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Name: Jen Age: 42 Contact: Discord @ firestarter#8868 or fire_starter Timezone: MST Other Character(s): Original Application

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Name: Colonel Roy Mustang Door: Door Pass Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Canon Point: After Mustang killed Lust Age: 29 Appearance: With black hair and eyes which tilt upward, Mustang is an attractive man. History: Here Personality: Roy Mustang is a complex man whose history forges him into a visionary. Passionate: Roy Mustang is a complicated man whose history has had a significant impact on who he's become. He is a visionary who is driven to rise in the ranks of the military state (governing body) for the betterment of the people in Amestris; his ultimate goal to turn the military state into a democracy and ensure those who were called heroes during the Ishvalan Civil War are tried for war crimes. Mustang, known as the Flame Alchemist, is a hot-headed young man who carries himself with the decorum appropriate for his rank and remains mostly grounded. Unfortunately, there are times when he allows his passion to inform his decisions, leading to mistakes and eventually behaving monstrously. The murder of Mustang's best friend, Maes Hughes, causes the Colonel and his team to look into the crime, which happened on the military base. After a long, secret investigation and personal sacrifice, Mustang confronts the shape-shifting homunculus, Envy, who confesses to the crime. When Envy mocks Mustang and Hughes by changing to look like Maes Hughes' wife, Gracia, demonstrating the ruthless, cruel manner of Hughes' murder, Roy's rage crystalizes into a hatred so intense that he disregards everything he stands for to ensure Envy's death is as horrifying and painful as possible. Mustang exacts his vengeance against Envy by torturing him, burning out his tongue, boiling the fluid in his eyes twice, blowing Envy up, and burning him with countless fires until Roy's companions intervene and stop him. Impetuous: Mustang displays a lack of judgment on several occasions. His rashness is derived from the profundity of his passion, from his deep capacity to love others, and his hot-headed nature. His arrogance and impulsiveness spur him into showing off his fire alchemy when facing a deadly enemy. He tosses his pistol aside while wearing (rain-soaked) ignition gloves. Since they can't create a spark when wet, his alchemy is utterly compromised, leaving him defenseless (and dead, if not for Lieutenant Hawkeye's quick intervention. Mustang is self-aware enough to protect against this fault. Riza Hawkeye comes to see him shortly after the Civil war, and he employs her as his bodyguard with a single caveat; this being that she must vow to "shoot me (him) in the back" should he employ his alchemy in a way that conflicts with his ethics, so he never again need worry that he'll cause the kind of tragedy he did in Ishval. Another example of this is when he leaves the hospital with a barely healed injury to continue his quest for the killer. Roy and Lieutenant Hawkeye assist a subordinate, his brother, and their friends in a plan to capture a homunculus. They learn through Prince Ling Yao that the Fuhrer himself is yet another one. The homunculus (Gluttony) is formidable and impervious to fire. When Mustang's fire alchemy proves inadequate, Roy, Ed, and Al flee the scene when Mustang tears his wound open again. Even after his collapse, when the others plan to hunt the homunculus down, he loses his temper and tries (unsuccessfully) to rejoin them. All of which leaves him to take an unusual gamble (in part because the new information represents an opportunity to bring down the current Fuhrer). He makes the near-fatal mistake of choosing to trust a General his former superior said was "honorable and just" when he should have investigated the man himself. The General, part of the Senior Staff at the Central Command Center, immediately betrays Mustang's knowledge and trust, resulting in his team being separated and transferred to the Southern, Western, and Northern Command Centers near the country's borders. Manipulative: After the Fuhrer transfers his men, Mustang calls on General Gruman to meet him at Hughes' grave. During their conversation, Roy compliments the man on his soldiers' quality, most of them veterans of the Ishval war. Gruman thought his ambition dead, but upon hearing what Roy has to say, it reinvigorates the ambition of Mustang's former superior. He joins the Colonel in his plans for a coup against the top governing officials. Guilt: It's the Ishvalan civil war that ends up defining Mustang as a man. There, he confronts the reality of war, its devastation, and inhumanity. He, Riza Hawkeye, and Hughes regret their involvement, especially when it ultimately becomes a genocide. Surprisingly, the war's brutality doesn't strip Mustang of his idealistic principles but convinces him of the need for change within the military state. He comes to realize the only way to bring about that change is from the inside. Almost pathological in nature, Mustang feels intense guilt about his actions during the Ishvalan war, about his inability to keep his friends from harm, the effects of both negative and profound. He has PTSD, frequently reminded of the smell of burnt and burning corpses. He takes responsibility for anything that hurts his people. Mustang is responsible for his decisions as their leader, and although he's not the person/people/homunculus who does the injuring, he holds himself accountable. Roy can neither help nor halt his feelings of guilt. For the most part, he uses it to reinforce his conviction to do the right thing. It's part of who he is, and while his guilt takes a toll on his well-being, he tries to keep from making decisions based on it. He isn't always successful. After the transfer of Roy's people, he makes an admission to Lieutenant Hawkeye and Major Alex Armstrong that while he's been called a human weapon and a monster, he never feels more human than when he's battling real monsters. Cunning: Mustang uses his intellect to great effect, deliberately cultivating the image of a lazy womanizer by being frequently seen dating and flirting or talking on the phone with different women. His telephone calls to women are actually those to his team, who go by women's names as code. In truth, he's a shrewd military politician and tactician, having created this façade to appear less threatening politically. Not to say he isn't ambitious, as he very much is, but his deception helps him appear less threatening politically, especially to the senior staff. Crafting this veneer also serves as a cover for gathering covert information from the women who work in his stepmother's escort service (or brothel), doubling as spies. Mustang reacts to the news of his subordinates' transfer in a surprisingly poised manner, implying that the only thing he cares about is his rank and career, and avoids being seen with Hawkeye in public, except to have lunch at the Command Center cafeteria to pass along vital information through a verbal cipher, assuming the both of them are under constant surveillance. Loyalty: During an unofficial "mission", Second Lieutenant Jean Havok is paralyzed in a battle against the homunculus, Lust, having been impaled through his torso, severing his spinal cord. Roy takes complete responsibility, believing he's at fault, studying the vertebra/e's anatomy where the man's damaged nerves reside on the off-chance that he can "fix" him with his alchemy. Intensely loyal to the people of Amestris, Roy goes to substantial lengths to keep from compromising his ability to rise in the ranks in hopes of shaping his country's future. His orders to his men aren't always in their best interests and can even border on the outlandish. He orders Warrant Officer Falman to "babysit" a serial killer with information about the innocent soldier the government wrongly accuses of Maes Hughes' murder. Mustang sends a message to Falman telling him that he's using the man's sick leave as the reason he's "not working". Hardly fair, but theirs is a dream shared by them all, and his team is equally loyal to him. Love: As Mustang hates, so too does he love. His capacity for love is, ironically, his greatest vulnerability. He is loyal to a fault, protecting those he loves at the potential expense to himself and his reputation. His best friend's murder so devastates him that he drives himself to exhaustion with the subsequent investigation, visibly losing weight as his insomnia shadows the area above his eyes and highlights the bags underneath. An innocent officer is framed for Hughes' murder by the military, who tells the press she's been convicted before her trial. Using alchemy to make something that can pass as a human body using pork and certain chemicals, Mustang plans and executes a rescue and "safe house" operation, making it appear to the military police that he used the opportunity of her "escape" to burn her to death without repercussion. For all of Mustang's faults, he is a kind, warm and loving person who is a stalwart friend. His compassion leads him to encourage Edward Elric, who broke the law (and alchemic taboo) by committing human transmutation trying to return his dead mother to life, costing him an arm and a leg and his brother his entire body, to enter the State Alchemist program. As a State Alchemist, Ed (and Al, since they're orphans) would have access to advanced alchemical theory books. He wants to help the boys recover their bodies. That is their sole objective, and Roy allows and encourages it, as he is the person who originally envisioned State Alchemy as a path for the two to regain all they had lost (although that wasn't an entirely selfless act as the Colonel would gain "points" toward promotion for recruiting a gifted alchemist). Colonel Roy Mustang's love is such that he envisions a bright future for the Amestrian people and for a couple of children who only want their bodies back. That love helps to make it all possible. Powers and Abilities: » Mustang is an alchemist. To perform alchemy, the alchemist draws a transmutation circle that enables him/her to manipulate molecules of matter to create or repair objects, assuming he begins with a "sacrifice" of the same mass and molecular qualities similar to what the alchemist wishes to make. If Roy wanted to make a pair of jeans, he'd need a large piece of cloth or a lot of cotton, etc., and a bit of metal for a zipper or buttons. Repairing anything is a simple matter for an alchemist and a way for the commerce-minded to make a living. » Roy Mustang, known throughout the military as the Flame Alchemist, probably should have been called the Oxygen Alchemist. He enriches the oxygen surrounding his target, rubs his ignition-cloth-gloved fingers in a motion that looks and sounds exactly like snapping his fingers (but isn't), and transmutes thin pathways of purified oxygen from the resulting sparks to his target, igniting a firebomb, if he's using his right hand. Mustang transmutes smaller flames with pin-point accuracy with his left, which he uses to fry smaller objects (like tongues and eyes). » If his powers must be nerfed, I request taking away/reducing his right hand's ability to cause real damage by making firebombs, although I'd prefer he keep them all. Inventory: Mustang arrives wearing his uniform with a transmutation circle carved into the back of his hand and holding a Zippo lighter. 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