History Characters / ArknightsMedics

* SupportPartyMember: Medics are all but entirely incapable of attacking anything. While they do have an ATK stat, it governs how much healing they do per use instead.

'''Operatives:''' [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Vanguards]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Snipers]] | [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Guards]] | [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Defenders]] | [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Casters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Medics]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSupporters Supporters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]] \\
'''Factions:''' '''Rhodes Island''' | [[Characters/ArknightsReunionMovement The Reunion Movement]] | [[Characters/ArknightsOthers Miscellaneous factions & characters]]]]-]]]

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Rhodes Island: \\
[[Characters/ArknightsRhodesIsland Core Staff]] | [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Vanguards]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Snipers]] | [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Guards]] | [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Defenders]] | [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Casters]] | '''Medics''' | [[Characters/ArknightsSupporters Supporters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]] \\
[[Characters/ArknightsReunionMovement The Reunion Movement]] \\
[[Characters/ArknightsOthers Miscellaneous factions & characters]]]]-]

-> ''"I am Olivia Silence, an Originum researcher from the Rhine Lab Medical Research Institute. My hope is to rid the world of oripathy... even if it means risking my life in the process."''

* Oripathy status: infected (mild)

* RobotGirl: A truly strange example: Ptilopsis behaves like a stereotypical one, never breaking character and speaking as if she was the interface terminal to a computer (and enters "sleep mode" rather often). However, make no mistake: she is a flesh-and-blood Liberi no different from, say, Silence. It's unclear if this is just how she is, or if her oripathy is affecting her self-perception and thought patterns in some way. It doesn't interfere with her ability to work, at any rate (even if it makes conversations with her a bit odd).

* UnreliableNarrator: She narrates her own profile page. There's a few places where she's clearly embellishing a little bit and is not quite as robotic as her manner might first indicate (particularly in her final entry).

* LittleBitBeastly: More notable beyond the general fact of ''everyone'' being so in that she is identifiably a specific genus of owl -- Ptilopsis is definitely some kind of African white-faced owl, which is the genus ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptilopsis ptilopsis]]'', with her more likely being a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white-faced_owl Northern white-faced owl]].
* ShesGotLegs: Both her initial art and her Elite 2 art are posed to feature her legs fairly prominently.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: To an extreme degree -- she'll fall asleep ''while conversing with people'', and then pick up where she left off on waking up.
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[[folder: Silence]]
!! Olivia Silence
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-->'''Artist:''' [=NoriZC=]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkariKitou

* Codename: Silence

* Birthday: May 18

* Height: 154cm

A former researcher at Rhine Lab, Olivia Silence was involved in some fashion with the experiments involving the subject known as [[Characters/ArknightsCasters "Ifrit"]]; following a certain destructive incident, Silence took Ifrit into her care and brought her to Rhodes Island, which possessed the only other facilities outside of Rhine Lab capable of containing an oripathy case as seemingly severe as Ifrit's. Silence herself now works for Rhodes as a physician, doing her best to help keep Ifrit's condition stable and support the Rhodes operators in the field... and perhaps atone for the sins of her past that still seem to haunt her.

* DroneDeployer: Her major contribution to Rhodes operations -- her drone is an in-universe invention of hers that is meant to be cheap, replaceable, and easy to deploy while still being pretty effective at helping people stay on their feet. In gameplay, the drone is what makes her so effective (as it can deploy anywhere on the map, even way outside of her normal healing range) and able to keep pace even with 6* support characters.
* DubNameChange: A particularly ''odd'' example that was also adapted back into the original release. When this character was [[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/916604186791362561 first revealed]] all the way back in late 2017, she was unambiguously named "Silent", with multiple overlapping spellings (including "サイレント" in Japanese) all leaving the intended translation of 赫默 as a closed question. ''However'', once the international promotion began and once the JP voicework started coming in, the character was named "Silence", not just in English but in the Japanese voiceover too (with her introduction line quite unambiguously pronouncing her surname and callsign as "サイレン'''ス'''")... but in Chinese the hanzi of her name, 赫默, never changed. The new name/translation was ultimately adapted back into the Chinese client, with the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t0108e6bd8726941aec.jpg promo image]] of her Pioneer field work outfit referring to her as "Silence" while retaining the hanzi 赫默 spelling.
* EnemyMine: She'll work with [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Saria]] if deployed with her on an operation, but her voice lines make it absolutely clear she has an axe to grind with Saria over something that happened during their Rhine days involving Ifrit, and Silence absolutely ''will not'' let Saria "have" Ifrit.
* LittleBitBeastly: Much like Ptilopsis, she's notable beyond the general concept as she too is specifically identifiable as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_owl horned owl]] of some sort, most likely a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl great horned owl]]. She inherits a number of owl traits as a result.
* MyGreatestFailure: She had some kind of hand in Ifrit's current condition and the cryptically-named "Flame Demon Incident", which she doesn't like to discuss; what's clear is that she considers it the greatest failing of her professional career and has a responsibility to care for Ifrit as a result.
* NoodleIncident:
** Precisely what happened with Ifrit and Saria and what led her to remove Ifrit from Rhine Lab and bring her to Rhodes Island. Unlike Ifrit, Silence seems to have some idea of what was going on, [[MyGreatestFailure but generally remains tight-lipped about what it was]] aside from being something Ifrit needed to be removed from and involved biological experimentation (on Ifrit). The ''bigger'' noodle is what went down between her and Saria, as she refuses to say a word about that and simply wants Saria kept as far away from Ifrit as possible.
** Relatedly, there's also the question of just how she contracted oripathy, given that Saria ''hasn't'' done so (though Ptilopsis did too) and how Silence was more a lab bird than anything during her time at Rhine and, in theory, shouldn't have had any reason to be exposed to dangerous levels of Originium.
* ParentalSubstitute: She is, in multiple very real senses, the nearest thing Ifrit will ever have to a mother and feels deeply responsible for her. The seeming ambiguity of how Saria fits into the equation gives rise to a number of interpretations.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: She's a [[LittleBitBeastly great horned owl]], so she's supposed to be nocturnal by nature and has a habit of dozing off in general. She tries to be diurnal in order to fit in better with Rhodes Island's staff, but it can be a bit of a struggle (usually to comedic effect). Her early-stage oripathy also messes with her sleep cycle a bit, making things even harder.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: She gives her full name as "Olivia Silence", with Silence evidently being her genuine surname, and she's a quiet owl-like researcher by nature.[[note]]This was, interestingly, [[Trivia/{{Arknights}} not quite the plan originally]], as early in development she was seemingly intended to be "Olivia Hermer" with Silent/Silence as a proper CodeName. The game as shipped, though, has apparently dropped all reference to the Hermer surname.[[/note]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: It seems like she used to be on good terms with Saria. Now... not so much.

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Akari Kitou

* StevenUlyssesPerhero: She gives her full name as "Olivia Silence", with Silence evidently being her genuine surname, and she's a quiet owl-like researcher by nature.[[note]]This was, interestingly, [[Trivia/{{Arknights}} not quite the plan originally, as early in development she was seemingly intended to be "Olivia Hermer" with Silent/Silence as a proper CodeName. The game as shipped, though, has apparently dropped all reference to the Hermer surname.[[/note]]

[[Characters/ArknightsRhodesIsland Core Staff]] | [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Vanguards]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Snipers]] | [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Guards]] | [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Defenders]] | [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Casters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Medics]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSupporters Supporters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]] \\

A former researcher at Rhine Lab, Olivia Silence was involved in some fashion with the experiments involving the subject known as [[Characters/ArknightsCasters "Ifrit"]]; following a certain destructive incident, Silence took Ifrit into her care and brought her to Rhodes Island, which possessed the only other facilities outside of Rhine Lab capable of containing an oripathy case as seemingly severe as Ifrit's. Silence herself now works for Rhodes as a physician, doing her best to help keep Ifrit's condition stable... and perhaps dispel the ghosts of her past that still seem to haunt her.

%%Will do a more complete entry for Silence when I have time (or others should feel free to)

** Relatedly, there's also the question of just how she contracted oripathy, given that Saria ''hasn't''

%%Will do a more complete entry for Silence when I have time (or others should feel free to), but I wanted to get this trope in now.
* DroneDeployer: Her major contribution to Rhodes operations -- her drone is an in-universe invention of hers that is meant to be cheap, replaceable, and easy to deploy while still being pretty effective at helping people stay on their feet. In gameplay, the drone is what makes her so effective and able to keep pace even with 6* support characters.

* EnemyMine: She'll work with Saria if deployed with her on an operation, but her voice lines make it absolutely clear she has an axe to grind with Saria over something that happened during their Rhine days involving Ifrit, and Silence absolutely ''will not'' let Saria "have" Ifrit.

[[caption-width-right:300: [[labelnote: ''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']][[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_108_silent_2.png]][[/labelnote]]]]

* DubNameChange: A particularly ''odd'' example that was also adapted back into the original release. When this character was [[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/916604186791362561 first revealed]] all the way back in late 2017, she was unambiguously named "Silent", with multiple overlapping spellings (including "サイレント" in Japanese) all leaving the intended translation of 赫默 as a closed question. ''However'', once the international promotion began and once the JP voicework started coming in, the character was named "Silence", not just in English but in the Japanese voiceover too (with her introduction line quite unambiguously pronouncing her surname and callsign as "サイレン'''ス'''"). This was re-adapted back into the Chinese client as well, with the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t0108e6bd8726941aec.jpg promo image]] of her Pioneer field work outfit referring to her as "Silence" while retaining the hanzi 赫默 spelling.

* DubNameChange: A particularly ''odd'' example that also features a bit of RecursiveAdaptation. When this character was [[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/916604186791362561 first revealed]] all the way back in late 2017, she was unambiguously named "Silent", with multiple overlapping spellings (including "サイレント" in Japanese) all leaving the intended translation of 赫默 as a closed question. ''However'', once the international promotion began and once the JP voicework started coming in, the character was named "Silence", not just in English but in the Japanese voiceover too (with her introduction line quite unambiguously pronouncing her surname and callsign as "サイレン'''ス'''"). This was re-adapted back into the Chinese client as well, with the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t0108e6bd8726941aec.jpg promo image]] of her Pioneer field work outfit referring to her as "Silence" while retaining the hanzi 赫默 spelling.

* DubNameChange: A particularly ''odd'' example that also features a bit of RecursiveAdaptation. When this character was [[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/916604186791362561 first revealed]] all the way back in late 2017, she was unambiguously named "Silent", with multiple overlapping spellings (including "サイレント" in Japanese) all leaving the intended translation of 赫默 as a closed question. ''However'', once the international promotion began and once the JP voicework started coming in, the character was named "Silence", not just in English but in the Japanese voiceover too (with her introduction line quite unambiguously pronouncing her surname and callsign as "サイレン'''ス'''"). This was re-adapted back into the Chinese client as well, with the promo image of her field work skin referring to her as "Silence" while retaining the hanzi 赫默 spelling.

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