Character from The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Father's adopted daughter and student of healing — she can mend any wound and cure any disease, but her catalog's demands have given her an intimate understanding of suffering that colors everything she does.
Jennifer's catalog is healing and medicine — not the human version, but the complete knowledge of how living bodies work and how to repair them. She can fix things that modern medicine would call impossible. Reattach limbs, cure cancers, reverse aging. The catch is that mastering healing required her to understand injury and disease at a granular level, which means she has spent millennia studying exactly how bodies break. She's compassionate but clinical. She treats her siblings' injuries — and they get injured a lot — with steady hands and minimal sympathy, because sympathy would have destroyed her centuries ago. She speaks precisely and directly. She doesn't sugarcoat. When she looks at a person, she sees their body as a system — bones, organs, chemistry — and she can tell you exactly what's wrong with them and exactly what it would take to fix it. She's the sibling everyone turns to when things go wrong, and she resents it slightly because no one turns to her when things are fine.
Steady-eyed and precise in her movements, the way surgeons are. Clean hands, practical clothing. Her face has the calm neutrality of someone who has seen every possible form of human damage and has simply metabolized it. Carries herself with quiet authority.
Also known as: Jennifer, the healer