I Finished Attack On Titan For The First Time Last Week, And Would Like To Report That I Am In Love

i finished Attack on titan for the first time last week, and would like to report that I am in love 😭

I made few doodles of some of the hugs/side hugs in the series, and this is my first time doing an edit like this

🫶🏻 hope you like em

okayokay, you have raised such an important point and i thank you for that 😌

I came up with new things for this fic and i might have figured out Riza a little?? But here is what i have

My idea had Ed and Al finding Roy alone by themselves without the team’s help, my very original idea ( that i came up with last June) had the boys traveling when the colonel got kidnapped, and when they got back they were like, “ where is our commander father??” the team was like, “ meh boss we don't know,” so Ed and Al were like that is fishy, so they look around and after few month or weeks they find Roy And keep him in their apartment ( notice, apartment and not dorm, so finding Roy Was kept a secret so no on would know that they have him)

When i stumbled across this note couple of nights ago, i had more time thinking it over and i posted my idea yesterday and gotten more ideas for it.

So here is what i have so far

Roy has Riza as his bodyguard ( everyone on his team is his guard in a way if you think about it) + Roy is a very strong fighter if he needed to be, ( he is his team’s guard btw. He protects them.) so it got me thinking, who was strong enough to kidnap the strong feared Roy Mustang?

Someone who knew how he thinks and acts. someone who knew his weaknesses, someone who saw him daily and knew him well. Who other than his men themselves??

BEAR WITH ME THESE ARE ALL JUST HALF COOKED IDEAS.

Riza would never betray him like that, and i know she would have ran herself to the ground trying to find him, so i just kept brainstorming how to keep the original idea of Ed and Al rescuing Roy while not having Riza with them. And it got me down to these points.

Hawkeye could be undercover and under radar and didn't know Roy was even kidnapped until she went back to central and knew and got mad with the team and somehow the boys let her knew about Roy’s whereabouts

Riza never joined the military and married Roy but died so Roy has that dead wife trauma. Which can add more whump to the story but idk

My least favorite one, but what if Riza is the one who took him down and delivered him to his captures? Not that she wanted but maybe they held some sort of blackmail over her? Maybe get grandpa, the Elrics or maybe she is in a relationship with Roy so that could have ended badly?

i am still not sure what i should do with Riza, since i just know she loves Roy sm, and it just doesn't make sense for her to hurt him at all.

The newer idea for this plot also has the Elrics taking Roy back to Resembool to thier granny since she is a doctor/ has a medical knowledge, and she might be able to help them care for Roy the first few weeks. Maybe they just stay there as long as Roy needs until he is ready to go back to public and face the military and expose them? .

I am just thinking some sort of family drama between Roy And the team since they are his found family, and how they betrayed him and stuff, and have Ed and Al being protective of Roy And attacking the men. ( this is not based on actual life experience of course not! Haha.. Hah… ha)

There is of course lots of truma i want to give Roy 😈 his childhood, teenhood, the war and kidnapping and Woah so many so many. Maybe involve his mother? Aka chris mustang and i know she is his aunt butttttt i love making her his mother or adopted mother, maybe she could be there too??

Also if we went with Riza being under cover and not knowing her beloved man was hurt she could probably go to resembool later on and just help Ed and Al taking care of Roy?

This is kinda what i have so far! Later on ( aka right before i sleep ) i am sure i will get more ideas hehe. Roy Mustang is one of my favorite characters to whump Oh my god

Gonna be real, but i cannot stop thinking about recovery fics and how beautiful they are. They are amazing, the way we see the character gets better always just makes me feel so inspired, the way that they learn to get over- or get around- the thing that hurt them. The way that they learn to be alive and living. How to love themselves and embrace what happened to them.

As much as i love these types of fics, i only wrote like, two maybe? With this idea (I love and have written torture more than recovery) . And it got me thinking… why not write a whole recovery fic?

It is no secret that i love parental Roy and Riza to the Elrics, and how they take him after he was being hurt and help him recover and be better and feel better.

BUT

But.

I am proposing another idea. Same child parent dynamic. Roy And the Elrics. Here is what i am thinking:

Evil Millirty hating how good and you Mustang is and they know he is a threat + them setting up to kidnap him by evil gang or something + team Mustang for some reason not being that loyal in finding him + Elrics stop their red stone research and to find their missing dad CO+ THEM SAVING THIER ADULT + FAMILY DRAMA AND PROTECTIVE SONS™️= my new fic idea

Which has traumatized Roy who is trying his best not being so traumatized but in the middle of it all, the Elrics discover How badly hurt thier adult is!

WHO IS WITH ME!!?

Winnie the Pooh too, for some reason 😭

A (not complete) list of things I believe Edward and Alphonse Elric would ugly cry too:

1. Bluey

2. Lilo and Stitch

Please feel free to add your own

I AM LOVING HOW SOFT YOU ARE MAIZNG RIZA, oh my god 😭😭

idk how he killed the dude, but i imagine it was something someone from the team tight him, maybe Roy himself so he just remembered his instructions - ah

Riza will definitely help him understand that what he did was a needed move if he wanted to save himself and save Roy, it might suck, but it was pure self-defense and that is okay.

She would give lots of hugs and help Him come in terms with it, and Roy when he feels stable enough i think he will do it too, ( i also think he will feel so much guilt because he placed Ed in a position that made him react and kill that person and he just feels guilty ✨)

ALSO, one of Mustang’s men didn't want to carry out the mission at the end? I only watched brotherhood and it has been while since i did but i don't really remember. Falman is the walking Wikipedia ™️ and is very quite man, so it might work?

I don't think Jean would do it, since he is Roy’s man after Hawkeye, Breda is highly unlikely, and Kain is just a 21 year old boy.

But

I am evil but maybe Maes? I dig evil good men, and i loved writing Evil Maes, or traitor Maes i think it would hurt Roy So much, and Maes is like one rank lower than Roy So him telling Roy about a mission wouldn't sound sus, what do you think? 👀

I also wanted originally to include bad childhood to Roy But now as i am thinking about it + your words maybe Chris wasn't a good mom to Roy growing up but they bonded when Roy became and adult? I know few people who went through a similar experience. She feels sorry for how she treated him and he wanted a parent in his life, so maybe before Hawkeye got to the boys, Ed maybe contacted Chris?

I don't think Roy would open up 100% to her, since i think that will be a reaction from his childhood, she is a good lady and he opens up partly but not fully i guess if that makes sense?

She would be like any other mother, upset that her child got hurt and she is making this fuss and Roy is like, “ Ma enough i am fine!”

ALSO IT GOT ME THINKING, what is the real reason Roy was kidnapped? Besides him being a threat of how young and high ranked he is. If that was the issue, the higher ups could have just killed him or something. But what if the kidnapping was to make him speak about the truth about what happened with the Elrics? The real reason? And he just endured months of pain and hurt and abuse and humiliation because he will never throw his kids under the bus and he fought his mom who is worried about him and gah the feels 😩 can you sense it??

Also he 100% lost his mind there and i like to think the first week or so after the Rescue he didn't want to recognize who Ed and Al are as a coping/ defensive mechanism

Riza will definitely handle helping Roy through his flashbacks and episodes since it wouldn't be fair that the boys handle them since they are kids and they are the adults, BUT I do think there are times where Ed and Al had to comfort Roy or at least ground him until Riza or Pinako can guide him outside of his episodes

Also i think he will just stay in Resembool until his physical health is better and his injuries are healed and stuff!

i just adore the small dialog you made up at the end oh my god 🥹 I think Ed would be cuddling Roy under the excuse to “ keep him grounded.” and “ to remind you that you aren't alone and cold.” but in reality it is a grounding thing for Ed himself. A reminder that his dad is alive and here, under him ( since Ed is so he will be using Roy as his pillow most of the time haha ) and Al, He would be there to offer Roy water after nightmares and stuff, i think it would be super cute!! You bet Riza will be sleeping in the same room maybe on the ground?

Also i never shared why i name them the ✨Pegasus family✨ it is actually inspired by this one fic i read that had Ed calling himself and Al Pegasus since Riza is a Hawkeye right- a Hawk. And Roy is a Mustnag is a type of horse. SO WHEN YOU HAVE A HORSE THAT IS CONNECTED TO A BIRD THAT HAS WINGS? WHAT DO YA GET? A Pegasus 💅🏻

Alsoooo i am mentally just thinking about the different tourture that Roy went through since i happened to be an expert ( not something that i am 100% proud about but i gained some knowledge over time and googling.)

Gonna be real, but i cannot stop thinking about recovery fics and how beautiful they are. They are amazing, the way we see the character gets better always just makes me feel so inspired, the way that they learn to get over- or get around- the thing that hurt them. The way that they learn to be alive and living. How to love themselves and embrace what happened to them.

As much as i love these types of fics, i only wrote like, two maybe? With this idea (I love and have written torture more than recovery) . And it got me thinking… why not write a whole recovery fic?

It is no secret that i love parental Roy and Riza to the Elrics, and how they take him after he was being hurt and help him recover and be better and feel better.

BUT

But.

I am proposing another idea. Same child parent dynamic. Roy And the Elrics. Here is what i am thinking:

Evil Millirty hating how good and you Mustang is and they know he is a threat + them setting up to kidnap him by evil gang or something + team Mustang for some reason not being that loyal in finding him + Elrics stop their red stone research and to find their missing dad CO+ THEM SAVING THIER ADULT + FAMILY DRAMA AND PROTECTIVE SONS™️= my new fic idea

Which has traumatized Roy who is trying his best not being so traumatized but in the middle of it all, the Elrics discover How badly hurt thier adult is!

WHO IS WITH ME!!?

AHHH CANT WAIT

TOMORROW WE WILL HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!!

I REPEAT!!

TOMORROW WE WILL HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!!

I finished Aot. Prepare.