quiet-nocturne

Young royai

for young royai request on ko-fi :D

and this's my ko-fi! yippee!!

Young royai my beloved 🧡🤎

wherever you stray, i follow

sketching some young royai sweetness in procreate 🥺

In the body of the forest, Riza always took to bird watching. Sparrows  would flit past her, glide between the leaves, and she’d stare intently below the shrubbery, hoping to see where they would go. When she wanted a closer look, Riza took to climbing. And if that didn’t work, she took to resting on the forest bed on a blanket, observing the canopies with their flourished living until the sunset hit her in orange glow.

When Mr. Mustang came into her life, she didn’t expect him to get involved. He was a curious boy. At night he garnered eye bags from studying by the candlelight, and when he passed her the small talk between them was more or less stunted. It wasn’t that Riza didn’t like him, but the basic predicament came to one question: how was she supposed to relate to a city boy? 

Mr. Mustang didn’t look like the rowdies in her school. His shoes were polished, his hands clean of calluses, and his face looked clean from aftershave. He probably didn’t know the basics of hunting. Or what a chicken looked like. For one month she kept her distance, and she was okay to let him slip by.

The distance broke somewhat in the summer. He had asked to come with her for a hunting trip now that his studies had been finished for the day. The forest was bright, teeming with life, and being crowded in a worn-down building wasn’t healthy for him. Riza wanted to deny him, at least tell him that she wanted to do this alone, but the look he gave her was bright, full of curiosity. It was the kind of response that Riza, years later, would realize was interest. He was interested in understanding her, in who she was and what she did, and it would take years of retrospect for her to realize that first act of intrigue was pivotal. Oh so pivotal.

Afficher davantage

Merry Christmas @merriweather-underground! I was your secret santa and I was absolutely delighted to receive a Team Mustang prompt. I had also been in a big young royai kick when I got it so I was extra excited to work on this lol gah theyre so cute

Def not like, a canon event, I highly doubt any of his team knew him when they were young but heyyy semantics semantics look at them being cute

Thank you to @fmasecretsanta for hosting this!

Its his first time seeing the snow