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Curtis/Curtess is pronounced as "Cur-tehs", not "Cur-tihs". It's a short E sound rather than a long E, so the "te" katakana would be far more fitting than the "chi".

Martius looks like it would be pronounced as "Mar-tee-us", not "Mar-teh-us". The ti that sounds like a long E would reasonably coming from the chi which uses a long E sound.

Just because they're spelled similar in one part doesn't mean that one part is pronounced the exact same way. With English, or at least, words used in English (since English isn't universal when it comes to names or spelling), you have to look at the entire word in order to pronounce everything, you can't nitpick at one or two letters.