Winry rockbell

Winry rockbell (uinrī rokkuberu) is a main supporting character of the fullmetal alchemist series. A close childhood friend of edward and alphonse elric since their young life in resembool, she is almost like a sister to the two and essentially their only family. An amateur surgeon and mechanical repair specialist/enthusiast, winry is edward's rear line support as his personal automail engineer and mechanic, making sure his prosthetic right arm and left leg are always in good working order. Additionally, she provides a great deal of emotional support for the pair and plays the role of edward's love interest.

Winry is an exceptionally gifted and passionate mechanic, excelling in the repair of machines of widely varying complexity. Of course, her truest passion and most extensive expertise is in the crafting and overhauling of automail prostheses. Brought up under the tutelage of her grandmother, master automail engineer pinako rockbell, winry has been working with automail for most of her youth and can be considered somewhat of a machinist prodigy, having built edward a complex pair of limbs at the tender age of eleven.

Since that time, her skills have improved to the point that she has surpassed even her grandmother (once hailed far and wide as the "Pantheress of resembool") and gained a fair bit of notoriety in her position at atelier garfiel in rush valley. In addition, winry appears to have a remarkable wealth of surgical knowledge for her age (despite a lack of formal training), gleaned from having grown up in a family of surgeons. Edward remarks that winry's early comprehension of advanced medical literature is on par with the familiarity with alchemical texts shared by the elric brothers when they were young. She has also displayed a significantly strong throwing arm, able to pitch heavy wrenches long distance with deadly accuracy. Though displaying relatively few particularly feminine traits in the beginning of the series, winry learns to bake from gracia hughes during her first trip to central city and develops her ability to bake pies - specifically apple pies - as the series progresses.