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Player LJ: Hagane_no_Kokoro
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Email: slipperyslanders@yahoo.com
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Current Characters: Roze Thomas, Sena Kashiwazaki
Character: Edward Elric
Fandom: Full Metal Alchemist, 2003 anime
Character Notes:
History:
When Ed was three years old, his dad left their family, leaving their mom to raise them alone. 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.
Ed was only six when he and Al make Winry a doll for her birthday, their first official use of alchemy. Though it’s a simple transmutation, it’s impressive for someone so young. Most kids don’t know what a chemical makeup is at six, 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, though that doesn’t stop them later.
Two years later, when he’s 10, they come home to find their mom had collapsed. Apparently she had been fighting an illness for a while and was finally succumbing to it. The following days were spent sending letters to everyone who had written their dad a letter, hoping he would be there and come home.
Their mom died 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 but 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, all without a circle. They’ve found their teacher! To convince her, they leave out the real reason they need to learn alchemy.
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 were 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 while bleeding out through his leg, he was able to keep up enough calm to crawl to a piece of armor and use his arm 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 came 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 dedication 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.
So, he’ll end up being both extremely arrogant and guilt ridden at the same time. After Barry almost kills them, he acknowledges that they’re just humans, that they’re not that large in the grand scheme of the world. Years later, he tells Roze that alchemist are the closest things to a god. He knows he’s strong and that he’s smart and that’s what most people see. Those closer to him though, see the self-doubting, pained Ed he can be.
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 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.
First Person (entry type):
Everybody was impressed! I knew it wouldn’t be a problem for me even before I could transmute without an array. When I did it by clapping, they should have just handed me the watch right there and saved me a trip to get it tomorrow.
The worst part of the day was how smug the Lieutenant Colonel looked, the same look he got when I caught the rebels on the train. If he gets that look every time I do something good, it’s gonna piss me off but I’ll put up with him as long as I get the resources they promised.
Third Person:
The echo of his clap resounded through the entire alley, sounding as useless as it felt but it came again and again. When he stopped, it would mean it was over, that she was dead and nothing he could do, nothing done to Tucker would bring her back. What had Nina and Alexander done to deserve any of this, where was the Equivalent Exchange?
Nothing, there was nothing she could have done. So, he’d keep clapping because that law governed the world, especially alchemists, and there had to be some way to make it equal again… to make it right. What the hell good was the watch and the title if he couldn’t even save a little girl from the monster he’d been living with? If he couldn’t even do this for Nina, why did he think he could do anything for Al, what right did he have to think that everything they wanted wasn’t as unlikely as the blood stain taking back its original form?
Second Sample
Rejected