Post by Liz Burke on Apr 8, 2009 21:44:12 GMT
Full Name: Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Burke[/b]
Base Class/Sub Class: Health Worker/Paediatrician
Strengths:
- Advanced medical training
- Leadership ability
- Calm and reassuring attitude
- Persuasive
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Physical Description: Liz has been described once has looking as if she’d been ‘dragged through a hedge backwards’. This is partly due to her choice of her unique hairstyle and hair arrangement. Her blonde hair trails down 4 inches past her shoulders, that would be if she left it naturally fall. Instead she ties her hair around itself into a makeshift bun and pierces it with a singular pin to hold it in place. If she was one to make herself look more than what she is then she’d no doubt make her hair look stunning and a real crowd stopper, but her career driven mind tells her to leave it as it is – because hair doesn’t really make one an effective paediatrician, does it?
Liz stands roughly 5’6” on a normal day without her ‘add height with these’ shoes. With heels she can push at 5’8” and still has the balance to walk effectively. With perfect balance to her height, she weighs in at 118lbs and works out on her free weekends to keep herself healthy and in good shape.
Liz partially has hyperopia (she’s long sighted) and wears glasses when she needs them. She hates wearing glasses because she feels trapped behind them, although she tried contact lenses she resorted back to the old fashioned glasses that she was given by her optician.
Clothes wise, Liz can be old fashioned, opting to rather just throw on a t-shirt and cotton trousers when out of the hospital. But when in office hours she smartens up and has to dress to impress. She can be seen in her usual grey skirt and pink blouse, with a matching grey blazer – topped off with sturdy black heeled (permitted heels for within a hospital) shoes. Seeing Liz in her scrubs isn’t a rare occurrence either, she can be frequently seen roaming the wards in her blue scrubs ready for the operating room, it happens when you’re a children’s surgeon.
Personality: Often described as an outcast among the hospital staff, Liz is seen as the woman married to her job. Which in its own retrospect is very untrue when she’s married and has twin boys. Liz is very, very professional and hard working.
As focused as a bull seeing red, Liz cannot seem to grasp bonds and attachment to patients as some of her staff on the paediatric ward have done. She remains professional to the very end. In her career she has operated on hundreds of children, some she’s seen successfully regain strength and health and live out long happy lives, and some she’s seen die on the operating table. Although she feels sad and a touch angry that she’s lost a patient, she is able to go home at the end of her shift and take herself from her career and be the mother and wife she needs to be.
Cunning with a gift for strategy games, such as Risk and Game of Life, Liz knows how to provoke a person into jumping into the dark. She has a photographic memory and doesn’t forget a face, but with that positive she falls face for the negative and is useless with names.
Despite her docile nature, Liz, alluding to her ends justify the means philosophy, has performed several illegal moves in the past involving patients and medications. She is a avid researcher of stem cell research since a patient of hers is dying from a chronic and incurable disease, she has on several occasions defied the hospital laws and regulations and gone ahead with illegal operations which have saved a handful of children.
History: Originally from Dallas, Texas, Liz moved to Williamsburg when the post of paediatric surgeon arose. Being the singular paediatrician in the hospital they promoted her to Chief of staff on the paediatric ward, although this was assumed a long time before they made it official, she was the only paediatric surgeon in the whole building after all.
It wasn’t long after moving into the city that she caught the eye of Daniel, a local photographer. The pair courted for a few years before making it official and settling down. The pair bought a quaint suburban house in the sticks away from the busy life of the hospital and the city.
Three years down the line the family extended, twin boys, Callum and Michael. Juggling a high calling career and a family proved a difficult talk for Liz, the stress mounted and she took a leave of absence for 6 months trying to recapture the family closure that she had been slipping away from thanks to her job at the hospital.
Due to her outstanding field research in biology which she was accredited from Texas State university she was picked up by the US Military to work on their field base. They were curious about a new string of viral gene codes they had discovered. Dr. Elizabeth Burke was given full access to the virus and any documents she needed to see.
Everything began to go back as planned; she had rekindled her place in her family and now had the ideal job – although it was very secretive. Liz was taken away from her hospital and placed full time with the military – it became so serious that the soldiers began to salute her as they passed and even called her “Ma’am.” She was part of the team now.
Liz was assigned to go back to the hospital to get documents on the children she had operated on; their blood types could come in handy to the experiment she was performing on in the military base. But something went wrong.
The military begun to invade the hospital checking on patients with military doctors. Their doctors came with questions; every high profile doctor had to be questioned, twice. Liz was bypassed, they knew she was part of the military staff. Liz was told to stay at the hospital to collect the gene codes she needed then return to the base.
Things got worse.
The water stopped. Then the power to the city was shut off. The hospitals backup generators lasted a short time until they died, and along with the death of the power followed the death of many of the patients who were relying on the power of technology to keep them alive. The medical staff were sent home, the hospital filled with death. Liz tried to return to the military base but they city was in lock down, not even she could get out – not even with her high clearance badge.
On returning home Liz was met with more death, her family. The virus, however it was transmitted had gotten to them and it wasn’t long before they had ‘come back’. Confused, distraught and afraid, she headed back to the city in search for help. She found help in the form of a gang, a group of individuals banded together to survive against the ‘undead’?
From this point on she’d have to lie about who she was, and what she had done in the military laboratory.
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