The Nurse

The Nurse is one of the Ghosts that emerged along with the T1-G1 Virus on Cinder Island in the comic series "Cinder Isle". She was a male sorcerer who had been born with the Gender Curse in life but after her death Alistair Huntington found her body and removed the curse postmortem, unknowingly taking a few of her lingering soul fragments with it and sealing it in his vault. Years later when the vault was breached, and her decayed curse mixed with spring water that would flow through a fault line cave leading to Cinder Island she would emerge as a ghost along with several others and wander the Island's forests for over a year. She was at first delusional like most of the other ghosts but after a short time became clear headed and realized what she truly was. She joined with another ghost known as the Harlequin to try and help the other ghosts come to this realization and figure out where they came from and how they could find peace and move on to the afterlife. 
Eventually she and Harlequin worked with the mortals Sandra, Natalie, Zoey, and Gavin (the quad) as well as a few other ghosts to discover the origins of the Virus and all the ghosts and with her help they were able to reassemble and revive a shattered Alistair. She would be the last ghost to be laid to rest and remained on the island until Alistair had been fully reassembled and the Abomination had been dealt with. She was also the only ghost to recall her real name, Wyona, after a time. 
== Design/Appearance ==
The Nurse appears dressed in a short black dress suite with skintight black pants and a black hat. She mostly wears a white plague doctor mask but eventually removes it revealing her smooth skin tone and green eyes. Her appearance seems to be a female variation of the classical plague doctor look as she had lived as a man due to her Gender Curse but as a ghost she manifested as her true self. 
== History ==
The Nurse was born as a male Sorcerer who also suffered from the Gender Curse. At some point around the 16th or 17th century he became a plague doctor who used his emerald blood magic to help treat the sick of the non-Blood world. As a man who suffered from the Gender Curse, he experienced a degree of dysphoria and as a result felt it better to constantly wear his doctor's mask as he did not like how he looked. At some point he was exposed to a deadly disease from one of his patients and died soon after. After death Alistair Huntington found her grave and removed her Gender Curse postmortem. Unknown to him at the time however, a few of her soul fragments lingered due to her having lived with the curse leaving her feeling a few unresolved issues in life. As a result, both her curse and fragments of her soul were sealed in Alistair's Vault.
Centuries later when an earthquake breached the vault and connected it to Cinder Island through a long fault line cave, the Nurse's soul fragments flowed through it allowing her to manifest as a ghost and emerge on the island along with several others and the T1-G1 Virus. 
The Nurse was first encountered by Dutch Gardiner and his patrol partner Peter who were investigating the odd rumors about things in the woods. When they arrived at the Red Lake where the virus and ghosts had originated from the Nurse was watching closely in the shadows of the trees behind them. She eventually showed herself to them much to their surprise. At this point the Nurse was still too fragmented to think clearly and acted under the impression that she was still a doctor that needed to treat the men who had contracted what she called the Red Plague. She believed that actually exposing them to the T1-G1 virus would cure them and as a result she dunked Peter's head directly into the lake causing him to quickly get sick and transform into Petrina. Dutch ran off before she could do the same to him and despite her protests Petrina attempted to stop the virus by throwing a flash grenade into the Red Lake. This only worsened the islands situation however as it had awoken the Abomination, a mass of red slime that was created by the dark magic of the decayed curses and minor soul fragments too small to manifest like the other ghosts. The Nurse was quick to float off in fear screaming that Petrina had doomed them all. 
Months later, the Nurse was met again by Sandra and Natalie who had brough a wounded Harlequin ghost to the shack the two ghosts had made their home in the marshlands. The Nurse and Harlequin had both become clear headed at this point and knew what they were but still had little memory of their mortal lives, Both of them recruited the two girls to help them discover more about them as well as the origins of the virus and after several weeks and help from some of the other ghosts they helped the two girls as well as Zoey enter the Red Lake and bring back not only a cluster of blue crystals they had discovered but also another ghost known as the Girl. After the three girls returned the Nurse could sense the magical aura of the crystals and propose Gavin begin trying to piece them together and she could help to do that by fusing the fragments back together with her healing abilities. At this point she also took in the Girl alongside Harlequin since the Girl was still not fully clear headed and needed to be looked after. 
Over the course of the next several weeks The Nurse helped Gavin piece the crystals together and even after she was supposed to have left for Zoey and Gavin to have a passionate night together, she continued to work on getting them assembled while invisible. She appeared before the couple soon after and announced that she had nearly completed the head of the figurine. Gavin jumped in to help her with a few finishing touches to the head and they were quickly able to restore the head in full which in turn revived and awoke Alistair. She left to tell the other ghosts the news while the Quad questioned him on what he was and how everything had happened. 
Weeks later the nurse and Gavin spent countless hours restoring and reconstructing Alistair step by step knowing he was the key to undoing what had occurred on the island the past year. When he was restored enough, he explained to the ghosts what they were and elected to send most of them to the afterlife so they could at last be at peace. The Nurse was only one to choose to stay behind so she could continue to help fix Alistair. Before the rest of the ghost departed however Harlequin who had developed feelings for the Nurse after living with her for so long asked to see her face. The Nurse still felt uncomfortable with her appearance claiming Harlequin would not like what she saw under the mask, but she removed it after some insistence. As the Nurse's spectral form manifested as her true self not her cursed self, she was happy to face Harlequin with her true face. The two then kissed agreeing to meet up in the afterlife at the end of all this and have a proper date. From that point forward the Nurse no longer wore her mask as she had at last seen her true face in this form. 
Over the next couple weeks, the Nurse and Gavin worked constantly to fix Alistair and she even continued to work on him herself when Gavin had other things to do, even after he at last became Gaela. On Election Day of that year The Nurse and Gaela completed Alistair fully restoring his power. The three of them then went to deal with the abomination and the Red Lake before the final spell Alistair planned to use to alter all memory of the Pandemic over the past year. The Nurse served as the distraction for the soldiers as Alistair cured them of their virus and sent them off island with modified memories. She then helped him fight against the Abomination that emerged soon after. In their fight she realized it seemed to be immune to Ruby/Destruction based magics and told Alistair to try a Diamond/Soul based spell to destroy it. She managed to distract it long enough for Alistair to perform the spell he needed, and they successfully destroyed the abomination and cleansed the Red Lake. Moments later the full Quad had come together to say their goodbyes to the nurse as Alistair opened a portal to the afterlife for her. As she passed through eager to meet Harlequin, she also at last said she remembered her real name, Wyona, as she passed on at last laid to rest. (It is unknown if Wyona was her name in life or if it was her true name she always wished to have as the Gender Curse would have made her live as a man)
== Traits/Personality ==
The Nurse is very dedicated and focused on her tasks based on her clouded mind pushing her still cure others of the plague she is so focused on. Even after becoming clear headed and understanding that she is dead but stuck in some kind of limbo she remains focused on her work and acts as the medic for the ghosts who have realized the truth. After the rest of the ghosts are sent to rest she is the last to remain in order to use her powers to help reassemble Alistair. She does this very vigilantly and without much hesitation showing she is very goal oriented and has a drive to help others whenever she can. 
She also displays a degree of dysphoria unlike some of the other ghosts. When she is asked by the Harlequin to show her face behind her mask, she seems hesitant and feels her appearance is not something she would want to see however beneath her mask she is quite beautiful. This was likely the result of her living as a man and feeling dysphoria because of it. Thus, she only remembered the male face she lived with and hated. After the Harlequin compliments her on her appearance and the two express their feelings for one another she is much more accepting of her own face and no longer wears her mask. 
== Relationships ==
==== The Harlequin ====
At first the Nurse and the Harlequin have a simple roommate like relationship after they both become clear headed enough to understand that they are ghosts and trapped in a kind of limbo like state unable to move on. The two of them stay in an abandoned shack in the woods and wonder the island at night to some degree. While they do build a small home for themselves with things like an operating table and a green fire pit set up they do not really express a more friendly or romantic relationship until after they take in the Girl ghost. After Sandra, Natalie, and Zoey rescued the girl from the bottom of the red lake the two of them take her in since she is still not fully aware and has no family or caregiver on the island. Both the nurse and the Harlequin become like adoptive mothers to her for a while and keep her cared for while work progresses on reassembling Alistair. When Alistair is restored enough to send them to the afterlife and lay them to rest Harlequin goes with The Girl to the afterlife but before she leaves, she asks the Nurse to show her her face and remove her plague mask. While the nurse is a bit hesitant, she agrees and after a short time the two of them kiss and promise to meet up again in the afterlife once the Nurse helps complete Alistair. 
==== The Quad & Alistair ====
The Nurse is the ghost that seems to help the Quad and Alistair the most in terms of time as she is the only one able to fuse the pieces of Alistair together and fully repair him in place of Gavin simply finding the pieces that fit together. She is first only concerned with doing her part to help the group discover the origins of the virus at the bottom of the Red Lake and does very little apart from being on call should anyone get hurt. After the three girls return from the lake and present the bag of blue shards that they found the Nurse is able to sense their magical aura and with Gavin's help begins to repair and reassemble the object. After a few weeks. it's revealed the object is actually Alistair Huntington and by her efforts and Gavin's he is eventually able to be fully restored to use his magic to clean up the mess made by the virus. She is the last ghost to be laid to rest and bid them all a happy farewell at last able to rest and see Harlequin again in the next life. 
== Abilities/Powers ==
In life the nurse was an Emerald Blooded Sorcerer and thus her abilities in her ghost form revolve around healing and repairing objects. She manifests common ghost powers like invisibility, intangibility, limited flying, and invincibility (except against the Abomination) but her more unique power is simply healing. She is able to heal other ghosts who are damaged by others of their kind and is key to repairing Alistair by fusing the pieces of his body together as they are found to fit together. 
== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
* The Nurse could not have been a plague doctor during the original Black Death as it occurred in the 1300's and the Gender Curse was created by Sylvana in the 1400's, thus the plague she treated and died of would have to have been at a later time. Possibly the 1619 outbreak in Paris based on her French origins. 
== See also ==
Category:Females
Category:Cinder Isle characters