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* RealityEnsues: Despite Alphonse being the only one living at the Elric home after the deaths of his mother and brother, he can’t sell his home. While his father Hohenheim might have been gone for years, his name is still on the paperwork and his death was not been confirmed. Since Alphonse has no idea whether his father is alive, he is currently fighting the bank to get the house in his name.
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* OldShame: Roy is very embarrassed of the glass sculpture he made for the State Alchemist certification exam.
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* OldShame: InUniverse. Roy is very embarrassed of the glass sculpture he made for the State Alchemist certification exam.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5230877/1/At-Gate-s-Edge At Gate's Edge]]'' is a ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''[=/=]''FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'' ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''[=/=]''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1544017/Winds-of-Water Winds of Water]].
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* NoExceptYes: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
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* NoExceptYes: DistinctionWithoutADifference: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
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* TenWithATwo: Roy would sleep with people who aren’t that attractive but he’s drunk with his beer goggles on and they’re virgins.
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* NuttySquirrel: Roy owns a pet squirrel that he rescued named Hazel.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Roy makes sure that Edward doesn't know that the military is still searching for Hohenheim. He implies that the military lost interest in Hohenheim and presents his interest as personal.
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* TheTease: Edward and Roy mutually tease and flirt with each other to fluster and irritate each other.
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* BrickJoke: Edward learned how to become a good cook and do housework from his dying mother, who hoped that Edward would take care of Alphonse. Which turned out to be pointless since Edward died early on. When Roy and Ed finally meet Alphonse, he is revealed to be a terrible cook.
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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
** Edward learned how to become a good cook and do housework from his dying mother, who hoped that Edward would take care of Alphonse. Which turned out to be pointless since Edward died early on. When Roy and Ed finally meet Alphonse, he is revealed to be a terriblecook.cook and his house is a mess.
** When Roy is first showing Ed his pet Hazel's toys, he jokes about showing Ed ''his'' toys. Ed tells him to keep his toys to himself. Several chapters later, Roy and Ed are cleaning up the house after Hazel wrecks it. Ed picks up what he thought was a new toy for Hazel in the mess...only for the embarrassed Roy to explain to that's not ''Hazel's'' toy.
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** When Roy is first showing Ed his pet Hazel's toys, he jokes about showing Ed ''his'' toys. Ed tells him to keep his toys to himself. Several chapters later, Roy and Ed are cleaning up the house after Hazel wrecks it. Ed picks up what he thought was a new toy for Hazel in the mess...only for the embarrassed Roy to explain to that's not ''Hazel's'' toy.
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* InsistentTerminology: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
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* InsistentTerminology: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite. appetite!
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* IResembleThatRemark: After having a night out with Roy, Edward calls Roy a manwhore who treats virgins wanting a happy ending like meat. Roy replies those people are the easiest to convince.
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* IResembleThatRemark: After having a night out with Roy, Edward calls Roy a manwhore who treats virgins wanting a happy ending like meat. Roy replies those people are the easiest to convince.seduce.
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* MenCantKeepHouse: Averted with Roy, his house is only messy because he just moved in because he just moved in. Edward was taught by his mother and is pretty good as a roommate in keeping the house clean.
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* MenCantKeepHouse: Averted with Roy, his house is only messy because he just moved in because he just moved in.
** Edward was taught by his mother and is pretty good as a roommate in keeping the houseclean.clean, but he doesn't like to help.
** Edward was taught by his mother and is pretty good as a roommate in keeping the house
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** Roy makes glass sculptures and bottle art with his fire alchemy.
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* OpenMindedParent: As a child, Roy would steal matches and lighters to start small fires to watch them burn. As opposed to most parents who would have their child to stop, Daphne Mustang had Roy learn alchemy to turn his pyromania into a healthy outlet.
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* OpenMindedParent: As a child, Roy would steal matches and lighters to start small fires to watch them burn. As opposed to most parents who would have their child to stop, Daphne Mustang had Roy learn alchemy to turn his pyromania into a healthy outlet.
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* TheGunslinger: Roy’s mom, Daphne is a pretty good sniper. Which she demonstrates on the assassins trying to kill her to get to Roy.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Both the spies Roy tortures for information don’t have any information from Grand to avert this trope. The HoneyTrap tries to say that he knows where Grand’s secret lab is but Roy knows he’s lying.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Both the spies Roy tortures for information don’t have any information from Grand so they don't give anything away to avert this trope. Roy when he does capture them. The HoneyTrap tries to say that he knows where Grand’s secret lab is but Roy knows he’s lying.lying in order to save his skin due to having already receiving information about it.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Roy in a nutshell. When he has the time to go out, he goes from one person to the next in the same night. He went through 4 lovers in one night! Edward calls him a manwhore, Roy says that he has a “healthy appetite.”
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* HoneyTrap: Roy is barhopping and sleeping around when a man tries to pick him up. He goes with the man to a secluded and quickly subdues as he recognizes him as one of Grand’s spies.
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* IgnoreTheFanservice: Despite the fact Edward forced Roy to strip naked and bathe in front of him, Edward’s eyes remain on his face much to Roy’s disappointment. Edward is too rattled by the fact that Roy was nearly assassinated and had covered up the assassination.
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* IgnoreTheFanservice: Despite the fact Edward forced Roy to strip naked and bathe in front of him, Edward’s eyes remain on his face much to Roy’s disappointment. Edward is too rattled by the fact that Roy was nearly assassinated and had covered up the assassination.to cover it up.
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* ManChild: [[DownplayedTrope Edward is mature enough to keep up with Roy and keep him in line and worldly due to growing up in a military office by himself.]] But he has a childlike enthusiasm for the outside world and is somewhat naïve due to spending his formative years in isolation. Edward grew up sheltered due to being trapped in an office for eight years as a ghost but is worldly on certain things due it being trapped in a military office and stuck playing accidental voyeur.
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* ManChild: [[DownplayedTrope Edward is mature enough to keep up with Roy and keep him in line and worldly due to growing up in a military office by himself.]] But he has a childlike enthusiasm for the outside world and is somewhat naïve due to spending his formative years in isolation. Edward grew up sheltered due to being trapped in an office for eight years as a ghost but is worldly on certain things due it being trapped in a military office and stuck playing accidental voyeur.
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** Roy makes glass sculptures and bottle art with his firealchemy.alchemy.
** Since Edward is a ghost, he can stare at the sun without fear of going blind or hurting his eyes.
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** Since Edward is a ghost, he can stare at the sun without fear of going blind or hurting his eyes.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Roy in a nutshell. When he has the time to go out, he goes from one person to the next in the same night. He went through 4 lovers in one night! Edward calls him a manwhore, Roy says that he has a “healthy appetite.”
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* DeclarationOfProtection: Edward protects Roy, despite the latter being a war-hardened State Alchemist. Although Edward does have an advantage in being a ghost that no one can see or hear.
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* DeclarationOfProtection: Edward swears to Roy that he will protect him and help him in any way he can, despite Roy not wanting Ed to endanger himself.
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* WhatIsThisFeelingYouCallLove: Since Edward died when he was eleven and was trapped in an office for seven years, he has adult emotions but an eleven-year old’s understanding of them. He has an idea of what love is supposed to look like, but his feelings for Roy baffle him. He notes that he feels happy and contented when Roy choses to spend time with him and that he would do anything to make Roy happy. He is very confused when he starts feeling jealous and upset at Roy’s promiscuity when he was previously amused and a bit annoyed by it.
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* WhatIsThisFeelingYouCallLove: WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Since Edward died when he was eleven and was trapped in an office for seven years, he has adult emotions but an eleven-year old’s understanding of them. He has an idea of what love is supposed to look like, but his feelings for Roy baffle him. He notes that he feels happy and contented when Roy choses to spend time with him and that he would do anything to make Roy happy. He is very confused when he starts feeling jealous and upset at Roy’s promiscuity when he was previously amused and a bit annoyed by it.
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* ManChild: [[DownplayedTrope Edward is mature enough to keep up with Roy and keep him in line and worldly due to growing up in a military office by himself.]] But he has a childlike enthusiasm for the outside world and is somewhat naïve due to spending his formative years in isolation.
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* ManChild: [[DownplayedTrope Edward is mature enough to keep up with Roy and keep him in line and worldly due to growing up in a military office by himself.]] But he has a childlike enthusiasm for the outside world and is somewhat naïve due to spending his formative years in isolation. Edward grew up sheltered due to being trapped in an office for eight years as a ghost but is worldly on certain things due it being trapped in a military office and stuck playing accidental voyeur.
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* MutualWeakness: Ghosts and homunculi cause each other debilitating pain when they are near each other despite ghosts having no body and homunculi being NighInvulnerable.
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* WhatIsTheFeelingYouCallLove: Since Edward died when he was eleven and was trapped in an office for seven years, he has adult emotions but an eleven-year old’s understanding of them. He has an idea of what love is supposed to look like, but his feelings for Roy baffle him. He notes that he feels happy and contented when Roy choses to spend time with him and that he would do anything to make Roy happy. He is very confused when he starts feeling jealous and upset at Roy’s promiscuity when he was previously amused and a bit annoyed by it.
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* BodyguardingTheBadass: Edward protects Roy, despite the latter being a war-hardened State Alchemist. Although Edward does have an advantage in being a ghost that no one can see or hear.
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* ChekhovsMIA: The military had been searching for Hohenheim for years for his alchemy expertise and despite their resources could never find him. Roy notes that he would have gone to Reseembool if it weren’t for Ed’s death. [[spoiler: Guess who Roy and Ed come across in a café.]]
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* ChekhovsMIA: ChekhovMIA: The military had been searching for Hohenheim for years for his alchemy expertise and despite their resources could never find him. Roy notes that he would have gone to Reseembool if it weren’t for Ed’s death. [[spoiler: Guess who Roy and Ed come across in a café.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: Edward protects Roy, despite the latter being a war-hardened State Alchemist. Although Edward does have an advantage in being a ghost that no one can see or hear.
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* FoodPoisoningIncident: Edward warns Roy not to eat anything in the military cafeteria as anything that goes in comes in both ways. Then he tells Roy to be grateful that Edward warned him to replace the furniture.
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* MadeOfKryptonite: Being near a homunculous can cause Edward severe agony, despite being incapable of feeling pain otherwise.
* ManOfKryptonite: Being near a homunculous can cause Edward severe agony, despite being incapable of feeling pain otherwise.
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* TrueLoveIsExpectional: Roy Mustang, a consummate manwhore, falls in love and becomes committed to Edward, who he can’t even touch due to Edward being a ghost and believes that love should be a commitment.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5230877/1/At-Gate-s-Edge At Gate's Edge]]'' is a ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''[=/=]''FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1544017/Winds-of-Water Winds of Water]].
Edward is a ghost, killed during the attempted resurrection of his mother. Which kinda sucks, but he doesn't know how to move on so he's stuck with it. He's haunting this office in the Central military HQ and can't leave it, which is kind of weird but he's gotten used to it. Things can get lonely since no one can see or hear him.
Edward tries to make the best of his un-life, trying to keep busy and pranking the hell out of Brigadier General Grand until one day his office gets a new occupant. The new occupant is Roy Mustang, who for some reason can see him.
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* AndIMustScream: Edward has been trapped in an office, unable to look outside and unable to be seen or heard by anyone for seven years. It gets better since Roy for some reason is able to see him.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler: Fuhrer Bradley frees Kimblee from prison on the condition that he kills Roy Mustang otherwise Bradley will kill him if he fails.]] Not difficult considering how AxCrazy Kimblee is.
* AnythingThatMoves: Roy in a nutshell. When he has the time to go out, he goes from one person to the next in the same night. He went through 4 lovers in one night! Edward calls him a manwhore, Roy says that he has a “healthy appetite.”
* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Edward died to save his brother who was taken by the Gate of Truth in their attempted resurrection of their mother. Edward is unable to move on, he doesn’t know why but he believes he can’t because he committed the sin of human transmutation.
* BeautifulDreamer: Since Edward doesn’t need to sleep, he sometimes watches Roy sleep. Roy admits that he would have found it creepy for anyone else. Since it’s Edward, who he knows is harmless, he just finds it cute.
* BigBad: King Bradley, who commands the vile Brigadier General Basque Grand. Although like canon, its implied that Bradley is not the only one.
* BodyguardingTheBadass: Edward protects Roy, despite the latter being a war-hardened State Alchemist. Although Edward does have an advantage in being a ghost that no one can see or hear.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Roy meets Edward Elric, a poltergeist that lives in his office. They become good friends and Roy manages to invite the ghost to live with as a roommate.
* BrickJoke: Edward learned how to become a good cook and do housework from his dying mother, who hoped that Edward would take care of Alphonse. Which turned out to be pointless since Edward died early on. When Roy and Ed finally meet Alphonse, he is revealed to be a terrible cook.
* ButtMonkey: Basque Grand is constantly getting injured by Ed’s pranks and generally made to look like a fool in revenge for being a horrible person. [[spoiler: The fact that he constantly gets injured puts Grand on thin ice with Bradley, since Grand gets held back and loses his usefulness.]]
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Inverted, Roy flirts with Edward a lot before he grew interested. When Roy falls in love with Edward, his flirtatious and promiscuity with others ceased as he focused it on Edward. A bit of a problem since Edward’s a ghost.
* CatapultNightmare: Edward has nightmares of his death and the Gate that always jolt him from his sleep. It’s even more annoying to him because he doesn’t need sleep in the first place, meaning he fell asleep on accident.
* ChekhovsMIA: The military had been searching for Hohenheim for years for his alchemy expertise and despite their resources could never find him. Roy notes that he would have gone to Reseembool if it weren’t for Ed’s death. [[spoiler: Guess who Roy and Ed come across in a café.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Edward gets in the habit of trying to prank Roy’s dates or trying to upstage them.
* CommitmentIssues: Roy admits that the idea of settling down and getting married makes him want to cry, much to ire of his married best friend and mother as Roy is having too much fun sleeping around. He believes that settling down will be the end of his fun and would bore him to tears.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Downplayed with Roy, who tends to get irrationally jealous at the idea of anyone else [[InvisibleToNormals being able to see Edward]] or taking Edward’s attention. Although he does realize that it’s rather dickish of him to feel this way since he’s Ed’s OnlyFriend and he shouldn’t treat Ed like a possession.
* CutenessProximity: Edward practically squees when he meets Hazel, a once-wild pet squirrel. Roy jokingly justifies his refusal to tell anyone about Hazel with the explanation that he doesn’t want people to steal Hazel from him.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Deconstructed. While Roy and Ed do admit that Hohenheim did have a valid and complex reason for abandoning his family, they do not allow it to excuse the hurt and neglect Hohenheim caused. Edward is still very hurt and despite being angry he wants to know if his father even loves him. Edward and Roy demand that Hohenheim in the very least let Alphonse know that he’s alive since Alphonse is now Hohenheim’s only living relative.
* DeadToBeginWith: When the story begins, Edward is a ghost and has already been dead for seven years.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Edward swears to Roy that he will protect him and help him in any way he can, despite Roy not wanting Ed to endanger himself.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: The thing Ed missed most about being alive was being with people and is overjoyed with the fact that Roy can see him and is willing to be his friend.
* DrivingQuestion: Why is Edward a ghost and why was he haunting an office in a place he had never been to in life?
* EmpatheticPet: Hazel is this as he tends to cheer up Ed when he got depressed over Roy’s sleeping around despite himself and pretty angry at Roy for hurting Ed’s feelings to the point of yelling at him.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Although Roy’s friends don’t know about [[CuteGhostGirl Edward]], they can tell that Roy has gotten serious about someone despite his denials and his own obliviousness. They approve because Roy has changed for the better.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite Roy sleeping with anyone attractive he finds regardless of gender, he will not sleep with closeted men.
* EvilDetectingDog: Despite not being able to see or hear Edward, Hazel, Roy Mustang’s pet squirrel can sense Ed’s presence and tell that he’s a good person. Other animals tend to bark and hiss when Edward is nearby since Edward doesn’t interact with them.
* FearlessUndead: Edward constantly notes that as a ghost he can’t be harmed nor get into any physical danger despite Roy trying to keep him safe. Although he does have something to fear, the Gate can cause him pain and being near a Homunculus puts him in agony. He still tries anyway because he wants to keep Roy safe.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Edward keeps trying to get Roy to tell him his age and weight, both topics Roy is sensitive about.
* {{Flashback}}: Edward often dreams of when he made the decision to resurrect their mother with Alphonse and the transmutation that took his life.
* FoodPoisoningIncident: Edward warns Roy not to eat anything in the military cafeteria as anything that goes in comes in both ways. Then he tells Roy to be grateful that Edward warned him to replace the furniture.
* ForWantOfANail: What if Edward succeeded in getting Alphonse back during that faithful human transmutation at the cost of his own life?
* FriendlyGhost: Despite Edward’s mischievous nature and hot temper, Roy finds him to be too harmless and helpful to be scary.
* GhostlyChill: Discussed, Hughes and Edward are sitting next to each other, Roy asks Hughes if he feels a chill. Hughes says he doesn’t feel anything. Edward further proves the point by walking through Hughes, which gets no reaction from him.
* GreenEyedMonster: PlayedForLaughs with Edward as he starts to jealous of Roy’s suitors to the point of pranking them or one-upping them in their gifts.
* GroinAttack: When Ed drops a coat rack on Grand, he was so dazed that he didn’t notice the door open and accidentally got hit in the crotch by Hawkeye.
* HauntedHeadquarters: Literally, Central HQ is haunted by Edward. Then Roy’s home is “haunted” by Edward when the latter is invited to move in with him.
* {{Hell}}: Where Edward believes he will go for the sin of committing human transmutation.
* HoneyTrap: Roy is barhopping and sleeping around when a man tries to pick him up. He goes with the man to a secluded and quickly subdues as he recognizes him as one of Grand’s spies.
* IChooseToStay: Despite Roy taking him to Resembool and given a chance to stay there with Alphonse, Edward decides to stay with Roy.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Despite the fact Edward forced Roy to strip naked and bathe in front of him, Edward’s eyes remain on his face much to Roy’s disappointment. Edward is too rattled by the fact that Roy was nearly assassinated and had covered up the assassination.
* INeedToIronMyDog: When Hughes needs to explain to Bradley to why he was near Laboratory 5, he says that he went for a walk after having a fight with Gracia and wasn’t paying attention. He later uses this as an explanation to explain why Gracia and Elysia are going to stay with relatives.
* InsistentTerminology: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
* InsultOfEndearment: Edward calls Roy “his idiot.”
* InvisibleToNormals: Besides Roy, no one can see Edward.
* IResembleThatRemark: After having a night out with Roy, Edward calls Roy a manwhore who treats virgins wanting a happy ending like meat. Roy replies those people are the easiest to convince.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As much as it breaks Edward’s heart, he tries to accept Roy’s promiscuity and encourage it because he doesn’t want to further intrude on Roy’s life after the latter already gave him so much and because he is incapable of having sex due to his intangibility. Fortunately for him, Roy wises up to this and stops sleeping around.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Edward is stuck wearing the clothes he died when he was eleven. Which sucks for him, since despite being a ghost he grows. Luckily for him, his clothes grow with him but he’s still eighteen wearing children’s clothing. Although he can wear things over his clothes.
* LadykillerInLove: Roy Mustang, a major Casanova who would take multiple lovers in a single night and for years would cry at the idea of a committed relationship and only being with one person. He finds himself falling hard for Edward, someone he can’t even touch due to the latter being a ghost! He realized how serious his feelings were when he realizes that he doesn’t want to sleep with someone and doing so made him feel awful.
* LoveEpiphany: Roy realizes his feelings for Edward when he interrogates a HoneyTrap attempting to assassinate him. He goes on a rant on why the HoneyTrap failed, only to realize it boils down to “not being Edward.”
* MadeOfKryptonite: Being near a homunculous can cause Edward severe agony, despite being incapable of feeling pain otherwise.
* MagicPants: Despite being a ghost and stuck in the outfit he died in, Edward still grows and became 18 in the clothes he worn since he was 11. Thankfully for him, his clothes can grow with him.
* ManChild: [[DownplayedTrope Edward is mature enough to keep up with Roy and keep him in line and worldly due to growing up in a military office by himself.]] But he has a childlike enthusiasm for the outside world and is somewhat naïve due to spending his formative years in isolation.
* MenCantKeepHouse: Averted with Roy, his house is only messy because he just moved in because he just moved in. Edward was taught by his mother and is pretty good as a roommate in keeping the house clean.
** Played straight with Alphonse whose house is noted to be messy, but justified since he was never taught how to since his mother and brother died.
* MonochromeApparition: Edward is described as being a ghostly silver.
* MonsterRoommate: Edward Elric, who died during the attempted resurrection of his mother, is taken in by Roy as a roommate despite being a ghost.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: After being trapped in an office so long, Edward is pretty amazed at seeing a picture of the outside. Not to mention his reaction to finally being able to leave and go outside.
* MundaneUtility: Roy makes glass sculptures and bottle art with his fire alchemy.
* MutualWeakness: Ghosts and homunculi cause each other debilitating pain when they are near each other despite ghosts having no body and homunculi being NighInvulnerable.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Edward has silver hair due being a ghost.
* MythologyGag: Alphonse states that with the terrible memories of his father abandoning his family, his mother dying, his older brother dying violently that he would rather burn down the house.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Roy loves sleeping virgins and always sleeps with any he can find. Edward mocks him for this tendency.
* NoExceptYes: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
* NuttySquirrel: Roy owns a pet squirrel that he rescued named Hazel.
* OfCorsetsFunny: Edward accuses Roy of wearing a corset when he notices that Roy looks a lot slimmer out of military uniform. Roy says that the uniform is not flattering at all.
* OldShame: Roy is very embarrassed of the glass sculpture he made for the State Alchemist certification exam.
* OpenMindedParent: As a child, Roy would steal matches and lighters to start small fires to watch them burn. As opposed to most parents who would have their child to stop, Daphne Mustang had Roy learn alchemy to turn his pyromania into a healthy outlet.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Edward is ghost who died violently at age 11 to save his brother and after Alphonse was taken by the Gate. Despite being dead, he has aged into an eighteen year old physically and mentally. Edward can easily interact with the physical world but is incapable of touching living things like people, animals or plants. He could leave the office, he saw a white void when he tried to look outside. After meeting Roy, he could go outside but limited to places Roy has been to. No one else besides Roy can see or hear him.
* PatchworkFic: At Gate’s Edge takes a lot from the first anime such as Basque Grand’s characterization, the Ishval War and Roy Mustang’s backstory. Also, unlike the Brotherhood anime, Roy has an alternate background: he was raised by his widowed mother who lives in the countryside. The homunculi follow the characterizations and backstory of the first anime, but Father is their leader.
* PetTheDog: Despite only knowing Edward for a few days, Roy gets him a photo for him of Central at sunrise because he knows how much Edward misses being outside.
* PingPongNaviete: Edward grew up sheltered due to being trapped in an office for eight years as a ghost but is worldly on certain things due it being trapped in a military office and stuck playing accidental voyeur.
* {{Poltergeist}}: The ghostly Edward can do this quite easily, interacting with the physical world is no effort. Although he mostly uses it to prank people like sabotaging Basque Grand’s office and intimidating the janitors to not skive off work.
* PornStash: Edward accidentally comes across Roy’s stash of sex toys when his pet squirrel trashed Roy’s room. He was rather mortified when Roy told what he picked up.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Roy loved fire ever since he was a child. His mother had learn alchemy to give his pyromania a healthy outlet.
* RealityEnsues: Despite Alphonse being the only one living at the Elric home after the deaths of his mother and brother, he can’t sell his home. While his father Hohenheim might have been gone for years, his name is still on the paperwork and his death was not been confirmed. Since Alphonse has no idea whether his father is alive, he is currently fighting the bank to get the house in his name.
* RealMenWearPink: Roy Mustang is a feared veteran alchemist and highly respected military officer. He also owns an adorable pet squirrel and enjoys theater.
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler: Hohenheim is extremely confused when he meets Roy, he keeps talking about his mistreatment of his sons and is extremely angry on their behalf. Then Roy reveals to him how Edward died and how he got the idea to commit human transmutation. Hohenheim correct guesses that Edward is somehow with Roy.]]
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: [[spoiler: Bradley gives Hughes a lift from Lab 5 and tells him that it would be a shame if something happened to Hughes’ wife and daughter.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Before her death, Trisha taught Edward how to keep a household, such as cleaning and cooking in the hopes that Edward would take care of Alphonse. Which turned out to be pointless since Edward ended up dying young leaving Alphonse to fend for himself,
** After meeting Alphonse, Roy tries to be nice to Edward by visiting his friend Winry so Edward could see her and see how she's been since Edward died. To Roy's horror, Winry is the child of the doctors he had killed in Ishval and Edward figures it out when Roy's too genuine in his condolences for Winry's loss. Horrified that the man that he's grateful to had murdered his best friend's parents, Edward leaves Roy.
* SmallSecludedWorld: Edward’s world is limited to the office, unable to leave and unable to look outside. With Roy, he can leave and go anywhere as long as Roy went there first. Edward points out that while it’s an improvement, his world is still limited.
* SolarAndLunar: Edward is associated with both aspects, being associated with the Sun when he was alive and the Moon when he’s a ghost.
* STDImmunity: After finding out the extent of Roy’s promiscuity, Edward becomes legitimately concerned for Roy’s health. Roy assures him that he’s careful and uses condoms to protect himself.
* SupremeChef: Edward is a really good cook and baker, so Roy always looks forward to Ed’s cooking. Which is impressive since Edward can’t smell or taste food as a ghost and has completely forgotten what tasting is like.
* TenWithATwo: Roy would sleep with people who aren’t that attractive but he’s drunk with his beer goggles on and they’re virgins.
* TheDragon: Grand serves as one to Fuhrer Bradley, trying to recreate the Philosopher’s Stone.
* TheGunslinger: Roy’s mom, Daphne is a pretty good sniper.
* TheNeedless: Edward doesn’t need to eat or sleep. He mostly does it out of boredom.
* TheOutsideWorld: Edward wants to see the outside after being stuck haunting an office for seven years. He finally gets to leave with the help of Roy Mustang, the office’s new occupant.
* ThePrankster: Edward tends to play pranks on people for a laugh or in the case of Basque Grand, to torment them for their misdeeds. Being a ghost no one can see helps.
* ThePromise: Roy promises Edward that he stay with him as long as he is able.
* ThreeWaySex: Roy frequently engages in threesomes, often sleeping with people who attended bars with their friends.
* TopHeavyGuy: Ed jokes that Roy is one due to his uniform making his chest look much bigger than it actually is. Roy resents the implication that he’s disproportionate.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Both the spies Roy tortures for information don’t have any information from Grand to avert this trope. The HoneyTrap tries to say that he knows where Grand’s secret lab is but Roy knows he’s lying.
* TrueLoveIsExpectional: Roy Mustang, a consummate manwhore, falls in love and becomes committed to Edward, who he can’t even touch due to Edward being a ghost and believes that love should be a commitment.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Roy brings this up as a possibility to why Edward hasn’t moved on, but Edward shoots it down: he was perfectly fine with how he died.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Edward reveals to Roy that he got the idea of attempting human transmutation from his father’s book, which was left on his desk. Roy notes that a lot of tragedy could have averted if Hohenheim had child-proofed his study.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Roy’s life gets strange after he transfers to Central: he meets a ghost, finds out the man he dislikes is running unethical experiments, meets an immortal and finds out that his boss is a homunculus.
* WhamEpisode: Roy and Edward finally come across Hohenheim in Central, who reveals the truth of the homunculi and their leader, Father.
* WhamLine:
-->Edward: I don’t understand these feelings. But I wonder…if you could touch me. I want it so badly sometimes.
* WhatIsTheFeelingYouCallLove: Since Edward died when he was eleven and was trapped in an office for seven years, he has adult emotions but an eleven-year old’s understanding of them. He has an idea of what love is supposed to look like, but his feelings for Roy baffle him. He notes that he feels happy and contented when Roy choses to spend time with him and that he would do anything to make Roy happy. He is very confused when he starts feeling jealous and upset at Roy’s promiscuity when he was previously amused and a bit annoyed by it.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Although Edward hasn’t been a ghost for very long, he does realize that he’s functionally immortal and will have to watch Roy grow old and die. Not helped by the fact no one else can see Ed.
* WorkHardPlayHard: Since Roy adopted this since he stopped procrastinating to spend more time with Edward, surprising his friends with his new work ethic. He plays just as hard, going clubbing til dawn and sleeping with multiple people in the same night.
* WorthIt: Despite hating the lonely existence of a ghost, Edward believes it to be completely worth it since Alphonse survived because of his sacrifice.
* YouCanSeeMe: Edward and Roy are both equally shocked when Roy can see Ed, when no one has seen Ed in the last seven years of haunting an office.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Bradley makes it clear that he will gladly feed Grand to the Stone if Grand keeps messing up and getting injured.
Edward is a ghost, killed during the attempted resurrection of his mother. Which kinda sucks, but he doesn't know how to move on so he's stuck with it. He's haunting this office in the Central military HQ and can't leave it, which is kind of weird but he's gotten used to it. Things can get lonely since no one can see or hear him.
Edward tries to make the best of his un-life, trying to keep busy and pranking the hell out of Brigadier General Grand until one day his office gets a new occupant. The new occupant is Roy Mustang, who for some reason can see him.
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* AndIMustScream: Edward has been trapped in an office, unable to look outside and unable to be seen or heard by anyone for seven years. It gets better since Roy for some reason is able to see him.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler: Fuhrer Bradley frees Kimblee from prison on the condition that he kills Roy Mustang otherwise Bradley will kill him if he fails.]] Not difficult considering how AxCrazy Kimblee is.
* AnythingThatMoves: Roy in a nutshell. When he has the time to go out, he goes from one person to the next in the same night. He went through 4 lovers in one night! Edward calls him a manwhore, Roy says that he has a “healthy appetite.”
* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Edward died to save his brother who was taken by the Gate of Truth in their attempted resurrection of their mother. Edward is unable to move on, he doesn’t know why but he believes he can’t because he committed the sin of human transmutation.
* BeautifulDreamer: Since Edward doesn’t need to sleep, he sometimes watches Roy sleep. Roy admits that he would have found it creepy for anyone else. Since it’s Edward, who he knows is harmless, he just finds it cute.
* BigBad: King Bradley, who commands the vile Brigadier General Basque Grand. Although like canon, its implied that Bradley is not the only one.
* BodyguardingTheBadass: Edward protects Roy, despite the latter being a war-hardened State Alchemist. Although Edward does have an advantage in being a ghost that no one can see or hear.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Roy meets Edward Elric, a poltergeist that lives in his office. They become good friends and Roy manages to invite the ghost to live with as a roommate.
* BrickJoke: Edward learned how to become a good cook and do housework from his dying mother, who hoped that Edward would take care of Alphonse. Which turned out to be pointless since Edward died early on. When Roy and Ed finally meet Alphonse, he is revealed to be a terrible cook.
* ButtMonkey: Basque Grand is constantly getting injured by Ed’s pranks and generally made to look like a fool in revenge for being a horrible person. [[spoiler: The fact that he constantly gets injured puts Grand on thin ice with Bradley, since Grand gets held back and loses his usefulness.]]
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Inverted, Roy flirts with Edward a lot before he grew interested. When Roy falls in love with Edward, his flirtatious and promiscuity with others ceased as he focused it on Edward. A bit of a problem since Edward’s a ghost.
* CatapultNightmare: Edward has nightmares of his death and the Gate that always jolt him from his sleep. It’s even more annoying to him because he doesn’t need sleep in the first place, meaning he fell asleep on accident.
* ChekhovsMIA: The military had been searching for Hohenheim for years for his alchemy expertise and despite their resources could never find him. Roy notes that he would have gone to Reseembool if it weren’t for Ed’s death. [[spoiler: Guess who Roy and Ed come across in a café.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Edward gets in the habit of trying to prank Roy’s dates or trying to upstage them.
* CommitmentIssues: Roy admits that the idea of settling down and getting married makes him want to cry, much to ire of his married best friend and mother as Roy is having too much fun sleeping around. He believes that settling down will be the end of his fun and would bore him to tears.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Downplayed with Roy, who tends to get irrationally jealous at the idea of anyone else [[InvisibleToNormals being able to see Edward]] or taking Edward’s attention. Although he does realize that it’s rather dickish of him to feel this way since he’s Ed’s OnlyFriend and he shouldn’t treat Ed like a possession.
* CutenessProximity: Edward practically squees when he meets Hazel, a once-wild pet squirrel. Roy jokingly justifies his refusal to tell anyone about Hazel with the explanation that he doesn’t want people to steal Hazel from him.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Deconstructed. While Roy and Ed do admit that Hohenheim did have a valid and complex reason for abandoning his family, they do not allow it to excuse the hurt and neglect Hohenheim caused. Edward is still very hurt and despite being angry he wants to know if his father even loves him. Edward and Roy demand that Hohenheim in the very least let Alphonse know that he’s alive since Alphonse is now Hohenheim’s only living relative.
* DeadToBeginWith: When the story begins, Edward is a ghost and has already been dead for seven years.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Edward swears to Roy that he will protect him and help him in any way he can, despite Roy not wanting Ed to endanger himself.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: The thing Ed missed most about being alive was being with people and is overjoyed with the fact that Roy can see him and is willing to be his friend.
* DrivingQuestion: Why is Edward a ghost and why was he haunting an office in a place he had never been to in life?
* EmpatheticPet: Hazel is this as he tends to cheer up Ed when he got depressed over Roy’s sleeping around despite himself and pretty angry at Roy for hurting Ed’s feelings to the point of yelling at him.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Although Roy’s friends don’t know about [[CuteGhostGirl Edward]], they can tell that Roy has gotten serious about someone despite his denials and his own obliviousness. They approve because Roy has changed for the better.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite Roy sleeping with anyone attractive he finds regardless of gender, he will not sleep with closeted men.
* EvilDetectingDog: Despite not being able to see or hear Edward, Hazel, Roy Mustang’s pet squirrel can sense Ed’s presence and tell that he’s a good person. Other animals tend to bark and hiss when Edward is nearby since Edward doesn’t interact with them.
* FearlessUndead: Edward constantly notes that as a ghost he can’t be harmed nor get into any physical danger despite Roy trying to keep him safe. Although he does have something to fear, the Gate can cause him pain and being near a Homunculus puts him in agony. He still tries anyway because he wants to keep Roy safe.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Edward keeps trying to get Roy to tell him his age and weight, both topics Roy is sensitive about.
* {{Flashback}}: Edward often dreams of when he made the decision to resurrect their mother with Alphonse and the transmutation that took his life.
* FoodPoisoningIncident: Edward warns Roy not to eat anything in the military cafeteria as anything that goes in comes in both ways. Then he tells Roy to be grateful that Edward warned him to replace the furniture.
* ForWantOfANail: What if Edward succeeded in getting Alphonse back during that faithful human transmutation at the cost of his own life?
* FriendlyGhost: Despite Edward’s mischievous nature and hot temper, Roy finds him to be too harmless and helpful to be scary.
* GhostlyChill: Discussed, Hughes and Edward are sitting next to each other, Roy asks Hughes if he feels a chill. Hughes says he doesn’t feel anything. Edward further proves the point by walking through Hughes, which gets no reaction from him.
* GreenEyedMonster: PlayedForLaughs with Edward as he starts to jealous of Roy’s suitors to the point of pranking them or one-upping them in their gifts.
* GroinAttack: When Ed drops a coat rack on Grand, he was so dazed that he didn’t notice the door open and accidentally got hit in the crotch by Hawkeye.
* HauntedHeadquarters: Literally, Central HQ is haunted by Edward. Then Roy’s home is “haunted” by Edward when the latter is invited to move in with him.
* {{Hell}}: Where Edward believes he will go for the sin of committing human transmutation.
* HoneyTrap: Roy is barhopping and sleeping around when a man tries to pick him up. He goes with the man to a secluded and quickly subdues as he recognizes him as one of Grand’s spies.
* IChooseToStay: Despite Roy taking him to Resembool and given a chance to stay there with Alphonse, Edward decides to stay with Roy.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Despite the fact Edward forced Roy to strip naked and bathe in front of him, Edward’s eyes remain on his face much to Roy’s disappointment. Edward is too rattled by the fact that Roy was nearly assassinated and had covered up the assassination.
* INeedToIronMyDog: When Hughes needs to explain to Bradley to why he was near Laboratory 5, he says that he went for a walk after having a fight with Gracia and wasn’t paying attention. He later uses this as an explanation to explain why Gracia and Elysia are going to stay with relatives.
* InsistentTerminology: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
* InsultOfEndearment: Edward calls Roy “his idiot.”
* InvisibleToNormals: Besides Roy, no one can see Edward.
* IResembleThatRemark: After having a night out with Roy, Edward calls Roy a manwhore who treats virgins wanting a happy ending like meat. Roy replies those people are the easiest to convince.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As much as it breaks Edward’s heart, he tries to accept Roy’s promiscuity and encourage it because he doesn’t want to further intrude on Roy’s life after the latter already gave him so much and because he is incapable of having sex due to his intangibility. Fortunately for him, Roy wises up to this and stops sleeping around.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Edward is stuck wearing the clothes he died when he was eleven. Which sucks for him, since despite being a ghost he grows. Luckily for him, his clothes grow with him but he’s still eighteen wearing children’s clothing. Although he can wear things over his clothes.
* LadykillerInLove: Roy Mustang, a major Casanova who would take multiple lovers in a single night and for years would cry at the idea of a committed relationship and only being with one person. He finds himself falling hard for Edward, someone he can’t even touch due to the latter being a ghost! He realized how serious his feelings were when he realizes that he doesn’t want to sleep with someone and doing so made him feel awful.
* LoveEpiphany: Roy realizes his feelings for Edward when he interrogates a HoneyTrap attempting to assassinate him. He goes on a rant on why the HoneyTrap failed, only to realize it boils down to “not being Edward.”
* MadeOfKryptonite: Being near a homunculous can cause Edward severe agony, despite being incapable of feeling pain otherwise.
* MagicPants: Despite being a ghost and stuck in the outfit he died in, Edward still grows and became 18 in the clothes he worn since he was 11. Thankfully for him, his clothes can grow with him.
* ManChild: [[DownplayedTrope Edward is mature enough to keep up with Roy and keep him in line and worldly due to growing up in a military office by himself.]] But he has a childlike enthusiasm for the outside world and is somewhat naïve due to spending his formative years in isolation.
* MenCantKeepHouse: Averted with Roy, his house is only messy because he just moved in because he just moved in. Edward was taught by his mother and is pretty good as a roommate in keeping the house clean.
** Played straight with Alphonse whose house is noted to be messy, but justified since he was never taught how to since his mother and brother died.
* MonochromeApparition: Edward is described as being a ghostly silver.
* MonsterRoommate: Edward Elric, who died during the attempted resurrection of his mother, is taken in by Roy as a roommate despite being a ghost.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: After being trapped in an office so long, Edward is pretty amazed at seeing a picture of the outside. Not to mention his reaction to finally being able to leave and go outside.
* MundaneUtility: Roy makes glass sculptures and bottle art with his fire alchemy.
* MutualWeakness: Ghosts and homunculi cause each other debilitating pain when they are near each other despite ghosts having no body and homunculi being NighInvulnerable.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Edward has silver hair due being a ghost.
* MythologyGag: Alphonse states that with the terrible memories of his father abandoning his family, his mother dying, his older brother dying violently that he would rather burn down the house.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Roy loves sleeping virgins and always sleeps with any he can find. Edward mocks him for this tendency.
* NoExceptYes: Roy is not a manwhore, he just has a healthy sexual appetite.
* NuttySquirrel: Roy owns a pet squirrel that he rescued named Hazel.
* OfCorsetsFunny: Edward accuses Roy of wearing a corset when he notices that Roy looks a lot slimmer out of military uniform. Roy says that the uniform is not flattering at all.
* OldShame: Roy is very embarrassed of the glass sculpture he made for the State Alchemist certification exam.
* OpenMindedParent: As a child, Roy would steal matches and lighters to start small fires to watch them burn. As opposed to most parents who would have their child to stop, Daphne Mustang had Roy learn alchemy to turn his pyromania into a healthy outlet.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Edward is ghost who died violently at age 11 to save his brother and after Alphonse was taken by the Gate. Despite being dead, he has aged into an eighteen year old physically and mentally. Edward can easily interact with the physical world but is incapable of touching living things like people, animals or plants. He could leave the office, he saw a white void when he tried to look outside. After meeting Roy, he could go outside but limited to places Roy has been to. No one else besides Roy can see or hear him.
* PatchworkFic: At Gate’s Edge takes a lot from the first anime such as Basque Grand’s characterization, the Ishval War and Roy Mustang’s backstory. Also, unlike the Brotherhood anime, Roy has an alternate background: he was raised by his widowed mother who lives in the countryside. The homunculi follow the characterizations and backstory of the first anime, but Father is their leader.
* PetTheDog: Despite only knowing Edward for a few days, Roy gets him a photo for him of Central at sunrise because he knows how much Edward misses being outside.
* PingPongNaviete: Edward grew up sheltered due to being trapped in an office for eight years as a ghost but is worldly on certain things due it being trapped in a military office and stuck playing accidental voyeur.
* {{Poltergeist}}: The ghostly Edward can do this quite easily, interacting with the physical world is no effort. Although he mostly uses it to prank people like sabotaging Basque Grand’s office and intimidating the janitors to not skive off work.
* PornStash: Edward accidentally comes across Roy’s stash of sex toys when his pet squirrel trashed Roy’s room. He was rather mortified when Roy told what he picked up.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Roy loved fire ever since he was a child. His mother had learn alchemy to give his pyromania a healthy outlet.
* RealityEnsues: Despite Alphonse being the only one living at the Elric home after the deaths of his mother and brother, he can’t sell his home. While his father Hohenheim might have been gone for years, his name is still on the paperwork and his death was not been confirmed. Since Alphonse has no idea whether his father is alive, he is currently fighting the bank to get the house in his name.
* RealMenWearPink: Roy Mustang is a feared veteran alchemist and highly respected military officer. He also owns an adorable pet squirrel and enjoys theater.
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler: Hohenheim is extremely confused when he meets Roy, he keeps talking about his mistreatment of his sons and is extremely angry on their behalf. Then Roy reveals to him how Edward died and how he got the idea to commit human transmutation. Hohenheim correct guesses that Edward is somehow with Roy.]]
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: [[spoiler: Bradley gives Hughes a lift from Lab 5 and tells him that it would be a shame if something happened to Hughes’ wife and daughter.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Before her death, Trisha taught Edward how to keep a household, such as cleaning and cooking in the hopes that Edward would take care of Alphonse. Which turned out to be pointless since Edward ended up dying young leaving Alphonse to fend for himself,
** After meeting Alphonse, Roy tries to be nice to Edward by visiting his friend Winry so Edward could see her and see how she's been since Edward died. To Roy's horror, Winry is the child of the doctors he had killed in Ishval and Edward figures it out when Roy's too genuine in his condolences for Winry's loss. Horrified that the man that he's grateful to had murdered his best friend's parents, Edward leaves Roy.
* SmallSecludedWorld: Edward’s world is limited to the office, unable to leave and unable to look outside. With Roy, he can leave and go anywhere as long as Roy went there first. Edward points out that while it’s an improvement, his world is still limited.
* SolarAndLunar: Edward is associated with both aspects, being associated with the Sun when he was alive and the Moon when he’s a ghost.
* STDImmunity: After finding out the extent of Roy’s promiscuity, Edward becomes legitimately concerned for Roy’s health. Roy assures him that he’s careful and uses condoms to protect himself.
* SupremeChef: Edward is a really good cook and baker, so Roy always looks forward to Ed’s cooking. Which is impressive since Edward can’t smell or taste food as a ghost and has completely forgotten what tasting is like.
* TenWithATwo: Roy would sleep with people who aren’t that attractive but he’s drunk with his beer goggles on and they’re virgins.
* TheDragon: Grand serves as one to Fuhrer Bradley, trying to recreate the Philosopher’s Stone.
* TheGunslinger: Roy’s mom, Daphne is a pretty good sniper.
* TheNeedless: Edward doesn’t need to eat or sleep. He mostly does it out of boredom.
* TheOutsideWorld: Edward wants to see the outside after being stuck haunting an office for seven years. He finally gets to leave with the help of Roy Mustang, the office’s new occupant.
* ThePrankster: Edward tends to play pranks on people for a laugh or in the case of Basque Grand, to torment them for their misdeeds. Being a ghost no one can see helps.
* ThePromise: Roy promises Edward that he stay with him as long as he is able.
* ThreeWaySex: Roy frequently engages in threesomes, often sleeping with people who attended bars with their friends.
* TopHeavyGuy: Ed jokes that Roy is one due to his uniform making his chest look much bigger than it actually is. Roy resents the implication that he’s disproportionate.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Both the spies Roy tortures for information don’t have any information from Grand to avert this trope. The HoneyTrap tries to say that he knows where Grand’s secret lab is but Roy knows he’s lying.
* TrueLoveIsExpectional: Roy Mustang, a consummate manwhore, falls in love and becomes committed to Edward, who he can’t even touch due to Edward being a ghost and believes that love should be a commitment.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Roy brings this up as a possibility to why Edward hasn’t moved on, but Edward shoots it down: he was perfectly fine with how he died.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Edward reveals to Roy that he got the idea of attempting human transmutation from his father’s book, which was left on his desk. Roy notes that a lot of tragedy could have averted if Hohenheim had child-proofed his study.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Roy’s life gets strange after he transfers to Central: he meets a ghost, finds out the man he dislikes is running unethical experiments, meets an immortal and finds out that his boss is a homunculus.
* WhamEpisode: Roy and Edward finally come across Hohenheim in Central, who reveals the truth of the homunculi and their leader, Father.
* WhamLine:
-->Edward: I don’t understand these feelings. But I wonder…if you could touch me. I want it so badly sometimes.
* WhatIsTheFeelingYouCallLove: Since Edward died when he was eleven and was trapped in an office for seven years, he has adult emotions but an eleven-year old’s understanding of them. He has an idea of what love is supposed to look like, but his feelings for Roy baffle him. He notes that he feels happy and contented when Roy choses to spend time with him and that he would do anything to make Roy happy. He is very confused when he starts feeling jealous and upset at Roy’s promiscuity when he was previously amused and a bit annoyed by it.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Although Edward hasn’t been a ghost for very long, he does realize that he’s functionally immortal and will have to watch Roy grow old and die. Not helped by the fact no one else can see Ed.
* WorkHardPlayHard: Since Roy adopted this since he stopped procrastinating to spend more time with Edward, surprising his friends with his new work ethic. He plays just as hard, going clubbing til dawn and sleeping with multiple people in the same night.
* WorthIt: Despite hating the lonely existence of a ghost, Edward believes it to be completely worth it since Alphonse survived because of his sacrifice.
* YouCanSeeMe: Edward and Roy are both equally shocked when Roy can see Ed, when no one has seen Ed in the last seven years of haunting an office.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Bradley makes it clear that he will gladly feed Grand to the Stone if Grand keeps messing up and getting injured.
