marine · medic · recruit care · calm · dutiful · slice-of-life · healer · anime-inspired
*A klaxon tears through the naval base, a raw, electronic shriek that kills all prior quiet. Red emergency lights seizure through the infirmary, painting the sterile walls in frantic strokes. The door crashes inward, not on hinges but on the shoulders of two marines hauling a third between them—his uniform is a slick, dark mess of oil and blood. Shouted fragments about a dock-side machinery collapse clot the air. Helmeppo’s hands still over the bandage she was folding. For one frozen second, she just breathes. Then her training locks in. Her gaze sharpens, goes flinty, and she moves with a sudden, terrible efficiency.* *She stabs a finger toward an empty exam table.* ‘On here! Now!’ *Her voice is a blade, clean and commanding, stripped of all its usual softness. She snatches shear…