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OOC INFO;

NAME: Daisy
AGE: Old :( Like legit old. Super old. I remember dial-up. (18+)
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CHARACTERS IN GAME: None!

IC INFO;

CHARACTER NAME: Edward Elric
CANON & HISTORY: Fullmetal Alchemist Character Wiki Page
AGE: 15
CANON POINT: Manga chapter 70, with Winry and Al, starting out to hunt for Scar, after their encounter with Kimblee

PERSONALITY:
Edward Elric is a prodigy, and he damn well knows it. Ever since he was a child, he's been a quick study at many things, but alchemy in particular. He and his brother, Alphonse, taught themselves alchemy straight out of their father's textbooks, and managed to become quite good at it. He later becomes a state alchemist at only twelve years old, by far the youngest to ever pass the exam and be licensed by the state. There's no denying that he's a bright kid, but unfortunately Edward is well aware of this fact too. It sometimes leads to a bit of arrogance, and a tendency to occasionally overestimate his abilities.

The biggest display of this is when, after their mother's death, he and Alphonse seek out a teacher to expand their alchemy skills and knowledge, until they felt they had learned enough in order to attempt human transmutation -- something forbidden in alchemy, for many excellent reasons. Edward rejects all the warnings and signs that they shouldn't do this, confident that he and his brother know enough to succeed when history was full of nothing but failures and interdicts. This overestimation of their abilities, of the rules not applying to them, backfires spectacularly and leaves Edward without a right arm and left leg, and his little brother with no body at all, with Ed only able to salvage Alphonse's soul and bind it to a suit of armor.

Though Edward does learn some caution from this, his estimation of his own abilities remains high. He believes (partially because he has to believe, in order to go on, to not be crushed by guilt and despair) that he'll be able to put things right and recover the bodies they lost in their unsuccessful human transmutation attempt.

And in this pursuit, Edward is determined. This stubborn determination is another defining feature of Edward's character. Once he sets his mind on something, he pursues it single-mindedly and allows nothing to get in his way. Despite the fact that becoming a state alchemist may one day make him beholden to the military and put in the position of having to use his abilities to do things he might not want to be a part of. Those concerns are acknowledged, but they don't get in his way. As far as Ed is concerned, becoming a state alchemist is the best way to have access to the research and resources that he'll need in order to get Alphonse's body back to normal. His determination in this began when he demanded Winry and her grandmother provide him with automail so that he could undertake the journey, despite the severe pain of the process, pushes himself to complete his rehabilitation faster than he was told it could be done. It's not a good idea to tell Edward he can't do something. He tends to react like a kid who's got something to prove.

Edward is short-tempered and easily put on the defensive. He's not the easiest person to get to know, and takes offense at things that are likely not intended to be offensive (part of this in his sensitivity about his height, though this gets slightly better as he gets older. Slightly.) His tolerance for what he considers bullshit is extremely low, and he isn't always careful about people's feelings. There's not a delicate bone in his body; he's often aggressively blunt when he thinks people are making mistakes or doing something that is wrong -- his complicated relationship with Mustang and his questioning of the older alchemist's motivations at times. However, Ed does eventually manage a trust and loyalty to Mustang, even if the Flame Alchemist has a great talent for pushing his buttons in the worst possible way.

All this makes Edward sound like an ill-tempered monstes, but there's a great deal more to him than that. For all his (many) flaws, Edward Elric wants to do what is right, and Edward cares more about things and people than he lets on. Those he considers family are people that he will do anything for, that he is loyal to for life. Though "considers family" is important, because the boy can also hold grudges, and his father may be his father, but Edward has no use for the man after he perceives that Hohenheim abandoned Edward, Alphonse, and their mother. But Edward's protectiveness and affection for his brother, for Winry and her Grandmother, for Izumi and her husband, for the Hughes family, anyone who he happens to grow close to, is impressive. He doesn't want to hurt those he cares for, those who have been kind and cared for him, and that is often a conflict that plagues him.

Edward carries a lot of guilt -- about what the road he led himself and his brother down did to Alphonse, stripping away his body and leaving him as an empty suit of armor animated by Al's soul among other things. He keeps moving forward, but this guilt drives him. When he learns that Maes Hughes was killed while helping them follow a lead, he wonders if he can justify the quest to undo his mistake. Edward isn't the type to forget the people he cared for that he has lost, especially when he feels in some way responsible, or else felt powerless to help them.

Ed does have a soft side, one he tends to show most around his brother and Winry, but also around people who have shown him kindness. He wants to help people and believes that alchemy should be used to that end, should be used to make lives better, not worst. When people abuse alchemy for their own ends, making other people suffer in the process, it infuriates him. Edward can't stand by and let something where innocent people get hurt without trying to jam himself straight into the middle of it. He has a selfless streak in him -- when the gate took Alphonse, Edward sacrificed his arm in order to retrieve Al's soul from the gate and bind it to the armor.

Despite the fact that he and his brother are on a mission to regain their bodies, Edward and Alphonse have lines that they won't cross. They've been searching for the Philosopher's Stone, but due to what they've learned about the stone -- that it is made from the lives and souls of human beings -- he and Al don't think it would be right to try to use something like that for their own gain. Instead, they've begun trying to search for another way, a different truth. Edward is a principled person who often gets frustrated when others don't share those principles; his position as state alchemist means that he may be used as a weapon -- and though he signed on for it, Edward is not willing to hurt innocent people just because it's an order.

In general, Edward is a young man who is carrying a heavy burden of guilt and desperately seeking some way to put his mistakes right. He can be short-tempered and abrasive, often makes a mess of things that involve emotions, but he usually cares a great deal more than he lets on. He's stubborn and determined, but adaptable enough to look for new routes when his path leads him head first into a wall. He's extremely protective over the people he cares about. He holds grudges and sometimes spites himself because of these feelings. He's still a teenager, and he's simultaneously mature for his age because of what he's been through and absolutely the stupid teen that he actually is. Ed's a work in progress.


POWERS: Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki: Abilities
In low frequency worlds, Edward won't be able to transmute -- but he'll retain his non-alchemic fighting abilities as well as his general knowledge and terrible attitude.

OTHER:
Ed is partially made of metal at the moment. His right arm and left leg are automail. But as that is technology and biology, and not magic, I assume it will work as usual on any world. Until he (inevitably) breaks it.

GAME INFO;

MAGIC ABILITY:
Edward can manipulate energy fields.

Basically he'll be able to summon up mostly invisible barriers that things and people won't be able to pass through -- though any particularly strong energy or physical incursion with enough force behind it will be able to penetrate it. Eventually, once he figures it out, he'll be able to control its size and placement.

Until then, definitely hit or miss. He will walk straight into them bird-into-glass-window style all too often.

PRICE:
His pocket watch, the one that he was given when he became a state alchemist as a symbol of his position. Ed will be intensely offended that it has been taken from him.

ACCLIMATION:
Around a six? Edward is way too used to seeing situations that amount to "well that should be an impossible thing" and barreling straight through it to something even more impossible. He's traveled to the gate and back -- more than once. He's seen alchemical tools made of human lives and souls. His brother is currently a walking suit of armor. Weird and unexpected and strange -- he's learned to adapt. And adapt pretty well.

What will hold him back is his stubbornness and how much he hates feeling like he's being used as a pawn. Also magic is something he'll call out as pure and utter bullshit. Because he's charming like that. But once he's past that knee jerk reaction, he'll mostly just want to figure out how it all works, what its fundamental principles and laws are.

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