Glad that you enjoyed Roy and Hughes! Those two are insanely fun to write.

--throughout the chapters moments of *Ed* leave me all happy to know he's still in there, and as we know Roy is pretty good about triggering them.--

It's a shame that Roy didn't know Ed before. I figure he'd have spent those first two hours in the study room letting loose an endless stream of thinly veiled short jokes until Ed finally snapped back to normal. Of course, normal!Ed probably would have immediately tried to kill him for it too ;)