Memories of a Crippled Soul (Doctor Strange)

Doctor Strange RP.2: "Memories of a Crippled Soul" is set on December 25th, 1978, Christmas. Stephen Strange returns home after several surgeries only to learn he can no-longer continue his medical profession due to his disabilities, and will have to retire. Now alone, his friends abandoning him, he's targeted by the people he's screwed over. This roleplay is a big turning point in the Doctor Strange series. Written by IBI, logged and held by Rigby (Doctor Strange).

The Story
The RP opens with Stephen Strange, following his horrific crash, in a hospital. He wakes up to see his bandaged hands, and a doctor arrives to tell Strange his hands are broken and it’d be a miracle if they’d ever heal again. Strange, saddened by this revelation as he wants to continue his passion as a neurosurgeon, moves to Manhattan to cure his broken hands. While doing so he enters a downward spiral in his life. The once praised and rich neurosurgeon falls into a state of low income, credit, depression and fails financially. As he attempts to make dinner for himself, the thought of setting his hand on the burning stove came across his mind. He hoped that his hands would miraculously heal, and he’d feel the burn in his finger tips. He’d feel nothing, and soon went to bed after. As he slept, two men kicked down his door and awoke him. They held him at gunpoint, and taunted the former neurosurgeon of his current state due to him declining them in the past out of arrogant ways. The men would make Strange beg for his life, but the men wouldn’t budge, and one of them would fire on Strange. However, before the bullet could pierce, it would be stopped just behind Strange’s head. The two men looked over and saw a mysterious woman in yellow robes, who utilized more of her magic by reversing the men’s state of pain and agony during the time Strange had declined them. The two men, would drop, hurt and incapacitated once again. Strange would be curious as to how the woman did all those things, but she’d inform him of how she could help him. The woman would reveal herself as the Ancient One, and would tell Strange she could teach him the same magic she utilized, as she sees potential in him and is the reason she sought him out. Strange only wishes for his hands to be healed so he could “fix his life and return to his occupation as a neurosurgeon” and doesn’t care about the magic. However, the Ancient One warps the duo, bringing Strange to that of Christine Palmer’s (Strange’s ex girlfriend) residence. The Ancient One would reveal to Strange she knew he was lying back at his penthouse and questions what really is the truth for him. Strange reveals that he wants to heal his hands because he wants to save lives, repair his life and return to Christine a better man. The Ancient One then warps the two to the Manhattan Sanctum Sanctorum, home of the Masters of the Mystic Arts in Manhattan. The Ancient One brings Strange to the top floor and gives him a bowl that contains a mysterious liquid. She tells him to look within the liquid and upon doing so, enters a trance and gains mysterious visions of his future. Upon coming out of the trance, Strange accepts the Ancient One’s offer to join the Masters of the Mystic Arts.