#1 Effie and Saude Fan

This isn’t mentioned in Brotherhood, but the reason Roy and Riza came to Resembool scouting out the Elrics is because someone fucked up the ages on Ed and Al’s file.

Literally Roy and Riza are riding in the back of some horse-drawn carriage into Resembool chatting with the driver like “yes we’ve heard rumors of two alchemist brothers here, Ed and Al Elric ages 31 and 30 respectively. Do you know where they live?” And the driver pretty much answers with “lol what? Those kids are like 10.”

Except now Roy and Riza are already THERE so they decide “Fuck it. Let’s pay a visit anyway.”

He's exhausted because he's just got back from his previous clients and had little sleep from working on his latest commissions he just sits down at his place at the table and does a quick head count for all 5 of them.

Qifrey? Check. Agott? Check. Tetia? Check. Richeh? Check.

Then his eyes land on Coco and he has an internal panic as he tries frantically to remember the name of the fifth member of their Atelier. Meanwhile Coco is looking back with wide eyes which makes Olruggio panic even more with guilt because how could he forget her name-

He turns to Qifrey who is just smiling as he hands over Olruggio's plate of food.

"That's Coco," he supplies her name.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.