Ahh, canon review. You’d think for a secondary character a canon review would be fairly short. But no. This one is not. Oh ho ho, no. I’ll warn anyone listening that this canon review is mostly a dull blow-by-blow of the events of the manga as they relate to Riza Hawkeye with a lot of direct quotes and paraphrases. There are a few speculations and conclusions I’ve drawn here and there (mostly around the more major events of her life) but it’s largely a summation of the text and is therefore boring. It’s mostly for my own reference, so that I have a list of EVERYTHING EVER that I could possibly need to play Riza Hawkeye accurately. Oh, and due to my
slight obsession with detail, SAY HELLO TO THE MINUTIA. But you know, they say that God is in the details. Or Riza is, in my case.
BUT FIRST, have a timeline.
Again, this is for my own use. The years of Riza’s father’s birth and death, as well as the year of Mustang’s birth, the start of the war in Ishbal and then the Ishbal massacre, and the Promised Day are all taken out of the source material. I extrapolated everything else. Going on the assumption that the Amestrian Military Academy is a four year institution that takes students as no younger than 17 and that both Riza and Roy enrolled at that age, I was able to backtrack from the Ishbal massacre (which would have been during Riza’s last year at the academy) to land on 1888 as the year of her birth. The year when Riza’s mother died, when Berthold Hawkeye took Roy Mustang on as an apprentice, and when Master Hawkeye tattooed Riza with the knowledge of flame alchemy were impossible to know for sure, so I took guesses at them based on clues in canon.
Speaking of canon, on to the review!
( Have some tl;dr? )
