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In the anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist, Winry Rockbell (ウィンリィ・ロックベル, Winrī Rokkuberu) is the best friend, and frequent travel companion, of the protagonists, Edward and Alphonse Elric.

Character profile

Template:Spoilers Born in 1899, Winry is Ed and Al's childhood friend. The brothers performed their first alchemical transmutation to create her a doll, but she becomes terrified by the transmutation process, which foreshadows both the amazing and horrible aspects of alchemy. She's a self-professed "gear head" who helped her grandmother Pinako build Ed's "automail", which are prosthetic limbs. She sometimes travels with the Elric Brothers to maintain Ed's artificial leg and arm. Her parents were doctors who were killed during the Ishbal War by Roy Mustang (Scar in the manga) under Basque Gran's orders because they treated the enemy as well as Amestris soldiers. In the movie, Winry took care of Al for two years believing Edward would return to see her, and that belief came true when Ed temporarily returned. She embraced Ed in tears of joy seeing him back. When the Thules attacked she help fit Edward with new automail limbs (adjusted to his growth) once he came back from across the gate. After Edward's departure, Winry continued to work on automail with her Grandmother.

Winry is normally a very optimistic person and loves working on automail. She likes to do things her way and has a tendency to disobey the rules such as sneaking into Central or (as in the anime) opening Ed's watch when he told her not to. Winry's love for her friends (especially Ed) is only matched or even surpassed by her love of technology. She will absolutely lose herself finding a new piece of technology or tool. This often leads to some interesting scene or situation, one extreme example is when she got kidnapped by Barry the Chopper when he had a human body and almost got killed. Usually these moments happen when she is asking Ed something or she just found out that the brothers were just returning from a dangerous mission. She constantly shows the fact that she worries about Ed and Al when they are gone.

Similar to the manga, Winry had a considerably deep friendship with Edward, although it seems to be more related to her need to maintain his automail limbs. Throughout the series, she tends to most express her feelings during moments of weakness, she expresses genuine concern and romantic interest towards him. Their relationship however, is greatly toned down compared to the manga; Winry never once admitted that she cared about Edward past friendship. The relationship between them would ultimately end after the movie, where she comes to the conclusion she will never see either Ed nor Alphonse ever again.

Winry has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is taller than Ed in the anime, but about his height in the manga.

Trivia

Winry has a temper not unlike Ed's. During the episode when Ed challenges the man with humongous metal arms in an arm wrestling match, Winry loses her temper when Ed's automail is called "half-rate", and behaves similarly to Ed. This doesn't appear in the manga since this chapter is very different from the episode.
At the beginning, Winry wasn't a very popular character, but as the Manga series continued her popularity grew. Now, she is usually one of the top ten most popular characters.
Many fans who believe Winry and Ed have a romantic relationship often refer to the episode "Night of the Chimera's cry," where Winry is blamed as Ed's girlfriend while he writes to her and he acts very defensive, almost screaming that "she is only a friend". In the Manga, they refer to Manga Chapter 48 because it seems like Winry has developed feelings for Ed. And in one chapter, Riza tells Ed that he loves Winry, and he spurts his drink all over her dog. Clearly embarrassed, he mumbles that he wasn't blushing, but doesn't deny it. Many more hints of their relationship are found within several episodes of the anime where Winry and Edward are alone; she always goes into deep sadness and admits many of her feelings to Ed but in a more subtle way. In the manga and the anime, Ed and Al used to have little fights, one of them being who gets to marry Winry; Edward laughs and Al concludes with, "That's when we fought the hardest". Although it was only viewed as a brothers' quarrel, only Edward shows feelings for Winry that go beyond friendship.
In the dub credits, Winry is occasionally spelled as 'Wenry'. It can be speculated that her name should actually be romanized "Wendy", as all the other characters in FMA have European names.

Voice actors

Japanese Cast ^[1]	English Cast ^[2]	Brazilian Cast ^[3]	French Cast ^[4]	Spanish Cast ^[5]	Filipino Cast ^[6]
Megumi Toyoguchi	Caitlin Glass	Andressa Andreatto	Lucille Boulanger	Yensi Rivero	Grace Cornel

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 *At the beginning, Winry wasn't a very popular character, but as the Manga series continued her popularity grew.  Now, she is usually one of the top ten most popular characters.
 *Many fans who believe Winry and Ed have a romantic relationship often refer to the episode "Night of the Chimera's cry," where Winry is blamed as Ed's girlfriend while he writes to her and he acts very defensive, almost screaming that "she is only a friend". In the Manga, they refer to Manga Chapter 48 because it seems like Winry has developed feelings for Ed. And in one chapter, Riza tells Ed that he loves Winry, and he spurts his drink all over her dog. Clearly embarrassed, he mumbles that he wasn't blushing, but doesn't deny it. Many more hints of their relationship are found within several episodes of the anime where Winry and Edward are alone; she always goes into deep sadness and admits many of her feelings to Ed but in a more subtle way. In the manga and the anime, Ed and Al used to have little fights, one of them being who gets to marry Winry; Edward laughs and Al concludes with, "That's when we fought the hardest". Although it was only viewed as a brothers' quarrel, only Edward shows feelings for Winry that go beyond friendship.
-*In the dub credits, Winry is occasionally spelled as 'Wenry'.
+*In the dub credits, Winry is occasionally spelled as 'Wenry'. It can be speculated that her name should actually be romanized "Wendy", as all the other characters in FMA have European names.
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