You Will Not Keep Me Down

the doctor is the character you play as in og arknights!!! (NOT endfield. endfield is an entirely different thing with an entirely different protagonist)

^^ behold. my eepchures.

to cut 6 years of gacha game lore Extremely short; the doctor is one of the last remaining survivors of a spacefaring precursor race heavily implied to be humans, or at least human adjacent, but we don't have time to get into All That who shaped the entire arknights setting as everyone knows it. due to Tragic Backstory Reasons, they've almost completely forgotten their origins + identity, so they spend most of their days as a field commander/cancer researcher/ruthless tactician/prolific gambler/silly little freak/former oracle/bringer of doomed yuri/devoted parent/actual doctor. they're hyperintelligent, hyperempathetic, and exceptionally physically frail. like, "the only hand to hand combat they've ever won is against a dying old man", frail. like, "their bones break from a really strong handshake and they get winded walking up stairs", frail. it's heavily implied (and maybe outright stated somewhere? i'll have to double check) that the suit they wear is a physical necessity because their immune system is thinner than a dehydrated leaf. ☝️ but! they make up for this by minmaxxing intelligence and wisdom to the maximum. in lore, anyway. for some inexplicable reason they immediately forget how to command and become a bumbling idiot the minute i personally get to play them. weird 🤔

they also canonically wake up at 4 in the morning to cook instant noodles, and by cook, i mean eating uncooked noodles and pouring boiling water into their mouth so it cooks inside their mouth.

they're also autistic.

too weak to carry a medkit

from valorem-vigilo

Sundae, Mondae: Ice Cream Treats

Tuesdae, Wednesdae: Fruity Sweets

Thursdae: (just some boiled beets)

Fridae: Roasted Dove

 Why have you forsaken us?

これは大陸版6周年PVが格好良すぎてパッションがヤバイ！！ってなって描いた絵（2025年6月頃）

Nonetheless, we do have some examples of when the Law has allowed people to shoot each other and not fall:

1. Shooting the gun out of someone's hand without shooting at them (Lemuen vs Andoain).

2. Shooting someone with full, genuine belief that you're doing it for the good of Laterano (Andoain vs the Pope, both feeling the same thing, as well as Federico vs Arturia).

There seems to be some component of personal belief about the purpose of one's bullet, but we also know that the Law is micromanaging things much more actively than usual circa 1099. We also know that shooting someone without the intent to harm will still cause you to fall (as seen with Fortuna).

Thus, I posit that the Law thinks that Cliff is bad for Laterano and gave Woody a pass... which makes some amount of sense, since Cliff has spent the last several decades reverse engineering sankta firearms and distributing easier-to-use versions of them to non-sankta, and has all but abandoned Laterano and the Law itself.