Mostly Harmless app; The (Tenth) Doctor / Doctor Who
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IC:
Character name: The Doctor
Fandom: Doctor Who
Timeline: Just after Waters of Mars
Age: 905 or thereabouts
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: HERE WE GO.
The Doctor is what some might call a genius, and he has no qualms with with agreeing with them. He’s extremely good with computers and other electronics, so hacking will more than likely be extremely easy for him. The Doctor has some telepathic/psychic abilities, and he can read minds by placing his hands at someone's temples. He can also pick up vibes -- that is, he can sense if something is ancient or extremely evil. He can read about a million pages in a minute, can focus radiation from his body into one point (his foot or shoe, for instance), can figure out math equations faster than you can say "Wait, what?", and has an impossible knowledge of history and SCIENCE!!11! He has on hand his psychic paper, which is a piece of paper that allows him to provide and show any sort of information or credentials he can think up -- so long as the viewer isn't psychic himself. He'll also have his trusty sonic screwdriver, which allows him to unlock doors, hack into practically any computer ever, and put up cabinets when he's bored. Essentially, he can do any number of things with his little toy, as long as the item he's working on isn't wood or deadlock sealed ooor blocked for the sake of plot.
Also, the Doctor is a Time Lord, an ancient alien race from what was once the planet of Gallifrey. Being a Time Lord, he has two hearts and a long life span - which is lengthened by his ability to regenerate himself. Regeneration for a Time Lord means that he can recreate his entire body and, in essence, become an entirely new person with the same mind and memories. This particular Doctor has regenerated nine times, and this version is his tenth incarnation. Regeneration does not mean, however, that the Doctor is immortal. There are a lot of ways to kill a Time Lord stone dead, but Time Lords do their best to cheat. BUT, if by some chance the Doctor is killed in the game, he will not regenerate and will instead be brought back to life according to the guidelines of the game..
Time Lords, as the name implies, have self-proclaimed dominion over time; as such, they have an innate sense of what points of time are malleable and which points of time are “fixed” - that is, points in time that cannot be changed without tremendous repercussions. It’s the Doctor’s hobby to travel across time and space, fixing what needs to be fixed and protecting what needs to be protected.
Biologically speaking, he has two hearts, though he's able to survive with only one of them working. He also heals much faster than a human, and is able to withstand a great deal of physical stress that most humans cannot - such as extreme temperatures and electrocution. He's able to survive suffocation due to his respiratory bypass system (at least, according to old school canon - as of late this seems up for debate), and his body temperature runs lower than your average human.
If it's alright, I'd also like him to come with the TARDIS, which is his space ship and time machine wrapped up in one little, blue Police Box. TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space, and it can travel through the time vortex; in simple terms, the ship disappears from one place, travels through the vortex, then reappears elsewhere. It's also dimensionally transcendental -- that is, it's bigger on the inside, possibly infinitely bigger, than it appears from the outside. TARDISes are grown from a piece of coral, and seem to have a high level of sentience contained in their core Matrix, though are unable to communicate, due to their design. Being bigger on the inside also means that the TARDIS contains a number of storage rooms and bedrooms. He’ll only be traveling once the SS Thor has landed, though.
How would they use their abilities?: FOR GOOD! Or for his perception of good, which is usually spot on, but can be up to interpretation and criticism a lot of the time, as of late. A lot of the Doctor’s abilities in relation to his Time Lord-ness will just be instinctual, like his ability to sense fixed points in time; because of all the wormhole goodness, though, this will be downplayed. Since he’s good with computers, he’ll probably do a lot of hacking (with permission!), but he’ll never abuse that ability unless he thinks trouble is afoot. Same goes for him using his sonic screwdriver: he’s only going to use it if something seems off to him, or if he wants to show off, but he won’t make it a constant habit.
Appearance: The tenth Doctor is humanoid (though he would say “Time Lord”) in appearance. He stands at 6’1” tall, and coupled with his gravity-defying hair and lanky figure, he can, at times, look a bit like a broom. He generally wears a dark brown suit with thin, blue pinstripes and a tan overcoat that flaps dramatically in the wind. Only not really. His other outfit is a blue suit with dark red pinstripes, but regardless of which suit happens to strike his fancy on any given day, he always wears a pair of Converse trainers. Occasionally he can be seen wearing a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, usually when he has to do something particularly clever.
Background:
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 be inspired, frightened out of their wits, or driven mad; the Doctor was apparently the type who looked into the vortex and ran away. What’s also known of the Doctor in his younger days is that he did terribly in school, mostly for lack of trying. And even though he didn’t pass his test to be able to pilot a TARDIS, 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.
Before the Time War, the Time Lords were a proud race of conservatives who took it upon themselves to protect the whole of time; however, despite their great knowledge, wisdom, abilities, and technology, they also 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 was considered something of a rogue by his fellow Time Lords. Several times the Doctor was put on trial for wanting to help the universe in any way he could and in his early days was even found guilty. Over time, the Time Lords began to see the value of the Doctor and his genius, and though they did not necessarily like him, they at least found him to be useful.
It is assumed that, during the Time War, the Doctor was in his eighth incarnation. The war waged on for years and years and years, fought between the Time Lords and a destructive race known as the Daleks. While little is known of the war itself - the Doctor tends to avoid the topic or speaks 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!)
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 21st century, after an 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 -- including a charming conman/former Time Agent from the 50th Century, Captain Jack Harkness -- 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, even when they were chased by disease-ridden humans, attacked by werewolves, pursued by Cybermen from an alternate dimension, stranded on space 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, Pete Tyler, real mom, Jackie Tyler, and Rose’s childhood friend and previous traveling companion, Mickey Smith, while the Doctor and Rose 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.
And directly afterwards, he said hello to one Donna Noble, a woman transported into the TARDIS in the middle of her wedding. So after a bit of screaming and slapping on Donna's part, the Doctor gets her back to her wedding reception -- though not before an epic chase scene involving a robotic Santa driving a taxi cab and the Doctor piloting his TARDIS with some strings. As it turns out, Donna Noble had been poisoned with Huon particles by her fiance over the course of six months, so that she could be used as a power source to free some giant spider babies known as Racnoss from the center of the Earth. The Doctor's solution to this? Drown the spider babies using the waters from the river Thames, of course! He and Donna escape, and the Racnoss Empress is shot down by military tanks under the orders of one Mr. Saxon (foreshadowing!). The Doctor and Donna return to Donna's parents' home, and after the Doctor makes it snow for a proper Christmas, he asks Donna to travel with him. She turns him down, and though the rejection obviously pains him, he moves on.
Then enter the spectacular 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 and nearly kills the Doctor in the hospital Martha happens to be studying in. As a thank you for saving his life, the Doctor takes Martha across time and space, as he usually does, introducing her to old friends, such as the surprise immortal Captain Jack Harkness, and old enemies, such as the Daleks (yes, they survived!) 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 Arch; this device locked his memories away in a pocket watch. The Doctor, Martha, and Jack Harkness encounter the Master in his human form, Professor Yana, at the literal end of the universe, where the universe and all the planets therein are dying. And after a few well-meant words, Martha brings the fob watch to Yana's attention, leading him to open the pocket watch and regain his memories. And thus, the Master is released! As his first act of badassery, he steals the Doctor's TARDIS but before he can make good his escape, the Doctor locks the TARDIS' traveling abilities, forcing it to travel between that point in time and the last place the TARDIS had visited -- present day Cardiff. The Master, being evil and full of himself and kind of twistedly awesome, got himself elected Prime Minister of Great Britain under the name of Harold Saxon. He then proceeded to take over and nearly ruin the 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 to depose the Master. When the paradox machine built in the Doctor's TARDIS is destroyed, time reverts back one year, and the Earth is, more or less, returned to normal. 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, wonderful, and disgustingly dangerous journey through the universe - sans one companion. Martha stays behind in order to help her family cope with the Year That Never Was. 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, which would make the best plushies ever. Anyway, after resolving that whole problem, they travel the universe together, with such adventures as the Doctor getting himself a daughter, what seems to be a wife, and meeting Agatha Christie. 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. 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 is 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. 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 papa, 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 -- that is, the return of Jackie and Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Sarah Jane Smith (no relation), Jack Harkness, and Martha Jones. As he's being reunited with Rose, 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 siphons 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, which 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.
Now, enter the other 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. 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, sending all of 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 faux pas when he blows up all of the Daleks and Davros with a few flips of conveniently placed switches - which pissed the original Doctor off, basically. It's then that the original Doctor deems the human Doctor as too dangerous to have in his universe. So he sends Rose and Jackie Tyler back to everyone's favorite alternate universe beach, 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 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).
The original Doctor and Donna leave them to their devices, returning to their own universe; there, the two of them come to realize that Donna is dying of her newfound intelligence, as Time Lord and human minds were never meant to be mixed. In order to save her, the Doctor wipes her memory of anything related to him, causing her to revert to the sort of person she was before they'd ever met. He leaves her back home, warning her family to avoid ever mentioning the Doctor again, and goes off to travel on his own once more (do you see a pattern?).
After the devastation of losing Donna, he goes on various adventures on his own - one wherein he foiled an insidious plot to destroy 19th century London using a giant, steampunk Cyberman mecha-type-thing and met a man who had thought himself to be the Doctor; and another where he ends up on a bus transported to another planet through a wormhole, along with the bus' other passengers and one Lady Christina de Souza. There, the Doctor and Christina had to bring everyone back home and shut the wormhole to prevent these stingray alien things from going to Earth and devouring everything. Naturally this is a success, and the Doctor goes on his merry way once again on his own -- but not before he receives a piece of information from a psychic woman who was on the bus: that the Doctor's "song is ending," and that "he will knock four times." So with that cryptic fortune, the Doctor leaves!
And some time later, he arrives on Mars in the year 2059 - the year that the Earth's first Martian base is destroyed by Captain Adelaide Brooke for unknown reasons. The Doctor spends most of his time here waffling between staying and going. He realizes that these events must happen for the good of the human race, as Adelaide's death inspires her granddaughter to travel into space and spawns a long line of pioneers. And yet he stays out of curiosity - that, and he means well. As it turns out, an organism in the water was infecting the crew members of the base and taking them out one by one; infection here means that the crew was turned into something like very wet zombies. Just as things began spiraling into doom, the Doctor leaves the base to make his way back to his TARDIS, and the remaining crew was meant to escape on their shuttle and return to Earth. Fate had other plans, however, and soon events were escalating out of their control and death seemed imminent - which is right when the Doctor returns. He manages to use a funny robot to materialize the TARDIS on the base, and he escapes with Captain Adelaide and two other remaining crew members (three if you count the robot), effectively messing up the timeline because his ego had grown three million sizes that day.
You see, before he returns to rescue the survivors, the Doctor had a sort of revelation. As the last Time Lord in existence, he suddenly realized the magnitude of his responsibility for all of time. He had always maintained the old order and kept the timeline mostly in tact, sort of like a conservative in a radical's clothing. At that moment, however, he realized that he could be more than just responsible for maintaining the status quo -- he had the potential ability to shape and manipulate events, effectively changing fixed points to suit his desires.
This, however, is quickly shot down (this is the second time I've used this pun) when after they've returned to Earth, Adelaide commits suicide to keep the timeline intact. The Doctor's delusions of power are quickly shattered, and he realizes he'd gone several steps too far with his actions. An Ood, an alien he had encountered before on several occasions, suddenly appears nearby to summon the Doctor to the Ood home world; and when the Doctor steps into his TARDIS, he refuses to meet them right away, instead going off to continue with his own adventures. And so he finds the SS Thor!
Personality:
The Doctor can be described in one word: volatile. Of course, that doesn't mean I'll be stopping there.
Initially, the Doctor can seem to be an overwhelmingly friendly guy. He's the sort of person you absolutely dread while waiting in line at the bank, because he won't hesitate to try and strike up a conversation about the weather, and how cold it is in there, how slow the tellers seem to be moving, and oh right, have you noticed anything strange in the area lately, like walking rose bushes or anything else out of the ordinary?
More or less, he's a huge fanboy of anything that's shiny, gorgeous, or brilliant - which can apply to anything from the talents of a playwright, to the aesthetic qualities of an alien, or to the bravery of one person standing alone against overwhelming odds. He tends to be cheerful and amiable, and most people find him trustworthy after having known him for only an hour or so. He can be extremely flippant, sometimes during the most inappropriate times. 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; he has a habit of finding dangerous and life-threatening situations extremely amusing, and people often call him out for it.
The Doctor generally reacts to most situations 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, and he won't hesitate to tell a room full of people just how much more clever he is than all of them. Combined. Multiplied by ten, and then taken to the second power. This incarnation in particular has a tendency to be a little rude, despite his usual charming behavior. He has a tendency to forgo social niceties in favor of speaking his mind - though usually he doesn't realize what he's saying is rude unless he means it to be. The Doctor could probably babble and babble for hours if no one stopped him, and he likes explaining concepts using the scenic route, rather than using the direct explanation.
Still, the Doctor has a serious side that comes out when the situation calls for it, and it's when situations are extremely dire that his darker, scarier, more screamy side comes out. Also, he 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 great deal of cynicism towards those around him. He thinks more scientifically and empirically than emotionally, though there are occasions where his decisions do err more on the side of the latter. 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. He plays by his own rules, and while he tries to do the Right Thing, occasionally his means land in a sort of morally grey area. Moreover, his definition of the Right Thing can sometimes go against the opinions of others. He'll always choose life over death, and although he tries to save everyone, including the bad guys, he won't hesitate to do what he must for the greater good, even if that means killing.
He considers himself to be something of the highest authority in the universe. And especially after the most recent special, the Doctor's personality has taken a much darker, more egotistical turn. He's always had a bit of a god complex, but his realizing the gravity of being the last of the Time Lords probably didn't help much. Adelaide's suicide helped to suppress his superiority complex, but it's likely still there, lurking beneath the surface. Even so, he still keeps up his cheerful, bright persona; he'll still joke around and he'll still namedrop like crazy. The Doctor has still changed; he's afraid of his impending death and as such, he'll be much quicker to anger and annoy, though he'll do as much as he can to be amiable.
Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep-! The plug-in is called FlamingFerret, and characters can earn money by doing monthly missions, pick-pocketing other characters, or by getting a permanent job. Or possibly by mooching.
1st person sample:
Friends, Vogons, citizens of the good ship Thor, lend me your ears!
- Sorry, I’ve just always wanted to do that. Anyway! Hullo, I’m the Doctor. I’ve just recently landed, and I am utterly, utterly sick of paperwork. I mean, honestly, I just popped on for a quick tour, that’s all. Thought I’d just pop in, poke my head out, give a short “How d’you do” then go about my business. Then suddenly I’ve got a pen in my hand and before I could even say a word (which, as my friends might tell you, is quite an accomplishment), they’ve rushed me off to fill out form Five-Two-Peanut-Six-Delta-Ten, which, they tell me, is also known as the “Tourist Application Form,” and apparently “The Doctor” isn’t a good enough name for them. “Well, we certainly can’t let you on board without even a proper name,” they said. They must’ve sent me to the back of the line at least a dozen times before I just told them I was called “John Smith.” Then they had me wait on a man called “Gus” to review my application before I could even think of setting foot on the ship, and then they had me initialing all over the place on the “Tourist Agreement Form,” Fifteen-Sixty-Bee.
I reckon that’s bureaucrats for you, though. Even with all this paperwork, they still can’t keep their records straight. Earth destroyed when making room for a space mall? Who told them that? I’ve seen the way the world ended, and it was with quite a big bang, not a whimper.
But, anyway! Right, sorry about that. Just thought I’d be a bit neighborly and introduce myself. Last time I was on a tour, things went a bit- off. Well, more than off. Well- I can at least tell you that we weren’t exactly exchanging mobile numbers at the end. Hopefully there won’t be any repeats of that, yeah?
3rd person sample:
It's strange, the Doctor thought, the things you can get into when you don't have proper back-up.
Not that he usually needed it, of course. Far from it -- the Doctor didn't need anyone. He was better off on his own, after all. But as he stood there, lengths of wire tangling around his legs and thrown over his shoulders, exposed bits of metal burning his fingers, and a red LCD display angrily counting down the seconds to what was sure to be a loud, messy, and extremely painful explosion that could take out a good portion of Wales, he couldn't help thinking how much easier this all would be if he had an extra set of hands.
And he'd probably brought it on himself, really. That woman he'd run into a bit ago -- and he did, in fact, run into her quite literally in his rush to get here -- had asked what the Doctor was running from. When the Doctor told her "big, purple, polka-dotted blobs who were rather cross that he had sabotaged the flight systems of their ship," she only gave him a slight look of puzzlement, which was loads better than the usual looks he got, which tended to say rather succinctly, "You're in dire need of a straitjacket." And the Doctor had found that those who only looked confused were always the most helpful in times of need.
Instead, the Doctor had only given her a chipper little wave and continued on his merry, albeit a bit frantic, way. He wasn't quite ready to be helped, didn’t want to tangle anyone else into his affairs. The last time he'd been "helped," he'd gotten attached, and attachment was always, always, coupled with an inevitable loss. And he was never the only one getting hurt; he didn't care to count all of the lives he must've ruined. Life as a time traveler was always a double-edged sword, and that time was no different, nor would any other instance be.
And when he gave himself a bit of a shock after his finger brushed against an exposed wire, he realized how silly this was -- just because he asked someone to hold a few wires didn't guarantee them a gruesome ending. The seconds ticked down (nineteen, eighteen, seventeen. . .) and he realized he was risking so many lives just because of his fear of loss. How ridiculous was he being, as though he were the most important person in the universe? If Donna were here, she'd--
Well, that was the thing, wasn't it? Donna wasn't here (sixteen, fifteen, fourteen. . .), and she couldn't be. But if she was, she would've glared at him, told him to suck it up, and do what he had to do to save Wales. The Doctor moved more quickly now, stripping and crossing more wires, plugging and unplugging cords--
Thirteen, twelve, eleven. . .
The Doctor threw the switch and smacked his palm against the big, yellow button.
Ten.
The clock froze there, and the Doctor couldn't help but let out a loud, "Ha!" in victory. He quickly untangled himself and ran out of the dank cellar. Emotional problems be damned: he had purple blobs to deal with.
Questions?: Will the Doctor be able to live in his TARDIS in the hangar? It's cool if he can't, though, as long as he can visit it frequently!
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IC:
Character name: The Doctor
Fandom: Doctor Who
Timeline: Just after Waters of Mars
Age: 905 or thereabouts
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: HERE WE GO.
The Doctor is what some might call a genius, and he has no qualms with with agreeing with them. He’s extremely good with computers and other electronics, so hacking will more than likely be extremely easy for him. The Doctor has some telepathic/psychic abilities, and he can read minds by placing his hands at someone's temples. He can also pick up vibes -- that is, he can sense if something is ancient or extremely evil. He can read about a million pages in a minute, can focus radiation from his body into one point (his foot or shoe, for instance), can figure out math equations faster than you can say "Wait, what?", and has an impossible knowledge of history and SCIENCE!!11! He has on hand his psychic paper, which is a piece of paper that allows him to provide and show any sort of information or credentials he can think up -- so long as the viewer isn't psychic himself. He'll also have his trusty sonic screwdriver, which allows him to unlock doors, hack into practically any computer ever, and put up cabinets when he's bored. Essentially, he can do any number of things with his little toy, as long as the item he's working on isn't wood or deadlock sealed ooor blocked for the sake of plot.
Also, the Doctor is a Time Lord, an ancient alien race from what was once the planet of Gallifrey. Being a Time Lord, he has two hearts and a long life span - which is lengthened by his ability to regenerate himself. Regeneration for a Time Lord means that he can recreate his entire body and, in essence, become an entirely new person with the same mind and memories. This particular Doctor has regenerated nine times, and this version is his tenth incarnation. Regeneration does not mean, however, that the Doctor is immortal. There are a lot of ways to kill a Time Lord stone dead, but Time Lords do their best to cheat. BUT, if by some chance the Doctor is killed in the game, he will not regenerate and will instead be brought back to life according to the guidelines of the game..
Time Lords, as the name implies, have self-proclaimed dominion over time; as such, they have an innate sense of what points of time are malleable and which points of time are “fixed” - that is, points in time that cannot be changed without tremendous repercussions. It’s the Doctor’s hobby to travel across time and space, fixing what needs to be fixed and protecting what needs to be protected.
Biologically speaking, he has two hearts, though he's able to survive with only one of them working. He also heals much faster than a human, and is able to withstand a great deal of physical stress that most humans cannot - such as extreme temperatures and electrocution. He's able to survive suffocation due to his respiratory bypass system (at least, according to old school canon - as of late this seems up for debate), and his body temperature runs lower than your average human.
If it's alright, I'd also like him to come with the TARDIS, which is his space ship and time machine wrapped up in one little, blue Police Box. TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space, and it can travel through the time vortex; in simple terms, the ship disappears from one place, travels through the vortex, then reappears elsewhere. It's also dimensionally transcendental -- that is, it's bigger on the inside, possibly infinitely bigger, than it appears from the outside. TARDISes are grown from a piece of coral, and seem to have a high level of sentience contained in their core Matrix, though are unable to communicate, due to their design. Being bigger on the inside also means that the TARDIS contains a number of storage rooms and bedrooms. He’ll only be traveling once the SS Thor has landed, though.
How would they use their abilities?: FOR GOOD! Or for his perception of good, which is usually spot on, but can be up to interpretation and criticism a lot of the time, as of late. A lot of the Doctor’s abilities in relation to his Time Lord-ness will just be instinctual, like his ability to sense fixed points in time; because of all the wormhole goodness, though, this will be downplayed. Since he’s good with computers, he’ll probably do a lot of hacking (with permission!), but he’ll never abuse that ability unless he thinks trouble is afoot. Same goes for him using his sonic screwdriver: he’s only going to use it if something seems off to him, or if he wants to show off, but he won’t make it a constant habit.
Appearance: The tenth Doctor is humanoid (though he would say “Time Lord”) in appearance. He stands at 6’1” tall, and coupled with his gravity-defying hair and lanky figure, he can, at times, look a bit like a broom. He generally wears a dark brown suit with thin, blue pinstripes and a tan overcoat that flaps dramatically in the wind. Only not really. His other outfit is a blue suit with dark red pinstripes, but regardless of which suit happens to strike his fancy on any given day, he always wears a pair of Converse trainers. Occasionally he can be seen wearing a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, usually when he has to do something particularly clever.
Background:
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 be inspired, frightened out of their wits, or driven mad; the Doctor was apparently the type who looked into the vortex and ran away. What’s also known of the Doctor in his younger days is that he did terribly in school, mostly for lack of trying. And even though he didn’t pass his test to be able to pilot a TARDIS, 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.
Before the Time War, the Time Lords were a proud race of conservatives who took it upon themselves to protect the whole of time; however, despite their great knowledge, wisdom, abilities, and technology, they also 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 was considered something of a rogue by his fellow Time Lords. Several times the Doctor was put on trial for wanting to help the universe in any way he could and in his early days was even found guilty. Over time, the Time Lords began to see the value of the Doctor and his genius, and though they did not necessarily like him, they at least found him to be useful.
It is assumed that, during the Time War, the Doctor was in his eighth incarnation. The war waged on for years and years and years, fought between the Time Lords and a destructive race known as the Daleks. While little is known of the war itself - the Doctor tends to avoid the topic or speaks 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!)
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 21st century, after an 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 -- including a charming conman/former Time Agent from the 50th Century, Captain Jack Harkness -- 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, even when they were chased by disease-ridden humans, attacked by werewolves, pursued by Cybermen from an alternate dimension, stranded on space 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, Pete Tyler, real mom, Jackie Tyler, and Rose’s childhood friend and previous traveling companion, Mickey Smith, while the Doctor and Rose 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.
And directly afterwards, he said hello to one Donna Noble, a woman transported into the TARDIS in the middle of her wedding. So after a bit of screaming and slapping on Donna's part, the Doctor gets her back to her wedding reception -- though not before an epic chase scene involving a robotic Santa driving a taxi cab and the Doctor piloting his TARDIS with some strings. As it turns out, Donna Noble had been poisoned with Huon particles by her fiance over the course of six months, so that she could be used as a power source to free some giant spider babies known as Racnoss from the center of the Earth. The Doctor's solution to this? Drown the spider babies using the waters from the river Thames, of course! He and Donna escape, and the Racnoss Empress is shot down by military tanks under the orders of one Mr. Saxon (foreshadowing!). The Doctor and Donna return to Donna's parents' home, and after the Doctor makes it snow for a proper Christmas, he asks Donna to travel with him. She turns him down, and though the rejection obviously pains him, he moves on.
Then enter the spectacular 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 and nearly kills the Doctor in the hospital Martha happens to be studying in. As a thank you for saving his life, the Doctor takes Martha across time and space, as he usually does, introducing her to old friends, such as the surprise immortal Captain Jack Harkness, and old enemies, such as the Daleks (yes, they survived!) 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 Arch; this device locked his memories away in a pocket watch. The Doctor, Martha, and Jack Harkness encounter the Master in his human form, Professor Yana, at the literal end of the universe, where the universe and all the planets therein are dying. And after a few well-meant words, Martha brings the fob watch to Yana's attention, leading him to open the pocket watch and regain his memories. And thus, the Master is released! As his first act of badassery, he steals the Doctor's TARDIS but before he can make good his escape, the Doctor locks the TARDIS' traveling abilities, forcing it to travel between that point in time and the last place the TARDIS had visited -- present day Cardiff. The Master, being evil and full of himself and kind of twistedly awesome, got himself elected Prime Minister of Great Britain under the name of Harold Saxon. He then proceeded to take over and nearly ruin the 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 to depose the Master. When the paradox machine built in the Doctor's TARDIS is destroyed, time reverts back one year, and the Earth is, more or less, returned to normal. 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, wonderful, and disgustingly dangerous journey through the universe - sans one companion. Martha stays behind in order to help her family cope with the Year That Never Was. 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, which would make the best plushies ever. Anyway, after resolving that whole problem, they travel the universe together, with such adventures as the Doctor getting himself a daughter, what seems to be a wife, and meeting Agatha Christie. 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. 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 is 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. 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 papa, 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 -- that is, the return of Jackie and Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Sarah Jane Smith (no relation), Jack Harkness, and Martha Jones. As he's being reunited with Rose, 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 siphons 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, which 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.
Now, enter the other 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. 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, sending all of 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 faux pas when he blows up all of the Daleks and Davros with a few flips of conveniently placed switches - which pissed the original Doctor off, basically. It's then that the original Doctor deems the human Doctor as too dangerous to have in his universe. So he sends Rose and Jackie Tyler back to everyone's favorite alternate universe beach, 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 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).
The original Doctor and Donna leave them to their devices, returning to their own universe; there, the two of them come to realize that Donna is dying of her newfound intelligence, as Time Lord and human minds were never meant to be mixed. In order to save her, the Doctor wipes her memory of anything related to him, causing her to revert to the sort of person she was before they'd ever met. He leaves her back home, warning her family to avoid ever mentioning the Doctor again, and goes off to travel on his own once more (do you see a pattern?).
After the devastation of losing Donna, he goes on various adventures on his own - one wherein he foiled an insidious plot to destroy 19th century London using a giant, steampunk Cyberman mecha-type-thing and met a man who had thought himself to be the Doctor; and another where he ends up on a bus transported to another planet through a wormhole, along with the bus' other passengers and one Lady Christina de Souza. There, the Doctor and Christina had to bring everyone back home and shut the wormhole to prevent these stingray alien things from going to Earth and devouring everything. Naturally this is a success, and the Doctor goes on his merry way once again on his own -- but not before he receives a piece of information from a psychic woman who was on the bus: that the Doctor's "song is ending," and that "he will knock four times." So with that cryptic fortune, the Doctor leaves!
And some time later, he arrives on Mars in the year 2059 - the year that the Earth's first Martian base is destroyed by Captain Adelaide Brooke for unknown reasons. The Doctor spends most of his time here waffling between staying and going. He realizes that these events must happen for the good of the human race, as Adelaide's death inspires her granddaughter to travel into space and spawns a long line of pioneers. And yet he stays out of curiosity - that, and he means well. As it turns out, an organism in the water was infecting the crew members of the base and taking them out one by one; infection here means that the crew was turned into something like very wet zombies. Just as things began spiraling into doom, the Doctor leaves the base to make his way back to his TARDIS, and the remaining crew was meant to escape on their shuttle and return to Earth. Fate had other plans, however, and soon events were escalating out of their control and death seemed imminent - which is right when the Doctor returns. He manages to use a funny robot to materialize the TARDIS on the base, and he escapes with Captain Adelaide and two other remaining crew members (three if you count the robot), effectively messing up the timeline because his ego had grown three million sizes that day.
You see, before he returns to rescue the survivors, the Doctor had a sort of revelation. As the last Time Lord in existence, he suddenly realized the magnitude of his responsibility for all of time. He had always maintained the old order and kept the timeline mostly in tact, sort of like a conservative in a radical's clothing. At that moment, however, he realized that he could be more than just responsible for maintaining the status quo -- he had the potential ability to shape and manipulate events, effectively changing fixed points to suit his desires.
This, however, is quickly shot down (this is the second time I've used this pun) when after they've returned to Earth, Adelaide commits suicide to keep the timeline intact. The Doctor's delusions of power are quickly shattered, and he realizes he'd gone several steps too far with his actions. An Ood, an alien he had encountered before on several occasions, suddenly appears nearby to summon the Doctor to the Ood home world; and when the Doctor steps into his TARDIS, he refuses to meet them right away, instead going off to continue with his own adventures. And so he finds the SS Thor!
Personality:
The Doctor can be described in one word: volatile. Of course, that doesn't mean I'll be stopping there.
Initially, the Doctor can seem to be an overwhelmingly friendly guy. He's the sort of person you absolutely dread while waiting in line at the bank, because he won't hesitate to try and strike up a conversation about the weather, and how cold it is in there, how slow the tellers seem to be moving, and oh right, have you noticed anything strange in the area lately, like walking rose bushes or anything else out of the ordinary?
More or less, he's a huge fanboy of anything that's shiny, gorgeous, or brilliant - which can apply to anything from the talents of a playwright, to the aesthetic qualities of an alien, or to the bravery of one person standing alone against overwhelming odds. He tends to be cheerful and amiable, and most people find him trustworthy after having known him for only an hour or so. He can be extremely flippant, sometimes during the most inappropriate times. 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; he has a habit of finding dangerous and life-threatening situations extremely amusing, and people often call him out for it.
The Doctor generally reacts to most situations 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, and he won't hesitate to tell a room full of people just how much more clever he is than all of them. Combined. Multiplied by ten, and then taken to the second power. This incarnation in particular has a tendency to be a little rude, despite his usual charming behavior. He has a tendency to forgo social niceties in favor of speaking his mind - though usually he doesn't realize what he's saying is rude unless he means it to be. The Doctor could probably babble and babble for hours if no one stopped him, and he likes explaining concepts using the scenic route, rather than using the direct explanation.
Still, the Doctor has a serious side that comes out when the situation calls for it, and it's when situations are extremely dire that his darker, scarier, more screamy side comes out. Also, he 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 great deal of cynicism towards those around him. He thinks more scientifically and empirically than emotionally, though there are occasions where his decisions do err more on the side of the latter. 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. He plays by his own rules, and while he tries to do the Right Thing, occasionally his means land in a sort of morally grey area. Moreover, his definition of the Right Thing can sometimes go against the opinions of others. He'll always choose life over death, and although he tries to save everyone, including the bad guys, he won't hesitate to do what he must for the greater good, even if that means killing.
He considers himself to be something of the highest authority in the universe. And especially after the most recent special, the Doctor's personality has taken a much darker, more egotistical turn. He's always had a bit of a god complex, but his realizing the gravity of being the last of the Time Lords probably didn't help much. Adelaide's suicide helped to suppress his superiority complex, but it's likely still there, lurking beneath the surface. Even so, he still keeps up his cheerful, bright persona; he'll still joke around and he'll still namedrop like crazy. The Doctor has still changed; he's afraid of his impending death and as such, he'll be much quicker to anger and annoy, though he'll do as much as he can to be amiable.
Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep-! The plug-in is called FlamingFerret, and characters can earn money by doing monthly missions, pick-pocketing other characters, or by getting a permanent job. Or possibly by mooching.
1st person sample:
Friends, Vogons, citizens of the good ship Thor, lend me your ears!
- Sorry, I’ve just always wanted to do that. Anyway! Hullo, I’m the Doctor. I’ve just recently landed, and I am utterly, utterly sick of paperwork. I mean, honestly, I just popped on for a quick tour, that’s all. Thought I’d just pop in, poke my head out, give a short “How d’you do” then go about my business. Then suddenly I’ve got a pen in my hand and before I could even say a word (which, as my friends might tell you, is quite an accomplishment), they’ve rushed me off to fill out form Five-Two-Peanut-Six-Delta-Ten, which, they tell me, is also known as the “Tourist Application Form,” and apparently “The Doctor” isn’t a good enough name for them. “Well, we certainly can’t let you on board without even a proper name,” they said. They must’ve sent me to the back of the line at least a dozen times before I just told them I was called “John Smith.” Then they had me wait on a man called “Gus” to review my application before I could even think of setting foot on the ship, and then they had me initialing all over the place on the “Tourist Agreement Form,” Fifteen-Sixty-Bee.
I reckon that’s bureaucrats for you, though. Even with all this paperwork, they still can’t keep their records straight. Earth destroyed when making room for a space mall? Who told them that? I’ve seen the way the world ended, and it was with quite a big bang, not a whimper.
But, anyway! Right, sorry about that. Just thought I’d be a bit neighborly and introduce myself. Last time I was on a tour, things went a bit- off. Well, more than off. Well- I can at least tell you that we weren’t exactly exchanging mobile numbers at the end. Hopefully there won’t be any repeats of that, yeah?
3rd person sample:
It's strange, the Doctor thought, the things you can get into when you don't have proper back-up.
Not that he usually needed it, of course. Far from it -- the Doctor didn't need anyone. He was better off on his own, after all. But as he stood there, lengths of wire tangling around his legs and thrown over his shoulders, exposed bits of metal burning his fingers, and a red LCD display angrily counting down the seconds to what was sure to be a loud, messy, and extremely painful explosion that could take out a good portion of Wales, he couldn't help thinking how much easier this all would be if he had an extra set of hands.
And he'd probably brought it on himself, really. That woman he'd run into a bit ago -- and he did, in fact, run into her quite literally in his rush to get here -- had asked what the Doctor was running from. When the Doctor told her "big, purple, polka-dotted blobs who were rather cross that he had sabotaged the flight systems of their ship," she only gave him a slight look of puzzlement, which was loads better than the usual looks he got, which tended to say rather succinctly, "You're in dire need of a straitjacket." And the Doctor had found that those who only looked confused were always the most helpful in times of need.
Instead, the Doctor had only given her a chipper little wave and continued on his merry, albeit a bit frantic, way. He wasn't quite ready to be helped, didn’t want to tangle anyone else into his affairs. The last time he'd been "helped," he'd gotten attached, and attachment was always, always, coupled with an inevitable loss. And he was never the only one getting hurt; he didn't care to count all of the lives he must've ruined. Life as a time traveler was always a double-edged sword, and that time was no different, nor would any other instance be.
And when he gave himself a bit of a shock after his finger brushed against an exposed wire, he realized how silly this was -- just because he asked someone to hold a few wires didn't guarantee them a gruesome ending. The seconds ticked down (nineteen, eighteen, seventeen. . .) and he realized he was risking so many lives just because of his fear of loss. How ridiculous was he being, as though he were the most important person in the universe? If Donna were here, she'd--
Well, that was the thing, wasn't it? Donna wasn't here (sixteen, fifteen, fourteen. . .), and she couldn't be. But if she was, she would've glared at him, told him to suck it up, and do what he had to do to save Wales. The Doctor moved more quickly now, stripping and crossing more wires, plugging and unplugging cords--
Thirteen, twelve, eleven. . .
The Doctor threw the switch and smacked his palm against the big, yellow button.
Ten.
The clock froze there, and the Doctor couldn't help but let out a loud, "Ha!" in victory. He quickly untangled himself and ran out of the dank cellar. Emotional problems be damned: he had purple blobs to deal with.
Questions?: Will the Doctor be able to live in his TARDIS in the hangar? It's cool if he can't, though, as long as he can visit it frequently!