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Angela "Mercy" Ziegler ([personal profile] valcurie) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2017-08-06 09:02 pm

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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. )
shashka: (ghostdad genes dominate)

[personal profile] shashka 2017-08-14 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, I agree.

[ if nothing else, while he wasn't a scientist, he'd like to consider himself a solid skeptic. miracles, after all, weren't something that happened. if you dug deep enough, almost everything could eventually be explained by magic. ]

He was definitely a capable spy as well. Most of our soldiers were. But he had a way of being able to tell exactly what was going on across the battlefield as it happened. And, when he channeled spirits, they said that his voice changed in ways that wouldn't be easily imitable.

And to top it off, he really had no benefit in fashioning himself as a fake psychic. Soviet commanders didn't take kindly to frauds.

[ to... say the least. and, one more thing... ]

My first CO also had the ability to shoot electricity from his hands.
shashka: (senpai notice me)

[personal profile] shashka 2017-08-20 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...interesting is one way to describe his version of Earth. what with parasites, AI's in their infancy, and nanomachines that might one day control how people think.

it's a regular barrel of fun. ]


Not that the records showed. But, who knows for sure?

[ he says it lightly enough, clearly with a sense of humour. and then, a pause. ]

I don't think so. He just had something of a natural gift for it. The only thing I've ever seen nuclear waste do is make someone infertile.

[ and even that didn't stop him from having kids. ]