If You Need a Doctor, I'll Examine Every Inch of You [Phys Evals; Open]

[meat_mooks]

Ever since the medical briefing on the comms, the medical bay staff has been preparing for an influx of appointments for physical evaluations, as well as a few walk-ins. After that, the hunt will be on for those who've been skipping such appointments.

A few of the staff members are going about their regular duties, expecting patients or simply biding time at the coffee machine until they're called on.

[OOC: please state the name of which med character(s) you want to administer the evaluation in the header to your comment. If you're fine with anyone tagging in, please indicate so. Available characters are Sakura, Howard, Dr. Faiza Hussain, Soren and Dr. Carson Beckett.]

Comments

[17thangel]

"I was told that if I stayed here I'd have a shot at whatever it was that supposedly blew up my home. That sounds kind of like a war to me and I'm glad to take swings at things like that."

[encourage]

"The Ohm," Sakura said with a nod. "If that gets into another discussion, but yes. We've had a few direct confrontations with them so far. You'll have your chance in the future. In the meantime?"

Sakura smiled, looking up from her datapad. "We'll help make sure you're healthy enough to take that swing when it's the time for it. I think I've got most the generals we need, unless there's any other condition you feel should be discussed."

[17thangel]

"Not that I can think of. Honestly I've really just been worried about keeping my Seibzehn in good shape. Its the only semi regular thing I know here."

[encourage]

"Your Seibzehn?" Sakura sounded her way slowly through the unfamiliar word. Must be some sort of proper noun.

[17thangel]

"Large blue combat gear that my father built for me. We've been together since I was a little girl."

[encourage]

She nodded, glad that there was something of home for the other woman to hold on to. "Something you found in the armory, or somewhere else? I'm glad you have it, either way."

[17thangel]

"Seibzehn was waiting for me in the hangar. We're linked so I honestly don't know what I'd do without."

[encourage]

"Linked? What do you mean?" Sakura wondered if it was going to need to be on file. Some connections to outside people or objects had to be by their very nature.

[17thangel]

"Neural linkage. I think the nanomachines in my blood are what cause the link. Its been that way since the experiments when I was little, its why I don't have any ether control."

[encourage]

"I'm afraid I'm not familiar with ether. That has to do with what, exactly?" More noteworthy abnormalities to keep track of, even if by sheer absence alone?

[17thangel]

"Oh, a lot of families including mine can do things... Some of the peasants called it magic and such, but it was just fine control of ether in the air. Doc used it to heal wounds, Elly used it to channel elements. Some of it can be pretty impressive in the hands of a master."

[encourage]

It was close enough in theory to natural chakras in the world that Sakura only nodded, filing the information away as trivia to review some other day. "I imagine it can be. Is anyone else on ship awake and from your world, as far as you know?"

[17thangel]

Maria pauses for a while before looking down and shaking her head.

"No, apparently I have a lot of avenging to do."

[encourage]

"There's nothing to avenge. Don't even think of things like that."

There was an element of steel in Sakura's voice at those words. Vengeance did nothing more than destroy the people who chose to embrace it. For a new awakee to attempt that kind of life?

It sat too close to her own experiences. Sakura didn't like it at all.

[17thangel]

"If they destroyed the city I'm from and protected... There kind of is."

[encourage]

"No. Vengeance brings nothing back. It leads to a path of darkness you can't escape from, with no end, because even when everything you want dead finally is, it's left you with nothing. Fight for justice, if you must. Fight for the slim chance we get everything back. But if you claim to fight for revenge, then there will be no end to that battle."

[17thangel]

"I really just want the people who killed my mother and who turned my father into a monster I had to kill to protect what few friends I had never be able to do that again. And being robbed of that... The robbers need to hurt."

Maria deflates and looks down shaking her head.

[encourage]

It wasn't something Sakura could accept. Not with the personal examples of that mindset in her life, with people she loved destroying themselves for a fault idea of vengeance. "Robbers deserve to be stopped, put on trial, and held accountable for their actions. Hurting them won't give you back what you want. Hurting them won't make you feel better, if you think it will right now."

Because it never undid what had happened. If people didn't start learning that now... it was that much more hollow after the fact.

[17thangel]

"Trial? The people who did that to my family were the most powerful government on my world. The one we were at war with. Those people don't go on trial, and they're not stopped until someone stops them for good. Not that that's ever happened in thousands of years of control."

[encourage]

"Looks like the Ohm stopped them for you." She crossed her arms. "And getting them back for one upping you at a game you sound like you were preparing to lose won't bring your family back, or create any idea of justice. You don't get justice from the dead."

[17thangel]

"No, I wasn't preparing to loose. We actually got our hands on a few working omnigears and were going to fix it. I've never seen justice work, and I can't believe in it, but that doesn't mean I can't try and get rid of the people who do those things.... Well... Now it does. Now I don't even have my old duty as guardian of Shevat. I guess its all pointless anyways."