Lina Ingold
Most commonly called Doc by her fellow soldiers, she also responds to her last name just as often. As most in the military never use first names, she’s not as quick to respond to that, even when she’s with civilians. She’s always ready to give her fellow soldiers a nickname, and also has no problem giving them a hard time, and makes no fuss when they return the same to her.
Physical Description
A taller than average, extremely well muscled woman, she has obviously earned her place among the rough and tumble soldier, even with her well endowed and muscled chest. She doesn’t have any non-human traits visible, and has clean pale skin, so she just appears as a human most of the time. She is slender, but with solid muscle tone, more built for speed speed and movement than strength. Despite this look, she still has enough strength to carry all she needs to into battle.
She keeps her golden hair in an elaborate multi-layered pony tail with her bangs on either side of her face. Her nails are usually painted a golden colour, and her lips red. She likes a green eye shadow and has told higher ups that it’s just another form of camouflage, which always gets a laugh out of them. She has a pair of large golden wings, which she normally keeps hidden. If she’s out of sight of others, or needing to make an escape with a fellow soldier, she will let them out just to make it to and from areas she normally couldn’t. Before she does this, she always makes sure no one will see, even her own fellow soldiers. More than once she’s been claiming to be binding a head wound she saw when she’s really covering their eyes so they don’t see.
Physical Quirks
She seems to be constantly ready for something to happen, counting exists in her head, scanning the room to see for potential threats. Even though her last combat was 5 years ago, she still does it. She also likes to flip her bangs out of her face, even though they rarely block her view.
Clothing Style
Having always been a military girl, she loves to wear camo. Even in her casual time, it’s usually a camo tank top, and her cargo pants. She always keeps her dog tags on, and prefers proper combat boots to anything else. She’s tried to walk in high heels, but doesn’t get how someone can walk in something so unsteady. In the field, she’s usually got a pistol and a rifle along with a medical bag. She has one medical bag that she’s had since she first was assigned, and it’s her lucky bag, no one can take it from her. She never wears jewelry, even for formal occasions.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
Her parents were an American air force officer and a Swiss farm girl he met while serving. She was born and raised in Bern while her father was stationed there for a few years as a liaison to Geneva. When she was 14, he was transferred back to the US, and she asked her mom if she could go with him. She knew that Lina was always daddy’s little girl, so reluctantly agreed. As she was born to an American, she had full citizenship and when she finished her high school, she immediately enlisted in the military, using the education money to also enrol in medical school.
While her father was worried, he was also proud of her, especially when she decided she wanted to be a medic, to help the soldiers. He talked to the brass and let her know about her special abilities, and they agreed to keep it under wraps if they ever spotted it on satellite images of a combat zone. She quickly earned her way up to being a major, all while taking her doctorate in medicine and specializing in surgery. She’s proven herself as skilled a doctor as she has combatant, and she sees no conflict with her Hippocratic Oath. To her, protecting some lives means you have to take the lives of those wishing to end them, not unlike killing a virus.
Education
Having both a medical degree and military training makes her not one to mess with. She was always pushing herself in both, striving to be just as good as everyone else, if not pushing to be better. She never achieved top marks, but she was more than competent at both, and had the determination that most others lacked.
Employment
While she is a career soldier, and has since transferred to a more civilian role, working from the Reserve base in Fort Hamilton. She lives not far off base in a little apartment in Brooklyn. When she’s not working for the military, she takes shifts as an ER surgeon in the local hospital. She finds the fast pace of dealing with trauma there more at home to her than scheduled surgery.
Morality & Philosophy
She is at heart a protector and a healer, and will do whatever she can to help and protect people. Be it an animal that is hurt, or someone being bullied, she will get involved to make sure that everyone is safe, and well cared for. She knows that everyone needs a hand, and she’s more than happy to lend hers.
Personality
Motivation
She will do anything to protect and care for people, and this fits her well, since she feeds on the feeling of being safe. This has led her to being more than a little reckless at times, rushing in to make sure her fellow squad mates are cared for when under fire. When not at war, she will help pretty much anyone she can, from the smallest animal to the biggest troll. She has often been compared to both Androcles, fixing even the wildest lion’s paw, to David, standing up to the biggest Goliath. To her, it’s just another day doing what she loves.
Likes & Dislikes
She loves animals, even more than she does people, and will always stop to pet a dog or cat she sees. She also likes almost all war movies, even the ones about the darkest parts of war. She’s also a fan of buddy cop movies, as she thinks the camaraderie is awesome. She absolutely detests smoking and will snatch smokes from the mouths of her friends and squad mates, giving them a dirty look.
Virtues
Selfless and compassionate, she will do whatever she can to help those in need, even jumping into dangerous situations. She is also known for having an almost calming effect on those around her, which helps them feel safe, a bonus for her in the end. But she also can direct this at a specific person, and has been able to bring some frantic people down from panic or drug induced psychosis when working the ER. Coupled with her physical strength, she is able to keep most situations from escalating very quickly.
Vices
After years in the military, she has picked up quite a vulgar vocabulary, not really caring who hears it. She also is more than blunt, she’s downright abrasive when she’s angry, and she exerts a very dominant personality. She also has a tendency to look down on “civvies” who don’t do what she considers real work. She also spares no words for anyone who preys on those weaker than them, be it physically or socially. She is just as likely to cuss out a man hitting a woman as she is a woman hitting a man.
Quirks
She has a habit of trying to prove herself, both physically capable as well as in skill. If anyone ever questions her strength, she will challenge them to arm wrestling, and anyone who doubts her marksmanship will soon see she’s not kidding.
Values
For her, doing service to others is the highest calling, be it a doctor, nurse, soldier, cop, fireman, all the way down to the guys fixing the roads, emptying the trash and cleaning the sewers. Anyone helping make society run safely and smoothly gets her support and respect.
Sexual Style
As aggressive in bed as she is on the battlefield, she makes her desires known and does it in very blunt language. She’s not so much about seduction, as she is more looking for compatibility. If you can take her mouth, she will gladly use it on you. She’s up for anything, any time, with anyone, anywhere. She does know that wherever she does it, it must be safe, so not in actual combat, but that hasn’t stopped her from going at it while deployed. She has a special love for times when her partner and her struggle to be on top, and honestly she doesn’t care who wins, it just makes for the most passionate, rawest sex. She also likes to bed those she helps, as it only increases the feeling of safety they have, and that just leaves her double sated.
Social
Contacts & Relations
While she still keeps in contact with her mother, it’s not as often as her mother would like. She does visit her every couple of years and brings her golden flowers every time, something her mother loves, but to her mother, she knows her heart is elsewhere. Her father has since retired, and now works for a defence contractor as an advisor, and they get together at least once a month and have dinner. He is exceedingly proud of her, and makes sure she knows it, and she still looks up to him, being daddy’s little girl still. She has made a couple really good friends in the service and they will usually go out for drinks every now and then. She even acts as wing man for some of them, or will sometimes steal the girl from them for herself.
Social Aptitude
While she is very comfortable in social settings with military people, she is very uncomfortable and feels out of place with civilians, especially at formal events. She will do everything she can to avoid these, even making sure she is ‘scheduled’ in the ER when these events come up. This kind of thing has stopped her from progressing further in her military career, but she doesn’t care, she’s happy where she is.
Religious Views
While she does attend church with other military, she doesn’t really believe much of it. She does believe in a God, but she feels that God doesn’t have his hand in the mix, as it were, and that we are just going to have to fend for ourselves. She does agree with most of the morality lessons, she just feels that it’s up to us, and we need to make our own good in the world.
Mannerisms
She’s very much a military brat at heart, having the vocabulary, the attitude and the determination. Even when she’s not in uniform, it’s obvious just by the way she moves that she is military trained, and not just someone who likes the aesthetics. She is very gruff and down to earth, but also loyal and responsible. And because of that, if she befriends someone, they have someone they can always rely on.
Hobbies & Pets
She spends most of her time keeping herself sharp, between going to the shooting range, cleaning her guns, practising Judo, or picking up shifts in the ER. She also loves to watch movies when she does have free time. Her place is filled with animals she’s rescued, two dogs; a black and white mutt named Patton who was abandoned, a toy poodle named Sophie who had a broken leg she mended, and three cats, all rescued from the same litter when their mom was hit by a car, calico girls named Gina, Lola, and Betty. All her pets are just temporary, as they grow and heal, she finds them new homes that will love them.
Speech Style
She still has a bit of her Swiss accent, but with her vulgar language it can be a little jarring. She has a bit like Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat, but with an accept and a lot less civil language.
Political Affiliation & Activism
She doesn’t like the current state of politics, especially the way they bash the military and patriotism for America, and even more so that so many people she considers useless have control of what people hear about what is going on. She thinks too many people who fancy themselves intellectuals have been screwing things up for too long, and people who are willing to do what’s right for the country should be in charge. She spends most of her activism helping out stray animals, healing them, and finding them homes.