Roy Mustang - Blog Posts
“Hmmm. Not bad at all.” “That’s very funny, Sir.”
FMA: Episode 46 - Human Transmutation [English Sub] {available on Netflix Streaming and Hulu Free}
its like this
Dog dog boy
Cat cat boy
I'm still resting.
I've just got a bad idea....
What if Levi survives till the end and in the last images he's got mustang mustaches
everyboddy shut UP im THINKING about finctional character
Still need practice but I'm getting there
I was thinking about how Bradley would know how much Roy cares about all of his subordinates. Than I remember the time right after Roy burned Lust to death. You can say that Bradley saw everything, including how Riza was still crying even after the end of the battle and how Roy cared about her and Havoc more then for himself. And I believe that's one of the reasons why Bradley took Riza as a hostage and his assistant. He just already saw their feelings for each other. What you think about it?
oh, aaaabsolutely! that was the first time we saw bradley really paying attention to roy
and bradley being the one to witness this scene is so monumentally important. he was supposed to kill roy/riza/al but after witnessing roy’s Intensely Awesome murder of his sister, bradley lets em go and then uses his newfound knowledge of roy’s pathetic love for his friends against him. its beautiful.
i wonder if bradley watched roy struggle his way over to where lust was. like just grab some popcorn and watch roy burn himself and limp around the corridors
Had riza ever tried to train ed with a gun, u think? How do u think roy felt about this
Mama Hawk just wants to keep her boy safe. She, more than anyone, knows that you can’t always rely on alchemy to fix all your problems :’)
Bonus:
tried making a finished version of this pic since i currently cant find it online.
was fun for practice! until i had to draw all the grass
I’ve been screaming about this for a whole hour he really was just going to beat the fuck out of roy for no reason
I’m glad Maes Hughes died.
He’s a fan favorite character and I enjoy him a lot too, but I think fundamentally he’s a character who has to die. His role in the narrative is to haunt it.
I might be even more of a weirdo because I enjoy his manga characterization over his Brotherhood or ‘03 portrayal, but I love the idea of Hughes being someone the Elric brothers barely know - someone we, the audience, barely see.
Until he dies.
Because suddenly he’s everywhere. He was Roy’s friend and Armstrong’s superior officer and Winry’s acquaintance and Elicia’s father - and he was the soldier both Ed and Al knew, but didn’t actually know, that got killed because of them anyway.
In the manga Winry stays at Hughes’ place, but Ed and Al enter his house for the first time after they found out he died. For them, it’s not about losing a friend (though I am sure they liked him just fine) because that story is already Roy’s - for them it’s about realizing that this plot they’ve involved themselves in kills people that aren’t actually directly involved at all to begin with. It makes sense for their allies and friends and loved-ones to be targeted by the antagonists - but a soldier who mostly joined in because he was at the right (or wrong) place at the right (wrong) time? That’s not supposed to happen. And that’s what makes Hughes’ death so hard on them.
(and poor Elicia - abandoned children without their fathers were always a weakness of Ed’s)
But Roy? Yeah… he suffers. From the moment of Hughes’ dead on, Roy is haunted by it. By him. His best friend follows him everywhere. We see it in the way Roy only involves himself in the plot because Hughes figured something out and Roy is desperate for answers. He hunts down the homunculi to save this country, sure, but mostly so he can burn his best friend’s murderer to the ground. When Riza talks about winning against the Führer and their military dictatorship, she talks about all of them, not a hint of revenge coloring her vision - but Roy? It is telling that it isn’t a greater ideal that makes him torture Envy, but the agony of his best friend’s death.
The thing that almost breaks Roy is Maes.
No.
It’s Maes’ memory haunting the narrative.
And isn’t that beautiful?
The tragedy of it all, the horror, and the realization that Roy Mustang never really recovered from the War, that his friends are the only think keeping him in one piece, the fact that Roy Mustang is a Hero and a Monster and a fallible human capable of love.
Maes Hughes has to die to remind all of us of what Roy Mustang is capable of: love, loyalty, devotion…. and the slaughter and torture of numerous people.
His ghost is haunting the narrative - and for that I love him.
genuinely, the best thing about Roy and Hughes' friendship is that Roy is a brutal pragmatist who is haughty, ruthless, and often cold and Hughes is a goofball who is always friendly, cheerful, and welcoming, but Roy is the hopeful idealist and Hughes is the cynical realist
What does the manga add to Roy and Riza's relationship that the anime doesn't have? Asking out of curiosity since I'm an anime only and they're still one of my favourite pairs of all time!
Oh, ha, I didn’t specifically point to the manga because I have anything in particular against Brotherhood (…or 2003 for that matter) it’s just not my canon, and I’m used to specifying which version of FMA I mean when I talk about the series. I do have a list of petty grievances against Brotherhood, but there is nothing fundamentally altered between Roy and Riza.
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I mean. Yes. A number of my petty grievances are related to them. And feel slightly less petty as thought is spent on them.
But I would need to go back and watch the anime scenes again to point out the specifics of why.
[many hours later]
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Sometimes I remember that out of everyone else in the military that we've seen, it is the depressed seemingly cynical Roy Mustang who's written as the optimist and I sed a tear
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I think what I find so interesting about Riza is that she’s fundamentally a pessimist and yet she chooses to be hopeful
FMA has a conventionally attractive leading man and woman as bitter rivals and yet it’s absolutely clear that the only feelings they have for each other are pure spite. Immaculate.
Rewatching old YouTube videos like “woah. This is just like Full-Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 54: Beyond the Inferno” because something is fundamentally wrong with my neural-chemistry.