“Hello, my stupid pupil... I hear you've become one of the military's dogs!”
Izumi Curtis Quotes
2 quotes from Fullmetal Alchemist, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
A housewife, she insists, and the best-drawn adult in the series. Took the Elrics as students on the condition that alchemy stays out of the state's hands, having paid for her own transmutation with organs she never got back.
“I'm a little hard of hearing, you see? So I didn't quite catch that! Maybe you'd like to repeat yourself.”
This is the Izumi moment that circulates, and it is the least interesting thing she does. The gag is a good one, delivered before a beating, and it belongs to a stock type: the terrifying teacher whose violence is played for laughs. Everything that makes her the best-drawn adult in the series, the ruined body, the refusal of state alchemy, the month on an island teaching one sentence, sits outside the clip and gets left there.
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A greeting with a charge sheet inside it. Izumi took the brothers as students on the condition that alchemy stays out of the state's hands, having done her own human transmutation and paid for it with organs she still has not got back, so the military commission is not a career move to her but a broken promise. She hits him. The hitting is affection and verdict at the same time, which is how she teaches everything.