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]

I take it you're a man who can really respect styled, pulled back hair. ( said so very smoothly and with a straight face, but there's still edge of humour in there somewhere. really, how could she not notice the care he put into his own hair? and the idea of using hair gel herself? she nearly laughed at that. ) The tighter, the better, is it?

Or do you just like it weighted down and trussed into a pleasing shape? I know that kind of thing can be satisfying to look at.

[rhygret]

[ "The tighter the better" "weighted down and trussed into a pleasing shape" "satisfying to look at"

PHRASING, MERCY. ]

I...y-yeah, like that.

[ My god. Rhys can't tell if she's doing this on purpose to tease him, if she doesn't realize she's doing it, or if the very...open culture of this place is getting to him. ]

[valcurie]

( the inner machinations of her mind are an enigma.

she is a very mature scientist, after all. )

Mmmhmm. Good to know.

But tell, me, Rhys, doesn't the smell bother you?

[rhygret]

The...smell?

[ That comes out of left field for him and Rhys finds himself temporarily lost in their conversation. What smell? ]

[valcurie]

Of all those products.

( unseen once again, she gestures. this one is running her hands through her wonderful clean and scent-free hair. )

[rhygret]

Ohhhh! Oh. Hmm...not really? It doesn't smell weird to me.

[ Rhys doesn't wear obnoxious cologne or anything like that and although Giovanni's nose certainly picks up the scent of his many products, to the average person's nose he just smells like men's shampoo with a bit of hair gel mixed in. It's not too obtrusive.

Or if it is no one's told him. ]

[valcurie]

Hmm. I suppose you wouldn't use it, if you didn't like it. Unless you're really committed to suffering for your appearance. Pain is beauty, and so on.

( a pause as she considers. she hums a bit more. ) Well. If I ever do need an expert in haircare, may I count on you?

[rhygret]

For sure. I'm not exactly up on what's new and trending in Olympia as far as woman's hair care goes but I think I could pull something together if you needed a few recommendations.

[ FINGERGUNS.

Only he doesn't do them because this is a voice call. They're verbal fingerguns. ]

Happy to help raise the style points of any and all wayward inter-dimensionals.

[valcurie]

Well, I expect nothing less from an expert.

( what a loser.

she absolutely love them, if she could see them. )

Perhaps another business idea? People do seem to like points and ranking systems.

[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.

[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?

[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]

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. )

[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.

[rhygret]

Well I do plan on making a lot of those.

[ $$$$$ cash register noise etc ]