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Origin: Full Metal Alchemist
Gender: Male
Age: 10 at the beginning of the series progressing to 14 years old near the series’ end.
Height: Around 7 feet in his current body
Strengths: Alphonse has a natural gift for understanding alchemy and even at such a young age is he able to perform quite complex transmutations. While extremely talented, his own skills pale against his brother, Ed’s. His soul is housed in an armor body that cannot die of natural causes and does not suffer from normal human weaknesses (hunger, fatigue, age, illness, ect). In essence, he could be considered immortal. His strength is augmented to match his size and composition. Along with his brother, he is also an accomplished martial artist. Ed even admits that Al is better than him. He is compassionate and cannot stand to see anything-especially stray cats-suffer.
Weaknesses: Even with a body that cannot age, there are more than a few drawbacks to Al’s current predicament. His soul is tied to his armor via a blood seal that currently only Edward Elric knows how to operate. If this seal is damaged or washed away then his soul will no longer be attached to the armor and he will die. Naturally because of this weakness and because of the materials his body is made of (heavy metal) he cannot swim. His body doesn’t not have the senses of smell, touch, or taste. His body can be damaged and if limbs or other structure vitals are removed or rendered useless he cannot perform the transmutation to repair the damage himself. Instead he must rely on Ed to transmute him back together. Though the blood seal does tie his soul to his current physical body, the armour being an unnatural housing for a soul could reject him at any time (it could be tomorrow, it could be centuries from now) and with his mind, body, and soul separated, he would die. Alphonse is naïve and extremely trusting and those with malicious intent tend to prey on this fact.
Bio: Alphonse Elric is the younger brother of the Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric by one year. Most people just call him Al.
Growing up in the small country town of Riesembool, Al never really knew his father. He only knew that he left one day and that his mother seemed to miss him and his brother resented the man. It didn’t really matter to the young boy.
Even at an extremely young age the Elric brothers were enormously interested in alchemy and could perform complex transmutations. Their first transmutation was a doll for their friend Winry. Without meaning to they scared the poor girl, who didn’t understand what was happening. Their mother, who was apparently thrilled with their newfound talent, encouraged them endlessly. Try as he might Al never could match Ed’s talent, even then. If he was jealous he didn’t show it.
Unfortunately their life as they knew it would end quite abruptly. Their mother fell ill with a sickness that had apparently been plaguing her for quite some time. The boys desperately tried to contact their missing father to come to their mother in her last hours but to no avail. Trisha died, leaving the boys as orphans in care of the Rockbells. It was then when they considered the ultimate taboo of human transmutation.
Knowing that they couldn’t perform such an act with their skills alone they all but forced themselves into the apprenticeship of a housewife and talented alchemist named Izumi Curtis. The first month of trial testing was brutal, being left on an island to fend for themselves and to find the answer to the riddle “All is one, one is all.” Somehow surviving the boys came to the conclusions that all is the world and they are the one. Izumi accepted them and the real training-and torture-began.
After a year of training they returned home to go against everything they had been taught: to try and resurrect their mother. They gathered all the ingredients that made up one adult human body and each offered a drop of blood for the soul. Nothing could have prepared them for what happened next. The transmutation caused Al’s soul to be ripped from his mortal body, his physical form being taken as a toll. Ed, in a desperate attempt after losing his left leg, gave his right arm for his brother’s soul and affixed to a suit of armor.
It was then that Lieutenant Colonel Roy Mustang happened upon the boys, bearing a letter that was addressed to Von Hohemhein. Apparently, the military was quite interested in the Elric’s missing father also. Learning that the boys had attempted a human transmutation, Mustang’s interest shifted from the father to the sons. If they survived after such a feat then they would be quite valuable to the military, possibly as State Alchemists. Pinako Rockbell proceeded to repel the soldier and he did leave, only after offering his name and rank and telling them to visit Central.
Edward demanded to be fitted with automail limbs despite the painful rehabilitation so that he could become a State Alchemist. Perhaps then they would have access to information that could restore their bodies. Al took this time to become more comfortable (or as comfortable as one could be) in his new body. After Ed recovered, they burned their home and set out for Central where Ed would become the youngest State Alchemist ever: The Fullmetal Alchemist.
In their dealings with others, Al tends to be the voice of mercy to his brother’s demand for justice. He will try to see the good when others can only see the bad and is peaceful compared to his brother’s hot temper. His oddest habit is collecting strays and hiding them in his empty body. Al has never met a stray cat he didn’t like.
Edited by Delphi, 04 August 2007 - 09:38 PM.
