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handsforhealing) wrote2012-12-02 10:23 pm
handsforhealing) wrote2012-12-02 10:23 pm
application → HOLLY HEIGHTS
OOC INFORMATION
Player: Berri
Age: 22
Personal Journal:frogberri
Contact Info: AIM & Plurk @ TaiyakinoNaku
Other Characters: n/a
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Winry Rockbell
Age: 16
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist
Canon Point: Safely back in Resembool after her Adventure Times
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual--- she canonly ends up marrying Ed and they have two kids. Ew gross, Ed cooties.
History:
Appearance:
Personality: Winry was is the childhood friend of the heroes, Edward and Alphonse, and a lot of her personality traits stem from having to put up with them. Both before and after the failed human transmutation.
Even when they were kids, going to school together and eating dinner at each other's houses, Winry had to put up with how her best friends weren't always honest with her. It takes a conversation with Hughes for her to come to terms with the fact that they won't always come to her for advice or help, and to accept that all she can do is wait for them to need her and be ready to support them.
Supporting is something Winry does well. Whether she is offering emotional support or maintaining automail, Winry is almost always looking to help those she cares about. She claims to cry for the brothers, since neither of them will cry themselves, and then pulls herself together to clean Al's armor or service stupid Ed's automail. Even outside of the brothers, Winry is helping her grandmother run the family Automail business and she takes special care with helping her customers in Rush Valley.
If there is a problem then Winry will want to fix it, even if she is scared or unsure of herself. Also in Rush Valley, Winry delivered a baby because she couldn't just let the mother and child's lives hang in jeopardy while they waited for a doctor. When she was being held hostage it was Winry who proposed the dangerous plan that freed the Elric's hands, not any of the boys. If it can help people then Winry can be very gutsy and brave, taking risks where no one else seems to be brave enough to take them.
Helping and healing are also strong points to her character, especially in a horror setting. It is a canon fact that Winry cannot seem to take lives. She can point a gun, rest her finger on the trigger, have a million good reasons to pull, and want to pull the trigger, but she can't. Especially not now, after hearing Edward tell her she has "hands for saving lives." Winry is seen to apply this to her life after Edward voices the thought, returning to her job with a new respect for what she does and then later healing the very man she had so badly wanted to kill.
Kindness is one of Winry's strengths. For all of the crap she's gone through, she remains a very bright and cheerful person. Sure, she beats the crap of Ed and even Al on occasion, but she doesn't show that violence to anyone else. Winry bonds with the Hughes family so fast that she is practically part of the family, and she becomes good friends with Paninya and all of her Rush Valley customers. She even starts with a good impression of Kimblee, because Winry isn't the type to jump start to negative conclusions (also, Kimblee is a good actor).
So it is somewhat ironic that Edward is the one to tell Winry her hands are for healing, because he is the only character that she habitually beats up. For all of her nice traits, Winry is still short tempered. In serious matters, like with Scar, Winry can put on a strong face and bear the burden of unhappiness and hatred rather than seeking revenge, but heaven forbid you should break her automail. She mauls Ed with a wrench so many times that it has become her trademark. Even as a kid, Winry would take matters into her own hands and even the score if she felt she needed to. The novels mention an incident where Edward threw a bucket of bugs at the girls in his class. Winry then picked up every last bug, put them back in the bucket, and dumped it on his head. She may be above revenge when it is serious, but she is not above it in regards to petty things like bugs and automail.
Winry is also shown to be very materialistic. She does not maintenance Ed's automail for free and actually pesters her childhood friend about owing her extra fees for traveling service trips. When Ed asks why Winry can't go to Rush Valley on her own, Winry bluntly mentions that she wants Ed to pay for her ticket. Money is a concern for Winry and she does seem to enjoy making it, and then making Ed spend his money. And when Ed is buying, Winry is shameless. If it was anyone else then she would show modesty.
Winry is also an abnormal shopper. While other girls squeal over diamonds, Winry squeals over automail. She is also shown to put a lot of value in material things. In the first Anime, Winry gets emotional when she buys Ed some oil for his automail because it's a physical gesture of kindness. In a manga short, Ed and Al buy Winry a new pair of earrings to make up for troubling her. Rather than switch out the earrings, Winry gets enough piercings that she can wear every pair they buy her at once. She even went as far as piercing her own ears the very day she got a new pair.
For all of her spending and using the Elrics as her personal bank account, Winry is a hardworker. Kimblee comments like a creep that it's an attractive quality. Winry works hard on her automail in particular because she knows it helps people, specifically Ed and Al. She begs Dominic for an apprenticeship because she wants to make Ed more effective automail and she works "like a busybee" at her job. Customers go as far as saying they prefer not only Winry's kindness and cute girl aspect, but how her end product turns out compared to other mechanics. She uses her trips to Briggs not as a holiday but as a chance to study Northern automail, and there's the simple fact that she is a 15 (now 16) year old girl working away from home at a professional automail shop doing hands-on work that people pay big money for. She isn't just a hardworker. She's talented.
Finally, Winry's current canon point has her growing up. She used to settle for waiting on the sidelines, but Winry has now taken her first steps into adventure mode. She says herself that she can't and won't just keep waiting anymore, but that she wants to be actively involved in helping her best friends. This inspired her to put herself in a dangerous situation to give them more freedom, orchestrate her own kidnapping, and now begin traveling through snowy hell. Granted, Winry has not done this kind of adventure-y action hero nonsense before. She's new at it. But she is adapting very well, which should help her to not immediately crack under the pressure of a horror setting.
Abilites: Absolutely no super powers. However, Winry is a skilled automail mechanic, though it should be noted that she cannot perform the required surgery on her own and therefore cannot give anyone automail on the fly. She can, however, upgrade and repair existing automail and similar technology. Winry also has basic medical knowledge (such as delivering babies and general first aid) and enough medical expertise that she can at least assist in surgeries (read: hand tools, manage bleeding, and not pass out).
The manga and anime adaptions also suggest that Winry is able to tinker with a repair other mechanical objects. She claims to have improved an oven in the first Anime and makes one from scratch in the manga 4komas, so can probably learn to repair and work with some existing devices. However, Winry has no knowledge of digital technology and will be useless on that front.
Other:
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Third Person:
OTHER
Housing Request?:
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yes-!
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: Sure?
Player: Berri
Age: 22
Personal Journal:
frogberriContact Info: AIM & Plurk @ TaiyakinoNaku
Other Characters: n/a
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Winry Rockbell
Age: 16
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist
Canon Point: Safely back in Resembool after her Adventure Times
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual--- she canonly ends up marrying Ed and they have two kids. Ew gross, Ed cooties.
History:
Appearance:
Personality: Winry was is the childhood friend of the heroes, Edward and Alphonse, and a lot of her personality traits stem from having to put up with them. Both before and after the failed human transmutation.
Even when they were kids, going to school together and eating dinner at each other's houses, Winry had to put up with how her best friends weren't always honest with her. It takes a conversation with Hughes for her to come to terms with the fact that they won't always come to her for advice or help, and to accept that all she can do is wait for them to need her and be ready to support them.
Supporting is something Winry does well. Whether she is offering emotional support or maintaining automail, Winry is almost always looking to help those she cares about. She claims to cry for the brothers, since neither of them will cry themselves, and then pulls herself together to clean Al's armor or service stupid Ed's automail. Even outside of the brothers, Winry is helping her grandmother run the family Automail business and she takes special care with helping her customers in Rush Valley.
If there is a problem then Winry will want to fix it, even if she is scared or unsure of herself. Also in Rush Valley, Winry delivered a baby because she couldn't just let the mother and child's lives hang in jeopardy while they waited for a doctor. When she was being held hostage it was Winry who proposed the dangerous plan that freed the Elric's hands, not any of the boys. If it can help people then Winry can be very gutsy and brave, taking risks where no one else seems to be brave enough to take them.
Helping and healing are also strong points to her character, especially in a horror setting. It is a canon fact that Winry cannot seem to take lives. She can point a gun, rest her finger on the trigger, have a million good reasons to pull, and want to pull the trigger, but she can't. Especially not now, after hearing Edward tell her she has "hands for saving lives." Winry is seen to apply this to her life after Edward voices the thought, returning to her job with a new respect for what she does and then later healing the very man she had so badly wanted to kill.
Kindness is one of Winry's strengths. For all of the crap she's gone through, she remains a very bright and cheerful person. Sure, she beats the crap of Ed and even Al on occasion, but she doesn't show that violence to anyone else. Winry bonds with the Hughes family so fast that she is practically part of the family, and she becomes good friends with Paninya and all of her Rush Valley customers. She even starts with a good impression of Kimblee, because Winry isn't the type to jump start to negative conclusions (also, Kimblee is a good actor).
So it is somewhat ironic that Edward is the one to tell Winry her hands are for healing, because he is the only character that she habitually beats up. For all of her nice traits, Winry is still short tempered. In serious matters, like with Scar, Winry can put on a strong face and bear the burden of unhappiness and hatred rather than seeking revenge, but heaven forbid you should break her automail. She mauls Ed with a wrench so many times that it has become her trademark. Even as a kid, Winry would take matters into her own hands and even the score if she felt she needed to. The novels mention an incident where Edward threw a bucket of bugs at the girls in his class. Winry then picked up every last bug, put them back in the bucket, and dumped it on his head. She may be above revenge when it is serious, but she is not above it in regards to petty things like bugs and automail.
Winry is also shown to be very materialistic. She does not maintenance Ed's automail for free and actually pesters her childhood friend about owing her extra fees for traveling service trips. When Ed asks why Winry can't go to Rush Valley on her own, Winry bluntly mentions that she wants Ed to pay for her ticket. Money is a concern for Winry and she does seem to enjoy making it, and then making Ed spend his money. And when Ed is buying, Winry is shameless. If it was anyone else then she would show modesty.
Winry is also an abnormal shopper. While other girls squeal over diamonds, Winry squeals over automail. She is also shown to put a lot of value in material things. In the first Anime, Winry gets emotional when she buys Ed some oil for his automail because it's a physical gesture of kindness. In a manga short, Ed and Al buy Winry a new pair of earrings to make up for troubling her. Rather than switch out the earrings, Winry gets enough piercings that she can wear every pair they buy her at once. She even went as far as piercing her own ears the very day she got a new pair.
For all of her spending and using the Elrics as her personal bank account, Winry is a hardworker. Kimblee comments like a creep that it's an attractive quality. Winry works hard on her automail in particular because she knows it helps people, specifically Ed and Al. She begs Dominic for an apprenticeship because she wants to make Ed more effective automail and she works "like a busybee" at her job. Customers go as far as saying they prefer not only Winry's kindness and cute girl aspect, but how her end product turns out compared to other mechanics. She uses her trips to Briggs not as a holiday but as a chance to study Northern automail, and there's the simple fact that she is a 15 (now 16) year old girl working away from home at a professional automail shop doing hands-on work that people pay big money for. She isn't just a hardworker. She's talented.
Finally, Winry's current canon point has her growing up. She used to settle for waiting on the sidelines, but Winry has now taken her first steps into adventure mode. She says herself that she can't and won't just keep waiting anymore, but that she wants to be actively involved in helping her best friends. This inspired her to put herself in a dangerous situation to give them more freedom, orchestrate her own kidnapping, and now begin traveling through snowy hell. Granted, Winry has not done this kind of adventure-y action hero nonsense before. She's new at it. But she is adapting very well, which should help her to not immediately crack under the pressure of a horror setting.
Abilites: Absolutely no super powers. However, Winry is a skilled automail mechanic, though it should be noted that she cannot perform the required surgery on her own and therefore cannot give anyone automail on the fly. She can, however, upgrade and repair existing automail and similar technology. Winry also has basic medical knowledge (such as delivering babies and general first aid) and enough medical expertise that she can at least assist in surgeries (read: hand tools, manage bleeding, and not pass out).
The manga and anime adaptions also suggest that Winry is able to tinker with a repair other mechanical objects. She claims to have improved an oven in the first Anime and makes one from scratch in the manga 4komas, so can probably learn to repair and work with some existing devices. However, Winry has no knowledge of digital technology and will be useless on that front.
Other:
SAMPLES
First Person:
Third Person:
OTHER
Housing Request?:
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yes-!
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: Sure?