The RAGE. I love how Arakawa did this. She frequently shows people's irises unshaded in particularly big negative emotion (anger, shock, deadly focus), and the contrast really highlights how tiny and focused their pupils are - that's gotta be the point. But the whole picture makes Roy look boiling.
He's just come from the Elric's house, burst in through Pinako's door where his guide tells him the Elric boys (just kids) would be, and he's been full of motion, then just stops at the sight of Ed, in complete anger at the mess of blood and illegal alchemy he found at their house. Like he's taking in the culprit but not Ed's horrible condition.
Then
Al makes him stop yelling at/pulling at Ed. This suit of armour with a child's voice echoing out of it.
And his eyebrows are still so intense - a shade lighter without the (not cross-hatching ... just hatching??) between them - but still bent in ...
But the rage is sinking away into confusion, into grief, into understanding that Ed didn't kill his brother with his alchemy but somehow managed to save him. He's starting to see not just the Horrible Act that had consequences, but also to really get a feel for the consequences.
And the genius of those boys. The military will not leave them here if it gets wind of this. They're going to be pursued, but he can't let them be devoured by what the military would do to them. They're already so broken.
