Favorite Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Male Characters Roy Mustang, The Flame Alchemist

“Stand back, Colonel. You know as well as I do you’re useless on rainy days”.

Edward Elric Alphonse Elric GreedLing

me: I wish someone would do an Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright AU for FMA!! also me: oh wait…

FULLMETAL ATTORNEY: EDWARD ELRIC

Roy Mustang | DEFENDANT JUDGE | King Bradley

Riza Hawkeye | PROSECUTOR DEFENSE ATTORNEY | Edward Elric

but seriously, it’s from Fullmetal Alchemist: Prince of the Dawn

FMA/FMAB Meme: Eight friendships and/or OTPs (6/8)

Edward Elric and Alfons Heiderich (my rocket boys)

Tumblr is messing with my gifs again click on the images for the real quality:)

Gotta draw me that Fullmetal Alchemist angst now that I'm in deep

It's a date! 🍔✨

unsorted transmasc rizas

The edception is real

Do you ever just think about: edling

Also hey merry early Christmas

one of my favorite things about FMA's worldbuilding is that you get to gradually realize how edward elric is the only person who dresses like that

Ed looking at his brother over the years. (Happy Elric house fire day!!)

Don’t forget

Images from

Roy is Sad™. Edward is supportive.

—but it doesn't matter right now.

---

for @royedweek2023 day 2: soulmates! ft. the red string of fate, and pretending it away.

So what do you like about the Royed pairing? Is it tsundere? ;) is Roy the hardass one? Is Ed a little bottom cupcake? I still haven’t gotten FMA from the library. ~OaOA

1) Roy Mustang and Edward Elric are among my (neverending list) of favorite characters in the world of anime/manga, but more importantly, they are my absolute favorite characters in the series. (Okay okay—Roy is the favorite but Ed is a really close number two). Of course, as they’re my favorites, I love to see them interact with each other. Which leads me to part two, which is what you’re actually here for.

2) I love the dynamics of Roy and Ed.Regardless of whether they’re paired up together in fandom, or have their cannon 100% platonic relationship (unless you’re watching the 2003 anime + its follow-up concluding movie which has uh…certain vibes), they share an interesting rapport with each other. In some ways, there is this classic, “opposite attracts” magnetism between them. To name a few (since their differences are far more obvious than their similarities): Ed’s rash, impulsive and roguish, Roy is (usually) cool, and collected—a classic officer and a gentleman. Ed is also bad-tempered, hot-tempered; he has no manners, and no classy mannerisms. Roy is sophisticated, mature, and comes off as cultured despite his silly moments. Polar opposites in these ways, their interactions tend to steal the spotlight due to the antipodes of their personalities. Or, at the very least, manifest in infamous, meme-status bickering.

However, despite these differences, they share many similarities under their opposing exteriors which makes the idea of them together even better. They’re both these incredibly dedicated, determined, and hard-working people who are loyal to their ideals, pursuits, and true-companions (sometimes to a fault). Both are highly intelligent, badass bookworms, who were at least partly raised by women who were not their mothers—Ed (and by extension his brother Al), by Pinako (with Winry helping in her own way), and Roy by his paternal, brothel-owning aunt, Madame Christmas. They both deeply atone for their past mistakes (Ed’s failed transmutation of his mother, Roy’s war crimes in Ishval), and struggle to forgive themselves. Despite this darkness in their pasts however, they’re still both optimistic, hopeful and idealistic, Roy especially so in the manga/Brotherhood anime. (2003’s adaptation…he’s far more depressed and brooding—as is Ed.)There is also this certain… forbidden fruit type of appeal to how prohibited a romantic relationship between them would be. For instance, Ed serves under Roy in the military where romantic attachments are forbidden.There’s the taboo of a big age difference.They is the even bigger taboo of them both being male. There’s evil in their world, and forces to be reckoned with, and hardly time to spare to put a minute aside for romance. The cost is high when personal relationships come to painful ends. Not to mention—it’s just not done. Ed and Roy are like oil and water (or in this case, fire and steel)—a relationship which, (in any version of the series), grows into a deep friendship, companionship, and a strong support and trust of each other (even if they outwardly don’t show/acknowledge it). In the manga especially, (and the 2009/2010 brotherhood anime which directly adapts it), their dynamic is much more balanced and equal, but due to differing status/age, the forbidden appeal remains. And remains with a vengeance!

(Even today, more than a decade after publication and the first anime/movie, they’re still the most popular pairing—especially in the Japanese fandom, which has been shipping them since before any anime-adaptation was ever announced! When they have such a groundwork for a close relationship, it’s pretty easy to tilt that in favor of viewing a more romantic and far less platonic chemistry between them. (And it can be pretty hot too, though your mileage may vary). Even though this is 100% a fan-pairing (again: your mileage on 2003’s adaptation, especially the infamous movie, may vary), the idea, and their relationship in general is pretty strong fuel to get the hype chugging along.3) On an entirely shallow and purely physical vein of thought and honesty…well, they look good together.

I always did have a thing for “opposite” looks, and they’re the embodiment of that, in their strikingly differing physical features—one is blond, the other black-haired. One is of average height, the other…uh, fun-sized. One is older, the other younger. Even the colors of what they wear are completely opposite. (Or the styles: Ed looks like the standard outrageous teenage anime protagonist or wannabe rock-star—Roy is all silk, suits, and military sophistication) And since we’re on the topic of the physical…Is Ed a little bottom cupcake?See, fanon tends to distort the angle of characterization from canon—after all, many a time, fanon and canon are two entirely different things that just happen to use the same characters to populate their stories. Anyway, to answer your question, I think because Ed’s so much younger, so much shorter (along with being far less composed with his emotions), fandom loves to portray him/draw him as this cutesy little teenage boy who is much more emotional and craving of physical emotion that “top” Roy. If you actually took Ed’s canon personality…he’s not like that at all. He’s a muscled, tough badass (with terrible taste), who would absolutely loathe being so girlied-up, just so he can be the “woman” in the relationship, and fit a more heterosexual-couple stereotype. In saying that, look…I don’t mind at all when one character is a “bottom” in a relationship, but I don’t like when their personalities are tweaked (especially when male) to make one the “female”, or the “chick-with-a-dick” counterpart to their “top/seme” hyper-masculine loverboy. Sure, some characters are naturally written this way, but honestly, making canon!more traditionally masculine characters into replacement, super-girly-stereotypical-girls is just…weird.In fanart, I usually don’t mind (and gosh, is the art cute!), but when actually reading about the characters…yeah. That’s not my cuppa.But this memorable scene certainly is.