Fan Casting Prof. Barbara Ross in The Immortal Kango

A steel-nerved trauma psychologist and physician who specializes in treating unstable military veterans. She completely bypasses the classic "helpless love interest" trope; she treats Hamish and the beast not as two separate entities, but as a singular, severely fractured psyche. Standing fearlessly in the line of fire between Kango's feral rage and her father's heavy artillery, she uses clinical psychological grounding techniques to talk the monster down—burdened by the terrifying realization that saving Hamish's mind might mean breaking her own.