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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Dr. Laney Reese

Concept: ER trauma Doctor

AKA: The name on her birth certificate is actually “Lani” but she’s always gone by Laney.

Desc: 5’1” Bright eyes full of life or caffeination. Long dark hair that she normally keeps ponytailed when she’s on the clock. A cute nose that is not factory issue. She was kicked by a horse once when she was relatively little and now she has a nose that is, as she puts it. “Bionic”  Lean and relatively muscular. Hit’s that gym and still rides horses when she can. Her mother is a Phillipina and she shares some of her coloring. Heels, but only when she’s trying to impress.

History: Laney is the eldest of four siblings.  Her parents have some money. Her father is a chemical engineer and has 3 patented processes under his belt. Her Mom sells Mary Kay and is apparently scary good at it. They aren’t SUPER rich. Laney wouldn’t have gotten into the med school she wanted without her scholarship. But they were certainly upper middle class and there was the opportunity to ride and be around horses when she was young.
   Getting clocked in the face-meats was oddly what led to her being a doctor. The care she received when it took place made an impression on her and while she knows an impressive amount of jack-leg chemistry and mechanical engineering, she wanted to be a doctor.
   Dad was a little disappointed. but only a little. And so, when the time came, he sent his baby girl off to medical school. The plan was, to go into pharmacological research. But in med school, there is a certain amount of base cross training.  One rotation working in the ER, and that was all it took really. Laney couldn’t get enough of the energy of working in the ER. Pharmacology is nice and all, but Trauma surgeons were in serious demand and Laney wanted it.  Laney is smart and moreover, willing to work hard to get what she wants out of life.
   If there is a dark patch in Laney’s it is two-fold. Working in the ER even now is willing to eat up every single minute of her waking life if she lets it.  There isn’t much time for cooking or line dancing, or getting out and simply riding like she likes to do...To say nothing of how difficult it is to meet or date someone outside of the medical field.
   The other bit is that working in the ER can have a deleterious effect on your sanity. First, your sense of humor starts to turn gallows black. The hours can break a person, or cause them to make an error in judgment that can end a career or a life. or both... and last, but certainly not least. Sometimes, in the ER, you might SEE some shit. Shit, you cannot easily explain. Not to yourself. Not to anyone else. I mean, surely that dude didn’t really have fangs, right? Some dental appliance maybe? Right?

Attitude: “Ok. Stay close to me, keep an eye on the back of my neck so you’ll know which way I’m about to pivot. If you feel like you’re going to hurl, don’t try to tough it out and then do something stupid because you can’t focus. Puke right over there and come back here as soon as you’re re-composed. I need 4 hands. I need you to be two of them.”

Skills: Intellectually, she’s pretty strong. More Resolve than anything else. She might get caught flat-footed on occasion, but she recovers quick.  Decent dots in academics with specializations in chemistry, organic chemistry, and mechanical engineering. She’s got a dot or two in crafts as well. and works on her own car right to the point where her toolkit comes up short. At which point she heads over to her parent's house and her dad’s garage. Strong dots of Medicine too with a spec in Trauma medicine. and while she decries the necessity, she’s picked up a dot of politics. She might even have something like Meditative Mind to block out stimulus while she’s working. Encyclopedic Memory might be another good one for her.
   Socially, she stronger in term of presence, she’s never going to be all that good as a manipulator. She just doesn’t have the wiring for it. Her composure is about middling. she doesn’t tend to freeze or flip but it’s still possible. She’d love it if she had a bit more ice water in her veins.  Still, she’s charming and relatively affable. People like her when they get to know her and she’s easy on the eye. If she was able to get out of the hospital more, she'd have a much wider circle of friends.
Physically, She’s not a combatant really. She has been pondering taking martial arts for a long time because of her size, but she never seems to have the time. If it wasn’t for the microscopically small gym on the hospital grounds, she’d be a lump. But as it is, between that, her Fitbit, and some yoga she’s picked up. She fairly decent on the endurance side of things and her hands are as steady as a rock.

Gear: She has a beat-up (looking) z28. That she and her father have kept running like a top all these years. It’ll go pretty damn fast. She keeps a doctor bag in the trunk as long as it’s not too hot. She also keeps a stun gun in her purse. She’s had to ever since the security guard who escorts nurses and lady doctors to their cars started propositioning her. Fortunately, that prick got fired before she had to light him up.

Home: Laney shares a NICE two bedroom apartment with a girlfriend from school. Since Frieda went into Ob/Gyn, naturally she has more time off, but weirder hours. Every once in a great while they get an afternoon off together and lay out by the complex pool. It’s something of a meat market...And sometimes...There’s nothing wrong with that...exactly.

Circle: Laney knows a few dozen medical professionals and a few cops. Her social circle is, by a necessity somewhat curtailed, which is a bit of a shame as she’s an open extrovert.  She’s less active in her church than she used to be, (Taking after her mom, she’s pretty Catholic) but she still makes it for the big holidays. That totally counts. Right?

Story Uses:
“Can you understand me? Blink once for yes, twice for no and 3 times for “I don’t know”.
It is possible that you could end up waking up with Laney looking down over trying to shine a light in your eye. How the two of you proceed from there is largely down to whether or not she’s realized your pulse is not normal or non-existent. Laney, for her part, is liable to be more curious than terrified.

“And who exactly GAVE you my number?”
Most supernatural people and indeed a number of criminal professionals find the concept of going to the Hospital for ANYTHING to be anathema. but every once in a while there are problems that supernatural healing can’t get, or your discount back-alley sawbones can’t do a thing for.  In such case, You go or you try to get Laney to come to you. Which is a bit of crapshoot unless she OWES for something.


Connections:
August Ulascewitz "Treated him for a snakebite once. He flirted...which was awkward."
Officer Karl Richter "Pulled two bullets out of him. See him around every once in awhile. I wouldn't mind taking a bite of that. But he's married, and I met her and she was nice... Damnit."
Detective Marty Bennetti "No idea how that man is still alive. You should have seen the knife scar on him. Funny guy though. I remember that.
Chris Murphy "I saw him when they brought him in DOA. It's all bullshit. What they said in the papers? Bullshit!
Meredith Shaw Yes. I know her. Everybody who rides knows everyone else who rides. No. I don't like her much.
Dr. Ronnette Franklin "You didn't hear this from me. But I know Ronnie's still practicing. and on occasion, I kick her some work whenever I can. Everyone who works those insane hours in their residency uses SOMETHING to stay up and awake. Her only sin was getting caught and being black. Which is bullshit. Tell a friend. You heard it here first."
Doris Badenov  "I think he tried to kill himself. He came in here bleeding from an ugly throat wound and right up to the edge of alcohol poisoning.  We patched him up and pumped his stomach...and he came to the next day. He seemed surprised and a bit pissed. I have no idea what's going on in that man's life. But I worried when he walked out A.M.A.
Norman Cayce "Occasionally, we get some overlap with the County coroner's office. As like as not they send Norman. He's good people but I think he needs more sunlight and maybe work a bit less. Hello Kettle. By the way, did you know you were black?"

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