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Canon: Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Character: Michaela “BERTHA” Schneider
Character Age: 34

History:
Short bio
U.S.S. Storyline

Personality:
“Call me BERTHA, ready to play.”

That one line says it all, doesn’t it? The almost light tone, a glimpse of sadistic humor. Yeah, Bertha is a lot of things. Maybe she’s a sadist, maybe she’s carefree and playful… okay, just playful, but she’s reliable. She’s worth her weight in salt, after all, even if she lacks the ability to reintegrate into civilization and live a normal life. She’s dangerous, but she isn’t a menace to society. She’s just… not normal.

She’s a trained medic. A military field medic, actually. One who is well known for her ability to heal and cause pain. To bring someone to the brink of death and back again. She’s the kind of woman who has taken the time to study the limits to pain people have. She has studied the way the human body reacts to every situation, every hardship. She knows her own limits far better than anyone else will ever know. And she’s very good at guessing how much a person can take before she even offers to heal them. And in truth, Bertha might not even care if someone lives or dies. They’re just another casualty. People die, and that is the way of life.

However, for the sake of the situation she and her team are in, she may not actively heal her partners (as in jumping in every time they’re cut or bruised or shot), but she does seem to be able to magically produce that one extra First Aid spray to get them back on their feet. And then demand them to stay still as she “fixes you good.”

She is a medic, after all, and her job is to heal. How she chooses to heal is up to her digression, and might be ethically questionable. After all, one of the reasons she chose to work with Umbrella was due in part to them telling her anesthetics were considered optional. Thus they gave her freedom to administer her own form of care as she desired, supposedly without the same consequences that would be encountered in the civilian world (i.e. lawsuits, license revoked, prison time). But at least she takes care of her patients. And proclaims “Bertha fix you up good.”

And that line in and of itself is a glimpse at her eerily sadistic humor. Truly, she does exhibit a disregard for the normal codes of contact between persons, even going so far as to mock Nicolai and the remains of his team. While the mission is in effect she cares only for getting it done, and little else about whatever stumbles across their path. And the aggression she shows when confronted with the U.S. Spec Ops could be just a hint at a love for violence, not just inflicting pain in general.

Given that it is briefly mentioned that she once worked as a torturer for hire, her past might come into question. What type of woman enjoys delivering pain on such a level as to render her victims to a near death state- and yet turns around and is a medic? And just maybe it calls her loyalty in to question. How can one know for sure that she won’t turn around and use the interesting torture techniques she’s learned and use them on her partners? As for how she came up with these techniques- which are never described in detail, and one must assume they are indeed horrific- one must simply look to her knowledge in human anatomy. It is said that she has "developed certain interrogation techniques that enable her to cause immense agony in her subjects, but without killing them.” And so it is free to say that she can repeat the process as many times as she likes until she has found what she is looking for. Or what her employer is looking for.

It is possible that, having spent enough time as a member of the Wolfpack- a part of the Umbrella Secret Service- to develop something along the lines of loyalty, even though it does not seem too much of a stretch to make her “playful” jibes at Lupo’s authority if the situation was right. But that does not mean she isn’t willing to put a bullet into the head of her teammates. Or hack their heads off, as that seems to be a preference. If they go rogue, she will punish them for doing so. It is just the way she is. And being that she is fully capable of attacking and defending herself, it is unlikely that she would simply stand on the sidelines and wait for someone to shoot her in the belly before she is ordered to strike back. Oh no, Bertha will return fire instantly or worse.

But on a more amusing note, Bertha is quick to state what she cannot handle and what she finds exciting. For instance, she does make the comment that she is terrible with technology in the form of computers. And, perhaps, cell phones as well? If she lives long enough to see them progress into the smart phones of today’s standards. And, when given the mission to extract a NE-α parasite, she compares the mission to surgery and exclaims that it’s exciting. It can be seen as either hint at her humor or real feelings over the mission. Which… well, is only a little disturbing.

Abilities:

Passive abilities:

First Aid Proficiency – This ability allows Bertha to increase her capacity of First Aid Sprays. This means that she is allowed to carry a maximum of four on her person at all times- or at least when she has them.

Field Medic – This allows Bertha to restore an additional percentage of her own health when using a Green Herb or First Aid Spray. Basically her healing rate has increased to a maximum of 50% more when healing herself with the above items.

Active abilities:

Stimpack – This is a specialized hypo gun that increases the accuracy and movement speed of Bertha or anyone else she uses it on. It only lasts for roughly 15 seconds and she can only carry three stimpacks.

Neutralize Infection – This is a hypo gun that can cure T-virus infectees or deal damage to those who have gone past the point of no return. The damage moves from heavy to light.
Painkiller – This is a hypo gun that reduces the amount of damage dealt to Bertha or a person of her choosing. This ability only lasts for ten seconds and can reduce up to 90% of damage.

Other abilities:

Bertha is a trained field medic with military background. Thus she is able to hold her own in close quarters combat, use a multitude of weaponry from standard issue

Canon point: Post kill Leon ending. Surviving teammate was Lupo, killed VECTOR and Four Eyes.


First person sample:

[It would not surprise her if one day Umbrella brought about some apocalypse, what with the pseudo-apocalypse that took place in Raccoon City. The one she survived after killing that cop, that girl... and, well, taking the Birkin girl with her and her remaining team. But such thoughts were better left tucked away into a deep dark place in the back of her mind. She had survived a living hell. A nightmare.

And it had been fun.

There was nothing more enjoyable than really being able to go out there and kick ass. Slaughtering innumerable annoyances that Four Eyes considered either failures or perfect examples of the strengths of the T-virus. Well, whatever that girl thought Bertha didn't really linger on either. They were very different in their approach to the situation.

However, this was unexpected.

The blonde woman narrowed her gaze as she looked up at the hotel through a slightly blue tinted haze. Well, the blue of her gas mask's lenses. This was terribly unexpected. Umbrella didn't pay for vacations and she didn't recall exactly what drove her here. And this wasn't a mission, right? She couldn't exactly here the shuffling of feet or anything.

She could vaguely, vaguely recall receiving a message about a hotel. Did she make a reservation? Downtime at this place, but why bring all of this mess? She glanced briefly at her bloodied uniform, the congealed blood almost shimmering in the daylight. Whatever the case may be she knew her answers lay beyond the doors. Best not to keep anyone waiting.]

It will not be some trick, I hope.

[And if it was, well, she would deal with it. Right? She was Michalea Schneider, and she could deal with anything thrown at her. Well, almost. She was just a medic after all.]

Third person sample:
It was over. She knew it. He knew it. Bertha could see it in his eyes and she hadn't even looked to the auburn haired woman named Claire. All that mattered in this moment was that she was going to put a bullet through Leon Scott Kennedy's head and end him once and for all. After what he had done to her, to her teammates, he deserved nothing more than this. To die a thousand times over as slowly as possible. And it wasn't just him, it was Command too. But her loyalties had been strained, torn even. They would never mend. But that could come later. Those problems were problems that could and would wait.

Right now, it was over.

Bertha took in a deep breath. Her chest rose and fell steadily, not giving away signs of the pain in her chest, her side, her arm. Areas that had been wounded over and over again through out the mission. Areas that she had treated again and again. Her adrenaline was finally crashing, but somehow remaining steady. Just steady enough. She hardly shook as she tightened her grip on the 9 mm handgun. It's muzzle pressed into the blond man's temple.

There were no goodbyes. No sirens going on. No SPEC OPS running to the rescue. This was it.

Her finger pressed down on the trigger with one explosive little sound.