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Balalaika, from Black Lagoon! === My Patreon / twitter

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Also is it me or Roy isn't a big fan of physical contact? With the most obvious exception, i.e. Riza.

It kind of struck me how during his visit to Chris' bar Vanessa runs to him and hugs him, and though he does smile affectionately at her, he does not hug her back. When he sits down, Vanessa leans on him while another girl strokes his shoulder and arm, but he keeps his hands on the counter.

When he dates Madeline for intel, he opens and closes his car's door for her, yet he doesn't bother to touch her to keep up the facade: he doesn't offer her help to get out, doesn't kiss her hand like a gentleman would do.

In the promotional arts, Hughes is always the one squeezing him, which tends to annoy him most of the time. And even when he's blind, Izumi helps him stand and tries to give him some physical comfort, yet he NEVER leans on her for support and he doens't hold her either in any way out of necessity.

But then he's back with Riza—

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fmabruary day 12: rest

kind of a redraw of one of the first riza arts i ever posted on here.....OGs know....

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Day 12 - Rest

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Someone probably already said something similar to this at some point, but I want to get this out myself: I feel like Roy and Riza not getting an on-screen happy resolution (and an obstacle in them getting it ever, though if they ultimately do is left to the audience's imagination) is not only not a flaw or something missing from the ending, but actually a good thing. Not because I don't like RoyAi - I do, but because it works thematically. This aspect I find interesting when contrasted with the other major couple in the series, Ed and Winry, who get about as definitive of a conclusion as you can get (and with the proposal scene, and the family photo in the montage - the EdWin "confirmation" is pretty much what caps off the series).

 When Riza tells Ed about Ishval, and her and Roy's plan to have those who carried it out tried as war criminals, she tells him to not worry about them, but be more concerned about himself. Basically: "your hands aren't stained with blood, go and be happy, don't get bogged down by those like us whose are". And I think this sentiment applies to the romantic couples: Ed and Winry are innocent, and get to maintain that innocence throughout the story (Ed held on to his principles, primarily about not killing, Winry didn't pull that trigger), so we see them get the happy ending. Roy and Riza aren't innocent, so they don't get that conclusion. I even like to think that that's why in that conversation Riza so casually brings up Ed loving Winry. Maybe she's seeing herself and Roy in them, but unlike with herself there's nothing stopping them from finding happiness together, so she wants them to. I'm looking at this through a shipping lense, because I enjoy examining this aspect from that perspective, but honestly this applies to the ending overall. Ed accomplishes his goals, and through the final episode/chapter we definitively know that he and the people closest to him (like Al and Winry) pretty much get to live happily ever after. Roy by series end hasn't yet accomplished his goal of becoming Fuhrer, his romantic arc isn't resolved, there's still that "tried as war criminals” thing they're planning looming over. His ending is a lot more up in the air. Team Mustang not named Roy or Riza actually do get happy endings via photos, and sure enough those are the ones who didn't serve in Ishval.

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As cute as the fanworks of Roy turning into Maes and gushing over his wife and kids are, that isn't really Roy.

Roy would be the polar opposite of Maes and actively try to hide his family from the public.

He's a man who wears different masks in public to hide his private life. He keeps his true intents and feelings a secret behind his veneer of being a lecherous power hungry asshole.

I mean, even his relation to his Foster Mother is something the Amestrian Military had to dig for.

Roy could already have married Riza and they might already have several kids, and no one would know. Roy would probably prefer that. It means his loved ones are safe, and frankly it's no one's business.

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Me alegra ver qué hay tanta gente que piensa que estos dos tienen cosas en común.

category is: government-employed conspiracy-uncoverer wifeguys who sleep on their couch

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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

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06.11 Royai day

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an old silly salarymen royai wip i apparently abandoned lol

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30 minute royai

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La posición de su dedo índice en la pistola.

03 royai: unrequited riza>roy

fmab royai: discount manga royai

manga royai: he removed his gloves before he touched her. he removed his gloves before he touched her. he removed his gloves before he touched her.

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Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 official art “Troubled Summer has come!“

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Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 official drafts

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Welp, I present to you the full scene of Kimblee being a Disney Princess in the Fullmetal Alchemist stage play.

You are welcome.

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“I will follow you into hell if you ask me to.”