I like to think that Roy is close with Elicia and Gracia, even before Maes death. Elicia calling him uncle Roy and him spending time playing with her is the cutest thing to me. đž There isnât much art of these two together and happy so I wanted to fix that. So have some warm feels ~
A little bit different than my other comics; I've never done a time lapse before.
In the Ambush Simulation notes, I mentioned that Dabi has a canon divergence in this AU where he returned home after the three years he was missing/presumed dead, but nothing in the household changed and he was still an unhinged mess. This is the AU comic behind âunhinged messâ and the partial reasoning behind his antagonistic behavior in The Summer Camp Ambush Simulation.
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All right, so canonically Dabi is a walking, half-dead, Lovecraftian nightmare of mental and physical health issues who's keeping himself going through sheer willpower/hatred. Ujiko says that after waking up from the three year coma, he should not have survived longer than a month as a result of the injuries he sustained from the fire. So even in an AU where he was reunited with his family after the fact, thatâs still the reality of his situation.
Enter Endeavor: In this scenario, at that point in his character arc, I think he would have retreated back into his usual pattern of refusing to face the issue. The Todoroki family got Touya back, but they also learned that he wouldn't be with them long. If a missing/presumed dead child turns up after three years, they're immediately going to a hospital to establish mental and physical condition, so the health issues resulting from the fire would have been discovered almost immediately.
From the point of view of Endeavor, Touya's return was cause for celebration and was initially viewed as a second chance/an opportunity to repair some of the damage he'd already done to his family...but then the severity of Touya's prognosis becomes apparent and they're told he has weeks to live. In Ambush Simulation, Endeavor takes the cowardâs way out and leaves the problem for everyone else to deal with so he doesn't have to face Touya. He told himself it was a way of not getting attached and so on, and no matter how much he tries to deny it, the avoidance is his guilty conscious.
The same goes for Rei. She refused to see Touya after he came back just so she wouldn't have to say goodbye to him a second time.
But Touya doesn't die.
Despite what the doctors predicted, he survives '...albeit with complications, various emergencies, experimental treatments to delay the inevitable, no clear answer on how the hell he was still breathing, and no promises that he would ever live a full life...' And now, just like in canon, he has 7-8 years of simmering resentment with the trauma of a near-death experience, the realization of having lost three years of his life due to the coma, the fallout of terminal health, and the crushing disappointment of what should have been a heartfelt reunion turned into a second abandonment.
In this AU as a vigilante, Touya has the Pandoraâs Box of being an outrageous public menace and a potential family embarrassment because he figured out the only time his father pays any attention to him is when heâs âacting outâ and he decided heâd rather be the problem child than the invisible child. And unfortunately, this mentality has also ruined his relationship with Natsuo.
In some respect, canon is a happier outcome for Touya because at least in canon, the poor bastard has a purpose instead of reduced to a living ghost.
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The piano panels are him rehabilitating his hands. Technically after a three year coma, he should not have been walking and talking as quickly as he did. Not with that kind of atrophy. So Iâm balancing that inaccuracy out with the headcanon his fine motor skills were likely completely ruined.
Plus, if your life is a train wreck, have at least one positive hobby.
...Yomaha...
The day Edward learned that Mustang isn't invincible.
Murder is okay :)
they kimth :)
â colonel mustang, youâre the fifth sacrifice, the fifth and last â
â one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out â [ john 19:34 ]
for my friend @kingofthewilderwest. happy birthday hon! thanks for making me fall in love with roy mustang before I even got to the feels-fest that is âlost light.â
theyre so baby
the morning Riza meets Roy she had totally forgotten that her father's new apprentice was supposed to arrive that day, so she wakes up and goes to the kitchen sleepy and in her pjs only to find this cute 16-year-old boy sitting at the kitchen table with a book who smiles at her and is like, "Miss Hawkeye? Hi, I'm Roy, your fath-" and 13-year-old-Riza literally flees the room before he even finishes the sentence like:
itâs roy âSQUISHY CHEEKSâ mustang . what do u mean that hes known as the flame alchemist. i only know roy squishby cheeks musta-