When he's two weeks old, he's a Xingese orphan in a tiny border village. When he's fourteen, he's a precocious alchemist and desperately in love. When he's twenty nine, he's a man with shattered dreams and broken promises and a painful title of 'the hero of Ishval'.
The story of Roy Mustang, which is a story of guilt, redemption, ambition, lots of singed eyebrows, some very fancy suits, families—found and otherwise, and years and years of pining after Riza Hawkeye.
read it here! for long drawn angst with a happy ending and a childhood friends to lovers to complicated to lovers again.
@agentcalliope
it's basically based on this post










