jeredu:

@aliengeometries​ more of jade’s leg brace ;D

More of the Winter Alchemist Jade Curtiss:

1) Jade faces to run away from really fast.

2) Enemies seem to have this misconception that a handicapped alchemist CAN’T still kick their ass to the curb. You’d think they’d know better by now. 

Peony: “Damn, Jade. I’d almost forgotten how nice you clean up, since you’re always in that stuffy uniform these days.”

Jade: “Really, now. And here I thought you wouldn’t know the difference, given the way you dress.”

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More notes regarding Jade’s signature Ion Alchemy (what he’s most famous for, though his second favorite weapon is ice):

So, if anyone ever attempted to wield lightning against Jade and managed to hit his left leg, he would have a bad time of it. He’s already got nerve damage, and it would probably result in Jade unable to walk until he recovered. (He has a wheelchair, mind, but he likes being able to tower over people.) However, the likelihood of this happening is very slim.

Even though Jade published his groundbreaking work in pioneering ion alchemy, and other alchemists have found applications for it in controlled settings, very few people possess a mind capable of performing the constant snap calculations required to wield it on a battlefield. Precision is very important and the variables are constantly changing.

Even if someone tried to attack with weaponized lightning, Jade’s contingency plan is a classic: the best defense is a good offense. He would simply turn their own lightning against them and take control. 

Most of what Jade does involves manipulating surface charges between two points to create a path for electric discharge. Generating electricity is simple. Controlling it is not.  He often uses the metal end of his cane as the discharge point, but if he needs to, he can brute force a reaction by ionizing the air and turning it into plasma. Jade’s method also works just as well with natural electricity as it does with alchemically generated electricity.  

One of Jade’s favorite tactics during wartime was to arm himself with good old mother nature’s best. To onlookers, it would seem as though darkened storm clouds would appear at his beck and call.  In reality, Jade often spent the witching hour preparing the battlefield, creating massive hidden arrays (by transmuting the earth, because that much walking is out of the question) to tamper with the air currents, barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature to create conditions that would encourage formation of a thunderhead just before dawn.

Of the battle to follow, survivors would tell horror stories of how lightning seemed to rain down from the heavens, only ever striking Jade’s foes – never his allies.  They called him a demon. Jade didn’t really care what they thought of him.