of the most diverse personalities that I know of.
The main aspect of his character, and a play on his State Alchemist name, is his stubborn nature. It shows largely in his dedicated to finding the stone but is also present in little moments, such as his continued refusal to drink milk. If Ed doesn’t want to, he really doesn’t want to and will fight until it’s over. Then he’ll complain about it happening.
Being a protagonist, he’s also very outgoing. If he wants something changed, he’ll work on changing it rather than just complaining. Whether it’s by reading until he has the knowledge, trying until he knows why it failed, talking to whomever has the influence to do something, or forcing the change himself, he’s a resourceful boy, smart enough to utilize all of his resources.
And yet he always ends up in trouble. As befitting of a shounen hero, he has a sizeable guilt complex. The downside to being your own boss, whom he really considers himself to be, is that one must also take responsibility for your actions. Over the course of the series, while Ed doesn’t initially kill, there is a lot of blood spilled due to being involved with him. Those lost while he knew them will always stay with him and if there was a lesson to be learned by their death, he’ll remember and apply it.
While most extremely good fighters are strong, few are also shown to be smart. Ed is the best of both worlds. His martial arts are highly effective, his small stature lends itself well to speed, and he’s an alchemist genius. While the clapping is something given to him by the gate, the fact that he was able to do that transmutation so young and the rate at which he learns and adapts is amazing.
One of the conflicts in his personality is his selfishness…and his selflessness. In day to day life, what Ed wants is very important to Ed. Whether it’s stopping at a tourist attraction city before reporting to work as he’s supposed to or simply cheating at a card game he wasn’t really interested in, he’s not always putting others’ feelings first but if your life is in danger, he’ll be the first to jump into the fray. One of the hardest decisions he had to make was rather or not to kill a group of prisoners to save Al’s life. Since life isn’t something an alchemist can give back, Ed couldn’t do it, sentencing himself to the guilt of having been an instrument in his brother’s death and possibly his own.
Another is his maturity and his immaturity. He’ll yell and fight, argue, mope, yell that he hates his brother who is forcing him into getting a shot, and stick out his tongue to tease enemies. He’s still very much a teenager, or child, in these times, displaying his real age. It’s only when it comes to inner strength that his maturity shows through. He kept his calm while bleeding out to save his brother’s soul, he takes responsibility for what he did when he was only ten and works to give Al’s body back. Though it took another lesson, he realizes how many things are beyond even his power but continues to push on anyway.
Opinions are also very important to him. His own, anyway. If he has a thought, he’ll say it, whether or not someone wants to listen. While some may push this aside as being socially ignorant, it’s really that he knows how he should act and doesn’t care. He doesn’t believe in gods so while he doesn’t outright attack those who do, why should he listen and pretend he does?
Other:
While Ed is extremely smart, his language doesn’t always reflect that. He uses slang and sometimes curses and his speech style is over all rough.
Ed is taken completely from the Japanese subs. I’m not sure how familiar the mods are with FMA or if they’re more familiar with the dubs or subs but I just wanted to point out that in the original versions, pretty much every character is more subtle. Not that that makes Ed subtle at all, just MORE subtle.
Besides that, I used the Fullmetal Alchemist Complete Book Story Side for a lot of dates, including the age Ed was when Hohenheim left.
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First Person (entry type):
Fullmetal Alchemist. It fits. I can’t keep wavering, I can’t stop now, not until we’ve regained what we lost…not until Al gets his body back. If that means working for them, I’ll do it so I can keep looking.
…But I won’t become just another dog, I won’t become like the people that covered up Nina’s death. If that bastard thinks that’s why I came back, he’s even dumber than he looks.
Alchemy is the science of Equivalent Exchange. I’ll work for them and I’ll let their resources work for me but they’re not giving me a soul back, I’m not giving them mine.
Third Person:
The ladder was made for books out of his reach but Al was usually present to save him the trouble, so having to drag it to the section he wanted wasn’t something Ed was used to. Or happy about. His grumbles carried from his starting point to finish. This was stupid.
“If they just made the library for normal sized people instead of giants, people could actually use it without having to drag a ladder around.”
The ladder was set in place, the hardest part done. Still, the fact he was going to have to use it to reach what wasn’t even half way made him scowl up at the tomes and his shoulders slump.
A hand on the rung and he was climbing, his legs scurrying quickly upward before anyone saw. All he needed was to have his studies interrupted because somebody found something funny about the situation.
After all, HE WASN’T SHORT!
PENDING: second sample
Second Sample! (This has become our thing, hasn't it ^_^)
It was the bastard's fault for saying something that stupid but HE was the one that got held back. He wasn't even short, the guy was a giant! He could compare with normal sized people but he wasn't going to be insulted just because some over sized idiot thought he wasn't tall enough!
And why was he laughing?! He was the Fullmetal Alchemist, damn it, there wasn't anything funny about this!
"I'LL SHOW YOU CHIBI!"
He didn't struggle in the hold for much longer. After all, if this wasn't working, it made more sense to try something else.
Then the flailing and the shouting stopped and the blond alchemist bent his head. Al probably knew that the sneaky smile and narrowed eyes didn't mean his brother had calmed down. The man calling him short should be afraid, very afraid.
Rejected