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mostly reblogs, but I sometimes post art of my fav ships 22F | infp | artist and handmade jewelry peddler

[knowarice]

Hi frens and mutuals!

I’m moving all my RoyAi/FMAB stuff to this blog:

welcome to my humble abode

FMA/FMAB things with RoyAi focus rice | 22F | i draw and do a little yapping

Hope to see you there!

I’m also debating on whether to delete my royai stuff from here and republish on my new blog, or reblog my current stuff… i’m not very tumblr savvy ^^;;;; i wouldnt mind if anyone has advice on how to move lol

[donitkitt]

hello royai nation

[riza-hawks-eye]

"𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕?"

"𝒀𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒓!"

[knowarice]

No one asked for this, but This is The Video Ever in my opinion (it's the vine boom sound effect)

[forgertv]

[ohnoitstbskyen]

What’s your thoughts on Delicious in Dungeons Character Designs?

Ryoko Kui is the best to ever do it.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

To expand on this a little bit: Ryoko Kui takes the tools of character design seriously, and uses them with forethought and consideration to set her characters apart, give them personality and specificity, and thinks very carefully about what each piece of design communicates and how it interacts with all the other design in her story.

Body shape, face shape, noses, eyes, brows, hair, proportion, fashion, ears, posture, roundness and angularity, broadness and slenderness, posture... Kui clearly thinks about ALL of it, and incorporates all of it.

And this is part of what gives her story such a profound sense of taking place within a world, a whole world inhabited by thousands of people each of whom are as full and unique and distinct as every other one. You look at a group of her characters and none of them feel like Copy Pasted NPC Placeholder #3457, they each feel as though there is a life there, an individuality, even if they are never actually deeply explored in the story.

Compare and contrast with something like Genshin Impact's style of character design:

Now, I don't bring this up just to sh** on Genshin - its character design style is adapted very effectively to the kind of story and world it is trying to build, which is to say a gacha story where every part of a character is formulated towards the singular goal of appeal. It's a world inhabited by nothing but main characters, essentially, and it is a laser-focused power fantasy structured around constantly pursuing the high of maximum damage numbers pumped out by maximally cool and badass battle moves executed with maximal grace by physically perfect avatars who provide the player with maximal aesthetic pleasure.

But because of that, its character design style is under severe pressure to regress to the mean - i.e. skinny bodies, young bodies, beauty ideals, and a minimal amount of physical difference. This style of character design tends to focus all of its effort in colorful, detailed and attention-grabbing fashion and hair styles, and generally avoids "alienating" design features like, well, literally anything that could be conceptualized by anyone as "ugly." Big strong noses, for example, or larger ears, or wrinkles, scarring, skin folds and so on. Fatness functionally does not exist in Genshin Impact's character roster for this reason, and it's part of the reason why the franchise struggles so notably to design characters of color - the concept of "beauty" is deeply bound up in systemic biases of class, race, gender and nationalism, and since Genshin's character design ethos is "make every character as broadly beautiful as possible" it has to keep hitting the same limited set of beats over and over and over again, and it reinforces the biases it inherits with its inability to step outside of them.

So Genshin Impact characters have a tendency, for me at least, to all kinda blur together into a brightly colored cavalcade of lowest-common-denominator ambulatory clothing racks, characters whose bodies exist for the primary purpose of transporting a highly elaborate costume around.

Kui by contrast very very actively seeks out elements of physical difference, and incorporates them into her design process - she seems to delight in inventing as many nose shapes as possible, as many different kinds of eyes as she can think of, and the result is that she has a character roster which is recognizable even if you change or remove very important parts of their basic design.

Where Genshin Impact (and that style of character design) would severely struggle to make characters recognizable without their costumes, because the characters in large part are their costumes, Kui's design style makes characters extremely recognizable not only in and out of costume, but even if the fundamental nature of their bodies change across species, and it makes her characters of the same race and species eminently recognizable from one another, even while sharing many physical traits and aesthetic features.

anyway tl;dr Ryoko Kui is the best to ever do it.

[fairy-lilith]

Blue Claw (on youtube) dropped the hardest Kataang edit ever

[theblueeyedfirebender]

Not a Kataang shipper but damn if this doesn't slap

[knowarice]

goosebumps……

[randomgirlyoudontknow]

love is stored in the fictional couple i’ve gotten overly invested in

[knowarice]

i like my otps a little silly goofy and blushy

[riza-hawks-eye]

The ova Yet Another Man's Battlefield explores why Mustang can never settle down and get married like Maes Hughes.

He asks Hughes, "Can you really hold the woman you love with blood-stained hands?" And it's not just a manifestation of his guilt. There's truth to the fact that Mustang is not a good person. Mustang is terrifying. And people are right to be afraid of him.

The same thing applies to Riza, only Riza has the horrible bonus of having the Alchemical equivalent to nuclear launch codes on her back. Sure, Roy may have burned off the most important information of her Father's research, but the tattoo still lingers, and there will still be questions from the people who see it. And Riza can't give them answers that won't lead back to the numerous deaths she is responsible for.

It's no wonder then, that neither of these two characters are ever canonically romantically linked to anyone else.

Neither Riza nor Roy even really meaningfully touched anyone else until Episode 59. When the Gold-Toothed Doctor has Riza's throat slit.

It takes a near-death experience for Roy to hold the woman he loves, and for Riza to finally let herself be held.

But in a strange sense, it finally lets Roy hold the woman he loves with blood-stained hands.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

Originally posted June 11, 2015

[knowarice]

I Want You and I’m Your Man are two Mitski songs that remind me of RoyAi in very angsty ways.

So I decided to give a go at translating the vibes I got into coherent words.

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warning: interpretations include themes of intense guilt, codependency, and war crimes.

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My interpretations lean heavily into some darker themes that the source media may hint at if it addresses it at all. So please don’t read it if you may be upset by any of the themes I mentioned above. I also tend to overexplain as an attempt to minimize confusion, so I apologize ahead of time for redundancy.

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I Want You is primarily about Roy and Riza’s mutual desire to move beyond their ranks and pursue a life together as lovers. Despite both of them wanting this relationship and having the means of attaining it, they choose not to pursue it out of a responsibility that goes beyond themselves. For Roy, that responsibility is rooted in justice for his fellow people. For Riza, she believes in her ability to protect Roy and sees it as her responsibility to do so. Neither of them believe they deserve the privilege of hold each other as lovers after all the blood they’ve spilled and the lives they’ve taken, so they resist acting on that possibility. For how could they possibly dare to bring life into the world after taking so many lives away from others?

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I’m Your Man alludes to the codependent relationship they’ve developed and the effects of it. Riza’s unwavering resolve to follow and protect Roy earns her the nickname “Mustang’s Dog” from King Bradley. Whether or not Roy dies, he destroys Riza in the process anyway. If he dies, she has no reason to continue living. If he lives on, she will follow him into hell without hesitation. It doesn’t matter to her that her choice is self-destructive, but to Roy it does. He accepts her choice despite knowing it hurts her, and it eats him up inside.

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[knowarice]

i cant get them (royai) out of my brain and the art is not arting rn so it makes me feel like this

[ssukidesu]

one of the things that makes me insane *affectionate* about fmab is how the deaths of all the homunculi are super meta, especially for those who are defeated by humans (wrath is killed by scar; pride is defeated by edward). but i think my fav one to think about is mustang vs lust. it could mean so many things….. that he’s the primary character in the series who does battle and defeat the sin of lust every day—or that the character he loves is being directly threatened and needs protection, and his love for her is what enables him to win. he’s directly juxtaposed to havoc, who is shown as having a weakness to women to a point that it gets in the way of his job. mustang, on the other hand, is shown as successfully prioritizing his professional duty over any temptation for lust he has for his subordinate by not seeking to dissolve those lines. additionally, his love for her also helps him stay in control, as he knows that giving in to lust would also jeopardize her career. duty + love = lust defeated

and that makes her dying lines (“I love how cold and focused your eyes are. I look forward to the day when those eyes will be wide in agony. It’s coming, it’s coming”) so *chef’s kiss*. i think for a long time I thought that it was foreshadowing to him going blind—which it still might be—but when I think about it, I can’t help but wonder if it’s more so referencing when the fact of his love (and the simultaneous prioritizing of his duty) leads to riza’s life being endangered to a point that he’s thinking about committing human transmutation. i mean, which looks more like “eyes wide in agony”?

now compare that to:

again, it might refer to both—but it’s not like lust knew he’d go blind one day. i think she was definitely more likely referring to some future moment in which his duel priorities that make him immune to lust—love and duty—would finally come clashing against each other, as all duel priorities eventually must.

[knowarice]

rotating this analysis in my mind while nodding my head with tears in my eyes

[abstractmouse]

One thing I never see talked about is how in this moment, Hawkeye finally got to have agency over the power she was made warden of. She always had to carry the burden of flame alchemy but ultimately had no control over its use. When Roy goes blind, she directs the flames and kind of becomes the Flame Alchemist herself. It’s a neat detail that never really gets explored.

[5hio]

“Now, look at where we are, everything we’ve done"