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"Bad Days"

"Erhard...? What's going on, it's two in the morning!"

"I.... Celeste, I..."

"Something happened... I thought I did everything right... but it still happened... I.... I can't talk about it. I don't WANT to..."

"What can I do?"

"Just... just let me do this...."

"Oh Eri..."

"Just... let me hold onto you for awhile..."

"Of course I can..."

"Thank you..."

"I'll always have you're back... you know that right?"

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There's pressure with being a teen doctor... with being a prodigy...

There's also realities, that one so young will face before he's ready...

And when you have a night where you're worst case scenario happens for the first time?

You go running to the first place you know... even if you're exhausted.

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You ever wonder how CR-S01 feels about his prison number?

Like, I know we all nickname him CR, his real name is Erhard Muller. You ever think he questions why no one told him his real name? He had to be in the system, they'd be able to match his medical records if they were making sure he wasn't infected... and his father was well known, we know for a fact CR was *living bait*.

Was this just to dehumanize him further?

Another twisted punishment for a crime, a boy of 16 years old couldn't have done on that scale?

And no one at Resurgam calls him it. They only refer to him as Kid, Doctor, or "You" if your name is Maria. Even Esha calls him "Kiddo", (which I love that?) which says they outright refused to use it. Maybe officially, when introducing him to his patients, but I don't picture them using it casually.

Maybe Gabe shortened it to CR at some point, so CR was used to it as a nickname, but when he remembered everything...

I can't help but picture how much *relief* he must've had rush over him, when he realized he had a name.

He had a full name.

Erhard Muller.

Erhard

Muller.

Not CR-S01.

Not "murderer"

Not "Kid"

Erhard Muller.

Dr. Erhard Muller.

And then once again, realizing even THAT was stolen... and unncessarily too.

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Seriously, they're starting to scare me now.

Like, with all this carrying on, for almost three weeks, not comprehending it was their behavior that made us dislike them, in the first place. They're salty they're called an ableist, well maybe don't say vile shit like "That VA sounds autistic" and demand "gentle non harmful criticisms" or maybe just DON'T FUCKING STALK PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY SICK!? Dude gave me a migraine that lasted 3 days, which is about as bad as triggering an allergic reaction in someone deliberately. It's getting scary, how they refuse to see that they're in the wrong... or worse, that their so called friends are enabling this, when this is clearly the sign of a bigger symptom here. to obsess this much, over something that isn't real. If his friends are enabling this and coddling this meltdown and encouraging it, then they're bad friends, because likely they think it's funny to watch him crash out.

I'm sure since bro is stalking this account, he'll convince himself, that somehow I'm being ableist, but if they are genuinely, that sick that they carry on like this, they need to go to a doctor, not brag online that they're refusing treatment, becaause this is unacceptable and frankly, I don't imagine it feels great living like this if he's sick.

I don't think any of us were out of line, for pointing out the very simple fact of, "Defending telling someone to kill themselves, under any circumstances is wrong" and instead of admitting, maybe that is something that they shouldn't have made their hill to die on, they decided to carry on and double down and insist "See, SEE!!!" and bragging about how long he spent on this obsession to the unhealthy degree also doesn't help his case, that if this is so important, he hears he's been causing actual harm and still goes "THIS IS FOR MY ANGIE, I'M DOING IT FOR HER" then that's someone who genuinely will never get better OR is refusing to see this as symptoms and owning up to it. They also like to make a lot of false claims about BPD and saying that since 'splitting is uncontrollable' that it somehow absolves of actions, when accountability is something real support forms talk about. The *real* BPD community says "Splitting isn't your fault but making up for what you did during it is"

That's what makes me question everything he says, because the misinformation he spews, has nothing to do with the reality of the condition and apparently at this point, refusing to move the fuck on. If he had just deleted that first post, went "my bad, sorry" and carried on with just posting art, then we'd all have let it go. Instead, dude tripled down, posted 'vent art' made it clear he's stalking people and instead of taking a step back to reread everything he's posted and go "Gee, I'm the one in the wrong here" he's reading over it all as a manifesto

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Genuinely, I'm sick today, because of the nonstop stalking, from that asshole, who won't leave me alone and still insisting that apparently, it's not a symptom to treat, but 100% entitled, to crash out nonstop over a fictional character, while harassing and stalking a woman with actual health issues and anxiety. Thanks for making it so I have to take 6 pills of different kinds of meds just to sit quietly and not feel like throwing up or having sound hurt.

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2013 vs 2025

I thought it'd be fun to do an "evolution of my OC" from base design to current self.

And to do that we're going to use Celeste and her past self from like over ten years ago lol

So, this is her OG design.... I was trying to go for as far as I remember back then, a "Shakira in Hips don't lie" vibe and her old name was Luna, her backstory wasn't that different tbh. Because fandom information was not what it was currently, CR-S01's backstory was not translated from the artbook past his name, so we were all just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. Luna was shipped with CR-S01, but I kind of just quietly dropped this OC.

Fast forward to 2025 and I don't give a singular flying FUCK about what people think or say about me or my OC's and I decide, fuck it, I'm bringing my baby back in a new AU

That included a new name, a new backstory and a mother fuckin GLOW UP.

Now, childhood friends with Erhard to highschool/med school sweethearts, to separated by fate... and Celeste, motivated by proving that he never did anything wrong, became a badass attorney, determined to prove his innocence and fight for her man.

It's been such a joy and frankly, so healing to bring back my old OC's and give them new life, in various forms, from Lorelei over in TMNT, Mila in SRMTHFG to Lucas, my wandering boy who will have a thousand dads at this point and it's been a delight, to make new OC's alongside them.

So yeah, this is just fun and wanted to go "HOLY DIFFERENCES BATMAN"

The closest her current self will ever get as a nod to her past is that orange dress design lol

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Got a horrible migraine today

I blame the stress from being stalked for the last week or so... Chronic migraine flareups suck but the stress of that doens't help.

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SARTRE KNEW ROSIE HAD THE VIRUS

BRO

BROOOOOOOOOOO

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 about…

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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Resurgam ahoy! And incoming best friend!!!

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Everyone sees the genius prodigy doctor. The man who supposedly committed a horrible crime that cost the lives of many. The surgeon with nerves of steel.

When in the end, deep down…

I’m still the scared teenager who wanted to so badly scream “I didn’t do it! I’m innocent!”

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Sometimes people pretend you’re the bad one. And it hurts, because you actually cared. You start questioning yourself, wondering if they’re right. But remember this, they say it only to avoid feeling guilty for the bad things they did to you.

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"Eri, it hurts..."

"I know... Just keep this right here. It'll help..."

"It'll get better right?"

"This won't be forever... In a few days, you'll feel like yourself again..."

"And then we do this all again in a month.... This SUCKS!!!!"

Celeste was unfortunately for her... a bit of a late bloomer so when certain AHEM curses showed up for her, the pain was pretty rough.

At least she had Erhard to have her back. The perk of having a prodigy on your side.

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Day 3212 Tomoe Tachibana

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And yes, I'm not gonna make you guys wait to see the kiddo's. I have a backlog of this AU and there is a LOT of stuff and lore.

So, after these two finally were able to settle down... Life decided to bless them pretty quickly. Their first born Mariele was born first, she's a little diva like her mom, a girly girl who loves nothing more then being a little princess. She's a sunbeam to her mom's supernova energy.

Their youngest was born about 2 years later, Donovan Muller. Donovan is a sweet kid, but a little timid, like his dad at that age.

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"I was lost, till I found you... now these songs will hold and hide you're name... but it was all about you... "

A family... a hope...

A life...

Things Erhard, could never have imagined for himself... and with the one who never gave up on him all these years...

A chance to do better then his biological father did... a chance to do right by his family.

No one's inheriting his problems. Not if he can help it.

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"I need that for Class!"

"Mm… Nah! I'm keeping it!"

"I'm not kidding!"

"There's spares, I'm sure!"

(Two hours later, Albert would be struggling not to laugh as his son realized, that it's not a coincidence the pretty girl down the road, suddenly was taking little trophies. From one of his jackets to this.

"My son… You realize, that means she's taken a shine to you?"

"… Celeste?! She does?!"

"Is it that much of a surprise, she's developed a little crush?"

"…."

"My son?"

"… Ohmigewdness…")

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"Genius at Rest"

I like to think CR-S01 as a teenager was a nerd. There was this struggle, between being a normal kid, who liked movies and games and being this wicked smart prodigy, attending med school while the rest of his peers were in highschool.

Studying while gaming, trying to find that work-life balance... and sometimes, being very tired.