Josef Esser

Josef Esser is a Mann Co mercenary Medic, stationed in Mountainlab.

Summary
Professional but silent, Dr. Josef Esser is the RED team's Medic. He rarely speaks or shows himself around his teammates, often choosing to opt out of social events with the rare exception of Oktoberfest and Christmas each year. Esser only really ever talks to Engineer Scott Michael Palmer, though he has yet to explain why he doesn't socialize with his team.

Biography
Coming from the beautiful city of Leipzig, Josef Esser was always the strange kid growing up. He had little interest in socializing with anyone, including his parents. As a result, he had very few friends of his age. While many people assumed he didn't have friends at all, Josef in fact did have quite a lot of friends, all of which were teachers, professors, and experts in certain fields of study Josef had a specific interest in.

While other kids of his age would head out to the field to play during their breaks, Josef would head to the library to have chats or vieo calls with professors from universities. From them Josef would learn all sorts of things kids of his age would not have been able to understand yet. One professor in ornithology saw his limitless potential and eventually asked if Josef felt limited by his school. Josef agreed, and the professor decided to get in touch with his parents to suggest allowing Josef to advance his education early.

Lucky for him, his parents agreed in the hopes that their son would become less reclusive if he had more freedom. With his opportunity, Josef excelled and soared past his peers. His school did their best to give Josef the opportunities to advance, and he was soon accepted into LMU Munich at the age of 16. He studied ornithology in his first two years, but eventually switched ornithology to a minor and took medicine as a major.

He graduated at 19 with his PhD, but suddenly realised he had no idea what to do next. He was given offers to continue his education, but decided to decline. He then disappeared for 7 years, though he constantly sent word to his parents to reassure them that he wasn't in trouble or anything. After coming back to Germany, he became a professor in medicine at the very university he had studied in. His skill and lack of asking questions made him stand out in Miss Pauling's records, and after finding out that he did recreational shooting, decided to contact him and offer him a position at Mann Co.

Personality
Josef is incredibly professional and knows how to keep anyone in his care feeling safe. He is geared to be tuned into his work 24/7 and is incredibly resilient to stress, able to take on piles of workload and getting everything done. He likes to have something to do and tends to be very lost if he doesn't have work that needs doing, so his team is very willing to leave him extra work to keep occupied.