Diagnosis & Treatment

Florence Nightingale Also known as: Angel of Crimea, Little War Office, The White Cloth of Steel, Head Nurse (婦長, Fuchō), Mercédès (by Edmond Dantès)

Species: Servant / Human Gender: Female Height: 165 cm Weight: 52 kg True Name: Florence Nightingale Class: Berserker Source: Historical Fact Region: Europe Alignment: Lawful Good Likes: Cleanliness, good hygiene, good health Dislikes: Uncleanliness, lack of hygiene, poor health

Overview

Florence Nightingale is a Berserker-class Servant summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders. A woman of the British Empire from the 18th–19th century, she is revered as the strongest maiden of her era. She held an unwavering, almost fanatical belief in saving lives, opposing the cruel conditions of her time through nursing and healthcare reform.

Appearance

Nightingale appears as a young woman with long, braided platinum-blonde hair and striking red eyes. She wears a 19th-century British Army uniform paired with a black skirt trimmed in red. In her Second Ascension, she carries bags of medical supplies around her waist and a rotary pistol on her left hip.

Personality

Nightingale is a woman of absolute conviction, dedicated solely to the sick, injured, and dying. No matter the obstacles, she never wavers from her singular ideal of saving others. She possesses a tenacious, persistent mentality akin to a one-woman army—never discouraged and always willing to speak harsh truths, even to figures as high as Queen Victoria.

Due to her manifestation as a Berserker with an EX-rank Mad Enhancement skill, her already intense personality is further amplified. She often does not listen to others and tends to hold one-sided conversations, speaking more to herself than to her interlocutor, though she maintains a composed manner of speech. Mutual understanding is difficult.

She does not clearly recognize her Master beyond vaguely regarding them as “the commander of her army.” While she may show interest in their well-being, she is not inclined to obey them.

Nightingale believes pain is proof of existence. She finds joy in nursing others but becomes saddened when her efforts are undone by patients putting themselves in harm’s way again. She urges those under her care not to overexert themselves. She values sanitation, cleanliness, and overall well-being above almost all else, viewing an unclean or decaying environment, injury, and sickness as hell on earth. To her, there is nothing better in this world than proper hygiene and health.

Reflecting the era she lived in, she regards magic as part of the occult and considers it ineffective for healing. She insists medical treatment need not (and should not) rely on magic or anything associated with the occult.

Background

Born into a prosperous upper-class family and treated as a flower of high society, the young Nightingale nevertheless aspired to become a nurse—then regarded as a lowly occupation. She faced vehement opposition from her mother Frances and older sister Frances Parthenope. Though some claimed she had fallen into a degree of insanity, she never gave up. She studied at the German Institute of Kaiserswerth, which possessed cutting-edge medical knowledge for the time.

After mastering nursing and medical techniques, she reformed the nursing system as superintendent of a clinic on Harley Street in London. Using her private funds, she built modern facilities and improved working conditions for nurses. She later accepted the request of her acquaintance Sidney Herbert, then Wartime Minister, to serve as nurse manager of the British Army Hospital during the Crimean War.

There she found hellish conditions: unsanitary environments caused by ignorance of proper medical treatment and nursing, compounded by outdated regulations. Nightingale and the nurses under her command launched a thorough reform of wartime medical care. Although the mortality rate initially skyrocketed, she refused to bend from her beliefs. She enforced sanitary practices, proper nursing, gathered resources, and spent her own money. After six months, the death rate among her patients fell from nearly 40% to a mere 5%. Soldiers came to regard her as an angel.

London newspapers hailed her as an angel who had descended onto the battlefield. She received widespread praise, interview requests, and marriage proposals—none of which she cared about. In her own eyes she was no angel, merely a woman trying to save people.

After the war she continued her reforms of wartime medical treatment and military health, receiving support from Queen Victoria. She promoted the analysis of medical records, becoming a forerunner of modern statistical studies. She improved domestic clinics, trained government health inspectors in epidemic prevention, reformed almshouses, and more. Never content with praise, she continued opposing the death-filled world around her.

Her absolute belief in saving lives extended even to the willingness to take lives if it would result in more people surviving—a conviction some regarded as born of madness and horror. This is why she was assigned to the Berserker class. While some part of her may be reluctant about the classification, as long as it allows her to save people, she does not mind.

Upon returning from military service she arrived with a large sum donated by soldiers in recognition of her work as the “Angel of Crimea.” She used this wealth to establish the Nightingale Foundation, a nursing school, and London’s St. Thomas’ Hospital, among other initiatives. Nurses trained under her spread across the world, improving nursing and hygiene wherever they went. Her actions gradually changed the world. To this day, nursing practitioners take the moral oath known as the Nightingale Pledge.

Florence Nightingale’s existence is defined by an excessively strong desire to save others—an ideal she has never abandoned, even in death. Currently engaged in intimate activity.