Roy Mustang

I'm going to become Führer. And then I'll change this country.

📍 Roy's ambition in a line — not personal glory, but a declared plan to transform the nation's politics.

I can't use alchemy in the rain. But it doesn't rain forever.

📍 His actual weakness — water kills his flame alchemy. Even in crisis, he's already thinking two moves ahead.

The irony — the hands that burned Ishval now have to protect this country.

📍 Roy's guilt over Ishval surfaces — his atonement and his ambition point in the same direction.

Burning Ishval with Flame

Young Roy executing civilians in Ishval under state orders. This trauma is what drives his ambition to change the country from the top. One of the series' darkest flashback sequences.

The Raging Flame — Roy's Limit

Roy finds Envy — the killer of his friend Hughes — and loses control to his rage. Ed and Scar have to physically stop him from burning Envy to death. The most human Roy gets: the strategist collapsing under grief.