Begg Garrott

Begg Garott is an alchemist who was granted immortality aboard the Advenna Avis and a drug addict. In 1932 he made drugs for the Runorata Mafia Family and helped long-time friend and fellow immortal Czeslaw Meyer from the Runoratas. In 2002 he is placed in a mental health hospital due to an overuse of drugs.

He makes a brief cameo appearance in the anime (episode 7) in which it is shown how he gets to be an immortal and later at the end concocting something (presumably drugs).

Personality
Begg is a stoic and serious individual who rarely ever smiles. Although he is immortal and does not feel the effects of his drugs anymore, Begg enjoys creating drugs to induce happiness. He himself has become addicted to the drugs he makes out of his drive to achieve happiness and his need to forget his fear of Szilard.

Begg does not trust anyone aside from his fellow immortals (with the obvious exception of Szilard Quates) and to a lesser extent the Runorata Don, Bartolo Runorata. He quit alchemy, believing that it had caused nothing but pain and turned to making drugs to induce complete happiness, heartlessly using Roy Maddock his guinea pig. He splutters his words, often pausing in his sentences after every syllable.

Despite this, he is very caring and loving to those that he considers his friends. In particular, he treats Czeslaw Meyer very kindly and sees him as family, because Begg's teacher was Czeslaw's grandfather.

However, before he gained immortality, he was very different. He was much more hyperactive, spoke very quickly without pausing for breath, and was highly dedicated to the practices of Alchemy. He spoke in a way that is almost the exact opposite of himself in the Prohibition era, speaking so fast that it was hard to tell his words apart. However during this time he was still rather devious, as he did not take responsibility for the sorrow that his drugs caused, but only for making it.

1705: The Ironic Light Orchestra
At the end, he is scene conversing with Aile, during this time he had his hair in a pony, tail. It is revealed that he was the one who was making the drug that was injected into Niki, and that he had done so under the command of Aile's father. Begg than explains to Aile that his teacher's grandson was the sole survivor of an accident that had claimed the rest of his family and that Begg was going to help Fermet raise him. Aile than silently asks if all alchemists were like Begg.

1932: Drugs and the Dominos
His story begins with a brief conversation with Maiza Avaro regarding his distribution of illegal drugs in the city, which was causing a major inconvenience. He speaks about their powers and thanks Maiza for not eating him, forcing the former alchemist to chastise the drug maker for ever thinking that way. The Martillos create a temporary truce with the Runoratta's to prevent drug trades from occurring, creating friction between Begg and Gustavo, who saw great profits in the business.

He is partly responsible for Roy Maddock and Edith's strained relationship as he was the one who forced the young man to engage in drugs of his own making, In this era, he is an associate of the Runoratta family and has been in their care for quite some time. It was eventually revealed he actually hired Czeslaw to deliver bombs to the crime family for Gustavo's nefarious intentions against the Gandors and Martillos. However, after the events of The Flying Pussyfoot Czes changes his mind and gives the bombs to Jacuzzi Splot and Nice Holystone to sell to Hollywood's Special Effects studios. He pardons Czes after meeting him sometime later, revealing familial ties with the young immortal.

He spends most of the story looking for a black bag containing his latest drugs which were stolen by Roy, eventually locating the young gangster with his lover, and threatens to kill Edith if Roy did not take his dose. Roy chooses an alternative and attempts suicide. Begg, finding no more use for the young junkie and realizing the errors of this experiment, leaves the couple to return back to his crime family.

2001 Children of the Bottle
Due to the overuse of drugs on himself it appears that he has damaged himself to the point that even his immortality cannot heal him. He has been placed in a health clinic and mumbles the name "Czeslaw" to himself. One day Maiza gives him a brief visit, and leaves just after a short conversation. Begg's nurse than remembers that some FBI agents had also come to talk to him and arrest him, but left due to his mental state. The nurse than wonders just who the patient was.

2002
Begg is mentioned in passing as one of the surviving immortals, but that he was unable to join the others due to his current state of mind.

In 2002, a vegetative Begg is kept at an unknown mental institution, having far lost his ability to speak or think after the loss of the Runoratta's mob boss. Maiza and Czes oversees his transfer and tells Maiza in a rare moment that he is grateful that he was not yet consumed by the immortal.

Czeslaw Meyer
Little Czes is a fellow immortal from the Advenna Avis. More importantly in the eyes of Begg, is that Czes is the grandson of his alchemy teacher and as such looks out for him like family. When the young boy was orphaned Begg quickly rushed to help Fermet raise the boy who is like family to him.

Though Czes grew very distrusting by the Prohibition Era timeline, Begg still remained in contact with him, and personally met with him to help him and give him moral support. To Begg, Czeslaw is someone who he holds very close to his heart and is practically a nephew to him.