A Theory About Roy (Chapter 102 SPOILERS!)

[mfelizandy]

WARNING: If you have not read Chapter 102 of the FMA manga, and don't want to see spoilers, do not follow the cut! Go read 102, and come back when you've recovered!

Comments

[naive_wanderer]

Clicked through here from fm_alchemist! :P

Hmmm... very interesting!! After reading this I went back and re-read the chapter, and noticed that Roy doesn't mention that he can't see anything -- or that he thinks it's pitch black -- until Ed starts to panic that he's lost something.

I don't know if I really believe he's faking it -- this chapter was so heart-wrenching to me that I almost don't want the masterful depiction of that scene to turn out to be faked, haha -- but it certainly seems plausible. HMMM!!

[ninja_demongirl]

Roy did seem out of character when he landed in front of Ed and I really like that theory idea. I do think the talk with the gate guy will be a major factor
but I wanna go with he is currently fully blind just the way arakawa drew Roy with his eye's in page 17... Although looking back at these pages you'd think his eyeballs would have been taken based on the others losing their body parts.

The series ending is one of my favorite endings so far lol. So many painful cliffhangers.

[koala_sheep]

I'm with you.

[catinthelimehat]

Unless Pride had paid the toll.

[mfelizandy]

Given some other ambiguities in this issue, it's very possible that Roy has lost either the irises or the pupils of his eyes or both, and that's why Ed looks so spooked when Roy first looks up at him. I would have a very hard time coping with that, since I love Roy beautiful dark eyes and hair. Ahem.

As for your counter-reasoning--all very valid points. I think the odds are high that Roy truly has been blinded, and they're about fifty-fifty that he won't regain his sight in some weird calculus of the Gate (and Arakawa's always-twisting plot) before the manga ends. Still, there are enough odd points in the chapter to spark speculation that (to borrow another fandom's tagline) there's more than meets the eye going on.

[garowyn]

Wow, you're making me even more excited for the next chapter (and how long we have to wait!). These theories of yours do make sense. I'm afraid I don't have anything to add or agree on specifically, because I was too caught up in the "Oh no!" aspect of that chapter. ^_^ But nicely written and well thought out.

[ibshafer]

Lot to think about there...

My reason for thinking that Roy is actually blind (and freaked out by it)?

Truth did take something from Roy, not his eyeballs, but his irises.

Whether Roy is faking the freak-out or not, we will have to see (oops! no pun intended), but there's no way he could see without the part of the eye that does the seeing. And I seriously doubt in his brief time with Truth he could have convinced that creepy bastard to construct a ruse to make, what, the bad guys think he's blind - and for what reason.

I'd love to believe that Roy's got it all in hand, but truthfully, I think he's just plain freaked.

Speaking of freaked, I am, too. C'mon January!!

[mfelizandy]

Good point about the Gate taking Roy's pupils and irises--I would mourn the loss of his lovely dark eyes.

As for having the time to think up a ruse--Roy was pinned down for a little while, maybe under a minute, but some time at least, while Pride and Wrath discussed what was going to happen to him. If he could lock down his emotions and think very fast (which he's done in the past), he could work out a way to turn a potential catastrophe to his advantage.

Roy may have gotten the idea of blindness from Ed, who didn't find any missing body parts. That would be exceptionally fast thinking under pressure--but not beyond Roy's capabilities