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high-voltage-rat · 1 day ago

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Here's the thing about pre-reset!Ravyn. They wanted to be in pediatrics when they got into medicine. They looked up to the doctor who took care of them when they were critically ill as a kid, and wanted to do the same. They wanted to be the kind, reassuring doctor with a bottle of bubbles hanging off their lanyard to blow for the kids who were scared, trapped in a hospital, facing the unknown and painful. But then they found they liked neuro, that they were good at surgery, and then conflicts with alien forces started flaring up at the edge of quadrant, and the need for pediatric neurologists was far outstripped by the need for adult emergency neurosurgeons, and they found themself in an SDF M.A.S.H. camp treating combat injuries like an assembly line of horror. Because they were too good at it to be "wasted" anywhere else- because that's where everyone told them they were needed the most.

So when they eventually end up at G.E.A.R.S. for much the same reason, side by side with people barely out of their teens- and then going to war against the Shadowscythe together... I think their ideal of pediatrics gets carried on, a little bit. They're looking at all these students who are of age, but still kids in all the ways that matter- kids who are scared, trapped in a war, facing the unknown and painful... and they're trying hard to take them under their wing. To be the doctor blowing bubbles, to encourage them to be lighthearted, and to spare what little is left of their youth. It's why they establish a such strong bond with the Reliant crew, why they take on TA positions and hold long office hours that too often turn into counseling sessions, why they take on more than their fair share of the fighting on missions, why they're constantly trying to lift everyone's spirits by making the kind of wisecracks we see from the canon hero.

Because from the very beginning, they wanted to work with kids. And this is the closest they got.

#pondificating on my oc at 3am don't mind me #I think this is another reason why they click so well with sys-zero though. similar protectiveness and mentoring of the crew #mechquest: here's a throwaway bit about the hero being a trained neurologist in the hospital questline!#me: great! I'm going to make an oc who's so tragically messed up out of this one! and also try to add medical accuracy to your lore!#oc: ravyn #mechquest #ali plays ae #late nights with ali #fun fact: before they got sick little ravyn wanted to be a hero like their dad. who died serving in the SDF.#they don't remember this fact. their mom hated the idea and discouraged them from ever setting foot in or interacting with a mecha #so much so that they only ever piloted one for the first time when fighting shadowscythe at their m.a.s.h. camp #as an adult they have little knowledge of their father because their mom didn't talk about him. to discourage them from being like him #ravyn's mom is a whole other can of worms actually. messed up story there too I've decided #but yeah. anyway. ravyn and their young classmates make me scream cry throw up etc etc #amongst everything else forcing the students to grow up *fast* to step into their combat boots. there's ray telling them they can be kids #they should be young and dumb and do stupid stuff like the 19 year olds they are. and ray will fight to make sure they can #ravyn watching G.E.A.R.S. students fight shadowscythe: they should be at the club right now

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