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Steam Name: Suttreetoadvine (Atticat shows up)
Age: Twenty One
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): Seven Years
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: 4 months
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Authorization(s):
Basic Medical knowledge and a medical license which will allow my character to conduct emergency operations like CPR and Defibrillation on site until a person can be carried back to a more permanent medical base where I can fully operate. My character will also be able to do like things like bandage up wounds and treat infections.
Name: Leuthen Suvorov
Age: Fifty Eight
Gender: Male
Affiliation: None
Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
Leuthen Suvorov was born into a wealthy Russian family. His Father was an officer who survived the initial purging of the ranks by Stalin and went on to rise through the communist hierarchy during World War II.
When Leuthen was a child his Mother would play the violin and tell him stories of Russia's history. He learned of Alexander Suvorov for whom his family contained the same name. He would stare for hours at the Baltic sea in his summer home located on the edge of St. Petersburg, listening to the beautiful music of his mother's design. These were the best years of his life.
As operation Barbarossa commenced and the German offensive moved ever closer to Moscow, Leuthen was surrounded by the wounded, the crippled, and the dying. He would stare out his window every day in agony imagining his Father coming home in a state of disrepair, or even worse - not coming home at all. When the war had ended Leuthen's Father had returned home without right arm and nearly blind eyesight - he could never fight again.
It was at this time that the Soviets were fully on the rise as Russia transformed into another state entirely. Leuthen's Father, while proud of his country, would often talk about the condition the country was in. Propaganda at every turn, banned art, controlled media etc. His Father owned some rare books that were banned by the Soviets which he would read to Leuthen on occasion.
Leuthen's Mother and Father, concerned about the Soviets and the economic upheaval occurring during the 60's, sent Leuthen away to a school in England. This was the last time he would see his family.
In England, Leuthen studied chemistry intently. He wanted to understand how the body worked and what made it tick. Leuthen was absolutely driven to attain a medical license and return home to help his country and his Father. He would sit on the beach and read literature, watching columns of light break through the vaporous clouds. He would paint the setting of the sun, with no talent mind you. And he would send letters that were never returned.
When Leuthen had finally graduated with a degree in chemistry he went home as quickly as he could, planning on attending medical school in Russia. When he returned home there was scarcely a trace of his childhood home. It became clear to him why he was sent away. Angry at the Soviets for taking his life from him, Leuthen went to the U.S.A. as fast as he could to finally attain his medical license, fearing that England was not safe from a Soviet Invasion.
When the portals began to perforate the earth after the Black Mesa Incident, Leuthen had become a competent doctor. He was not famous, he was not brilliant, but he was good at what he did and he was needed. All kinds of strange wounds had to be treated by bizzare animals and monsters that had never been seen before on earth. At times Leuthen was at an absolute loss for how to treat the victims of people poisoned by substances that had never existed on earth before. The entire medical community was in shock. Leuthen began to smoke to calm his nerves during intense operations that tested the endurance of the doctors.
This was just the beginning however, and when the Combine finally descended upon earth, the body count was colossal. The sheer number of patients overwhelmed hospitals across the world. Leuthen had to start making split second decisions on fragile operations that would control if a victim would live or die. Billions were wiped out in the seven hour war, but Leuthen had made gained a penchant for making risky decisions to save a patients life.
Leuthen got lucky and was not killed in the wars, but he was moved into a prison camp with other survivors. He was assigned a group to work with and worked as a farmer throughout the day, toiling in the hot prisms of the sun. Leuthen argued with the Combine that he was a doctor, and that he could help, but they didn't listen, nor did they care.
One day a man collapsed in a field from heatstroke and Leuthen could not forget his doctor's oath and rushed to help the man. The Combine didn't take kindly to this, and threw Leuthen into a prison cell. The amount of days, or even years that Luethen subsisted in that prison is not known. He could scarcely see the setting of light through one window behind him lined with steel bars, but he had no way to mark each cycle of the star that harbored earth in its depression of space and time.
Leuthen's psyche had been tested to its limits when one day the Combine rushed into the system of cells. They opened the door and threw a man fully garbed in Combine Officer uniform at his feet. He was conscious, but responding in gibberish.
"Fix him" Said the Combine
Leuthen replied "I need medical tools"
The Combine dragged Leuthen from his cell and brought him into a medical room filled with devices he had never even seen before. Along the wall he could see blood, and tatters of a white lab coat with a medical insignia on it. They brought the wounded officer into the room, who was now coughing up blood.
"He dies, you die"
So Leuthen got to work as fast as he could. Desperately trying to figure out how these bizarre and alien medical tools worked, he tested and trialed over and over again until he became nervously sure that he was out of preparation time. Leuthen operated with haste. But Leuthen knew not what he was operating for. He was out of time, and began to dig deep into the man's flesh, eventually finding latent shrapnel within the man's body. He isolated the procedure and dug the metal out as quickly and accurately as he could. The patient was taken to a room where he rested for days on end, Leuthen praying each day that he would not die and consequently seal Leuthen's own fate. Finally, the patient recovered.
This caught the eyes of the CCA, whom being brutally decisive in their actions, took a miniscule liking to Leuthen for his high risk tactics when operating. At this point Leuthen was 58, addicted to smoking, and suffered heart problems. He knew he could never resist the CCA and the Combine, but he hated them. He still retained memories of his family and what Soviet Russia had done to them, and he knew what a free world with literature and art was truly like. But he was older now, and wiser. Leuthen knew that it was up to younger generations to make a real difference. However, Leuthen had always remained true to his Doctor's Oath, which required him to never abandon a person in need. The road ahead of him would be one of harsh decisions in a world where the CCA write their own Oath of brutality, on citizens and doctors alike - especially ones that harbor a different code of morality altogether.
In the end, finding himself segregated by the Combine into City 45, Leuthen decided the best way for him to help the people of this world forgotten by god would be to preserve his position as a doctor and do what he could. The CCA had a habit for leaving citizens for dead when they couldn't figure something out, and he knew he might be one of the few who could save those lives.
What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
- Chance to apply to the CWU as a Doctor
- Mobile defibrillator to use in emergency situations
- Authorization to carry medical packs
- Authorization to carry medical supplies
- Authorization to operate on citizens and CCA alike when needed
- Closer ties to the CCA and citizenry alike.
Defects
- Doctor's Oath requires Leuthen to never leave a person in need without medical attention, causing conflicts with the CCA's orders.
- Leuthen needs to make risky and quick decisions that can test his morality and another person's chances at life
- Leuthen cannot risk losing his medical authorization by aiding the resistance
- Leuthen cannot save somebody at any time - the skills he can offer outside of a medical base are few
- Leuthen must often put others before himself
- Leuthen must often room with multiple people because of a lack of money from paying out of his own pocket for patients that are in poverty.
What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
I plan on using these perks to develop my character first and foremost as a doctor. My character will serve as one of the few doctors in CITY 45. I plan on applying to the CWU ASAP in order to set up a permanent medical base with ease. While Leuthen will charge low prices for his services, he can never refuse a sick patient, even if they have no money.
My character, Leuthen, will live in a state of moral conflict between obeying the CCA to retain his medical authorization and using his medical skills to aid any life in danger. Leuthen will also use high risk strategies when confronted with an injury on verge of calamity - further testing the boundaries of his morality and psychological stability.
Will anyone else need these auths? (If so, list OOC and IC name(s))
Nope.
Which server does this apply for?
City
Extra Notes (optional):
I'm not sure if portable medical packs have been banned for Doctors or not, if so just exclude them from my list of perks.
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