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Created on 2008-07-08 20:41:46 (#16045817), last updated 2008-07-25
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Basic Info| Name: | Doctor, The |
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| Website: | The Doctor |
BioAIM: Mentantie on AIM
Your character's name: The Doctor (no. 9!)
Series your character's from: Doctor Who (the 2005 series)
Background info on your character: Let’s make one thing very clear: The Doctor is a complete whackjob. He’s always been that way, in any incarnation (though some incarnations seem to be worse than others [I’m looking at you, Tennant]), and it’s probably not going to change anytime soon.
Now that’s out of the way, let’s really start.
For starters, the Doctor is so amazingly clever that no one can deny that he is—and he won’t let anyone forget it. He’s a bloody genius, is what he is, and he has no problems flaunting it. As long as it gets those bloody apes to listen, he’s fine with being arrogant. And let’s face it, it is kind of nice to be looked up to. He knows everything that has ever been and will ever be, in any universe, any shape of form…. And he’s constantly confronted with it. That phrase ‘I can see forever’? Yeah, let’s stick with that for this one.
It makes sense that, when you meet someone and you immediately know when and how they will die, it’s hard to get attached. The Ninth Doctor seems like a very distant and cold man, someone who doesn’t want to get close to anyone. He pretends it’s because he thinks everyone is a bloody moron (not just humans, though they are a special brand of stupid), but it’s actually because he doesn’t want to experience the same kind of grief over and over again. So he’s rude, abrasive, blunt, and it’s all to keep people at a distance.
But sometimes someone is persistent. Someone who seems to be completely redundant comes along, and though he does his very best to ignore them, to make them go away, they stick… and that’s when he shows a completely different side of himself. To his friends, the Doctor is the most loyal person you could ever meet. He’d never do anything to hurt them intentionally (though these friends seem to have a habit of getting themselves in harm’s way, but the Doctor is brilliant, so most of the time it turns out just fine), and he’ll share things with them. Things of beauty, things only he could show them, through use of the TARDIS. TARDIS stands for ‘Time And Relative Dimensions In Space’. Which basically means he lives in a big blue telephone box from the 1950’s that gets him all sorts of places. It used to be able to change forms, but somewhere along the way something went wrong and the TARDIS stuck in that form. He’s grown quite fond of it, over time.
Let’s explain something else about the Doctor, because how often do regular people stumble upon time machines and have wacky adventures with them? The Doctor is a Time Lord, which basically means he’s part of an alien race that took care of such lovely things as time. However, them being a stuck-up sort of peoples, and quite set in their ways, the Doctor went away, and he never really returned to his home planet. For over nine centuries he’s travelled, sometimes alone, sometimes with a companion. But he’s never stayed still, and it doesn’t look like he intends to do so any time soon.
Being an alien, he’s got a few peculiar traits. Already, the whole time thing has been explained. Once we manage to overlook this particular incarnation’s ears, there are other peculiarities. Such as the fact that he has two hearts, one on each side of his chest. Or the fact that, when most people would die, the Time Lords are able to regenerate. He’s able to do so a total of thirteen times, and currently he is on his ninth incarnation. When he regenerates, he doesn’t just change his appearance, but he changes his personality. He can’t help it, and he doesn’t know what kind of a person he is beforehand. It actually takes him quite some time to figure out what kind of a person he is every time he regenerates. Is he rude? Is he funny? Is he bitter? What sort of things does he like? Darjeeling tea? Earl Grey? Bananas? Well, you get the point.
Now that’s been explained, let’s go on about this Ninth Doctor.
One of the first things the Ninth Doctor does is save a young woman named Rose Tyler, from 2005 London, from a bunch of walking and killing mannequins. It is presumed he only just regenerated at that point, since once he gets a chance to look into a mirror, he shows surprise at his (admittedly huge) ears and other features of himself. He comes along as someone who just wants to get rid of this threat to Earth, and not like he wants any lingering attachments to anyone. But since Rose Tyler took offense to that, and quite disagreed with his notion of leaving again as soon as he got her out, she sort of tagged along. He grudgingly allowed her to do this, fully intending to dump her as soon as he could. But it seems he warmed to her when she saved their collective asses, and he invited her along in his TARDIS.
It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. It’s noticeable how quickly the Doctor grows attached to Rose. Although he doesn’t seem like a particularly physical person, he likes leading Rose around by the hand—literally. He may claim that he would’ve done the same for anyone, but he seems particularly passionate about Rose. Even at the stake of many other lives, he wants to save Rose’s at more than one occasion. Their relationship is closer than most lovers’, because once the Doctor lets himself get attached to someone, he’ll be completely devoted to them.
Of course, this doesn’t mean he can’t get completely, totally pissed off with them. The Doctor is a scary man when he is mad, that’s for sure. Because he knows the consequences of everything, everything that you do could create a disaster. A left turn instead of a right, a night out with your mates instead of staying home, and the universe could change. And because he knows that, and they never do, he’s also quick to forgive them once they see the wrong of their ways. Because they’re just humans, and they can’t help what they do. They’re such curious things, after all, such undertaking people. And though he’d never admit it, he really does love them. Which is probably why he keeps saving them from complete destruction, time and time again.
And when we’re talking about changes, anyway, let’s also mention that the Doctor knows how things are supposed to be; sometimes he doesn’t know that they are that way because he came along. But sometimes it also means that he has to let something horrible happen in order to let history go the way it’s supposed to.
This particular Doctor seems quite sullen. Nine is quiet, grumpy, sarcastic, impatient, and so on and so forth. Like that, he doesn’t seem like he’d be a very fun person to be around. Some peole may think it’s a matter of being quick to judge, but it’s actually that he just has such enormous knowledge of people that he can judge a situation in a split-second.
But when you get to know him, he’s funny. Charming, witty, loyal. Sometimes he’s even a little shy. He doesn’t seem to care about appearance (‘Don’t you have to change into something more Victorian?’ ‘I already changed jumpers’), and disapproves of people who do. But unless it really matters, he won’t tell anyone that. They can do what they want, it’s their lives… he can’t change that sort of thing. Such thoughts are typical of him, the pessimistic side of him. Which makes sense, really, since, well… remember those Time Lords? They all died. In the last Time War, a war between the Time Lords and the evil Dalek race, the Doctor took care that the Daleks (a cloned race that is only capable of hate, who live to kill, because they really think everything that is not Dalek needs to die) died… but sadly, he wiped out all of the Time Lords as well. He says the loss of his people left a gaping hole in his head, which nothing could ever fill again. But he wasn’t just left with a hole in his head; the guilt of surviving, of killing his people, never lets him go. Sometimes it even seems like he likes thinking of them, because he deserves the pain of their loss for killing them. Sure, that’s a bit of a masochistic thought, but you don’t just get over destroying your own planet, do you?
Oh, and despite being a timeless being who knows everything, he seems to enjoy using terminology from Earth pop culture. He sometimes forgets that his language isn’t appropriate (such as using ‘fan’ in the meaning of ‘fanatic’ in the 19th century), which is odd, considering.
So here we have the Doctor, a lonely man with such raging emotions in him, who tries to hide that he even has emotions at times, but who just unfurls when someone shows him compassion, when someone stubborn comes along and won’t let him wallow in his self-pity, who won’t let him take the whole world upon his shoulders. He’s a complicated man, the Doctor, but once you meet him, you can’t forget him, ever.
I’d like to take him from after episode 7 of the 2005 season (obviously), after he leaves Earth with Rose after he dropped that kid back home. This is after the first Satellite Five incident, and before all that fuckery with kids in gas masks and seriously bad wolves. Let’s just go with the theory that something went wrong and that time stopped in his universe when he got thrown onto the Island. So Rose is sort of… standing still somewhere in space, in the TARDIS. This means that the Doctor came there without the love of his life, his very own big blue box.
RP'ing journal for the Ninth Doctor of the Doctor Who tv series, don't own or anything just like to amuse myself <3
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