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Medbay
by AnomalousLynx
Dr. Lynx
8 years ago
A defining moment in Antak, my sangheili fancharacter's story is when he falls in battle for the first time. Ambushed by a desperate rabble of surviving human marines and crew members aboard a human carrier, he is torn to pieces by gunfire and left for dead on the hangar floor. To Antak's own horror, his humiliation and dishonour did not end there. Recovered by combat medics and clinging to life by a thread, he was put on life support while they worked to remove the shrapnel from his ripped body and staunch the bleeding in his internal organs. Faced with the ultimate shame of being forced out of the military and into a lowly civilian job, Antak took the only choice available to him and turned his iron willpower to his own recovery. Although his left arm could not be saved and had to be replaced with a bionic prosthetic, Antak amazed the doctors with the speed and completeness of his recovery. When he finally passed his fitness tests for re-entry to the military, the experience had only strengthened his faith and resolve. If he was not meant for greatness and to be the instrument of the gods, then why would they have saved him?
Being such a pivotal point in his story, I wanted to draw my take on it. There's a lot of things that I individually like about this piece, but at the same stage, I feel there are intractable flaws in the composition.
Being such a pivotal point in his story, I wanted to draw my take on it. There's a lot of things that I individually like about this piece, but at the same stage, I feel there are intractable flaws in the composition.
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"My purpose is not yet served, hence why the gods decreed me to be saved" is something you don't hear often.
It's absurd to think a warrior culture could have developed with such a millstone around its neck. To call yourself a warrior, you need worthy opponents and if an opponent is worthy, by definition, you can't expect to defeat them with ease. A culture that refuses to treat its best fighter when he gets shot in the chest with a stone-tipped arrow fighting off bandits doesn't make it out of the stone age. On that reasoning, I've consciously chosen to accept the idea that being a medic is considered a lowly post but to reinterpret the lore such that the shame of a battlefield injury would be one that ends your career as a frontline soldier (thereby knocking you out of the exalted warrior caste).
Depending on how aggressive your neighbours were, not treating your wounded would probably wipe your culture out in 1-2 generations: the first battle you win with your mad skills, but half your survivors bleed to death, the enemy heals up and comes back a year or two later, then you get wiped out. It seems too silly to countenance and would get in the way of every possible narrative you wanted to tell.