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Of course, of course! My top two favorite headcanons include:

Roy constantly calling the places that he has sent the boys to, to make sure they arrived safe and have a place to stay. At first he was just calling to make sure they weren’t destroying things, but after a year or so, the questions were less “what have they done now?” and more “are they settling in well?” He will not tell the Elrics that he does this, and he makes sure that whomever he spoke to knows that they should not know he called.

Ed and Roy are both introverts, who like their quiet spaces and alone time. They both recognize this in one another, so when Ed is feeling a particular need to introvert, he’ll come stretch out on the couch in Roy’s office and read, research, whatever. Roy knows, when Ed is making a certain face or acting a certain face, that he actually needs something, and should not be teased. It’s one of very few times that Roy actually actively works on his paperwork

That’s not all though!

When Ed first started in the military, he had no idea how to budget. He was a kid with money, who wanted to pay back Winry and Pinako for the automail. His paychecks often ran out… so Roy sat him down and showed him how to budget

When Ed was taking the exam, he stayed at Roy’s. Just because he couldn’t afford a hotel and couldn’t stay in one without an adult anyway. Roy didn’t want to pay for the hotel, so he let Ed stay on his couch.

That’s not the last time that happens.

The day that Ed, Breda, and Armstrong met with Maria Ross, Ed had almost never been so relieved. It had scared him to know that Roy had been such a monster that he would kill Ross for petty revenge, and knowing that he hadn’t was more of a relief than he expected.

Roy totally gave Ed the sex talk. Ed was not amused.

Alphonse never stopped looking up to Roy. Not even after the Ross Incident. A strong part of him just kept saying “there’s no way that such a good man would do something like that with no good reason” even though all logic and sense said that was exactly what happened.

Roy and Riza go ring shopping with both Ed and Al. Ed was embarrassed, but Al was delighted.

Roy braids Ed’s hair when either of his arms are out of commission. Al couldn’t tell how hard he was pulling, and Riza could only do it behind her head. More than once, he has put Ed’s hair into a fancy braid, like a fishtail or something out of the ordinary, before Ed even realized it.

Hughes once half-jokingly said that Roy should just adopt the Elrics and get it over with. A few days later, holding another damage report from one of their missions, Roy seriously considers it “if only so they would just listen to me”.

The day Roy regained his sight, he sat in Alphonse’s hospital room and just stared at him as he slept. It would take a very long time to associate a living, breathing, human child with Alphonse.

Roy and his team are the only ones allowed to poke fun at the Fullmetal Alchemist and his brother, and Roy will make sure that everyone is aware of that.

That cat, that Roy as supposed to take in after Ed beat him in 03 ep 13? Roy went out and found it, and kept it. As soon as Al knew about it, he visited every day.

Ed has never full-on cried, full sobs and everything, in the military. There were times, however, when he may borrow Roy’s shirtfront, when he feared he may come close.

Roy keeps a close eye on Ed because Ed acts exactly how Roy used to act at his age, and that could only end badly.

Roy occasionally threads money into Ed’s account. Not often, but Roy wasn’t about to let his boy starve because Ed was too embarrassed to come ask for money.

Roy: What?

Hughes: What?

The settings is when Ed first joins the military and Roy sees Ed arguing with Al. And Al getting visibly fed up grabs Ed by the scruff of his jacket and Ed goes completely limp and looks extremely confused. So awhile later Roy while having a heated argument with Ed, attempts this tactic. . .

Hi hi!! Sorry this took a couple days to get to, I was letting the idea sit and marinate! Gonna take free rein of this really and see how it goes!! Just gonna pick up where you let off with the prompt and go from where Roy picks him up! Hope I do the idea justice and you enjoy!

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Roy half expected him to struggle, half expected him to continue yelling, despite the fact that Roy was only doing this because he’d seen it work when Al did it.

But Ed did none of that.

True to how he’d responded when Al had picked him up by the scruff of his shirt, Ed went complete limp. Not a movement. Not a sound. No protest. No thrashing. Completely still.

Roy felt a fleeting moment of victory. A smirk played across his face.

And then it quickly became unsettling how still the boy was. It simply wasn’t natural to respond in that manner, and Roy couldn’t figure out why in the world Ed would act like this in the first place. As quickly as he’d picked the poor boy up, he was down on the ground again. Still silent and unmoving.

Roy opened his mouth to say something, but Ed suddenly turned and left the inner office. Without a word.

Roy watched him curiously.

Well, it had certainly shut the boy up, and for that Roy was relieved. But why the hell did it work?

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