Trauma Team Artbook Character Bio Lore
...As gleaned from running artbook scans from 2014 through a sketchy machine translation in the year 2023. I won't post the exact translations for fear of mistranslations ending up reported as fact on wikis and so on, but here's the gist of what Google Translate yields.
CR-S01
Is named Erhard Muller, a fact that already made the rounds in the 2010s
His nationality is also listed as German, though he clearly spent most of his life in America
Most of his backstory isn't anything new compared to in the games, but the artbook does provide a timeline: adopted by Professor Sartre at age 9 after his parents died, enrolled in medical school at age 12 and hailed as the youngest ever to do so, age 13 when Rosalia was adopted, age 16 when the Cumberland Institute incident happened
Erhard and Rose weren't super close siblings, but got along well enough and they had happy lives until the bioterrorism attacked
The government 100% knew Erhard wasn't the culprit when they arrested him - he was the public scapegoat because they couldn't find Albert Sartre, their real person of interest. They never stopped looking for Sartre, and S01's work to reduce his sentence was a quiet compromise for the fact that they, y'know, ruined this kid's life
After learning the truth, S01 is disappointed at his father's betrayal but also chooses to take blame for Sartre's crimes and work off his sentence rather than expose Sartre as the true culprit
Not in-game lore, but according to the concept art section he was nicknamed Chris (CRS) during development. Other people will be funnier about this than I am
Maria Torres
Has the shortest bio and the least amount of new information along with Tomoe, honestly
Born in the slums
Was already at the orphanage at age 10 when Rosalia (age 3) came there
Ended up in rehab of some kind after the orphanage fire
Hank Freebird
Also doesn't have much new compared to the game, sadly
Joined the military out of a sense of justice, left out of disillusionment following John's death and used the medical knowledge he gained in the military to become an orthopedic surgeon (not that this wasn't already implied in the game)
His bio specifically calls him out for being kinda clumsy/goofy. Poor guy
Tomoe Tachibana
Honestly the only thing that's new is a bunch of names, so this is the one time I break my rule and cite a translation directly. TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, IT'S STILL A MACHINE TRANSLATION
The only daughter of the Tachibana Zaibatsu, a global organization run by a family descended from the leader of the Koga Shinobi Army, Hisayori Tachibana.
Gabriel Cunningham
Nationality is listed as Great Britain. Surprise!
His wife Lisa left him with Joshua and went to her parents' six years before the game because she didn't like his lifestyle
Lisa was willing to get back together if Gabe was ever willing to talk to her properly, but as seen in the game he kept his distance. He and Lisa met occasionally over the next six years, but he never saw Joshua - which is of course why Joshua never recognized him in the game
His decision to go through with the divorce was about acceptance of his failings and a desire to do right by Joshua and Lisa
Naomi Kimishima
NOW WE'RE COOKING WITH BACKSTORY
All right, so that bit in Second Opinion where she took a Savato sample after cutting ties with Delphi and used it to bargain amnesty with Caduceus [Europe in the US version; US in the JP version]? Yeah, apparently she transported that sample by CARRYING IT IN HER OWN BODY for Caduceus to extract
Her fatal condition is a result of that, though it's already implied to be a result of GUILT in the game anyway. It was a sudden development a few years later, followed by Derek's six-month diagnosis
There's also details about her illness! Apparently her specific brand of PGS or whatever involves excess serotonin and dopamine production, which she needs meds to regulate.
It also means she's no longer able to operate on the living, which is why she transitions to forensic medicine as part of her plea deal
[Insert grimace here] I don't want to get too into this because this bit because 1) machine translation fears, 2) even perfectly translated it's not likely to be accurate to actual philosophy/terminology anyway, 3) I'm not a doctor I don't know what I'm talking aboutโฆ
But the bio then starts talking about pranayama and prana, defining prana as life essence and...saying Naomi lacks it because of her condition and its effect on serotonin? I'm not entirely clear on this and I'm hesitant to say anything for sure; the main thing is that they take her illness and use the concept of prana to connect that to...
Her new ability to hear the dead! Apparently Naomi reads the prana left behind in a corpse and translates it into the person's final words via her phone; the worse the damage to the corpse (e.g., skeletonization), the less prana remains and the weaker the voice she hears is
Whether any of this relates to the Healing Touch is not mentioned. IDK man
Technically this was in S01's bio, but it relates more to Naomi: Jacob Tillman originally wanted Naomi to perform his surgery and keep it secret. Naomi was already unable to perform surgery on living people at that point, though, so S01 was Plan B
Rosalia Rossellini
Admired her big brother Erhard :(
Albert Sartre
Adopted Rosalia to study the virus in her blood (that is, he already knew about it by the time he adopted her in case that's ever a timeline question)
Additional Note
If someone with actual knowledge of Japanese corrects me and anything I've written in here, absolutely believe them over me. I'm not the translation hero anyone still in this fandom in the year 2k23 deserves, I'm just the stopgap until maybe one arrives someday.
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fuck it trauma team posting. collection of various thoughts I have about CR-S01
- CR-S01โs characterization and English voice drive me up a fucking wall because of how VASTLY they differ from his appearance and vibe. Come on. Heโs got such a good setup. Emo sadboy twink with pretty eyes and a tragic backstory. Prodigal surgeon. Amnesiac prisoner accused of a horrible crime that he canโt remember if he did or not.
- And then he opens his mouth and itโs the most bland boring emotionless middle age sounding white man voice youโve ever heard. I think itโs primarily jarring because the voice sounds much much older than he is
- Also his entire character arc being โWoahโฆ what ifโฆ I saved lives???โ Is kind of bland to begin with and gets even more bland once you figure out that he didnโt even kill anyone
- For a while I didnโt understand why everyone was calling him โkidโ, since he doesnโt look particularly young compared to everyone else (though I think this is just a fault in the art style, kinda hard to differentiate ages with it). I donโt think they ever explicitly mention his age in TT but I did the math and heโs like 24. So them constantly talking about how young and skilled he is actually does make sense considering most surgeons are like 29-30 at the youngest. But this was not shown well either
- Maybe this is just fault of his sort of unclear/nonexistent personality but I do not understand WHYY he chose to continue taking the blame for Albertโs crime once he learned about what really happened. He seems to a have a lot of painful feelings towards being treated like a prisoner and a murderer so it seems bizarre that heโd choose to continue serving his sentence and doing the surgeries to lighten it just so that he could hide Albertโs involvement
- Like I get that he was fond of Albert obviously for treating him kindly when his birth parents considered him a monster but bro literally framed him and got him sentenced to 250 years in prison!!! Like the peak of your emotions towards that should not just be โdisappointedโ Erhard!!!!
- I guess the main takeaway is that he feels like suuuuch wasted potential especially since the game makes him out to be such a prominent and important character
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As this year comes to an end.....I still have a message from Dr Maruki himself and he's very happy....For some reason....
Uhhhh.....
๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฒ.
Naomi's trying her best why not just wait-
Got it
๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ค ๐ ๐จ๐.......๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ .....
Everybody be quiet.
*the tape starts and begins with static*
*BEEP*
"๐๐ฒ๐ช๐ช๐ถ."
*tape ends with static and maruki cackling like a madman and the tape ends resulting the TV being black like the void*
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐-
It seems like Maruki got his got his godhood early
All of us are fucked are we?
๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฑ๐ญ.....
Frick.
Derek don't cuss in my Christian server
We don't even have a Christian server Naomi
๐๐'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ.
Happy New Year everybody let's hope we're all alive tomorrow okay?........good.
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greetings fellow robot enthusiast. i come bearing an offering. may i have your thoughts on mr tect world flipper
(also he sounds like this. thought i should mention that)
โๆ็ตๅ
ตๅจใปใใฏใๅไธ๏ผโฆใชใใฆ่จใใใใใใฃใใใฉใใ๏ผๆใใงใชใใใ ใฃใฆใฐใ๏ผโ
โ'the ultimate weapon', tect, has arrived! ...at least, that's what i'm supposed to be, but i really don't wanna hurt anyone!โ
OH YEAH I KNOW ABOUT WORLD FLIPPER AND TECT,,, TECT IS LIKE SO HOT ITS UNFAIR ITS SUUUUUUCH A GOOD DESIGN . I LOVE THE WORLDFLIPPER ROBOTS SO MUCH ITS UNREAL BUT LIKE.
oh god worldflipper is so so so dangerous for me like I look at it every now and then when it makes a new robot thats like my new favorite design in the whole world, and have to like FIGHT MYSELF from installing it bc like. not only is it a mobile gacha game, but it is also primarily anime prettyboys/girls.. and the robots are so so so few, there would be so little payoff for me with a lot of sunken cost + like, the risk of putting myself in a gambling loop... but also Tect and Dia and regis,,, REGIS,,,
regis,,,,,
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