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OOC INFO;

NAME: Akai
AGE: 33
CONTACT: fontech @ plurk
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A

IC INFO;

CHARACTER NAME: Edward Elric
AGE: 16
CANON Fullmetal Alchemist
CANON POINT chapter 98
HISTORY: Wiki Link

PERSONALITY:
Edward Elric is a ridiculous fellow on many, many levels, driven by emotions and a hidden goal he tries to always remain focused on. He's someone who has fallen from grace at a young age and has learned, time and time again, to pick himself back up again. Edward is strong in just about every way that matters.

Being strong comes hand in hand with plenty of faults, though. It doesn't make him particularly generous or polite; on the contrary, he's blunt and abrasive more often than not. It's not that he's looking to be outright cruel, but he doesn't like to mince words, either- and he doesn't pull any punches. If you're being an asshole and making others suffer for it, he will beat you down from your pedestal and rub your face in the dirt until you realize your error. He won't kill people, but he will wound, both physically and mentally, and he will happily humiliate. If someone gets between himself and his goal, and he can trick them into moving aside, he'll be laughing when he's finished, and if that doesn't work, a good punch works just as well. Ed can be egotistical, and while he's not necessarily always malicious about it, he does love a good battle of wits.

Edward has one heck of a temper. He gets particularly twitchy about comments on his height, his reactions just as exaggerated as the insult he perceives. ("You're short." "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TINY GRAIN OF RICE UNDER YOUR FOOT.") This is less of an issue lately, since he's not as short as he used to be, but it's been a sticking point for too long to just forget about it. Height comments aside, he'll also scream and flail over ridiculous or irritating situations, depending on his mood at the time. He can be dismissive or quiet if it's serious business, but if it's more of an inconvenience and something embarrassing, he's much more likely to get huffy about it.

He's also very awkward. Edward has difficulty explaining himself when it comes to his own emotions, even though he could rail off an explanation of human composition with no trouble. Sometimes he tries, but he's more likely to go "ah forget it!" than struggle with it overmuch. If he has something that has to be said, he'll do it, but he'll also take his sweet time getting it out in the open, and it'll probably come out either wrong or on his own terms, which... can be a little backwards or science-y, because that's the best way he relates to things. (eg: his confession to Winry using equivalent exchange.) He gets ridiculously embarrassed and flustered when it comes to getting teased about girls, too. (Or one girl, anyway.) This can range from sullen dismissal, to frantic blushing, to explosive flails. Again, depends on his mood, depends on the situation, depends on how mature he's feeling at the time. As Hawkeye says quite aptly, "he's weak to direct hits."

Edward is very loyal to the people he views as worthy of said loyalty. He knows he's a dog of the military as a State Alchemist, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten the people who have supported him throughout his life. His brother Alphonse, Winry, Granny Pinako, and the allies he found over the course of his journey are all people he would fight to protect even at great risk to his life. The entire purpose of his journey - and the sacrifices he's made since becoming State Alchemist - is to restore Alphonse to his real body since losing it in the attempt to bring back their dead mother, a mistake Edward blames himself for, and he'll do near anything to fix that mistake, but he's careful not to let anyone but him pay the price when he can help it.

That protectiveness comes hand in hand with resolve: he's determined to keep trying and keep searching for a way to fix their bodies no matter what it costs him. He and Al have agreed to do it themselves, rather than involving other people, and that means having the strength to carry one another. It also means he's extremely stubborn. When he decides he's going to do something, he's fully committed to making it a reality. There are things he's given up on due to thinking it through and relying on logic- for example, after their failed human transmutation, Edward shifted his goal from reviving his mother to restoring Al's body, recognizing the revival of the dead as impossible. On the other hand, if he's certain that his goal can be realized, there's no stopping him. Discouragement is merely a temporary setback; it takes a lot to derail Edward from his goal, and if it does happen, hes set back on track within days.

He can be very kind, when he wants to be- and even then, it's in his own way. He encourages people to work towards their goals using their own strength, or as he says to Rose at the start of the series when she felt she'd lost everything, to "get up and take a step. Walk forward. You've got two fine legs on you." Rose admits later in the series to Winry that this is how Edward shows his kindness; even if it sounds harsh and expects too much of someone when they're in pain, it can also drive them to carry on living if they have the strength to do so. It might not be considered encouraging, but it's his own little way of helping people.

Edward has an incredible thirst for learning. He says it himself to Major Miles: he hates being ignorant. When he's after information, he will sit and read for hours, sometimes days on end trying to find and analyze the information. He's devoured entire libraries in his search for the truth behind the Philosopher's Stone, and has broken another alchemist's complicated research code in a matter of days. He doesn't typically go out of his way to find out information on things that don't interest him- he'll ignore Winry's advice about automail maintenance, for example. If it's related to alchemy, or information about the world that he's unaware of, he'll drink it up. Like all alchemists, he also has a code of his own; Alphonse states that Edward writes his research as travel logs, and that even he can't understand what they mean.

Ed doesn't understand how it feels to hate someone enough to kill them. For all his bravado and rage when something happens that goes completely against his ideals, he's committed to his no-kill policy, and even humans who have been turned into what can be considered monsters are still mostly off-limits. Pinako is quoted as saying, "His definition of a human is too wide"- anything that has even a shred of humanity is something he cannot kill. He stands by his morality as much as humanly possible, and if it ever comes into question, he will defend it vehemently. While it may seem that said morals are questionable sometimes, he never loses sight of the fact that life is sacred, and he has no right to take the life of another person or use it for his own personal gain. After learning the truth about the Philosopher's Stone, any time one was offered to him, he denied it (often angrily, particularly when the offer came from people who knew how it was made), even though it would give him back his missing limbs and, more importantly, return Alphonse's body. He would never sacrifice the lives of others for his own benefit. This isn't to say he's self-sacrificial, either; he has a powerful will to live, and even when he's risking his life by getting involved in dangerous battles, he's always focused on how to survive, and how to protect anyone else involved. He has also used the Philosopher's Stone before, in an emergency situation, but it required a lot of justification and thought to decide it was in his best interest to do it. He didn't want to, but in the end it was the only alternative to death at the time.

Edward has a lot of family issues. He has no shortage of resentment for his father, who left their home when he was still young, and because his mother always seemed to be waiting for him, that resentment hasn't faded over time. Edward decided very early that Hohenheim was unreliable, and refuses to seek the man out or ask for help. In their most recent encounter in Kanama, he looked for Hohenheim in order to get answers, rather than to just visit or see how he's doing. Hearing Hohenheim's story has changed very little of Edward's opinion of him, but his resentment is more of a disgruntled lack of affection by now. He's not as forgiving as Alphonse, and he refuses to call Hohenheim his father directly.

Speaking of Alphonse- Edward's little brother is everything to him. He offered up his body as sacrifice in order to transmute Al's soul into a suit of armor, despite the fact that he'd already lost his leg in the failed transmutation. Since that day, they've traveled together almost constantly, and Edward's main concern has always been to find a way to fix Alphonse's body. Al is someone with whom he can share just about anything. Thoughts, confessions, worries, fears- they've shared them all over the course of their lives, and there's no one that Edward trusts more. For a while the exception was the fact that he felt guilt about what had happened to Alphonse, since it was his idea to transmute their mother, and this is something he kept secret from Alphonse for a long time. Edward would also do anything to protect Al, regardless of the price. Due to all of the experiences they've shared, their bond is by far the strongest. When pushed to his limit, he's offered to die for Alphonse, and time or distance has had no effect on that protective nature.

Winry is also a major part of Edward's little makeshift family, and she completes the Resembool trio by keeping Edward motivated and in good working condition. He might tease and mock her whenever the opportunity arises, but Ed is not only protective of her as well, but he has complete faith in her abilities as a mechanic. He relies on her and trusts her completely with his automail, and when he pushes himself in a fight, he doesn't hesitate to defend the power and worth of the limbs she's given him. Winry is one of the few that Edward is able to be honest with, though because of his affections for her, he's rarely able to clearly express himself, either. This often leaves him in the awkward position of wanting to reassure her but unable to find the words to do it.

CANON POWERS: Edward is a professional alchemist, and a powerful one at that. Due to performing human transmutation as a youth, he can use it without drawing out a proper transmutation circle. With a simple clap of his hands, he can reform the ground into a rising fist, or draw a spear out of the wall, or a sword out of a pool of blood. If he knows the ingredients of whatever he's transmuting, there's very little limit to what he can change, provided it follows the rules of equivalent exchange. With his new automail, he can also transmute the carbon composition to give it a surface coat as hard as diamonds, making it an effective shield against strong weapons that would normally break his arm easily. Alchemy is described in detail here, minus all references to the 2003 anime.

OTHER: N/A

GAME INFO;

CRAU INFO: N/A
MAGIC ABILITY: Metal manipulation

Similar to what's detailed on this wiki page, but on a fairly small scale and with some limits:

-size/frequency: can only reshape objects up to a certain size, maybe up to a couple hundred pounds if pushed, or a few objects, per day
-structure: an object must have sufficient percentage of metal to be altered (eg. a metal watch could be changed, but a metal watch body with a majority of wooden cogs would not)
-makeup: he has to determine what an object is made of to change it; sometimes it can be eyeballed but sometimes it has to be confirmed
-kinetic: he can't manipulate an object that's moving to fast for him to touch; eg. he couldn't stop a passing car or catch a bullet

This is mostly to keep him from becoming completely helpless if he doesn't have a mechanic around, or to keep him armed. Feel free to limit this in any way that feels appropriate!

ANY WEAPONS/MAGICAL ITEMS?: N/A
ANY PETS?: N/A

SAMPLE;

LINKED SAMPLE: Test Drive