Heinkel

Heinkel is one of the human chimeras guarding Solf J. Kimblee in Briggs. Afterwards he and his partner Darius travel with Edward Elric.

Appearance
Heinkel is tall man with mustache, short hair and glasses. In his chimera form, he has lion like upper body and mane reaching his back.

Role in the story
Heinkel is first seen in Briggs when Kimblee arrives. Later, when Briggs soldiers along with Elrics, Kimblee and the chimeras try to capture Scar, he and Darius accompany Elrics in search. Elrics lose them by transmuting a wall between them, leaving chimeras to find their own way around. When Briggs soldiers try to assassinate Kimblee, Heinkel and Darius engage Edward Elric in a brief fight but Ed defeats them by releasing ammonium from inside the old dynamite tubes into the air, stunning the chimeras. When Kimblee blows the mine shaft to pieces, the chimeras save the wounded Edward and try to find the others.

They come to a cottage near Central and find Ling Yao there. Ling soon transforms back to Greed and leaves but Ed convinces Greed that he and chimeras can serve Greed. Greed agrees and travel to nearby forest.

There they encounter Pride who has taken Al as shield around his shadows. Ed shuts the electrics in nearby slum, making zero visibility in darkness. As Pride can't use his shadows, Heinkel attacks him. At same time Gluttony attacks Darius, Ed and Greed. In complete darkness, neither can see each other. Lan Fan arrives and and kills Gluttony few times. Heinkel tries to kill Pride but some people from slums arrive with a lantern, providing Pride a chance to attack Heinkel.

Ed comes to save him and uses flashbangs to destroy Pride's shadows. Understanding that they are losing, Pride absorbs Gluttony, gaining his sense of smell and remaining lives in Gluttony's Philosopher's Stone.

The battle continues and Heinkel is forced to retreat because of his wounds. Hohenheim captures Pride inside a dome of earth with Al and Heinkel agrees to guard the dome. Unaware of the fact that Pride is using Al's helmet to send morse code to Father, others leave. While later returning from a walk, Heinkel hears the sound made by Pride. Rushing to stop him, Heinkel gets ambushed by Kimblee who wounds him fatally. Earth mound broken, Pride comes out and tries to kill Heinkel. Al comes in the way, blowing his own legs off in process. He tries to save Heinkel but, understanding his own situation, Heinkel gives Al Kimblee's first Philosopher's Stone and falls down. Al restores his legs and fights Pride and Kimblee with the Philosopher's Stone, managing to fend them of for some time, but then Kimblee uses his Philosopher's Stone and blows Al away. Al creates a dust cloud to disorientate Pride's sense of smell and gives his Philosopher's Stone to Tim Marcoh, who heals Heinkel. Al attacks Pride to buy time for Marcoh and Heinkel attacks from downwind, biting Kimblee in the neck, incapacitating him. When Al and the others make their escape, Heinkel uses Kimblee's body as a shield against Pride's attack and then throws it at the Homunculus to buy time to get away. He is then mostly on the sidelines for the rest of the battle, and was the only chimera to have his soul absorbed by Father and resurrected by Hohenheim's counter-attack. His last appearance is in a photo next to Darius and Yoki in the epilogue, apparently working in a circus.

Abilities
Heinkel is a human based chimera and can transform into a lion-man in battle. While in this form he gains enhanced senses and the abilities of a lion (claws, fangs, night vision, etc.)

Trivia

 * Heinkel's name may have come from the German aircraft manufacturing company Heinkel Flugzeugwerke.
 * While in his chimera form, in the manga, Heinkel has cat-like slit pupils, however, real-life lions have round pupils.