100% Agree With Your Explanation @scienceoftheidiot. Havoc Is Without A Doubt The Himbo. While Mustang

100% agree with your explanation @scienceoftheidiot. Havoc is without a doubt the himbo. While Mustang can be seen as attractive, he is by no means unintelligent. Mustang's flamboyant nature is most likely, if not definitely, a result of his upbringing by his aunt and "sisters" who would have taught him all he needs to know about fashion, what looks good on a man, how to be a gentleman, and how to present himself in a manner that is advantageous to achieve his goals.

I see you @riza-hawks-eye calling Roy a himbo and it's not the first time I see this, so allow me to disagree (for fun ok! Everyone's HC are good, we're just rotating blorbos in our minds) and share my thoughts:

Roy : small man, not incredibly muscular for a soldier, always in dapper suits and shirts, wears his jacket draped over his shoulders because he thinks it's classy, long scarf, flirts with everyone, suave arsehole, apparent high opinion of himself (confirmed in japanese by the use of watashi for himself, if I get that well, @qs63 ?), fancy clothes, fancy car, at times gloves even when he's not wearing the ignition ones, longish hair, and all of this is mostly a facade and he sleeps on his couch.

(the miniskirt thing doesn't count it's an omake)

Roy is a DANDY.

At least in the way this word is used in my country.

To me Roy is building himself a dandy's image on purpose, by drawing from his own tendencies and exaggerating them.

Havoc: tall and muscular, generically handsome, a little dumb at times, definitely silly on purpose, canonically obsessed with boobs, when he's bored at the hospital his best friend brings him WEIGHTS (granted he's going to need his arms. But, like, that fast? Hum.)

HAVOC IS THE HIMBO ! HAVOC !!!!

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

I don't have anything to say about autistic Riza, I don't HC her this way but I don't disagree either, I just see her as not really good at processing her own negative emotions, and extremely driven. Which. Doesn't counter that HC at all, lol.

Cheers, once again all in good fun, 😅

So like. If Roy does become Fuhrer and does marry Riza and she becomes the First Lady

how do you think she’d take the transition from being the security detail to having a security detail?

Imagine having one of Alchemy's most dangerous secret tattooed on your back.

And your father has already told you of its importance and of *your* importance as the keeper of that secret.

Your father's final wish is all about your body and what you do with it. Who you will show it to, and more importantly who you *won't* show it to.

How can you avoid developing intimacy issues when you carry the blueprints to a weapon on your back? How can you just go to bed with someone and be sure they won't see something that will change the world for the worse?

Riza asking Roy to disfigure her back might seem like a horrifying request.

But imagine if Riza had spent the rest of her life carrying the secrets of flame alchemy on her back. So much of her life was taken away from her because of it.

It robbed her of her own bodily autonomy and her sexuality.

you can't tell me that riza doesn't have cocky humor only when she's comfortable with people, only in private. deadpan cocky humor. not with that little "you can always court-martial me, sir. ✨️"

she's clearly not lacking humility though and presents herself as such with how she holds herself, humble to a self-sacrificing degree at that. i just think her sassy moments are vital to her character

even to love her feels remorseful

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"𝘈𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵"

My beloved war criminal(s) for your heart and soul (and mine too).

PS: secret message below (!)

Just kidding, but here's the greatest Riza's stan for you, enjoy:)

(he is hopeless)