Edward Elric
Edward Elric is a male anime and character who features in Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Biography
Edward Elric (Japanese: エドワード・エルリック Hepburn: Edowādo Erurikku) was a male human born the son of Trisha Elric (トリシャ・エルリック, Torisha Erurikku) and Van Hohenheim of Resembool in the winter of 1899 where he later had a younger brother named Alphonse Elric. During his formative years, his father was noted to had left the family home for unknown reasons leaving Edward with his brother and their mother. The three Elrics lived in peace in the rural village and the boys began displaying a remarkable talent for alchemy at a young age, much to the joyful astonishment of his mother. However, early in the year 1904, Trisha contracted an illness that had been spreading in the area and died, leaving her two sons orphaned. Even while mourning, mired in grief, Edward vowed to his brother that the two of them would find a way to bring their dear mother back to life with the power of alchemy. Edward and Alphonse spent the next few years living on their own in the Elric family home, supported by their close childhood friend Winry Rockbell and her grandmother Pinako, and pursuing the alchemical knowledge necessary for their planned resurrection. Although they had gained a great deal of information and comprehension regarding the extended basics of the craft, before long it became apparent to the young prodigies that there was only so far they could go while being self-taught. In a stroke of good fortune, Resembool was visited by an exceptionally skilled alchemist named Izumi Curtis who, after some persuasion, agreed to take the Elric brothers on as her apprentices provided they pass a preliminary test. She brought the boys to Yock Island near the town of Dublith in the southern region, where she informed them that they were to survive for one full month without alchemy. If, at the end of their ordeal, they could correctly explain the concept 'One is All and All is One', they would begin their training under her wing.
While there, the brothers discovered self-reliance and gained new abilities and insights relevant to living in the world under their own power from having to forage and hunt for food as well as fend off periodic attacks from Mason, an employee at the Curtises’ butcher shop who had disguised himself as a masked wild man at Izumi's behest. Coming to realize that, as a human, he is but a small part of the world and universe as a whole, but that the world and universe cannot exist without a collective of small parts, it is Edward who answered Izumi's riddle properly when she finally returned. For the next five months, the Elric brothers were subjected to Izumi's intensive alchemy and martial arts training, growing significantly in both mind and body and gaining a great deal of alchemical knowledge before returning to Resembool. Though instructed specifically by Izumi to understand that death is an irreversible part of the flow of the world and that acceptance of such is important to the "One is All, All is One" concept, the boys dove headlong into their plan to resurrect their mother upon their homecoming, having advanced their knowledge while abroad and discovered the basics to a forbidden practice called Human Transmutation.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Edward Elric was a short male human who stood 4'11" where he had long golden-blond hair that was usually tied in a braid that hung down to his shoulders. His speciality led to him being known as the Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師 Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, lit. "Alchemist of Steel").
Edward was the son of Trisha Elric (トリシャ・エルリック, Torisha Erurikku) and Van Hohenheim (ヴァン・ホーエンハイム, Van Hōenhaimu). In contrast, he came to loathe his father for abandoning their family especially during the years when his mother was suffering from her illness.
After getting married, he and Winry were both said to have had children together with the couple having a son and daughter.
Powers and abilities
After going through the Gate, his right leg was sacrificed with this being the price for him to see the knowledge behind it where he had knowledge regarding the secrets of alchemy directly implanted into his brain. The process led to him becoming a highly skilled alchemist and meant that he did not have to use a transmutation circle to achieve his feats. Edward simply needed to clap his hand in a gesture in order to conduct alchemy with this being a style similar to his teacher.
The dismemberment caused by his alchemy incident resulted in Edward being outfitted with full steel automail prosthetics custom crafted by Winry and Pinako Rockbell.
Notes
- Edward Elric was created by Hiromu Arakawa where he featured in the setting of Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Appearances
- Fullmetal Alchemist:
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood:
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