Casey Jones

Did your character grow up in Phoenix Arizona between 1997 to 2003?
Were they a difficult kid that hated authority (and or including their parents) ?

Then you may have known Casey and been at one of her Parties before.

As unlikely as it would be, perhaps your character too was there in those years and places that now belong to a world that seemed equally as chaotic as the new one before themselves.

Casey served as a 68W Combat medic, attached to various units. Maybe she helped save your life, maybe you just shared a smoke. Who knows?

If you're still serving, she seems WAY more uptight and hostile than she did back then. What's up with that?

2004–2005 :
1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade
Afghanistan - Pakuka Province
2007-2008 :
1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade
Eastern Afghanistan

It's likely that if your character has been working on the regular Zenith route in the last half year that they would know Casey at the very least on a last name basis.

The woman seems oddly dettached from just about anything. Including any emotional investment in her work. At least she seems to always keep a calm head, too. Even to an at times unnerving extent.

Is she a good WORKER? You bet. She's real good at her job as a paramedic. Not an emergency that she can't at least mostly handle.
Chatty? Far from it.
Most people deem her as cold and dettached from the regular perception of human emotion, or in plain terms, kinda eerie.

... But maybe you know her better than that.

Perhaps you've gotten injured on the cruiseliner before, maybe it was someone you know.
And just maybe, Casey was there to help you. Especially in these last few horrible weeks

While she seems rather cold and to the point a lot of the time, it's still notable that she does her job with a notable degree of care for the crew, refugees and passengers that are onboard of the ship. She does her job well, and seems to take complaints to heart. Even if she seems not to openly acknowledge them.

She's been spiting the military in comparison to you at just about each possible step. She's not making it much of a secret that she likely treated you far better than the uniforms.

Maybe you had a positive interaction with her before?
Or maybe you simply appreciate someone who seems to dislike the soldiers onboard as much as you do?

Perhaps you've gotten injured on the cruiseliner before, maybe it was someone you know.
And just maybe, sadly only Casey was there to help you.

To you, she did not only SEEM cold and dettached, She truly WAS.

Treating you with the same respect and dignity as a mere task on a checklist. It's evident this woman loathes the uniformed soldiers onboard, although she doesn't voice it. Instead she subjects them to minimal treatments and minimal care. Enough to do her job. And that's about it. Things have only gotten WORSE since the vessel was seized.

Strangely enough the woman seems to actually carry a pair of dogtags on herself. And they don't seem the decorative kind bought in a fun souvenir shop, either.

Maybe you had a negative interaction with her-
Maybe you bothered to ask what's her deal?