hilda: “as a fragile maiden, I am useless in battle.”
also hilda:
in the name of celebrating our younger selves i’m forcing every one of you to read my hatena profile from 2012
ok I have literally no idea who even needs to hear this but don’t directly liken the chinese censorship of lgbt media/fanwork on the grounds of “immorality” and your anti-anti-anti-anti-anti discourse or whatever. I mean I don’t even know if people who try to say this exist but I’m imagining the hypothetical discourse in my head right now and it’s so brain dead that I absolutely can’t risk it turning real
I think we all know and acknowledge that Olivier Armstrong respects Riza, but a thing that gets overlooked is that she mentions Jean Havoc in the same breath (in the manga: ”I know of Hawkeye and Havoc. It would be a shame to lose them.”)
it seems pretty obvious why Olivier likes Riza – her work ethic, her competence, and most importantly, her ability to keep Colonel Mustang in line (Havoc has like one of these going on for him) – which begs the question: Why Does General Armstrong Like Jean Havoc?
realistically, the purpose of this dialogue is to establish that Olivier hates Roy (or more accurately, she thinks he’s a squirrelly upstart), but doesn’t have a problem with his subordinates. that’s kind of boring, though. here are some more creative reasons I’ve come up with:
- he put up a good fight in arm wrestling
- he somehow had the good sense not to hit on her
- he can and has defeated a bear in hand to hand combat
- she actually likes his earnest country boy demeanor
- he employs a groundbreakingly efficient file organization system
it’s funny seeing A2 depicted as like sleek and poised when she’s the robot version of a raccoon raiding a dumpster, just absolutely feral, when you go to check all you see is two glowing eyes, you think she’s maybe got rabies but she’s fine
ever think about how lust says “we [the homunculi] have the same love for the parents who birthed us [as humans]” to the one guy in the room who is, ostensibly, an orphan
