Have an angsty Ishva-era ficlet because, as Shay-senpai says: "Angst is my jam".
Ty husbando for the beta-reading.
Disclaimer: I do not own FMA.
She is a ghost, yet she is not just that; the word possesses as many meanings as facets her persona has.
Overall, Riza Hawkeye is a shade. The blonde soldier is just the shadow of a certain girl with humble dreams and an ambitious desire to help others. Rebecca wouldn't recognize her when she returns from that desecrated land.
Above the blood-soaked sand, on the rooftops and behind the shabby walls, The Hawk's Eye is a wraith. No one has seen nor even heard her name, neither friend nor foe. To her enemies, she's vengeance, some twisted divine retribution and the promise of a quick death, as everyone prefers a bullet through the head over his scorching, unforgiving flames. To her allies, she is a guardian and a watcher, the gunshot that makes the difference between life and death for her comrades.
To Roy, she is an apparition; a revenant coming straight from his past to torment him and make him pay for what he did, for what he does, and for what he surely will still do until he finds his end in some ditch.