Maes Hughes was the one who advised Roy to take a handful of his subordinates with him to Central, those who were most loyal and understood him best. Which proved to be vital in saving his neck, advancing his career, and teaching him one or two life lessons. Before this point, several things were implied:
1) Roy, as a Colonel, has more than just five subordinates, all of which have regular jobs within the military beyond their direct responsibilities toward their superior.
2) Big fat chance that he would’ve never thought of this on his own. Once he got Hughes’ advice, he followed it without question.
3) Maes Hughes was way too fucking clever to be kept aliveThis is all more strongly implied in the manga, when these subordinates are told to drop what they’re doing and go to the Colonel’s office ASAP. Before then, it’s safe to assume that there was simply no Team Mustang as we know it.
Anyway this is a roundabout way to give a well-deserved shout out to Maes Hughes for founding Team Mustang.
Tag: team mustang
who is the biggest dork?
Vato Falman: There is a master key and a spare key for the office. Hawkeye has them both. When I asked, “What if you die, Hawkeye? How will we get into the office?” she said, “If I’m dead, you all have been dead for weeks.”
One of the most hilarious aspects of FMA:B is just how the finale plays out.
like the protags get split (roughly) into Team Mustang and
Team EdTeam Greed.Team Mustang, in preparation for the Promised Day, has consolidated power across the entirety of Amestris and organized a secret coup led by the Briggs forces covertly smuggled into Central. They then successfully take out the entirety of the High Command, and take command of the radio in such a way that they smoothly and secretively dictate all information released to the public which shuffles all blame onto the High Command and Briggs, away from Mustang, leaving Mustang’s hands clean and ripe for Fuhrer-dom, like the goddamn fucking pros they are
…and Team Greed has….um….hmmm…they sure did Show Up. Greed went somewhere. But I mean. …Ed definitely got into Central. He just……. Yeah he had no plan. None of those 4 (5?) idiots had any kind of plan in the months leading up to this. They were hiding in a basement. Stellar. Illustrious. Our Protagonist, everyone. The Prodigy. The Smartest state alchemist Amestris has seen. Hiding in a basement at home. Pretending to be dead.
Like Thank Fucking God for Mustang because FMA was never going to shape up into one of those “plucky young protag kid somehow outsmarts the whole Big Bad Organization” no Ed’s dumb as a doornail and would have gotten stomped into the ground if he didnt have An Experienced Strategic Adult With Uncountable Connections and Vast Knowledge of Military Procedure on his side.
Not to mention Alphonse, Marco, Heinkle, and Yoki pretty much missed the entirety of the Promis Day (Well, Al only missed half), because they couldn’t drive a goddamn CAR to Central without crashing it multiple times
bullshit central 