

FMA:B Episode 30 vs. Episode 53 || for @bisexualwinry
“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.” Francois de la Rochefoucauld
#I’VE WAITED FOR THIS GIFSET MY WHOLE LIFE THANK YOU ASHLEY#I THINK ABT THESE SCENES…..ALL THE TI ME….#like i remember the day it finally clicked for me why ed looks at roy like that#that moment is the most powerful and destructive example of roy’s alchemy he’s ever seen#and he Gets it. you can see it in his eyes that he knows Exactly why roy had such devastating influence in ishval#and in the last gif?? he’s fucking hORRIFIED#the mannequin soldiers were going to kill him and he still sees how roy takes them out as excessively violent#and don’t you tell me that what happens in this scene doesn’t have a role#in how he goes looking for roy later when he’s chasing down envy 👀👀👀👀👀👀#ch: edward elric#ch: riza hawkeye#ch: roy mustang#body horror cw#death cw#fmab graphics (via @bisexualwinry)
@tonya-the-chicken (and I think @chrysopoeiasopoeias) was asking about Chris Mustang being Roy’s Aunt. Since @tonya-the-chicken asked me to, I’ll post the segment from the FMA Character Guide, published June 19th 2009. Page 105:
Adoptive Mother / 養母
Chris Mustang / クリス・マスタング
Madame Christmas / マダム・クリスマス
The proprietress of ‘Madame Christmas’, a bar in Central City. She is Mustang's paternal aunt, who took Mustang in after his parents died when he was young and raised him well.
中央市内のバー「マダム・クリスマス」の女主人。 マスタングの父方の叔母で、幼い頃に両親を亡くしたマスタングを引き取り、立派に育て上げてくれた。
She is well versed in background information due to her job, and at Mustang's request, she investigates Selim's past and helps him gather evidence. Because of this, she was marked by the military, so she destroyed the shop, fled, and went into hiding.
仕事柄、裏情報に精通し、マスタングに請われてセリムの過去を調べ、証拠集めに協力。 それが原因で軍にマークされたため、店を破壊して逃亡し、身を隠している。
The rest of the page details Vanessa, Madeleine, and the other girls from the Madame Christmas bar.
Operational code names such as 'Elizabeth' were borrowed from shop girls to hide evidence.
「エリザベス」などの作戦コード名は、証拠隠滅のため、店の女の子から拝借。
I love how Arakawa clearly wrote detailed backstories for her characters and just like… never elaborates on them. I found an old interview where she was asked why she didn’t include a resolution for Hawkeye and Mustangs goals and her response was essentially “cause this story is about Ed :)”
She’s my biggest inspiration.
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