Vince is a doctor who looks to seek his patients's happiness and their frequent return. He purposefully underreports symptoms during nobles' check-ups in order to get them coming back. He bills people unfairly for minor things. He takes longer breaks than he should. He snaps at the nurses.
Yet, there's a good man somewhere in there. He's loyal to his wife and is expecting a child sometime soon.
Unlike many nobles, including his own spouse, his intellectual mind struggles with the fact that nobles hold no real power over the state, yet their society has been generationally punched down. He keeps these cards close to his chest, finding it difficult to cope with the institutions built up around him.
He drinks three cups of coffee a day.
Vince works at the noble neighborhood's hospital. He was recently promoted to head doctor.
Vince was your average, noble kid. Stable family, stressful yet good education, and aiming to be the best around. Prejudice against off-worlders, like for many nobles, was engrained in his blood.
It was XX817 when the incident happened. Vince was taking a lunch break at his favorite diner when an armed off-worlder teenager broke in and demanded goods from the cashier. The doctor cowered in fear. Thankfully for everybody there, Organia Sweloz was there. She quickly disarmed him at the expense of her own body. He had shot her in the stomach.
An intermediate doctor on scene, Vince took it upon himself to tend to her injuries until proper professionals could arrive to treat her grievous wounds. He swore and cursed under his breath at the evil off-worlder, wishing for him to have a slow and painful demise.
Organia stayed silent until Vince asked her, "Such monsters, aren't they? Coming in here, demanding our hard earned Marks to go spend on their dirty street drugs."
"He wanted a box of bagels."
Vince was confused. "What?"
"The kid asked for food. That box wouldn't have even lasted him three days."
"...I see."
Nothing more followed.
The doctor finished patching up Organia, watching apathetically as she disappeared down the street towards his workplace. When he brought the situation up with his family, they waved her odd words away like they were nothing. They stayed with Vince more often than his wife did. Over the years, the seed of doubt placed by Organia clashed with every single awful notion he had about off-worlders before.
It was months before he would ever see an off-worlder again. An important diplomat from a foreign nation was rushed into the noble hospital's emergency room due to an internal organ issue. The urgent request to treat them came straight from Blema Von Voldark. The diplomat was human, so their biology was familiar to the doctor.
Many of the nurses seemed apathetic towards the stranger's woes, slapping the patient in the head to be quiet as they groaned in pain and grasped at their stomachs.
From beyond the fog of distrust and hate, Vince's heart spoke aloud and told them to cut it out. His nurses flashed him confused looks, but he obliged in order to save their paychecks.
It was mere hours until the diplomat was stable and promptly escorted back to Stem Tower. They thanked Vince, giving him one of the off-world pins from their jacket and a firm handshake.
After that, it was certain to the doctor that something was wrong in the nobility's culture. He was not willing to address it openly; after all, the mere recognition that the Stem Rams weren't higher than off-worlders was rather uncomfortable to grasp. Yet, if the Stem Ram were to ever come across a bleeding off-worlder, perhaps... It was his duty as a doctor to help. Vince had taken the oath, and though he bent it quite often for his own benefit, he didn't plan to make intentional lapses in medical attention like his peers.
He was promoted to head doctor in XX820 for his outstanding work across the board.
Yank Yenderson - Vince's grunkle. Though Vince has never met him personally, he's heard quite a lot about him while enrolled in Shroom's Academy.
Organia Sweloz - Her words will never leave him.
Wally "Wagon" Yonsohn - One of his more frequent and respected patients. From what Vince can grasp, Wally shares similar views as he does; Vince is scared to go the full way and ask direct questions, though.