#Riza's tattoo

[lynyangell]

Headcanon of the Day Pt.2

Continuing on yesterday's post about Riza's scars. Cuz I'm obsessed with them. There will be a part 3!

TW: Potentially triggering for child abuse, read at your own risk.

Riza's tattoo is not technically a tattoo. We don't see a whole lot of them in FMA (I know Kimblee and Scar but still). Riza's looks different to me when I see it in color, almost browner? I think her Father used flame alchemy to burn it into her skin like a brand. The ownership implied in a branding plays with my head in messed up ways there y'all.

@littlewitchbee Thanks again for the photo! I'm addicted to it! *the photo I initially forgot to attach which I have now fixed :face palm:*

[lynyangell]

I go with the theory that it's a burn rather than a tattoo, and she thinks burning it is the only way to cover it up successfully. Plus, it's self-flagellation on her part. Thoughts?

Hopefully this reaches the fma people

Couldn’t Riza have gotten a tattoo cover up instead of… you know… asking her crush to make her a baked Alaska

[courtmartialme]

how foolish can one man be?

[shanks]

ましゅー

[burnertracfone]

Riza Hawkeye hotsprings by kajin

[chrysopoeias]

So like when I got my nipples pierced, I was so cool and passed out in the lobby 😎 anyways, riza bravely coming out of the back room excited to show Roy her new piercing and then proceeding to collapse into his arms

Ghsjgh yeah I imagine it is super painful and sensitive. I wonder it they do them one by one or both at the same time...

I’m imagining riza gets them done when she is in the military academy. Maybe Rebecca can catch her from fainting. Or if she does get them later, she does not tell roy about it. She wanted it for herself and it’s a bit awkward to drop that info on your boss randomly lolll. Regardless, I want roy to find out about the piercings later and be surprised by it. Like they still learn things they didn’t know about each other :) and play with em :) once/when they get toghether

[smoothshine]

𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘷𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶

[fmascreencaps]

[royaibrainrot]

Writing early post Ishval Royai is hard because in my mind that period of time is very awkward and non romantic. The issue is with writing dialogue: because the usual way these two interact is a lot of dry banter and flirting, (which they would still do to break the tension) buuut I don’t want them to be too casual, or comfortable, or quite frankly too into each other at this point in time, ya know?

Little detour talking about more character study-ish stuff:

This post Ishval period is so interesting. Because Roy and Riza are both at an extreme low in their lives, and in their relationship with each other, but the back burning stuff forces them to be very vulnerable and intimate with each other right in the middle of it.

As far as Riza goes, she’s very angry and hurt because of how Roy betrayed her with the use of her father’s research. She probably hates him a little in spite of herself. But also, there’s a part of her that still loves him and looks up to him. And with the death of her father, it probably feels like he’s all she has left.

And then Roy, as we know, is overcome by guilt and shame for what he did in Ishval, particularly where it concerns Riza. But instead of being able to go hide from his problems, he has to face them head on when Riza asks him to burn her back. There’s no way he can deny her because he sort of ruined her life (at least in his mind) and owes it to her to fulfill whatever she asks of him.

So there you have it, they kind of want nothing to do with each other atm, but also are desperate to rely on and care for each other. Everything about their past is so interwoven and connected that it always takes them back to each other, no matter how much it hurts.

Truly insane. And this is why I love Arakawa’s storytelling so much.

[lynyangell]

Bring On the Rain Ch. 2

Her skin is argent and pearly, glowing like the sun in warm evening light. Roy thinks it must be the loveliest color he’s ever seen. He remembers how soft she was when he touched her that last day by the riverbank, how her hands always felt smooth and cool.

His hands itch to touch her. She’s so close, laid out before him with one hand holding open a book, her head resting on her arm. She looks so innocent and vulnerable with her back bare, lying on her goddamn bed . Part of him wants to cover her up to protect her from his own prying gaze. Part of him wants to cross the space between them and finally touch all of that soft skin, everywhere he can reach. He curses himself. For leaving her here two years ago, for not going AWOL and getting on the next train the day she called, for planning to leave again .

You’re a fool, Mustang.

He’s supposed to be studying the alchemy, and not her, when she shifts slightly, stretching. Roy lets out a grunt, his breath catching. He imagines kissing the delicate sprinkle of freckles at the nape of her neck. They make him think of warm brown sugar, and he wonders if she’d taste as sweet.

Thank you @ittakesabow for your extra hard work on the Beta for this chapter. You push me to be a better writer than I knew I could be. <3 <3 <3 (Y'all don't even know, the first draft was awful)

[swimmingbouquetturtle]

Riza's tattoos

[godlessbody]

is there any overlap between fma fans and fans of the grishaverse and the grisha trilogy in particular? i am want to put my otps from any other fandom into it always because i like the setting and magic system and i usually go for the places of darklina (yeah yeah. it’s about the Flavor) but realized royai are actually SO malina coded. i am probably the only person with any thoughts on this but i must know.

[farginen]

me getting a fma tattoo when

[scramble-crossing]

Honestly thank god I didn't find twewy earlier in life I would've been insufferable about it. Twelve year old me was NOT comprehending a single goddamn thing I would've just been emboldened to wear headphones in public while sharing dozens upon dozens of increasingly low-effort Neku loves chicken nuggets memes on Facebook to the horror of my many loved ones. The self-insert fanfiction would've been insane.

[sidsinning]

Thinking about how only part of Riza's back tattoo is burnt bc Roy couldn't bear to hurt her any further despite her request to burn it all away

Thinking about how Arakawa straight up answered the question about why Royai aren't together saying it's literally bc of military rules that they aren't married

She knew what she cooked here

[riza-hawks-eye]

The ova Yet Another Man's Battlefield explores why Mustang can never settle down and get married like Maes Hughes.

He asks Hughes, "Can you really hold the woman you love with blood-stained hands?" And it's not just a manifestation of his guilt. There's truth to the fact that Mustang is not a good person. Mustang is terrifying. And people are right to be afraid of him.

The same thing applies to Riza, only Riza has the horrible bonus of having the Alchemical equivalent to nuclear launch codes on her back. Sure, Roy may have burned off the most important information of her Father's research, but the tattoo still lingers, and there will still be questions from the people who see it. And Riza can't give them answers that won't lead back to the numerous deaths she is responsible for.

It's no wonder then, that neither of these two characters are ever canonically romantically linked to anyone else.

Neither Riza nor Roy even really meaningfully touched anyone else until Episode 59. When the Gold-Toothed Doctor has Riza's throat slit.

It takes a near-death experience for Roy to hold the woman he loves, and for Riza to finally let herself be held.

But in a strange sense, it finally lets Roy hold the woman he loves with blood-stained hands.