Happy Royai Day 2008! (This Is How I Celebrated)
Today is June 11th - known to FullMetal Alchemist fans everywhere as "Royai Day," created to honor probably the greatest pairing in all of anime/manga: Colonel Roy Mustang and First Lieutenent Riza Hawkeye.
I'll get into the absolute awesomeness of this pairing in a later post.
Even though I had to go to work today (I've got a summer office job at my college) and I didn't get to see or talk to any of my anime-obsessed friends, I still managed to celebrate this wonderous occation in my own little way.
In order to honor Hawkeye, I wore my hair in Riza's style, with my bangs to the side and my hair up in a hairclip. In order to honor Mustang, I abandoned good common sense and wore my navy blue pleaded skirt (while not a "miniskirt," per say, I felt it was close enough to honor Mustang's famous decree... I don't even have a miniskirt). And to round it out, I wore my Amestris Military dogtags under my polo shirt. I'm sure my superiors at the office thought I was out of my mind. As I filed and sorted, I daydreamed Royai as well.
After work, I came home and read all the new Royai fanfiction on FF.Net that people posted in honor of the day. One of my favorite quotes came from 'Pickles the Great': "You know your OTP owns when it has its own holiday." That is so totally true.
And to finish off the evening, I watched an episode of FMA with my mom, who has promised to watch the whole series with me this summer by seeing one episode each day. Unfortunately, today's episode was #20, which has absolutely no Roy or Riza in it at all! ... except in the opening credits. Oh, well. It was still a good episode.
Overall, it was a pretty good Royai Day. I've been obsessively revisiting FMA (I watched the whole thing two years ago when it was new and on Adult Swim) for the past few weeks, so I have actually been celebrating for awhile. And to tell you the truth, I don't think I'm gonna be able to stop anytime soon.
[On a side note, I know it has been forever since I posted. I'm honestly gonna try to post pretty regularly so this thing doesn't look so sporadic. And I have quite a few things I want to say right now. Expect more soon.]
~Eevee