Zelda von Bayer
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| von Bayer, Zelda ♀ | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 15th May, 1975 (37) |
| Place of Birth | München, Germany |
| Artefact | La Sylphide |
| Player | Zelda von Bayer |
| Quincy | |
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Appearance
Zelda is a stern-looking, tall, willowy sort of woman. Standing at about 190 cm, she's an imposing figure, especially so in Japan: however, the fact that she seems to have gone gray even though she's barely above 30 combined with light blue eyes, pale skin and cold colours of her clothing, it just seems to give her the overall aura of a glacier. Immaculately dressed, immaculate hair, immaculate make-up, it will be a cold day in hell before you catch Zelda looking less than presentable. When you're unmarried and without a child, you can spare some money to splurge on the finer things in life, like designer clothes, bags, spa-treatments...
Her hair, the colour being light (almost a strange blue-hued variation of) gray, pin-straight and roughly to the middle of her back. Her bangs are styled to rest on her left temple, some of her hair pulled back and out of her way, but other than that it falls down freely. Zelda is a bit of a fan of hanging earrings, and uses them a lot. She most often wears business skirts, smart shirts, and her white doctors' coat, as well as sensible, comfty shoes.
Personality
Stern, professional, calm, cool. Zelda can be nice and caring, which is why she seems to have such a good bedside manner, but in reality her personality really is mechanic and a bit cold. Sure, she's polite, smiles, tell you there's nothing to worry, but she'd rather tell you the exact odds of the surgery and exactly how very much screwed you are. Zelda is quite headstrong when it comes down to it, and level-headed to a point where people speculate if she's really a robot. Not a lot of things unsettle her or make her balk, which is perfect for her profession.
Still, despite coming off as a cold, uncaring and oddly jaded woman, Zelda does have the genuine will to do and be good. It's why she became a doctor, and why she initially joined the convent. She wants to help, wants to make people happy, to soothe them when they're scared. She just wants people to not know of that side of her, it would ruin her credibility as a doctor as far as she sees it. It would probably help her get rid of the unfortunate moniker of "Yuki-onna-sensei" to show a little warmth, but Zelda, like noted before, is quite headstrong about her own ideas. You do as she says, when she says, and how she says, and she will have no problem with you: she expects her orders to be followed to the letter.
History
Griselda Alexandrine von Bayer was born on 15th of May in 1975, during an emergency C-section performed in a hospital in Munich. Her family is that of a minor nobility, though all they have to their name by that time was a small mansion and family heirlooms rather than noble titles (aside from your usual Lord and Lady). Ever since she was a toddler, her parents, part of the Quincy order, had been instructing Zelda on the ways of their techniques, skills, and what they knew of the beasts they hunted. Her family was also very Catholic, so what vague lore they had to teach often got mixed up with religious teachings, setting her up for a big mess in the future.
However, as Zelda grew, her parents steered the girl towards medicine, to balance out her other activity. The girl, eager to please her parents, studied, studied, and studied, and trained, trained and trained. She was a straight-A student in school, where she studied multiple languages (Including English, French and Latin, when she was on a high-enough grade) and took a running start on medschool, as it were. When she was in medschool, she seemed to have heard a calling of sorts, and with the permission from her parents, she would enter a sect of the Quincy order, a monastery of Quincy nuns after completing her edcation. At age 25, Zelda graduated, and immedietly joined the convent.
She spent the first two years as a novice in the convent, not yet sworn in. Those years went swimmingly, and she prayed, trained and assisted where needed. She then took her first temporary vows, binding her to the monastery for three years. That's when things started to unravel. While hunting alone after a Hollow, Zelda bumped into a shinigami also after the same Hollow, and attacked Zelda. She, announcing that she was on God's errand to send this evil creature to hell, was quickly defeated by the far more skilled shinigami, who then proceeded to rant at her. She wasn't sending it to hell, she was destroying it completely. And that evil creature was a soul of a human who had not passed on, and unlike the Quincy, the shinigami would purify it and send it where it belonged in afterlife.
It was the first crack across the surface of Zelda's faith. Shaken, beaten and throughly disturbed, Zelda sought an audience with the abbess of the convent. The older woman was more angry that the young lady had made contact with a shinigami and didn't kill it, and refused to address the speech of the shinigami as anything more than lies and blasphemy. Zelda was told to forget it and continue her routine, but somehow, she just couldn't. She started to take missions by herself, in hopes of meeting another shinigami and ask more questions. Over the next three years, she met with several, and talked with them. They all said the same thing, finally breaking Zelda. Everything she had been taught, from childhood to this day, it was all a lie? There was no benevolent God, there was no Heaven, but there was a Hell of sorts, and there was an afterlife? Zelda felt betrayed, decieved, and realized the only thing that had not lied to her was medicine.
After her initial vows, Zelda left the monastery instead of taking permanent vows. She left the church, and at age 30, she abandoned the Quincy order. She took her first job as a resident in a small clinic in the Alps in Switzerland, then joined Doctors Without Borders. She spent a good year in the clinic before going to Chechenya in 2007 and spending half a year there, then after two months being back in Switzerland, she went to spend six months in Columbia. It was here that she acquired her smoking habit.
Zelda returned to Switzerland in late 2008, and back to the clinic. Working there until late 2009, she became a licensed physician at age 34. The close proximity to her home, and especially the convent, made Zelda's skin crawl and she had to get away. So she applied for a position in a small clinic in a small Japanese city, and after traveling back and forth between two countries and studying the language for about half a year, Zelda was hired and she moved to Japan under working visa. The small city, Okumichi, seemed to have an alarmingly high amount of spiritual movement, but as long as it did not interfere directly with her work, Zelda couldn't care less. She left the order, let go of her training and became a doctor, after all.
Combat
Strengths
Unflinching - She's seen a lot in her time, so not a lot of things make her loose her cool on the field.
Doctor - Though a relatively fresh doctor, Zelda is still good at what she does.
Polyglot - Zelda, out of both curiosity and necessity, speaks multiple languages, thus making communication rather easy for her.
Weaknesses
Smoker - Zelda smokes a lot of cigarettes (on a cigarette holder, she is a lady after all). After coming to Japan, she has started smoking a kiseru, and kizami-tobacco on her free time. This means she might not be in the best of shape.
Jaded - After all she's been through, she really can't seem to muster enough caring to jump into the whole spiritual-thing again.
Her way or the highway - While she herself hates to be bossed around, she's quick to boss other people around and tell them what to do. And she really doesn't like it if she's not obeyed: she is not very good at being flexible.
