Alphonse Elric Fanclub

<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/565.png" border="0" /> <span style="color:black"><strong>Alphonse Elric </strong><!--color--></span>-<span style="color:darkbrown"> <strong>the sweet, kind, gentle, studious younger brother of Edward Elric. Alphonse is a sweet boy who likes small strays that are helpless (usually feline), and is pure (a bit naive),and charming, to those around him. These traits are considered as childish tendencies (moe), the reason is said to be because he has a stunted emotional maturity (though, still sometimes more mature than his brother) from not growing physically at all. He basically stays the same age in the armor. Edward, feeling a tremendous guilt over affixing Al to something that won't grow or have senses, doesn't care what happens to himself and would without second thought give his life, to give Al his body. Alphonse is completely against Edward dying or being separated from him, so Al usually stops his brother from going too far for him. Obviously, this makes Alphonse love and idolize his brother even more. Alphonse is known to be his tough-as-steel older brother, Edward's only weak or soft spot; Ed shows no such gentleness towards any other.</strong><!--color--></span> <img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/272768.png" border="0" /><img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/6727.png" border="0" /><img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/427725.png" border="0" /><img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/79903.png" border="0" /><img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/7472.png" border="0" /><img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/7687.png" border="0" /> <strong>Voiced By:</strong> <!--link--><a href="http://myanimelist.net/people/8/Rie_Kugimiya">Kugimiya Rie</a> The name of Alphonse Elric in Japanese contains a play of language regarding the nature of the character. In Japanese, his nickname is written with the katakana "aru" (アル) to mimic the pronunciation of "Al." The hiragana "aru" (ある, pronounced exactly the same) would represent the verb "to exist." The Japanese have two verbs for "to exist" - one for animate objects such as people (iru), and one for inanimate objects (aru). A major theme of the series is whether or not Alphonse still exists as a person with his soul affixed to a suit of armor, and his name takes on an additional layer of meaning with respect to this struggle to define what he has become. <img src="http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/UsaGi-Chyan/Alphonse/464286864.png" border="0" /><!--center--></div>