Izumi Curtis

Izumi Curtis is the Elric Brothers' teacher.

Appearance
Izumi is quite short (but taller then Ed), has black/dark brown hair with dreadlock-like pieces branching off of it, blue/black eyes and a red tattoo on the left side of her collarbone, the design of which is her personal crest. Ed would later use this design to some degree, as his personal crest as well.

Background
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: in the anime she was taught by Dante, whereas in the manga she was forced to survive in the northern region surrounding Briggs Fortress for a month. 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. Sometime before the start of the series, 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 (an act that created Wrath in the anime). 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 due to her losing all of her internal organs from below her heart to above her kidneys. Izumi was thereafter able to perform alchemy without a transmutation circle, as per all who have survived attempting human transmutation.

Anime
In the anime, Izumi's attempt to revive her dead baby resulted in the birth of Homunculus Wrath, and most of the anime episodes featuring her concentrate on her attempts to make Wrath accept her. In Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, it is revealed that she died at some point of the two year gap.

Manga
In manga, State Military try to recruit Izumi, because she survived human transmutation. She escapes with her husband Sig and encounters Hohenheim, who rearranges her blood flow to ease her breathing.