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happy riza day 2024 !! to my beloved wife 💕

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thought about riza watching her sons grow up knowing they're loved AND that they love her back. 72 injured

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The Royai moments the anime adaptations left out bc they are COWARDS

(I believe in fma manga supremacy)

Riza's Grandpa asks Roy to marry her.

So this one needs outside material to explain, but Arakawa confirmed in the 2nd Guidebook (released only in Japanese and French) that Grumman is Riza's maternal grandfather. Not necessarily a big Royai moment but, still it's interesting how Riza's only known living family ships it, and that Roy doesn't exactly say "no" to his request.

I am forever fascinated as to why any of this exists in the first place, what did you mean by this Arakawa? why have Grumman make this suggestion in the first place? 👀👀👀👀👀👀 What were you suggesting? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Anyway, I wish we had an in-text confirmation of Riza's relation to Grumman and I wish this moment had come back to the story at some point. Even if it was just Riza glaring at Grumman being like "Grandpa why are you trying to marry me off?????"

2. Roy's "Get your hands off my wife!" moment.

He really said, "is he bothering you queen?" I wish we had more protective Roy and frankly, I don't understand how this scene didn't make it to Brotherhood? Riza was getting manhandled by a tin can and clearly not into it. The fact that a tin can serial killer developed a crush on her is concerning to begin with. It just wouldn't be in character for Roy to be cool with this. Roy is also a jealous boyfriend, what can I say?

3. The "I'm glad you're alive" moment.

For some dumb reason, Brotherhood changed this so when Riza apologises for worrying him, he just snaps "save it for the end of the mission!" Like, why Brotherhood? why would Roy ever snap at Riza like that? especially when Riza is generally the one who is laser-focused on the mission. Roy has enough faith in her, he's not going to see this brief apology as her being distracted or less competent. The manga dialogue is also meant to show how Maes's death is still a fresh wound for Roy, so of course he's on edge at the prospect of losing Riza too.

4. He literally asks her out

I feel like both anime adaptations really wanted Roy to be more of a womaniser than he actually is. But this scene lowkey confirms Roy has limited game and he only really wants Riza. It feels like dude jumped at the opportunity to ask Riza out the moment she technically stopped being his subordinate.

5. Roy's codename for Riza actually coming back

Seriously, I love how Arakawa took the time to establish "Elizabeth" as Riza's codename only to use it later to have Madame Christmas suggest that Roy regularly spends time with "Elizabeth" to the point where it's weird that he isn't with her now. And then, when Roy bemoans how "another man took Elizabeth" (an obvious reference to Riza being taken hostage by Bradley) one of Christmas's girls gets excited at the idea she might have a chance with Roy. The suggestion is that Roy isn't normally available on account of his seeing Elizabeth.

It's a strong hint to the idea that Riza and Roy might have *something* going on and are bypassing the fraternization laws through codes. At the very least it suggests that Roy isn't interested in anyone but "Elizabeth". Also look how bummed out he is that his wife is gone. Why did the anime rob us of so much pathetic whipped Roy? WHY?

6. Just a lot more touching in general

There's actually a lot of touching between these two in the manga. It's mostly during the big fights like the Promised Day or the battle with Lust and it really cements them as a true battle couple.

In the case of the Promised day they are literally fighting in each other's arms. Riza is leaning on Roy as she's on the verge of passing out from her wounds, and Roy is clinging onto her now that she has become his eyes. The way they hold each other shows how they are each other's crutch and how one always empowers the other. It also symbolises how inseparable these two are as moments ago Roy was at the Gate and before that Riza was on the brink of death, they could have lost in each other for good but they're still standing strong together in spite of everything.

The post-Lust fight is just a nice moment were Roy clings onto Riza out of sheer relief that she's okay and he hasn't lost another loved one. Even though he's on the verge of passing out from pain and blood loss, he still finds the strength to reach out to her.

Then there's the scene in the tunnels where he lowers her gun for her. The noticeable difference in the manga is that he does this after he takes off his ignition gloves.

The anime forgets to do this. It seems like a minor difference but it's kind of a big point of characterisation. Because we know that Riza has been hurt by flame alchemy, from the process of having the tattoo done to her by a trusted parental figure at a young age, to the trauma of seeing how much damage it did at ishval, to her very literally being burned by the flames so that it won't do anymore damage. Roy is the one who burned her, he's the one who used her secret to do unspeakable damage and suffering, why would he hurt her again by letting her go anywhere near flame alchemy?

My final thoughts: Manga Roy is altogether more dorky and in love with Riza than his anime counterparts and I miss his adorkable self.

I also feel like Arakawa was so good at subtly hinting at how in love these two are and how they basically *do* function like a couple even if they might not be together in the conventional het married with babies way.

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show was fine. books were better.

pose

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For anyone who is still following my debut novel saga (if you are, thanks!!) I know it’s been FOREVER (literally a year and a half) but my book comes out in about six months now. I’m gonna post about it now once I have a cover and links and such…

So…

I think I’m gonna be deleting possibly ALL my fanfiction finally, and I’m sad about it, but I don’t know that it’s a great idea to have everyone finding my writing from 2014. So! I’ve mentioned this a couple times but NOW IS A REALLY GOOD TIME to go to A03 and download my fanfics if you think you might want to read them again in the future!

Also - I’ve turned 1-800-CAPTAIN into an original novel!! It’s not my debut but it’s going to my agent soon and if no one wants it I will be self publishing it! So while Cresswell will always have a special place in my heart, I love that story too much for it to disappear forever, so I’ve repurposed it with different characters, a new setting, and some spice. 👀

TLDR; stay tuned, I’m sorry publishing is SO DAMN SLOW, will announce when there are links, download my fics if you want to save them, don’t perceive me when I come off anon 🫣 but also I love you each and every person who used to comment and leave kudos on my work—truly made me believe I wasn’t awful at writing 🫶🏻

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roy: p-pwease k-kith?!???? 👉👈

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▶︎ tattoos x mai (twitter | instagram)

mai is the coolest she is so cool I can’t handle it!! she has to be my top fav…her tattoos are throwing knives and/or kunai, with lots of flower branches inspired by cherry blossom trees ♥ I envision mai as a sleek, elegant, deadly lady…I hope her tattoos match that vibe! I drew azula and ty lee with tattoos too, check them out! (I’m gonna draw my last tattooed atla boy aang during my first insta live, u can watch me draw him in real time!!)

▶︎ tattoos x aang / katara / sokka / toph / zuko / suki / yue / azula / ty lee

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▶︎ tattoos x azula (twitter | instagram)

I know I said I’d give azula dragons, but then I realized phoenixes were a fire nation thing esp since ozai was all about “phoenix king”!! I drew katara and sokka with tattoos too, I’m posting them one by one on insta, check them out!

▶︎ tattoos x aang / katara / suki / sokka / zuko / toph / yue / ty lee / mai

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▶︎ tattoos x sokka (twitter | instagram)

inspired by his water tribe pride and his nautical prowess ♥ I like to think that the older sokka is and the more he travels, the more expansive the map tattoo gets! (fun fact: the poorly drawn land mass on his arm is supposed to be the southern water tribe lmao) I drew katara and suki with tattoos too, I’m posting them one by one on insta, check them out!

▶︎ tattoos x aang / katara / toph / suki / zuko / yue / ty lee / azula / mai

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▶︎ tattoos x katara (twitter | instagram)

my mind wouldn’t stop bothering me to draw katara with ocean wave tattoos!!  like/reblog if you wanna see azula with dragon tattoos or sokka with map/atlas tattoos ♥

▶︎ tattoos x aang / suki / sokka / toph / zuko / yue / ty lee / azula / mai

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i’m the trash alchemist 

Alphonse has a cat instagram

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Notes: the jokes are from 30 rock and the rest are memes ( except head scratcher lust and Alphonse cat )

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Vintage Paperdolls (Leviathan) by Peachdust

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Doodles of Deryn/Dylan from the new Leviathan Netflix anime. I'm BEGGING more people to watch it, it's an amazing experience.

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post goliath portrait 🎥

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Live, Laugh, Lilit

(aka the Istanbul (Not Constantinople) edit)

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attention gay people!! 🗣 the leviathan anime is up on netflix and also sorry for not posting in like 6 months !!