[quote=@Prince of Seraphs] Some of this stuff sort of bothers me. I was wondering if you could clarify. It sort of impacts how Sapphire'll take this information. From my limited research (Hari might know more) a Peace Corps seems to be a type of relief unit that works in war torn areas to help the country recover. From what I can tell they wouldn't be active in countries they're homeland was currently at war with (sort of counter productive). Assuming this is the Faunus Civil Rights Wars we're talking about I'm not sure how to reconcile that cause the Faunus were at war with all four kingdoms. If the Doc was a faunus then shouldn't she just have been part of the war effort and (as I'm pretty sure is the case) if she's human then why were resources being wasted to help faunus recover? Even after the war the heads of administration wouldn't have had any particular caring for wounded faunus and during the war it seems to me that letting enemy combatants die would be preferable to using your own utilities to save their lives. Regarding her involvement in the White Fang, up until five years ago they were a non violent protest group. You've stated she got out before that happened so presumably she worked with them before they radicalized. This would have been a time when everyone was still pretty discriminator so why would a faunus protest group welcome a human doctor. More importantly what exactly would a doctor's purpose in a protest group be? [/quote] This doctor is a faunas, and the significance of her being part of a peace corps is that she specifically is not on any specific side of the conflict, and will offer aid to anyone who requires it. Admittedly I may be wrong on many aspect of what a peace corps can or actually does in real life, as I'm basing it off what I was told by some people I've met. The information I'm using comes from two people I've met, sponsor for my mother and father when they left Laos/Thailand during the Vietnam war, and another who was a doctor during the same Vietnam war. Mainly the doctor. The doctor was stationed in Laos during the Vietnam War and was not there with any military, but was with an organization who from what I remembered, operated much like a Peace Corps in that they go to war torn areas and try to assist everyone they can, be they natives caught in the crossfire, the Vietnamese, or Americans. While they were an American based organization, they were under no obligation to deny treatment for any soldier they came across, communist or otherwise. Granted, the same doctor did tell me that they did prioritize wounded American Soldiers first, then natives who were fleeing or otherwise not part of any military operations, and then communist Vietnamese forces. Additionally, many staff the doctor worked with were also native Vietnamese, or at least Americanized ones. There were a few native Vietnamese as well, but from what I was told they were only there as translators. I talked to that doctor for my highschool report about the elderly, because he was around 60 or 70 years old and my parents knew him because he goes to a church of another old person who sponsored my parents when they came to America. As you can imagine, when you take people who don't know how to speak English but really want to get away from that whole war nonsense happening back in their country/distressingly nearby, they'll need some help from kindly people. The church had many well educated and rich people (As noted as one of their members was a doctor), they funded missionaries and such to head over to the area for humanitarian aid, and well as bringing back refugees to settle in America. My mother and father technically left before America started sending troops over, but they were allowed an early entry as my Grandfather's brothers and some of their sons were being trained by the Americans to help assist in the effort against the communist Vietnamese, i.e. become guerilla fighters. But that's getting off point. Now how this all applies to the doc, I took many creative liberties with. For starters, I don't know the exact nature of this Faunas Civil Rights War, so I don't know if it was particularly violent or if any nation in particular was being an aggressor. From what I can tell in RWBY, Faunas are found in all countries, and don't originate in any one in particular. I have suspicions that Vacuo has the most/most immigrated from there and Atlus or an organization based there started the oppression, but I have no proof of that. Anyways, the doctor was a faunas who as I mentioned, offered medical services to whomever, and it just so happens that soldiers working under Gren's father sought her aid. Being a faunas herself, after the war was over she continued to help, albeit narrowed her focus particularly about faunas who were involved in that war. This somewhat mirrors the doctor whom I had interviewed for my highschool report, because even after America had withdrawn soldiers from Vietnam and neighboring areas, he continued offering humanitarian aid to the locals, and when he came back to America helped my family and other refugees. He did not simply return to being a general practitioner to all citizens (Not that he wouldn't if they came to his office), but specifically advertised his service for refugees from the Vietnam War. Now I should note that for one, I am not Vietnamese. I'm actually Hmong. And there were a lot more than just Hmong people who came to America during the war, and that doctor helped pretty much all and any he could handle as far as I could tell. The reason I'm mentioning that because another part of my report I had written was the misconception that the Vietnam War was "just" between American and the Vietnamese, and that "race" was a lot more than just "Asian". In the instance of the doc Gren is referring too, not all the patience she treated were just faunas. I imagine, that like any war, it's more complicated then two perfectly identical sides slugging it out. I'm sure there were some faunas who fought against the faunas working for their civil rights, just as many as humans fighting for Faunas rights. The doctor I mentioned was, personally, pro-faunas rights, but she did not let her political beliefs stop her from providing relief to whomever needed it. It was only after the war was over that she started to narrow her interest and eventually became part of the White Fang, who were more focused on the rights of Faunas then simply providing aid to whomever. The doctor joined the White Fang because they were a political group that at the time, saw a lot of faunas who would like or need the benefits of equal service rights would provide. In this hypothetical instance, if the doctor simply returned to being a regular medical practitioner, most of her patients would be humans who have the money or insurances for her services, as oppose to the many faunas that she personally wants to help. So instead of doing that, she joined the White Fang as a way to try and find these faunas and offer her services at a much more affordable price, funded by the White Fang of course, because if she works with them to offer medical aid, then more faunas would join the White Fang to get medical aid, instead of ignoring the White Fang due to apathy or something. Though as Gren mentioned in the internal monologue, the doctor's interests was entirely humane, and once the White Fang showed hints of becoming a terrorist organization, she left. She wanted to help the faunas recover, not help them start a new war. It's one of the reasons she holds a lot of disgust at Gren since he was one of the people she had helped facilitate into becoming a murderous terrorist, which she feels is a corruption of her ability. She had saved Gren so he wouldn't die, and then he'll go home and try not to get into any more trouble. Instead he used the cybernetics the White Fang had stolen (At the time she did not know they were stolen, though she had her suspicions) that she had given to him so he could live, to become a weapon to kill even more people. It's a classic "My peaceful invention has become a tool for war" type of thing. TL;DR - She was a doctor in the Faunas War for Civil Rights to help people hurt by war, joined the White Fang for political belief, left because she didn't want to be associated with an violent organization.