video | un: Mercy

[valcurie]

Hello there! ( the image that appears is of a smiling blonde woman, healthy and bright looking, dressed now in pristine weight to present herself, projecting poise and elegance and friendly invitation to hear her out. her German Swiss accent is quite strong, though, so hopefully no-one is overly attached to their w's. ) I hope everyone is doing well this evening. I am coming onto the network to reach out to anyone I might not have been able to yet. My name is Angela Ziegler, and I am a doctor from Earth. Human, as you can see. ( a light, pleasant laugh and an even more pleasant smile ) You may also know me as Mercy. It's my agent name from when I was in service to a global peacekeeping organisation known as Overwatch.

I'm from the 21st century, so the treatment that I can offer you is science based ( a slight pause here as if she's considering one last time how to phrase this ) rather than magic based, but I have a good deal of practical experience with general medicine so there's almost nothing I haven't seen or dealt with. My expertise is in applied biotics, and I also have experience with gene therapy, prosthetics, and cybernetics, if there is anyone here who may need more specialised care. My qualifications also include emergency and trauma response so, if you ever find yourself wounded and in need of immediate attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. Think of me as personal 999 for refugees!

If you do come to me for any kind of care, I promise to do the best I can help you, while upholding all the oaths I've taken as a doctor to do no harm and to protect my patients. I'm not charging anything at this time.

And, if you'd like to humour me and help me to understand our group a bit better, I have a set of questions: do you believe you have a soul? What makes you think you do or don't have one? And is such a belief common where you're from? ( she doesn't mention religion, because it isn't strictly speaking a religious idea. she's known plenty of atheists and nay-theists who thought there was something beyond intelligence that made people paramount to other species. whether they called this unique internal animating light a soul or not, it didn't really matter. )

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[valcurie]

( could it be that she's willing to do something just to help people she likes? or is that pushing it a bit. either way-- )

Be careful, Asta!
If you're any nicer to me, I might start thinking you're my friend.
And I always make sure to take care of them.

[rhygret]

True... But it'd be a lot to manage on my own. I'd need a development team to put that together for me. Too many other big fish to fry.

[ GET IT BECAUSE IN THE NEXT THREAD she orders....fish................... ]

[valcurie]

So you're telling expect a whale of a price?

( HAHa, it's pretty good... if he's prepared for sea puns now. her amusement is barely concealed. )

What with all that overhead.

[lacuscular]

[ She nods, tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear as she speaks. She couldn't agree more with what she was saying. Juvia never did well with the unknown, often being too curious for her own good.

Like now, and the way she covers her mouth in realization. Juvia recognizes that expression too quickly for her own good, and if not for her level of self control, would've stuck the feed right to her eye to get a better look at it. But she doesn't-- she waits until the moment passes and she's answered her question. ]

If you don't mind my asking, who are they??

[valcurie]

( Juvia's reaction surprises Mercy all the same, such that her eyes widen as she stares at the device in her hands for a few wordless seconds. then, almost sheepish, she brushes her hand around her ear as though she were going to put an errant bang back into place. her fingers linger around the base of it.

is it that obvious? perhaps she's getting sentimental in old age. soft, like overripened fruit. )

A friend of mine. He used to be my patient and it's been many years since I've seen him, but after awhile he wrote me letters from time to time to stay in touch.

I think he even used a quill. It's quite something. Was.

[rhygret]

[ Oh my god Mercy, this is why he loves you?? NO ONE GETS HIS PUNS BACK HOME. Not that he was making one there but he is making one now-- ]

I'm thinking something more economical. Gotta reel in those consumers you know?

[insurgent]

you can think what you want

[ maybe they're friends!! she doesn't care!!

(they're friends) ]

[valcurie]

( no no she totally gets it, it takes a certain sense of humour to understand someone who is truly punny.

of course her normal level of joking is dad-level doctor jokes, she can appreciate other kinds of humour. )

Well, it could also be efficient to cast a wider net and drag them all in. You would need some smaller fry working for you, to manage that.

[rhygret]

Plenty of fish in the sea. Someone's bound to fall for it hook line and sinker.

[ G o d I swear he's done after this. ]

[valcurie]

I see.
I certainly always do.
And I like to share it a lot.
Hopefully you don't mind too much.

[kimaris]

[ A cure isn't a laughable subject, but a weird one. He's not really interested in being fixed. It is what it is. ]

You wouldn't need to go that far. But I could use a consultation, even for my own ease of mind.

[valcurie]

( she shakes her head: this is just her doing her job. finding a cure for what was thought incurable has been just one of her many accomplishments. )

Well, we'll cross that bridge when we get it to. For now, just let me know a good time for you. My schedule is quite open at the moment.

[insurgent]

you speak well

[ she doesn't mind. ]

[valcurie]

And you speaking meaningfully.

[valcurie]

But you're not a bottom feeder, surely? You don't just settle for whatever may happen to fall to the bottom of the tank.

( probably for the best tbh. )

[insurgent]

[ oh. ]

see you soon, mercy

[ that would be thank you. ]

[lacuscular]

Oh my.. [ It probably isn't that obvious-- Juvia just has a penchant for voicing her suspicions and being a nosy person. She, at least, has enough of a filter to know not say how saucy it is that she's exchanging letters with a former patient. Exchanging anything is scandalous! She can just imagine it..

'Doctor.. I need a dose of your love STAT!!' ]

Did you have any of the letters on you when you came here, or were they back at home..?

[rhygret]

How many of these do you have??

[ Rhys is running fresh out of puns here and Mercy just keeps going?? ]

[valcurie]

Hopefully not as many silver pieces you might make.

[exonerated]

[ It's not so inaccurate; what he knows of Earth is little compared to Narnia, but he left London when he was ten years old, and when the country was in midst of a great world war. Fairytales, legends, and myths were not at the forefront of his mind, and it might never be unless he ends up reading it in a book.

But photography? He knows that, if only because he remembers a portrait of his father that he once raced with save before their house and the entirely of London were bombed by the Germans. ]

I would think that it's an incredibly difficult angle to do, unless you have a mirror or incredibly clear water.

[ Cameras in the 1940s are not that high-tech. ]

[valcurie]

( well, Angela can appreciate youthful exuberance and enthusiasm. usually it's just not about her personal life.

let alone her love life, which there purposefully has never been much of. she's always been devoted to her work--married to it, as the cliché goes. )

Yes. I actually arrived with one I received on Christmas.

[rhygret]

Well I do plan on making a lot of those.

[ $$$$$ cash register noise etc ]

[valcurie]

But we do have these devices, don't we? I'm sure there's a way to get a camera function onto them, no matter how old-fashioned they are.

Beyond that, we just need a bit of clever ingenuity. No matter what anyone may tell you, selfie sticks were a brillant move for their time.

[exonerated]

[ Old-fashioned, she says. He has to snort at that. ]

It's something that someone clever may need to look at.

I suppose a 'selfie stick' would help you — aim a camera at yourself? H— [ how, he asks, as he's pulling his device away from his face with his hand. ] Oh, I see. For a wider frame.

[revlon]

He was. But given the goings on in my world before this all happened, particularly in my line of work, it was probably better to believe the unbelievable.

Oh, yes? I have a friend who'd say the same thing, if he were awake to do so. Efforts like that never go unnoticed.