Within seconds Riza has figured out this isn’t Roy. This is Envy. She and Mustang know each other that well, to the point she’s confident enough pointing a gun to an imposter within SECONDS.
Like, they exchange less than ten sentences talking to each other, and she knows enough to point a fucking gun at him.
And she’s smirking about the fact she knows how to prove it’s an imposter.
She’s immediately ready to take Envy down with this trickery.
She already knows how to do it.
How to be badass and prove this ain’t Roy and take down this damn imposter.
It only takes one statement for Riza to fool Envy into revealing himself. ONE STATEMENT “The colonel calls me Riza” and Hawkeye has entirely outmanipulated our shapeshifting manipulator.
bait taken JUST like that, so easy
The reason her lie is believable is because of how close Mustang and Hawkeye are
how close everyone knows Mustang and Hawkeye are
to the point even enemies like Envy would think “oh they’re together that makes sense”
to the point that when Riza tells Envy this lie, Envy doesn’t try to continue the facade and be like, “Well, how do I know you’re not Riza!Envy and lying to me??” Envy just goes “SHIT I FUKKED UP BAD” and flips
Riza knows that this will be believable and gets Envy to reveal himself, like, dayyyuumn woman
Envy’s immediate reaction is enough to prove beyond-all-shadow-of-doubt to Riza this is definitely-not-Roy. I mean, Riza already knew. But she just proved it. And so she shoots before Envy can
even
really transform out of the Roy appearance (in the manga, anyway)
That fast reaction
BANG
And then this calm “I lied”
like holy fuck that’s awesome
and then this fucking “Thanks for falling for it”
like fuck what she did was calmly tell Envy he fell for it and that she totally meant him to fall for it and that it was so easy for him to fall for it
like that’s power
that’s POWER, Riza
all so calm and steady and in POWER Riza
and then this fucking “Now do me a favor and die”
NOW
DO
ME
A
FAVOR
AND
DIE
bambambambambambambambambamba BANG BANG BOOMMMM RIZA GUNNING ENVY DOWN LIKE A BADASSSSSSSSSS
WAY TO GO HAWKEYE!!!
WOOOHOOO
YYYYEEEAAAAAAHHHH
BOOM
BABY
FUCK YEAH [insert Al gif here]
GNGE:OGIWENG:OIN YES
ICONIC RIZA MOMENT IS FUCKING BADASS AND ICONIC YO
AU where Ed uses those weird, uncomfortable tumblr insults when he’s fighting someone (and Roy’s just in the background struggling to fathom what he’s hearing)
Even though this is one of the shortest scenes, I think, of the entire show, it’s one of my favorites.
On the surface, you think it’s just about Bradley: that his life is truly sad because he’s had absolutely no control over it from the second he was selected to be a potential Fuhrer candidate.
But if you read more deeply into the dialogue, Bradley mainly serves as a foil to Hawkeye’s character in this scene.
Riza joined the military academy of her own volition. She has her own goals to accomplish, her own motives, and her own reasons to keep moving forwards. The position she now holds is entirely based on her own decisions and actions, and on merit. Bradley, I’m sure, is somewhat envious of that. Because he’s really only a puppet. Father’s the one pulling all the strings. He hasn’t earned his rank or status or even his power, and he knows it. Hawkeye, in this regard, leads a life far superior to his.
But look at the way she reacts when he tells her that he was able to marry the woman of his own choosing. She freezes — stops what she’s doing entirely. Because no matter how pathetic or sad Bradley’s life is, he still has something that Riza doesn’t: the right to be with the person he loves.
That’s what this scene is really about. Bradley is telling her, “Pity me all you want, but I have the one thing you don’t — the one thing you want but can’t have”.
She and Roy don’t have the right to share “I love you”s at the end of the day. And he’s having fun reminding her that she can’t have him. He likes to drive the stake in her chest even deeper than it already is. (I mean, look at the way the bastard smiles in that last gif).
And honestly, he probably fucks with her feelings like this constantly once he appoints her to be his aide.
When the physical manifestations of wrath and pride have been harassing you at work so your sappy bf cheers you up by dumping a half ton of flowers at your door
Happy royai week! This was for the day two prompt: “Vibrancy”, but I’m late as usual ʅ(°⊱,°)ʃ
listen one of my absolute favorite things about roy is how an absolute MOSH he becomes around riza
like you see this charismatic, cunning, and honestly, pretty terrifying man, and then, when Riza is mad at him , or anything like that, he’s just
i mean come on
like roy mustang is, by all means , not a loser. he is a highly intelligent, strong man that can make an all-powerful being like a homunculus squirm, but with his Lieutenant, he somehow seems to lose that whole effect
bullshit central 