Nurse
No one calls Harold, "Harold" anymore. At the hospital, he's "Orderly!", with a side order of overt pity, concealed fear, or restrained disgust. To everyone else, he's just Nurse.
In fairness, there's a lot of Nurse to be called. Always what his mama used to call "big-boned", Nurse's Embrace had some unusual effects. He's big. Really big. Kind of unsettlingly big. And the apparent absence of a neck, neanderthal features, and baseball mitt hands do little to reassure.
Get to know him at the hospital, he's a quiet, withdrawn, but capable occasional worker. Spend a little down-time with him, he's into programming, pirated HBO, and old western pulp.
But it turns out, there's a Beast inside Harold after all. Nurse's sheer size has brought him to the attention of more than one player in Savannah's nightlife. He's been known to break a few legs. Or necks, depending on the situation. And it turns out, much as he doesn't want to admit it, he's getting a taste for it. When he hunts, he's taken to stalking his victims from rooftops, waiting for the right moment to leap down, like some kind of shadowy drop-bear. They don't even have time to scream.
Nurse tells himself he only picks the bad ones. He tells himself he never takes it to work. But there's a little voice at the back of his mind, that wonders how long it'll be before he makes a mistake. And whether he'll be okay with it.
In fairness, there's a lot of Nurse to be called. Always what his mama used to call "big-boned", Nurse's Embrace had some unusual effects. He's big. Really big. Kind of unsettlingly big. And the apparent absence of a neck, neanderthal features, and baseball mitt hands do little to reassure.
Get to know him at the hospital, he's a quiet, withdrawn, but capable occasional worker. Spend a little down-time with him, he's into programming, pirated HBO, and old western pulp.
But it turns out, there's a Beast inside Harold after all. Nurse's sheer size has brought him to the attention of more than one player in Savannah's nightlife. He's been known to break a few legs. Or necks, depending on the situation. And it turns out, much as he doesn't want to admit it, he's getting a taste for it. When he hunts, he's taken to stalking his victims from rooftops, waiting for the right moment to leap down, like some kind of shadowy drop-bear. They don't even have time to scream.
Nurse tells himself he only picks the bad ones. He tells himself he never takes it to work. But there's a little voice at the back of his mind, that wonders how long it'll be before he makes a mistake. And whether he'll be okay with it.