Post by 13 on Feb 13, 2024 23:08:22 GMT
13th Doctor
Name: the Doctor
Nickname: Sarah Jane Smith, Jane Smith, Rose, The Curator, the Good Nurse, the Marvelous Apperating Lady, Doc, Professor, the Timeless Child, the Masked Assassin
Canon or OC: Canon
Fandom: Doctor Who
Age: somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000,000
Species:
(formerly assumed to be Gallifreyan)Name of Homeworld:
(formerly assumed to be Gallifrey)Sexuality: omni
Face Claim: Jodie Whittacker
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Appearance:(A good description of what your character looks like)
The 13th Doctor looks like a white human woman, with straight blonde hair worn in a chin length bob. Her hazel eyes are warm and lively, and she tends to speak with her hands in a way that makes her seem tall even though she is of average height. She nearly always wears the same outfit- a white trench coat over a pair of blue trousers, a navy blue shirt with a rainbow stripe across the front, and suspenders. If she's doing hands on mechanic/engineering work, she often wears a somewhat oversized pair of safety goggles
Tools: Psychic Paper - External - Technology - Seemingly a simple piece of paper in a leather wallet, it will show (almost) anyone what they expect to see, allowing her to scam her way past any barrier that could be passed with sufficient identification. Does not work on people trained to resist it or on people with no imagination.
Sonic Screwdriver - External - Technology - Thirteen’s sonic is effectively a miniaturized computer, complete with advanced sensors capable of reading most inputs, from a physical scan of a person or object to catching signals off of spacecraft or mechanical equipment. It is also capable of opening most locks, activating and networking equipment, and doing pretty much anything else that could conceivably done with a remote. Does not work on wood, can be thwarted by security protocols
Powers/Magic(You are allowed up to four.)
Psychic sensitivity - the Doctor has the ability to pick up psychic messages from the world around her without consciously looking for them, as well as sending and receiving psychic messages with consenting individuals who have similar abilities.
Time Lord Mind - All Time Lords have extremely fast and thorough mental processing skills, including being able to sense the time stream, think far faster than humans, have almost infinite recall of their own memories, and know details of their environment through basic sensory examination (smelling the air, tasting a rock, etc)
Regeneration - In the event of lethal injury or illness, the Doctor’s body can completely regenerate, renewing her body on a cellular level and completely changing her body/physical appearance. Most things shy of deadly heal at an accelerated rate, as well
Physical Abilities:(Enhanced speed, strength ect.)
Weaknesses:
- Intense fear of committment
- would often literally rather die than share even super mundane things about herself
- still fucked up by the discovery that huge parts of her life were deliberately crafted lies
- near complete unwillingness to process her own trauma
- when stressed she's either a walking after school special or actively committing war crimes, never in between
Likes:(At least five.)
- working on mechanical devices
- meeting her heroes
- sweets
- fairy tales
- snooping
Dislikes:(At least five)
- bullies
- intimacy of any kind
- saying goodbye
- not knowing things
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Friends/Relatives:
As far as she knows, there's only one member of 'her' species left
Significant Other/Love Interest:
The Master: ex-spouse, current nemesis. Supposedly killed every other time lord out there
River Song: dead but also their timelines have never accurately synced up so she might still show up
Personality:
The Doctor, in any incarnation, is a a being of seemingly infinite energy, curiosity, and compassion. She has dedicated herself to protecting humanity since her third incarnation, and in her spare time she saves the rest of the universe too.
The Doctor has been many things over many regenerations. She’s had fourteen faces (that she can remember) including this one, and at least 2,000 years with which to do so. In all that time, she’s gained so many emotional scars that she has grown to use them as a shield, loving humanity as all Doctors do, but keeping them at arm's length even within the TARDIS team. This became one of her defining characteristics in her ‘13th’ incarnation.
Her absolute horror of loss manifests in a lot of different ways. She’s secretive, refusing to so much as share her planet or species name with anyone unless forced. She never speaks about her own emotions, and will do literally anything to avoid answering if people ask. She does not let herself rely on people, and she’s terrified of people relying on her unless it’s in a temporary way until she saves them and moves on. That fear often leads to defeatism or overly aggressive, panicked tactics.
Beyond that fear, she’s a bright, cheerful woman with a fondness for simple joys like getting packages and building things. She built her own sonic screwdriver, and frequently pulls together mechanical devices to help tackle the various catastrophes she encounters.
Like most doctors, she doesn’t believe in killing. 13 abhors violence and guns to an extreme degree, condemning even the use of a gun to kill a creature that was already slowly dying or to kill someone actively attempting genocide, but is very comfortable killing daleks and cybermen with absolutely no remorse. Her overall attitude seems to be that no one deserves to die unless they belong to a species that has harmed her, personally, and she does not take kindly to that hypocrisy being pointed out.
History:
HISTORY
The Timeless Child
The Doctor was a lost little child who fell through a portal.
The Doctor was an orphan boy who managed to become a legend
The Doctor was a half breed, born of a union between two mighty warrior races.
The Doctor was an old man humoring his granddaughter’s fascination.
The Doctor was the harbinger of doom, bringer of devastation.
The Doctor was an exile trying to find peace and purpose in his new home.
The Doctor was the last survivor of a noble race lost to the hungers of war.
The Doctor was the victim of merciless experimentation from those who would make themselves gods.
The Doctor was the scourge of the enemies of the Division
The Doctor was the last hope of a dying universe.
The Doctor was mad with grief
The Doctor was so many more things
Thirteen was born on a day of peace, somewhat unusually for the Doctor. She did not get a chance to enjoy that peace, however. Her own regeneration energy caused her TARDIS to destabilize and throw her out into the skies above Sheffield. She fell straight down into a train being menaced by an alien threat, and she hit the ground running. She helped the humans onboard, who then helped her in turn track down the source of the danger- an alien, illegally hunting on Earth. The four humans helping her- a married couple, their grandson, and his friend, a police woman- teamed up with her to fight the alien and protect the subject of his hunt. The older woman died in the attempt, and the Doctor remembered all over again the pain of loss. She tried to leave the remaining three behind and go look for her TARDIS, but something went wrong, and the others got caught in the transport beam.
So many worlds, so many adventures. She ran so far and so hard, with the three people who’d accidentally been caught up in her adventures. Graham, the heartbroken widower, Ryan, his grandson who was so brave and so convinced he couldn’t do anything extraordinary, and… Yaz. Yaz the cop who chose mercy over the law. Yaz, who could do anything the Doctor asked of her and then some. Yaz, the Doctor’s best friend and greatest fear during this incarnation.
But then… things fell apart. She found a version of herself that she hadn’t known existed. Jack Harkness returned, delivering the warning ‘beware the lone cyberman. Do not give him what he wants at any cost’. The lone Cyberman found her in 1814, at the house party that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. Percy Shelley, it turned out, had found an artificial intelligence containing all of the knowledge and information of the now defunct cybermen. If it had stayed hidden, it would have erased the cybermen from existence. The lone cyberman was there to get it back, and the Doctor in the perfect place to stop him. But the cost turned out to be too high- the entirety of the human race after 1814. When forced to choose between giving up the human race or risking returning the artificial intelligence, she knew there was only one choice.
The lone Cyberman left with the AI, and the Doctor was left to try to fix what she had done. She and her companions set out to stop the cybermen once and for all- but they were separated during battle, and the Doctor taken captive by her old enemy/childhood friend/likely former spouse, the Master. As the cyber armies drew closer and closer to killing and converting her human companions, he took her into the Matrix of the Time Lords, the repository of all knowledge and memory on Gallifrey. The Master had supposedly killed off their entire race, but left the Matrix so that he could show the Doctor the truth about herself.
The Doctor was never from Gallifrey. She’d been found, next to some kind of wormhole. Just a child then, but she looked like the Gallifreyans who found her on a base level. The woman who’d found her, Tecteun, took her in and raised her- up until an accidental fall revealed that whatever she was, she had the ability to regenerate.
From that day on, the Doctor was no longer a beloved daughter but a test subject. Life after life passed for her in a lab, while her adoptive mother desperately tried to figure out how regeneration worked and how she could duplicate it for herself. Eventually, she succeeded. The native people of Gallifrey became Time Lords with the modifications Tecteun had learned to make. The Doctor had lived an unspecified number of lives working for the new government, before retiring and being forced back to childhood, the childhood the Doctor had thought was her first.
She did not have time to digest any of this, as she had to stop the Master from creating an infinite army of cyber-time lords, using their own people as a base instead of humans. The Doctor was left with another impossible choice- destroying all life on Gallifrey to prevent the spread of this new, regenerating cyber army or allowing them to spread and destroy everything.
It was supposed to be a suicide mission. She was supposed to die. Instead, she was arrested by Judoon, of all embarrassing options. The Doctor spent decades in a Judoon prison, isolated from everyone and everything while she grappled with the truth of her lost lives.
By the time Jack Harkness found her and helped her escape, she was… a little lost. Even moreso when she went back to her ‘Fam’ and found it had been ten months since she’d sent them home. They were angry, she didn’t know how to bridge the gap when she’d almost forgotten how to interact with other people. They all saved the world one last time, but Ryan and Graham stayed behind on Earth. Yaz stayed when the others left. She never left the Doctor willingly, she was perfectly in sync despite being kept so carefully at arms reach. The Doctor knew that if she let herself, she would love Yaz. Yaz loved her. But after so many horrific losses, after companion after companion dying or worse in so many devastating ways, she couldn’t allow that. She kept them busy, kept them moving. If there weren’t worlds to be saved there were high gravity circus workshops, astrological phenomena to find and experience, anything she could think of. They just had to keep moving, so that neither of them had time to succumb to their own feelings and act.
And then there was the Flux. All of space and time collapsing, a new companion for her and Yaz, but so little time to enjoy it with everyone separated and barely surviving. The Doctor always tried to keep moving but that… well, even for her, she wanted room to breathe. To enjoy what little time she had left with Yaz. To… stop getting pummeled with revelations about her own past and the people in it.
Instead, there were sea devils and pirates to be dealt with. Something that would have been a pleasant expedition to save the world at a different moment. Something was wrong, however. Some… uneasiness, an imbalance. Yaz and Dan were on edge, and then… and then Yaz was confessing her feelings. The Doctor felt her whole world disintegrating into dust. She couldn’t remember what she’d said in reply, only that she’d said something and Yaz looked like she’d torn her heart in two. She wanted more than anything in the universe to be gone, to have room to rest and not ever see that hurt in another companion’s eyes.
Through some quirk of nature, she got her wish. One ill advised 'peek' through an odd portal, and she and her TARDIS were landing in a whole different universe. She'd have to take a proper look around and see what she could figure out here.
About you.
Rp Alias:Gale
Preferred Pronouns: they/them