Tag: fma

lieutenanthawteye:

[Please don’t remove my meta if you reblog! Thanks.]

I’ve been meaning to talk about this scene for a while now, because this episode really sheds some light onto Roy’s entire relationship with Riza, and it also says a lot about his love life in general.

Angst makes up a big part of Roy’s character — and that angst is very well justified. He’s only in his early twenties and he’s already participated in mass genocide — killed hundreds of innocent people all on his own.
And we all know that Roy is someone who doesn’t hesitate to pin all the blame and responsibility on himself if he can.

He’s not like Hughes. He can’t cast aside what he’s done just to make a woman happy.

Because how could he even deserve to be happy, to bring someone else joy, and to fall in love after rightfully gaining the title of “Hero of Ishval”?
He is, quite simply, a monster in his own eyes.

And how could it be fair to even touch a woman who didn’t understand exactly what he’d done — what he’s capable of doing?
He couldn’t bear to love and be loved by someone who didn’t know all of that — to be touching her with blood stained hands, and all the while, her not knowing what it really means to be a killer.
Who knows what she’d do if she did know? Recoil at the very sight of him? Cower at his touch? He certainly thinks he deserves as much.

So Roy definitely doesn’t go looking for a relationship once he’s out of the war. He doesn’t date. He doesn’t think of marriage, or kids, or starting a family.

But Roy does fall in love — and with the only person it could ever really work out with.

Roy and Riza are in the same boat, and they have a very similar way of thinking. Like Roy, Riza doesn’t think she deserves much good after what she’s done. Like him, she’s been praised as a hero — for something she’s horribly ashamed of. She’s also killed far more than she can count, and she knows what it means to be a monster.

She understands.
She is the only one who — when Roy touches her — understands the weight of what that means. She knows what he’s capable of because she’s seen it and experienced it firsthand as well.

She’s seen him at his worst, and he’s seen her at hers.
There’s a level of understanding in their relationship that could never be found elsewhere.
And there’s just no one else who could accept them so completely — no one else they could fall in love with but each other.

Source: lifefibersync

Hey! For your headcanons, have anything on Post Brotherhood/ Human Al?

ninthfeather:

Headcanon A:  realistic

Although his muscle tone returns to normal with time and physical therapy, one more permanent souvenir of Al’s time in the Gate is his somewhat lacking immune system. It’s able to fight off infection, but it takes longer about it than a normal person in his state of health, for the simple reason that it spent years without being exposed to a single virus or bacteria. So Al catches every single cold that passes through whatever location he’s in, and makes Ed panic repeatedly.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Al really enjoys having physical sensation back–perhaps sometimes to excess. Specifically, he really likes the feeling of rain on his skin and so he will deliberately “forget” his umbrella and raincoat, even when it’s seriously pouring.  Of course, his traveling companions worry, so it’s just two hulking men with somewhat animalistic features chasing after a laughing, fresh-faced young man with umbrellas. It’s even worse if he’s with Ed, since Ed’s old injuries mean he hates rain and gets progressively grumpier as the weather gets worse, so Al’s antics just end in him screaming at his brother to “Put a f***ing raincoat on, idiot!”

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Sometimes Al wonders if Ed resents him. He knows how much his brother loved alchemy.  And yes, he always says that Al is more important to him, but how can Al know for sure that’s true? Ed’s a master of self-deception, he has been all his life. He might not even be lying to Al on purpose. These moments of doubt don’t last long, but they always cut deep.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Al gets a cat.  Also, at some point in his travels with the ex-military chimera, he also meets a lovely old lady with roughly 26 cats and takes a picture with them in order to convince Ed that he’s adopted all of them.  He keeps up the charade for months.

headcanon ask meme

look maybe it’s because i was spoiled for the whole nina incident, but the one kid-related thing from fma that really seriously freaked me out was rosalie

like ah yes, our family alchemist tried to bring back our dead daughter and failed, but he lost his eyes so we’ll adopt a kid of the right size and say he succeeded so he won’t be crushed even further 

…and keep the vaguely little girl shaped zombie shell he DID manage to create in a nicely decorated room and take care of it forever i guess?

…like the human transmutation result was…. definitely not human ….but it was definitely ALIVE and they just. kept it. (her??) for YEARS and clearly took care of it?? put it in a nice dress in a over-the top fancy room and had their adopted daughter brush its hair? like i don’t know if it’s worse if the thing WAS aware but can’t move properly or speak and just has to sit there trapped as an eyeless grey zombie/creepy dress up doll while someone steals the life it should have, or WASN’T aware at all and the whole family is just. pampering an empty horror that shouldn’t exist?? 

the entire situation is just this weird side trip into sort of gothic horror land near the begining of the manga? so i guess that’s why it’s not in Brotherhood? but like there’s no resolution there’s no closure it’s just …yep that human transmutation definitely didn’t work either, kinda weird you kept the thing, okay BYE! and then they never bring it up again??

just. ROSALIE.