Alphonse Elric (2021)

This version of Alphonse Elric is the one in which Fullmetal Alchemist takes place in 2021, instead of the 1910s

History
Born the second son of Trisha Elric and Van Hohenheim of Resembool in April 31, 2007, Alphonse's first few years were relatively peaceful and happy despite the short-lived abuse of his older brother Edward; but after the sudden disappearance of his father during the toddler's formative years, Al was left with his mother and brother as his only family. The three Elrics lived in peace in the rural village and the boys began displaying a remarkable talent for alchemy at a young age, much to the joyful astonishment of their mother. However, early in the year 2011, Trisha contracted an illness that had been spreading in the area and died, leaving her two sons orphaned. Alphonse, devastated by the loss of his mother, began to fear that he and his brother would not be able to survive without her, but twisted hope returned to the boy's heart when Edward vowed that the two of them would find a way to bring their dear mother back to life with the power of alchemy.

Alphonse and Edward spent the next few years living on their own in the Elric family home, supported by their close childhood friend Winry Rockbell and her grandmother Pinako, while pursuing the alchemical knowledge necessary for their planned resurrection. Although they had gained a great deal of information and comprehension regarding the extended basics of the craft, before long it became apparent to the young prodigies that there was only so far they could go while being self-taught. In a stroke of good fortune, Resembool was visited by an exceptionally skilled alchemist named Izumi Curtis who, after some persuasion, agreed to take the Elric brothers on as her apprentices provided they pass a preliminary test. She brought the boys to Yock Island near the town of Dublith in the southern region, where she informed them that they were to survive for one full month without alchemy. If, at the end of their ordeal, they could correctly explain the concept "One is All and All is One", they would begin their training under her wing.

While there, the brothers discovered self-reliance and gained new abilities and insights relevant to living in the world under their own power from having to forage and hunt for food as well as fend off periodic attacks from Mason, an employee at the Curtises' butcher shop who had disguised himself as a masked wild man at Izumi's behest. Coming to understand together that, as humans, they are but a small part of the world and universe as a whole, but that the world and universe cannot exist without a collective of small parts, the boys were able to fully comprehend Izumi's riddle by the time she returned and, as such, the Elric brothers were subjected to Izumi's intensive alchemy and martial arts training for the next five months, growing significantly in both mind and body and gaining a great deal of alchemical knowledge before returning to Resembool. Though instructed specifically by Izumi to understand that death is an irreversible part of the flow of the world and that acceptance of such is important to the "One is All, All is One" concept, the boys dove headlong into their plan to resurrect their mother upon their homecoming, having advanced their knowledge while abroad and discovered the basics to a forbidden practice called Human Transmutation.

Devising a Human Transmutation Circle, amassing the elemental ingredients for an adult human body and offering their own blood as soul and biological data, the boys secretly initiated the Human Transmutation secretly in their home. Unfortunately, the Human Transmutation resulted in a Rebound; Alphonse and Edward were pulled into The Gate. Encountering the mysterious being called Truth, Alphonse was forced into the stream of the Gate's vast alchemical knowledge and forced to witness as the Truth stripped him of his physical body as toll for crossing into God's domain. Returned to the human dimension, Alphonse's errant soul attached itself to the soulless, inhuman creature that had resulted from the failed transmutation as it struggled futilely to survive. Incapable of sustaining life, the grotesque body died, allowing Alphonse's soul to once again wander toward the other side.

When Alphonse next regained consciousness, he discovered that his soul had been bound alchemically to an antique suit of armor with a Blood Rune, and that his brother was sitting in a pool of blood - his right arm and left leg "taken". With the trauma of the tragedy, Alphonse's memories of the Gate, the Truth and his existence in the failed body became repressed. In a panic, Alphonse carried his brother to the Rockbells' house, begging Pinako to save Edward's life. During the night, after Edward's emergency surgery was completed successfully, Alphonse discovered the true tragedy of his new body. Incapable of physical sensation and sleep, he began to feel detached from others and lamented the long solitude of restless night.

The two boys remained in a lamentable state of shame and grief over their tragedy for some time, until the visiting officer Roy Mustang confronted Edward and persuaded him to join the State Alchemist program. Promising to use the system to find a way to restore their bodies, Edward underwent an operation to attach custom-built automail and, a year later, he applied for a received his state certification. On October 3rd of 2017, the boys burnt down their family home and left Resembool on a journey to return to normal.

Appearance
Almost the same as its original counterpart, its body being steel-colored steel armor. The helmet that forms Al's face is adorned with a large tapered horn in the middle of the forehead, has a pair of parallel horizontal openings under each half-moon eye and a pattern of fangs just above the protruding chin. The top of the helmet also features a ribbon of white hair that runs down to the back of the suit. The torso of the body also consists of a removable breastplate with a triangular shelf protruding from the chest just below the throat protection, a high collar that extends outward from the back and surrounds the back and sides of the neck, and a large, circular leather patch on each side of the abdomen.

The breechcloth covers the groin and painted on the left shoulder is a Red Flamel. The body of Al's armor also appears to have a triple-pointed pattern, as each shoulder is adorned with a trio of large tapered points lined up in a row and each elbow, knee and foot also carry small pointed protrusions. Al also appears to have a brown band around his right leg, which holds a small gun holster.

Human Form
Alphonse's appearance before the accident was rather similar to his brother's. Despite being a year younger, Al was taller than Edward even then and wore his golden-blond hair short and neat with a parting on the left side. His eyes - gold like Ed's - are rounder than his brother's and set in a broader face, causing Al to more closely resembles Trisha Elric than Ed, who resembles Van Hohenheim.

Personality
Alphonse 2021 has the same personality as his original version; kindhearted, notably compassionate and patient, his passive disposition exists as a foil to his brother's more abrasive personality.

Abilities

 * Combat Alchemy
 * Does not need Transmutation Circles
 * Some Medical Alchemy
 * Armor Body
 * Jujutsu martial arts
 * Soul Binding
 * Super Strength

Trivia

 * Alphonse has a fondness for cute animals (especially stray ones) and will try to adopt them, much to his brother's disdain.
 * The reason that Fullmetal Alchemist didn't take place to 2020, because a pandemic and alchemy story wouldn't be appropriate.