| Super Name: | Edward Elric |
| Real Name: | None |
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The Fullmetal Alchemist Ed Military Dog |
| Publisher: | Viz |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Fullmetal Alchemist #1 |
| Appears in: | 14 issues |
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The youngest state Alchemist. His right arm and left leg are made of Automail. During the course of Fullmetal Alchemist, he and his brother Alphonse Elric search for the legendary Philosopher's Stone. Edit
Welcome to the Comicvine profile dedicated to the main character of Fullmetal Alchemist's manga series, Edward Elric. The following page describes all of the events of the manga in detail, and tells about the character himself. His personality is quite dynamic, and he often finds himself in situations where he needs it, and his quick wittedness always helps him "save the day", or at least, his brothers and his.
The Mistakes
At the age of nine, Edward and his brother Alphonse attempted to bring their deceased mother, Trisha Elric, back to life with a forbidden Alchemy ritual that they found in their father, Hohenheim's, Library.
Trisha was amazed when the boys showed her that they knew how to use alchemy, and told them that they were "Just like their father", who had left them when they were little for reasons unknown.
For years they had been taken care of by their mother and Pinako, their neighbor in the small country of Resembool, far off from the capital. He and Alphonse liked to play with Pinako's granddaughter, Winry Rockbell. Edward was always ready to try new things, even if it happened to be something he was better off not knowing, like Alchemy.
After his mother died, he went into a state of extreme studying of an alchemical ritual to bring people back to life...considered the ultimate sin, and stepping on "God's Domain". Regardless of Alphonse being nervous, he waited for a rainy day to try out what he'd learned.
Al questioned Ed for what he was doing, and asked him if he needed something along the lines of a soul to help out with the transmutation. Ed told him that in essence all a human body was flesh and blood, and proceeded to nit his thumb, letting the blood drip onto his transmutation circle.
Ed and Al, ready to try a human transmutation
Needless to say, the ritual didn't work. But what Ed didn't see at all was that his brother's soul and his left leg would be taken from both of them, and given as "payment" for seeing what the strange being called "the gate".
Transmutation circle for alchemy, found on both Ed and Al's apparel...what is it for?
Ed put markings to signify that he would sacrifice himself to get his brother back from The Gate. The strange being took away Ed's right arm, for the price of allowing Ed to transmute his brother into a suit of armor by tying his soul to it with an alchemical device called a Blood Rune.
Alphonse woke up and didn't know what was going on, only that his brother's blood was everywhere, and he needed some serious help. He did the only thing he knew to do: take him to Granny Pinako and Winry, who were automail specialists (automail is a type of armor that is used to make up for lost limbs i.e. arms and legs).
Pinako didn't even bother to ask the kids what on earth had happened.
The "new" Al
She asked Ed if he was willing to replace his arm and leg with automail. Of course he said he would, fully knowing that he was about to go through more pain than most adults could bear.
He went through a few nights of screaming until he was finally able to get back on his feet (or foot, depending on how you see it). It was then that he realized that he could transmute things without a transmutation circle. Everyone that didn't know was amazed. Ed told Alphonse that he was so sorry, and that he would do anything to get his original body back for him. And so, he decided to search for the legendary Philosopher's Stone, said to be able to do anything, even bring back the dead. But the two boys had little interest in that anymore.
The Search for the Stone
Lior
Years later, Ed and Alphonse have found their way into Lior, a desert city bent on worshipping the Sun God, Leto, lead by a man named Cornello. The two boys stopped for a drink, and went on there way, only to have Alphonse knock over the radio that the crowd was listening to and shatter it into pieces, and the crowd proclaiming that Alphonse was stupid for wearing such a big, unnecessary piece of armor.
"B-But I can fix it!" Alphonse proclaimed, seeing that Ed didn't like the idea of staying here.
Upon fixing the box all of the people ran straight up to Alphonse, proclaiming that he was truly an alchemist, and saying that they'd heard of them. Pridefully, Ed began to say that he was the Fullmetal Alchemist, but as he did they all ran over to Alphonse, thinking it was him because of his armor. They shouted many praises, as Alphonse tried to tell them that he wasn't the Fullmetal Alchemist, his brother Edward was.
Stopping for a bite to eat in Lior
"You mean the little guy?" one of them said, triggering a reaction from Ed. if there was one thing that made him snap, it was being called short. He hated it, and he knew it was because his bones grew at an irregular rate because of his automail limbs.
Alphonse then showed off his prowess with Alchemy by transmuting the radio back to its original form, much to the dismay of the crowd. That's what Alchemy does, though not everyone likes it. As one of the State Alchemists, Ed knew he would live a life as a military dog, and honestly, he never really cared so long as it got him one step closer to what he really wanted: The Philosopher's Stone. He had been searching for it ever since the incident as a kid, and decided he would keep going. He wasn't the slightest bit patriotic for Amestris and never really cared about what would happen to them if they were in a war. Ed knew that he and Alphonse could fend for themselves. Right after this incident, a young girl by the name of Rose ran straight up to the counter of the man, asking for "the usual". She then promptly left after being told what a good girl she was by all the people there. She seemed to be a county favorite. Ed was then told of how she had lost her parents in the war, and her family wanted nothing to do with her. If that wasn't bad enough, her boyfriend had recently been killed in an accident. ed seemed pretty apathetic as the man behind the counter told him this, and continued on his way.
Upon leaving, Ed asked the man at the counter who it was speaking on that old piece of junk everyone was listening to. Awed that Ed didn't know who he was he began to explain who Father Cornello was, a priest, who taught the people of Lior about the Sun God Leto, convincing them that he was an emissary from the lord. This made Ed just turn off, he wasn't very religious at all.
Later Ed and Alphonse would meet Rose in a church while she was laying down flowers at a grave.
Ed proceeded to ask her what she got out of religion, curious to understand what she thought was so great about it. She told him that it was amazing, and that prayer made her happy. That it gave her at least a small amount of hope to begin the day and keep on going. Alphonse stood in the back of the room as Ed proceeded to read out the elements that made up the human body from a small book he pulled out from his jacket.
Upon finishing, Rose's face was in a state of humorous shock that he had just read all of those things. It didn't make much sense to her at the time why he'd done that. He then told her that all of the things that made up the human body could be bought with a child's allowance at a convenience store. See, humans aren't so special when you break them down.
She asked Ed why he would tell her that, and why he didn't believe in god, and he simply answered her by telling her how science can fix anything. It's supposed to solve everything, and that there are certain things that just can't be proved. he then made an analogy comparing scientists to God, something that Rose didn't approve of in the slightest. Alphonse stood in the background, scared of what would happen if she and Ed got into a discussion (argument) about religion and science. Alphonse knew that Ed didn't lose arguments. Rose looked on at him as Ed told the story of Icarus, the boy that made wax wings and got too close to the Sun, God, and then his wings melted. Rose had heard the story many times, but still convinced Ed to listen to her stories about Cornello's "miracles". Ed decided that these miracles sounded a bit too much like Alchemy for him, as did Alphonse, so they decided to see the man's next performance by pretending that they were interested in the religion. And they were, just not in following it.
The next day, Ed and Alphonse went to the place where Father Cornello was performing more "miracles" and they saw that he was pretty good at scamming people. Ed couldn't believe that there were people who fell for a hoax like this so easily and did not even make a slight connection with it being Alchemy. The one thing that did confuse Ed and Alphonse was how this old man seemed to bypass the laws of Alchemy. Rose continued to tell them that it wasn't Alchemy, and then Ed had Alphonse tell her exactly what Alchemy was. he explained the complex laws and how it worked, changing elements into something of the same base atoms, and she didn't get it. Regardless, Ed still told Rose that the "miracles" that Cornello was doing were simply Alchemy, and she didn't believe him.
After a while, Ed and Alphonse decided that if they were to get close to this man, more like fraud, Cornello , and prove that he was just using Alchemy, that they would have to go see him on one of the days of his preaching. After telling Rose that he would love to meet Cornello and here his preachings, and that he was interested in this newfound religion, she decided that she would take them. Actually, she was more than happy to take them, and that Sunday she took them to the chapel so they could learn of the sun god Leto's prophecies.
Cornello
As Ed, Rose , and Alphonse walked in, they were met by a man in black who said that he would lead them to Father Cornello. the man lead them in, and, after Ed had asked him to make the trip quick, he was answered by seeing Alphonse's head being blown off by a handgun the man had pulled from underneath his shirt, telling Ed that he'd like it if it was quick, too. Ed went overboard, losing his cool over Alphonse's "dead" body, and ran towards the helmet that had rolled right off of it, to be answered by more guards, both holding spears that looked like flags out in front of him as a warning sign to what had happened to Alphonse .
Rose stared at Ed as he was held back by the men’s spears, and was horrified. When she asked why the Father would do such a thing, she was answered with the words of a crazed follower:
"His highness' words are those of God. This is god's will.""I guess there are some pretty mean gods out there, then." Alphonse said, in response to this, grabbing the man's handgun and, in the moment of surprise, punched him in the face, knocking him out cold.Ed replied to the other flag men's strange, yet annoying actions by grabbing one from behind him and throwing him over his shoulder, knocking him clean out on the red carpeted floor in front of them, right in the middle of the pews. Rose looked on at the two boys, horrified at what had just taken place, and that the young sounding Alphonse that she had spoken with moments earlier was just a suit of armor, as he was hollow inside. When she asked what was going on, Ed simply replied to her by telling her it was exactly what it looked like, banging Alphonse's metal, hollow torso in front of her with a blank look on his face. They would have stopped to converse, but then Ed and Alphonse knew what was coming next after that poorly planned ambush. Ed asked Rose if she had the courage to face the truth, and she hopped in Alphonse's stomach as they went into the grand hall of a room.After arriving in the room, Ed and Alphonse waited for the old fraud, Cornello. Ed walked into the room, seeing that it was just a blatant dark area that had nothing in it. The room was dimly lit by one lamp in the center of the pedestal that Cornello must have "preached" out of in the mornings. This was where the third rate fraud would reveal his plan, and were he would eventually foolishly fall. Ed and Alphonse had just walked in when the huge doors shut behind them, obviously a way of saying come in, Ed commented. Cornello, as expected, was waiting for them, but even so he was surprisingly amazed that the boys had made it this far into his church, which, the more Ed saw of it, felt that he was in a dungeon instead of a religious area. Cornello bade them come in, though it was pointless in his eyes, they could not leave. the doors had shut right behind them, and they couldn't do anything about it, he thought. Ed questioned Cornello on his doings and continuously stared at his ring, his ultimate goal in this situation. It was this ring that Ed suspected was a Philosopher's Stone. And, even after the man had continuously told he was wrong and that it was just a simple ring, and that he was not using any form of Alchemy to use his miracles. But in the end, ed hit him right on the mark. But, the man was so convinced that his plan would work, spilled the whole thing. About how all of his miracles were Alchemy , of course, and how he was just using these people so that they would one day become his mindless followers, and he could attack Central, and take down all of the State Alchemists, and no one would be able to stop him since he had the ultimate amplifier for Alchemy, and that alone seemed to make people invincible. Ed commented on how that, since he seemed to have told them everything, that he must not have planned on letting them leave Lior alive. Ed was right, and then, with all of his nerve, Cornello said that even if the two boys made it out of the place they were in, the people of Lior would never believe that they were telling the truth about the fraud preacher.
This however, was where Cornello was wrong, as Ed showed him that his young follower, Rose , was in Alphonse's chest cavity, and Cornello was even more shocked. However, he knew that Rose would come back to him anyways, as she still needed him to bring back her dead boyfriend, Kain, who had died with her family weeks before Ed and Alphonse had arrived in Lior , making her very sad for the next few weeks. Beckoning her to come, Cornello used his strategy to match Rose' sympathies. She came to him, even after Ed had told her that if she went, she could never come back to the real side of life. Even so, the poor girl came to him, and was greeted by the old fat fraud kindly. Ed was sick of his charades, and commenced to verbally assault him.
Cornello then told him that he'd had enough fun with them and that he would just let his chimera just kill them now. Cornello expected a huge reaction from ed, but he didn't get anything at all. Ed had faced these many times before. The lion headed reptile walked up to him, circling around him like a beast that had caught its prey. The darkness made the light dim, but Ed just transmuted a spear from the ground, and used it as a weapon. Cornello, surprised, looked on in amazement as the boy did something supposedly impossible effortlessly.
The flawless Transmutation
Ed stood at the animal and waited for it to strike, and when it did, he took his newly transmuted spear and put it in front of his body, blocking it in a barbarian like stance, and, to his disbelief, and his spear was ripped in to shreds near the top of the blade. This was bad.
Chimera's claws are sharp...
Ed stared at his shredded spear head in dismay, and waited for the beasts next attack, as Cornello stared onward, hoping that he would be ripped to pieces by the beasts fangs and claws one by one. Sadly, he wasn't for a while, and combated the tiger with the pole he had left to fight with, proving that he was worthy of being one of the State Alchemists, even at his young age. The beast then struck once more, and the pole at the bottom Ed had been using to defend his shins was ripped to shreds, too, tearing into his pants legs as he stared down in dismay...or what Cornello would have hoped was dismay. Ed looked at the beasts broken claws, amused, as Cornello stared down in awe, still holding back the crying and sickeningly astonished Rose with him on the balcony.Ed stared at the cat for a long while before Cornello told it to bite into him if the claws didn't work. The beast did, and as it leapt up for the kill, Ed willingly lifted up his right arm in defense. Cornello wondered how in the world the boy could withstand such pain, and why Alphonse would stand in the back of the room just staring as his seemingly younger brother fought off a dangerous creature on his own...until seeing why. The cat looked on in dismay as Ed stared it meanly in the eye, asking it if it liked the taste in a sarcastic tone.
The Truth about his body is...
The Automail shattered the cats teeth, and Ed grabbed it by the neck with his left arm, kicking it in the jaw with his left foot, the one that had been cut open, seemingly, just minutes before, and the beast was dead.Ed began tearing off his jacket and part of his pants leg as Rose stared on, in horror and awe. Most people reacted that way when Ed showed them his automail body.
The body of flesh and steel...
"You see this Rose ?!" he asked her, explaining to her that this was what happened when you trespassed on god's domain, the unforgivable sin. Cornello commented on this too, seeing that the two boys must have tried a human transmutation, the greatest sin and crime in Alchemy. Cornello's empty attempts to make Rose hate them didn't work at all, only want to be around them more. This...this was why they called him the Fullmetal Alchemist. Cornello commented on this multiple times, and then made sure that Rose understood what a crime these boys had committed. But Rose didn't care, she just wanted to know what they'd done. She screamed at Alphonse, asking him why he would do such a thing, and what in the world happened. Alphonse told her the sad, sad story of how he and Ed had tried bringing back their mother at the age of nine, and how something had gone terribly wrong and they'd been punished. Ed lost his leg, he lost his whole body. Rose thought that surely since they had had so much sacrifice that "Equivalent Exchange" would have given them back their mother, but Alphonse didn't spare any words, it was the fact that they had messed up and he didn't want Rose in the same predicament as them, as she was set up for it already by now.
He told her that the thing that they brought back to life wasn't even human, and that they had had granny Pinako bury it for them in the back yard. Upon leaving their home country of Resembool, Ed set fire to his house. They would never look back.
After Rose stared on in the distance for the short time she did, she had a nervous breakdown. This didn't bode well with Ed, seeing that Cornello had basically caused all of the trouble she was going through now, and that if he hadn't summoned that chimera he would not have had to let here see that. But, when he thought about it, maybe she did. She wouldn't ever learn of he let her see life as such a peaceful thing that it's not. Cornello stared at Ed and Alphonse , wondering what to do. Ed looked up at the man, and told him to come down, telling him that he was just a cheap third rate fraud, and that he would show him that truly there was no comparison between them. There wasn't, but Cornello decided that he wouldn't listen to Ed's words or Roses tears and fire away at Ed with a gatling gun, transmuted from his staff. Another thing the Philosopher's Stone could do. But that wasn't why Ed wanted the Philosopher's Stone at all, and not many people knew that at the time. Cornello shot at him, screaming at him in a triumphant manner, telling him to go back to god. Ed replied to this by saying that God didn't seem to like him very much, and that he'd probably be chased away if he died now, transmuting a wall of rock up, blocking the bullets, and Alphonse, thinking quickly, grabbed Rose and ran, holding her in front of him while the bullets went into his steel back. Cornello notified multiple guards, and the chase was on. Ed and Al ran through the room, and at the wall, Cornello stated that there was no way out, other than the key that he had on him right now. He started shooting at Ed once more, only to have it blocked, and for Ed to transmute a door right behind his stone slab of a shield.
Ed ran through the door, Al and Rose close behind him. The fat man didn't dare to run after them, he had grunts and guards for that. Easy to waste time in a situation, or maybe not. As to be expected, some of Cornello's guards appeared before the trio, only to be stopped by Ed, going insane on them after saying he was a kid.
Ed goes crazy on the guards
The men passed out on the floor, dropping their weapons on the spot, as they lay sleeping on the floor with their foam filled mouths. Ed and Al, with Rose still, continued to run, until Ed noticed a room down the hall that looked very...interesting.
Ed asked Rose what that room was, and she explained that it was the speaker room, the same one that Father Cornello used to give his sermons every morning, the same room that he must have been talking from when Al had accidentally broken the radio the other day. Ed put his hand to his chin, and his eyes began to gleam. He told Al, who knew that his gleaming eyes was never a good sign at all, to go get the huge bell that they rang on Sunday mornings to signify that the church sermon had begun.
Ed told Al and Rose to go get the bell that they rang, after his eyes began gleaming with pleasure at the thought of his next ingenious plan. He walked into the room with the speakers, and unplugged them, doing something with them, that still remains unclear to the old fraud to this day. Cornello entered the room, panting and sweating like a dog. That was all Ed could see in the disgusting, vile human though, so it was no wonder. Al and Rose snuck the bell out of its position quite easily, and they were able to complete Ed's process and plan flawlessly.
Ed was able to get Cornello to tell him what his plan was, again, because he was so cocky and assured of his "flawless" idea to take over Lior, he told Ed all about it again. He was brutally astonished to see that Ed had actually transmuted the wires of the radio into the huge bell, which had projected the sound of the fraud's plans all across the city they were in. Alphonse and Rose were proud, while Ed was just plain out prideful about it. Cornello flipped off on him, realizing that he had just ruined his plans altogether, and then decided to just kill Ed on the spot. He transmuted his staff into a gun and commenced firing on him again. It sickedned ed as he ran down the hallway that, without the Philosopher's Stone, he could not do anything alchemically that was beyond a mere novice level of an alchemist could do. It made him want to punch the fraud even more than before, but he waited until they got outside.
Speed of the trained
Cornello, of course, in hot blood, chased him down outside of his cathedral and started shooting again. He stopped for a moment to monologue towards ed for being such a fool to allow them in an open space, but when he attempted to reload Ed proved that he was much faster than your average kid, slicing off Cornello's gun end with extraordinary speed.
There really wasn't
The man was utterly amazed, and stood there like an idiot, as Ed turned back around to look at him, telling him that there really was no comparison between the two of them, and, he was right. Ed then commenced to force him to give him the Philosopher's Stone, but then, the man threw him off, and attempted another transmutation, only to have it make a rebound and brutally mess up his arm.
Screaming in pain, Cornello grasped his, strange, deformed arm, part gun and part hand, basically unrecognizable by normal standards except to someone like Ed, a person who had found what happened when you messed up on Alchemy, a painful price that could take your life. He screamed and screamed, and Edward did nothing but look on as he started to cry. The fat, old, grown man crying was too much for Ed, and he jumped down on top of him, ready to beat him into the ground. The man asked for help, and Ed just yelled at him, telling him to calm down and shut up as it was simply a rebound, and to live with it. he grabbed him by the neck and began asking questions, but was shortly interrupted by the Stone shattering in the man's hand. Ed's face looked over, sweat dripping down it, and the old man confused and scared.
Well, that one slipped
Ed then demanded to know what the old man had done to the Stone, and he just nervously responded, telling him that he had gotten the stone from a group of people, but he didn't know who or where they were at the time. Ed commenced to make a big deal out of it, standing in the center of the big arena like place they'd gotten to, and an opera light floated down as he cried over his lost and almost obtained stone.
Ed sat over in the light, crying like a child, when an "ingenius" plan hit Cornello. He would kill Ed if it was the last thing he ever did, and he looked down at his mutilated hand, and noticed a very jagged edge to it. Ed sat over, still being melodramatic, as the old man slowly crawled over to him, and attempted to stab him. Ed stopped, stood up, and behind him the enormous statue of the God Leto began walking. he screamed at Cornello, telling him what he had just forced him to go through, including all the problems with the skirmish, and Rose, and then, to top it all off the followers and the Stone. Ed told him that this had better been a joke, and put his hand up against the huge replica.
The Real Hammer of God
Cornello stared at him, and Ed started to proclaim himself a "Real Messenger of God", and told him to prepare himself for judgement. Cornello looked up as the fist of the huge statue flung down at him with insane speeds. Yeah, another laughing moment that may sound pretty gruesome right here, heheh.
The fist slammed into the ground, apparently squashing Cornello into it with it, only to have missed purposely, slamming the floor and crushing it next to him. That was what he had been really doing it for, he just wanted the old man to be scared. And he was, as a pool of urine could be shown under where he was sitting, eyes white and mouth foaming as he sat there, passed out. Ed left the place with a sad weight pushing down on him, he had yet again failed to save his brother from the terrible situation that he had put him in, ever since that fateful day. It was a wonder that the two of them didn't cringe at the simple site of Alchemy anymore, as it had both caused terrible destruction their, Winry, Pinako's lives. After that day, Ed and Al vowed that they would never return home, and thus, they burned it, as a reminder that after this they could never turn back, a painful, yet true, reminder of how they would live their lives. Upon leaving, he was asked by Rose, with tears in her eyes, what she should, or could, even do, as her life had just been turned upside down in a matter of days. Ed told her that she could only go forward, and telling her that at least she had two strong legs to take her there. The two boys left Lior in haste, ready to head on for their next mission in the military, the town on the eastern border.
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Youswell Coal Mines ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Ed and Al next took a train to the town the way on the Eastern side of Amestris. They had been sent to do a basic overview of the place, somewhat like health inspectors, to make sure that they weren't slacking off on their jobs for anything, as they had been getting extremely low quantities of coal lately. Upon arrival, Ed said that everything there seemed dead, and that they had hit a ghost town. He began walking, and saw a few people, but they all stopped talking when they got near them, and just sat and stared at them. Al was very uncomfortable around these people, but they continued anyways, they needed to get this one more mission on their set quota for the year, and then they could get more serious about finding the stone.
Ed started to talk to someone when he was suddenly hit in the head by a huge pole, being carried by a kid working in the mines. He asked what in the world he was doing and told him to be more careful, when suddenly, the kid went on a flurry of questions, asking him where he'd come from, what his name was, if he needed a place to stay, if he had any money, all in one sentence.Ed told the kid that he had no money, but was quickly asked by the boy's nearby father if he would come and stay anyways. ed went on ahead, as they had nowhere else to go, and were scared to go and see the locals about anything, as they were all very tired and fearsome looking. he went to the place with Al, and hoped to stay for a while, possibly get a bed, and a good meal, as they were both extremely exhausted by the entire incident with Lior. They sat, eating, when they asked how much the cost of the food was. The man replied that it was 200,000 , and Ed flipped off on him. They made a "deal" to make it 100,000, but this was still to much, and the two brothers continued to talk about what they should do about the problem with the Philosopher's Stone, when they were overheard by the miners once again. What they heard, however, was that Ed was a State Alchemist, getting them kicked out immediately.
Kicked out
It would seem that the people of Youswell did not like State Alchemists, and that they, in fact, utterly hated the government as an organization. Al convinced them that he wasn't a State Alchemist and went back in the store, while Ed sat outside, grumbling at how he had been able to get back in the place with no trouble.
Al came back outside shortly afterwards to ed's delight, and gave him some food that he'd snuck out. That was always one good thing about Al's body...but also one thing that Ed resented himself for.Al mentioned possibly becoming a State Alchemist too, so Ed wouldn;t be envious, but he told him that becoming a "Dog of the Military" wasn't worth it. Al commenced to tell him about what he'd learned of Youswell's governing syste