I will follow you into hell if you ask me to.

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• Expert in administration and secretarial duties ranging from organizing, filing, and filling out paperwork to brewing coffee.


• Expert markswoman and sharpshooter with a variety of weapons ranging from handguns, to rifles, to machine guns. She shows remarkable skill and ability in the disassembly, cleaning, and maintenance of these weapons.


• Riza has keen combat instincts, almost a "sixth sense" that aid her awareness of danger and her ability to gauge threats.


• Skilled in the planning and execution of covert operations and combat tactics.


• Riza's physical fitness is tip-top and she shows remarkable agility and fortitude throughout the series.

Yes. The answer to this one is one hundred percent yes. As a soldier in the Amestrian State Military, Riza participated in the conflict known as the Ishvalan Civil War. This was a civil conflict initiated in order to purposefully shed blood. This conflict only ended when the Amestrian State Military used State Alchemists and the military to essentially perpetrate a genocide against the Ishvalan people. State Alchemists are members of the military licensed as alchemists, those who are skilled in the science fo construction and deconstruction that gives almost supernatural powers, such as the ability to reshape matter or even transmute it into its base elements, i.e. extraction of hydrogen from water molecules.

Riza participated in the ending stage of the Ishvalan Civil War and personally shot and killed an undetermined number of people while acting as a sniper. She is only ever shown shooting other combatants, but it can be inferred that as a member of the military, she participated in the genocide of the Ishvalan people. While an exact number isn't given in the canon, it is likely that thousands, if not millions of people were killed.

Riza is consumed by a deep and abiding guilt about her own participation in this conflict. If she could do so, she would undo not just her participation, but the whole war itself, no matter the cost to herself personally. She has joined with her father's former student and fellow guilt-ridden war criminal Roy Mustang in a determined effort to overthrow the military junta that rules Amestris and return democratic rule in spite of the likelihood that they would be tried and possibly executed by any democratic government for their participation in the genocide. Riza lives a life consumed by guilt for her own actions and for the destruction wrought on the world by the research of her father in the field of Flame Alchemy.

No.

No.

As far as can be seen in canon, Riza does not take any happiness in harming others. During her time fighting in Ishval, she was weary and laden with guilt. Even in her efforts to protect Roy Mustang and their mutual plot against the government, Riza is never shown to take joy in the suffering of others. The closest we see her come is when the homunculus, Lust, claims to have murdered Roy Mustang. She goes mad with grief and rage and attacks without a care for her safety, though there is no satisfaction in harming Lust--her attacks only set her back temporarily in any case.

Her lack of joy in the suffering of others can be seen in her philosophy regarding weapons. While others view firearms as tools meant only to kill, she views them as tools that can be used to protect those she cares for. Additionally, she has promised Roy Mustang that if he ever goes too far--if he ever tips over into unnecessary brutality and cruelty, she will stop him by any means necessary. This includes killing him. When Roy threatens to tip too far over the edge and torment a homunculus to death, she confronts him with her weapon in hand and reminds him of her promise.