The Big Time · Character

Doc

The outfit's medic, found grandly at the bar with tea chasing a shot, steadying nerves and tempers while the war leaks through the walls.

supporting

Also known as the Doc

First appearance: i enter three hussars

As a supporting figure in The Big Time, Doc is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Has a flashback to his time in a Nazi salt mine, chanting in German about salt and a whip, before snapping out of it with a shrug.

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Doc is the outfit's calm center, the one who drinks his tea with a chaser while the Void glitters outside and everyone else trades gossip about mine fields and shortages. He carries the quiet authority of a man who patches up casualties from wars that haven't happened yet. When the party turns tense, his rational conversation with Sevensee and Maud shows why the Place needs him: someone has to keep the recuperation from becoming another casualty.

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Character Web

23 connections

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Relationship types

Professional
Other

Character groups

Time-Traveling Ensemble Members
Protagonist

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

Setup
Escalation
Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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Relationships

Unknown Narrator
professional · positive
Doc is a skilled colleague and healer who works alongside the narrator, offering medical… How this plays out →
Unknown Narrator
professional · positive
Doc is a skilled colleague and healer who works alongside the narrator, offering medical… How this plays out →
Unknown Narrator
professional · positive
Doc is a skilled colleague and healer who works alongside the narrator, offering medical… How this plays out →

Unknown Narrator
Doc is a skilled colleague and healer who works alongside the narrator, offering medical expertise and pragmatic advice.
Unknown Narrator
Doc is a skilled colleague and healer who works alongside the narrator, offering medical expertise and pragmatic advice.
Unknown Narrator
Doc is a skilled colleague and healer who works alongside the narrator, offering medical expertise and pragmatic advice.

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In the story

Doc appears across 5 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.

II: A Right-Hand Glove
Has a flashback to his time in a Nazi salt mine, chanting in German about salt and a whip, before snapping out of it with a shrug.
III: Nine for a Party
Doc is drunk but knowledgeable, commenting on a Venusian bowl in the Art Gallery. He is the oldest inhabitant of the Place.
X: Motives and Opportunities
Doc fiddles around the Gallery; the narrator notes his strong motive to avoid punishment for dereliction of duty.
XIV: “Now Will You Talk?”
Referenced as having tried to communicate the idea of inverting the box to disarm the bomb.
XV: Lord Spider
Howls like a wolf, revealing he was responsible for the Spider wail sound used in Sid's act.

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