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Roy Mustang | Fullmetal Alchemist | Not Reserved
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Character
Name: Roy Mustang
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)
Timeline: A couple months after the Promised Day
Canon Resource Links: Roy Mustang, Flame Alchemist
Personality:
The first part of Roy a person sees is a carefully constructed public persona. The main reason behind the exaggerated public persona is Roy's driving ambition. When he first studied Alchemy and made the decision to join the military and become a State Alchemist, it was to be part of the foundation of the country and protect it and its citizens. His time in Ishval crushed that idea, as he became the 'hero' of a massacre and killed thousands of people under the orders of the military. The losses were staggering on the military's side as well, and at the end Roy saw that despite the power of Flame Alchemy he was only able to protect a handful of the people who served in his squad. Roy decided then that if all he could do was protect a handful of people, then that's what he would do, and ensure those handful of people would protect another handful of people until everyone in Amestris was safe. In order to do that he would have to be at the top, so he set his sights on becoming Fuhrer. That goal is the main driving force behind many of his actions in the series, and he chooses to pursue it above personal relationships and other interests.
Roy has a reputation as a lazy, irresponsible officer who can be found sleeping at his desk, making personal calls from his office phone, and generally avoiding doing any real work himself unless there's a chance to advance his career. He has stolen more than one girlfriend away from other soldiers, and many of his dates are covers to buy information on political opponents and other military officials. Underneath the loud womanizing and obvious flirting, Roy genuinely enjoys the social interaction, flirting, and his time spent with women. But his ambition to become Fuhrer comes first, and his guilt over his actions in Ishval would make it difficult to have a deep emotional connection, so all his romantic relationships are casual. There's also the fact that Roy uses his connections with a number of women to get information, and is wary of falling into that same trap himself. His dislike of tedious paperwork isn't entirely feigned, but Roy is more than capable of putting in the long hours and necessary work on his own, without Hawkeye standing over him. He manages to handle all his official duties as well as laying plans to overthrow the government and manage his spies without the help of his trusted subordinates once they're all transferred out from under him.
In line with his long-term goal and the fact that he created and maintains a public persona for the advantages it offers, Roy is very good at planning, managing people, and manipulating events to his advantage. When his trusted subordinates are transferred to different regions of the country they continue to support him and be useful, with Hawkeye passing vital information to him about the Fuhrer's son being a Homunculus, and messages relayed through all of them to coordinate plans at the series finale. Roy appears to have been maneuvered into a corner and allows the opposition to think that, but makes very good use of his team in their new positions even though he can't be seen making too much contact with them without putting them at risk. The groundwork for this information transfer had been set out well in advance of when it's actually used, and he's a master of working important subtle cues into seemingly normal conversations. His tendency to engage in casual banter supplies a perfect disguise for such interaction.
Exaggerated vanity and over-the-top arrogance are an important part of the appearance he likes to project. Roy also takes very good care of his body and appearance and has an incredible amount of confidence in his abilities. He's almost always clean shaven and his hair is carefully cut to keep a wild but appealing appearance. When he's out of his uniform he favors classy suits and formal attire, including gloves and a scarf and dress shoes to add to the suit. His confidence in his own abilities is, for the most part, well founded. Roy's signature Flame Alchemy requires finesse and control, and he can use it with such pinpoint accuracy as to take out the legs of a large number of enemies in a crowded room while leaving his allies scattered among them completely unharmed. To put it simply, he's great at a lot of things and he knows it. But that confidence doesn't extend to suicidal recklessness: when he rushes into a situation without a plan it's for an entirely different reason.
While Roy normally favors calm planning and has a superb tactical mind, his protectiveness towards his friends and subordinates can make him rush into situations or make incredibly poor choices. When Scar is in town and Ed is out with Al, Roy rushes to the scene of a fight just in time to see Ed almost get killed. Confronted with such a sight Roy not only rushes into battle, he actually hands off his side-arm after having already drawn and fired it to free up his hand for flame alchemy, completely forgetting that he can't make a spark when the gloves are wet and that he is standing in the rain. Likewise even when his plan for luring out a hidden enemy has been carefully set up so it can be executed while he is obviously and loudly somewhere else with a perfect alibi, he abandons that plan to rush in and save Hawkeye and Fuery. Even knowing the terrible price to be paid for human transmutation, and the fact that the Homunculus need him to perform it to complete their plans, Roy struggles with the decision to perform human transmutation or watch Hawkeye die. In the end, he's only able to refuse when she signals to him with her eyes that help is on its way.
Roy has a fairly complicated relationship with Riza, Flame Alchemy, and his Alchemy teacher, who was Berthold Hawkeye and Riza's father. Roy initially was not considered worthy of learning Flame Alchemy, and left to attend the military academy despite his teacher's disapproval of the military. When he returned, Berthold still initially refused to impart the secrets of his research to Roy. After Roy spoke about his dream of using Alchemy to protect people, and that Berthold should use his Alchemy to improve people's lives, his teacher changed his mind. It was too late, though, as Berthold died in Roy's arms shortly after saying he left his research to Riza, and that she would give it to him if he was willing to only use Flame Alchemy for the right reasons. Riza, convinced Roy is a good person who will use Flame Alchemy responsibly, shows him the tattoo on her back which contains the Flame Alchemy array.
Roy has a lot of regrets for his past actions, particularly during the massacre in Ishval, and he's aware of his failings as a human. He knows his strengths as a soldier, politician, and alchemist, and the devastating destructive power of Flame Alchemy. He knows his own moral compass is a little screwed up and that the consequences of failure will be disastrous, that he might one day repeat those mistakes is a very real fear of his for most of the series. Because of that, he trusts Riza to not only watch his back, but to shoot him if he steps off the right path. The regret he has for using Alchemy to kill thousands is incredible, not only because of the terrible act itself, but because Berthold Hawkeye clearly knew it was a possibility if he became a State Alchemist, and because Riza trusted him to be better than that. When she asks him to destroy the tattoo on her back so there could never be another Flame Alchemist, Roy agrees out of guilt for having misused it, and to free her of the burden of being responsible for such dangerous knowledge. He burns portions of the tattoo with Flame Alchemy.
Despite the heavy guilt and regret, Roy is determined to do better in the future. He knows he can never make up for what he did in Isvhal, that it's too impossible a goal, so he wants to make sure he changes Amestris so it will never happen again, that the Alchemists and soldiers of the next generation will never be ordered to do anything so terrible. It's not only his own suffering, but seeing the way the war affects both Hughes and Riza, that they've all been turned into killer. Wallowing in his own misery and regret will accomplish nothing, and though Roy might occasionally drink to numb the pain or suffer quietly over what he has done, he only allows himself to be dragged down by those memories during his off hours. Letting himself forget what happened would be unforgivable in his mind, and make it even more likely he would make the same mistakes and misuse Flame Alchemy again.
He's later proven to be correct in the fear that he might lose sight of the better future he wants to build when he's confronted with the murderer of his best friend. Although fueled by anger when he confronted and killed Lust, Roy was acting out of determination to save the people close to him. While using Flame Alchemy to cauterize his wounds and Havoc's wounds to stop the bleeding was extreme, as was carving his array into the back of his hand, it's not an all-consuming rage like he experiences with Envy. Unlike in the battle with Lust, where he repeatedly incinerated her until he wore down her regenerative ability, Roy toys with and taunts Envy. He takes advantage of his pinpoint accuracy with Flame Alchemy to incinerate the Homunculus' tongue, and eyeballs, all the while taunting him about how much it must hurt and how he's going to make Envy suffer. When Envy taunts Roy and even takes on Hughes' form to attempt to throw him off, it only fuels the desire for revenge and brings out the darker side of Roy's personality that he was afraid would lead him astray.
Riza sees that Roy has become consumed with rage and the desire for revenge, and knows that killing Envy won't bring him out of it, but only cement it in his mind. Killing Envy won't make the pain of Hughes' loss or the anger he feels at Envy go away, so she pulls her gun on him. Even with Riza, Ed, and Scar warning him about the path he's going down, Roy can only think about revenge. When Ed grabs the tiny lizard form Envy takes on near death, Roy even threatens to burn off his automail arm to get to the Homunculus, a clear sign that his anger has taken over a large portion of his desire to keep people he cares about safe. When he's unable to convince Riza to let him kill Envy, he tells her if she's going to shoot, to do it. In the end, he's only able to reign himself in when he asks what she'll do after he's dead, and she says she'll die once the battle is over. Faced with being responsible for Riza's death, Roy relents, unable to bear the thought of her dying, and worse, the knowledge that it would be his fault.
Despite his deep affection and the desire to protect those he cares about, Roy mostly keeps that side of his personality to himself, aware it can be used against him. Most of his close personal relationships are marked by friendly teasing and banter or heated arguments. Roy always acts irritated with Hughes 'intruding' on his life, complains that Riza is too harsh and demanding. He also enjoys getting into arguments with and intentionally provoking Ed. His close personal relationships are also very much tangled up in his professional life and ambitions. Hughes, his best friend since the military academy, is the first person to know of Roy's ambition to become Fuhrer, and pledges his support. Before his death, Hughes keeps Roy apprised of what's going on in central and frequently passes his information. Likewise, his Foster Mother and the girls she employs play a large part in Roy's intelligence network and information gathering. Roy also has an extremely close relationship to Riza and cares about her a great deal beyond their professional relationship. However, being superior and subordinate means they can never have a romantic relationship, and Roy, while he might take actions that threaten his ambition when Riza is in danger, could never abandon it for the sake of personal happiness. He needs to be in the military to pursue his ambition, and he needs her to be in the military to help him get there.
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WaterPokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Growlithe
Password: Cherries Strudel
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First Person Sample:
[Roy is seated on a couch with books and papers strewn around him and he looks more than a little irritated about something. He sets the pokegear down on something in front of the couch and adjusts the camera until it's on him again and gives it a very serious look. From the new angle a Fletchinder that appears to be reading a book is visible beside him.]
Whoever named the different pokemon types shouldn't be allowed to name things anymore.
[He pulls up a carefully color coded chart of the different pokemon types.]
Words like 'fire, water, ground, electric' are fine, I can accept 'steel' although it should really be 'metal' types. But we can't use the types I just mentioned and then decide to name other types as mythical creatures like ghost, fairy, and dragon.
Also 'flying type' is incredibly misleading if there are going to be pokemon who can fly and are not also flying types.
[The Fletchinder beside him starts trying to stealthily walk off view but knocks a few papers off the couch. Roy's attention immediately goes to the bird.]
Where do you think you're going? If you want to battle, you're going to learn this too. You can't keep flying in at everything that looks like an opponent and hope for the best.
[Roy reaches over and turns off the pokegear so he can get back to what he was doing, after he's done arguing with his ridiculous fire spitting bird.]
Third Person Sample:
Roy was pretty sure he set a new personal best for long distance running when he dashed through the doors of the pokemon center. He was out of breath and he'd lost his scarf somewhere along the way but that was far less important than handing over the three pokeballs of his three unconscious pokemon. Keeping them in their pokeballs wasn't exactly his favorite thing, but aside from Fletchinder they didn't seem to mind. He also couldn't drag his weird octopus jellyfish poison water monster across the countryside with him, so Tentacruel stayed in the pokeball when there wasn't a place for him to relax in the water.
Despite the assurances that his pokemon would be fine, Roy knew he wasn't going to be able to relax until they were fine and back with him and he could see for himself. He was less anxious about them than he had after the first pokemon battle that had gone disastrously wrong, because he knew they would make a complete recovery. Getting so attached to the strange little creatures wasn't the smartest move, but it was hard not to like their loyalty and bravery, and the way they gladly jumped in between him and an angry mass of vine monsters. He would miss them when he managed to go home.
There was nothing he could do now to help, and it wasn't like there was much he could do at the time either aside from tell them what to do and stand back and watch them fight, so he helped himself to the truly awful coffee. He pulled out the latest book he had to pass the time, though he soon found he'd read the same paragraph three times and not retained any of it. He gave that up and leaned back in the chair and put the book down. Apparently he'd become accustomed to the warm furry company of Growlithe at his side, and her absence was just as noticeable and uncomfortable now as her constant presence had been when he first arrived.
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