I've been waiting for a character like Winry Rockbell for a long time. A female character in a Japanese anime/manga with her own strengths that aren't hidden away under layers and layers of girly; who doesn't walk behind the hero but beside and even beyond him; who has her own life and her own feelings and isn't pining away when Edward's out doing his noble questown thing; intelligent, handy, adorable, semi-tragic-but-not-letting-that-interfere-with-her-life-goals, thankyewverrrrymuch; and possibly the strongest character in any of the three versions of the series.