Smile Like You Mean It

by Dailenna

Royai 100 Themes. Anything and everything from childhood, to alchemy, to Ishbal, to the coup, to parenthood. Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, and the faithful comrades with them will stick together through it all.

5. Heiki & Heiki, Weapon & Fine

Disclaimer: FMA belongs to Arakawa Hiromu

Notes: For those unfamiliar with the array, you can find it in the manga, in Chapter 57, on page 31. Er, kinda very spoilerish :P

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Five: Heiki & Heiki (Weapon & Fine)

It had been a moment of complete and utter ambivalence, and Roy Mustang despised himself for it. She had been so beautiful, yet so down-trodden – so quiet and fearful – and he finally understood why. What was to become the military's greatest weapon had been injected millimetre by millimetre into her back. It was a despicable thing to do to a child.

And yet, the magnificence of the array took his breath away.