If you don’t mind, may I request headcanons for Riza Hawkeye with a Soldier!Fem!S/o who used to be a outlaw back in the old west please! Basically she’s from the U.S (bear with me hear) and used to be a outlaw, until she got caught by authorities. But instead of getting hanged she was given the option to became a soldier in Amestris, as a “second chance” (which she agreed too). She’s also good with guns but mostly with lever action rifles, revolvers, and shotguns!
Hi anon!! It’s Yasu ^^ it was a challenge making your request cause it’s the first time ever I write for a female character lmao- I hope you’ll like these heacanons!!
Riza Hawkeye x fem!soldier!reader headcanons
Requested by: Anon
TW: none
Writer: Yasu
Word count: 637
Riza probably heard of you for the first time through Hughes.
He was working on your case, as you had being causing chaos all around Central, and he kept complaining to Mustang about how hard it was to find you.
She was getting annoyed by the constant pestering and Mustang pleading face didn’t help, so she took the phone, calmly but firmly explained that he couldn’t keep calling for unimportant matters (everyone knew he’d call back tho) and hang up.
The weeks that followed, she caught a glimpse of your face in the newspapers, the titles affirming that you had been successfully arrested.
She had congratulated Hughes on his case but he surprised her by saying that he got you the chance to work under him instead of going straight to jail. He said that you had too much talent to let it all go to waste and that you really weren’t a bad person after all.
You two met each other for the first time once the team Mustang got transferred to the Central.
Riza noted to herself that you were prettier in reality than in pictures and that Hughes was right: you weren’t a bad person.
Your first real conversation was at the military shooting range.
“Your aim is excellent, I’m speechless,” you said one time with an astonished face after she had shot multiple times in the middle of a paper target.
“Thank you. I saw that you weren’t bad neither.” She gave you a small smile.
That’s basically how you became friends before starting to develop feelings.
As you were interested in guns, you and Riza spend a lot of time exchanging tips.
Both of you secretly knew that it was more of an excuse to spend time together.
She ask you about your life as an outlaw once and you tell her all about your adventures and motivations. You asked her about Ishval...
She also told you everything. You could see the guilt in her eyes.
You couldn’t tell her it wasn’t her fault and you couldn’t particularly help. So you just put your head on her shoulder and squeezed her hand lovingly.
She very much appreciated your gesture and it basically became your thing to comfort each other by squeezing hands.
Riza asked you on a date once and understood why Hughes always feels the need to gushes about his wife: you were only in casual attire yet she found you so spectacularly beautiful. Her heart skipped multiple beats during this date and so did yours.
You became official very quickly, but needed to hide it as it is forbidden to frequent another soldier.
Mustang knew, of course. He teased a lot Riza about it and while he might irk her a lot, whenever one of you nearly got caught, he was always there to back you up and deny everything.
“What do you mean you saw (L/N) and Hawkeye being a little too close, as you may say? You’re being illogical, soldiers can’t date in the military. Perhaps you should slow down on the coffee.”
You spend a lot of nights together just talking. She’d wrap her arms around your waist and smile against your skin.
She sometimes feels as if you’d be better off without her. Survivor guilt is hard to fight but she wants to protect you so she always get over these intrusive thoughts pretty quickly.
She’d protect you no matter what and you’d do the same.
“You don’t need to act so strong all the time” you said one time. “I can be strong when you need to be weak.”
"Still, I can't allow myself to be weak too often.”
She chuckled at your seemingly deep in thought expression.
“Well, we'll figure something out, right? We always do.”
