Better Alive

I play a game called Space Station 14 and I have a character called Proto. They are inspired off the Expie in Casualties Unknown, particularly when its working title was still Scav Prototype, after I had a particularly traumatizing death in the game. I was high off surviving a turret exploding in the face and avoiding bloodloss, took one wrong step off a cliff, and had a long tumble to land between a stalagmite and nuclear fuel. Left with nothing but broken legs. Panicked jumping would pass out. Irradiated into DNA sludge.

I felt so bad that I wish I could give them a gun to end it all.

I wanted a better ending for them, so Proto was made. They were still a unwilling test subject in some ways for having a Science affiliation towards augmenting other people's bodies and occasionally exploding or working in Engineering in dangerous conditions because they are a reliable engineer, but as of late gravitating to the survival aesthetics of security work leading to knowing that all you need to get back up is a knife, a pen, and a lighter. Which kinda inspired this image since they had a shift where the Chief Medical Officer got arrested for punching the Quarter Master, so feeling bad for a overworked medbay stepped in as an extra set of bloody hands.