#and roy and riza and the others

[sassydefendorflower]

i think much of the lens i view Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood) with was first informed by growing up reading Animorphs

[chainsawfam]

Roy Mustang is the type to joke about marrying Riza Hawkeye for tax benefits. Hawkeye is the type to take it seriously. Penciled in that day at 4pm so she can be home to feed Black Hayate at 5.

Mustang still thinks it’s a bit until they’re signing papers. He tries to joke about how lucky he is to marry a beautiful woman to hide how he’s freaking out. Hawkeye tells him that, with all due respect, they’re already destined to spend eternity together in hell, so might as well make the paperwork easier.

She signs the papers and leaves Mustang standing open-mouthed in the office. They never talk about it again.

[courtmartialme]

and you're the one i can't live without💞💐

(it's a redraw of a redraw! originals under the cut ^__^)

first redraw is from 2020 :] the original is from a studio bones artists' exhibition iirc! this time i wanted to give riza an outfit i like personally instead of drawing the same as the original ^__^

[ahbogman]

warmth.

[tomorrowandtomorow]

thinking about fma, one of the things i love about it is arakawa's very intentional worldbuilding. she never gave the story more than the plot needed. we don't get a bunch of flashbacks detailing the characters' lives, eveything that we know about them is only in service of the plot.

the xingese characters are there because they need the secret to immortality to gain their father's favor. and despite this being so interesting we don't really know anything else about them lol. how well do mei and ling know each other? how do their clans stand with one another? anything at all about their other siblings? they get like two interactions and other than the clans just generally hating each other we've got nothing. we don't even get anything about how lan fan even became ling's bodyguard.

then xerxes, a personal favorite of mine. ed and al are kind of casually confirmed to be descendants of a dead civilization renowned for alchemy. are we going to explore that civilization at all? ofc not. anything about hohenheim's past, other that the things you really need to know? nope. we're just generally gonna mention how he's known as a sage throughout both the east and west.

the fact that grumman is riza's grandfather? left untouched. the fact that roy studied under riza's father? you get one (1) flashback.

i love this style of worldbuilding tbh.

[madootles]

;)

[mfshipbracket]

[tropicalcryptid]

Royai for me is one of those ships where their chemistry is so amazing, their story so complex, and the fanworks so persuasive and lovely, that I do not have a "one true headcanon" for them.

Do they passionately confess after the Promised Day, when they both almost lose each other? Yup.

Are they too emotionally constipated to confess even after that, until some other dramatic situation finally breaks their resolve? Also yup.

Do they wait until Roy is Fuhrer (or Grumman changes the frat laws) so they don't risk compromising their goals, no matter the intensity of their feelings? Yuppers.

...Were they secretly fucking in supply closets this whole time? Yupperooni!

[gayest-pirate-ever]

Fuck it, Roy and Riza in the demon slayer universe

[soufflegirl]

I love how fma villains just assumed they were a thing

[bisexualriza]

day 2 - appreciate ✿

bonus under cut ✿ mild nsfw

✿ good morning to you too ⋆⁺₊✧*ೃ༄

[memesmadefullmetal]

Mod Mustang I can't help but question the specific spelling of this

I uh

I was obviously just soft launching Mod Hawkeye’s pregnancy 😅

- Mod Mustang 🔥

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I’m not pregnant. Just admit that you fucked up 😒

- Mod Hawkeye 🦅

[dragonslayer-secretagent-a]

Save me deeply traumatized war criminals with undying devotion and a suicide pact. Save me....

[courtmartialme]

hyuai dynamic in my delusion world. riza didn't really like hughes at first because she wasn't used to such a cheerful personality, and also kinda judged him for building a family after all they've done, but she eventually warms up to him. on the other hand hughes always liked her and enjoys telling her about his family because she's a very good listener :^) did you know hughes calls her "riza-chan" in one of the fma games i think that's important

[riveluart]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Did someone say Royai??

[bubblesandpages]

Okay, Okay, the whole Riza breaking down scene when she finds out Roy is 'dead' is tragic, yes, but the part that really punches you in the gut isn't that the love of her life is lying dead somewhere, it's that her only means of salvation and self-atonement has been ripped away from her, not just her other half but the person who makes it possible for her to live with herself—who in turn is inexplicably linked to her need for atonement in as much as she is linked to his need for absolution because these two are so tied up in the other's life that they share in the other's sins.