Roy and Hughes knew each other as kids (yeah I'm such a sap) from the same town, and they grew up in a more rural area like the Elrics. I theorized that one of Roy's parents (I don't remember which) was a foreigner, which is why he doesn't look like the other totally white Amestris characters.
I had Roy as a very smart kid, about two or three grades above his age. Not Elric level genius, but very smart. In the RP game I was playing him as a 15 year old freshman at a university in Central, where he was studying alchemy (before he got pulled through dimensions and landed at CampFuckUDie).
I theorized that Roy got his state alchemist watch at 19 and fresh out of graduating (he was 22-23 in the Ishbalan flashback and 26 the year he met the Elrics), which made him one of the youngest in the administration's history (going by how appx. old Tucker was, and some of the other contestants in episode 6's exam), but not necessarily the youngest. I had the idea that he went straight from school to the military/war, and the military is the only career he's ever had, and one he's always wanted.
Playing his attitude was really hard, and frankly I sucked at it. I don't have the gift of RPing-- I'm not spontaneous enough. It was fun though. I had Mustang at 15 have all the arrogance in his own abilities, but less of the social gravitas. More like a science geek who loves knowledge and alchemy and also alcohol and partying. I figured that his ability to get people to follow him, to believe in him... that came with the war, and wasn't something he had as a kid. I pegged him as kind of selfish (or self-focused), but exceedingly loyal to his friends and so politically idealistic and naive that it's almost painful to look at. He's ambitious (to be a state alchemist so young, you have to be) and he knows he's smart, but he doesn't particularly hold grudges and gets along okay with most people, in a sort of distant/arrogant way (gets along best with Hughes). Not quite manipulative yet, because he hasn't learned how to read people properly, but the seeds are there. Doesn't get pissed off too easily, but when he does he lets it out in a bang. Definitely not as mature as Ed was at that age, but then few teens are.
I also theorized that Hughes was a law student, either before or after joining the military.
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Re: Oh ... and I figure you're the best person to ask ...
Date: 2006-03-19 09:10 am (UTC)Okay, so here's what I theorized:
Roy and Hughes knew each other as kids (yeah I'm such a sap) from the same town, and they grew up in a more rural area like the Elrics. I theorized that one of Roy's parents (I don't remember which) was a foreigner, which is why he doesn't look like the other totally white Amestris characters.
I had Roy as a very smart kid, about two or three grades above his age. Not Elric level genius, but very smart. In the RP game I was playing him as a 15 year old freshman at a university in Central, where he was studying alchemy (before he got pulled through dimensions and landed at CampFuckUDie).
I theorized that Roy got his state alchemist watch at 19 and fresh out of graduating (he was 22-23 in the Ishbalan flashback and 26 the year he met the Elrics), which made him one of the youngest in the administration's history (going by how appx. old Tucker was, and some of the other contestants in episode 6's exam), but not necessarily the youngest. I had the idea that he went straight from school to the military/war, and the military is the only career he's ever had, and one he's always wanted.
Playing his attitude was really hard, and frankly I sucked at it. I don't have the gift of RPing-- I'm not spontaneous enough. It was fun though. I had Mustang at 15 have all the arrogance in his own abilities, but less of the social gravitas. More like a science geek who loves knowledge and alchemy and also alcohol and partying. I figured that his ability to get people to follow him, to believe in him... that came with the war, and wasn't something he had as a kid. I pegged him as kind of selfish (or self-focused), but exceedingly loyal to his friends and so politically idealistic and naive that it's almost painful to look at. He's ambitious (to be a state alchemist so young, you have to be) and he knows he's smart, but he doesn't particularly hold grudges and gets along okay with most people, in a sort of distant/arrogant way (gets along best with Hughes). Not quite manipulative yet, because he hasn't learned how to read people properly, but the seeds are there. Doesn't get pissed off too easily, but when he does he lets it out in a bang. Definitely not as mature as Ed was at that age, but then few teens are.
I also theorized that Hughes was a law student, either before or after joining the military.