joyseeker56:

liberty-flight:

rizahawkaye:

The face Roy makes in the manga when he sees Riza in Ishval is so :((( and then he makes a face again later in the manga when she says she likes guns and he’s just :((((((((( even more and it makes me wonder about how he saw her pre-Ishval. Every time he sees her in volume 15 he just has this sad/disappointed look on his face and there’s even one point where he’s like, “Even she has the eyes of a killer.” “””EVEN SHE””” 100% implies that he never thought Riza could look like that/fall that low. He must have thought the world of her. He probably thought she was so sweet and kind hearted and gentle and then she follows him into war and tells him she likes guns and he’s just ?????? basically devastated by it bc how does this girl kill people??????????? How did she /get/ to this point?

Like imagine if Winry had killed Scar, and then imagine how Ed would have reacted. I mean he’s more emotional than Roy so he’d probably have cried or something instead of just made a face but do you see my point?????????? Roy saw Riza as this pretty, younger girl pre-Ishval and then his whole perception of her (and probably himself too since I’m sure he feels somewhat responsible for her joining the military) changed when she became a killer and I’m not saying that he thought less of her as a person but that her taking lives probably made him so so sad. Like “you weren’t meant to kill” was never a thing he got to say to her like Ed did to Winry. He didn’t ever have the chance to stop her (and I’m 100% certain he. would. have.) and so to us (and to most people around her in canon) Riza seemed ruthless and emotionless and robotic until we saw little snippets of who she really was when she cried for Roy, or put her jacket over Ed’s shoulders, or told Winry she looked pretty, or blushed when Roy teased her for crying over him. Like that is the Riza Roy knew pre-Ishval!!!!!!!! That’s all he knew! Then she showed up! in Ishval! w a weapon! and murdered a bunch of people and he was just ?????????????

Bottom line is that Riza’s hands weren’t meant to kill either and Roy knew/knows that and Winry coulda easily fallen down a path similar to Riza’s had Ed not been there to stop her.

Yes and I can’t help but compare the resembool trio to the war vet trio. Alphonse, despite the odds, lived where Maes died. Ed got to leave the military and go home, he was able to achieve his goal without killing. Roy couldn’t. And Winry didn’t shoot, she could put the gun down. Riza couldn’t.
I think it plays well into the theme of “doing better for the next generation.”

#anyways im crying thanks a lot #i had never *quite* concluded that the golden trio are all direct foils to the older trio but now i see it #and i cant unsee it #fling me into the fucking sun