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OOC INFO;

NAME: Chelsea.
AGE: 28.
CONTACT: protestations
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A!

IC INFO;

CHARACTER NAME: Roy Mustang.
AGE: 30 or so!
CANON Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood/Manga).
CANON POINT Post-canon, just beginning the Ishval rebuild.
HISTORY: Wiki Link!
PERSONALITY:

( the facade )

On the surface, Roy Mustang presents as an extraordinarily shallow, lazy, bothersome young man who is getting by on life due to someone he knows on the higher ranks and his reputation in the brutal Ishval war. He is frequently seen by fellow soldiers in Central walking with his team and delegating relatively easy tasks to his subordinates. He is never on time with his paperwork, frequently complains about the amount of work he has to do, and doesn't really seem to be bothered with presenting himself as a professional.

However, those who know Roy (and those people are very, very few) know the truth -- that Roy is a calculated genius who is a brilliant chessplayer, moving his way through the ranks of the Amestrian military to make it to the very top, to topple the Fuhrer (the dictator of Amestris), in order to restore Amestris to a democracy, as it was before the coup. Roy surrounds himself with people he trusts and relies heavily on those below him in order to get him to the top -- and, in return for their loyalty, Roy repays them with his devout attention in return. Roy is young, compared to the rest of the ranked officers in Amestris, but is wise beyond his years -- mostly due to his time served in the Ishval Civil War.

Finally, Roy presents as aloof and uncaring, but he demonstrates as someone fiercely devoted to his rag-tag military family. He is willing to perform human transmutation to save the life of his closest friend and ally, Riza Hawkeye. He refuses to leave behind Havoc and accept his resignation, even after he is paralyzed, instead determined to find Havoc a place within his regime. In the beginning of the series, Roy has the opportunity to turn Edward and Alphonse Elric into the Amestrian military for performing the taboo of human transmutation -- but, instead, Roy elects to help the two boys by offering Edward the opportunity to become a State Alchemist, to give them the financial resources to pursue their goals of finding their own bodies again. Roy has an extraordinarily large heart (sometimes, to his detriment), and is determined to ensure that not only he gets to the top, but that his friends and family make it there, with him.

( the soldier )

To those who know of Roy's reputation, he is the State Alchemist responsible for the clean-up of the ethnic genocide in Ishval -- in other words, he was the one who burned the bodies and cleared out the remaining towns and villages in order for the Amestrian army to come through and conquer the region. He is portrayed, in stories, as brutal -- unrepentant of his actions, and indiscriminate of who he killed in order to achieve his end-goal, which was to secure the Ishval region for Amestris.

However, the reality could not be farther from the truth. Roy is portrayed as someone who clearly struggles and regrets what was done in Ishval, aggressively working to prevent another ethnic genocide as a ranked soldier, and working to rebuild what was destroyed in Ishval, some by his own hand. While Roy does not present as "stuck" in depression or anger concerning his own actions, Roy also accepts responsibility. He knows the sins he committed, in Ishval, and he knows that when the time comes, the people may reject his bid for power due to his own war crimes. However, to Roy, the possibility of death by tribunal after the revolution finally happens is irrelevant to the end-goal -- by the end of the war, Roy has decided that no matter what, he was going to seize control of Amestris, and ensure that his country never again participates in anything even remotely similar to Ishval again.

Most of his friends affectionally referred to him as insane. However, they immediately signed onto his vision of the future: democracy for Amestris, as Roy is not only a skilled soldier, but an excellent politician. He is clever, sharp-witted, intelligent, and knows how to get from Point A to Point B with minimal loss. His time in the Amestrian military, however brutal and tragic, has trained Roy into the man that he is now -- ready to fight for what he believes is the future of Amestris, with lessons of what happens when that vision fails.

( the revolutionary )

Roy has a powerful love for his country -- so much so that when Roy is forced to perform human transmutation, at the behest of Father, the price he pays at the Gate are his eyes -- because, to Roy, the inability to see his country flourish and prosper was the most important thing he could pay in exchange for the Truth. This demonstrates his vision (both literal and figurative) for the future -- it's of great importance, to Roy, to make Amestris into something worth fighting for.

Roy's primary motivation and storyline in the series (to bolster a revolution and bring democracy back to Amestris) demonstrates all of his best and worst character traits, in that he is a passionate individual who desperately wants to do good in the world, but often makes decisions contrary to his main goal in order to better the people around him. Roy makes decisions that may hinder his ultimate goal because he insists on bringing the people he loves most with him on his journey. Those decisions typically involve the Elrics, who are Roy's military responsibility (as Roy is Edward's commanding officer), but Roy frequently refrains from telling the teenagers the whole story in some sort of maligned effort to protect them from the truth. Had Roy been more ruthless with the Elrics and with his team, he probably would hve risen through the military at a much faster rate. However, he would rather take the slower path, because it's the right one to walk.

At the end of the series, Roy has not yet met his goal -- but his primary mission, after Father and the Homunculi have been defeated, is to rebuild Ishval -- his military career coming full circle. He is last seen with Riza Hawkeye in Ishval, beginning the reconstruction effort, in order to build a real relationship between Amestris and Ishval -- to take the first steps toward a new Amestris, properly, now that the first leg of the battle is over.

CANON POWERS:

( the flame alchemist )

Roy is a State Alchemist, and even among the military dogs, he is a brilliant one. He possesses a great deal of knowledge across all realms of alchemy, but primarily focuses on his own specialty, which is to completely roast things alive at his want and whim.

His title, The Flame Alchemist, was granted to him by professional douche Fuhrer King Bradley, due to Roy's unique ability to create, control, and manipulate flames. He utilizes his "pyrotex" gloves to create massive bursts of flame and explosion in order to completely roast his enemies alive . . . or to show off, depending on who he is aiming at. The gloves work by creating a spark (usually made by snapping his fingers). Roy then manipulates the oxygen density around the spark, via the transmutation circle on the back of his gloves, in order to create flames. Roy then manipulates the oxygen directly ahead of him, to create a pathway for his attack to follow -- which means he can circumnavigate any allies to hit a foe on the far end of the field. Roy is capable of utilizing both hands, but he tends to create large explosions with his right and more narrow and refined explosions with his left. The reason behind the difference is written off to dexterity.

( the truth )

Roy is also capable of performing alchemy outside of his typical flames, as he has seen the Truth. This involves clapping his hands together and manipulating the world around him in a variety of ways, without the use of a transmutation circle. He has only done this in canon once, instinctively, to protect Riza Hawkeye and Louis Armstrong from an attack -- uncomfortable with the idea that he was forced to perform human transmutation and didn't willingly choose the price he paid. This type of alchemy is able to be used in a wide variety of ways, from creating walls out of stone to manipulating the air around him without the use of a transmutation circle.

OTHER: Nothing of extraordinary value but Roy would absolutely be dead if it weren't for Lt. Riza Hawkeye.

GAME INFO;

CRAU INFO: Roy is being taken from Spellbind! He was not there very long, so his personality is still the same. He maintains his CR memories from that time period. During his time at Spellbind, he took a leadership position, got kicked out of a city for being a fugitive, and hallucinated a bunch. That's about it.
MAGIC ABILITY: Roy is being gifted the power of Hypnotic Persuasion. He can convince people to do things easily, but the ability relies on how calm Roy is. It's a trick of the mind, after all. He can't calm someone down and gain their trust if he's not calm himself.
ANY WEAPONS/MAGICAL ITEMS?: Roy is bringing his alchemy gloves with him, which are useless without his canon powers. He is losing a set of magical gloves from his time in Spellbind, which create and manipulate fire using magic.
ANY PETS?: Roy wasn't allowed to get a pet. :(

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