Susie Evans Rothchild

Born as the daughter of one of Gallia’s wealthiest frontier tycoons, Susie Evans is not what one would imagine when picturing a highly decorated EW2 veteran. Those that knew her personally described her as a gentle and sensitive soul: A kindly young women raised in a highly sheltered and privileged background, not only suffering from anemia and anxiety since youth, but also a pacifist and conscientious objector to any form of violence, incapable of even killing a fly.
However, when EW2 broke out, while her family’s wealth and influence could have easily allowed her to avoid conscription, in order to maintain their social status and honor, she was forced to ‘voluntarily’ enlist in the militia.
Still naively idealistic about the ways of the world, Susie convinced herself that by serving the militia, she will be able to contribute towards quickly ending the war with as few casualties on both sides as possible, while satisfying her family by living up to their good name. During basic training, she was noted to be highly observant with a powerful survival instinct, and displayed a strong aptitude towards providing first aid. Once the 6-week basic training was over, she was assigned to Squad 7 of the Gallian Militia's 3rd Regiment, under the command of Second Lieutenant Welkin Gunther.
Susie thought that she would be prepared for what was to come, but her naivety was brutally shattered. During Squad 7’s very first official military engagement in the Battle of Vasel, while being part of the forward scouting unit advancing ahead of the main unit, they found themselves running into an Imperial fire team. When she raised her rifle, Susie found herself suddenly suffering a panic attack and blacked out, literally unable to put to trigger or even dodge out of the way. The Imperials, however, had no such hesitations, and she was seriously injured after being shot. If it wasn’t for her fellow scots quickly returning fire and calling in a medevac for her as soon as the immediate area was secured, she would have become yet another war causality statistic right there that day.
After her recovery at infirmary, Lieutenant Gunther and Sergeant Melchiott had a talk with Susie about what happened out there. Afterwards, the two of them submitted a request to Captain Varrot, the company’s commander, who passed it on to regimental command. It was a formal request that Susie be transferred to the militia’s medical corps, where she will be able to do the most good for everyone involved due to her psychological issues. However, at that point, the Gallian military was scraping the barrel for manpower, and the request was denied.
Thankfully, despite her inability to fight, Susie managed to avoid becoming an outcast among her fellow soldiers thanks to her pleasant personality (Which might or might not have been helped by her family connections allowing the squad to receive extra shipments of care packages, always containing a jar of candy named after her), and as the ranking NCO, Alicia offering emotional support to her whenever possible. While Welkin did his best to only deploy her in rear areas that have a minimal chance of seeing actual combat.
All of this fell apart yet again during the Battle of the Naggiar Plains, the single bloodiest engagement for the Gallians in the history up to that point. General von Damon’s tactical ineptitude combined with the unexpected deployment of an enemy Valkyrur quickly turned what started off as a tight battle into a one-sided massacre. Sergeant Melchiott was critically wounded and sent to the field hospital after being sniped, while Squad 1 under the command of Lieutenant Landzaat alongside many other units were almost utterly wiped out down to the last man. Disheartened and on the verge of a total emotional breakdown, Susie collapsed on the ground weeping about the futility of continuing on. This was until her heard the sound of the crying and screaming from all the injured and dying left on the battlefield. With that, she gathered herself, knowing what she must do.
Grabbing a combat medic’s kit left nearby, she ran into the carnage instead of away from it while everyone else was retreating in the opposite direction. She spent the next 24 hours single-handedly giving first aid to any wounded soldiers that she came across, once they were stabilized, she carried them over to the safety of the Gillian lines (For any Imperial wounded she came across that did not try to shoot her, she would give them first-aid, and leave them to be evacuated by their own medics). Each time she successfully dragged a solider to safety, she would repeat to herself:
“Please, if anyone up there is listening: Let me save one more before I die.”
Before running back out into the fray again. She was so focused in a single-minded trance that she did not even noticed that her squad’s sergeant had recovered and turned into a Valkyrur dueling the enemy commander in the middle of the battlefield, with her just running and dragging wounded soldiers right pass them without noticing. It was only after the end of the battle that Susie finally allowed herself the ‘luxury’ of passing out in front of the field hospital from sheer exhaustion and blood lost.
In total, Susie Evans saved 80 injured Gallian infantrymen (Plus an unknown number of Imperials) and was wounded four times on the Naggiar Plains. After the war, she became the recipient of 5 Crimson Heart citations, together with the Randgriz Crest of Honor, the Order of the Holy Shield, and the Wings of Solidarity, making her the most highly decorated conscientious objector in Gallian history.
After the war, she spent her personal inheritance to establish a facility that offered relief to the victims of war, despite the strong opposition she received from the rest of her family (Which she grew distant from due to them forcing her to join the military, to the point that they were not even invited to her wedding when she married her childhood sweetheart). Susie continued working at this facility to personally aid in their charitable efforts, gaining international recognition. Until finally on 1942, with backing from the Gallian government and donations country-wide, she established the International Crimson Heart Society (ICHS), an international humanitarian institution based in Randgriz, with a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts, including war wounded, prisoners of war, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants in combat zones. The ICHS has become one of the most honoured and respected organizations in the world to the point that it is the only private humanitarian organization that is allowed free reign to operate in both territories controlled by the Imperial Remnant and the UEESR. While the line “Please, let me save one more” became the official motto of both the ICHS and the Medical Corps of the Gallian Army.
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