anemoisity | Application Post

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Players are limited to five characters.

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Point in Canon: When are you taking your character from?
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Playing a villain will not count against your five character limit.

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For more information on villains, see this page.

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Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and playing for some time. Introduction posts of "what is this where am I what is this crazy place" are likely to be shot down if there's nothing else there. Musebox posts will be acceptable, posts at testrun-box are preferred, Dear Mun is not acceptable.

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Name: Missi
Personal LJ:

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Contact Info: AIM - itsmissourah

Character Name: Edward Elric
Character Series: Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) -- FMA wikia, The wiki
Background: FMA wikia, The wiki
Point in Canon: End of chapter 106, when he gets to the surface after his battle with Pride and just before Homunculus blasts everyone

Personality: Ed generally leaves one of two impressions when he meets someone new, that he is a petulant brat in need of some anger management, or that he is a conceited know-it-all who doesn't know his own limits. To some degree, both of these impressions are true, though it is also true that Ed very much improves upon acquaintance.

Because he is a very blunt person, Ed doesn't believe in sugar coating what he says, and in fact almost seems unable to whenever he tries to do so. This can cause him to come off as harsher than he intends, but also reveals his honest nature. Ed doesn't like to manipulate the truth and would rather tell a hard fact than a soft lie. He's seen the way soft lies can hurt people and has found it worse than when a hard truth causes pain.

It should be said that Ed is secretly a big softy, and though he often tries to hide it, it doesn't take much to bring it out of him. He often roots for the underdog and has a very soft spot for children. Should a situation touch close to home, as it did in Youswell, his sympathy (and ire) is all the more strongly raised. Even though the miner has been rude to him, their situation reminded him of his own and he went to some length to right the wrong being done to the town.

That isn't to say he doesn't have a sharp side to him. His temper is rather notorious among those who know him, but it’s important to make the distinction between Ed having a mild tantrum that he'll forget five minutes later (ie. thinking someone has slighted his height, which he’s gotten a lot better about) and Ed actually going into full No Holds Barred Beatdown mode (ie. Tucker and Father). Ed's temper flares quickly and it flares hot, but the only time it lasts more than thirty seconds is when he is well and truly pissed off.

Ed also has a wicked sense of humor and delights in using it against someone who has annoyed him. Again, see Yousewell and the way he tricked Yoki into giving him the deed to the mine. Ed doesn't pull punches and his puckish sense of humor shows in the tactics he uses when he fights. At Briggs, he gave an evil grin before transmuting ammonia gas to overpower the sensitive animal noses of his opponents. And in Central, he played at being the victim before knocking out some guards, again with an evil glint in his eyes. It's not just that he uses his intelligence as he fights, but he enjoys turning tables with ruthless glee.

And Ed if very intelligent. By the age of five, he and his brother had taught themselves the basics of alchemy, a feat that amazed their mother. She correctly observed that her sons' accomplishment would have caused no small insult to some adult alchemists. Throughout the series, Ed displays his intelligence in various ways. Though his clapping alchemy is what caused him to be hailed as a genius, the way in which he uses his alchemy is extremely varied, and points to his vast scientific understanding. The fact that at five years of age Ed and his brother were getting into their father's books points to a deep thirst for knowledge, and thirst that remains with him even as he gets older.

Ed's intelligence isn't just bound to alchemy, though it's often related. His code breaking/making skills are an example of this. All alchemists code their notes. Marcoh codes his as recipes, Mustang codes his with the names of women, and Ed codes his as a travelogue. Despite the fact Al is his brother and knows his mind better than anyone else, even Al can't read Ed's alchemy notes. From this we can deduce that Ed probably did most of the cracking during the ten days it took him and Al to break Marcoh's code.

Due to his rather strong love of science and logic, Ed might seem a cynic to some and a pessimist to others. But it is merely that his mind works in a very rational and logical way, often following his own brand of rationalization. Ed rarely jumps into anything blind, first examining a situation with a keen observing eye. Alchemy requires sharp observation skills, which Ed possesses in spades. In the middle of his State Alchemist test, he spotted Mustang's reaction to his threat on Bradley, despite the fact most of his attention was on the President. Not that this kept Ed from being unable to see Bradley cut his spear to pieces, even though he'd been looking right at him.

Despite willingly becoming a State Alchemist, Ed has a lot of issues with authority. Blindly following orders without question does not sit well with him, but at the same time Ed respects and admires the trust that Mustang's men place in him, a trust that to some extent he shares. Because he's been independent for most of his life, Ed is pretty suspicious of anyone who tries to exert authority over him, which has only gotten worse thanks to finding out just how corrupt the military really was. This is often when Ed is his most petulant, which can also be due to the fact many people in the military did not take him seriously because of his age.

The fact he joined the military at the age of twelve says a lot about Ed's determination though. State Alchemists were considered sell-outs to much of the alchemy community, including his own teacher. But Ed joined anyway, willing to make the necessary sacrifices in order to gain the privileges that came with being a State Alchemist, privileges he hoped would help him restore his and Al's bodies. At one point he even makes the comment that for the sake of survival he would bow down to an enemy (though only for a moment), and he's relatively sincere in the statement. For Ed, his determination to survive can trump his pride.

Despite this, and despite his very rational approach to life, Ed has an extremely strong sense of right and wrong, and he doesn't allow himself to blur the line between the two. When offered a guaranteed chance to get his and Al's bodies back, Ed turned it down, because not only would it mean using the lives of thousands of people who hadn't deserved their fact, but it also meant bloodying his hands with even more lives first. Even though it'd be so much easier to take the easy way out, Ed refuses to compromise his morals and let others pay for his mistakes. So he has a bit of a martyr complex. There are worse ways to live your life.

Sample Entry: [he looks at the camera on his phone and gives a little grin]

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this thing. No more accidental phone calls or shit.

[and then his expression gets a bit serious, and his tone loses the cheerful edge]

Anyway, I was wondering, is there a library here? It's kind of driving me mad, not being able to remember stuff, and I just get the feeling that if I could read something familiar it might jog my memory... I feel like there's something really important I'm forgetting. And I don't mean the whole 'cannot remember my past' bit. I mean, I feel like there's something I'm supposed to be doing, right now. But I dunno what it is...

Now if you'd just fill out the following forms, in triplicate.

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Edward Elric | Fullmetal Alchemist

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