EdWin

Edwin is the het ship between Edward "Ed" Elric and Winry Rockbell in the Fullmetal Alchemist fandom.

Canon
Ed and Winry have known each other since they were little and the time she spent growing up with Ed and his younger brother, Al had gotten her to view the Elric brothers as family. At one point during their childhood Ed had developed a crush on Winry, after Ed lost a fight he had with Al about which one of them would one day marry Winry, she turned the both of them down; due to her not wanting to date men who are shorter then her. After Ed and Al lost their mother and there had been no word from their absence father, who left his family, Winry and her grandmother took the Elric brothers in. Winry had also lost both of her parents and because she lost them before Trisha Elric died, she understands what Ed and his brother are going through. Once Ed remembered reading about the forbidden Alchemy ritual of Human Transmutation he convinces Al to help him bring their mother back, while leaving Winry and her grandmother in the dark knowing that they'll try to stop them. After the ritual resorted in Ed losing an arm and leg, while Al lost his body and had his soul placed in a suit of armour, Al takes a bleeding out Ed to Winry and Pinako for help.

When people from the military came to her house, Winry became worried that they'll take Ed away but Riza reassures her that the choice is Ed's. Even though Winry didn't want Ed to become a state Alchemist, she understands that is was the only way for him and Al to find away for them to restore their bodies. As Winry helps her grandmother with the surgery to attach Ed's new auto-mail limps, she listens to Ed blaming himself for what happened to Al and how he was too scared to ask Al about it. Winry doesn't inform Al of that moment, knowing that it would upset Ed if she did so behind his back. After Ed became the Fullmetal Alchemist he doesn't kept in touch with Winry, unless his auto-mail was damaged and he needed her to repair it. Which could be the reason why Winry has asked Ed to call her whenever he is in need of a tune up.

Fullmetal Alchemist (live-action film)
Like in the manga and anime, the live action film of Fullmetal Alchemist has people noticing the hidden chemistry signs within the fights Ed has with Winry about his damaged auto-mail. As the two have dinner with the Hughes's, Gracia tells Ed that Winry being upset with him is due to her caring about his safety. After Edward and Winry left Al in Shou Tucker's care, they go in search of Tim Marcoh in hopes that he'll be able to help them and during the train ride, Ed and Winry share the apple pie that Gracia Hughes made for them. Winry can see that Ed feels sorry for Al and they can eat food while Al cannot, so she cheers Ed up about how Al might be dreaming about a giant pie, as well as her telling Ed that his short size is why Nina Tucker likes him. Once Winry spotted Dr. Marcoh she dashes off the train and gets Ed to follow her, but didn't tell Ed why she dashed off like she did until after they learn where Marcoh lives. Shortly after Lust arrivals to kill Marcoh, Ed and Winry show concern for one another when Lust used her long sharp nails to pin them to the wall. With Marcoh dead and Nina turned into a chimera, Winry gave Ed the space he needed while he tries to find the fifth lab Marcoh told them with his dying breath. The two tragic events got Ed to push people away until Mr. Hughes helped him to realize that he needs to let his friends help him when he needs it.

Moments after Ed was giving fails information about the lab he was looking for, he takes Winry and Al with him to the location but found nothing. After Ed and Al began to fight, Winry defends Ed as she tells Al how much his older brothers loves him and that he wants to fulfil his promise to Al. Shou Tucker saw how much Ed cares about Winry and Al and used them as hostages to keep Fullmetal at by, as well as getting him to remove his auto-mail arm. After Shou was killed and the dumpy dolls were set loose, Ed sees that Al has kept Winry safe before he asks her to fix his arm so he can stop them. At the end of the film, Ed watches Winry play a card game with Al as she accompanies them on the next step of their journey.

Fanon
They are one of the most popular ships in the fandom, and rival RoyEd and Edling. When EdWin became canon at the end of the manga and the Brotherhood anime series, it pleased many fans and had inspired them to focus some of their fanwork on the family they stared with their two children. Who some see as a mini Ed and Winry. There have also been those who sometimes compare Ed and Winry with Van Hohenheim and Trisha, since both of their family photos are a little similar to one another with the parents holding their children up in their arms, along with Ed and Hohenheim taking long trips away from home while Winry and Trisha wait for their return.

On AO3, the ship has over 2200 fanfics.

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