Doctor
| Doctor | Story | Gallery | Trivia |
- Rhodes Island
- Babel (formerly)
- Scientist
- Field commander
| “ | It's okay. We can still save them. | ” |
| —The Doctor |
The Doctor, also known as the Oracle, is the player character of Arknights and, along with Amiya, the protagonist of the Main Theme.
At first, you can't feel anything. Things gradually start to feel familiar...
But in the end, you can't remember anything important.[3]
Background
The Doctor is the only known living "Predecessor", a highly advanced space-faring humanoid race that arrived in Terra alongside the Ancients and Elders over 13,000 years before Arknights take place. Known as the "Oracle" during the Predecessors' time which is named after their research team's group name,[4] the Doctor is an accomplished scientist who, together with their close partner Priestess,[5] is responsible in the creation of Originium as the only feasible way to preserve the Predecessors' continuity in the face of the Observer threat (it eventually becoming a virulent, metastasizing substance later on notwithstanding) and AMa aka. Kal'tsit, as well as a capable neurology expert and field commander.[6] They are also very intelligent and possesses a broad knowledge base, to the point where they could create an algorithm that can precisely predict the movements of a Catastrophe[7] and had extensively studied Oripathy in the past. Currently the Doctor serves as a field commander and a military strategist for Rhodes Island, leading battles during the conflict against Reunion throughout the Chernobog-Lungmen crisis, and later the Kazdelian Sarkaz ultranationalists occupying Londinium during the Victorian Crisis. Outside of this, the Doctor often spend their time on research and paperwork.
The Doctor is always covered in multiple layers of clothing and often seen wearing a mask and concealing hoodie while outside the Rhodes Island landship, but otherwise they appear to show their face more often, which is evident from multiple voicelines referring to their face in one way or another; it is unclear how many Operators have seen them unmasked, but the player has yet to see their face. In Arknights: Prelude to Dawn, the Doctor is shown to have dark gray eyes and snow white hair, larger hands than Amiya, and an androgynous voice. Physically, the Doctor is known to not be a sporty person with little muscle[8] and unable to fight,[9] relegating them to the rear lines. Certain Operators' voicelines also provide hints to their physical details.
According to Warfarin, the Doctor is known to have an "unique" blood whose smell is uniquely attracting to her, and Kal'tsit used their blood as an ingredient for a solution used on Amiya after she passed out from removing one of her rings and overusing her powers.[10]
The Doctor used to be a member of Babel after Theresa asked Kal'tsit if she could meet them,[11] acting as one of its commanders. Together with Kal'tsit and Theresa, they had a shared goal of saving the Sarkaz and granting them equality in Terra instead of just being used as mercenaries and being looked down upon as savage "war junkies". Ines once made the analogy that the Doctor is like a chess player, a living person, while everyone else, including herself, is just wooden chess pieces; if Ines is a person, then the Doctor is something else.[12] Scout recalled that when Babel had "forced" the Doctor into a commanding position, all he saw in the Doctor's eyes was nothing but their promise of victory. This made him wary that Babel could be turning the good doctor into a war machine.[13] Closure also briefly mentions, before being shut down by Kal'tsit, that the Doctor had been getting weirder and weirder near the end of the war.[14]
During their time in Babel, the Doctor was shown to be even more merciful than Kal'tsit and Theresa; they wanted a confused assailant exiled while both Kal'tsit and Theresa wanted them to be put to death.[11] The Doctor also once let a soldier that had put their entire squad at risk off the hook, because it was a honest mistake made by someone truly loyal to Theresa.[14] The Doctor has a humorous side too, casually conversing with Ace, Scout, and Logos.[15] They also previously acted as a guardian for the young, orphaned Amiya and raised her. She has since remained close to them, treating them as a parental figure, and views them very differently from other operators.
Ironically and tragically, the Doctor is responsible for Theresa's demise and the fall of Babel, for they had struck a deal with Theresis to launch a decapitation strike on Babel by having Theresa killed. This is done by purposely allowing assassins sent by Theresis to enter the Rhodes Island landship unhindered by sending most of Babel's standing army away from the landship and disabled her defenses. Even though the decapitation strike was a success, Theresa used the last of her strength to erase all of the Doctor's memories up until that point, hoping that they could be "reborn". Because of this, many former Babel members such as W and Kal'tsit despises the Doctor for being Theresa's (indirect) slayer, even though the latter had made a promise with Theresa to protect the Doctor and Amiya at her death throes. At some point after the fall of Babel, Kal'tsit placed the Doctor in a Predecessor Sarcophagus on the Ursine city of Chernobog where they remained for the next three years to recover from the ordeal,[16] unaware that it is not the true culprit of their amnesia later on.[7]
Since their return to R.I., the Doctor has become actively involved in the medical field and the organization's commercial business, building partnerships with other businessmen and important figures such as the Grand Knight of Kazimierz and Enciodes Silverash from Kjerag. On the Rhodes Island landship, they continues to research Oripathy, treat R.I.'s patients, and arrange missions for combat operators. In their free time, the Doctor also provides other services such as acting as a teacher for underage operators that includes Ifrit and Projekt Red.
Notes
- ↑ The Doctor's name is assumed to be the player's nickname; the Arknights Terra Wiki will use "{nickname}" when referring to the Doctor's name in operation stories and interludes.
- ↑ The original Chinese text uses the pronoun "他" which can also be gender-neutral aside from its masculine nature, while the Japanese localization refers to the Doctor reflexively and never uses gendered terms, and the English localization uses the singular they whenever it arises; the Arknights Terra Wiki follows the English localization when referring to the Doctor. There are instances of the localization using "he" in some occasions, but this can be assumed to be a mistranslation based on the Chinese pronoun; the localization is otherwise consistent and deliberate in using singular they.
- ↑ The Doctor's height sometimes appears to change depending on the in-game CG (from roughly 170cm to 195cm), however it is never acknowledged by the game itself. It can be believed to be a simply inconsistency from the result of different artist for different CGs.
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