Winry Rockbell is a fictional character from Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist manga series and its adaptations.
21 Facts About Winry Rockbell
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Originally meant to be introduced in the series' first chapters due to its lack of female characters, some of Winry Rockbell's traits are based on Arakawa's own life.
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Besides being in the manga and anime series, Winry Rockbell is in the first anime's sequel film and original video animations.
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Winry Rockbell is portrayed in the series as kind, optimistic, and sincere, acting as a concerned and compassionate family member to the Elrics in their company.
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Winry Rockbell lived with her grandmother in Resembool from then on.
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Winry Rockbell takes it upon herself to make sure that his automail is in top form, and travels to service it when as needed.
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Winry Rockbell goes to Central City to fix Edward's automail, feeling guilty, but quickly overcomes it when she realizes no one else has any idea about the screw.
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Winry Rockbell then spends the night at the house of Maes Hughes.
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Winry Rockbell meets the family of Dominic, an automail engineer, and when Dominic's daughter-in-law goes into labor, Winry Rockbell successfully delivers her baby at the mere age of 15, saving the lives of both the mother and baby.
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Winry Rockbell asks to be Dominic's apprentice, but is refused both because Dominic does not take apprentices and because he has an unexplained past with her grandmother, Pinako, and is terrified of her.
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Winry Rockbell introduces her to another engineer named Garfiel, who happily takes her on.
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Winry Rockbell becomes distressed that she could not bring herself to shoot because of how he killed her innocent parents, but Ed reassures her that her hands are not meant to kill, but are meant for saving lives.
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Winry Rockbell goes with him and Al, but once they capture him, Winry Rockbell helps Scar by bandaging his heavy wounds sustained in a fight with Kimblee's chimeras, as she thinks her parents would have done the same and learns that to save someone does not mean you forgive them.
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Later that night, Winry Rockbell has dinner with Granny and Ed for the first time in so long, along with several others who came with them to the household.
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Winry Rockbell sees Ed off at the train station, whereupon he proposes to her in a clumsy, alchemy-based fashion, but she accepts regardless in an equally-awkward manner, much to Ed's amusement.
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In Rush Valley, Winry Rockbell meets the Elrics' teacher Izumi Curtis and learns how her stillborn son became the homunculus Wrath.
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Winry Rockbell continues traveling with the Elrics until she learns that her parents were killed in the Ishvalan massacre by Ed's superior Roy Mustang on military orders.
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Winry Rockbell goes to Central to meet Mustang, but is unable to talk to him when she hears from several people that he is highly respected by his friends, including the deceased Maes Hughes.
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Winry Rockbell later meets and befriends the librarian Sheska who suspected the woman Juliet Douglas, who is in fact the homunculus Sloth, for being responsible for Hughes' death.
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In popularity polls from the manga published in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan Winry Rockbell was commonly featured in the top ten, reaching fifth place in 2009.
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Several types of merchandising exploit based on Winry Rockbell, including action figures, key-chains and patches.