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[agentmanatee]

Gresham Law

Name: Gresham Law

Age:38

Rank: Major

State title: The Melting stone alchemist

Appearance: Gresham has white skin with hazel eyes. His hair is black and kept short but well maintained, he sports a very gruff 5- o'clock shadow in contrast to his well kempt hair. wears the standard blue military uniform. He transmutes using the tattoos on his hands. On his left hand the alchemical symbol for water within a transmutation circle, bits of alchemical script are in the circle as well as running up long whirlpool like lines that protrude from the circle to smaller circles on the ends with other important alchemical script. On his right palm the transmutation circle has the triangles of earth, clay, and arsenic within it, and strait lines composed of alchemical text run to the tips of his middle, index, and ring fingers where three smaller circles each have 1 of the three larger triangles at a smaller size in them. He is 5'9 and 185 lb., with an average build for his height.

Backstory: Born in southern Amestris, Gresham was the son of an automail engineer in Rush valley. He had zero talent in engineering and in fact had no interest in the craft, much preferring the study of chemistry and the elements, leading him to alchemy. He easily aced the state alchemist exam with an interesting type of alchemy, combining solid stone and metal alchemy with water alchemy, able to flash freeze rock and metal to make it brittle, create mud of most any material and create flexible part solid part liquid transmutaions, hence The Melting stone alchemist. About 2 years after becoming a state alchemist the Ishvalan civil war broke out, and not long after he was deployed to Ishval with many other state Alchemists. Durine the war his alchemy probed intensly useful, and many Ishvalans died at his hands. He has become a gruff and Jaded man, and is now again called to kill.

Specialty: Liquid/earth fusion
-Freeze or boil water in an. enemies blood
-Create simple weapons
-Create walls or spikes
-Create mud
-Turn metal and stone to soft, pliable material
-Or turn it brittle and easily shattered

Non-alchemy abilities
-Skilled in Judo, as well as Amestrian boxing
-Fast and acrobatic combatant

[The Narrator]

Charles Walenberg
The Corrosive Alchemist

Age: 37

Rank: Major

Appearance:

My Hider

Charles is a man of average build whose whole face and arms are covered in bandages. He is normally wearing the uniform of an state alchemist.

Backstory:
Born in east city, Charles was the son of an enthusiastic but ultimately talent less alchemist. His father was researching in the field of acids without any real progress. That changed when Charles came of age and began to study alchemy and help his father in his research. He was much more intelligent and had a much better understanding of alchemy and just like that he created the alchemist formula to create acids. However his first test went wrong, permanently damaging the skin on his face and arms.
He wasn't going to stop however and two years later after better research and training he used his brand of alchemy to become a state alchemist.

When the civil war started Charles was send to Ishbal as a human weapon. He was a good soldier, killing who he was ordered to and created piles of corroded houses and streets. The Ishvalen who fought him were dissolved before the eyes of their brothers and friends. There was no night in which Charles didn't had nightmares about Ishbal, but he still would do it again.

Specialty:
His specialty are acids. He always has two things with him. His ring with his transmutation circle, as well as several small canister on his belt. In each canister are two substances he uses when the situation requires them. Flour, Chloride and the canisters itself have a Antimony alloy. Normally he uses the nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen in the air to create nitric acid. However he can also use the cannisters to create fluoroantimonic acid the most corrosive acid known to man.
Charles is also a capable fighter in hand-to-hand combat.

[Undying Curiosity]

Name: William Campbell

Age: 25

Rank: Major

State title: The Trapping Alchemist

Appearance:

Backstory: Ever since William was a boy his interest in Alchemy always lead him into trouble. Practising the art whenever he saw fit, and usually having little to no regard for the consequences. By the age of 14 William thought he knew everything there was to know about alchemy and decided to learn alkahestry, thinking they were along the same lines. He mustered up some money and took a long and unforgettable trip to Xing, where he went to tons of different libraries cross referencing everything he learned. It was to his misfortune when he accidentally stumbled upon a sacred families secret. Descendants of the aforementioned family abducted him off the street a few days later and preformed unauthorized and unprofessional surgery on him. During the abduction they removed his vocal cords, this was a symbolic way of saying don't speak a word of the family's secret. Luckily for William, doctors at the nearest hospital used alkahestry and medical sciences to save his life, and prevent him from bleeding out. The doctors told William that he would probably never speak again. William had to find an alternative way to communicate with people, he started to use a small, clipboard sized chalkboard to write out what he wants to say.

William came back to Amestris a changed man. William was no longer filled with excitement and curiosity, instead, depression and cynicism. Every where he went, he felt like he could trust no one. He'd thought a lot about that day in Xing, and everyday he wonders why he couldn't defend himself. William knows so much about alchemy, yet, he still managed to get abducted. William came to the conclusion that he needed to get stronger, but self motivation wasn't enough to do that, he also needed resources. He needed more knowledge. This is where he decided to become a state alchemist.

He became a state alchemist a few months after the Ishvalan war had ended, he thought there would be a lack of soldiers after the war, and it would be a good chance to join.

Specialty: Liquefaction - William uses alchemy to create quicksand using the ground, thus his name 'The Trapping Alchemist'. William must preform a chain like reaction to create this quicksand. First, he uses his alchemy to deconstruct the earth in a targeted area and destroy it into millions of pieces of sand. William then uses his alchemy to create water from exchanging the material around the sand (wood, concrete, dirt etc.). The third step in his form of alchemy is to saturate the freshly made sand with the water he transmuted, giving him quicksand. William was the first person to create and use this type of alchemy, William used this alchemy during the practical part of his state alchemist exam. He preforms his alchemy with a small chalkboard that he carries around, this chalkboard is the same one he uses to communicate with.

[KoL]

Name: Emillia B. Krowitz

Rank: Colonel

State title: The Blood Rose Alchemist

Appearance:



Backstory:

Emillia's's past is a hazy and bloody spot on the pages of Amestris military registry, all that's know about her is that she joined the army under a special invitation from the Füher, as a medical officer tasked with a secret research, sometime before the Ishval War broke out.

The nature of her research was extremely secretive and it was said that she was the head of one of the most feared concentration camps during the conflict. Countless lives where sacrificed in her sinister research, whose purposed was the creation of that which all alchemist seek, The Philosopher's Stone.

After the end of the war she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant colonel and given head of one of the states secret laboratories in order to continue her research, after Tim Marcoh went AWOL.

Specialty:

Blood Alchemy, which can be used a variety of ways, including:
- Healing, which was her original expertise;
- Halt the aging process of her body, which requires a constant supply of fresh blood, earning her the nickname "Amestrian Vampire";
- Combat, with her signature move, the "Bloody Rose Transmutation", where she causes the iron and oxygen on her victims blood to react violently and burst their blood vessels, popping out of their skin in the characteristic shape of roses made from coagulated blood.

Others:

Secretly, she's a bat-based Chimera, one of the first to ever be produced, since she offered her body willingly to help on the research she had been conducting for years alongside other genius bioalchemists like Shou Tucker and Tim Marcoh.

Also, she's an expert knife fighter and shouldn't be underestimated even when she is unable to make use of her alchemy, since her extensive knowledge of the human body's inner workings and cold blooded sadism means that she knows exactly how to inflict the maximum amount of suffering with each slash.

[dndragons]

Name:
Valorie Falkner

Age:
24

Rank:
Major

State title:
Quick Silver Alchemist

Appearance:


Backstory:
Valorie’s life was involved with the military from the moment she was born. Her father was a state alchemist himself, which led to many days where he wasn’t home due to work. However, when he was home he made the best of it. Valorie’s idol was her dad, and she didn’t want to be anything but like him for a long time. As a child this led her to be a bit of a tomboy when she was about seven. Knowledge and adventure were her favorite pastimes, especially when it came to books. From alchemy to fantasy tales she didn’t want to put them down as they either brought her closer to her father in teaching her about what he does as an alchemist, or took her to a far off land within the stories. She wasn’t popular as a child from it though as her attitude had gotten her into several fights, though she befriended a social reject like herself. Her friend though passed when she was eleven due to complications with an illness leaving her alone. Without a fellow adventurer or someone to share what she has read from stories she started to only read about science and alchemy. If she didn’t have a friend anymore, perhaps she could be looked up to like her father was as a state alchemist.

She became far more shy and closed herself off until she was sixteen because of this despite her mother and father trying to help otherwise. Her mother often joked about how she wished her daughter wasn’t a tomboy, but she missed it quickly after it was gone. Eventually her mother to fell ill, and even if it didn’t take her life it left her frail. Seeing his wife in this state, Valorie’s father enclosed himself into being a workaholic. Even at home he would shut himself in his office leaving Valorie to care for her mother. For a year she stopped doing alchemy all together after she had begun to do it from what she read at the age of thirteen. Valorie got a letter from the military on her seventeenth birthday which stated they heard about her skill that she had developed and how she had helped around town before, sometimes with repairs and a few times she even stopped a criminal or two who didn’t think a girl would see them and trap them with chains. Before she tore up the letter, her mother found it and gave her a long lecture. Despite her objections, Valorie’s mothers insisted that she would be fine and that she didn’t want Valorie to waste her life away. Even if it was with the military, her mother told Valorie that her father wasn’t made the way he is by the work he did, but by how he handled the situations.

Heading off, Valorie easily got past her state alchemist exam. It was all well and good before the Ishvalen conflict. When she joined the military, it had been going on already. However, she was a state alchemist. It wasn’t until Order 3066 that she saw the front lines. She was 21 at the time when she had to draw the blood of the Ishvalens. Her first days were the worst, but then her father died in the conflict. She didn’t see it happen, but the death list revealed his fate as well as a surperior seeking her out. He was killed by an Ishvalen who had taken an Amestrian sniper rifle a month earlier. Valorie found herself surprisingly calm upon his death. For the last year he had basically ran from her ailing mother she had gotten to the point of cursing him, now he was simply gone. The day after she killed without the same hesitation as the other days or overwhelming pain, same with the next. It continued until the end of the war, on the day they claimed victory that she knelt over and threw up what she had been holding in to make it through the conflict.

Hiding that weakness from her peers as well as superiors, she continued as a State Alchemist, but the thought remains on her mind about the atrocities committed. They had to kill everyone they saw without holding back, and her alchemy had been practically made for the killing. It wasn’t to help people, rather she could repair broken guns. Shift iron into spikes or slice a man in half with a long mercury whip. She couldn’t face her mother afterwards preferring to only write letters. Working on missions for the military as she quickly gained respect with her proficiency in alchemy. A young star on the rise, but for now still a major.

Specialty:
Metal Alchemy:
Valorie's specialty lies in the transition metals of the periodic table. Mercury, Iron, Silver, Gold and more and their structures is the understanding she comes in with.

Common abilities for her to use:
Weapon Formation: The earth's crust is largly made of iron and this is taking the iron from the ground to make blades and other items. Also can make metal bolts, screws, and such if needed.
Metal Spikes: Making a line or grouping of metal spikes to come from the ground
Entrapment: The creation of metal chains to launch and bind an opponent
Steel Needles: A preference of hers for a less bloody way and quiet way to incapacitate by making steel needles as throwing weapons.
Quick Silver Whip: Her trademark technique in which she carries a vial of mercury with her to transmute into either a long spike or razor whip to kill her opponent with a flexible metal she can shape more at will than most. However, she doesn't use it often as it is mercury. Luckily alchemy allows her to control the mercury to a point to prevent it from poisoning those around, and herself, as her attacks end with her putting it back in it's container.