Winry Rockbell

**Winry Rockbell** (ウィンリィ・ロックベル, *Uinrī Rokkuberu*) is a training surgeon and mechanical repair specialist/enthusiast as she is the daughter of Yuriy Rockbell and Sarah Rockbell, two surgeons that worked on the Ishval Civil War and is the grand-daughter of Pinako Rockbell, a well known mechanic and surgeon in her youth. She is a girl from Resembool and the close childhood friend of Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric. Winry also supports Edward as his personal automail engineer and mechanic, making sure his prosthetic right arm and left leg are always in good working order.

## Description

### Appearance

Winry is an attractive young woman with straight waist-length blonde hair that she usually wears in a long ponytail tied high in back while leaving a long lock of hair on either side of her face and her bangs falling casually from right to left across her forehead, blue eyes, a slender and girlish figure, she is slightly taller than Edward Elric for most of the story and her ears pierced in an avant-garde style with two identical pairs of hoop earrings on each earlobe and an additional two cuff studs worn vertically on her right ear, above the others.

Although multiple characters have commented on her ladylike beauty in public, Winry is an unabashed tomboy and spends much of her time dressed in her mechanic's garb, donning a beige worker's jumpsuit with the top half open and tied around her waist to reveal a black tube top and her bare midriff. After her move to Rush Valley, Winry swaps out her tube top for a black and white crop top with a large zipper down the front, but the remainder of her work outfit remains the same. Additionally, she ties her hair back with a characteristic bandanna, wears house slippers and protects her hands with light brown suede craftsman's gloves while working. When going out for a jaunt, however, Winry is quite partial to light-colored tank tops and short skirts and occasionally wears her hair down. Though Edward spends much of their early life taunting her for having "no sex appeal", Winry's figure becomes progressively more shapely over the course of the story.

### Personality

Winry is cheerful, strong-willed, bubbly, hot-headed and empathetic. She loves everything about automails and mechanic, and always puts all her heart and effort into her work. She also loves her patients and is always ready to help them. Due to her love and full knowledge about automails, Edward often calls her a "engineering otaku" or a "crazy gearhead", while she always calls him "an otaku alchemist" in response. Usually she always hates when Ed brokes her automail and often uses her wrench as a weapon which always makes Ed and Al fear for her rage. Dedicated to her work and her friends, Winry works with almost excessive devotion on the various automail whose maintenance she undertakes for the sake of the people who depend on her, going so far as to take multiple consecutive overnight workshop sessions and travel long distances without hesitation in order to ensure their prompt and proper completion. While she has good intentions, Winry can be stubborn and straightforward, often calling others out for their weaknesses and delusions, but she also offers emotional support to her friends when they need it.

She has a strong sense of morality and long respect for her parents, who unfairly died in the war doing the right thing. While at first she tried to kill Scar after discovering that he is the killer of her parents, later she decided not to kill him since her parents saved him once, even tought she is clear that she will never forgive him. After losing her parents on her childhood, Winry developed a strong attachment to her relatives and also got abandonment issues, always hating being left alone by the Elrics and fearing that she could lose them. She also hated to see her two best friends taking the burden of their mistakes on their own. When Ling Yao suggests that Alphonse does not need his human body since he is inmortal now, Winry gets mad at his words, to the point of leaving the room, since she knew how Alphonse suffered emotionally for losing his body. She is very compassive, empathetic and sensitive, and often is seeing crying or getting openly emotional towards others, something that she does not have a problem with expressing it, even though Edward calls her a "crybaby" jokingly. Winry also hates putting her friends in danger or awkward situations because of her, getting mad or dissapointed at herself.

Due to her cheerful and bubbly attitude, Winry is admired by other people, seeing her as a charming and sweet person, to the point that they seem to get in love with her for a little moment. Winry is also admired by her patients and they prefer when she is the one to attends them instead of Garfield. In many occasions she is seen to be indifferent about the theme of love, being open with her reason to reject Alphonse in her childhood, and also, she is clear an relaxed with the fact that she has romantic feelings for Edward, and is seen teasing him when he akwardly realizes that he loves her too. Even though, she is seen getting flustered when Edwards confesses to her at the end of the series.

## Etymology

* The name **Winry** means "Reconciled, blessed" in Welsh, which shows to be a girl who is strong willed individuals who stand up and fight for what she believes in.
* Winry's surname **Rockbell** is a play on the Rockwell scale that is used to measure the hardness of different metals.

## Trivia

* The reason Winry pierced her ears is because she saw that Riza Hawkeye had earrings when the two first met. In the same way, Riza admits that she got her hair long since she saw Winry having long hair too, when she had it short by the moment.