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)
#fma#gif#…oh shit#i didn’t know roy could just CARBONIZE people#like ‘burn to death’ yes (and all the horror inherent to that) but not ‘turn into a bbq brisket’ chunk of charcoal shit#…well now i know what people meant when they said he has impressive control#he’s WEAVING FIRE in a three dimensional space CARBONIZING enemies and not even singeing allies#i’d have thought 'i can melt you like candle wax’ would have been the most horrifying aspect of his abilities#but no..no no#the horror is that he’s got a surgeon’s control of it and all the ramifications of his mental sate that implies#……goddamn#he’s CIRCULATING gasses in MULTIPLE loops that are INTERCONNECTED#he has to have the ability to calculate ON THE FLY where the fire needs to go and how it has to loop to stay in control AND lit#and he got that from EXPERIENCE#and ed is smart enough to realize all of that and probably more in that moment#just…roy’s mental flow state for MURDERTIME#fucking hell#because he can’t just disassociate and calculate like that
via @variablejabberwocky
I maintain an opinion that I honestly can’t remember if I’ve mentioned before, but I think it’s not that Roy is *useless* in the rain as much as he’s *uncontrolled* in the rain.
We all saw him in episode 19: Death of the Undying. We saw that his array can do more than just manipulate gas, but it can deconstruct water itself. He could dry his gloves if he really, truly needed to, but what would that leave? A whole lot of hydrogen. And hydrogen doesn’t burn — it explodes. I think he kinda likes having hands.
And, let’s be real: Roy is more dangerous *because* of his perfect control.
