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She got lucky and only lost one eye instead of her head to an enemy sniper.

The solution to the loss of an eye is to enhance the other with a mutagenic injection which transforms it into a "Homunculus Eye", allowing it a vastly widened FOV, perfect focus in its entire FOV, and immunity to ocular degradation with age - it's basically a biologically perfect organ that doesn't age. The Homunculus Eye serum is extremely expensive and difficult to produce, and using the eye to its full extent is taxing both physically and due to sensory overload. The benefits of agelessness apply to other Homunculus Organs, but these are even rarer and more expensive.

Traditionally, the full procedure also entails the insertion of a Brass Eye into the empty socket, which is an arcane sigil at the end of a long spike that is hammered in throught he old ocular nerve's pathway. A Brass Eye's vision is objectively worse than a normal one's, but it confers sight beyond the physical, allowing one to see spirits and the like. Altogether, this allows the subject to not just regain normal sight but surpass human ocular capabilities by orders of magnitude, if the patient learns to use the new eyes properly. This character didn't go through the second half of the procedure and later replaced her missing eye with an ancient, highly-advanced prosthetic called a Philosopher's Eye, which is the left eye you see in the image.