| “ | Come, let us begin the operation. I'll excise you all from Redo. | ” |
| — Doktor | ||
Doktor is a member of Obbligato Musicians. He works as a doctor at a hospital on the outskirts of Okitama City and always pushes Kranke around by her wheelchair. He has a cool and blunt personality, but is devoted entirely to his actively works on musical activities. Other than Kranke, he prefers not to interact with the other musicians.
His flower is the marigold. According to Takuya Yamanaka, the marigold has pest repelling properties, making them beneficial companion plants to nearby flowers. This in combination to its supposed medicinal properties caused it to earn the nickname of being a "plant doctor". In Japanese flower language, the marigold represents "despair".[1]
History[]
Doktor was a physician with a lofty ambition: to save as many in need as he possibly could. Any who knew him were touched by the fervor with which he shared this dream. Despite his prudish, yet gauche demeanor, he was a jovial man beloved by all.
At 25, Doktor had his first patient, a ten-year-old girl from a wealthy family. Her congenital, incurable illness limited usage of her legs, and she had spent nearly all her life in a private hospital ward.
The girl was emotionally closed off, likely due to her upbringing. Her utter despair about her chances at life caused a young, passionate Doktor to do whatever he could to get the girl to open her heart.
The girl's sole hobby was music. Doktor, concluding it a potential avenue of communication, decided to learn it from scratch, humbly asking the girl to teach him.
Despite initially turning him down, the girl eventually gave in to his persistence. Over a long period of time, the girl taught Doktor music, and the young physician gradually thawed the girl's frozen heart.
Before long, ten years passed. As the girl grew into adulthood and Doktor established his medical practice, a clue to cure the girl's disease surfaced in the form of a successful operation overseas.
Doktor, in his sincere desire to grant the girl a chance to walk the world outside, recommended the operation despite her objections, eventually earning her consent after much persuasion.
The operation, however, ended in a catastrophic failure.
As a result, the girl became entirely unable to walk. While she herself didn't blame Doktor, his remorse over destroying her future was immense.
Doktor began to ignore his other patients, thinking of no one but the young girl. His once-cheerful countenance too, was no more.
In the depths of their despair and regret came their invitations from Bluffman. For a decade, they shared the virtuadoll songs they composed with each other, unaware that their songs, which the girl uploaded for fun, had attained a fair amount of recognition.
Upon learning his music had become acclaimed after botching a surgery, Doktor couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh at the irony of it all.
The outline Bluffman had given about Redo sounded like a pipe dream. But to the half-insane Doktor, it was a lone strand of hope.
The world he spoke of could make it such that the ruined surgery had never occurred.
The possibility was so alluring, the reality of the world itself was comparatively trivial.
If Bluffman's story was true, then one could argue that Redo was, in fact, the "real" world, were they to absorb the greater part of humanity within it.
The young girl seemed to feel the same way. Thus were the two new Musicians, Doktor and Kranke, brought into being.
But even in Redo, Kranke was, for reasons unknown, still unable to walk. Doktor pressed Regret and Bluffman for answers. They had stated Redo could grant any wish, but knew not why only his had failed.
Bluffman informed the frustrated Doktor that his only other hope of curing Kranke's leg was to gather more power for Regret by further expanding and perfecting Redo.
As inadequate and aggravating as his answer was, it made sense to Doktor that Redo itself had the power he required. As such, he had no choice but to assent.
Doktor then devoted himself to bringing as many people into Redo as possible by composing as many songs as he could. As his deeds were dedicated solely to saving Kranke, he had by then lost all interest in the fate of others.
In reality, however, Doktor was afraid. Though the young girl, after all this time, had never once blamed him for the surgery, his doubts lingered.
"Perhaps in truth, she holds a grudge against me..."
Because of that all-consuming fear, Doktor never believed he was doing enough to atone.
Kranke undoubtedly had a special place in Doktor's heart. At times, he would wonder if his feelings were that of love.
After the surgery, however, anything he'd felt had changed.
From that moment on, Kranke became nothing more to him than an object of penance.
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