Application for Last Resort
Character Information
Name: The Doctor
Nickname/aliases: Sometimes John Smith. Also, will answer to The Oncoming Storm.
Canon: Doctor Who
Canon Type?: TV show
Character's LJ: fishycustard
Brief history of your character: The Doctor’s eleventh regeneration comes into being with a bang, literally, as the TARDIS is burning when he emerges from the tenth regeneration. He crashes in Amelia Pond’s backyard and spends some time with her while he waits for his TARDIS to repair herself; in the meantime he explores a little of his new personality and investigates the crack in Amelia’s wall, which happens to be a crack in space and time. On the other side of this crack is a prisoner, Prisoner Zero; before he can tackle this, the Doctor checks on his TARIDS. The Doctor promises to come back to Amelia in five minutes; when he comes back, it’s been 12 years, and the prisoner in the crack has fully come into Amy’s time.
The Doctor solves the problem of Prisoner Zero while he also reintroduces himself to Amy and meets Amy’s boyfriend, Rory. After thoroughly vanquishing the villain and picking out his new outfit, the Doctor returns to the newly repaired TARDIS for another quick trip; this time when he comes back, it’s been two years, and he returns on the eve of Amy’s wedding to Rory.
He and Amy leave an adventure on the future Britain-spaceship, Starship UK, a trip that sets the Doctor on an emotional rollercoaster as he is confronted with the human race’s torture and abuse of the last of the Space Whales. The British queen captured the Space Whale and forced it to power the station that holds Starship UK. It’s Amy who makes the Doctor realize that he doesn’t need to kill the whale to release it from its imprisonment; the whale volunteered to power the station, and happily continues his mission once the torture to its brain has stopped.
The Doctor and Amy then travel back to WWII to help Winston Churchill in an adventure that brings about the return of the Daleks, this time in Technicolor. It’s the Doctor who allows the Daleks to rebuild themselves, and they escape him at the end.
Their next adventure is interrupted by River Song, who leads the Doctor and Amy to a crashed spaceship that doesn’t hold just one Weeping Angel, but a whole army. The Doctor manages to defeat them by feeding them to the crack in space and time that’s haunting them. River repeats the prophecy of the Pandorica opening that is mentioned to the Doctor by Prisoner Zero, and the Doctor reiterates that it’s just a fairytale.
While on the rush of being saved from the Angels, Amy tries to convince the Doctor to sleep with her, which prompts the Doctor to return to Amy’s time to collect Rory and send them on an adventure together. He’s seen couples get split up because only one of them is allowed into the TARDIS, and he doesn’t want that to happen again. He takes Rory and Amy to Venice, and he stumbles on some fish from space who are trying to rebuild their dying species-victims of the crack in space and time-on Earth. He defeats them, though at the cost of having to witness the annihilation of another species, at his hands.
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are then thrown into a daymare sequence brought on by psychic pollen that force Amy to make a choice between two realities, one in which she lives domestically with Rory, and one where she zooms about space with the Doctor. Ultimately the choice between realities turns out to be the Doctor’s, as the entire daymare seems to have been led by his own inner demons manifesting in the form of a very squat man known as the Dream Lord. The Doctor correctly sees through the guise and destroys both worlds, which awakens everyone in real time. Though they are successful, the Doctor still suffers from the Dream Lord, seeing as he is a manifestation of his own self doubts.
From there they wind up on Earth and manage to stop the Silurians, holdovers from the dinosaurs who have been living in stasis under the earth, from surfacing to take over the planet, though at the cost of Rory’s life. He is killed just as they are escaping, and then he falls into a crack in time, erasing him from Amy’s memory. The Doctor pockets the engagement ring that Rory had given to Amy.
The Doctor then takes Amy to a Vincent Van Gogh art exhibit, apparently catering to her whims, and winds up taking her back to meet Vincent himself when he spots a monster in one of his paintings. He helps Vincent fight his invisible demon, and he doesn’t blow up when Vincent accidentally murders the blind monster that has been tormenting him. Instead, he takes the troubled Vincent into the future and lets him see what his art becomes before returning him to his life.
The Doctor and Amy are eventually called back in time to Stonehenge when the Romans had invaded Britain; all of the Doctor’s enemies are there, as well as the Pandorica. Rory reappears as a Roman centurion, apparently brought back to life thanks to Amy’s memories. The Doctor soon discovers that the Pandorica, said to hold the most dangerous, most feared creature in all the universe, has actually been built by all of his enemies to hold him. As he is being placed inside, Rory discovers he is an Auton, and he shoots Amy against his (humanity-like) will.
Through a series of incidents that involve the Doctor being clever as well as time being rather timey-wimey, he manages to save Amy, escape from the Pandorica, and rescue River from the time loop she was in inside the TARDIS, which is exploding. The universe is slowly being erased due to the TARDIS’s explosion, and the Doctor manages to solve this by driving the Pandorica, which contains the data to restore the universe, into the heart of the explosion, projecting the Pandorica’s information throughout every point in time and space.
He accepts his death fairly calmly, and soon finds out that he gets to rewind, going through his adventures with Amy and winding up on that first night with Amelia Pond, the girl who had just begun to wait. He tells her a story before he is swallowed up by the crack. Amy, however, remembers him on her wedding day with the help of River Song, and the Doctor arrives to dance (badly) at her wedding. The series ends with the Doctor, Rory, and Amy setting off on another adventure together.
Brief synopsis of your character's personality: This regeneration of the Doctor is goofy and energetic, which may be a byproduct of his recent regeneration; whatever the case, he definitely has a flair for the dramatic. He doesn’t balk from acting smug or talking up his own accomplishments, nor does he refrain from telling the truth, even when it seems too blunt or harsh; he also doesn’t hold back when he feels someone is acting up. This is especially true for humans, as he points out their flaws (as well as their strengths) often.
He does seem to be less in touch with his humanity as other regenerations, often giving off an alien vibe; this may lead to his lack of a general sense of personal space. Also, he is very clueless when it comes to any sort of romantic advance made on him, but he is able to try and help the people around him in their own relationships. His social skills can leave something to be desired; he often shushes or snaps at his companions to be quiet while he is thinking. He can be prone to outbursts of anger, particularly when he feels like someone is being hurt unnecessarily, and he does sometimes use violence (as in Victory of the Daleks) to achieve his means.
While he can be cold and abrupt, he isn’t callous; he is visibly upset as he witnesses the end of the last of the Saturnynians (the fish from space), and he expresses a fondness for humans even as he is sometimes critical of them (and how often he needs to save them). He certainly puts others first, and when it comes time to project himself into the exploding TARDIS to save the whole universe, he does so gracefully. He is good at expressing his more tender emotions, kissing Amy’s forehead or taking her hands or hugging people often.
He has a tendency to ramble when he is stressed, and he sometimes uses his hands to talk; he also likes to twirl when he walks.
Stats
Age: Oh, 900 or so, it’s hard to keep track. Also, it makes it a bit difficult to tell when your existence is wiped out and then restored. At any rate, too old for an accurate candle count on the cake.
Appearance: The Doctor’s eleventh regeneration is tall and gangly with a mop of dark hair on his head; he’s rather pale, and the existence of his eyebrows is questionable. He generally wears a brown tweed coat and a button-up with a subdued pattern, and either a maroon or a dark blue bowtie with matching suspenders. His pants are kind of ridiculously tight, and he wears work boots.
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Game Information
What is the point of your character's canon in which you are introducing your character?: From the end of series five of the new Who.
Is your character alive or dead at the point of entry to the game?: Oh, very much alive, thank you.
What skills does your character have?: All of them, or just about. He’s maddeningly clever, and skilled at flying a TARDIS (no matter what you might hear otherwise) and operating a sonic screwdriver. Rather a whiz at science of any kind, he is also knowledgeable about various alien species, moments in history, and the workings of the universe. He is not, however, that much of a dancer.
Your character will find 10 personal items in their room that the island has placed there. You may only include things that your character would have canonically. Please list them here:
1. His sonic screwdriver
2. A handsome red fez
3. Psychic paper
4. A nonfunctional vortex manipulator
5. A box of jammie dodgers
6. A pair of infrared sunglasses
7. A slingshot
8. The flier from the Vincent Van Gogh exhibit at the Musee D'Orsay
9. His TARDIS
10. A souvenir folding fan from Amy and Rory's wedding, with their names and the date on it
Entrance post:
Nothing like a good save-the-whole-universe to raise your spirits. And he can say that from experience because he’s done it a bunch, not just this one time, except this one time was quite the save-the-whole-universe experience. It’s not the first time he’s almost-died, and it’s not even the first time he’s died, but resigning yourself to explode in a fiery ball alongside your TARDIS is never an easy thing, and it certainly weighs heavy on the mind. It would’ve been a sobering way to go, surely, and it almost was until brilliant Amy Pond dove in with her fairytale ending and brought him back. No muss, no fuss, and everybody lives. Everybody lives.
He can hear Amy and Rory now, just in the other room. They’re talking about something and laughing, and it’s good to hear their laughter again, all tangled up and happy-sounding. However sweet it is to be alive again and to have Amy back in his TARDIS, hearing Rory or even catching glimpses of him out of the corner of his eye is enough to bring a smile to his face. Sometimes, sometimes the universe offers up ridiculous miracles, and Rory, the wonderful boy who waited, is most certainly one of them.
Taking another bite of fish custard, he thinks about going in to join them, stepping in on whatever argument it is that Amy has gotten them into now - he can hear her voice raising up an octave, and suddenly Rory’s gone rather quiet - but he looks down at his still unfinished bowl of custard. Amy has banished him and his favorite snack to the kitchen because she deems it too disgusting to watch, and though he isn’t necessarily hungry, it is very good, and dying can make a person nostalgic for things. Things like fish custard.
He resolves to push the bowl away and join them, but by the time he’s half-standing up, the sounds of argument and laughter has died down in the other room and he can now hear the distinctive sound of kissing. Rolling his eyes, he sits back down again and pulls the bowl of custard back toward him. If they’re going to start that up again, then he’ll just sit here and keep eating fish custard until they come up for air. And who knows when that will be.
The Doctor makes himself comfortable, stretching out his arms and legs, and he licks a stray bit of custard from his lips. This chair is very comfortable; funny how almost-dying-and-returning-from-nonexistence can make a person appreciate things like chairs. And grass.
Now, that’s a funny thought to have; why should he be appreciating grass when he’s in the TARDIS? Unless he isn’t in the TARDIS. Amy and Rory are still quiet in the other room, but the sun on his face is nice, and it’s very quiet in the TARDIS kitchen, peaceful. He could do with another bite of fish custard, to be honest, but when he reaches his hand out, the bowl isn’t there. Why isn’t the bowl there?
...unless he isn’t in the TARDIS.
Opening his eyes, the Doctor sits up quickly. He isn’t in the TARDIS. He’s outside, and he was lying on his back only now he’s sitting up, and there isn’t any fish custard, but there is an envelope with his name on it. He snatches it up, looks it over, and opens it up to find a map and a key. Maps are good, they’re usually helpful, but it would be more helpful to know where he is and why and how.
Also, whether or not Rory and Amy are safe.
Pocketing the envelope, he more-or-less leaps to his feet and looks around.
He never gets tired of being him.
[If you want to see examples of me writing Eleven in conversation, check out the other posts at fishycustard, which link to a few threads I've had at sixwordstories.]