Post by Nukdae on Jan 4, 2010 15:00:36 GMT -5
I'll commit the greatest sin.
Puppeteer:
Nukdae
Puppet:
Izumi Curtis
Aliases:
Sensei / Teacher
Cursed:
Female
Rotations:
35
License:
Alchemist and Martial Artist
Alchemy:
Izumi can transmute without a circle.
Destruction:
Martial Arts
Attitude Check:
Izumi is a skilled martial artist and alchemist living in the southern Amestrian town of Dublith where - with her husband Sig Curtis - she runs a butcher shop. Though she doesn't usually take on students, Izumi accepted Edward and Alphonse Elric's plea to accept them as her apprentices and instructed them in alchemical theory and practice for six months.
Although Izumi takes apparent pride in being a housewife and introduces herself as such to anyone who asks, her attractive and humble exterior belies a fearsome disposition such that Ed and Al become terrified at the mere thought of her. She is prone to swift acts of violence and is often seen doling out physical harm, though most acts of overexertion on her part are followed by a regurgitation of blood linked to an internal injury from a failed Human Transmutation several years before. As a result of this, she is one of the few alchemist able to perform alchemy without the aid of a Transmutation Circle. Izumi is among the strongest women in the FMA world.
She also appears to enjoy traveling (a trait she may have passed on to Edward), as she is often found journeying outside her hometown. She even announces herself as a "traveling housewife".
Mirror:
Izumi is a young woman with a curvaceous yet well-toned figure, fair skin, long black hair in dreadlocks, dark blue eyes and a Flamel tattoo on the left side of her collarbone.
Image:
Return to the Past:
In the year 1897, when Izumi was 18, she ventured to northern Amestris near Briggs in order to learn alchemy as an apprentice to the famed alchemist Silver Steiner. She was told that she would not be accepted as Steiner's apprentice unless she survived for one month alone on the fearsome Mt. Briggs with nothing but a machete. She braved the elements, nearly dying several times from the extreme cold, wild animal attacks and assaults from Briggs Mountain Patrol (who assumed that she was a Drachman Spy) and discovered the philosophy "One is All, All is One" from her experiences there. Though she was never captured, the rumor of a mysterious mountain woman raiding Fort Briggs for supplies would continue to circulate for nearly twenty years. After the month was up, she ventured back into town and declared to Steiner that she was now fit to be his alchemy apprentice. It was at this point that the man told her that he was, in fact, Gold Steiner - the older brother of the alchemist Silver Steiner (who had died several years before) - and that he was known for hand-to-hand combat techniques, knowing nothing of alchemy. Izumi, in fury, assaulted him and knocked him unconscious, setting out to continue her alchemy training on her own. She later became the apprentice to Dante.
Izumi had a son with her husband Sig Curtis. The child died soon afterwards, and Izumi tried and failed to revive it through human transmutation. Although the failed attempt took some of her internal organs, such that she could never again give birth and coughs up blood when she gets too worked up, Izumi could thereafter perform alchemy without a transmutation circle.
She agreed to train Elrics to hone their alchemical abilities after their mother died, through an unorthodox regiment of philosophy, martial arts, and survival techniques. Her methods are derived from her own alchemy training with Dante and in the wilderness. She thinks of the Elrics as her own sons, and although she severs her student-teacher ties with them after learning of their attempts with human transmutation as well as Ed's joining the State Military though she continues to do all she can to help them.
Other:
She is skilled in the martial arts.