Post by Nommyuks on Apr 25, 2016 9:32:15 GMT
 | [PTabbedContent=Florence Nightingale Berserker][PTab=Status] Parameters
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[PTab=Profile] Character Details 1 Height / Weight : 165cm/54kg Source : Historical Home Region : Europe Alignment : Lawful Good Gender : Female Personality Contrary to the conventional Berserker, Florence Nightingale appears rather sane and normal. That is to the say, she isn’t howling around and causing mass destruction everywhere she goes. Instead, she possesses a personality akin to her title as a nurse and “The Lady with the Lamp”. Gentle, charming, and endearing, she holds a soothing and warm air around her along with a composed smile. Her words tender and crisp, they are often laced with sentimentality fitting for someone who devoted her life to facilitating others. Cautious in her choice of words to ensure no offense, the sweet eloquence that accompanies her speech reflects her upper class heritage and position as a prolific writer. Although a woman who preferred the company of men over women most of the time, her graceful femininity never necessarily expired itself. However, that is merely looking at it from a modern perspective, but during her times she would have been described as a bit of an eccentric woman. Strong-headed and determined, the Founder of Modern Nursing defied society’s expectations of a traditional woman, obtaining superlative sagacity and retaining chastity despite her mother’s insistence in marrying her off. Though she has the character of a sweetheart and dainty flower, the idea of shackling herself as a pitiful housewife offended her tremendously and she often aimed to go against it. It is without saying that due to her independent and self-driven nature, she became an example for women during and after her time. Unfortunately, all of these traits first have to be discovered by those that can stomach her severe nature, often carrying a stern expression. Of course, Nightingale, at the end of the day, is still a Berserker and is not completely free of her madness. Hers in particular is more conditional and mainly comes into play as an exaggeration of her severity regarding saving or improving lives and health. The effects of mad enhancement leaves her completely focused and single-minded when it comes to her goals as a result, leaving her awfully stubborn and dense to anything that attempts to impede her. In other words, she fails to take other peoples’ opinions and feelings into consideration. This mean that she can uptake brutal or uncomfortable procedures while having a straight face on. The extent that she is willing to go to save a life, literally to do anything is what reflects her insanity the most. As a result, she can become quite the health-crazed note and go around invading people’s privacy with her ideals about health, safety, and well-being. Light-hearted examples would be spraying people with disinfectants or refreshers, babysitting those that have less than mature personalities, forcing her concern over those that have even the slightest of wounds, barging into people’s quarters to ensure their safety and that they are sleeping cleanly and comfortably, and so forth. Of course, in this state, her assertiveness is indeed increased tenfold. The idea of an “angel” basically melts away from the harsher reality of the effects of war and misery inflicted upon a veteran. Instead, that tender and warmth soothing because an unwanted and overly aggressive form of tough love. As a Berserker, she will come to reflect more masculine traits than feminine, which is a tremendous contrast to her usual personality and can leave people rather conflicted in their overall opinion about her. In the end, due to herself, people will come to fear Berserkers for something else besides their nosiness and destructive tendencies. As previously mention, Nightingale retains vigorous feelings in regards to the position of a woman due to the culture in her times. Back then, women were expected to remain more so at home and simply dream of becoming married to a wealthy man and living the rest of their lives as his housewife. Certainly enough, her mother reflected this idea of a woman and this left the two of them often at odds at one another. This opinion reflects in how she often refers to herself in a masculine tone, calling herself a "man" at times. Surely enough, even if she may come off as an effeminate person normally, it is often more so that she has a greater backbone than most men. Having gotten use to seeing vulnerable men and even carry some like they were dainty princesses, the appeal of manliness has degraded for her. Instead, she values men more so for how puissant and prominent they are... given the lack of strong female figures in her time. Nevertheless, it is not uncommon to see Nightingale taking charge and performing heroic and courageous acts before men could. There also needs to be mention of how oblivious and dense she could be, especially to more feminine aspects of character. Given her religiousness and self-proposed duty in life issued by God, she can be awfully dull to men attempting to court her or woo her. This also comes into play with her humbleness in believing that what she does is a standard that ought to be followed by everyone, so one complimenting her for her qualities would often get a severe reply. Her overall obliviousness can also lead to a variety of odd circumstances too. Although not inexperienced in domestic activities such as cooking, cleaning, washing, mothering, and so forth, her desire to not conform to the societal expectations at the time can have her doing further odd activities. Indeed raised in a higher social standing, it would be rather queer for her to choose more casual outfits due to their comfort or ease in movement… such as a mere t-shirt or shorts. Not to mention how she could prefer suits or tuxedos over ever feminine dresses and skirts. Speaking of femininity, Nightingale would also be ignorant if she were to charm an individual with her qualities. Evidently, even with her exposure to many people as a nurse, it can be said that she can still come off as rather socially awkward. This can make her “ladylike” in a rather complicated sense. The bluntness of her speech paired with the “one woman army” tenacity she holds can often drive people from wanting to get close to her. In the end, however, her obliviousness at times can make her come off as rather silly—often misunderstanding peoples’ intentions and further adding to the idea that she is one that doesn’t really listen to other people or talks to herself instead. Early Life The nurse had been born in Florence, Tuscany on May 12th, 1820 as the 2nd daughter to the affluent William Edward and Frances Nightingale. At an early age she proved to be notably sagacious, getting taught by her father in a variety of topics, particularly excelling at mathematics and a variety of languages. She particularly busied herself more so in intellectual and severe political and social discussions with her father than the domestic skills that her mother attempted to teach. If not adding to her remarkableness even further, then the young girl had also expeditiously found herself performing philanthropic activities in her neighborhood at Embley Park. By the time she had reached 16, she had already believed nursing to reduce human suffering to be her divine path chosen by God himself. Alas, given the negative outlook on nurses as bitter and casual drunkards who poorly performed their duties at the time, her parents believed, along with the low economic pay with the job, that it was a waste for her to pursue such a career. So, they vehemently protested and continued to try to get her to conform to the traditional aspects of a woman. Certainly enough, the Berserker was known to be rather slender and resplendent, getting many suitors but rejecting them. She did fancy one in particular and found him both intellectually and romantically stimulating, however felt that to pursue love or marriage would hamper her dreams in becoming a nurse. Thusly, continuing to resist her families’ nagging, she eventually got herself enrolled at the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth, graduating as a recognized nurse in less than four months. Thankfully, if there was anything that she could benefit from her high-class family, then it would have to be there connections. Such connections left her able to become the superintendent of the Institution for Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances, in London, where she successfully displayed her skills as an administrator by improving nursing care, working conditions, and efficiency of the hospital. Though, while she was considering the idea of joining into an institution that would allow her to teach nurse instead, a war would come around the corner that would alter her future plans into a far more politically based one. The Crimean War. Crimean War Nightingale’s fame and essential role in history stems from her involvement in the Crimean War. Yet again with her connections, she had found herself as a profound friend with the British Secretary of State at War at the time, Sidney Herbert. Thanks to the British journalist, William Howard Russell, reporting the status of the care of the wounded to the London Times, the citizens of Britain were in an uproar about the maltreatment or inadequate care of their soldiers. Coincidentally, both Sidney and Florence had written letters to one another regarding the situation that inevitably asked for her getting deployed to handle the situation. Naturally, the offer went through. Leading a brigade of 38 women, the party left and arrived in Scutari at Barrack Hospital. Naturally, the impoverished condition of the facilities and building was palpable the moment they arrived there. However, they had yet to see the worse of it until injured soldiers from the Battle of Balaklava and the Battle of Inkerman arrived and overwhelmed the facility. At this time she came to label the place as a “Kingdom of Hell”. All would know what followed afterwards. Nightingale would come in charge of establishing standards of care and commanding the nurses that she brought with her, even employing the wives of the soldiers to facilitate in laundry and psychological support. Most notably, she would participate and do her part by making rounds at night carrying a lamp, earning her the famous nickname of “The Lady with the Lamp”, gaining her the respect and extol from both the soldiers and the medical establishment. Her accomplishments in revitalizing the standard of care would come to report the whopping fact of her reducing the mortality rate in the hospital to 2%--naturally leading to skeptics doubting the capabilities of a human to be able to do such a thing. This, along with the letters she wrote for deceased soldiers and the letters soldiers inscribed themselves, gained her the status of a hero to those in Britain. Alas, she would come in contact with the notorious “Crimean Fever” that is now widely believed to have been brucellosis, practically leaving her bedridden for the rest of her life. Later Life Nevertheless, the Angel in White would not allow her charitable and magnanimous efforts go to waste even if she could hardly move. Unable to necessarily use her physical skills as a nurse anymore, she instead employed her acumen as one, pushing for social health care and nursing reform. This began with her meeting with Queen Victoria (who she became close friends with) and King Albert, informing them of her reports during her stay, which inevitably led to a Royal Commission based on her statistical information. As a result, it marked reform in the military medical and purveyance systems. More notably, however, in 1855, out of respect and thanks for Nightingale, the Nightingale fund became established. Of course, being the selfless woman that she was, she made use of this funding to construct Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, which opened in 1860. Naturally, it came to instruct those desiring to become nurses, and as a result, along with her own reputation, gave a grand and honorable reputation or name for nurses. On a side note, as previously mentioned about her specialty in mathematics, Nightingale was a genius statistician who developed several models such as the Coxcomb Chart which still finds use in nursing today. These reasons contribute as to why she gets heralded as the Founder of Modern Nursing. Adding even further to this, the now bedridden nurse took her time in publicizing various books regarding the health of households, theology, the feminine movement, philosophy, and so on--the most famous being Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, which provided direction on how to manage the sick. Her statistical data also facilitated in the establishment of a second Royal Commission to examine the health of India, concluding with a colossal environmental reform. Even throughout the American Civil War, she was consistently consulted for advice on how to best manage field hospitals. All of these acts eventually had her honored by receiving the title of Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the Royal Red Cross, and by becoming the first woman to receive the Order of Merit. Expounding on this, her birthday is now celebrated as International Nurse Day and International CSF Day Unfortunately, all of a sudden, she would come to meet her death in 1910 at the age of 90, leaving a grandiose legacy behind her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
