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Riza redraw a year and a half later 🎴🫶🏻

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country boyyyy i love youuuu

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couldn’t resist drawing them being cute

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the flame alchemist 🔥

this is kinda old but you know I had to draw roy mustang eventually! I'm sorry I keep hopping around fandoms HAHHA 🙏

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An Awful Temptation

I am super proud of this! It's another redo kinda and I adore how it came out ❤️

And you could think it being a late Oct 3rd piece too

Speedpaint coming soon!

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thank you, mr mustang

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aaaaay

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Hands that kill

I'm pretty proud of how it turned out and even printed it out :)

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Never forget when a nerd from my high school when I was 17 and he was 16 or so said "women can't write shonen" and then two minutes later he said his favorite anime/manga was Fullmetal Alchemist. Never forget his face when my friend and I told him to check out who the author of that manga was. Never forget

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IT'S OCTOBER 3RD

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Riza deserves a nap after the promised day

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we’ve been together long enough

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Happy October 3rd!

This has been my destress doodle that I have been working to death for weeks

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Riza can be a little ugly, as a treat

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one of the things that makes me insane *affectionate* about fmab is how the deaths of all the homunculi are super meta, especially for those who are defeated by humans (wrath is killed by scar; pride is defeated by edward). but i think my fav one to think about is mustang vs lust. it could mean so many things….. that he’s the primary character in the series who does battle and defeat the sin of lust every day—or that the character he loves is being directly threatened and needs protection, and his love for her is what enables him to win. he’s directly juxtaposed to havoc, who is shown as having a weakness to women to a point that it gets in the way of his job. mustang, on the other hand, is shown as successfully prioritizing his professional duty over any temptation for lust he has for his subordinate by not seeking to dissolve those lines. additionally, his love for her also helps him stay in control, as he knows that giving in to lust would also jeopardize her career. duty + love = lust defeated

and that makes her dying lines (“I love how cold and focused your eyes are. I look forward to the day when those eyes will be wide in agony. It’s coming, it’s coming”) so *chef’s kiss*. i think for a long time I thought that it was foreshadowing to him going blind—which it still might be—but when I think about it, I can’t help but wonder if it’s more so referencing when the fact of his love (and the simultaneous prioritizing of his duty) leads to riza’s life being endangered to a point that he’s thinking about committing human transmutation. i mean, which looks more like “eyes wide in agony”?

now compare that to:

again, it might refer to both—but it’s not like lust knew he’d go blind one day. i think she was definitely more likely referring to some future moment in which his duel priorities that make him immune to lust—love and duty—would finally come clashing against each other, as all duel priorities eventually must.

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I love FMA:B just as much as the next person, but something that does bother me just a little bit in the switch from manga to anime is how they almost erase how gentle and kind Riza is with the kids.

Like these two moments with Winry and Al, they were completely taken out of the show, and while her moment with Winry doesn't hold much weight compared to her moment with Al, it still takes away from the fact that they were showing Riza's gentle side - which rarely gets shown in the anime.

I think her moment with Al definitely needed to make the show, not only does it foreshadow what is about to happen with Lust, but it's one of the first times that someone other than Ed reassures Al that he's important to what they're doing and not just important to Ed. And shows that she is confident in and trusts his abilities enough to depend on him, which Al probably needed to hear.

Coupled with Riza gently touching his chest plate, and Al's embarrassed little head rub, I think adding this moment would've only made Al's speech about not wanting to feel powerless when people die when they could've protected them even stronger.

Then with Ling and Lan Fan, the moments are smaller, but Riza is just as kind and gentle. It barely takes anything for Ling to convince her to stop and get Lan Fan, even when they are going full speed through the middle of a city, Bradley is looking for Ling and Lan Fan, and they have a homunculus tied up in the back of Riza's car.

Even when Riza is helping Dr. Knox clean up Lan Fan's amputation, in the manga, she's just gentler.

Compare this to Lan Fan having the rag in her mouth instead of Riza holding on her head, making sure Lan Fan is covered, and even the way Riza holds her shoulders is different.

And when they are piling up in the car to get away from Gluttony, in the anime they had Al take the time to ask Riza to take care of Lan Fan, which was so unnecessary. In the manga Riza just does it.

While Ed and Roy are arguing, Riza just says "Here, Lan Fan." then climbs in the back with her and cradles Lan Fan's head in her lap. None of these are much different from what they do in the anime, but I think it's enough to take away from showing Riza's soft side, especially her soft side to the younger characters.

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ah ... otp ... <3

ref under cut

saw this on twt weeks ago and i immediately thought "royai" but i was expecting someone else would draw it eventually .. but i haven't seen it so i did it myself (sorry if anyone did draw it). had to ask my friend to grab the og tweet for me since i'm in twitter jail