Buccaneer

Buccaneer towers over even the hardened men of Briggs, a bear-sized figure crowned by a distinctive mohawk paired with a braided ponytail. His right arm is automail, and unlike most users he keeps several cold-weather models on hand. He debuts wearing the M1913A 'Crocodile' arm, a chainsaw fitted with a movable jaw for trapping objects, and later switches to the M1910 Mad Bear Grade, a fierce standard hand tipped with diamond claws. His sheer bulk, combined with the poor visibility of the northern range, leads outsiders to mistake him for a bear with a mohawk.

Blunt and deeply distrustful, Buccaneer tends to strike first and question later, a stance that suits the Briggs creed of survival of the fittest. He plainly relishes combat and laces his speech with savage animal imagery, showing little patience for outsiders he has not yet learned to trust. Beneath the rough exterior, though, he is brave and fiercely loyal, warming into a jovial ally to those who earn the title of comrade. He shares Winry Rockbell's enthusiasm for automail, forever bragging about the qualities of his arms, and, much like Edward, favors menacing hardware.

Buccaneer is the first man of Briggs to run into the Elric brothers, ambushing them in a snowstorm after mistaking them for Drachman spies. He nets Alphonse and grapples Edward, whose alchemy fails against the unknown composite metals of his automail, and hauls both boys up to the fortress as prisoners. He stays convinced Edward is a spy until the homunculus Sloth breaks into the fort's depths and Edward is seen shielding the workers. Under Armstrong's orders he helps drive Sloth out into the killing cold, then joins the secret scouting party that pieces together the truth of Amestris being built as a giant transmutation circle. When Lieutenant General Raven arrives, Buccaneer helps the group expose and depose him, afterward handing Armstrong a fresh pair of gloves once she has killed the traitor. Fitted with his Mad Bear arm, he leads a search team into Sloth's tunnel, finds the mangled remains of the earlier scouts alongside two survivors terrified of a monster that strikes at any light, and barely escapes before his commander can seal them in for good.

On the Promised Day, Buccaneer marshals the hidden Briggs forces smuggled into Central and orders the assault on Central Command, storming the ground command room to take down Brigadier General Klemin. His troops seize most of the compound before the supposedly dead Fuhrer Bradley appears at the gate and carves through them with ease, shredding Buccaneer's Crocodile arm and leaving him bloodied. Refusing to fall, he clamps Bradley's blade inside his own stomach muscles so the Fuhrer cannot free it, buying Greed time in the fight. For his final act he waits behind the body of the dying Fu, Bradley's lone blind spot, then drives the sword through Fu and into Wrath, impaling both men at once. He tells the stunned Fuhrer that no eye, not even God's, can block a strike it cannot see, entrusts Ling with holding the gate as Armstrong ordered, and dies smiling, bound for a place higher than the peaks of Briggs. His sacrifice weakens Bradley just enough for Scar to finish him, and a furious Olivier presses on to complete the mission in his name.