Lala lasanha!

redraw/doodle of one of these low quality pictures in the rockbell house (fmab)

Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 : episode 51

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— – warning : anime spoilers

— – pairing : royai, roy mustang / riza hawkeye

— – word count : 565

— – tags : fluff, post canon, mutual pining, unspoken feelings, fic snippet

— – summary : riza hawkeye does not know her work shift today is actually a date

— – notes : this has been sitting in my drafts (and head) for a while and I thought sharing a snippet would motivate me to finally finish it. Enjoy!

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The celebrations had been going on for days now, filling the streets of Central City with the almost-forgotten sounds of music, chatter, and laughter: a stark contrast against the cracked roads and ruined buildings, tangible reminders of the war that had just ended.  Life had started again, and not only metaphorically: lives had been taken during the battle. All of them. Yet, the dedication of a few brave, chosen souls, had managed them back. Death is the only thing that gives life a meaning, some say: and it is therefore easy to understand the festive atmosphere, people smiling for the fact alone that they can. However, a concrete reason did lie behind the celebrations.  

« Did you call for me, sir? » « Lieutenant, yes, come in. » The door softly shut behind Riza as she made her way across the room. Now standing in front of the desk, she laid her eyes on the pile of paperwork sitting on it.  « Do you want me to take care of those? » she promptly asked, the urge to sigh at the idea of such a boring task not even grazing her. « Oh, no, I’ll look at those later, » he answered, and this time a reaction — one attentive eyes could barely catch, yet Roy gladly sensed with no hesitation, — was indeed displayed at the statement: an unreliable promise then, an absurd resolution now, causing Riza’s expression to gently melt into a composed smile. It would’ve been an amazing sight to see, really.  It’s not like intimacy (in the least intimate sense of the term) was new to them; but something had undeniably changed. Perhaps in the way they stood taller next to each other, now that they’d been lifted from the weight of their past; perhaps in the way they spoke, their words unable to possibly give away anything that hadn’t already been made obvious by their actions (although, it must be said, that didn’t in any way help with the persisting obliviousness, equally endearing and frustrating trait of their usually much-intuitive personalities). The shy smirk on Riza’s face was the clearest possible indicator of that, and it would’ve been an atrocious lie to say Roy hadn’t lived off those hidden moments of complicity for the past weeks. The life of a to-be-ruler had turned out to be just as boring as he’d pictured it; that small, almost nonexistent smile was about all the exciting news in his life, and even then, it still wasn’t enough. It had only taken Roy a war, an end-of-the-world scale disaster and unenthusiastically becoming head of state to finally realise that. 

« Plans for tonight? »

“The man who looked to change his nation had his eyesight taken from him, and now he can no longer see his future” -Father

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Prompt list 2026

Day 1, 8th June - Bolt

def.:

1. a flash of lightning that looks like a white line against the sky

2. a length or roll of cloth or wallpaper

3. a type of short arrow shot from a crossbow (= a type of weapon)

4. to try to escape by running towards something

Day 2, 9th June - Temperance

def.: control of your own behaviour, the habit or practice of avoiding extremes of behaviour. moderation.

Day 3, 10th June - Candlelight

def.: the light that a candle produces when it is burning

Day 4, 11th June - Quiescent

def.: temporarily quiet and not active. dormancy.

Day 5, 12th June - Serendipity

man, i say. the brotherhood art glazes roy mustang so much they're trying to appeal to his fans sooooo badly it's craz-

the 03 art.

Roy & Riza 💙

Too much of soundtrack to third Pirates of the Caribbean do things to me………………