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Another gorgeous piece of artwork by @littlewitchbee to illustrate this one! I love the way they draw Royai, and I'm super grateful they gave me permission to use their art! <3

Riza was never a very tactile person. She wasn't held or cuddled as a child. She's not the kind of woman who is demonstrative with her affections. She is not "a hugger".

So when she and Roy start to date publicly, their close friends are shocked at how often and how freely they touch one another in public- holding hands, hugging, quick kisses on the cheek or lips, leaning into each other, arms around waists and shoulders. They always seem to be touching.

What they don't realize is that Riza was starved for touch all those years. Roy is the only person who gets it.

HAI CHEERS 🍻

ALPHA OLIVIER... ofc it's the obvious choice, and my preferred one since i want her doing things to riza <3 but tbf if i cared more about the politics of it i would make her beta or maybe even omega because someone with her personality and who got to achieve this much power be a non alpha would be something fun to explore i think!! but i only care about riza's harem so i leave it up to someone else........!

"if he had to pretend to be normal" MEAN TO HIM???

but it'd be hard because he's too honest about his feelings LOL he usually doesn't have strong opinions about others and can keep up appearances, but if he gets annoyed he'll have a hard time hiding it. the default solution his brain gives for any inconvenience is "kill them" ^__^ so maybe yeah pretending to be normal might be the hardest part...

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fandom: fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood, original work words: 1,610 chapter: 1/1 rating: G relationship: evgeniya ignatyeva & judit elkund content: in the chill of north city, two mothers talk about their children beside a warm fire.

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judit doesn’t answer the door herself anymore, but evgeniya can hear a soft, “come in,” when she knocks, so she lets herself in with her key, carefully adjusting the pot in her hands as she does.

when she steps inside, she’s greeted with a blast of heat from the fireplace, and after setting the soup down in the kitchen, strips off her coat, her gloves and her hat, hanging them all by the front door. she doesn’t want her sister-in-law to wait much longer, but she came here with a purpose, so she sets about pouring the soup into a bowl and collecting a spoon before she brings it to judit.

she struggles upward in bed when she sees evgeniya. “hello.”

“zolovka,” evgeniya says, affection spilling into the greeting, “hello.” she steps to the bedside and helps judit readjust the blankets before handing over the soup. “are you cold?”

Aha no problem, I saw it was also about art (I don't know if you write?) so I'm 👀 in case you want to share any !!

Ahhhhhh 1923 is my other pet project with All the Hope. It's a long fic too, Royai, and I've been working on it for more than a year now.

I don't know how familiar you are with FMA 03 and Conqueror of Shamballa, but in those Ed and Al end up being stuck in our world in the year, you guessed it, 1923.

This stems from Ed meeting our world's Hughes there, and I kept wondering where Roy and Riza were...

So it starts with Ed meeting our world's version of Roy Mustang in 1923 Munich, but it's in fact just a frame for me to tell our world's Roy and Riza's (and other characters 😉 ) story, year by year, starting from the beginning. It adapts what happens in Brotherhood, btw, for our world, in a way. No spoilers lol.

I think it would have fitted to have Roy and Riza on the same side as Hughes, btw, but for a couple of reasons, including me being lazy, I've decided they aren't. All three however, even if they don't know each other (Roy and Riza do know each other from early on OF COURSE), have taken part in WW1, which is a big chunk of this fic.

I don't know what excerpt to share... so have the first meeting between Roy and Ed (if you want other parts like either character's childhood or the war or after the war, feel free to ask ! I can gush about this fic for hours and I've already written way too much in this reply haha). Also there's Falman there, so, for you lol.

"Are you going?" "Wish I could. But it's during my shift, and I need to put food on the table. With the prices rising…" Falman shrugs. "You want to go?"  "Of course! You think there's a fee? I'm on my last marks, too."  "You could try to sneak in."  "My, a librarian encouraging a kid to sneak into a science conference. That's the kind of people I like."  Edward stills and straightens at the voice that rises behind him.  "Whatcha got, here, young criminal?" The man's German is a little stilted, spoken as a foreign language most likely, but not enough to make his speech pattern unrecognizable.  A gloved hand – the glove is brown – reaches past Ed's shoulder to take the first book on the pile.  Ed turns around at once, to see Roy fucking Mustang open the book at random, squint, and put the book upside down on the counter so he can reach into a pocket inside his suit jacket. Falman has a desperate whine at the state of the book – there's no salvaging its spine now – but he's too polite to say anything. And Ed himself has too much trouble trying to close his mouth.  Well. Hughes was there. There ought to be a version of the colonel roaming around this world.  But. Still.  Oblivious, Mustang growls while rummaging through his pockets, taking out his gloves, setting his hat and his jacket on the counter, and laying an ebony cane with a silver handle against it.  Edward can't stop the words that cross his lips.  "Urgh, of course you would."  "Uh? Ah!" Mustang frowns as he pushes a pair of reading glasses on his nose, then takes the book again. “Ah, I knew it. Inorganic chemistry, uh?” “Yeah, and what about it?” Edward retorts, thinking the colonel – or whatever he is in this world – looks even more insufferable with these tiny glasses on. He doesn’t know if he wants to slap him or hug him, and the fact that he’s thinking about this last option makes him furious. 

SDFGH HI!! <3 I'm good! AND MMMm see the thing about FMA and something like this is the uuh Do I Want To Die question LOL I would love to be Kain Fuery I love that guy and I mean I get to hang around Riza, know about radios and like dogs????? Amazing. On the flipside he gets sent to the trenches and sees at least one person he was with die exploding so.... :(

Maybe a little less interesting but at least more safe and still nice would be the huuuh Guy that works for Izumi and Sig. I like doing manual work and working with a butcher sounds really neat! Also those two really like that guy I appreciate the job security.