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The Doctor (Tenth) | Doctor Who | Reserved
Contact Info: listenfortheocean[at]gmail[dot]com
Other Characters Played: Nagito Komaeda (
Preferred Apartment: None.
Character Name: The Doctor
Canon: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just after series 4 episode 14, after returning Donna home
Background/History: wiki
Personality:
The Doctor is not human. He looks it, and sometimes he even acts it, but the bottom line truth is that he is not. He's a Time Lord and that carries with it its own physiology, philosophy and cultural difference. Because he's a Time Lord, he's seen a great deal that no human can. He travels in time and in space. He's familiar with past and present and future. He lives his life in an odd and confusing web of here and now and then and there. He's seen into the rift of time and space. Maybe because of this, maybe simply because of who he is, he is exceptionally clever. He's a genius. And he's not shy about sharing this information, proclaiming his own brilliance and cleverness whenever he has the chance. He can be a bit arrogant, can expect that others should be on the same page as him much quicker than they are -- Rose and Sarah Jane both comment on this. He's quick-witted and a fast talker, though sometimes he only makes sense to himself. There's something almost manic about his manner sometimes (the man has a habit of licking stuff to figure it out) and terrible quirky, though he is very capable of having serious and weighty discussions. He's a complicated man, after all.
He also bears the dubious distinction of being the last of the Time Lords, and that comes with its own extremely heavy baggage. The Doctor's past weighs on him heavily. It informs all his actions. Once upon a time (so far as he knows) he was responsible for the destruction of all his people (as well as the Daleks, but somehow that never seems to stick). Because of this he is alone, alone in a way that few beings can understand. The last of his species and the eternal traveler. Even his home -- the TARDIS -- is a spaceship. There is no port, no harbor for him. He exists in constant motion. He runs from his past and never allows himself to linger in any place very long.
There is a very real and very deep sadness and regret in the Doctor. Strangely enough it is not the way most people would think of him. In fact he covers it so well that those who only know him casually may never actually see it. At first blush, the Doctor is bright and chipper -- an overly curious pilgrim who pokes his nose into just about everything as he passes. He's fascinated with so many things, sometimes a bit too exuberant and thrilled at what he's witnessing, even when it's dangerous and puts everyone in peril. People have called him on it more than once. He's often a bit sarcastic and cheeky, quick to tease and quick witted. Often enough it seems as though he's stumbled across the punchline to a fantastic joke and doesn't yet feel like sharing it with the class. Especially with Rose, he'll take time in the midst of horrible circumstances to gush about the things that are happening around them. In general, he is quick to laugh and smile. He hates being bored. He's an overgrown kid every now and again.
Really, there's often a childlike quality about him as though the wonder of the universe has yet to grow any dimmer or lesser in his eyes, despite the centuries that he has traveled and the things that he has witnessed. This wonder drives him, in part. His sadness drives him too, the man out of time and out of place wherever he goes. There's a heavy regret in him, and he runs. Always keeps going, keeps running, keeps traveling. The Doctor and his TARDIS.
Of course, he often stops off in his travels to see this or that. He's incapable of not intervening to help people when he is able too. And he's very good at it. He is eternally fighting the good fight on behalf of people, many of whom will never know he exists. But something in him compels him to do it.
After all his time in the universe all the suffering and pain he's seen, the Doctor wants to help. He wants to save people, though often death and disaster follow in his wake. Despite this sense of justice and need to save people, the Doctor is consistently unarmed. He refuses to resort to violence if there is any other option -- at least anymore. The death of his people at his hands seems to be more than enough for him. He hates guns and does everything he can to save even the enemies that he faces; he gives them a chance, a choice.
But he doesn't give second chances. There is a deep and powerful anger in him -- triggered often by threats to those he cares about or to those who would use violence and death and conquest as their weapons. His rage changes him, quiets him and sometimes explodes from him. In those moments it is easy to catch a glimpse of the warrior that he was once and in many ways still is. He can be ruthless if the situation calls for it, but more often tries to show mercy, to offer a chance for a peaceful outcome even for the aggressors. But there are certain foes that he faces with a bit of a harsher angle -- after a particularly difficult encounter with The Family, he devises eternal punishments for the four of them, trapping them individually for all eternity. The Doctor's anger can be chilling, driving him to harsh and final actions. Sometimes it threatens to nearly overwhelm him as does the guilt that seems to come along hand in hand with it.
His human companions are often the best remedy to this regret and anger that lives within him. He really outright admires humanity, though he has a soft spot for nearly all forms of life. For all this soft spot, he is still the only one of his species with no real home. He is a lonely man.
This loneliness is difficult. Too difficult sometimes, even for a man as old and accustomed to it as the Doctor. So he takes on companions, individuals that he happens upon and connects with on some level or another. Though they're with him for varying lengths of time, how he interacts with them changes who he is as a person and also gives glimpses into different sides of his character.
Every so often (often) his companions remind him outright and blatantly of the better side of manners -- explaining to him that he's being rude, apologize for his insulting other species when he's cranky, reminding him that instead of being fascinated about a city he ought to express condolences to the sole survivor. There's nothing terribly cruel in him, but sometimes his brain is so caught up in other matters that he forgets entirely about little things like politeness and social conventions.
The tenth regeneration of the Doctor is a man in transit and healing. He is "born" out of the death of his ninth self. The first person he encounters is Rose Tyler. There's a lot to be said about the Doctor's relationship with Rose. In a way, he's at his most human. He tells her, rather later on in their relationship, that she healed him. He was a man damaged and angry and bitter after his experience in the Time Wars, but his journeys with Rose softened some of his sharper edges. ...some of them. Making a connection with her helped him make a connection with the universe again. For a while he almost let himself believe that it could last. He loves Rose, even if he doesn't manage to communicate that, even at then end. The Doctor is the king of dodging emotional issues, bobbing and feinting away from his feelings like a golden gloves winning boxer. He's quick to smile or joke his way around them, answer cryptically, or outright ignore them.
In fact, he puts the last into really extensive practice. Losing Rose weighs heavy upon the Doctor, and after she's gone there is a constant void. His next long-term companion Martha notes it. He remains absolutely oblivious (willfully oblivious) to her feelings for him. Oh he has a great deal of affection for her, cares about her, but does not allow himself to get as close to Martha as he did with Rose. Even so, through his time with her he does get closer in touch with his fascination for the better part of humanity. He trusts Martha, demonstrating his willingness to put his full faith and even his life in the hands of those he trusts. Donna later notes that his time with Martha has changed him for the better, making him more merciful.
By the time Martha leaves him (because she realizes he'll never feel for her the way she feels for him, and she deserves someone who does), the Doctor is starting to puzzle through his loneliness. His next companion, Donna, he manages to connect with on a new and different level. He informs her that he just needs a "mate" in the very British sense of a "pal" not a biological imperative standpoint. Later he calls her his best friend. He's quick to quibble with her. She challenges him and shows one important thing -- left on his own, he can get lost in the darker side of everything. He needs someone to stop him sometimes. Donna is often that person. By being around humans and people he cares about, the better side of him comes out. Though it's also in his companions that some of his greatest sadness arises. Even with Donna, in the end he had to sacrifice their friendship to save her life, wiping out each and every memory that she had of their time together.
Through the friendships and relationships with his companions, the Doctor lives more fully makes the connections that he seems to crave. But the sad matter of it is, as he himself says, in the end they always break his hearts. The Doctor's life is a life of loss and regret and remembrance. When Rose questions him about having left Sarah Jane (companion to one of his previous incarnations), he explains what may be one of the great tragedies of his life: even if his companions could spend the rest of their lives with him, he can't spend the rest of his life with them. He's a Time Lord, he doesn't get old and die as humans do. He regenerates. He has to live on.
Though he looks human, though he has similar emotions to humans, similar needs for companionship and connection, he is not human. He's quick and curious and stubborn, eager to help, merciful but only so far. The Doctor is full of regrets and anger but also hope and compassion. He's the eternal traveler, never stopping, running from his past and perhaps also his future. He tells Rose, when they are finally separated seemingly forever, that there she is living a life day after day. He calls that the one adventure that he can never have. He's the Doctor and he has to live on.
Abilities/Powers:
The Doctor is clever. Just ask him. He's entirely fond of telling people just how clever he is. Usually he has the goods to back it up, too. He can do pretty impressive math in his head near instantaneously, though some extremely complex calculations are still beyond him. He's not a computer. He also has a knack for machines and mechanics, able to repair or alter them quickly with his brain and his sonic screwdriver for help.
Because he is a Time Lord, his perception is different than most people. He has an extensive knowledge of history and, for lack of a better word, geography, able to identify species and places and times by look or very little information. He's capable in many cases of telling whether someone is not entirely human.
One particularly weird talent involves licking things to learn about them. It's not a very sanitary ability and makes him look more than a little bit mad, but that doesn't tend to concern him.
The Doctor has a few psychic/telepathic abilities though they are not entirely expounded upon. He can shield parts of his mind from other mind-readers (such as his true name) and has interfaced with people to share his thoughts or alter their thoughts -- as he did with Donna to allow her to hear the song of the Ood and to erase her memories after the metacrisis that threatened to destroy her if he did not.
He's a great deal tougher than a human being -- part of that may be the fact that he has two hearts. He can absorb radiation in significant doses, can survive extreme temperatures. Of course, he can be killed, but because he is a Time Lord, he can regenerate. When he is injured to the point of death, so long as he does not die before having the chance, he can heal himself by regenerating. In doing so his appearance and personality changes, though he retains the memories of his previous incarnations. In Haven, presumably, he'll be subject to the game's death mechanic rather than his own regeneration ability.
Usually he can travel through time, but since he's landed in Haven without his TARDIS, that ability is lost to him. And he'll be awfully annoyed by this fact.
Items/Weapons: Sonic screwdriver, his glasses, psychic paper
Sample Entry: Haven test drive post
Sample Entry Two:
The TARDIS was gone. It was a daunting and frightening thought, a realization that he had been trying his best to deny since he first woke up in this strange city. Without it, he was stranded. Left here. Trapped. Like a rat. No, no. Rats were trapped with a great deal more cheese. There was a great deal of just about nothing in this place. Rubbish accommodations. Whatever they'd done with her, well, it wasn't good.
Sonic screwdriver in hand, he stalked the perimeter of the convenience store, long spindly legs pacing in long and determined strides, even if those strides took him nowhere. Oh he knew that there were consequences for messing with this place. Today, yeah, today he was in the mood for consequences.
He couldn't remember the last time he'd spent in just one place. Well, all right, he could remember, but it wasn't something he had intended on repeating. Not here at least, no definitely not here. He could think of at least a dozen or so places he'd rather be than this broken down and rather dangerous little city, and he could think of them in less than a fraction of a second. Another few seconds and he'd have at least a hundred on top of that.
Still, despite the annoyance at being stranded without his ship, he did have to admit that things were never dull here. There was a puzzle here, to be certain, and he did want to figure it out. The people here, trapped the same as he was, well sort of the same as he was. Either way, they were in the same boat, and it was sinking and quite possibly on fire. Somewhere along the way the metaphor fell apart, but he figured that was the gist of it.
Even if the TARDIS were here, it wasn't as if he could just leave -- not with all these people here and in danger. This place was a gruesome gash on the face of space and time across who even knew how many universes. It was dangerous by its very existence to the fabric of reality itself. But more than that, the people here, their peril was more immediate. He wouldn't just run from that.
Not that running was an option, of course. His steps slowed, just in front of the door. All right. Consequences, here he came.
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