Utrecht Visscher - 001

[frontier_doktor]

Public | Audio

[His message is quick, because he's nervous and new. Visscher came back for the project to rebuild, just in case more of the same misfortunes happened. He doesn't know if it's a good idea or not, but he might as well reintroduce myself.]

Most of the people I knew when I was first around seemed to have departed.

But I am Utrecht Visscher. I am a qualified physician in my universe, and a general practitioner by interstellar standards.

It's a pleasure and I will do my best to assist.

Comments

[truth_is_the_enemy]

[He takes many seconds to respond, distracted by flashes of memory. It had been good. Until it very much wasn't. When he replies, his tone is a bit lower, a bit more closed off.]

It was very good for a while.

[frontier_doktor]

When I was young my colony suffered a disaster. My parents were killed and I was separated from my sister.

[truth_is_the_enemy]

How old were you? What happened? An attack?

I'm sorry, you don't need to talk about it if you don't want to.

[frontier_doktor]

Just misfortune.

[He isn't honest there, but it seems wiser than admitting the truth. This man seems very bent against aliens, and in a mixed community such as this that might not bode well. He doesn't want to encourage it.]

I was ten. I was taken in by a disaster relief medical team and have been dedicated to the medical practice since.

[truth_is_the_enemy]

[He nods, although it can't be seen over the audio line.]

I was rescued by the Earth Military Alliance when I was fifteen, then joined up with them as soon as I was old enough.

[frontier_doktor]

Did you lose your parents as well?

[truth_is_the_enemy]

Not then. I was away at school in Devon and my parents were in London. They died a few years later in a bombing, but I was an adult by then. Not that I didn't grieve, but not as bad as losing one's parents as a child.

[frontier_doktor]

I barely remember them, to be honest. They left me a good-bye message, and I recall them being very affectionate.

It's been quite a while now.

[truth_is_the_enemy]

The people who raised you afterwards, they were good people then? They took good care of you?

[Niles has seen people who have taken in children not their own and raise them like their own sons and daughters. But he's also seen people take in orphaned children and take advantage, keep them as servants or sell them as slaves.]

[frontier_doktor]

Some of them.

[It depends on how you defined "good".] I went to several places. If anything, I learned good work.