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Riza Hawkeye

Riza Hawkeye (リザ・ホークアイ, Riza Hōkai) is Roy Mustang's most trusted and dearest subordinate. She carries out many of the tasks he is too lazy to do, acts as his personal assistant, and protects him from danger. She also doubles as his voice of reason, keeping cool in heated situations, and scolding him when he allows his emotions to get in the way. Riza and Roy seem to share a close relationship in both the manga and anime adaptations: in the first anime, she identifies him as her most precious person, whereas in the manga, she loses her resolve to live while believing he has been killed.^ch.39 Riza specializes in firearms, particularly sniper rifles, and can hit nearly any target with lethal accuracy. In both the anime and the manga, she adopts a dog named Black Hayate (ブラックハヤテ, Burakkuhayate) that she raises with stern discipline; when Hayate urinates indoors, she fires a warning round at the nearby wall to reinforce that doing so is against established protocol.^{ch. Gaiden}

While Riza does not extend far past the role of Mustang's subordinate in the first anime, she takes on a more central role in the manga. In the form of a tattoo on her back, Riza bears the final notes to her father's work on Flame Alchemy, and his legacy as an alchemist and Mustang's teacher. After seeing what Mustang was capable of during the Ishbal War, Riza begs Roy to burn the tattoo, fearing the damage another flame alchemist could cause.^ch.61 Riza is reassigned as King Bradley's personal assistant to be used as a hostage when Mustang learns the homunculi control the State.^ch.52 She still keeps an eye out, though no longer working under Mustang, to ensure he succeeds in his plans to become Führer; when she discovers that King Bradley's adopted son, Selim, is a homunculus as well, she sends her discovery to Mustang in code as soon as she can. She eventually defects from the military to help Mustang overthrow King Bradley.^ch.74 She is voiced by Michiko Neya in Japanese and by Colleen Clinkenbeard in English.^ep.5ep.5 In the second anime series, she is voiced by Fumiko Orikasa.^ep.1