Very strong desire to name the hum!Peridot - Peryl, well sounds like it, eh?
A little lore to help you understand what's going on.
BUTT before that, a warning, I have VERY bad english and managed partly with the help of a translator, the original text is written in russian in my tgch 😞
anddd lore, yeah
The events take place in a fictional world, in fictional states with different regimes.
peridot was from birth in an extremely totalitarian, closed state, where from the very childhood only one idea was instilled in her mind - to serve and obey the authorities. The fate befell Peri, and in order to ensure her chances for the most favourable future as the lesser of evils, she was sent to a military engineering boarding school from the time she was a baby, which was also an educational institution where those who served the authorities were brought up (a Spartan child, for God's sake), so her whole life revolved around technology, systems and serving her own country.
She would have continued to participate in the creation and testing of military technologies, until one day of testing equipment behind the walls (i guess, "servicemen" were the only ones who could leave the walls, not for nothing, of course, but still), she had a chance to see another piece of the world, completely different from the one described by her childhood neighbors.
At that very moment, it seems, there was a point of no return, there was no way back, only forward, into nurturing, denial and hard acceptance of the idea of the truth that she had seen with her own eyes.
breaking of templates and reorganization of her whole life was hard, even painful, because how could it be? To give her whole life in service and to deny it after so many years, dreaming only of escape from the country she considered to be the standard?
she was nothing but a traitor, not just any traitor, but one close to power, a trusted one, she did not notice how she became the one she despised most of all.
one day, information was leaked, and in spite of all caution, her plans to "escape", or rather, just her thoughts and dreams, were discovered and immediately reported to her superiors so that they could take action.
And Peridot is not an ordinary citizen who would not take five minutes to be shot in the forehead, she is an extremely useful worker, which would be wasteful to get rid of in such a way, therefore, as a warning and restriction, she is deprived of one of her legs (this is done under medical supervision, under partial anesthesia, so that she is conscious enough to hear what is said to her and see the consequences of her freedom of thought) and loses some of her powers, including the ability to get outside the walls.
now all her work is concentrated inside, and the leg will somehow slow her down and put her at risk of being caught, option one - submit and stop.
but will the peridot accept that option?
and this part I haven't thought of, but I suppose that she could plan for a long time and finally, having chosen the right moment, sneak to the exit car, but everything can't go smoothly, that's why at the most important moment, where freedom is only a few steps away, her hand is seized and in such an emergency situation, she thinks of nothing better than to break and cut it off.
when she escapes, she can be picked up closer to the border and given the necessary help.
Anyway peridot fugitive, lore not to be taken too seriously, it's just a knee-jerk made up backstory for fun.
