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Character Name: Edward Elric
Series: Full Metal Alchemist (animeverse)
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Species: Human
Sexuality: Straight in theory, if not in practice. While Ed has shown a physical awareness of attractive women and has likely crushed at one time or another on Rose or Winry or both, it's unlikely that he has had any sexual experience, and arguably unlikely that he ever will. He would not open himself to that kind of vulnerability, and the only person whom he seems capable of intensely and unreservedly (if platonically) loving is his brother Al.

Appearance: The first thing one tends to notice about Ed is his height. He's at least half a foot shorter than most men of his age and measures shorter than a number of women too, a fact he's very sensitive about. The second thing most people notice is his automail, and that's only because he keeps it covered most of the time. His entire right arm and most of his left leg (from above the knee) have apparently been amputated and replaced with highly advanced and engineered metal prosthetics, which for the most part give him a full range of motion. As he doesn't like showing them where possible--especially in this world, where automail apparently doesn't exist--Ed wears long, Victorian-style clothes: wool trousers, a starched white dress shirt, arm bands (for holding up the sleeves, as his clothes get too quickly worn to be tailored), a waistcoat (vest), and a tailcoat when the weather calls for it. He also wears heavy boots and white gloves wherever he can. His face is slightly round and handsome, his eyes large and golden, and often appearing tired. He has blonde hair that he wears tied in a long ponytail at the back of his head, leaving a good few strands free to frame his face.

Personality: To those who don't know him, Edward can seem cocky, brash, rude, and reckless--and he is all those things to an extent, though significantly less so than he was when he was younger. The hardships and suffering he has endured, not to mention losing everyone he loves in one fell swoop when he was pulled to another world, have left him a somewhat broken young man, though still perfectly functional. He hides his fears and vulnerabilities, presenting a collected and mostly confident face to strangers even when he has no idea what he's doing. He's very intelligent with a strong will and determination, and strives for knowledge in everything he does--he's used to being regarded as a genius but is not so much a genius as a quick and hard-working learner. He has no tolerance for laziness and stupidity, nor for prejudices, nor for people who try to take advantage of others, nor for good intentions that lead to stupid, destructive actions. He despises hypocrites and those who use their talents only for their own gain, though Ed himself could be said to do so most of the time. He will, however, leap at any time to defend someone who is apparently incapable of defending him or herself, and speak up for or stand beside anyone who is the target of hatred, prejudice, or violence, even if it means facing down the beliefs of an entire society. Ed has a very strong sense of justice and is uncompromising in his beliefs about what is right and wrong.

He had a great many flaws of his own, however--arrogance and recklessness being the two greatest. Ed once believed entirely in everything he did and was always certain that his own position was in the right. Now after having seen some horrifying consequences in the past few years of many of his actions--some of them from years and years ago--as well as simply growing up, he is far more aware of his capability for making grave errors and less certain of his actions in any given situation. However, he still tends instinctively toward thinking he's right, especially when he chooses to take a side in a conflict, and his goal of returning home to his brother, or at least reaching Al in some way, is one that he will never flinch away from, and he doesn't care at all what the cost to him personally might be. He does, however, at least pause to consider the consequences of his actions, and to ensure that no one else could be hurt, before going forward.

Ed has a temper that can be encountered primarily by making reference to his short stature, though stupidity and prejudice are things also likely to rouse his ire. He can be somewhat sardonic in day to day conversation, and once infuriated does not censor insults or snark. And although he seems content enough day by day, and experiences small moments of happiness now and then, Edward is, simply put, miserable--he doesn't show it, he won't moan about it, but he is not happy and likely never will be until reunited with his brother. He's missing half of his soul.

Abilities: Ed is a powerful alchemist with much less regard for the laws of alchemy than most people, due to having seen the "Gate" several times, the threshold from which alchemy energy comes that exists inside all people. From his encounters with the Gate he learned several secrets of alchemy, the greatest of which is the ability to perform transmutations without drawing a transmutation circle--he needs simply to clap his hands to produce the alchemic reaction.

In our world, however, which is a parallel universe of Ed's world, alchemy doesn't exist, and so he can't perform it at all. This will apply in Daisychain. His other abilities--being a quick study, being very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and knowing how to operate a firearm--are not superhuman and will not be limited. He is also fluent in English (not his native language) and can speak German passably.

Weaknesses: Ed's greatest weakness is his brother Al--the person he loves more than anyone or anything in the world, the person he would sacrifice arms, legs or heart for, the person he'd die for. He'd do almost anything to see him again as well, without caring at all about what the cost to him personally might be. Without his brother he's broken and miserable. While he goes on for the most part in spite of it, and tries to keep up his determination and will to succeed in his efforts to get back to his own world, there are moments when despair and hopelessness overwhelm him. At these times Edward lashes out in rage and grief, often violently, destroying work and personal property and essentially throwing a tantrum--these moments are rare, however, and usual conducted in private.

Though Ed has matured a lot in the past two or three years, moments of his old brattiness flash out. He also is extremely sensitive to remarks about his height and overreacts to perceived insults, often throwing a small fit on the poor hapless individual who commented on his shortness.

Although for the most part his automail is fully functional, he took some damage to his right hand that has affected its motor functions, and must use his left hand almost exclusively. Ed avoids disconnecting and reconnecting his automail wherever possible; the moment at which the nerves are connected or severed is excruciatingly painful.

Finally, Ed cannot tolerate the sight of carnage and destroyed bodies--they terrify him to the point of sickness and paralysis, because they remind him of the creature that was supposed to be his mother he saw on the night he and Alphonse tried to revive her.

Manhattanite or outsider? Outsider

History: Edward and his brother Alphonse, the children of Trisha Elric and Hohenheim of Light, grew up in the small town of Risembool alongside their neighbor and best friend, Winry Rockbell. Ed's father left home very early in his memory to pursue his alchemic studies, and for a while Ed wanted nothing more than to emulate Hohenheim and follow in his footsteps, though his admiration for his father began to fade when he saw that Trisha was lonely without him. He still studied alchemy with his brother, however, displaying a unquenchable thirst for knowledge at a young age. Ed loved his mother very much and could not imagine life without her; unfortunately, a sudden sickness took her away from the two children, leaving them alone with no idea where their father was. The last vestiges of Edward's respect for Hohenheim were erased completely by his abandonment of Trisha in her death.

He could not bear the loss of his mother, and decided to try to revive her using alchemy. The orphaned boys went to Izumi, a famous and fierce alchemist, for teaching. She did her best to beat the idea of using alchemy for personal gain out of the boys, but Ed returned home at the age of 11, no less determined to attempt the forbidden alchemy: creating a human life. One stormy evening Edward and Alphonse performed the alchemy--and realized their terrible error, as the attempt to revive their mother cost Edward his leg and Alphonse his entire body. Left alone in the basement with the remains of their mother, Edward confronted a horror unlike anything he'd ever seen--the living creature that was supposed to be their mother, but instead was something twisted, inhuman, but very much alive. In spite of his terror and agony, Edward was able to remember seeing the Gate at the moment of transmutation and the secrets he had learned there, all in a split second. He used his own blood to create a seal that would bind his brother's soul to a suit of armor, and returned to the Gate to bring Al's soul back, sacrificing his arm in the process. Memory after that is a blur--he fainted due to blood loss, and Al brought him to the Rockbell's, who swiftly performed surgery to save his life.

Ed was later fitted for automail at the Rockbell's, and Winry became his personal automail mechanic. The next five years would see Edward and Alphonse--a soul bound to a hollow suit of armor--wandering the country of Amestris, chasing rumors of the legendary Philosopher's Stone, an alchemic relic that could have the power to return them both to their original forms. Ed was determined to do everything possible to undo his mistake and make Al, at least, whole again. He joined the military under the jurisdiction of Colonel Roy Mustang for access to their library, and encountered creatures called homunculi--creatures that appeared and acted human, but were soulless and had powers beyond any ordinary human. The first life he deliberately ended was that of a homunculus called Greed, which shook him deeply but did not turn him away from his goal. He fought several others, particularly Lust, Wrath, and the psychopathic Envy, and later learned, to his horror, that homunculi were created from the failed attempt of alchemists to create or revive human lives, and that the creature he and his brother had left to die in the basement was now a homunculus called Sloth, who wore his mother's face.

A man known only as Scar, who was determined to destroy all State Alchemists in Amestris--often an enemy of the brothers, sometimes an ally--sacrificed his life, and that of untold numbers of soldiers, to create the Philosopher's Stone in Alphonse. Al was kidnapped by the homunculi and their leader Dante, who wanted to use the stone to revive her youth and prolong her own life. In the end Edward confronted Dante and the remaining homunculi, and learned that she and his father Hohenheim had once been lovers, and that Envy was the product of a child they had tried to revive--Ed's half-brother.

During the battle against Dante, Edward was forced through the Gate and found himself in a parallel world, that of England in the midst of World War I. He was thrown into the body of his parallel double, an English boy with whom his own father, Hohenheim, was living after being forced through the Gate by Dante as well. From him he learned that deaths in the parallel world fuel alchemical transmutations in his world. He returned to his own world when his double in England was killed, and was shortly thereafter killed himself by Envy.

His brother Al, however, used the power of the Philosopher's Stone to bring him back to life, disappearing along with Envy in the process. Ed woke up with his body whole again, but without his brother. Unable to bear life without Al, Ed was prepared to sacrifice anything, including his own life, to bring him back.

After the transmutation, Ed found himself on the other side of the Gate again, alive but with automail again, a world apart from his brother. He was certain, however, that Al had finally been successfully returned to life, in his own body, in Amestris, and vowed to find a way to return home to him. He stayed for about a year in England, learning all he could about the world he was trapped in, and later moved onto Munich with his father to study rocketry, as the possibilities of space travel--outer world travel, perhaps--intrigued him. It was from there, in the middle of his studies one day, that he abruptly blacked out and woke in Manhattan.

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