#general grumman

[eternalera]

grumman is literally the #1 royai shipper and i love him for it. you just know he lost that chess match on purpose so that he could ask roy to marry his grandaughter (riza). like that shit was PLANNED. oopsies my ass

[memesmadefullmetal]

this is how he was able to win that one time ♟️

[dearreader-archive]

my roman empire is that general grumman asks roy to marry his granddaughter and then later arakawa just says “oh yeah, that’s riza by the way” and doesn’t follow up on ANY OF IT

[incorrectfmaquotes]

Riza, picking up the phone: Hello? Mysterious voice: Turn around. . . Riza: [cautiously turns around] Mysterious voice: Down here. . . Riza: [looks down] Grumman, laying on the floor with a phone in his hand: I can't get up. Riza: DANG IT GRANDPA!

[quotablefanfiction]

“What do you want from me, Hughes? I don’t owe you any favors—because I know what you do to people who owe you favors.” “I don’t know what you’re suggesting,” Maes said airily. “And I only called to ask you a question.” “I wait in fear.”

General Grumman and Maes (chp. 1)

Theory and Practice by metisket (AO3) Fullmetal Alchemist – Mature #Alternate Universe #Canon Divergence - Manga #Past Character Death #Vigilantism #Mental Instability #Violence #Swearing #Crazy!Ed #Scheming #Politics #Controlling the Press

Ed took a trip out East for automail maintenance, and came back with a Xingian prince and a suicidal plan involving lots of explosions. Maes was coming to expect this sort of behavior from Ed.

Part 3 of the Demon Alchemist series (AO3)

[aldrendaux]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Edward Elric & Roy Mustang, Edward Elric & Jean Havoc, Edward Elric & Riza Hawkeye, Riza Hawkeye & Roy Mustang, Jean Havoc & Riza Hawkeye & Roy Mustang Characters: Edward Elric, Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, Jean Havoc, Heymans Breda, Kain Fuery, Vato Falman, Grumman (Fullmetal Alchemist), Team Mustang Additional Tags: Parental Roy Mustang, Parental Riza Hawkeye, Brotherly Jean Havoc, Undercover Missions, Cults, Blood and Gore Summary:

Roy and his men are sent to infiltrate a cult to solve a string of murders in the Northeast. Unfortunately, they will uncover something far more sinister than any of them could ever imagine.

[peartato]

If you read Fullmetal Alchemist in Japanese, the characters refer to Black Hayate as ブラックハヤテ号 (black hayate-gou).

The word on the end, 号 (gou) means "number; edition; make; model; issue; part of that group", and it's usually used as a numbering suffixー like 号室 (goushi-tsu) after a hotel room or apartment number, and 号車 (gousu-u) for train car numbers.

But another use for gou is as a suffix attached to names of ships, trains, and airplanes. If you ever played the first couple of Pokemon games, you probably had to get aboard the サント・アンヌ号 (santo annu-gou) or the "S.S Anne":

For the English release, gou was translated as the boat prefix "S.S".

But why would Hayate have a suffix on his name that's meant for boats, trains and planes? Because he is named after the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (疾風), a fighter jet flown by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in World War II. The plane's name means "gale" or "strong wind."

There isn't really a prefix for airplanes in English the same way we have "S.S" or "R.M.S", so this detail was omitted in the English translation. The closest you'd really get are the P (pursuit) and F (fighter) designations used by the US Air Force (like the F-35 fighter jet, for example) but "F-84 Hayate" isn't that much better, either.

That's why Hayate has 'gou' on the end of his name - the characters are literally nicknaming him the "S.S Hayate".

Most of the Amestrian soldiers in Fullmetal Alchemist are named after some kind of military plane or vehicle. Here's the North American P-52 Mustang:

The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye:

The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber:

And the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (yes, it's a tank.)

(Thanks for everyone that's been reading and responding to these explanation posts so far! If there's anything I should include or correct, please let me know).

[trash-possum-alchemist]

For those wondering if Roy ever did canonically become Fürher