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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.”

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au where they're childhood friends and nothing bad happens ever

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

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more royai babies .... snooork mimimimi...........

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I’m happy to announce the the Royai animatic I’ve been working on these past couple months is FINALLY OUT!! Thank you everyone for all the love and patience while I’ve been working on this thing :)

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he knows her answer but he lets her make the choice everytime and that's killing me

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For me, the pivotal point that determines what young Royai looks like is this:

Berthold Hawkeye says he made sure his daughter received a good education.

What does that mean? Because here are my two problems:

Berthold Hawkeye says he made sure his daughter received a good education.

What does a regular good education (for women) look like in that particular AU of the 1890s-early 1900s? And is that what Berthold Hawkeye, reclusive academic, considers a good education?

Did he have personal involvement?

He personally tutored her in his favourite thing (alchemy) -- no that's not right, because she says she doesn't get alchemy (if he tried and failed, would he consider her having had a good education? No, he probably never thought of teaching it to her)

He personally tutored her in a few non-alchemy things (possible ...)

He tried to teach her a few things, got distracted with his alchemy, and thought he'd done a good job of teaching her (more likely than the previous option at least)

Or maybe he made sure of her education in other ways.

He approved of the local school

He provided materials for her to teach herself

He hired a personal tutor for her (and neglected the house most of all, and her only secondarily I guess ...)

He sent her away to boarding school (got her out from under his feet).

As far as I've ever mentioned it in my fics, I've leant towards a boarding school background, because Riza looks fairly well put together in the flashbacks. She knows how to take care of herself, which she didn't learn from him - although maybe her mother died more recently than fanon suggests.

But the key thing for me is how Roy and Riza seem like relative strangers in the flashbacks. They are familiar enough for Roy to talk candidly about his hopes and dreams, but at the same time, haven't had those discussions before and seem to still be figuring each other out.

Riza having been out of the house for her schooling works for this scenario.

For a while in my head, that meant no young!Royai, because they're complete strangers, but if Riza went to boarding school, the fuss the other teenage girls would have made if she ever mentioned the young man who lives in her home for most of the year when she's not there ...

I can just imagine those schoolgirls jumping on that idea and trying to turn it into the most romantic thing ever.

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Kiokuya (The Memory Eraser) Review - With Spoilers

Since I read the book, sort of followed the filming progress, and read a bunch of interviews (that all sounded the same after a while), I should finish off by writing a review for the movie itself! 

Thanks to the pandemic, I was stuck at home watching Netflix for 7 months, so I’ve watched all sorts of movies & TV; sadly most are in the average to crappy category. To me, Kiokuya was probably in the average to slightly above average category. In other words, there are elements I like and there are things I feel the movie can improve on.

The review is a bit long since apparently I have a lot of thoughts about the script.😅 I pretty much summed up my thoughts in the “theme” section. If you are interested in the book / movie differences & things from the DVD visual commentary, I included those in the script & characters section. (Movie Walker included highlights from the visual commentary here.) . If you want to discuss the movie but don’t want to put spoilers on Twitter, leave me a message.

Theme:

The movie’s main theme is obviously about memory. If a memory is making your life miserable, or even stopping you from living, is it better to erase it? Or do all memories, even bad ones, shape you as a human? If someone’s memory of you is gone, are you killed in their minds? If you think someone is better off forgetting you, do you have the right to ask Kiokuya to erase their memories of you? Are the memories gone forever? If you have the power to erase someone’s memory, what are your responsibilities? And to some extent, what are the criteria to evaluate each request and what due diligence should you do before you accept this task? These were the questions the movie wanted you to ask. You know because the movie kept hitting you on the head through the dialogue! That’s probably my main complaint about the movie.

I didn’t study film so I don’t know the theories, but I think being heavy handed at telling you what you should be thinking is like listening to a textbook; it robs the audience of the chance to experience and internalize what they saw, and as a result, they are less able to connect emotionally to the film. That’s not to say people are not moved by the movie and empathize with the characters. I feel that it had more to do with the actors than the script though.

I think the cinematography was generally nice. I liked how they used the drone shots to film the beautiful Hiroshima scenery. The sunset scene was beautiful. The music did not seem intrusive. Other than that, I’m not sure I have more to say. (Fine. Yamada looked good in the plaid shirts and his hair was on point.)

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