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Name: Sylvie Gutierrez, Registered Nurse

Gender: Female, straight

Age/DOB: 24 when she met Joe Caine (one year younger than he is)

Origin World: Twoarth, Skinside Talon City California

Family: Both parents alive, two younger sisters

Other: Is going to marry Joeseph Caine when they both have the time and money and maybe dragons

Height: / Build: 5'6" / she can say she's 'curvy', though she's still reasonably petite, gains and loses weight based on stress levels and amount of work she's doing without having a proper meal

Hair: Very dark brown, slightly wavy, thick; generally comes to her shoulders and a little past, and is almost always found either in tails or tucked into a professional bun as shown

Eyes: Emerald green, though when the light hits them they can look more golden or hazel from the flecks of those shades in the iris; almond shaped, very pretty

Appearance: Tan skin indicative of her Filipino family line, she has a broad face with a flat and broad nose. She carries herself with confidence born of an emergency-room-nursing degree, if she's heading through a place you will step aside. She has a high and clear voice, and does know how to curse in about 15 different languages thanks to the internationality of the Talon City emergency medical locale... She prefers wearing simple sandals or flats, but will put on work boots, rubber soled medical shoes, and whatever else is needed to get the job done. Sylvie has what many people call a 'trustworthy bearing'.

Genetic Abilities: None really clear beyond her self-confidence and precise quick mind

Skills or Profession: Sylvie is finally a graduated Registered Nurse with a specialty in Emergency Room technology and triage. With that in mind she has done rounds during her internship in basically all Medical Center facilities including pharmacy and radiology, though she prefers to work with the triage and emergency center she can be called over to virtually any other form of medicine and know the basics of how to help out. She has extensive record-keeping practice, and her notations and instructions are absolutely clear when she writes them out, her penmanship is amazing. She can call out codes and meaningful abbreviations to those who know them, loudly, from across an emergency scene when she does take a turn on a medical transport unit. In her personal life, she enjoys relaxing but also being stylish when she does so. Sylvie's historical knowledge is strong, particularly where it concerns the Philipine islands and their history, invasions and the like, and puts this to use when she sees the same gang-related tattoos on subsequent days or weeks worth of intake at the emergency room: she knows who is fighting and who might be fighting back.

Personality: Though she is a person you'd want to pay attention to in the emergency room or during any kind of medical trip, Sylvie also likes to just sit back and watch sometimes. Her mind will go to this-or-that oh that's a clever use of a knot or that's a bad scar I bet I know how he got it. She doesn't dwell on morbid things, however, and while her family has a long history in the medical industry (with her mother and aunt both being in the pediatric care center, and at least one uncle a decorated field doctor for the Marines) they have always tried not to talk shop at the dinner table. Particularly when there are guests - have you eaten? Are you going to have more we've got a ton more lumpia you have to try it.

Events or History: The eldest of three girls, in a large family - she has at least three uncles and four aunties living in Talon City, and their families as well. She was not just the first-born, she has always been able to keep up with the older cousins and even the younger of her aunties in terms of education, skill level, and gregarious nature. Even as a very young child, Sylvie loved watching documentaries about medicine or anthropology (both skin and fur sided), medical dramas (though she laughs at all the parts where they start gettin' busy in the break room), and gritty looks at the life of detectives and other social workers. She doesn't idolize any given actor or show, and prioritizes learning from real people rather than just 'watching along'.

She got stellar grades in school up through her senior year in Talon's technical-centric high school, and continued to do so in pre-med, undergraduate studies, and finally graduate school in medicine. She knows she could become a surgeon or other such elbow-deep type, but prefers to help smooth things out before that point, for everyone else doing the nitty-gritty medicine. Sylvie tempers her knowledge and research about diseases and injuries with the reality that not everyone is going to be presenting the same, not every disease is as likely as the next. But she did catch a very-early sign of an airborne disease thanks to listening to that strange cough at the beach-side tiki drinks bar. That man and his wife got extremely sick, but thankfully the hundreds of others potentially exposed were given preventitive inhalers just in case because she knew how quick it would spread.

Awarded by the CDC for that effort, Sylvie had already been known as the go-getter and highly knowledgeable nurse on hand even when she was an intern. It was also while she was an intern that she met Joe - who had put on such a brave face, smudged with ash and grease and grit from the... road rash didn't exactly cover it, he hadn't been the thing on the road, but the truck that tipped over onto his leg sure was.

Looking back at that moment for either of them produces both painful and joyous memories: he was in bad shape, she helped get him out and stabilized and made sure that he was doing his physical therapy later - and they both knew that they wanted to see each other after or outside of this messy recovery period. They're a good match, Joe Caine and Sylvie. A fire fighter on a squad that had the first dragons working with a government agency (or close enough), and an up and coming nurse with the heart of gold. They like their down time together now, for sure.

Sylvie likes beating him at air hockey, and he always claims that his leg twinges that's why he lost... even if they're both seated... She loves him dearly. He is a great role model and has a good future on the fire station's roster. Same with her, some of the places he has had to help extinguish brought injured people right to her own emergency room doorstep. Joe trusts her in that he's not jealous or intrusive when she's tending patients. She has that way with them, a sweet but frank expression explaining just what the doctor will be doing, or a heartfelt regret for not being able to save one or another in a disaster. To Joe's knowledge, no one has ever blamed Sylvie for a patient's death, because she's never been responsible for such, and they both know that she's in a position where that might eventually occur.

But for now, Joe has found his dragon, that beautiful rosy red Crystal court one. And apparently, he's going back to where he hatched, Ryslen, to try and win a mating flight?

"Isn't that a little personal?" Sylvie asked as she packed up, prepared for whatever weather might be at this odd place with the 'red sands'. "I mean, I remember seeing a bunch of dragons flying over the beach that one time?"

"Oh my god I remember that," Joe laughed, "two greens and what was it like six?-"

"Eight!" Sylvie added, "Eight suitors, no waiting. I saw plenty of 'concerned parents' covering their kids' eyes on the boardwalk that day!"

Well it wouldn't be like that where they were going, though if the dragons preferred to be in private, she was positive they'd find a way to sneak into the break room...

(dragon)

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