Comfort (Hughes+Roy)

[msmustang]

Title: Comfort

Author: msmustang

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: disturbing subject matter, implied rape/torture, war atrocities

Series: FMA

Pairing: Hughes+Roy

Summary: Roy stumbles through Ishbal in a daze, with only Hughes to help him, but he manages to find hope in a most unlikely place.

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA. I am not responsible if you are underage and choose to view something inappropriate.

Notes: This is based on actual historical war atrocities committed during WWII in Japan. Not for the faint of heart! More information for those interested can be found here.

Dedication: To the Comfort Women of WWII. May they rest in peace, and may touka koukan really, truly exist.

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[Perendur]

This is heart wrenching. I know that war numbs the humanity of the soldiers, that most don't choose to go and it messes up with their heads, but then you see those soldiers who aren't fucking monsters and it makes you wonder. Is war really numbing their humanity? Or are they just mindless little sheep that follow the masses and take war as permission to do everything that would be frowned upon back home? How were the allies any better than the nazis, then? They were more discreet about their discrimination, racism and crimes against humanity? And if it had been WWII alone, and the world had learned from their mistakes, well, but it's not that way. It still happens. War is still used as an excuse to take a whole demographic group and treat it as less than human, on both sides, both claiming they're the good side, the hand of God. It makes me want to throw up.

Your fic... it's beyond amazing. I want to go all fangirly and squeal YAY Roy- well, I did- Thanks so much for sharing this and sorry for the long review.

[msmustang]

Thanks sweetheart. *hugs* I really appreciate the long review, actually. All of those things I've thought about, too... I just wonder about people, you know, and how they can be so cruel to one another in general, it just doesn't make any sense to me. Not that I've never been mean or cruel in my life, but the times I was, I've always been wicked guilty about it, and it was never anything big, you know? It's like, how could you live with yourself after something like that? And yet, that's Roy's whole deal with Ishbal. This is why I love FMA, because it's so provocative like that.

Roy is my hero, he truly, truly is, and I had to bring him in, I just had to, because this just chilled me to the bone when I heard about it, and if anyone could make it better, Roy could. This has been wreaking havoc with me under the surface; it feels so much better to finally get it out on paper. Now maybe tonight I can sleep... (heh, wish I had Hughes and his strong arms to wrap around me...)