Bongwater

Hiromu Arakawa’s genius is obvious throughout all of FMA but her first and biggest leap of genius was in how she crafted her protagonist. 

One must imagine post stairwell kiss Shane floating back up the stairs, still glowing with a first time anal sex orgasmic haze, opening the door to his apartment. And when he gets to his bedroom he fully intends to strip his bed of his messy sheets - he really does!! But when he picks up his pillow, he catches a whiff of Rozanov's douchey fuck boy cologne and deodorant combo that Shane is now and forever going to associate with getting fucked, and he's gonna collapse face first back onto his messy bed, the bed they made a mess of together, and he's gonna hump his still sensitive dick against the mattress while huffing the smell of Rozanov Rozanov Rozanov, and he's gonna come to the memory of getting fucked face down just like this and his whole body is gonna feel all achy and trembly and so deliciously spent. And it's gross and maybe a little ridiculous but it's also gonna occur to Shane that a giddy, dreamy smile has been plastered on his face the whole time.

something about ilya admitting to shane that he looked up the word compatible really gets to me. shane is the one person he never had to hide his language barrier from because shane never treated him differently for it. covering for him at the press conference and never batting an eye at any struggles he had.