User Profile

"Sky" is a character roleplayed by himura_arimikoe for edensphere.
Alfons Heiderich and Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa is property of the studio BONES. This journal's content is fanmade.


Series: Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa
Character: Alfons Heiderich
Timeline: Post-series, through a good portion of the movie, just after his death.

Personality: On the surface, Alfons Heiderich is startlingly similar to Alphonse Elric. He is polite, intelligent and generally soft-spoken. He worries much the same, he has many of the same likes, dislikes, desires and motives, but they are not the same person. The best way to describe Alfons is to say he is what Alphonse Elric would have been, had he not grown up with Edward by his side. Rather than explain their similarities, I'll focus on the differences.

Though still polite and well-mannered, Alfons is slightly more of a loner. He gets on well with most everyone he meets, but doesn't quite let people in. Though he believes people are generally good and keeps a very open mind (shown by how well he treats Noa, even though it's very common in his time period to be both racist and prejudiced against her people) he doesn't actively go out of his way to make the world a better place. When confronted with someone he can help he won't hesitate to lend a hand, even if it's a stranger, but he has no need to be anyone's hero. However, if he is faced with a choice between right and wrong, it's hardly a struggle for him to choose the right thing, even at great sacrifice to himself.

Alfons values reason and fact rather than chase after flights of fancy, and therefore has a very realistic view of the world. He hopes for the best but prepares for the worst, and rarely complains when the worst does happen. He may sigh and shake his head, but he'll still go on with life.

A key element in his motives and actions is that Alfons feels that he will be forgotten. He has a deep-seated (and possibly irrational) fear of not being remembered, or being special to those around him. This insecurity surfaces very little, but when it does, it's passionate. Even so, rather than cling to people like Alphonse might, Alfons is able to (even if it hurts him) let them go.

Alfons has a slightly dry sense of humor and finds some odd things funny, but honestly loves to laugh and smile. He's stubborn, very passionate about the things he chooses to be passionate about, and has a very good heart. He's excellent at taking potentially very shocking things in stride, even when the people around him are freaking out. There is a moment when Edward crashes through a glass roof, dropped from an airplane flying over the building without so much as a parachute, and while everyone else freaks out, he just shrugs and says, "I guess we won't have to pick him up now."

When he's shot in the back, it takes him only long enough to fall to the floor to die. In that instant of time, he smiles, and accepts it.

Background: Alfons Heiderich is our world's version of Alphonse Elric. He was born in our world, in Munich, Germany in the year 1906. His physical features are virtually identical to Al's, though he is a few years older. He is Aryan, with pale skin, white-blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He's also very patriotic, but only about his pride in his country and the German people as a whole, not to the extent that the Nazis are.

Very little is actually concrete about Alfons' background, but it's safe to assume that his parents are both dead and that he has either distant or no family, or he wouldn't be living on his own at the age of seventeen. Being rather brilliant and self-sufficient at such a young age, he works full-time at building rockets. Like alchemy is Alphonse Elric's life's work, science and rocketry (Yeah, rocket science. Not kidding either.) is Alfons'. Because his story is set in the year of 1923, technology that works past smaller rockets hasn't been invented yet. It's Alfons' dream to build a rocket that can carry a person to space.

When the story starts in 1923, Alfons is the roommate and co-worker of Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, who was transported through the Gate to our world while attempting to bring Alphonse Elric back to life. It's never detailed just how they met, but Alfons is the only person that Edward actively tells about Amestris and his own world, and his desire to get back home. Though he listens and enjoys the tales, Alfons is skeptical about the truth of Edward's "wild stories" and voices his disbelief every time Ed insists they're true.

While at a carnival in town, showing off a display of their smaller model rockets, Edward runs into a young gypsy girl by the name of Noa, who is about to be sold into slavery and used for her abilities to read others' thoughts and intentions by touching them. After Edward saves her, Alfons easily and graciously accepts the girl into his life and home, ignoring what others have to say about it (this being barely pre-nazi Germany, a very racist culture), and becomes relatively friendly with her.

Alfons is approached by Karl Haushofer on behalf of the Thule Society, a secret organization sub-headed by Dietlinde Eckhart with ties to Adolf Hitler that has a strong focus in the occult. The Thule Society agrees to fund his research if Alfons will build rockets for them. Alfons agrees, though he cares little one way or the other about what the Society intends to do with his research.

At the beginning of the movie, Alfons coughs a lot. When Edward expressions concern Alfons brushes it off as a cold, and Edward mentions that he's been doing that for a while now. Alfons smiles and thanks him for his concern, but insists that it's nothing.

When Edward (through seperate channels) realizes that the Thule Society is using (semi-successful and becoming successful) occult ritual to actually make contact with his home world, he is horrified to learn that Eckhart ultimately plans to travel through the Gate and conquer Amestris, which she calls Shamballa. Ed confronts Alfons and demands that he stop working for the Thule Society, because they are trying to destroy those he loves. Alfons turns on him in an emotional outburst, throwing him bodily back into the stairs when Edward tries to grab his shoulder. He had been coughing badly earlier, as he had throughout the movie, but this causes a fit of coughing that actually brings up blood. Though Alfons is not surprised, Ed certainly is, and if he hasn't told Edward of his sickness, then it's safe to say that no one else knows.

Alfons' secret suddenly blown, he yells at Edward that this world is real, the people are real, and not a dream. He says that since he "doesn't have much time left" he has to do everything he can to accomplish his goal of building a functioning rocket, so he will have made his mark on the world, so he will not be forgotten.

Leaving Edward behind him, stunned and speechless, Alfons grabs his suitcase and heads for the Thule Society.

Edward follows Alfons to stop the plans from formulating, and Eckhart shoots Edward in the artificial arm, which causes him to fall one story and be knocked unconscious. He wakes up to find Alfons strapping him into a one-man rocket.

Although Alfons never expressly says he's turned on the Thule Society, the fact that he's sending Edward along with Eckhart through the Gate to Shamballa will be seen as a grave betrayal, and he knows it. Edward protests, but Alfons only smiles, puts a hand on his, and asks Edward not to forget him.

Seconds after he pulls the throttle for Ed's liftoff through the portal Amestris, he's shot in the back and killed by Rudolph Hess, one of Eckhart's most fanatical supporters. He's dead before he hits the floor.

Note: There is no explanation for his sickness. I'm disinclined to believe it's tuberculosis because it never spreads to others, but it could be similar to Itachi's. The generally accepted story in fandom is that he's inhaled too many fumes from badly processed rocket fuel, which has destroyed his lungs and slowly poisoned him, which makes him sickly in general. Either way? Same effect. I'm going with the second one simply because it's more widely accepted.

Friends (2):

Friend of (46):