#this is why you see names like enfield or carcano in my fics

[scienceoftheidiot]

I will never shut up about Roy meaning king in french (it's the old spelling!!! Everywhere has a place called Roy's whatever here)

I'll also add again that most of the names in the military come from Western WW2 (and occasionally 1) planes.

Mustang P-51 (USA)

Grumman E-2 Hawkeye (yes it's even giving family ties) (USA)

Hughes H-4 Hercules (from Howard Hughes) (USA)

Douglas A-20 Havoc (USA)

Breda planes (and cannons !) from the Società Italiana Ernesto Breda per Costruzioni Meccaniche

No Fuery but there's a plane called Hawker Fury (UK)

No Falman but we have Avions Farman (France) that built planes from 1908 to 1956 including war planes

I know I'm repeating myself for my followers and by obsessing on this (sorry not sorry) but I LOVE the degree of detail Arakawa gives to all of this.

Tagging @qs63 on this 😉

Something that’s forever hysterical to me: how all the clever and subtle English-name symbolism in FMA becomes so wallopingly in-your-face once you translate the whole series into English

“Ah yes, Riza Hawkeye. The sharp shooter. With eyes so sharp, we’ve taken to calling her ‘the Hawk’s eyes’ on account of this. Riza “The Hawk’s Eyes” Hawkeye. The similarity is coincidence ignore that.”

“Alex Armstrong. With arms so strong we call him the Strong Arm alchemist. Alex ‘Strong Arm’ Armstrong. What were the odds of this.”

“King Bradley, first name King. The Fuhrer, leader, ruler, president. ‘Fuhrer King Bradley’. ‘King King’ if you will. Why our military is full of coincidences.”