Alphonse Elric
Alphonse Elric is a male anime and manga character who features in Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Biography
Alphonse Elric (Japanese: アルフォンス・エルリック Hepburn: Arufonsu 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 an older brother named Edward 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 their 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. Alphonse, devastated by the loss of his mother, began to fear that he and his brother would not be able to survive without her, but twisted hope returned to the boy's heart when Edward vowed that the two of them would find a way to bring their dear mother back to life with the power of alchemy.
Alphonse and Edward 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, while 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.
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a result of the alchemy accident, he came to survive by having his soul placed within a large gunmetal-colored steel armor body that stood taller than most humans. Due to his appearance, people often mistook him for being the Fullmetal Alchemist and Al had to correct them that it was actually his brother Edward.
Al was shown to have the opposite disposition to his brother Edward where he was shown to be a calm and passive individual. Al was kindhearted, notably compassionate and patient almost to a fault, acting often out of protective selflessness for his loved ones, new friends and sometimes even toward his enemies. Having had his psychological growth stunted at the age of ten due to loss of his physical body, Alphonse retains a childlike purity in the face of all his encountered horrors; however, despite his age, he has always displayed a significantly higher level of maturity than Edward. Though Al is as passionate as his brother, he has remarked that his anger takes longer to spark and jokes that he is always beaten to the punch by Edward's outbursts.
Powers and abilities
Alphonse Elric was a human who came to learn rudimentary alchemical theory alongside his brother Edward whilst studying their father's notes.
The pair later came to apprentice themselves under the master alchemist Izumi Curtis whose training philosophy stemmed o the belief that, "to train the spirit, first train the body." As a result, Al had trained his body through regular workouts and sparring making him a particularly competent hand-to-hand fighter. This was to the extent that he was able to hold his own against armed opponents and even skilled martial artists.
Similar to his brother, he used alchemy to augment his offensive and defensive capabilities by crafting weapons for melee strikes and altering his surroundings to gain an advantage over his foe.
Notes
- Alphonse Elric was created by Hiromu Arakawa where he featured in the setting of the Fullmetal Alchemist universe.
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Appearances
- Fullmetal Alchemist:
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood:
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