Michaela Schneider

Time for them to know the true terror of our bio organic weapons!

Michaela Schneider, codenamed "BERTHA", was a covert operative of Umbrella Security Service, a subsidiary paramilitary organization owned by the Umbrella Corporation. By the year 1998, she was assigned to the U.S.S. Delta Team ("Wolfpack") as the unit's medic.

Biography
My name is BERTHA. Ready to play.

Prior to her service under the Umbrella Corporation, Michaela Schneider developed exceptional skills as a German medic, becoming an excellent healer with a keen interest in making the human body operate at maximum capacity. However, her extreme aptitude for medicine contrasts with her disregard for human life. Rather than placating her patients, she enjoyed causing them terror by detailing the exact amount of pain that they could expect to endure under her care. Her personal delight in a person's agony is further evident in the fact that she rarely ever resorts to using anesthetics on her subjects.

Following Schneider's discharge, the retired soldier made an unsuccessful attempt at reintegrating into society; her lack of concern for other people's well-being made her completely unsuitable to continue practicing medicine in a civilian role. However, Schneider's skills as a medic, combined with her lack of ethics or sentimentality, ultimately qualified her for employment in Umbrella's Security Service unit, under which she gained the codename "BERTHA." In addition to her new affiliation with the Umbrella Corporation, BERTHA also sold her services to the private contractors, utilizing her expertise as a professional torturer-for-hire. As effective as she is as a healer, she is just as efficient at causing pain. Through her extensive knowledge of the human anatomy, BERTHA has developed certain interrogation techniques that enable her to cause immense agony in her subjects, but without killing them. Hence, she can repeat the process multiple times. Her personal work is also a vast source of top secret and back channel information.

By 1998, BERTHA was assigned to "Wolfpack," Umbrella's new U.S.S. Delta Team, which was reconstituted after the previous unit's destruction. Her unit assisted agent HUNK's U.S.S. Alpha Team in their mission to retrieve the G-Virus, and was later deployed to Raccoon City after Umbrella's t-Virus contaminated the area and infected most of the population.

Specialist Skills and Equipment
Unique Brutal Kill

BERTHA performs a stabbing attack that triggers the appearance of a Green Herb.

Passive Abilities

First Aid Proficiency

Allows BERTHA to spawn with a First Aid Spray and increases her carrying capacity of First Aid Sprays. Field Medic
 * Level 1: Max carry 2 (750 XP)
 * Level 2: Max carry 3 (2000 XP)
 * Level 3: Max carry 4 (5000 XP)

Allows BERTHA to restore an additional % of health when using Green Herbs and First Aid Sprays.
 * Level 1: 16% (750 XP)
 * Level 2: 33% (2000 XP)
 * Level 3: 50% (5000 XP)

Active Abilities

Stimpack

A hypo gun that increases the accuracy and movement speed of BERTHA or a teammate of her choice. Ability lasts for 15 seconds.
 * Level 1: Max carry 1 (1000 XP)
 * Level 2: Max carry 2 (2500 XP)
 * Level 3: Max carry 3 (5000 XP)
 * Ability restores after 30 seconds.

Neutralize Infection

A hypo gun that can cure infection, or deal damage to T-Virus infected individuals.
 * Level 1: Deals light damage to infected (750 XP)
 * Level 2: Deals medium damage to infected (2000 XP)
 * Level 3: Deals heavy damage to infected (5000 XP)
 * Ability restores after 20 seconds.

Painkiller

A hypo gun that reduces the amount of damage dealt to BERTHA or a teammate. Ability lasts for 10 seconds.
 * Level 1: 50% damage reduction (1250 XP)
 * Level 2: 70% damage reduction (3000 XP)
 * Level 3: 90% damage reduction (6000 XP)
 * Ability restores after 30 seconds.

Trivia

 * While her last name is Schneider, the Inserted Evil ARG used Heinzwaffen in her profile. This was an older version of her name which was replaced by Schneider. Evidently, the Inserted Evil staff failed to notice the name change before publishing.
 * BERTHA is a high-skilled knife mercenary, especially with long blades like machetes.
 * She is the only female member of Wolfpack to have her eyes covered as she wears a standard gas mask.
 * As an AI, she will use an MP5, a weapon of her native country and the iconic weapon of the U.S.S.