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□ Name: Winry Rockbell
□ Series: Fullmetal Alchemist (manga or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime). FMA is a psuedo-steam punk work with the time period being the early 1900's (around mid-teens) and
□ Canon point: Chapter 104, “The Center of the World” – i.e., Winry has arrived in Risembool after being in Briggs Mountain and escaping being a hostage there. She has met up with Edward and Team Greedling, and said her farewells to them before they go off to face Father during the Promised Day eclipse. She is brought to Ariel during the time of the activation of the country-wide transmutation circle.
□ Age: Canonically, approximately 15-16.
□ History: here
□ Personality: Short version: Winry Rockbell has been through a lot in her young years. Her parents left home when she was just a little girl, to go to war as surgeons, and never returned. The mother of her best friends died, then, when her friends attempted to bring Auntie Trisha back from the dead, they nearly died, too. And yet, she retains a kind, empathetic, some would call it naïve, personality.
□ Personality: Winry is strong-willed and very intelligent. Those traits are most evident in her ability to create automail at a very young age, beginning with her apprenticeship to her grandmother, Pinako. She appears to be bored in classroom settings, but excels in one-on-one training, and is very interested in acquiring more knowledge about her chosen profession. Learning new things she can use to build automail is a passion of hers, and one of the things she really shows extreme enthusiasm for. For the most part, she doesn’t break out into squeals and bouncing up and down any more, but she’s still going to brighten and sparkle at the prospect of new information. She absorbs knowledge regarding automail like a sponge so she can use that information to help her customers. She also has at the very least a passing interest in medicine, having read her parents’ medical books starting at an early age. That doesn’t mean she won’t branch out, however, as she evidences an interest in baking (or at least, pie-building), and also mentions cooking (spaghetti) at around eleven years. She also is trusted enough by the Elrics to make her own plans regarding her safety and theirs, showing her intelligence in escaping Kimblee in the Briggs Mountains by first forcing her way into tagging along when Kimblee, Miles, and the Elrics are hunting Scar, then by deciding to pretend to be Scar’s hostage, to allow the brothers to pursue their own interests in the Briggs Mountains.
She carries the pain of her parents’ loss deep inside and generally doesn’t let it show. Instead, she presents a happy face to most people, however, she does have bouts of sadness. The tag for Winry is, “She smiles a lot, she cries a lot, she laughs a lot,” and while this is true as she matures – and as the Elrics let her more into their lives – she puts on a braver front and doesn’t resort to tears to release her emotions as much. Winry has a quick temper that flares hot and then cools pretty quickly afterward for the most part. She doesn’t hold grudges (except in regard to Scar). Her temper is mostly reserved for the Elric brothers (particularly Edward) or for when people do something she finds remarkably stupid. She is not afraid of calling people out for that stupidity, either through scolding, yelling, or, in the case of Edward in particular, smacking with an adjustable crescent wrench (though she has mostly grown out of the wrench hitting as she’s matured. Mostly). At this point in her life, she’s learned the use of words to get her point across (even to thick-headed, idiot boys).
Winry tends to look on the good side of most people (hence that naivety). She can put aside her own feelings to work with nearly anyone, though she might do it grudgingly. Genuinely wanting to help is a big part of her life and her dedication to building automail shows that. Seemingly unaware of how cute/attractive she is (Edward might be blamed for that, with the comments he makes about how unsexy and uncute she is to her face), she generally has a neat appearance. Her chosen clothing might seem seductive when she was younger (i.e., when she’s wearing her coveralls, underneath, she’s wearing a tube top – all the better to strip down and get cool when she doesn’t need the protection of the heavy canvas; and her ‘travel’ clothing was most often a tank top, with or without a long-sleeved jacket, and a miniskirt), however, she now wears sundresses which come down to her lower thighs or even past her knees or pullover shirts with Capri-type pants, though she still does wear the coveralls and a bra-style halter top while working.
Family is very important to Winry, not just blood relations, but the family she makes for herself. She has the ability to make friends very easily, not to mention keep them. She’s a good listener, but she won’t pull her punches (figuratively) if she thinks someone is doing something/being dumb. Optimistic rather than pessimistic, she is determined to make a good life for herself and help others along the way. She enjoys being around children and has a good rapport with them. That being said, she’s not a very touchy-feelie person. She might pat someone on the back or shoulder or give a child a hug but she doesn’t really go out of her way to touch people besides her automail customers.
Her closest friends are the Elric brothers. They grew up together in Risembool, and were hellions together. Winry had no issues with getting back at boys if they bullied or teased the other girls (notably, Ed and Pitt, another friend, collected bugs to put down the backs girls’ dresses; Winry found out, took the collection, and put the bugs down Ed’s and Pitt’s shirts, instead [shown in the light novels, rather than the manga/anime]). That being said, her other best friend is the one-time thief, Paninya, whom she met in Rush Valley. Paninya stole Ed’s pocket watch, and Winry helped capture her to get the watch back – well, Winry’s reasoning was less about Ed’s watch and more about finding out who made Paninya’s automail. Winry manages to get Paninya to see that her thievery is not helping her, or proving her worth to the man who made her automail. Winry also makes friends with Ling Yao, a prince from the country Xing, but she doesn’t take him very seriously, and turns him down when he proposes to her (twice!). She also adopts Maes Hughes, his wife, Gracia, and their daughter, Elicia, as a surrogate family (the adoption is mutual; Maes and Elicia, particularly, seem to treat her as kin). She refers to Elicia as her little sister, and says that she sees Elicia as herself at that age. However, Winry also inspires some jealousy in Mei Chang, a princess of Xing (and Ling’s younger half-sister), who considers Winry a rival for Al’s attentions.
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