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Character: TARDIS
Series/Fandom: Doctor Who
Deviance: 5
Age: Um, very, very old. At least 1,100, probably significantly older
Gender: female
Species: sentient trans-dimentional transport ship
Appearance: Ohboy, well, um. In her default form, the TARDIS looks like a 1950s style police box, blue in colour, with "Police Box Emergency Call" scrolled across the top in white lettering on a black background and miscellaneous wording on the sides. It changes over time, and she exists in just about all times, so, well. She's allowed to change the default look a little?
Her interior has gone through some drastic changes, mainly in that her main column goes all the way to the ceiling, whereas before it ended a few meters off the ground. The central column also pulses up and down from both ends, instead of one pump inside a cylinder. Dark metal turrets rise up around the column, hemming in the hexagonal control deck, which rests in a large indent in the floor, almost like a reverse dais. Surrounding the central control area is what appears to be a study, complete with comfy reclining chair, bookstand, side table and old-fashioned phonograph -- as well as about a hundred other various knickknacks strewn haphazardly around the room.
Along with the main control chamber, the TARDIS has several rooms, from wardrobes to full libraries to a spacious chamber tucked in the farther recesses of her interior that houses a miniature Eye of Harmony, which is linked to the real Eye back on Gallifrey. For the most part, the TARDIS keeps the Eye closed so she doesn't destroy entire realities, because she's nice like that, though there have been instances where she was sorely tempted to coerce one of the Doctor's companions into the room.
The TARDIS has also been experimenting with taking on physical form through the agitated protoplasm the Zagreus infection left behind after Romana left her for dead in a foundry. She has taken especially to the forms of those companions she actually favoured, in particular, the Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and Vislor Turlough, two companions who couldn't be farther from the other in appearance or attitude, really.
The Brigadier is an older gent, British in every possible way, and also, well ... in the military. He wears a green uniform and beret with a red stripe, as well as, on occasion, a lovely cape he throws over his shoulders for protection from the elements. His age shows in his face, but his eyes shine with a youthful mirth and his lip quirks beneath the well-tripped mustachios in an easy laugh.
Turlough, on the other hand, rarely cracks a smile, leaving his youthful features unmarred by any nasty crows feet. Someone should tell him he'll get frowny wrinkles, instead. He isn't quite boyish, but he isn't the epitome of adult, either, with his cropped ginger hair and petulant lips. He tends to wear clothing that is far too tight and short, interspersed with snappy suits that do little to fill out his thin frame.
The TARDIS also has a third physical form she will take, oft-times when she thinks no one is looking or she's feeling particularly feminine. It's been said that a Grey Lady wanders the halls of the TARDIS, spending her time in the engine room, the library, or tending to rooms. Her hair is long and dark, her form ethereal and fluid and never quite discernible, as though she does not, in fact, have a body (which would be true!). The one constant of her shape, however, is the thin silver band on her left ring finger, inscribed with Gallifreyan symbols -- a wedding band, with the words 'The Only Constant' scrawled delicately along its surface. If only the man she'd 'married' knew it was there. It is to be noted that this form, unlike the other two, is Gallifreyan and not human, because this is the TARDIS' manifestation of her psyche, and she's too vain to have anything other than a Time Lady's body. (Also: now she can compete with Romana)
Psychology: Part ship, part home, part companion, part friend. The TARDIS is a rather lot of things, both to the Doctor, his companions, and herself, and she's far from simple to understand, especially considering she's a transportation device. She's been called the Doctor's only constant by the Doctor himself, as she is the only travelling companion who has remained with him indefinitely. That's the problem with humans -- their lives are short, and the Doctor's lifestyle is not something with which they can keep up. But the TARDIS, well...she's been with him since he first stole her, and loyally so.
Speaking of those human companions, however, the TARDIS has developed quite the jealous streak toward the Doctor's various female friends, particularly Charley, who has romantic feelings for her Eighth Doctor. Though she's suffered the Doctor's companions for centuries (or maybe that should be millenia, considering how far in time they've travelled, and do you take that into account?), their "dirty underwear all over [her] floors, tears and soggy in [her] bedrooms" and their spending "hour after hour in [her] bathrooms," she remained silent about her feelings toward them until recently, when an incident involving Charley painted the TARDIS' jealousy and pain in a stark light.
After all, she's been with the Doctor for as long as he's been travelling the universe, far longer than the little twits who join him for brief moments of his life, only to disappear as quickly. Even his Sixth form said as much, calling her his one constant, and to see the Doctor -- her Doctor -- fawn over the insipid bipeds angers her to no end. Especially when he will sacrifice her well-being to protect the weak and insufferable gits.
She is, however, fiercely loyal to the Doctor, almost to a fault. She loves him beyond measure and is, quite frankly, somewhat obsessed, which at times can cloud her judgment. She isn't afraid to argue with him, however, when she feels he's being particularly stupid and one of his schemes will hurt either himself or both of them. At times such as these, she'll balk at commands and has been know to, on occasion, do exactly the opposite of what the Doctor wants. 'Temperamental' is perhaps the kindest thing she's been called during one of these stunts.
When she isn't fawning over the Doctor, arguing with him or seething with jealousy of his companions, the TARDIS can be quite mischievous, as well, adding rooms and corridors where there weren't any before, trapping companions in a looped hallway or, every now and again, turning their showers freezing cold. It's all in good fun, of course. Really. She swears.
General Skills/Abilities: She's a time travelling space craft that makes the whole of the universe her bitch. She can translate any language, she can warp space and time, she can make up rooms to her delight, she can project humanoid forms. She can also, you know, destroy reality if she opens the Eye of Harmony (but she won't, she promises. Destroying realities is far too messy and the Doctor would grow angry with her.) Oh yeah, she also has vast, and I do mean vast, stores of knowledge. She is definitely smarter than a fifth grader.
General Weaknesses: Well...she's a ship, even with all her super awesome godmode powers, so she's limited to travelling where the Doctor wants to go (for the most part) and she's not actually mobile. She can project her psyche, sure, but that doesn't mean she's actually moving, so. When it comes to human interaction, she also has ... absolutely not idea what she's doing. Living with the Doctor for centuries has instilled in her the belief that there is no such thing as personal space, everyone should be hyper intelligent and if they aren't, they're idiots, and anything beyond a scientific knowledge of things is beyond her. She can learn it, sure, but she's often too proud to admit she doesn't know.
History: Born on Gallifrey, the TARDIS actually began life as a small plant in a large 'garden' with others of her species. Cultivated from the beginning to eventually be a spaceship for the Time Lords, the TARDIS was eventually fitted with bits and pieces of Time Lord technology around which she grew, developing a black hole core from which she obtains her time travelling powers. When she was big enough, more Gallifreyan technology, such as the coordinate console, was added to her core column. Eventually, all the systems integrated with her biology and the TARDIS came fully into her powers.
And so she waited for a Time Lord to bond with her, which happened eventually. She doesn't care to remember much of that time, as it was long ago and so very short-lived, because not long after, her generation was recalled for repairs, as newer models were beginning to be harvested. She was stored within the confines of the Oakdown House, from which her original pilot came, and waited there, dormant and alone, for about a decade, before two little boys snuck in through her front doors, as little boys are wont to do. One of them called her beautiful and he visited often, for years and years after that fateful first encounter; he saved her life, asking his friend, a son of Oakdown and pride of his House, to keep her from being decommissioned.
Eventually, he came to her again, this time running from the very world that had created them both, and she went with him happily, stopping off to pick up his granddaughter before travelling to the stars and knowing freedom once again for the first time in centuries.
So began her relationship with the Doctor.
In the years -- centuries -- she's been with him, the TARDIS has watched the Doctor's companions come and go, including Susan, the young girl with whom he originally left with her. She always watched the Doctor change, changing his form a total of seven times while with her, each regeneration different, but always with that same love and care he'd shown her that first night when they disappeared into the darkness.
They had adventures the likes of which no other TARDIS could believe, as well. They faced down the Daleks (multiple times, as the blasted things won't stay dead, apparently), were almost blown up by Cybermen; more than once, the Master manipulated her entire being to get to the Doctor, always without succeeding. They took on Omega, Death and the Gallifreyans, themselves.
There were times when she fought with the Doctor, as well, like when he lost his ring in her central column, sending searing pain through her interior until she got fed up with it all and changed the console room into a jungle out of sheer frustration. He apologised and retrieved the offending article of jewellery, but she didn't speak to him for a few days afterward, just to teach him a lesson.
During his Sixth regeneration, she bore a child with Kamelion, which the Doctor raised and allowed to spend time on Earth as a substitute for his companion, Peri. The child has since disappeared and the TARDIS wonders, on occasion, where she went, but puts little more thought to it than that, content to travel as she is. If they cross paths sometime in the future, she'll worry about the child then.
In that time they travelled, in all the situations they found themselves in and the skirmishes they fought, it wasn't only the Doctor who took damage. The TARDIS suffered injury after injury in service to her Doctor, brutal beatings to her exterior, being shot, torn asunder. The Time Lady Romana drilled holes in her console and she was dismantled and blown apart. She suffered as near to death as possible and ripped apart the fabric of time and space to protect her Doctor, tearing herself apart until she was naught but a broken, skeletal shell looming over Gallifrey, ready to destroy the planet to save him.
But the final test, the agony of all agonies, was when the Time Station exploded within her, poisoning herself and the Doctor with anti-time, rending her personality in two. Which was perhaps the greatest injury of all, moreso than having her exterior melted down, moreso than having the negative personification destroyed (by Romana again, mind). No, having the Doctor use her, sacrificing her to save Charley -- and then watching her own negative self torture the Doctor within her, unable to save him from herself -- those were injuries that have scarred her, and deeply.
It was after the anti-time infection that she and the Doctor, along with Charley, travelled to the divergent universe -- the universe Rassilon sealed away to keep his own people as the mightiest force in the universe. And it is so, so different, living in a universe where time does not exist. It hurts and aches and she's disoriented half the time, but there are positives, as well. There are no Daleks, no Cybermen, no Omega or Rassilon or Time Lords and, for the first time in decades, the TARDIS and the Doctor and his companions, after picking up the Eutermesan C'rizz, can travel freely and explore, as they had always wished to do.
It is during one such exploration of a planet very similar to Traken that a temporal-spatial shift pulls the TARDIS in, depositing her among the stars -- and inside the machine.
Reality Description: The TARDIS, Eight, Charley and C'rizz are currently on a planet with a strong belief in plantlife and taking care of the environment. The residents are a peaceful people who look a bit like anthropomorphic arthropods who go about their lives tending to the vast groves of trees they cultivate, as well as the vast water gardens they grow on the lakes and oceans. It's a beautiful planet, if a little boring. No wars, no fights, no negative feelings, for the most part. It's all a bit cloying, and yet they can't leave because, for whatever reason, the TARDIS' navigation systems are malfunctioning.
The people of the TARDIS' reality are the Doctor, a younger looking man with curly, foppish hair and a rather ... unique ... fashion sense (though compared to her other Doctors, he can at least pick a coat that matches his shoes). He's of decent build, taller, and his voice has a soothing, lilting quality to it that she finds intensely comforting when he's petting and chatting with her. Which is often.
One of his companions is a girl by the name Charley and whom the TARDIS once hated. She doesn't exactly like the girl now, but it isn't complete and utter loathing as it once was. That part of her was more the anti-time, though the TARDIS continues to feel jealous of the attention the Doctor gives Charley (ignore the fact he gives the TARDIS more, and is significantly more affectionate).
Then there is C'rizz, the greenish-blue Eutermesan she and the Doctor met after coming to the divergent universe. He's an intelligent bloke with a bit of a sarcastic streak, and has no idea what time is, which can make discussions with him rather frustrating. The Doctor gets by, however, though he's yet to be able to explain exactly what the TARDIS is, considering C'rizz still can't figure out what the first word in the acronym even means.
And now for something completely different!
☆ Threadhopping with this character - yes/no/maybe so?: That would be a yes, unless it's something serious or marked private, at which I'd expect you people to use discretion. I'm generally pretty okay with it, though~
☆ Backtagging with this character - yes/no/maybe so?: Have at it!
☆ Hugging this character?: I don't see why not. She might look at you funny, but she has no real concept of personal space, sooo.
☆ Giving this character a kiss?: Again, don't see why not, though depending on who you are, she might not be terribly happy.
☆ Punching this character: Why would you want to? ; ; Generally speaking, though, unless you're the Master, who has free reign to do pretty much whatever he damn well wants with her (it's canon!), I'd rather you okay any physical violence against the TARDIS with me, first.
☆ Is there anything ought not be mentioned near this character?: None that I can think of~
☆ Is there anything you need us to know about interacting with this character? Special physical features, fighting abilities, STUFF: Um, she's a ship. An incredibly intelligent, incredibly arrogant, incredibly naive ship that can make physical projections with which to interact. Do not be surprised if she says something offensive to you. Because she will. Frequently. She doesn't know any better (or she does and she just doesn't care :/)
☆ Anything else, please mention here: Fear me and my fangirl obsession with a living police box?