fma meme: favorite episode ↳ episode nineteen: death of the undying (6/17)
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thesixpennybook: breakthisspell: #I like this because it features Roy’s back, whereas most of it features Riza’s to the point where it is almost fetishizing this, like, creepy, potentially abusive thing that happened to her. #this is beautiful Yes yes yes forever, and I love how this subtly evokes Riza’s dual promise to Roy, that she will guard his back (she seems to almost be warding off the viewer) but also that she will be the one to kill him if it becomes necessary. Roy has chosen to make himself vulnerable, as he appears to us here, to Riza, to trust himself to her skills and strength and conscience because he cannot entirely trust his own. Riza trusted him enough to leave her back open- to literally be naked to him- and he does the same (and in doing so effectively gives her back every bit of power over the secrets she carries, every bit of agency her father denied her- she can, if she chooses, wipe flame alchemy off the face of the earth). I love that we don’t see Roy’s face here, that all we see is him open, vulnerable, passive and humbled in the arms of his protector who stares at us both fierce and conflicted, one hand clinging to him all affectionate and possessive, the other poised with a weapon that can point either way.
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prinsipemo:

“Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.”

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