Anita Milton

## Biography

### Education

Grissom Academy, Public High School, Alliance Military/Combat Training, Combat Medical R (68W Army Combat Medic training or Hospital Corpsman training )

## OOC Info

### Status

Active

Anita Milton was born on the planet of Elysium, November 3rd, 2168 to an Alliance Marine mother and a biophysicist father, Euan Milton and Nadia Osuch respectively. The Milton family had lived on Elysium since its initial colonization and grew significantly in size as time went on. Anita's father, unlike the rest of the family, hated living on the planet. However, he was extremely bright and worked at a private research firm Telogen, a subsidiary of Conatnix industries investigating biotic potential in humans and developing implants to harness that potential for the Alliance Military.

Much of the work done there was classified and while Euan worked at this firm he had no contact with his family. The company would later be bought out by one of Cerberus's satellite companies to help advise their Biotic research program. This required him to travel all across Alliance space to various labs and stations that were controlled by the organization. One of these labs was an RnD facility on his home planet of Elysium in the capital Illyria. While working on the planet he operated closely with several members of Cerberus. They were mostly specialists and researchers, but he managed to get close with one of the Marines assigned to the Alliance garrison on the planet, Nadia Osuch. The relationship between the two eventually evolved and after a year of dating Nadia found out that she was pregnant.

The couple were somewhat in love, the relationship was more blind romance than anything sustainable but once Anita came into the picture, priorities shifted for Euan. Telogen needed more research in the development of biotic subjects in the womb to better understand how the element zero interacts with the nervous system. With a lack of volunteers and results Cerberus was going to cut funding if they didn't turn up any data in the next few months. Euan cared more about his work than his future daughter or Nadia, she cared more about her relationship with Euan. Regardless, these differences would be realized by both of them when Euan invited Nadia to the lab where he worked at the request of his superiors.

One of the tanks carrying large samples of element zero for the study had busted due to a faulty pressure regulator exposing several rooms to the material including theirs. Nadia managed to push her husband into the next room-saving him before the lockdown activated, trapping herself with the element zero dust. The toxicity caused her to pass out. It took about 30 seconds for the place to be purged of all air contaminants so EMT teams could arrive to help the affected. The accident caused everyone who was exposed to form some sort of medical condition such as radiation poisoning-like symptoms and terminal cancer. In Nadia's case, she was lucky to just suffer from acute headaches. The public fallout of the incident was nothing compared to the amount of data they now could collect. Euan pretended to be upset over the incident and criticized his wife for not thinking about their child. He purposely wanted Nadia to leave him and his child so he could take her to be studied. As a result, did his best to be actively toxic to Nadia everyday they were together.

In the months leading up to Anita's birth, the couple constantly fought and argued with each other which ultimately led the relationship to grow toxic. When the baby was born and Nadia was able to return to duty she took her assignment and left the two of them telling Euan he can keep the kid and never see her again. After realizing she was gone for good, Euan took Anita allowing Telogen to study her development process passively as he raised her. During her early childhood, Anita was raised in the same town that her father grew up in. Due to his job's uncooperative hours, Euan had no choice but to stay on the planet and ask his brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, and parents to help him take care of Anita. The family, while angry about him only calling when they were convenient for help, Euan and Anita was still part of the family and they would do anything to help raise the girl.

During her toddler years, Anita would often spend the days at her cousin Serena's house with her parents dropping her and their daughter off at preschool together.  Serena and Anita both became the best of friends. They were always together. If Serena was around Anita wouldn't be too far behind, she looked up to her and considered her to be her big sister seeing as there was only four years between the two. Anita was a very inquisitive child, always asking questions about anything and everything often to the point of annoying others, but many also considered her to be one of the brightest kids they ever knew. Though the one subject she didn't dare to touch was anything about her mother. Anytime she mentioned anything about her, like who she was or why she wasn't living with them, it was often met by hostility by her father who would tell her that she gave up on them and to stop talking about her. No one else told Anita anything about her besides she left when she was young since even they didn't know the full story. Growing up, her mother was just a mystery that no one wanted to solve.

When she was six Anita's father made her practice the cello, paying for the lessons which she picked up quickly. She enjoyed it, along with classical music, and science, the latter of which she would excel at in school pleasing her father being a Scientist himself. The relationship between them was demanding at most. Euan set high expectations for her and when she met them he rewarded her with toys and new music to play. They never acted like a traditional father and daughter relationship since to Euan she was someone that he needed to study but as she grew up and started to impress him in and out of school, Euan began to see Anita more as his daughter than a science project. Around the same year Anita was told that she was Biotic by her father who well knew since the incident back at his research facility. There was no reason to keep it from her and while Euan didn't expect her to fully comprehend what she was or what she would be able to do, he believed an early introduction would help unlock her biotic potential earlier, but ultimately, it wouldn't matter.

A year later Telogen would be exposed to the public for deliberately exposing several employees to element zero under the guise of accidents. Documents and signatures from the company's executives authorizing the plan were leaked onto the extranet causing the company to fold and several arrests to take place. Cerberus planted rumor that the Alliance were the ones who exposed them since they needed someone to be the scapegoat if they ended up being exposed themselves. With years of research in the biotic field, Cerberus had no need to pursue the basic potential of biotic individuals due to another project presenting far more promising results; letting one of their satellite companies fall was the best course of action to avoid any future suspicion that could arise if they were allowed to continue. As a reward for his work Euan was spared from the shakedown, all records of his involvement were deleted. He would  request to be able to raise her daughter on Elysium disbarring his commitment with Cerberus which they accepted. Later, Euan began working at the local University as a bio teacher after transferring Anita to a regular pediatrician to monitor her regular and biotic health.

In 2176 when Anita turned eight the first Skyllian Blitz occurred. Everyone that was living on Elysium and could hold a weapon were mobilized against the attack. The ones that were either too young or couldn't hold a firearm quickly evacuated to fortified areas of the city. Anita was at school during the attack and was promptly evacuated along with the rest of the kids and teachers by city police working with civilian and military disaster management teams. She stayed in the safe zone while the soldiers did their best to fend off the attack.

While it was a tough battle the colonists of Elysium along with the garrisoned and off-duty Alliance forces managed to repel the attack, but not without cost. There were many casualties after the battle including several members of her extended family and childhood friends. Euan was injured during a firefight and when Anita went to see him at a noncritical medical unit she also saw all the other hundreds of people who were injured in the attack. She felt powerless to help any of them, being people she'd seen for her entire life but watching the medics move around and help them and her father made her believe that being one of them was the only way to make sure that no one else would die. Anita's father would survive his wounds which only confirmed her path to become a healer.

Anita did everything she could to get herself into medicine. During middle school and high school Anita would read biology books, take medical classes, all to increase her knowledge in medicine. Her father approved of this sudden change in mindset and did all he could to pave the path for her daughter to go to college and head to med school. Her grades were excellent and she was frequently at the top of her class. In 2182, when Anita finished middle school, her father reluctantly decided to send her daughter to Grissom Academy for her High School education.

While Euan strived to keep anything related to the Alliance Military away from Anita, Grissom Academy was the cheapest and closest way to give her daughter the advanced education that he thought she deserved. Additionally, the Ascension Project was going to teach her how to use her biotics which was another plus in her enrolling into the school. Euan hoped that due to the station's proximity to Elysium he could be close enough to control what Anita was influenced by while in school. This prompted Euan to require her daughter to return home every weekend which didn't bother her since she got to see all her friends she left behind from middle school.

Much of her education was similar in many ways to regular public school on Elysium, the only noticeable difference that she had a biotic focus in many of the lessons and training. The academy gave her L4 implants when she hit puberty. Everyday she trained often in classes on how to utilize her biotics safely and how to use them in the greater galactic society in lectures and classes. Anita didn't make many friends in the Academy and mostly kept to herself but she enjoyed her time there. She took electives dealing with biology and physiology as well as taking several music classes to satisfy her personal hobbies.

During her first semester of her junior year at the Academy, when she went back home for the weekend, her cousin and best friend Serena came back home for shore leave after her deployment rotation. Anita never got the chance to say goodbye to her since she was busy with school and Serena was off doing military operations so they discussed why Serena joined the military? She gave Antia her reason for joining, explaining that she needed to make sure the Batarians don't harm their home again "permanently". While Anita didn't have the same anger and aggression Serena had against the Batarians as a species she did agree that she could do a lot more to fight the Hegemony by enlisting in the Alliance helping other worlds fight as well more so than being a nurse.

Anita was convinced that the Alliance was where she needed to be, but when she proposed that idea to her father he strongly disagreed. He told her that she would be throwing her life away to be with a bunch of people who didn't know what to do with their lives. He also said they were all liars, cheaters, and selfish assholes just like her mother cementing his indoctrination from Cerberus and digging himself deeper in the lie he created. Anita didn't understand where he was coming from and talked back asking why her mother was involved and why he hated her. It quickly devolved into a shouting match and later telling Anita that he was going to disenroll her from Grissom Academy for teaching her the wrong things.

This resulted in her running up to her room in tears. She cared what her father thought about her but she knew that being a medic helping people was what she wanted to do with her life. After that day the relationship between the two of them continued to be tense. Euan disenrolled her from Grissom and sent her to the local public high school. Anita was more upset about him taking her out of the academy than actually being put in public school since she was going to be in classes with her friends. She was focused on the fact that her father took her out of something that was supposed to help her just to teach her a lesson.

The duo had disagreements which would usually end up in shouting matches. Anita would rarely return home after the school day was over, typically going over to her friends or cousin's house or volunteering at the local clinic. When she was home she stayed in her room playing the cello or studying. Otherwise, for the next six years, she stayed in school performing well in her studies and classes. Her being a teenager Euan thought it was just a rebellious streak but right on her 18th birthday 2186, she went to sign on the dotted line. Being a biotic gave Anita special incentives including priority shipping to boot camp along with specialized biotic training in addition to her medic technical school pipeline. Anita left the day after she signed, not being able to say goodbye to her friends, family, or her father. She cried thinking about how she abandoned her father just like her mother but even if she wanted to go back she couldn't, she was going to stick by it right to the end.

For 7 months Anita lived, ate, slept, and trained 24/7. It was something she wasn't used to at first, but as time progressed, it became easier to manage, especially when started to get into a routine and began thinking about her goal. She wasn't the fastest or the strongest in her platoon but she could hold her own. Anita used her existing amount of medical knowledge to help some of her fellow trainees that we're suffering from various physical problems as a result of training.

Many people started to refer to her as "Doc" even though there was a fitness trainer assigned to their training company. After her first month in boot camp, Anita's Drill Sergeant called every trainee from Elysium to an empty room to tell them it's been attacked by the Terminus Confederacy. He told them that they would keep them updated as the situation progresses but to focus on training so that they could end the war. Everyone in the room was either shocked, saddened about people they knew on the planet, or angry at the Batarians. Anita was the former and she was especially worried about her friends and family including her father but the news made her focus even more on completing training so she could get out and save some lives.

While it was stressful Anita managed to graduate boot camp and was quickly sent to her biotic training. Due to her years of experience of handling and utilizing her biotics in high school almost everything she learned in the training was second nature. The real only thing that she needed to learn was the combat aspects that could be applied to her biotic abilities. Anita got up to standard rather quickly with the training and managed to create pretty good barriers by her instructor's standards. She completed the training and was shipped off to start her combat medical training shortly after. The pipeline had to teach its students a vast amount of medical information in a small amount of time. It was like drinking water through a fire hose to Anita but it was manageable.

Much of her free time was dedicated to studying and digesting the information she received which led to many late nights. Eventually, she reaped the rewards and completed the medical technical training on February 14th, 2187, and was subsequently assigned to the Alliance's 5th fleet's SSV Khe Sanh, a York-class cruiser, as a part of its Marine detachment.

Anita contacted her family after settling into her new post, finding out everything she missed while she was in training. It was a solemn reunion. While no one she knew died during the Second Skyllian Blitz much of their homes that had existed since the settling of the world were destroyed by the fighting. Also, Euan refused to speak to Anita due to the fact he was still angry over her leaving. When she talked to Serena they were both happy to find out that they were both alive. Serena was assigned to the fleet that responded to the second attack on Elysium and helped pave the victory at the capital. Hearing her war stories put Anita somewhat at ease. If her cousin survived she could too, but regardless of whether she was unsure of her abilities or not people needed her and she wasn't going to let her nerves prevent her from helping them.

February 26th, 2187 the SSV Khe Sanh would be deployed to the Alliance colony of Horizon which was in process of being invaded by the Confederacy and its forces. Anita's unit was ordered to reinforce one of the cities on the planet which was being used as an evacuation hub. They landed in the forward operating base that the Alliance hastily set up to organize the evacuation. It was located in the middle of an intersection surrounded by burning skyscrapers and destroyed vehicles.

With reports of distress coming throughout the entire city Anita's unit was tasked with finding those distress calls and if possible returning them to the FOB. While Anita and the other medics stayed behind to manage the field hospital while the rest of the unit would go outside the wire two squads at a time, each time they came back with heavy fatalities and injuries. Being one of the few medics kept her in the rear echelon for a couple of days but the Confederacy was gaining ground and it wouldn't be long before the FOB started getting shelled by enemy artillery. The number of casualties grew and Anita was getting overwhelmed with patients.

Furthermore, evac shuttles were getting rarer and medical supplies were getting scarcer as the front line got closer. It eventually got to the point where they had to restrict the use of medi gel to the military only. It put her in several heartbreaking situations where she had to put aside a critically wounded child to save a critically wounded Marine. Many times all she could do was make them comfortable before they bled out from their injuries making It one of the most stressful moments of her life. After 3 weeks of fighting the Confederacy managed to push Alliance forces back to the FOB which they had surrounded. The Alliance fleet in space managed to drive back the Confederacy's ships and the Admiral of the fleet authorized a bombardment of all losing fronts on the planet. Anita's unit had only a few hours to evacuate everyone before the bombing started. Shuttles across the planet were devoted to the hasty evac efforts, all Anita's unit had to do was hold the ground until they came, civilians had to be left behind.

The battle was close and very bloody as Confederacy forces breached the FOB. Anita did all she could to fight back and drag the injured to safety. She used her biotics extensively during the battle and was struggling to maintain them as she further exhausted herself. The enemy eventually would overrun the base and Anita would be one of the last ones to evacuate, passing out as she used her biotics to shield her and her team's retreat back into the shuttle.

She would wake up 3 days later in the Khe Sanh's sickbay with the nurse monitoring her. He notified her CO shortly after she came too. When he arrived commended Anita's actions during the operation and recommended her for an accelerated promotion in her record to Corporal. She wouldn't be the only one, many members of her unit were commended for their actions on the planet as well as several ships, however, while some of her unit celebrated most mourned the losses dreading the day they had to go out into the fray again.

To include Anita, many were reevaluating whether to reenlist in the Alliance. In Anita's case, she wondered if her father was right about the Alliance not being for her. This doubt only increased as she went on more combat operations in March, April, and May of 2187. She saved people but lost just as many patients and friends. The war was getting to her and the person who she would usually confide in, her best friend, wasn't answering her comm due to her doing operations with GUARDIAN. Anita felt alone in this situation but needed to put on a brave face for the others in her unit so they could push on.

June 20th, 2187 the 5th fleet was in orbit over Eden Prime when the Reapers attacked. The fleet was decimated in only a matter of hours, ships were being cut to pieces and the enemy seemed to be invulnerable to conventional weaponry. Anita was one of the few members of the SSV Khe Sanh to make it to escape pods before the ship was also cut to pieces. Upon planetfall, Anita's pod managed to land right outside the main settlement's limits and when she walked out she saw a massive ship towering over everything in the distance, different from the ships she saw in space.

The woman took all the gear she could from the pod and managed to find other survivors from various ships in the fleet including her own. In the process of looking for more survivors, they encountered some zombie-like biomechanical humans which they would later be known as husks. The group managed to escape them but just barely. After a few days of living on the outskirts of the colony, the 5th fleet survivors managed to link up with a large group of civilians and Alliance garrison forces that were on the planet during the attack. They were led to their main base camp where they met both a civilian government official and an N7 Lieutenant who organized resistance of sorts against the Reapers on the planet. They lacked a doctor however so Anita was quickly put to work helping stabilize the injured resistance members. She typically stayed at the main camp only leaving on missions to the main settlement when they needed her expertise on getting medical supplies or the mission was too critical for people to be immobilized in the field. One such mission took place about a month after the occupation.

The resistance launched a raid to rescue a group of civilians in one of the Reaper prisoner camps. The raid was successful, the Reaper troops put up some resistance but the group managed to get the upper hand only taking a few casualties, no deaths. The civilians seemed to be grateful for the rescue and were quickly integrated into the rest of the resistance. Anita became involved romantically with one of the escapees as time went on and despite her situation, the next two months would be the happiest she had ever been. Her lover, Jason, seemed to understand who she was and what she was struggling with. He helped her understand again why she became who she was in addition to dealing with the vast amount of responsibility and stress that had been trusted upon her. Anita wanted to marry him when the time allowed but those moments were extremely rare.

Weeks went by and the resistance seemed to be doing a number on Reaper operations. There was an upcoming plan to utilize the main colony's defense systems to fire at the large ship that was parked on the planet. The pieces were about to be put in place when unauthorized data transmission was detected by one of the comm specialists. It was traced back to Anita's boyfriend who admitted that he was working with the Reapers. The resistance leaders killed him as a result and Anita was taken into custody for questioning. A few hours later the main camp would be attacked by Reaper troops. All of the civilians they rescued from the prison camp turned and started attacking the resistance members and Anita was sprung back out to help with the wounded. The camp would be overrun and the order to evacuate would be given.

The plan was If the camp was to be captured, a self-destruct device would be activated engulfing the area in a nuclear explosion that would cover several kilometers. The civilian government official stayed behind to activate the nuke allowing for many others to escape, including Anita, to the various safe houses on the planet.

The attack left resistance operations crippled, most of the combat-capable fighters died in the attack and their plan was in shambles. The N7 Lieutenant decided the next best course of action was to take anyone they could to attack the main settlement and send a radio call for help. It was a suicide mission and he only wanted volunteers. Anita wanted to go but he told her that she was the only one that couldn't since there needed to be someone to help take care of the injured and civilians if or until rescue came. She stood and watched as the assault force left feeling alone like she did before they were stranded on the planet. After that day things were mostly quiet. The Reapers seemed to do a good job exterminating the populace on the planet. There was no communication from the assault force but scouts did report signs of battle at the settlement. Weeks would go by before anything of note would happen.

August 8th, 2187 a massive energy wave went over Eden Prime vaporizing every Reaper it came in contact with. A few days later an Alliance rescue team came after detecting the distress signal that the assault time successfully sent before being wiped out, they were the only survivors of the planet. Anita was debriefed then briefed about the events that took place while she was stuck on the planet. Her cousin Serena was a part of a force that led the final assault against the Reapers and became a War Hero as a result. Once again the Alliance commended her actions and she was given a bronze star as well as the order of medical merit as a result, though she didn't feel she'd deserved it. It had only been a year since she first enlisted and she had already witnessed so much death and destruction. She had a boyfriend who never really loved her and her father, she didn't even know if he was still alive.

The Alliance granted her much-needed leave to return home. When she arrived it looked like the entire colony was in celebration over the defeat of the Reapers. People were hugging and kissing in the streets, families were reunited. When she returned to her generational family's home even they were in celebration. She was happy to see her Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, cousins and friends. Serena seemed to be the star of the neighborhood, being a part of GUARDIAN she was practically famous. Anita found it nice catching up with people especially with Serena who she told everything about her experiences during the war, she vented even to her and she just understood. Anita noticed that her cousin seemed less aggressive and headstrong than when she last saw her. Serena made it clear that she would always make herself available if she needed to talk and Anita appreciated that.

Nearing the end of her shore leave Anita finally mustered up enough bravery to return home back to her father. When the door opened they both teared up and embraced each other both apologizing for what they did. Anita spent the rest of her leave reconnecting with her father, learning many facts about him and her mother but he still kept the fact that he purposely drove her away so Anita could be studied for her biotics and that he worked for Cerberus. Having that loose end tied up helped Anita's psyche but she still just needed a break from everything so she could collect herself. Anita would request to be assigned to a shore location, specifically at a refugee center helping the survivors of the war. It was good work and she was able to help people without feeling the impending doom of death over her constantly. She would do this for 2 years then get transferred to an Alliance medical station on Luna for another year mostly avoiding the post-war conflicts in the Terminus Systems and the Traverse.

July 28th, 2190 Serena would contact Anita asking her to do a favor and transfer into the newly formed Council Recovery Corps through the Alliance partner program. When asked why, Serena told her a few of her friends from her time in GUARDIAN needed capable medical personnel in the organization and she didn't know anyone better than her cousin. Anita was reluctant at first, while she agreed with their goals she was happy with her current post. She looked at the state of the galaxy and it was in chaos, people dying left and right, wars displacing millions of people. She remembered that time when she was eight when she first wanted to become a medic. Now was the time to do something to help the people of the Galaxy. The next day she made the decision and went to her CO to make the transfer.

## Personality

Saving lives is the core tenant in Anita's values. It's her entire motivation in life and her entire reason for becoming a medic in the first place. She will do whatever it takes to heal anyone that asks for her assistance. Unfortunately, this mandate when unfulfilled leads Anita into a spiral of self-doubt and pessimism. If someone dies under her care she believes that she is responsible for that death no matter if it was or wasn't justified. This also leads her to believe that she can't do anything though she wouldn't express these feelings to anyone. Usually, if she messes up she buries herself in work so that she won't mess up again. Anita would often underestimate herself and her abilities without a second thought. Most if any praise that she receives she would diminish often to the annoyance of others.

While she is a medic when left with no choice would use lethal action to protect others. It is a conflict that she constantly has to deal with being a healer and a soldier respectively. This something she learned during her tenure as an Alliance combat medic where many times she would be called to conduct a medevac and enemy forces would be using the injured as bait for an ambush. This tactic and others such as targeting the weak and the helpless sickens Anita to the core as a medic and a human being. This also goes for slavery which she has a personal stake in.

Many members she healed during her operations during the Terminus War and the stories she heard while living on Elysium we're from Batarian slave survivors. However, even after the pain and suffering the Batarians caused under the Confederacy she doesn't hold ill will to the species, only the individuals as she is familiar with people unjustly putting labels on a group which is often not true for everyone. Anita continues to love and serve the Alliance partly based on the relationships she had made during her enlistment. When forced with the option she would save the person that will be more of an asset to the overall mission regardless of what her feelings were but it will haunt her when she makes such a choice.

Socially Anita likes to stay more in the background in situations, only coming out when she needs to do her job, or protect others, or fight something that compromises her morals as a medic. She typically just wants to do her job and go home and spend time with herself. While she is friendly Anita opts to have only a few friends and mostly derives her energy from doing things that she enjoys by herself. This is due to Anita having enough conflict in her life. Dealing with other people's drama is only reserved for close friends and if it's important enough to be dealt with. Her social personality also translates to get behavior in combat. Being a Biotic medic relegates her to a more supporting role than assault. She rarely uses any offensive biotics typically throwing up barriers and spheres to protect her allies or patients and stays in the back of the formation if possible. If cornered, however, she will use whatever it takes to defend herself or others

### Exceptional Skills

* **Playing the Cello:** Anita loves playing the cello and often gets lost for hours playing her favorite pieces that she had learned when she was growing up. Having been playing from such a young age she exhibits an exceptional understanding of music and most string instruments.
* **Hospitaller** Anita being a medical professional specializes in just that, medicine. Her experience is mostly limited to human physiology but had some practice with alien physiology in the simulator. When asked about anything pertaining to medicine she will give her best answer with the knowledge she has available. During her tenure with the CRC, she hopes to expand her knowledge of other species' physiology as well.

## Physical Description

Being in the military for such a long time with little to break made Anita be more than out of touch with civilian fashion. Even as a kid she had few dresses and mostly wore simple clothing like a t-shirt and jeans. It was something she never truly cared for so typically she walks around in her Alliance BDU uniform or fatigues and a tank top. Military lifestyle has also infiltrated her hair fashion as well as she does her best to keep her hair in regulation and up to standard. For combat, she wears a medical variant of Alliance Standard issue armor with systems geared to help her triage patients quickly while she deals with fighting the enemy.

Physically Anita is a 145 pounds 5'7 woman with a lean but tall frame. She has teal eyes which are prominent in her family as well as black hair. Furthermore, she rarely sports any makeup but when she does it's typically a conservative color and very light, for example, little eye shadow and mascara. Due to her upbringing, she comes out as proper when she speaks. Her verbiage is high class and educated which also is reflected in her posture and her mannerisms. The military only engrained this further from all the customs and traditions she had to practice.

### Armament

* M-8 Avenger
* M-5 Phalanx

### Abilities

* Sphere
* Neural shock
* Backlash