Thread:Double Slap/@comment-3391671-20180123050816/@comment-4091261-20180128152824

Logotherapy is interesting. Thanks for introducing it to me. I'll have to keep this in mind for this brainstorming session.

I do believe a quote representing his status as a combat medic is necessary. Yet, I do believe it should be brief for it to make sense as a passing message. Essentially the perspective I imagine is that he is not explaining himself to an individual who asked a question. Nevon is explaining himself to a bystander. Something along the lines of:
 * "I'm not the doctor they wanted. I'm the medic they needed."
 * "I prefer being a doctor, but I'll settle with being the medic."

"If you die out there, I'll kill you myself," is a fairly common ironic quote. Essentially it's an ironic hyperbole utilizing the ultimate threat of someone killing another person. Yet the condition is if that person dies. It's used to express the vengeance of the ones who are left behind when someone gets themself killed.

Is he not an engineer though? xD I do think a small change would make this quote excessively relevant: "I am a doctor, before I'm an engineer." This small quote both represents his lore and his moral principle as his priorities were screwed up in his lore. Now Nevon set his priorities straight.

The reason I find it appropriate to be frustrated over his failure to save someone is because that is also what the player feels when they cannot save someone. However, I do feel that tint of despair is equivalently as important with frustration. The most accurate way to express this emotion is that Nevon feels bitter.

I can find a spot for those b-B-BAKA! quotes: close saves. Whenever his ally lives after escaping the jaws of death, I can imagine Nevon goes into panic mode. Now here is where I draw that line. I feel quotes like these are a bit too desperate and whiny. However, I could think of an enemy quote for this matter: Which is a direct reference to how he heals people after battle. However, he is only willing to do so when war itself is over. Which also leads to my phrasing of "Nobody needed to die, but everyone will."
 * "Jeez! You're going to give me a heart attack."
 * "Why? Why did you do this to me?!"
 * "I'll patch you up when war is said and done."

While it makes sense for him to direct this towards one person, referring to the death of everyone changes the meaning of this quote. He speaks towards the inevitability of death. This quote is a short version of:
 * "Nobody needed to die here, but I guess everyone is going to die someday."

By keeping it brief, the quote seems a lot more cold compared to the quote it is based off of. Since Nevon makes no reference to himself doing anything at all, he speaks generally. So when he says that everyone will die, it isn't a statement that he will kill everyone. Rather it's his bitter acknowledgement as a doctor that death is inevitable. Nevon speaks this towards enemies to direct his anger elsewhere, not as a threat.

I was thinking of giving putting-my-faith-in-you quotes, but I feel this directly contradicts his history. After all, when he put his trust in Noxus, they fooled him with such travesty. If there was a quote to represent this towards a fourth-wall break it would be: My issue with quotes like these are that they sound too heroic. Nevon isn't on some quest to find the truth and he has no necessity in creating a bond with the player to get his job done. So, the only realistic quotes I could use for his skepticism were those fairly condescending ones.
 * "If you do not hide and do not lie, then I'll stand beside my ally."
 * "I'll follow the truth. If you lead me to it."

I guess I just find it quite strange the he's the only combat medic in existence. I didn't think of quotes along the lines of working alone merely because I find it quite unlikely that he would be the only one to be working as a combat medic.

Perhaps he may be the only one in the rift, but when he refers to being the only one healing in the frontlines, I can only imagine it means he's the only one in wars in general.

Then again, what we can do with this is create a compelling reason for why medics wouldn't normally exist in Runeterra. Why do druids and shamans feel comfortable healing in battle, but not medically trained professionals?

It does make sense for him to accept death in such a form. I don't think Nevon falls along the lines of those zombie doctors who worked on and  to keep them alive. The way you describe him, he is definitely not one to muddy the boundary of life and death.

I too also think Nevon would that the end of battle is just waiting before another phase of war. This is why I feel that, "I'll patch you up when war is said and done," quote is significant. Nevon is always seeking the end of war itself.

To extend on Nevon's idea of what war is. Since he feels that Zaun itself is can be a war, which I assume is the survival in poverty and poor conditions, this could be connected to Nevon's views on family.

In general, Nevon seems like a lone wolf. However, that does not necessarily mean he would be detached from his family. Perhaps it's just that the rest of his family died. That in itself could be a conflict.

Perhaps his parents died sooner than most normally do. Most likely stemming from harsh conditions at Zaun. He could feel guilt that while he was a doctor, he could not help them enough. This guilt could then be the motivating factor for why Nevon is attached to his patients, as he exhibits a greater appreciation of what he has while he still has it.

If not Nevon's parents, it could be his wife. The death of his parents could be his motivation to become a doctor, while the death of his wife and unborn child could be his motivation for why he was so strung on research that he would accept a deal from Noxus.