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emergency, call 9-1-1

she's pissed off at everyone

Created on 2007-10-28 07:03:00 (#14127629), last updated 2007-11-24

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Name:	Winry Rockbell
Birthdate:	04-01

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Winry was born to a wealthy family of doctors, raised on a cow-bison breeding farm on the island Destiny. She spent most of her childhood with her grandmother, as her parents were often away on medical business. She helped out around the house, took care of the family dog and the giraffe-horses used for herding, and was generally a very independent child. She was an average student at one of the nearby schools, but not for lack of trying. Despite her best efforts, it seemed Winry had not inherited her mother's medical genius, perhaps taking more after her father who also worked as a mechanic as a side job. Due to this and the additional influence of her grandmother's way with machinery, Winry grew up with strong mechanical inclinations.

At the age of seven, Winry's parents returned home with somewhat of a surprise -- a friend of theirs from their University years and her two children. Enter Winry's new 'friends', Edward and Alphonse Elric. From the get-go, Winry was not fond of either of the boys, finding their presence irksome and generally intrusive. Edward in particular irritated her, for after a period of time living on her mother and father's funding, he was sent to the same school as she was. Almost instantaneously he had surpassed her academically, without even breaking a sweat or studying for hours before and after school. Still, Winry knew her parents would be disappointed with her should she act on her envy of Edward's marks, so she remained forbearing. Through her forbearance, a friendship eventually grew, and Winry slowly but surely came to be very close to the Elrics.

That is, until Edward gained a scholarship for his good marks to the Faustus Academy of Institutional Learning, a prep school for the most esteemed (and only) University in all of Aegis--the very school her mother and father had graduated from. Distraught over her inability to ever compare to Edward, and Edward's own delight in "deserting" her for a boarding school on Elysium, Winry became very cold and self-deprecating at eleven. She stopped trying in school, nearly flunking out entirely, and ceasing to find joy in simple things she had before.

Barely a month after Edward's departure, Winry's parents were called off for an on-site job as medics during the wars. Constantly busy, her parents found contact with their daughter difficult, and letters were sent few and far between. For the next four months, Winry continued teetering back and forth on the edge of flunking out of school, until the day before her twelfth birthday, when they received a letter in the mail. Winry's parents had been killed on the island Tartarus, where they had been stationed. From there, Winry's life and personality went entirely down the drain. She locked herself in her bedroom and dropped out of school, refusing to leave her room even to attend her parents' funeral. Her grandmother took to leaving meals for her outside her door, returning a few hours later to find them barely picked over. During this time, Winry worked furiously at fixing up an old airbike her grandmother had been letting her tinker with, determined to get it back in running order.

Two weeks after her parents' funeral, on a quiet night long after her grandmother and the other house guests had gone to sleep, Winry stuffed a sack full of a few days' worth of food, taking it and what little money she had and fleeing on her now-operational skimmer. She left nothing more than a note apologizing to her grandmother, telling her not to worry and that she would try to be in touch. And with that Winry fled to the port city of Epidarus, where she and her bike stowed away in the cargo belly of a ship bound for Tartarus. Unfortunately, the food and funds she packed along with her didn't last long, and with the workings of her air bike being all she really knew, Winry took up mechanics to keep herself afloat. Oftentimes she went hungry and slept in alleyways with her bike, but refused to return home.

At eighteen, after six years of lucky chances and trial-and-error mechanics, Winry finally had a reason to get up in the mornings. She had taken to paying for meals and inn fees by fixing appliances and the like for the owners of the places where she ate and slept, as well as periodic side jobs working on people's ships. Having finally found her calling, Winry's personality and general outlook on life had done a full three-sixty since her departure from Destiny. It was also this year of her life that she met a one Captain Reno, a rather dashing pirate and captain of a small ship called the Gelnika. Winry came across Reno by sheer happenstance, the fiery-haired young man intervening when her attempt to ask the wrong group of men for directions turned sour. She offered to buy Reno a drink in thanks, and the two parted ways. They met again a few months later in the same bar, Reno requesting Winry's assistance due to a mechanical issue on his ship. From that point on, Winry tentatively 'resided' on Reno's ship, keeping up with maintenance whenever it was necessary, but still making fairly regular runs to shops when at port. The only time Winry stayed exclusively on the ship was when Reno docked at either Destiny or Elysium, not wanting to risk meeting someone she didn't want to see.

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airships, breaking things, machines, martinis, mechanics, wrenches

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