Since Dark Cloud mentioned that they wanted to be a medical officer, I might make a biologist of some variety instead. The idea is had is that they're like 19-20 and just happened to be studying astro biology before getting picked by the lottery. Due to his prior knowledge of the field, he is made one of the senior crew of one of the colony ships, hence why he is woken up when things go bad. I currently have no idea what nationality to make this character. Has anyone else picked from where on Earth their character is from?
@Guccicorn Ah Hooman shooman, phooey. :P I guess if I had to be a human I'd be a medical officer.
If ur both okay with it, I think we can separate them into medical science and biology, if that makes sense. So like, Dark Cloud deals with anything to do with something wrong with a hooman; broken bones, mystery fever, healing ppl. Martian's role, then, would be more like a biologist; if the crew is exposed to like an illness or a poison or a creature or an environmental hazard, that would be martian's alley. There would be a lot of overlap, especially in the case of like sickness or exposure to something, because Martian would be dealing with like the actual substance or compound while Cloud was dealing with the symptoms of the exposure OwO It would be a similar relationship to like Rekker and My characters; Rekker would have engineering knowledge because part of the expectation of a mission pilot would be to be able to assess and deal with like minor damage/errors/malfunctions, while an engineer would have theoretical knowledge of how to operate vehicles and such because they know what all the parts do.
I like the overlap dynamic because it means we've got like ... a colour wheel of skills going on. No one character is then able to hold the party hostage, and if anyone drops out we're not like ... suddenly missing a huge skillset, or ghostpuppeting someone's character or anything. It also means characters are more free to be able to like ... work AGAIN the common good if you feel the character is in a place to explore like a conflict character arc or something OwO