#like i dont think he had a “”””bad”””” childhood the way fandom especially would define it but i think he was especially susceptible to

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Every time someone reminds me of madam Chris I wonder more and more what Roy's childhood was like

short answer: bad

long answer: hilarious

long long answer: we know that roy is clearly well loved by his aunt and they have a good familial adult relationship from the interactions we do see, but - inasmuch as one’s character is shaped by what raises us - roy mustang grows up to be a violent, ruthless extremist, prone to outbursts of physical anger and no particular compunction about murder, so long as he deems it justified. From this, we can infer various forces on his development as a person, many of which i think stem from an underlying foundation of benevolent familial neglect

#yap yap #fma #roy mustang #chris mustang #like i dont think he had a “”””bad”””” childhood the way fandom especially would define it but i think he was especially susceptible to #Being so thoroughly subsumed into state ideals and state propaganda due to having little other guidance and structure in his life #like if you’re a working single lady who got a surprise orphan dumped on you you’re gonna be hard pressed to find daycare let alone provide #all the rest of the things kids need #Not least of which is a lot of active attention #So i think roy got shipped off to boarding school pretty young and then spent teenage summers with berthold hawkeye #His relationship with chris is friendly but theyre clearly both used to operating very independently of each other #For multiple reasons - from their respective careers onward #but yeah plus like. If your family does shady shit. You yourself are less likely to be able to identify when bigger scale shady shit is #Wrong vs ‘ wrong ‘