also i mentioned it on twitter but i’ve been contemplating all day how easily you could make a Roy/Riza AU set in bleach!verse work
bc wow between the gotei 13 and the central 46 and the nobility (and who the fuck knows what the soul king actually does anyway) and how all of that is contrasted to the Rukongai, the entire system of soul society is just fucked man
which u kno
au where roy and riza are shinigami and work their way up the ranks and roy is eventually made a captain and riza is his vice and team mustang are his seated officers and they have a plan for him to eventually become the captain commander and even above??? in order to completely unfuck everything some day
not sure what the ishval equivalent would be off the top of my head, but given that soul society has done shit like what happened to the quinceys and locks people up for thought crimes and all the other awful shit
pretty sure there’d be something man who knows
