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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[insurgent]

[ she thinks of the snow-capped mountains of alderaan. do they skii there? ]

only for fun?
or is to expedite travel?

[ look, there wasn't much time for hobbies in the war. ]

[valcurie]

It depends on where you are.
Some place still have soldiers the are trained as part of a ski unit.
They do stealth missions, espionage, that kind of thing.

[insurgent]

[ man, that sounds way better than some of the dust-bowl missions she went on. ]

interesting
do you think they'll have skiing here?

[valcurie]

I am sure they at least have something like it in mountainous areas given how primitive the technology is here. I am not sure if it would snow here in the Olympia area, however. I guess we shall see when winter comes.

If we do find snow, I would be happy to teach you if you'd like to learn. There's also snowboarding. You might like that.

[insurgent]

[ i mean ]

if we ever get the chance, i'd like that
you have a varied skillset, mercy

[ colour her impressed. ]

[valcurie]

( oh my god fun au time? )

Of course! I will be on the lookout for snow snow.
Do you really think so? I think we all have hobbies. Even doctors. And heroes.

[insurgent]

[ SEE YOU ON THE SLOPES

jyn... might not have hobbies... she likes to fight. and cook, sometimes. when she was in five points, she spent hours on the holonet reading and learning. perhaps those count. ]

i don't know if i've ever had time for proper hobbies
maybe that's unusual

[ hadder always said she was weird. she believes as much. ]

[valcurie]

( well there are those things that her nametag said.

should she bring them up?

maybe. to tease. )

Surely there is something. You don't work all the time, do you?
What about romance novels?
Maybe penmanship?

[insurgent]

[ she laughs. well then. ]

penmanship, yes
appropriating property
reading
perhaps not romance

[valcurie]

( hey, part of showing respect for someone, is also giving them a hard time. who cars if you also get to have a little bit of fun? )

Is that appropriating, or reapportioning?
Hmm. Not romance.
Space pirates, then? Whatever is the space equivalent of a swashbuckler.

[insurgent]

clary said was it was giving to the poor, in a manner of speaking

[ by stealing from the rich, little miss robin hood. ]

hah! we just call them pirates

[ no need for the "space" descriptor when everything's in space. ]

[valcurie]

So you're into wealth distribution.

All right then, pirates. Do you enjoy novels about them? I would think those have some romance in them. Captain Starsinger jauntily swindling his way through the nebulae to impress his aloof lady love, who lost her heart to a blackhole. Something like that.

[insurgent]

[ she snorts. ]

i've never read a pirate novel or novels at all
but smugglers aren't so dashing in reality
they take things and people wherever they're paid to go

[ so... literal... ANYWAY. ]

i've only read manuals and news articles really

[valcurie]

That is why it's called fantasy!
People like to consume media about hospitals, even though hospitals are not actually anything as glamorous as they portray them.
I think people like to use their imagination sometimes.

You know, you may be the only person I know who actually reads manuals.

[insurgent]

i'm a realist
and real people need to know how to do things properly

[ so she's a nerd who doesn't like fantasy but pays close attention to instructions. ]

[valcurie]

( she kind of wonders if she would like whatever the space version of model trains is. )

Well, I am a doctor but I would have had a hard time if all I'd ever done is read medical papers.
Maybe that is your hobby. Learning how things work.
You don't also happen to be handy with a spanner, do you?

[insurgent]

i suppose [ re: only reading medical papers. ]

[ but oh. maybe it is her hobby. ]

i'm alright with one, actually

[valcurie]

Spend all day reading things like 'The nucleotide sequence of a 3.2 kb segment of mitochondrial maxicircle DNA from Crithidia fasciculata containing the gene for cytochrome oxidase subunit III, the N-terminal part of the apocytochrome b gene and a possible frameshift gene; further evidence for the use of unusual initiator triplets in trypanosome mitochondria' and then tell me how you feel. ( yes. she is intelligent. does she always use it for good causes? hey, a woman should be allowed to have her grudges for awful titles. )

If I need some appliances fixed, do you think you could give it a go?

[insurgent]

point taken
you know your stuff

[ mercy becomes a little more impressive every day. ]

i can fix things
for a fee

[ cheeky. ]

[valcurie]

A professional always recognises an expert. And at least hears her out.

( which is to say, in Jyn's own field of expertise, Mercy would listen to her and maybe even heed her advice. after criticism, of course, if she has it. and that doesn't preclude doubts either. )

A fee? Is that payable in silver, or in favours?

[insurgent]

any currency you have.

[ both silver and favours have value, with the latter appealing because of mercy's skills and temperament. ]

your favours may be worth more than silver.

[ out of context, she might belong in a romance novel, after all. ]

[valcurie]

Might they now? Your favour for one of mine? I may like the sound of that.

( she's teasing, of course. unseen she is laughing. )

But. My favours come free of charge for those who need them.

[insurgent]

noted

[ jyn's may also come free of charge for those who need them — and deserve them. ]

it's a deal then
whenever one of us requires a favour, that is

[ the exchange rate has been set. ]

[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.

[insurgent]

you can think what you want

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

(they're friends) ]