The Doctor (Tenth)
From Island RP
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WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONGRUITY OF PAGE NAMES (that is, the parentheses). However, the Doctor is complicated. And I wasn't sure what else to do because what if we got another Doctor *has high hopes be quiet don't dash them*
Anyway! The Doctor arrived on the Island on September 8th, 2007, after having crashed his TARDIS into the ruins of the Titanic on the Island's coast. Ooops. D: Mind you, that was before the Zombie-Loan characters started living there. Since then, he's been canon-bumped to the end of season 4 (but before the Christmas special) on September 8th, 2008 \o/
As a warning: SPOILERS ABOUND. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Info
Played By: Noodle
Fandom: Doctor Who
Journal: ihavesonic
Availability: PST; Contact Post
Character's Likes: traveling through time; traveling through space; bananas
Character's Dislikes: not traveling through time; not traveling through space; pears
Personality-ish
(APP COPY AND PASTING GET.)
Meet the Doctor: your average, run-of-the-mill, nine-hundred-or-so-year-old alien time traveler (who, as a small point of pride, doesn't look a day over forty) with a sense of adventure the size of a planet, and a sense of righteousness the size of a galaxy. Oh, and a sense of modesty the size of an ant. After all, the Doctor is a genius, and he'll go out of his way to make sure that you're aware of this fact. He’s probably the most brilliant thing proceeding, during, and since sliced bread. Or since banana daiquiris, which, after a bit of hopping around in 18th century France, one too many drinks, and partying a bit too hard with the nobles, he may have possibly invented himself.
The whole time traveling bit was already mentioned, right? Right. Just double checking.
The Doctor (which is a title he had chosen for himself – his real name remains unknown) is a Time Lord from the planet of Gallifrey, which was destroyed in the Time War. Little is known of the Doctor when he was a younger, other than the fact that he seemed to have lived a lonely childhood. At the age of eight, he and his peers were taken to look into the Untempered Schism, where they could observe the time vortex. Seeing this, they would either be inspired, frightened out of their wits, or driven mad; the Doctor was apparently the type who looked into the vortex and ran away. And even though he didn’t pass his test to be able to pilot a TARDIS – a ship that manipulates Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, – not having a license didn’t seem to stop him from stealing an old model destined for the scrap heap and using it to take him across the universe.
Suffice it to say, the Doctor is a bit of a rebel, though he does have a pretty good cause: Help the good and defeat the bad. However, the Doctor is oddly pessimistic and cold for someone who generally seems to be idealistic. Despite his readiness to help anyone in need, he sometimes displays a cynicism towards those around him, and so he considers himself to be something of the highest authority in the universe – and no one gets second chances. Danger excites and amuses him, and it generally seems as though a trip isn't a good one if someone's life isn't in mortal peril at least once. Strangely enough, his weapon of choice is his sonic screwdriver – which really isn't a weapon at all, more useful in the department of unlocking doors and reattaching wire than anything; the Doctor prefers to prevent as many casualties as possible, but if push comes to shove, he won't hesitate to kill.
The Tenth Doctor generally reacts to most situations flippantly and with a big, charming smile, but also can be surprisingly serious when the time calls for it, displaying a deep intelligence and darkness that belies his youthful appearance. Those moments don't tend to last, though, as soon afterwards he's back to his grinning, bouncy self. He can be obscenely full of himself at times (but he has reason, being brilliant and all), and this incarnation in particular has a tendency to be a little rude, despite his usual charming and sociable behavior. The Doctor could probably babble and babble for hours if no one stopped him, and likes explaining concepts using the scenic route, rather than using the direct explanation.
Also, he kind of has a tendency to sniff or lick things. Yum.
(Waaaay) Background (Time Lord-centric)
Before the Time War, the Time Lords were a proud race of conservatives who, despite their great knowledge, wisdom, abilities, and technology, made it a point to refrain from getting involved with the affairs of other races and considered doing so to be a criminal offense. The Doctor, however, found himself to be very good at helping people – or more accurately, meddling – and despite his genius, was considered something of a rogue by his fellow Time Lords – which was fine. He thought them all to be elitist, stuffy, and far too set in their ways anyway. Sometimes the Doctor was put on trial for wanting to help the universe in any way he could; he would be eventually forgiven, however, because there's only so much punishment you can give a man who's saved the universe on more than one occasion, unless you count being called on to go out on special missions to be punishment.
Time Lords, moreover, are quite different from humans, despite having most of the same basic features. For one, Time Lords have a bivascular system – count ‘em, two hearts! – and are thought to be generally immortal, so long as they keep themselves out of harm’s way. Otherwise, Time Lords are able to heal a lot faster than humans. For serious injuries, they’re able to put themselves into restorative comas to speed up the healing process. And when all else fails, Time Lords have a little trick to cheat death: regenerations. When Time Lords are near death, they're able to regenerate every cell in their body – a sort of rebirth, in a way. When this happens, the Time Lord in question is completely changed, both in appearance and in personality. While they may retain some basic traits and goals, such as an immense wanderlust or a desire to enslave the universe, the personality of the new regeneration as compared to the original are enough to consider them two different people all together. Time Lords are able to regenerate themselves twelve times, for a grand total of thirteen different selves, barring the High Council's intervention/assistance. The Doctor, being the type who seems to go looking for trouble, has regenerated nine times, and is currently on his tenth incarnation.
It is assumed that, during the Time War, the Doctor was on his eighth incarnation. The war waged on for years and years, fought between the Time Lords and a destructive and mostly evil race known as the Daleks. While little is known of the war itself – the Doctor tends to avoid the topic or speak of it vaguely, as do the other characters who happen to know what transpired, – what is known is that among those lost were the entirety of both the Time Lord and Dalek races, presumably at the Doctor's hands. The Doctor (in his ninth incarnation) was assumed to be the only survivor, the last standing Time Lord. (At least, that was before he discovered that the Daleks have survived through time and space, biding their time in order to revive their attempts in exterminating the universe. Luckily, that’s not until later!)
More Background (Doctor-centric)
WARNING: SPOILERS UP TO THE END OF SEASON THREE
Prior to the war, the Doctor had a habit of traveling with an entourage, who shared in his adventures before leaving or in extreme and unfortunate cases, dying along the way. It wasn’t until he met Rose Tyler on Earth in the early 21st century, after some indeterminate amount of time since the end of the Time War and his regeneration into the “Ninth” Doctor, that he picked this habit back up again. Though he had a couple of other companions along with him for the ride, it’s with Rose that he forms the strongest relationship. So, when the newly created Dalek fleets revealed themselves some time in the 2001st century, the Doctor sent Rose back home in the TARDIS in order to keep her safe. The Daleks very nearly executed him before Rose entered the scene, having absorbed some of the Time-Vortex from the TARDIS, which gave her god-like abilities and the power to wipe out an entire race with a wave of her hand. And of course, she did. Granted, this power didn’t come without a price, and it very nearly killed her before the Doctor stepped in and absorbed the Time-Vortex into his own system.
Then the Doctor kind of died.
And then he became the “Tenth” Doctor, though not without some initial disbelief and resentment from Rose – which probably wasn’t helped by the fact that, as he set the TARDIS’ coordinates for Rose’s home on Christmas Eve, he sort of went slightly mental and then collapsed in a heap from regeneration sickness after landing. She eventually got over her resistance to this new Doctor when he kicked some alien ass and saved Earth from an impending Sycorax invasion on Christmas. After that, they got along like peas in a pod and were generally inseparable (and possibly in love), even when they were chased by disease-ridden humans, attacked by werewolves, pursued by alternate-dimension robot men (Cybermen), stranded on stations revolving around black holes, and stalked by Doctor-fanatics. Good times.
So it goes without saying that it left a really big, gaping emotional wound when Rose was locked away in an alternate universe with her AU!dad and real mom, while he and she were trapping the warring Cybermen and Daleks in the Void – the gap between dimensions. The Doctor managed to find one last connection between the dimensions, which he used to say goodbye to Rose.
Then enter Martha Jones, a medical student aspiring to be a doctor; she becomes the Doctor's newest companion after a vampiric old lady with a plastic drinking straw wreaks havoc in the hospital she happens to be studying in and nearly kills the Doctor. He takes her across time and space, as per usual, introducing her to old friends, such as the surprise immortal Jack Harkness, and old enemies, such as the Daleks (yes, they survived and still do!) and the Master – a fellow Time Lord (albeit a megalomaniacal and psychotic one) who the Doctor had presumed to be dead.
As it turns out, the Master was dead, but he got better! He was revived by the Time Lords to fight in the Time War, but the Master was having none of that, so he escaped and disguised himself as a human using a Chameleon Arc and locking his memories away in a pocket watch (which the Doctor does as well earlier in the season – foreshadowing much?). The Master, being evil and full of himself and kind of twistedly awesome, got himself elected Prime Minister and proceeded to take over and practically ruin Earth for a year or so; and along the way, he captured the Doctor (after aging him 100 years with his laser screwdriver, and later 900 more years), immortal!Jack, and Martha's family.
But naturally the Doctor won again with Martha's assistance and a little psychic help from the entire world, which briefly turned him into Super Doctor and gave him super powers and the ability to turn back time to the previous year. Having defeated the Master, the Doctor intended to keep the Master as a permanent companion in his TARDIS in order to prevent him from doing Evil Deeds – but it's likely he wanted to keep him close as something like a friend, seeing as how they were both the last two Time Lords and all. But this plan was shot down (literally lolz) when the Master's human wife, Lucy Saxon, shot the Master. Wounded, he refused to be the Doctor's prisoner, and so he kept himself from regenerating and let himself die.
Alone again in the universe and with time back as it should be, the Doctor continued on his fantastic and wonderful and disgustingly dangerous journey through the universe – sans one companion. When he left Martha behind, somehow, the Doctor ended up crashing his TARDIS into the Titanic or vice versa (yes, THAT Titanic), and that's where the season left off and where the Doctor will be appearing on the Island.
MOAR Background + Canon Update
WARNING: SPOILERS UP TO THE END OF SEASON FOUR
About a year later, thought it was high time for a canon update. So! Leaving off from when he leaves Martha with her family~ The Doctor wanders off, as he usually does, and then has some whacky shenanigans with his fifth regeneration. He then gets caught up in a mini-disaster event with a replica space!Titanic and a plucky waitress named Astrid, who sacrifices herself in order to protect the Doctor.
Then re-enter the fabulous Donna Noble, who had been looking for the Doctor by investigating any and all strange events she could find on the internet. They meet up once again at Adipose Industries, which distributed some diet pills that made the fat walk away -- quite literally, in the form of cute little squishy Adipose babies, who really ought to be made into plushies. Anyway, they travel the universe together -- their adventures include saving the world from Potato Heads Sontarans, kidnapping Martha, the Doctor getting himself a daughter called Jenny, meeting a woman who seems to be the Doctor's wife, reaffirming our childhood fears of the dark, and meeting Agatha Christie -- and they become the best of friends. The Doctor, in his usual way, helps Donna realize her full potential, and Donna helps to ground the Doctor, providing him a sense of balance and acts a bit like his conscience.
And things go a bit pear-shaped when Donna nearly has her history rewritten by an alien beetle; an alternate universe where she doesn't meet the Doctor forms around her, and in this universe, the Doctor is killed and events seem to become worse and worse as time goes on. With the help of a mysterious blonde woman who seems to be quite fond of the Doctor's hair, Donna gets her personal history back on track, and the beetle is killed in the process.
Of course, when Donna's reunited with the Doctor, he realizes that the woman she had encountered was, in fact, one Rose Tyler, who had been traveling into different universes, and in each one, the stars were disappearing. As it turns out, this was the Daleks' doing (that's right, they're back, but this time with an adorable and entirely crazy Dalek Caan and their big pappa, Davros). So there's some OH GOD NO stuff going on with their return, as they'd been stealing planets in order to create a massive transmitter to help create their Ultimate Erasing Thingamajigger, a.k.a. the Reality Bomb. As a result, we have Companionpalooza, and the Doctor sort of half dies, having been SHOT THROUGH THE HEEEEAAART [/Bon Jovi] by a Dalek. He uses the energy from his regeneration to repair his injured body, and syphons the rest of it off into his spare hand-inna-jar.
The TARDIS gets captured by the Daleks, and those on board -- the Doctor, Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, and Donna Noble -- are kept as prisoners aboard the Crucible. Before she can exit, however, Donna gets trapped in the TARDIS, and the ship is tossed into the Crucible's core, where it would presumably be destroyed. However! As she's moving around the TARDIS' console in a panic, she touches the Doctor's regeneration energy-laden hand, sparking it to life -- quite literally.
Enter the Donna!Doctor, who regenerates from the hand and manages to dematerialize the TARDIS before it's completely destroyed. In regenerating, this Doctor picked up some traits from Donna, including her voice, mannerisms, and biological make-up -- he's a Time Lord in a human body (lol gross). It's then that he realizes that he and Donna were always destined for this, and as it turns out, the timelines had been manipulated by one Dalek Caan, who saw the Daleks for what they were and decided to put an end to them. By this point, Donna had become about twenty more times awesome than she already was, as she had received the Doctor's brilliance as a part of absorbing the regenerative energies from the Doctor's severed hand. She, the new Doctor, and the original Doctor set the universe right, of course, sending all the planets back to their proper places -- except Earth, which would eventually be towed back by the TARDIS.
Before that can happen, however, the new Doctor has a bit of a faux pas when he kind of sort of blows up all of the Daleks with a couple flips of conveniently placed switches, which pissed the original Doctor off, to put it bluntly. It's then that the original Doctor realizes that the Donna!Doctor is too dangerous to have in his universe -- not to mention it'd sort of be cramping his style if his own universe had two of him in it, but that's just this player's conjecture. So he sends Rose and Jackie Tyler back to everyone's favorite alternate universe, this time with a human Doctor in tow. The original Doctor believes that with Rose's help, the new Doctor can be cured of his homicidal tendencies. And despite some initial resistance from Rose, she eventually accepts this new Doctor as her own with a touching PDA (in the form of a snog to end all snogs).
THIS, of course, is the perfect time for the Doctor and Donna to ninja out, since goodbyes had never been his forte. So! He leaves Rose and his double and lets Donna take the helm for a bit. But Donna suddenly starts to short circuit, repeating phrases and words and just-- generally acting weirdly. The Doctor and Donna come to understand that Donna won't survive having a Time Lord mind in a human body, so despite Donna's refusal, the Doctor wipes her memory completely of any traces of himself or of their travels together.
When he takes her home, he tells her mother and grandfather that Donna can never again remember either him or their adventures; remembering would cause the Time Lord mind to reassert itself, and would kill her. So in the end, he loses his best friend, and with nothing else to be done, he goes off to travel again on his own.
