#HE'D PUT BECOMING FUHRER OVER DOING THE RIGHT THING

[queenwinry]

what would be so bad about roy not becoming fuhrer

well, a few reasons. (though i will say there’s nothing inherently BAD about roy being like ‘you know what, i shouldn’t’ this is more addressing people who think he doesn’t deserve to be fuhrer and/or has bad motives)

1. who tf else would be? grumman is obviously very old (pretty damn old when you think about the fact that he has a granddaughter almost in her 30′s) and won’t be fuhrer forever. the majority of the high-ranked generals in the bradley era were a ok with murdering hundreds of innocent people to obtain immortality so they’re out. general armstrong, while definitively on the ‘good’ side is also a ok with murder (especially if it’s justified) and tbh as much as i like her character i think she would be quite ill suited to rule the country (and is clearly comfortable in briggs). plus, in what world would grumman choose armstrong over roy for fuhrer?

2. he has good motives. this is the point that was called into question by the post i was referring to. mainly op said that they doubted brohood roy would choose doing the right thing over the fuhrership like his 03 counterpart did. except......he DID choose the right thing. he literally formed a military coup to stop a god from destroying their country and to upseat the homunculus behind allll the shitty things amestris as a country did (namely to ishval). like, you people realize the fact that mustang literally staged a coup against the amestrian military isn’t just going to go away right? he has grumman’s support sure, but that doesn’t mean other high ranked officials not involved in the promised day (and not part of bradley’s group of sicko’s) aren’t going to raise an eyebrow or two. so, yeah, i’d say he put his ability to become fuhrer in the future into question when he know.....overthrew the military

3. what part of the narrative says that even though this thing roy has been dreaming of doing since literally day 1 (i.e. make the world a better place by being the leader of amestris) is wrong for him to do? yes, he has a horrible past, so does half the cast. so does the majority of the military. but if roy doesn’t come in and make amestris a democracy, who will? and, even then, he isn’t making amestris a democracy so he can be head honcho for life (at least in his mind, i have a whole separate opinion on the way most people think this deserves to end up), he’s doing it literally so the country never has to have another ishval and justice can be brought to life. in his mind, he fully plans on being tried as a war criminal the minute a full democratic system is put into place. what part of wanting to literally go to his death to atone for his sins him just ‘selfishly’ wanting to rule the country with an iron fist?