Ike Harvard

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CASE FILE: Alchemist

I'm sorry...I'm sorry I left you without telling you.
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FULL NAME:
→ Ike Harvard

AGE:
→ 26

SEX:
→ Male

BIRTH PLACE:
→ East City, Amestris

RACE:
→ Amestrian

DATE OF BIRTH:
→ 29th February (leap year day - once every four years)

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HEIGHT:
→ 179cm
WEIGHT:
→ 68kg

PICTURE:
→

Spoiler:

DEscriptION:
→ Ike is tall and slim, the typical build of someone who works out. He would appear to be an athlete of some form at first sight due to his fit and healthy appearance. He has blonde hair that is untamed and therefore sticking out at every direction and his fringe is somewhat over his eyes. He has small light brown eyes, which are usually under blue tinted shades. He has lightly tanned skin from his foreign origins. Due to regular light working out, Ike is in as good a physical condition although despite having the muscles of someone who works out about once a week, his physical strength is insane. For some reason he likes to wear the same sort of outfit every day,. A shirt untucked and with his top button undone, a bow tie, formal pants and shoes. This gives the “bartender” appearance that Ike wants for some reason. His body movement is usually quite stern. However he has taken to fancy dress recently, casually slipping on an eye patch or a pirates hat every now or then, although now actually thinks he a pirate....

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PERSONALITY:
→ On the surface, Ike is somewhat comical, adding a bit of levity to situations that are otherwise serious. He has a flippant attitude under normal circumstances and seems to like annoying his associates. He enjoys having a ‘relaxed’ attitude to his work, which can get on the nerves of others, especially the more serious people who work with him (especially since he isn’t afraid to make jokes to/about them). Although he acts carefree and stupid he's actually quite wise and perceptive and will give out good advice to those who seek it. Ike is quite the hypocrite and often gets infuriated with inefficiency or laziness from his subordinates, and this daily fiery temper is one of the reasons for people to fear him.
When it comes to serious situations, it’s obvious that Ike is committed to leading his men to success, and that's because he is a loyal person to those he believes deserve it, and also a person who will show signs of kindness to people other than his enemies. Even though he is quite the womanizer, like many others he believes that in his line of work he’ll never have the chance to meet someone who he can have a serious relationship, which indeed depresses him, although since he is young he keeps that in the back of his mind and it doesn’t bother him too much.

In recent time's Ike's had a little more worring his mind and has lost his ability to be calm and collected in the face of an adversary. Nowadays his stupid mouth and reckless impulses often cause him to make situations from bad to worse for himself. He blames his recklessness on his new job and how its a bad influence.He's distanced himself from others during his period of time where he seemingly dropped of the earth, and now will often keep secrets from thoses he usually truthful to.

Every since he became a pirate he's tryed to 'act' like one, just for the fun of it. He wasn't used to such freedom in an organization, so this new found freedom has allowed him to do more the stuff he wants resulting in usually a seemingly happy Ike.

LOVE:
→ Alcohol
Cigarettes
Tennis
Mitarashi dango (rice dumplings with a salty-sweet syrup)
Sleeping
His cat
Shuffling (A form of dance he's recently taken up)
The Pirates

HATE:
→ Non smoking areas
Big social gatherings
Having to explain things more than three times
Dogs
Warm drinks
Bananas

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HISTORY:
→ Ike was born into the Harvard family, known to be a criminal family in Amestris, who kept their activity in east city, specializing robberies and controlling most of the cities activity by fear. They were fairly successful in dealing with any other minor criminals stealing their business. Ike was in fact a youngest of three children of the main branch of the Harvard family. He had an older brother, Riley, who was the heir and an older sister, Marianne, who like Ike seemed to be destined to be in the shadows of their older sibling. Ike attended an expensive school at the demand of his father, who was a cold and ruthless man, which Riley inherited. When he wasn’t at school, he was at home being indoctrinated into the family business. From an early age Ike showed a large amount of physical strength, and was seen as a very good prospect for the future, meaning his father would train him constantly after he came back from school, leaving him no social life.

The only source of comfort was his sister Marianne, who was the only person that was kind and loving to him. She saw that Ike was being flooded with these negative ideals of their father and brother, and so took it upon herself to make sure that Ike didn’t grow up to be as cold as them. The reason she had to do it was that there mother, although kind and loving as well, wouldn’t dare do anything against her husband, and since it was her husband’s wishes that he became a cold ruthless criminal, she just stood by and watched, albeit worried.

To Ike this was all very confusing, he wanted his father to praise him, and not get the constant cold shoulder, however his sister was so kind to him, so he didn’t want to let either of them down. Although he found himself drifting towards his sister, simply because she made him happy and made him smile. So he would often spend his free time at school hang out with his older sister, and because he was a Harvard, none of the other student dared to make fun of him. It was around the age of 14 that he realized that his sister in fact hated the Harvard family, well all of them apart from Ike, and she dreamed that they would be able to move to central and live a more free life. It was also the time when he heard about the Sentini family, a large mafia family that apparently were making threats to the Harvard family, telling them to quit butting in their territory. Unbeknownst to Ike, his father had indeed set up base in central city, basically out of sheer greed. Of course Ike wasn’t bothered, none of this affected him seeing as he was still a teenager, and he was merely preparing himself for becoming a gangster. In the Harvard family that meant learning the basics of alchemy, they believed that any talented alchemists in the family would be a valuable asset. Once it came to the time for Ike to learn, it was Marianne that was told to teach him. She herself was an alchemist, but she used it to heal people and aspired to be a doctor, not a criminal.

After many weeks, it became apparent that Ike was in fact proficient in alchemy; it just came naturally to him, just like his strength only seemed to increase as he got older. It was also a great help that his teacher was the closest person to him. It all seemed that things were going to turn out for the best, when his father decided to send Marianne out to central city. Ike was against this, to say the least, yet he father refused to reconsider or to allow Ike to go as well, stating it was too dangerous for someone of actual value to the family to go. Marianne however accepted it, saying that once she was in central she may get a chance to complete her aspiration to become a doctor. She also said that she would see him again.

It was after this that Ike shaped into the person he is today. Without Marianne there, he fell into the criminal lifestyle, seeing as it was all he knew. By the time he was 21 his family had grown rapidly, now working in a strip of territory reach from East city all the way to central. They had become rivals to the famous. Ike had worked for the Harvard family but wasn’t motivated enough to good enough to get truly recognized, the main reason was that through out the years Ike really began to detest everything the Harvard family stood for, which boiled down to his father and older brother. He hadn’t seen Marianne for years, solely because of his father, hell, she hadn’t even contacted, him, no letters, no phone calls. It was all strange and confusing, yet every time he asked anyone they didn’t give a straight or consistent answer. He came to realize that if he wanted a straight answer he would have to ask he brother or his father, and since his brother was now stationed in central and Ike was still in the East, he could only ask his father. He hadn’t spoken to his father in years. He had moved out of the main household, and even though he worked for his father, he only received orders by other people, so Ike had little personal feelings for his father, that also went for the rest of his family, all except Marianne. Once asked the old man snorted stating simply that “she no longer wanted anything to do with us, so she was taken care of”. Ike froze, anger rapidly rising as he stormed out of the room, and headed for the nearest train station, so he could get his ass over to central city, ready to beat the hard facts out of his brother, with all his insane physical strength. What the old geezer said was vague, but certainly implied that he might have killed off his own daughter simply because she had decided enough was enough, but she knew too much about the “family”. He took all the money he could get his hands on and moved out to central. He got there on the same day, but had no idea where to find his brother or the rest of the Harvard gang. Ike rented out a hotel room, knowing he’d be here for a while. He couldn’t accept the idea that Marianne was dead. After about a fortnight of following leads of where the Harvard could possibly be hiding, Ike has lost some of his hope in finding answers. He went to the nearest bar and sat down, only to stand back up again when he saw a mug shot of his brother on the news, and about 5 others. They were all dead, and had been for a while, with their bodies recently found. The deaths were being treated as suspicious and it sources suggest that it was gang related. The Sentini family was the only logical conclusion Ike could come up with. He had expected sadness to fill him up, but in reality he felt a disappointed and angry that his lead on Marianne was gone. Apart from that he only felt relieved. Like a small amount of a large burden was taken off him, his terrible family was becoming more and more of a memory with every gang member killed especially Riley, his “brother”.

Ike wasn’t dumb, he quickly realised on his “prolonged holiday” to central that after the second round of suspicious killing of vaguely familiar names, that the Harvard Gang were being killed off by a bigger more well equipped gang, and Ike saw an opportunity to get rid of his past forever. He let word get around that he knew where the boss of the Harvard gang was currently hiding along with the remaining top dogs and it wasn’t before long that he received an invitation to a downtown club in central. The deal was simple, Ike told the Sentini gang where the rest of the Harvard gang higher ups where, and in return he would get excluded from their hunt, and any information they had upon Marianne Harvard would be given to him and she would also be excluded from their persecution. After some thought, the deal was made, it wasn’t as if Ike was asking for anything unreasonable. After about a week a large brown letter was sent to Ike’s hotel room. It contained copies of confidential documents which proved Marianne was alive. Somehow a year back she had changed her name and left the Harvard family for good. The new name was in here, not to mention her new address, everything Ike needed to go see his sister. A sister that he thought might have been killed by his father; instead the reality was that he moved here from the central operations, to some where more dangerous. He might not have killed her off, but sending her to a more dangerous place simply because she didn’t want to be a criminal like the rest of the family, including Ike himself. He wouldn’t like to admit it, but what he had done was the least respected thing to do amongst criminals. He had betrayed his own, however for some reason he didn’t regret it, without the Harvard family he was free to do what he wished, no longer bound to his father. It goes without say that Ike watched the news on TV every day now to see if the Sentini family acted upon Ike’s information, and he didn't have to wait long. Four days later and the Harvard manor had mysteriously caught fire the night before, and out of the 50 people inside, none were known to have survived. As expected it didn't affect Ike that much, his mother died some years back, and apart from her and Marianne he felt no feelings for those in the Harvard family, which was more of a collect term for a bunch of criminals than a true family. Now finally free from all of the other Harvard's Ike was able to breath a sigh of relief for both himself and Marianne, as they were now able to do what they wanted with their life. He never once thought about how Marianne would take to the actions he took to find her.

Ike found himself with all the stuff he needed to go find Marianne, everything apart from courage. For some reason he thought that she might not want to see him, maybe she thought that he'd died in the fire, or maybe she just never wanted to see anybody from the Harvard family again. She must have gone through a lot of trouble to get away from them. It took a long time for Ike to come to and accepted the idea of letting Marianne out of his life, maybe it was for the best, they hadn't seen each other for a long time. Anyway this is what Ike wanted, a fresh start, all ties to the past cut off, that's why he deserted the Harvard family, his family.

Ike spent the next few weeks wondering what to do with his life. He had inadvertently became very wealthy, seeing as he was the only remaining relative of the Harvard family, and so inherited all of the ill gotten cash. Not all of it was there though, the Sentini family must have taken some of it, but that wasn't important. Ike didn't fancy the idea of early retirement, and went around drifting from different jobs. He even considered being a state Alchemist or joining the military, mainly because Ike had an interest in the alchemy of one particular individual, Spade Aeries. The ability to attack the mind instead of the body was certainly unusual in the world of alchemy, and Ike decided to look into his own way of mental attack. Ike wasn't unintelligent, but he was no extreme genius like spade. He had once or twice been praised as a genius, but that was more for his composure, quick thinking, and dry wit when fighting. Therefore, Ike had to look for other ways to get into the complex being that is the human mind. Luckily his previous experience in the criminal world helped him, when one of his targets while being a criminal, had a large stash of minor Hallucinogenic drugs, which affect a person grasp on the real world. It was an obscure idea, but with research Ike came across Dissociative drugs which were exactly what Ike needed for his alchemy. They basically did the hard work for him and there were alot of different ones, which affect different signals in different ways. After further research Ike found a particular drug and began working on an alchemy circle which can simply amplify the gas so that more people would be effected. It took time, effort and money but eventually he came up with a suitable circle which did its job. The last step was getting ample supplies of the drug and its antidote. With a criminal background like Ike's it was easy for him to find someone big enough to deal alot of this certain drug. However the military caught on to all these drugs coming to Ike's living quarters and quickly began investigating. They forced entry into his newly acquired flat to find stores of the dissociative drug Ike was using in his research. The military men weren't particularly sure what drug it was, but to be sure they seized most of it, until they could get it properly tested out, they were also going to take Ike in for questioning as to why he held large quantities of a particular drug. Completely innocent Ike had no problem with telling them the truth. The word spread through out the central military that Ike Harvard was in hold of all these drugs because he was trying to create an alchemy similar in concept of Central Command head Spade Aeries. Of course some immediately underestimated him and believed he wouldn't be able to pull it off, meanwhile other soldiers believed that it was merely a lie to prove his innocence. So they decided to keep hold of the drugs for now, much to Ike's anger. So Ike tried to protest, until even Spade heard about his constant demands for his drugs back. Deciding to investigate himself, Spade, along with a squad of solders payed a visit to Ike's flat. He told Ike to show him his alchemic work so far and if it seems that Ike is using the drugs for alchemy then he would return them back to him. So Ike set off filling Spade in and before either of them were aware they were sharing ideas upon Ike's alchemic ideas. of course this was brief meeting, but both immediately acknowledged each other as someone similar, after all there were only a few alchemists who dealt with the mind as their target. Unsurprisingly the drugs were returned to Ike on spade's orders. since then they have kept in touch, not frequently, but they would often meet up and share alchemic ideas. At that point Spade was the closest thing Ike had to a friend since throughout his life he only had work partners.

Now he had alchemy and a friend, the last thing he needed was a occupation, it was getting boring lounging around in his flat, just staring at finished alchemy research. However despite wanting a job Ike could find the motivation to do the work required of these common jobs, he wanted something a little more adventurous and exciting. He wanted his old job back. Well he wanted to be a criminal again, but not for the Harvard's, this time he wanted to work for someone else. In all honesty there was one "family" you could work for and be successful. The Sentini. One problem, Ike had already run in with the Sentini, and that was to destroy his one family, to them he was a traitor who wasn't afraid of betrayal, and that made it hard to get into the family. However after alot of trying one person took him in, one person called Kidato. A rising star in the family already. Most people were surprised at this move, Kidato was already expected to be great so why would he take in someone unreliable like Ike. When confronted about it, he merely said he didn't care what he had done before, just what he did now, and funnily enough no one questioned him. Like Spade, Kidato became a close friend to Ike, and when Kidato rose to the top Ike became he right hand man. He didn't want to betray Kidato, he wasn't a man to leave his allies like the rest of the family thought. They couldn't understand his actions because they didn't know his story.

Ike enjoy a long period of stability in his life as Kidato right hand man. For a while he was bathing in the perks of leadership, having to do very little and getting a lot of money for it. He would sit back and just hang out with Kidato, with was anything but a chore. If he wasn't doing that then he was out enjoying himself. He'd indulge himself in alcohol and gambling. He'd try to get women, but he had no luck in that particular area of a bachelor's lifestyle. He'd spend some of his time with his old friend Spade Aries, who'd try to improve his luck with women, but to no avail. Despite this epic failure, Ike still regarded it as one of the greatest times of his life, just being able to relax. With such a stable lifestyle for a criminal, Ike was able to meet a veriety of interesting people, some made a bigger impact on him than others. He also found out that he has the ability to always step onany banana peels left on the floor and inevitably fall over. In fact it was that very action that started an unusual encounter. It was with a woman named Saga. She'd been simply reading a book under the stars one night and they happened to cross paths. They exchanged formalities and talked to one another. There was a sort of innocence to that conversation because Ike didn't try to pull a move on her. Anyway they continued to talk when Ike invited her out for pizza. The night didn't lead to anything more than going out for pizza, at least on a prhyiscal level. Meanwhile on another level it was a complete change around for Ike, he felt something for a girl that wasn't entirely phyiscal attraction. It was strange. It was like she was a riddle he couldn't forget, he wanted to figure her out, and it seemed she shared those sort of feelings. It could have been something great.Unfortunately, the day after that very encounter something strange began to happen. Somthing that would flip Ike's life upside down.

Ike woke up to the news that there was a police raid during the night on one of the corel Sentini gang bases last night resulting in 20 arrests and 7 casulties, all of which were criminals. It was crap news, but losing 27 men wasn't really much for them. What was crap was the news that kidato's higher ups, hadn't contacted him recently, apart from one message saying they had gone to a western base near the boarder, they mentioned that there had been some serious tip offs to the military and now every base was known to the military, bar a few. They were also confident that the identities of most of the bosses, such as Kidato and Ike, were unkown to the military, otherwise they would have been caught whilst they were asleep. Basically this ment that Kidato and Ike were the only really people with authority left in central, the others had fled to the west like cowards. In all reallity Ike and Kidato had nothing they could do but find the those cowards in the west. Althought when they got there they found somthing different, very differet and extremely bad.

They were dead. The higher ups must have been ambushed once they got here. Kidato and Ike were told this once they had been captured as well. They found the base opened the doors only to be greeted with a f**k load of guns pointing their way. They weren't the military nor were they amestrian. There dress code was obvious, they were a powerful syndicate from Aguero, trying to wipe them out. The next thing Ike knew he was shot and as he fell back everything went slient and black.

He thing he knew he was handcuffied and seemingly in some vechical on the move. It must have been a van because of the space. It was only him in the back. Hed been sumpled into the sat up postion while unconscious and now that he was awake, he hardly wanted to move his head from the bowed down position it was in. Was Kidato alive...most likely. If they were after somthing like money, the'd have to keep him alive seeing as his was the totalitarian boss of the syndicate, when he dies, the money would have probably been set to dissapear in some fashion. Ike, however, was simply the right hand man, unnecessary when they have Kidato. They were probably in Arguero now, they would probably take him to some quite area and shoot him dead before burning his corpse as they have probably done with the others. He was in a state of extreme depression, once again the place where he felt he belonged and crumbled to dust, the only difference being it wasn't his own doing. He sat there half limp, woundering if he should just let himself die. Really what did he have to live for. It was at that very moment, three familiar voices spoke to him and kick him into gear.
"You can't die!" Said the first voice, which was unmistakably Spade "You still owe me a crap ton of money"
Thanks for reminding me, Spade
The next was that of the bartender of his favourite local pub in central
"C'mon man. Don't give up yet, you've still not collected that beer on the house i owe ya. But if you do come back, will you stop singing when you get drunk?"
Not the time to be insulting my singing...
The last was of Saga who simply said
"I thought you were going to stay with me..."

Ike's eyes widened. They all given him reasons to fight, well all but Spade. He started kicking the floor hard, trying to get their attention. He ignored the pain coming from hisgun wound in his stomach. He kicked harder and harder, until the van came to a hault. They were obviously too annoyed with the racked he was making that they were going to kill him here and now. Ike hadn't plan this far ahead so when they opened the doors he took the first action that came into his head. He literally jumped out of the van straight into the two grunts, before they had time to shoot. For some reason the had been stood with one behind the other, so when Ike collided into the first one both of them fell over. It created a sort of sandwhich with Ike on top facing the other
"Sorry Guys..." He said with a malicous grin "I only like this situation when its me and two girls..." he raised his cuffied hands above his head and brought his elbows together before slamming his elbows into the first guys face, knocking him out straight away. The other guy who had too people on top of him, was getting pissed, and clasped hold of the gun he'd dropped when they'd fallen on him and shot Ike. He missed, he'd aim for the head but his his sholder instead, Ike screamed, another shot wound was the last thing he needed. He rolled over and off the pile of bodies and as the grunt tried to push off his unconscious friend, but wasn't able to finish, because ike punched him out cold. Ike crawled over to the pair looking for the key to his release. It was one the guy at the bottom who'd shot him, and with some difficultly using his teeth he freed his hands. He staggard to his feet, deciding that flee was the best option. Maybe it was to the loss of blood from his two wounds, but he just decided to run instead of taking the car. He got about twenty meters, he thought of how he was once again underestimated, two lowly grunts who didn't even know to handcuff him with his hands behind his back. He was then shot again. This time was also in the stomach area. Ike fell to his knees. He dragged himself up and carried on running. Once of those two must have recoveed and shot him, however they must have been badly concussed because they didn't shoot again. Ike was able to escape. Luck had come to his rescue.

He kept running, keeping to the road side. The three bullet wounds aching more and more after every step. He needed help if he was going to survive, unfortunately no car had passed and no town seemed near, that was until about half an hour of running, it was already dark now, so call Ike could see was the oncoming headlights of some vechical, by now Ike was slowly walking, dragging his body along. He reached out for the light of the car before falling forward onto the ground. Once again everything went black.

It was some time until Ike woke up again. When he did he felt like s**t, as if he'd been drinking 48 hours straight. He thought it was all a bad dream, until the pain of his wounds confrmed it as reality. Althoug the pain had died dow. He slowly sat u and was shocked to find himself, topless on a bed with all his wounds bandged up. He lightly patted his stomach to feel the pain, whchwas alot less a what he remembered.
He got up and seched his locaton, finding a old local doctor and his wife making tea. The hurried him to sit down and the man bombarded him with concerned questions. After this he found out that he was in a small village near the boarder, someone on their way back to the village had brought him to them and they treated his wounds. He'd been out for a long time and they told him that he'd have to stay for a few weeks to recover. Reclucantly he agreed. He needed to lie low for a while. If he returned causing trouble they'd return for him. So he stayed in the village, making friends and recovering. He stayed for three weeks before setting back off to Amestris. They gave him a lift to the nearest train station and even bought him a ticket to west city. He bid his farewell, oweing his life and alot of money to them. They told him that they call it even if he came and visited.

Ike arrived in west city once again. He was born here and now he'd come back after coming the closest to death he'd ever been. He didn't stay long. He didn't want to, in fact he didn't want to come here at all, but there was no train goign to central city amestris from Arguero. So he had to trainswap to get to central. While riding to central he thought about what he was going to do with his life, seeing as he was now jobless. Should he go straight, do some extra education and get a good job and leave a steady life? Ike thought that would be the answer, but about ten minutes after stepping into central he met Sal and his pirate crew. They weren't all there of course. The idea of being a pirate was too fun to miss and he joined once again. A simple life would have tgo wait a little longer. Ike had just returned and was a pirate.

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ALCHEMIC ABILITY:
→ He is able to alter people’s sense of sight so that what they see is actually completely opposite to what is actually reality. (The app will explain it better)

Level 2: Ike, being the type of person he is, spent some time looking futher into his alchemy and instead of looking futher into the idea of messing with the mind, he changes his focus onto the manipulation of gas. His first set of alchemy reprouced the gaseous drug by trnasmuting gases in the air, however now he's replicated explosive alchemy to create an explosion in which the smoke produced is mixed with sight altering drug. While the explosion is an attack, its mainly a distraction aswell as a propulsion for the gas.

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TRIVIA:

While he hates banana's he tends to associtate them with a good day, because whenever he's slipped on a banana peel its led to something good.

-Even though his preferred weapon is a Sword and a pistol, he is often known for using unusual items for weapons.

-As well as this Ike is proficient as hand to hand combat. He knows no elegant martial arts, just general brawling.

-He is reluctant in using his alchemy in battle, reserving it for when it’s most needed.

-He speaks Amestrian, Auregese, Xingese and Drachman

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→ Ike

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