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About You - The Player

Name: Alli

Age: 25

Contact: airchildstrega @ plurk or AIM

Past Role Playing Experience: Played Helen here for 2 years!



The Character

Name: The Doctor

Age/Birthdate: …yeah no idea. Very old? Canon is too spotty for me to give a real answer. 900…ish

Species: Wanderer

Canon: Doctor Who

*Pre-existing powers: The greatest power that a Time Lord possesses comes as a self preservation measure. In the moments prior to the body of a Time Lord dying, their biological material regenerates, changing the outward appearance of the Time Lord completely. Essentially, the Time Lord remains the same, but many mannerisms are altered or created based on the feel of the new body, which causes every regeneration of a Time Lord to be distinct from the others.

Because of this ability to regenerate, the Time Lords have extended lives. The Doctor claims to be 900 some-odd years old. As he is on his 9th incarnation when we hear this number, one can then assess that even with 9 fully lived lives, the average life span of one regeneration of a Time Lord is longer than the average human’s. Paired with an extended lifespan, the Time Lords’ vast knowledge of time and space can then be attributed (in part) to the length of time at which they have to learn. This is not to say that the Time Lords do not have a natural aptitude for understanding the inner workings of temporal conditions and the universe as a whole, but that their mastery of it could be due to the centuries available to learn and hone the knowledge.

When the Doctor first meets Rose, he describes himself by explaining how the planet is hurdling through space, but none of the humans can feel it. He states that he can feel that movement, that he can sense the rush of it. While this statement is not elaborated overtly, it does give the allusion to the notion that Time Lords have a sense of space, as well as the state of time.

The Doctor’s most versatile tool (beyond his own mind, of course) is his sonic screwdriver. There’s really no set list of things that the sonic can do, but it’s most common uses include lock picking (unless the lock is wood. The sonic doesn’t do wood…), medical scans, locating/tracking alien life, and controlling other devices. He keeps it on him at all times, or at least he tries to.

And then there’s the TARDIS. Oh, the TARDIS is a thing of beauty all in itself. It’s the Doctor’s ship, which takes him anywhere and anywhen that he wants. It’s bigger on the inside and has more rooms than a typical person can imagine. The TARDIS is also responsible for the absence of a language barrier while out traveling with the Doctor.

*Rift Change, if applicable: Whenever he grabs his sonic screwdriver, it will become a banana. This power is only applicable if HE grabs the sonic. If someone else takes it out for him and hands it over, it’s fine. But that will require him to be friendly enough with people for that to happen. Ha.

Dreamwidth: fantastically

Played By: Christopher Eccleston

Icon: here



Appearance: Tall, short hair, big ears, goofy smile. He’s very expressive when he wants to be and wears a lot of dark colors. see here



Personality: Because of the nature of Time Lords, the way that they change so often throughout their lives (always different and yet always the same), to know the Doctor is really a matter of knowing who he is at that very moment. This isn’t to say that he doesn’t have a very distinct self, but more that the Doctor has the ability to be many things at once, while at the same time, none at all.

This particular incarnation of the Doctor exists in a state of recent grief. He’s running from it, determined to make his life worth something. He’s the last of the Time Lords (or so he believes) and he has to make that meaningful, especially knowing that he is the cause for the demise of his own race. Guilt and grief are twisted lovers in his heart, causing turmoil to skirt the outskirts of most of his actions. He wants desperately to make up for what he has done, all the while knowing that he never can. He will be what he’s always been… an outsider, a teacher, an unlikely savior, a destroyer of worlds.

But all of that is kept inside. What the Doctor is more likely to show to someone that he meets through happenstance or takes along with him to travel is a fairly jovial sort of fellow. He’s got an easy grin and a ton of energy. He’s snarky and always has a comeback. You’ll never get the last word with this one around. It’s hard to say if all of his happy-go-lucky attitude is faked, but a great deal of it is certainly a coping mechanism. If he throws himself into something, if he forces himself to have fun with it, then he can’t dwell on the less pleasant emotions that he’s constantly trying to avoid. But with the proper company, the Doctor can find happiness that isn’t manufactured or put on for show. There are moments, which grow more frequently as he gets further and further from the Time War, where the Doctor is genuinely happy and can get wrapped up in the present rather than dwelling on his past.

Along with wit and sarcasm, the Doctor has a short fuse. It doesn’t take much to rub him the wrong way. He’ll refer to humans as “stupid apes” while risking his own life to save them. But just as quickly, he’ll be soothed by some progress with whatever problem he’s trying to solve. For his companions, the Doctor irritability can be intimidating at first, but eventually people learn how to better handle him. It’s much like handling a small child, in that there’s a fair balance between fighting back and completely ignoring the behavior.

To his enemies, the Doctor’s temper is something to be feared. He is the Oncoming Storm. His mere mention makes powerful races hesitate and rethink their plans of domination. A lot of this has to do with his reputation, but a great deal of it has to do with his confidence. The Doctor knows that he can overcome his adversaries because he doesn’t have much to lose- at least not early on. He’s reckless with his own life because he doesn’t have much care for it. He lost everyone and everything he loved in the Time War and because of it, he feels invincible. He shouldn’t exist by most peoples’ standards and because of that, he feels like he cheated death. He’s cocky and hasty and gets himself too far into trouble before he realizes that it’s happened.

Companions change the Doctor just as much as he changes them. When with company, the Doctor can shed a great deal of his bitter nature and embrace a love of life that he often forgets. In humans, he can see innocence that he hasn’t been able to experience for so long, and through travels with these naïve creatures, he sees the joys of the universe that he takes for granted. The Doctor wants to see time and space through their eyes, because his are too jaded.

Bringing Rose along with him wasn’t planned. The Doctor had every intention in making it on his own for awhile, avoiding bringing someone else into his chaos. But there she was… and she was fantastic. She was clever and innocent and he couldn’t resist her. She was everything he wasn’t. (Well… except for the clever bit. The Doctor has a fair amount of brilliance.) Likewise, with Captain Jack Harkness, the Doctor found someone who embraced life to its absolute fullest, even if his motivations were not always the purest. Mickey and Jackie are a reminder of the simple domestic life that the Doctor had convinced himself that he didn’t want – family, friends, lovers. He’d lost too many people to make those connections again, but after knowing them, he couldn’t help but have the desire to keep them around, to keep them safe.

And so the Doctor is so many things at once while being none of them at all. He is the silent protector, and yet he yells the loudest at injustice. He is teacher, even while he has so much to learn. He brings destruction in order to maintain peace. He mourns through celebration. The Doctor is more contradiction than any other being in the known and unknown universe. But above all else, he is one thing. Fantastic.


Events: ((For ease of app writing, I am going to write about two events from this particular Doctor’s canon, rather than from the extensive Doctor Who history. Because that would make my brain hurt.))



1.) Upon obtaining his first companion for this new face, the Doctor in his ninth incarnation chooses to take Rose to watch the last minutes of her own planet. While this can be seen as a bit of showing off (taking her so far forward in time), it’s also fairly telling of the way he’s desperate for someone to understand his own heartache. He takes a human girl to watch her planet engulfed in flames, the only planet she’s ever known, the only planet she’s ever stood on before that very moment. Even without the added drama and danger of Cassandra’s scheming, the fact that he brought her there at all shows just how lonely he is in his pain. When one of the other guests takes him aside and confesses that she knows who and what he is, that she knows what he’s seen, he has a moment where he’s overcome with grief. This moment, in my opinion, is extremely telling of the Doctor’s fragile state just after the Time War. He’s still mourning his people, still grieving for the life he knew and the fact that he stood by and watched it happen. By standing by Rose’s side and watching the Earth burn, he feels like someone might be able to understand that feeling, if only for the briefest moment. In that moment, she’s the very last. In that moment, they have that in common and all he wants is to feel less alone.



2.) Later, the Doctor finds himself and Rose in the midst of the London Blitz. A small boy had a run in with some nanobots, who mistook his mortal wounds as the norm for the species and proceeded to use him to “fix” the rest of the population. The Doctor managed to correct the mistake by reuniting the boy with his mother, which allowed the medical technology to recognize the parent DNA and undo the damage. The Doctor’s joy at proclaiming that “just this once, everybody lives!” is very poignant to his character, because it shows just how often he sees the opposite scenario come to pass. For all the fear that he instills in the universe, at his core, he truly only wants to help others.



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