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qs63 · 7 days ago
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I've seen many posts about the way Riza and Roy address each other, and I wanted to add my 5 cents as someone who is learning Japanese and reading the Japanese manga as part of that process (it's been fun and informative!).
There are two particular scenes I want to discuss in this post:
The first scene is their conversation under the tunnel on the Promised Day.
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貴方は そちらに 堕ちてはいけない・・・!
You must not fall into that…
If you've been around here for any amount of time you probably know that Riza breaks protocol in this scene and calls Roy "貴方" (anata, you). You might also know that in Japanese people don't usually address each other as “you”, preferring to use someone's name and/or title to address them. So Riza calling Roy “anata” would sound too rude or too intimate (as this is what a wife might call her husband).
HOWEVER, anime and manga don’t use conventional Japanese. Any Japanese person will be quick to tell you that anime’s Japanese is not proper. It's often exaggerated for comedic or creative purposes. This phenomenon was once also common in English comics.
Think of all the cringe lines in the old Batman TV shows and comics. I even remember reading a note from Stan Lee in a 1960s Ironman comic saying: “We know people don't talk like this in real life”. So yeah…
The use of the many forms of “you” is common in anime/manga even if it's not proper Japanese. Fullmetal Alchemist is no exception to this.
Here is Riza calling Rebecca anata:
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And Winry:
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And even Barry (lol):
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Riza addressing Roy as “anata” is not exactly special or a sign of them being close to each other. That's just how she normally addresses people.
Well kind of…
FMA does follow its own internal formality logic. The way the members of the military address each other is very well defined. Riza not calling Roy — a superior officer — by his official title or by “Sir” IS breaking protocol. It's not how she usually addresses him, nor how she should be addressing him.
The reason why she does this here — to my still in-training Japanese eye — is not because of closeness, or kinship, or whatever. I read this as a plea from Riza — not Lieutenant Hawkeye — to Roy — not Colonel Mustang.
Arakawa actually goes out of her way to preserve a sense of distance and propriety between them by using the kanji form of "anata" (貴方) — which can be read as more formal or stiff — instead of the commonly used kana form (あなた). This is the only instance where we see the kanji form in Riza's speech (see Rebecca, Winry, and Barry above), so its use here is VERY intentional. To me this is Arakawa's way of showing the reader (not to Roy because he will hear "anata" regardless of how it's written) that even though Riza is using an improper, somewhat familiar, way to address him, she is still trying to be proper and show reverence to him as her superior officer.
In a sense this line is actually the opposite of Riza showing a sense of closeness to Roy. What it does show is just how much she looks up to him, and how serious she takes both of their roles.
貴方はそちらに 堕ちてはいけない・・・!
You must not fall into that…
Is both an order and a plea to the man that carries her and her father's dream.
The second scene I want to discuss is the one time Roy calls Riza by her first name.
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リザ!!
Riza!!
Again, this might look somewhat weird or overly familiar. Calling someone by first name without any honorifics is usually a no, no in Japanese.
HOWEVER, Amestris is not Japan. Like I said, FMA follows its own formality system, which seems to align more closely with what you would expect in an Anglo society than in a Japanese one. The use of honorifics is not overly common, especially for honorifics like “chan” which may be the one expected from Roy in this scene.
In FMA “Kun” and “Chan” are pretty much exclusively reserved for children. And its use seems to be more of a form of endearment than a social protocol. For example, Riza and Fuery both use "Kun" for Ed and Al, but the rest of team Mustang does not.
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Winry using “chan” with Elicia.
Roy knows Riza's name, she's not a small child, they're of a similar social status, and she's not in a position of authority. There's no reason why he should call her anything but Riza.
This btw doesn't indicate any closeness between them. Just like someone calling you by first name wouldn't necessarily indicate any closeness in an English-speaking country.
Here are some examples of people calling each other by first name right after meeting:
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Ed calls Rose by first name.
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Winry calls Paninya by first name right after introducing themselves.
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Al calls Ling by first name shortly after meeting each other.
More interesting than Roy calling Riza by first name, is Riza calling Roy “Mr Mustang” in return.
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Riza calls Roy "マスタ���グさん" (Mr Mustang).
“San” (Mr/Mrs/Miss) is by far the most common honorific used in FMA, just like “Mr” would be in English. But regular people don't usually go calling each other “Mr last name”, especially not outside of a formal environment like school or work. In FMA “San” is mainly used for older people you're not very close to (The Elric brothers call many of the adults as "Mr Last name"), and for people with authority (Knox calls Roy “Mr Mustang” despite Roy being significantly younger).
The combination of first name (Roy to Riza) plus Mr last name (Riza to Roy) tells us that the relationship between Roy and Riza is NOT that of equals. In Riza's eyes Roy is in a position that warrants the use of “San”. And it makes sense, he's older, he's a Warrant Officer, and judging by Roy's questions about her family, and her “Do you remember me?” during the war, they're not too familiar with each other at this point.
Yeah… the way Roy and Riza address each other throughout the series is distant and proper of their station and rank. In terms of Roy's relationships the way Roy and Hughes, Chris and Roy, and even Knox and Roy, address each other is way more unusual than the way Riza and Roy do (I could make a follow up post about this if anyone is interested).
As a Royai fan I must say seeing this made me a bit sad. I can only wish and imagine a future where these two can finally address each other on equal footing and with the closeness their devotion to each other deserves.
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memesmadefullmetal · 3 months ago
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Seriously tho, people being Ho’s fans and forgetting Roy and Jean 😩
We have Havoc love going around on this blog! Havoc stans have been dubbed the Jeanzebels!
But this is the first time our askbox has had some actual 😩 thirst for Roy during all this! (about damn time! - Mod Mustang 🔥)
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- Mod Mustang & Mod Hawkeye 🔥🦅
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sakiyaki-sashimi · 1 year ago
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Get to know you questions!! Tag whoever you like :D
Writing my answers in orange!
1) top 5 or top 10 favorite animals (depending on how many animals you like)
Hermit Crabs, Pigeons, Otters, Anglerfish, Shrimp, Cats, Manned Wolves, Salamander, Sheep, Axolotls :D
2) top 3 Minecraft mobs
Mooshroom, chicken, and parrot!!!
3) favorite vocaloid song or My Singing Monsters island theme and why! (If you don’t like/know Vocaloid/MSM, just name a song or genre you like and why :D)
Fav Vocaloid song is Brain Explosion girl recently, and fav MSM theme HAS to be cold island. Or maybe earth???? Hm
4) favorite and least favorite textures, no why needed :333
Fav is squishy soft things, least favorite is ice in a freezer
5) not your favorite color, but your favorite color palette (bonus points if you have a pic of the specific palette or a photo/artwork of the pallet you like!!)
Purple, Green, Orange, Pink, and Black! Total Halloween vibes!!
6) fav book you had to read for school (fiction or non fiction work lol, and if you don’t like/have any then just name a book or fanfic you like!)
Of Mice and Men was surprisingly amazing! Thought I’d hate it tbh
7) how do you think of the months of the year in your head? Left to right, top to bottom, in specific numbered rows and columns? Tell me :D
I think of it like this:
January, February, March, April
May, June, July, August
September, October, November, December
8) assigned harry potter/ilvermorny house or Percy Jackson cabin or Warrior cats clan something like that lol (if you don’t have anything like that, star sign works too!)
I’ll do em all lol: Slytherin/Hufflepuff, Pukwudgie, Dionysus’s, RiverClan, I’m an Aries sun/gemini rising/pisces moon :D
9) MBTI???? Love those things :33 (If you haven’t taken the test yet or u just don’t wanna cuz it’s too long, are you a solider poet or king?)
I’m an ENFP-T! I thought I’d get king but I got poet lol
10) something “cringe” you actually rly like, no shame here :D
Gacha Life/Club, the styles just so cutesy! Ohhh also K-Pop, I’m a TOTAL stay :33 and DSMP, it’s just rly cool to me
11) characters from shows/movies/games you kin/stan/just adore!! NOT ACCEPTING IRL PPL PLZ AND THANK U :D (unless it’s urself, we like self love in these parts)
For me I currently kin Dazai, Edward Elric, c!TommyInnit, and I completely STAN any Project Sekai character. I mean any of them.
12) 5 people you’d wanna be at a party with and why! (Can be alive or dead, real or fake, celebrities or randos, humans or otherwise :D)
My grandpa to see him again, Roy mustang to see if he’s a bastard irl, Hachi/Kenshi Yonezu just to see how he’s doing, Kanye West to just ask him why, and BeastChild (the YouTuber) just cause I really like his stuff and would wanna meet him!
13) favorite hobby/fandom specific term and its meaning :333
I’m a writer (well, aspiring anyway, I’m not rly that good) and I love the idea of the sexy lamp. Basically if you’re writing a female character that could be replaced with a sexy lampshade and nothing about the story changes then you’re writing a BAD FEMALE CHARACTER XD
Cause it’s spooky season il leave it at 13 ;)
Happy answering!!!
No pressure tags :3 @touratoura @theancientwonder @kneecoal-mooma @citrushomie @skytheamazing @mitski-slope @a-trench-coat-of-confused-worms @dicklesswonder-blog @vicaridoo
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fandomtrash-16 · 4 years ago
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I had to add in the second half of the cannonical reactions to Edward's kidnapping in The Abducted Alchemist:
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Literally nobody is on the "oh my god we must do everything to save him!!!" level of panic. Even Alphonse, his own brother, isn't worried for Ed- instead worried for the other abducted child they had met the night prior.
This doesn't mean there isn't worry for his well-being, Roy does indeed worry for Ed. He just knows when he's needed.
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Mustang trusts in his subordinate's strength, which is why he's so nonchalant about the trouble he gets into, but he also cares deeply, (even if he doesn't admit it), and will step in and help when Edward truly needs it.
About 1 out of 5 Parental!RoyEd fics: “When his youngest subordinate goes missing, the Flame Alchemist will stop at nothing to bring Ed safely home.”
Meanwhile, Roy in Brotherhood: “Fullmetal’s gone missing up North? Hmm, sounds like a personal problem to me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a coup to plan.”
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obiwan-kenobabe · 3 years ago
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I'm pretty sure that Roy and Riza could have pulled a Will and Elizabeth Turner style marriage while the gang threw down with the gold-toothed doctor and his former experiments.
I mean, the back to back fighting? Ugh. They basically got married through that maneuver.
Could you imagine them just yelling to Scar for him to marry them? In the middle of it all? Ed being so lost??
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addicted-to-12th-intro · 4 years ago
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itsalwaysunnyinamestris · 4 years ago
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zuko would win if it was raining though
zuko splashes some water on useless old ron mustard and fucking gets his ass
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weaponized-gluten · 5 years ago
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God why didn't they just have Mustang take care of all the Humunculi? Like it took him approximately 2 seconds to cremate Lust and he def would've had Envy. I'm thinking that once the squad figured out where Father's hideout was they should've told the Colonel about it and had him jus go busting in snappin like he at a slam poetry reading
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mystieres · 6 years ago
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criticalrolo · 7 years ago
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im almost done with fma:b and the verdict is I Would Die For These Characters
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memesmadefullmetal · 3 years ago
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hey Alexa, set daily reminders for 4pm
credit: @the-revenge-of-johnny-cash
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mandareeboo · 3 years ago
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Fenton x Gandra, Drake x Launchpad (2017 or old DW, or both?), Roy Mustang x Riza Hawkeye, and Tambry x Robby?
vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell
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I think they're cute! But I do wish we'd gotten to see more of Gandra. She has such an interesting concept behind her, and I imagine she and Fenton would have some blowout arguments about being a "sellout".
vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell
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WE STAN GAY DADS AND THEIR TROUBLED ADOPTED DAUGHTER
vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell
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For good or bad, they deserve each other.
vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell
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For a romance started via a love potion, they are a good couple! And I think that the potion will wear off eventually and they'll still be dating.
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quierorodarnojodan · 3 years ago
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Estábamos bromeando con un amigo @mcdonneeli sobre que tenemos muchos ships similares si no casi todos, pero que irónicamente ambos nos peleamos por el mismo pj a usar y por eso jamás podemos rolear las ships xDD entonces me puse hacer la lista a ver que dice mi compatriota desalmado.
Anime/Manga
Axis Power Hetalia
Alemania x Norte De Italia
Austria x Hungría [♥]
Dinamarca x Noruega
España x Sur De Italia
Prussia x Hungría
Prussia x Austria [♥]
Bleach
Ichigo Kurosaki x Uryuu Ishida [♥]
Ikkaku Madarame x Yumichika Ayasegawa
Kyouraku Shunsui x Ukitake Jyuushirou [♥]
Carole & Tuesday
Carole Stanley x Tuesday Simmons
Cyborg 009
Jet Link (002) x Albert Heinrich (004)
Digimon
Ishida Yamato x Yagami Taichi [♥]
Dragon Ball
Goku x Vegeta
Durarara!!
Celty Sturluson x Kishitani Shinra
Kadota Kyohei x Izaya Orihara
Fairy Tails
Levy McGarden x Gajeel Redfox
FullMetal Alchemist
Maes Hughes x Roy Mustang [♥]
Get Backers
Kakei Juubei & Fuuchouin Kazuki
Haikyuu!!
Ooikawa Tooru x Iwaizumi Hajime
Haru wo Daiteita
Kato Youji x Iwaki Kyosuke [♥]
Hunter x Hunter
Hisoka x Illumi Zoldyck
Leorio Paladiknight x Kurapika [♥]
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Joseph Joestar x Caesar Zeppeli
Jotaro Kujo x Noriaki Kakyoin [♥]
Mohammed Abdul x Jean Pierre Polnareff
Kuroko no Basket
Atsushi Murasakibara x Tatsuya Himuro
Kiyoshi Teppei x Makoto Hanamiya [♥]
Midorima Shintaro x Takao Kazunari [♥]
Naruto
Uzumaki Naruto x Uchiha Sasuke
Hatake Kakashi x Umino Iruka [♥]
Haruno Sakura x Yamanaka Ino
One Piece
Eustass Kid x Trafalgar D. Law
Roronoa Zoro x Vinsmoke Sanji
Saint Seiya
Manigoldo x Albafika [♥]
Hyoga x Shun
Sailor Moon
Kunzite x Zoisite
Michiru Kaiō x Haruka Tenou
Sakura Card Captor
Touya Kinomoto x Yukito Tsukishiro [♥]
Shingeki no Kyojin
Erwin Smith x Levi Rivaille
Marco Bott X Jean Kirstein
The Prince of Tennis
Inui Sadaharu x Kaidou Kaoru [♥]
Tiger & Bunny
Kotetsu Kaburagi x Barnaby Brooks Jr.
Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru
Hotsuma Renjou x Shusei Usui [♥♥♥]
Cartoons
Adventure Time
Marceline Abadeer x Princess Bubblegum
Marshall Lee x Prince Gumball
Avatar: the Last Airbender
Jet x Zuko [♥]
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Kevin x Edd (Doble D)
Generador Rex
Rex Salazar x Noah Nixon [♥]
Happy Tree Friends
Lumpy x Russell
Shifty x Lifty
Splendid x Flippy
Scooby-Doo
Daphne Blake x Velma Dinkley
The Dragon Prince
Rey Harrow x Viren
The Legend of Korra
Korra x Asami Sato
Iroh II x Bolin
Voltron
Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane x Adam [♥]
Xiaolin Showdown
Chase Young x Jack Spicer
Series
9-1-1
Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz x Evan "Buck" Buckley [♥]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel (Angelus) x Spike (William) [♥]
Willow Rosenberg x Tara Maclay
Carmilla
Carmilla Karnstein x Laura Hollis
Class
Matteusz Andrzejewski x Charlie Smith
Common Law
Travis Marks x Wes Mitchell [♥]
Cobra Kai
Daniel LaRusso x Johnny Lawrence
Deadwind (Karppi)
Sofia Karppi x Sakari Nurmi
Downton Abbey
Tom Branson x Thomas Barrow
Richard Ellis x Thomas Barrow
Eyewitness
Lukas Waldenbeck x Philip Shea
Grey's Anatomy
Mark Sloan x Derek Shepherd
Hannibal
Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham
Hawaii Five-0
Danny Williams x Steve McGarret [♥]
Hemlock Grove
Peter Rumancek x Roman Godfrey [♥]
How to Get Away with Murder
Oliver Hampton x Connor Walsh
Iron Fist
Danny Rand x Ward Meachum [♥♥]
Julie and the Phantoms
Alex x Willie
Las chicas del cable
Francisco Gómez x Carlos Cifuentes [♥]
LazyTown
Sportacus x Robbie Rotten
London Spy
Alex x Danny
Merlin
Arhur Pendragone x Merlin
Once Upon a Time
Regina Mills x Emma Swan
Regina Mills x Robin Hood
Shadow and Bone
Aleksander / The Darkling x Kaz Brekker
Jasper Fahey x Kaz Brekker
Star Trek
James T. Kirk x Spock
Leonard MCCoy x Spock
Malcolm Reed x Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Stranger Things
Billy Hargrove x Steve Harrington
Teen Wolf
Derek Hale x Stiles Stilinski
The Alienist
Laszlo Kreizler x John Moore
The Boys
Billy Butcher x Homelander (John)
The Irregulars
Billy x Leopold
Sherlock Holmes x John Watson
The Order
Hamish Duke x Randall Carpio
The Umbrella Academy
Diego Hargreeves x Klaus Hargreeves
The Walking Dead
Daryl Dixon x Rick Grimes
The Witcher
Geralt de Rivia x Jaskier
Torchwood
Jack Harkness x Ianto Jones [♥]
Travelers
Trevor Holden x Philip Pearson
Vampire Diaries
Alaric Saltzman x Damon Salvatore
Warehouse 13
Helena G. Wells x Myka Bering
Películas
Cloud Atlas
Rufus Sixsmith x Robert Frobisher
Sonmi-451 x Hae-Joo Chang
Inception
Eames x Robert Fischer
Dom Cobb x Robert Fischer
IT
Richie Tozier x Eddie Kaspbrak
James Bond
James Bond x Q [♥]
Rise of the Guardians
Sandman x Pitch Black
Star Wars
Baze Malbus x Chirrut Îmwe
Poe Dameron x Armitage Hux​ [♥]
The Old Guard
'Joe' Yusuf Al-Kaysani x 'Nicky' Nicolo di Genova
The Road to El Dorado
Tulio x Miguel
U.N.C.L.E.
Napoleon Solo x Illya Kuryakin
Libros
Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore x Gellert Grindelwald [♥]
Harry Potter x Draco Malfoy
Blaise Zabini x Theodore Nott [♥]
Pansy Parkinson x Daphne Greengrass [♥]
James Potter x Severus Snape [♥]
Sirius Black x Remus Lupin
Shadowhunters
Magnus Bane x Alexander G. Lightwood
The Raven Cycle
Ronan Lynch x Adam Parrish
Richard Gansey III x Blue Sargent
Comics
DC Comics
Apollo x Midnighter
Clark Kent x Bruce Wayne [♥]
Diana Prince x Steve Trevor
Garfield Logan x Rachel Roth
Hal Jordan x Barry Allen
Pamela Isley x Harleen Quinzel
Jason Todd x Dick Grayson [♥]
Maggie Sawyer x Kate Kane
Roy Harper x Dick Grayson
Cassandra Cain x Stephanie Brown
Hernan Guerra x Kirk Langstrom
Michael Jon Carter x Ted Kord
Marvel
America Chavez x Kate Bishop
Azazel x Janos Quested
Gambit x Rogue
Erik Lehnsherr & Charles Xavier
Logan x Scott Summers [♥]
Natasha Romanoff x Bruce Banner
Shatterstar x Julio Richter (Rictor) [♥]
Steve Rogers x James B. Barnes [♥]
Theodore Altman x William Kaplan
Tony Stark x Loki Laufeyson [♥]
Vision x Wanda Maximoff
Wade Wilson x Peter Parker
Videojuegos
Assassin's Creed
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad x Malik Al-Sayf [♥]
Ezio Auditore da Firenze x Leonardo Da Vinci
Bayonetta
Bayonetta x Jeanne
Detroit: Become Human
Captain Allen x Gavin Reed
Connor, RK800 x Gavin Reed [♥]
Elijah Kamski x Gavin Reed
Elijah Kamski x Leo Manfred [♥]
Kara, AX400 x Luther, TR400 [♥]
Markus, RK200 x Simon, PL600 [♥]
Nines, RK900 x Gavin Reed
North, WR400 x Chloe, ST200
Ralph, WR600 x Jerry, EM400
Simon, PL600 x Gavin Reed
Devil May Cry
Dante x Vergil [♥]
Nero x V
Final Fantasy VII
Cid Highwind x Vincent Valentine
Final Fantasy XII
Basch fon Ronsenburg x Balthier [♥♥♥]
Kingdom Hearts
Saïx x Axel
Metal Gear
Solidus Snake x Raiden
Overwatch
Gabriel Reyes x Jack Morrison
Resident Evil
Chris Redfield x Leon S. Kennedy [♥♥♥]
Claire Redfield x Moira Burton
Jake Muller x Leon S. Kennedy
Jill Valentine x Chris Redfield
Jill Valentine x Carlos Oliveira [♥♥]
Jill Valentine x Claire Redfield
Rebecca Chambers x Billy Coen
The Evil Within
Sebastian Castellano x Joseph Oda
Podcast
Welcome to Night Vale
Carlos x Cecil Palmer
Crossovers
Samurai Jack/Johnny Bravo
Johnny Bravo x Samurai Jack
Canon x Oc
Deadwind (Karppi)
OMC x Sakari Nurmi
Downton Abbey
OMC x Thomas Barrow
Locke & Key
Tyler Locke x OMC
OMC x Duncan Locke
Lost in Space
OMC x Don West
Pokemon
OMC x x James
The Dragon Prince
Soren x OMC
The Irregulars
OMC x John Watson
The Lord of the Rings
OMC x Legolas
Political Animals
OMC x Thomas James "T.J." Hammond
Resident Evil
Jake Muller x OMC
Star Trek
OMC x Julian Bashir
Warehouse 13
OMC x Steve Jinks
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
OMC x Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan
Duplas de Actores
Aaron Paul x Hugh Dancy
Bradley James x Colin Morgan
Chris Evans x Sebastian Stan
Daniel Craig x Ben Whishaw
Daniel Sunjata x Aaron Tveit
Dominic Purcell x Wentworth Miller
Edward Holcroft x Ben Whishaw
Gabriella Pession x Richard Flood
Gabriel Macht x Patrick J. Adams
Hanno Koffler x Max Riemelt
Jamie Dornan x Cillian Murphy
Jensen Ackles x Jared Padalecki
Landon Liboiron x Bill Skarsgård
Mads Mikkelsen x Hugh Dancy
Matt Davis x Ian Somerhalder
Michael Fassbender x James McAvoy
Rami Malek x Martin Wallström
Scott Caan x Alex O'Loughlin
Shemar Moore x Matthew Gray Gubler
Tom Hardy x Cillian Murphy
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tundrainafrica · 4 years ago
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i hate it when people see hange only as some funny character/comic relief or when they make her play third wheel for some reason :( i don’t know why... like, hange is so much more than that? it’s just so depressing that han is the one being thrown under the bus
Do you mean Hange playing third wheel to Erwin and Levi? Or just Hange being constantly underappreciated by everyone?I get what you mean. Because I completely agree with this. I think I mentioned already in a previous ask that most of the Levihan fans are usually major Hange stans (me included) and the reason for Hange being underappreciated? She’s a different type of genius ( a more subtle one) compared to Erwin and Armin and I discussed it here.
I think it has been implied already long ago that everyone has to have at least one screw loose to decide to join the survey corps. And even when the main cast was first introduced to the survey corps, the main people: Mike, Hange, Levi and Erwin were shown with at least one screw loose. Mike with his sniffing, Levi with his cleaning, Erwin with his gambling life shtick and Hange with her titans.
The first three were just generally overlooked because the three men were generally quiet people and the things they were obsessed with are conventionally cool things like war and strategy. War and strategy are the epitome of cool and put together in the army. We can also consider Roy Mustang from FMA who was a total weirdo but we found him cool anyway cause he was a colonel and he had his really flashy fire alchemy abilities. 
A lot of people just didn’t take Hange seriously because for one, just like everyone else she is a total weirdo. But what contributions does she make to the survey corps? I have already mentioned it in the logistics and plan execution ask linked above, Hange’s genius and contributions to the survey corps were incredibly subtle and incredibly boring that Yams glossed through most of it. 
To actually get an idea of the type of work Hange stressed herself over, the audience has to understand the work the survey corps work did outside fighting and getting eaten by titans. When they were out doing expeditions pre canon, they were setting up bases and building supply lines en route to Wall Maria. In fact even before the fall of Wall Maria, the whole point of the survey corps was trying to build bases outside of the walls to leave supplies so they can journey further and further without worrying over supply depletion or just overall fatigue. 
That was what Hange stressed out over. Generally, she was the one behind the scenes who made sure that soldiers had gas and blades to refill but really, what casual watcher would consider these types of things? More often than not, in our first watch through of AOT, we probably were too focused on battles anyway to wonder where the hell they resupply. I mean have we actually ever seen someone explicitly resupply their gases?
And here is another thing which made Hange such a comic relief character, she is generally more open,  approachable, she wears her heart on her sleeve and she is always more than willing to share what she knows to people. And even when she became a little more subdued as captain, she was still very much open with her subordinates which generally proves that that’s just generally Hange’s personality over all. I did an ask on this just recently on how Hange’s leadership differs from Erwin’s and because of this her general personality makes it hard for certain types of people to take her seriously as a commander. You can read it here. 
Just try to imagine Mike, Erwin or Levi with a more extroverted personality or a little more excitable person, you’ll start to realize they’re complete weirdos too. To be honest, the more I actually write Levi, the more I realize that Levi might actually be crazier and more emotional than Hange, the only reason why the comic relief ends up on Hange is because for one, we don’t get a lot of messes to piss off Levi and Levi is just constantly shown fighting and beating up the OP titan shifters in seconds and I guess we can overlook a little crazy because of that? 
More importantly, since the story introduced the survey corps, it has been titan discovery after titan discovery and who gets a good kick from titans? Hange. But believe me if we got ‘truth’ stuff or ‘cleaning’ stuff a little earlier we might even have seen Erwin and Levi go a little more crazy than what was shown about them in canon. 
Maybe if we had cleaning item discoveries in succession, maybe we would have seen Levi a little more cuckoo crazy than Hange. Maybe if we got more discoveries on smells, we could have seen a crazier Mike. And let’s be honest, we saw the crazy in Erwin already when Hange gave the report on Ragako. 
Tbh though, Hange is hands down my favorite character with Levi a close second. I honestly get off more from seeing Hange fight and be a leader more than I do from Levi. She wasn’t given as much of a spotlight than I wish she was but the fact that Armin, Mikasa and Eren were introduced as the main characters, not Levi and Hange, makes it understandable. 
If Yams, actually decided to put EMA under the bus, it wouldn’t have made any sense storyline wise and it would have generally been a thematic error. Armin, Mikasa and Eren were built for greatness and by extension Falco and Gabi. As painful as it is to admit, Hange and Levi were destined to be put under the bus, the narrative and their role having finished early on already. 
I can personally only be grateful that Yams added so much depth into their character which can be played with in a fandom setting. And I find myself just getting over the depression of watching my favorite characters treated like that in canon and in fanon (by the antis on twitter :))))) ) by just writing and reading fanfiction and you know, -deciding to name my child after Hange one day-
Thanks for reading!
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cherrystrawberrie · 4 years ago
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True roy mustang enjoyers are not his stans and we bully him, i dont trust anyone who doesnt bully him
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100sunny · 3 years ago
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have you watched FMA:B also we Stan roy mustang even if he has committed mass genocide - 🥫
Sobbing bc the ask preview cut off at the f n for some reason I thought it was gonna say family guy asvrdvtfh
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