Name: Roy Mustang, Colonel
Age: 30
Height: 5'8"
Weight: SOLID.
Medical Info: Has severe burn scarring on the left side of his lower torso and flip side on his back. Faint scarring on the back of his right hand (array-shaped), fresh scars on the back and front of both his hands (they got stabbed through). Has untreated/undiagnosed PTSD.
Eyes: Very dark, black-looking.
Hair: Black.
Physical traits: Built like a fucking brick house under his clothes. Despite being on the shorter side, he has very confident, authoritative bearing. Obviously military in the way he walks, talks, and stands, but not overly stiff. Dresses on the formal/business side when he's not in uniform.
What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Basically whatever; he's very nearly post-canon.
Abilities
Alchemy (canon): Roy is an alchemist meaning he can transmute matter (or decompose it) as long as he can form an array (using chalk, or tracing it in the dirt, etc) and has adequate knowledge of the chemical composition of what he’s working with. He has to keep to scientific laws, so conservation of mass, can’t change one chemical into another (unless he is combining two), etc. This cashes out into being able to do things like making a wall out of the earth, turning water into ice, heating water, and so on. At the point of canon I am taking him from, Roy can also perform clap alchemy--for transmutations, he can essentially create the array with his own body by pressing his hands together, allowing him to forgo a physical array.

For his own special brand of alchemy, Roy can set people on fire and also do things like evaporate all the water out of a person’s eyeballs from several yards away. This is specifically because while he is called the Flame Alchemist, what he can actually manipulate is the air--hydrogen and oxygen. He makes a spark, and then manipulates the composition of the air in order to direct and feed an explosion. He is not able to perform this brand of alchemy when it is raining or when the wind is too unstable.

Dog of the Military (non-canon):
1. Dog transformation: What it says on the tin! Roy can turn into a dog, a mid-sized black mutt. He can also half-transform, just ears and tail.
2. Dog whistle: Roy can be summoned by one of his subordinates anytime and any where! The only condition is that the person doing the summoning has to be someone Roy has authority over.
3. Leader of the Pack: A stat boost oriented around orders! Any subordinate of Roy’s acting under his (specific) orders will experience a stat boost relevant to that order. Ex: If Roy commands them to attack, they’ll receive an attack stat boost.

Rain (non-canon): Rain. Roy can make it rain, in an area as small as a square foot or as large as a city block
Notes for the Psychics/Magically or Spiritually sensitive: Nothing! Being an alchemist doesn't ping.
Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Do whatever invasive thing you wanna do to Roy; I'm all for it. Just tap me so we can coordinate.
Hugging/kissing/other non-violent physical contact: Go for it, it will probably be funny.
Maim/Murder/Death: I'm here for this. I can do fight threads on the fly but communication is always nice so everyone can get what they want out of a dramatic thread. No murder without planning. Roy will probably not be aiming to kill.


OOC
Player: Lei at praecipitanter
Other Characters: Kazuma Mikura, Yuri Lowell

Contact Methods: Plurk or PM this journal!
Timezone and Scheduling Issues: I'm CST which is meangingless because I am in grad school so life is fucking nuts. My availability is all over the place.
Back Tagging: I live on it.
Thread Jumping: Just tap me and let me know.
Comfort Levels: I'm basically comfortable with anything; sex drugs rock n roll violence bring it.

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Lei
AGE: 26
JOURNAL: whywolf
IM / EMAIL: praecipitanter @ gmail
lib>PLURK: praecipitanter
RETURNING: Y; I play Yuri Lowell and Kazuma Mikura

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Roy Mustang
CHARACTER AGE: 30
SERIES: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood/manga)
CHRONOLOGY: Post-canon, a day after the promised day.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: With Ed please, otherwise wherever

BACKGROUND: A link to his wiki history. The blue to Edward Elric’s red, Roy is the deuteragonist of Fullmetal Alchemist with an agenda all his own: to become the Fuhrer, the ruler of his country Amestris in order to make it something else besides a war machine. As FMA starts out, we see Roy as the aloof authority figure supporting Ed through his journey to find the philosopher’s stone, but soon enough it’s revealed that Roy is more than a pretty face looking to climb rank. Turned into a weapon by the state for the sake of killing his countrymen, Roy’s new purpose in life is to make sure that his country will never wantonly take a life again. To that purpose, he has assembled a team of trusted subordinates to aid him in his slow climb to the top. His plan is so straight-forward it’s almost naive: he will protect those under him, who will protect others in turn, and so on.

Of course, as Edward becomes increasingly embroiled in his search for the philosopher’s stone, it’s revealed that the bloody history of Amestris has been committed with a sinister purpose: human sacrifice, a practice tied intimately with the creation of philosopher's stones. This is discovered not only through Edward’s efforts, but that of Roy’s own people: his best friend, Maes Hughes, is killed for discovering Amestris’s corruption way too many chapters early. For Roy, it just means that rooting out Amestris’s corruption just becomes that much more personal. Roy and co. become aware that the plot fueling Amestris’s history of slaughter will come to fruition on a day called the Promised Day, where the entire population of Amestris will be sacrificed by a figure falling himself Father.

Roy is going to be taken a bare 24 hours after the Promised Day. Not only did Roy and co. defeat Father but in the chaos of the final battle, taking place in Amestris’s capital, Roy was able to set the stage to clear out Amestris’s corrupt upper brass and to finally avenge the death of Hughes. Though currently (temporarily )blinded in the final battle, he’s in a position to look toward the future and the remaking of his country.

PERSONALITY: The vast majority of people see Roy as a lazy rank-hungry playboy, using his good looks and charm to get ahead (and steal dates.). And that’s exactly according to plan. Once a young idealist, Roy was chewed up and spit out by the Amestrian war machine in the war against the neighboring country of Ishval, made to kill countless numbers of his fellow countrymen for the sake of an obscure (and, as it turns out, actually evil) political aim. Despite being a human weapon, a living bomb, Roy learned one important lesson in Ishval: how powerless a single human was. Having been able to protect only a handful of men through the slaughter left a deep impression on Roy. At the end of the war, Roy made a solemn vow to rise to the top of the Amestrian power structure so that he could protect those below him--even if it was only a few-- who could in turn protect others. And so on.

So Roy uses the playboy routine as a smokescreen to mask the true scope of his ambitions. He went from being a wide-eyed idealist to someone who could lie with a straight face, a consummate manipulator always looking for the next piece to put into place. At any given time, Roy has a stunning number of contingencies and failsafes in place. Part of what makes him such a good mastermind is the amount of effort he puts into covering his bases. But Roy is far from being an aloof puppetmaster. He cares deeply for his subordinates and friends, to the point of taking personal and political risks for the sake of their well-being. For these reasons, despite being jaded by the war, Roy’s people can still call him “too naive” at times. Roy makes it very clear he’s not willing to leave anyone behind; he’ll make no sacrifices for the greater good when it comes to his people. He makes this clear when his best friend Hughes is killed to cover up the conspiracy of his country; he tells his subordinate Hawkeye that it’s not a matter of choosing either to pursue vengeance for Hughes or his goal of becoming Fuhrer: he will do both, without fail.

Notably, Roy reaches a point in seeking vengeance for Hughes where he almost loses sight of his goal. Roy has a temper, and it can become viciously apparent when it concerns his people. He burns the homunculus Lust to death after she harms his subordinate, and nearly tortures Hughes’s killer to death until he is stopped by Edward and Hawkeye, who remind him of his goal. Roy can quickly lose sight of his moral commitments when his people are involved, but those same people can just as quickly bring him back.

Roy can come off as harsh sometimes: his first meeting with the recently crippled Edward ends in him challenging the young Elric. Later he berates Hawkeye for losing spirit after being (falsely) informed of his death. The first instance we can see how Roy rules his own life: As someone who went through a period of wanting to die in the war, Roy keeps himself moving forward by remaining utterly focused on accomplishing his goals in the right way, a trait he sees in Edward in well. With Hawkeye, we can see how Roy puts his own well-being below that of his subordinates’ and his ultimate goal, the reformation of Amestris. He is, as far as he is concerned, only a tool to accomplish that end.

At his core, Roy is still fundamentally damaged by the war; he feels incredibly guilty for allowing himself to become a genocidal weapon. This only very rarely surfaces throughout his story, since Roy’s workaholic nature and determination don’t lend themselves to maudlin introspection. But it is clear in some instances that Roy’s sense of his own humanity and worthiness is damaged; he says at one point that fighting one of the powerful, immortal homunculi makes him “feel human”. We mostly find this out through other people what Roy’s deal is. Roy’s subordinate Hawkeye tells Ed that Roy’s end game plan is essentially suicidal: Once Amestris is reformed, he is going to have himself tried and executed as a war criminal. Ed is able to essentially extract a promise to live from Roy and, combined with events toward the end of canon, Roy seems to be slowly pulling away from his desire to die.

On a day to day basis, Roy is charismatic, charming, and chatty. He can put on a good show of flirting with the ladies and kissing ass with the generals. With those he is actually close to, he’s not shy about coming off bitchier; it’s not rare at all for he and his subordinates to communicate largely through snarking at each other.

POWER:
Alchemy (canon): Roy is an alchemist meaning he can transmute matter (or decompose it) as long as he can form an array (using chalk, or tracing it in the dirt, etc) and has adequate knowledge of the chemical composition of what he’s working with. He has to keep to scientific laws, so conservation of mass, can’t change one chemical into another (unless he is combining two), etc. This cashes out into being able to do things like making a wall out of the earth, turning water into ice, heating water, and so on. At the point of canon I am taking him from, Roy can also perform clap alchemy--for transmutations, he can essentially create the array with his own body by pressing his hands together, allowing him to forgo a physical array.

For his own special brand of alchemy, Roy can set people on fire and also do things like evaporate all the water out of a person’s eyeballs from several yards away. This is specifically because while he is called the Flame Alchemist, what he can actually manipulate is the air--hydrogen and oxygen. He makes a spark, and then manipulates the composition of the air in order to direct and feed an explosion. He is not able to perform this brand of alchemy when it is raining or when the wind is too unstable.

Dog of the Military (non-canon):
Dog transformation: What it says on the tin! Roy can turn into a dog, a mid-sized black mutt. He can also half-transform, just ears and tail.

Dog whistle: Roy can be summoned by one of his subordinates anytime and any where! The only condition is that the person doing the summoning has to be someone Roy has authority over.

Leader of the Pack: A stat boost oriented around orders! Any subordinate of Roy’s acting under his (specific) orders will experience a stat boost relevant to that order. Ex: If Roy commands them to attack, they’ll receive an attack stat boost.

Rain (non-canon): Rain. Roy can make it rain, in an area as small as a square foot or as large as a city block