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series: Doctor Who (live action, the series reboot that started up in 2005)
name: Rory Williams
sex: M
age: unspecified in canon, but my best guess would be 25.
race: Human
height: 5 ft., 11 inches
weight: 170 lbs
canon point: He'll be coming in from the end of the Series Six episode 'The Girl Who Waited.'
previous cr: N/A
history: To be found here, with a more detailed biography here, and even some details on his Centurion days in this article if that's helpful!
personality: I'll begin by making a long story short before diving into greater detail: Rory Williams is, simply put, an amazing man. He's loyal, patient, compassionate, responsible, funny, kind and very, very badass when he sees the need to be. And at the same time he is also flawed- shown being insecure, jealous, petty, not... always very quick on the uptake and entirely able to be provoked. Now to really get started.
On a very base level that evolves over the course of the season, but still sticks around enough that I think it merits mention, Rory Williams is cautious and insecure on default levels. He thinks twice before trusting situations that aren't familiar, not to mention likes taking the time to point out what could go wrong to those who he thinks might not be considering the possibilities properly. If somebody looks to be cozying up to Amy, he doesn't tend to think highly enough of himself to keep from hovering around the pair of them at all. He's pretty prone to jealousy where she's concerned, because quite frankly? It took him that long to catch her- unspectacular, boring, incredibly awkward Rory that he is- a part of him, smaller and smaller though it gets as the series continues, is pretty sure that someone truly amazing is going to come along one of these days and sweep her right off her feet. A little possessiveness was pretty much unavoidable.
When Rory comes onto the TARDIS to stay, he clearly brings with him a level head and a sensible point of view to balance out the Doctor and Amy's more... openly adventerous natures. He is not the kind of man about to be excited over the prospect of potentially deadly monsters and dangerous situations, and more than the type of man to point out exactly what's wrong with being excited over those kinds of things. Seeing Amy volunteer to place herself in danger and all the insanity that ensues during his unofficial test run as a companion, he's quick to point out to the Doctor how being around him makes people want to impress him and make dangerous, reckless chioces because of it. Rory is far from impressed by this, not to mention leaning to the jealous side due to Amy's apparent closeness to the Doctor (...and also the fact that said Doctor crashed his bachelor party to inform him that Amy tried to get all her makeouts on with him), and taking all that into consideration he's not nearly intimidated enough by the guy to keep from giving him a piece of his mind. At the same time, as canon progresses, I think that he's grown into being able to understand the Doctor really well, maybe more than he actually realizes- centuries of living without any steady companion through it all, the last of his kind, and more recently just the kind of impossible, heartbreaking decisions that can come with the Time Lord territory. The Doctor is still a man who can make mistakes, who can't always fix everything. Sometimes he just doesn't need a companion who hero-worships him- sometimes he needs a person who can just about view him on the level.
You see, one of the absolute biggest aspects of Rory's characterization is just how much he loves Amy Pond. It's not all of who he is, but anybody who wrote a personality section about this man without mentioning this would be utterly Doing It Wrong. He's been in love with this woman for nearly his entire life- he wants her to be happy, healthy, safe and, well, with him. He's incredibly protective of her and willing to do whatever she needs him to do. Someone who hurts her or puts her in harm's way is entirely likely to get a verbal smackdown... and possibly a physical one, depending on the situation. I'd say the best way to really drive the point home is to point to canon once more; while Amy was sealed in the Pandorica for nearly two-thousand years, Rory was always close by to watch over her, to keep it from being opened before it should be, not wanting her to have to be alone. Two thousand years on that singular goal, without getting romantically involved with anybody else or giving up, and just as in love with her when she finally wakes up as he ever was. He was 100% sincere in his desire to rescue an alternate timeline Amy- older, accidentally left behind by herself for years and years. When the Doctor made him choose between her or rescuing Amy from earlier in the timeline to make it so it never happened (which, when you're faced with that Amy, feels so much like killing her), he was very clearly holding back tears with moderate success. As far as he's concerned, any Amy is still Amy, and he loves her just as much.
(to take to an unrelated note from his love for Amy, which I just can't seem to find a good place for setting here, I think that being made to make that choice is a very significant point in Rory's relationship to the Doctor. He says to him very plainly, "this isn't fair. You're turning me into you."
One big thing to note as a result of this episode is a bit of a breaking in trust where the Doctor's concerned- even apart from just the fact that the Doctor had lied to him and to the alternate Amy about being able to save two Amys from different points in the timeline at once, I think he was really upset at being given the authority over the decision to leave older-Amy behind and rewrite history. In the end, he was a little consoled by the fact that Amy was safe and sound in the TARDIS, and that future didn't have to happen for her, but at the same time I think there's a lingering hurt, and possibly disappointment over it all. He was never one to put the Doctor on a pedestal in the first place, but he did still have a tendency to trust him to be honest and always manage to come through. Just something that's taken a bit of a shift in perspective now, is all.)
Anyway, going on, his heart doesn't just extend to Amy and Amy alone. Rory is naturally kind and compassionate towards a lot of others in general (for all that his more pessimistic, awkward nature may tend to put a few off), willing to help out where he can and establish connections. The people he cares about, he cares about without inhibition, and just like with Amy, he's willing to do damn near anything to keep them safe. He hadn't been traveling with the Doctor for all that long by the time the events of the episodes "The Hungry Earth" and "Cold Blood" roll around, and he still winds up taking a shot pushing the Doctor out of danger- even after he was blaming said Doctor for Amy disappearing not too long ago. Even knowing that said Doctor has a particular knack for getting out of every deadly situation to come his way. These episodes also exhibit his compassionate nature very well. He feels very deeply for Ambrose and her situation (a husband and son taken away and a poisoned father), and seems genuinely upset by the death of Alaya: not just because she was their only bargaining chip to get back their missing loved ones, but because she didn't have to die (...I will admit, this may be subjective depending on the viewer, and it's my own feel for that moment).
Rory tends to be the group pessimist, the realist who strives to put things into perspective for the other two members of Team TARDIS. I think that he's actually sort of come to view and accept it as his particular duty- Mister Responsible. His dream life isn't anything glamorous or action-packed at all, either. A great life to Rory, in the long run, is just being married to Amy and living happily. Nice little house, nice town, making a good living, maybe having some kids along the way. Which isn't to say that he doesn't come to love the Doctor or accept TARDIS life- even enjoy it! It's just that he's also realistic enough to know it can't last forever, and he's mature enough to know what he'd want when it all comes to an end... however it ends.
Re-summarizing: awkward and a bit insecure, but with an incredible capacity for love and compassion. He would do anything for the people he loves, even if it meant forsaking the rest of the universe in the process, and he'd do it without a single regret. He has no issues breaking out his inner badass and taking names if a situation calls for it. Rory is a shining example of some of the best traits that humanity has to offer and of a person's ability to adapt and grow stronger. He is a sturdy foil to the Doctor, and a beautiful match to Amy to keep her feet on the ground.
...he also looks pretty awesome in authentic Roman armor.
abilities/powers: Rory is a professionally trained medical nurse, proficient in first aid care and capable of any task that could be expected of someone in the profession. And for a human he's in pretty good shape- at the very least, he's gained experience in running for extended periods of time. While he has no supernatural abilities to bring up for putting into play, he technically has about 2000 years' worth of memories stuffed into his brain, which he doesn't remember all the time, but can on occasion. He spent a not-really-existent lifetime as a Roman, who became a soldier, so he's fair to middling in strategy terms. It also seems that he can be proficient in combat with a sword if the situation calls for it... and if he feels like the situation is really calling for it.
That said, Rory is far from difficult to injure or kill, a fact that canon seems to like to remind viewers of more often than not. At the end of the day, he's just a human, and not the strongest of humans at that. While he can be clever and very strong morally/emotionally... springing into action is not the first thing that he thinks to do. Rory is largely a reactor and quite frankly, not usually a warrior at heart- and this is something that could seriously work against him. If he has an emotional attachment in an issue, it's likely to throw off his more rational judgement (a very good example would be the actions he took during the trio's encounter with the Flesh), to the point where he can become very gullible if he thinks he's doing the right thing.
first person sample: Here is a post from another game!
third person sample: Another example from prior RPing!
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name: Dani
are you over 18?: 20.
personal lj: fantasyfan17
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in character information.
series: Doctor Who (live action, the series reboot that started up in 2005)
name: Rory Williams
sex: M
age: unspecified in canon, but my best guess would be 25.
race: Human
height: 5 ft., 11 inches
weight: 170 lbs
canon point: He'll be coming in from the end of the Series Six episode 'The Girl Who Waited.'
previous cr: N/A
history: To be found here, with a more detailed biography here, and even some details on his Centurion days in this article if that's helpful!
personality: I'll begin by making a long story short before diving into greater detail: Rory Williams is, simply put, an amazing man. He's loyal, patient, compassionate, responsible, funny, kind and very, very badass when he sees the need to be. And at the same time he is also flawed- shown being insecure, jealous, petty, not... always very quick on the uptake and entirely able to be provoked. Now to really get started.
On a very base level that evolves over the course of the season, but still sticks around enough that I think it merits mention, Rory Williams is cautious and insecure on default levels. He thinks twice before trusting situations that aren't familiar, not to mention likes taking the time to point out what could go wrong to those who he thinks might not be considering the possibilities properly. If somebody looks to be cozying up to Amy, he doesn't tend to think highly enough of himself to keep from hovering around the pair of them at all. He's pretty prone to jealousy where she's concerned, because quite frankly? It took him that long to catch her- unspectacular, boring, incredibly awkward Rory that he is- a part of him, smaller and smaller though it gets as the series continues, is pretty sure that someone truly amazing is going to come along one of these days and sweep her right off her feet. A little possessiveness was pretty much unavoidable.
When Rory comes onto the TARDIS to stay, he clearly brings with him a level head and a sensible point of view to balance out the Doctor and Amy's more... openly adventerous natures. He is not the kind of man about to be excited over the prospect of potentially deadly monsters and dangerous situations, and more than the type of man to point out exactly what's wrong with being excited over those kinds of things. Seeing Amy volunteer to place herself in danger and all the insanity that ensues during his unofficial test run as a companion, he's quick to point out to the Doctor how being around him makes people want to impress him and make dangerous, reckless chioces because of it. Rory is far from impressed by this, not to mention leaning to the jealous side due to Amy's apparent closeness to the Doctor (...and also the fact that said Doctor crashed his bachelor party to inform him that Amy tried to get all her makeouts on with him), and taking all that into consideration he's not nearly intimidated enough by the guy to keep from giving him a piece of his mind. At the same time, as canon progresses, I think that he's grown into being able to understand the Doctor really well, maybe more than he actually realizes- centuries of living without any steady companion through it all, the last of his kind, and more recently just the kind of impossible, heartbreaking decisions that can come with the Time Lord territory. The Doctor is still a man who can make mistakes, who can't always fix everything. Sometimes he just doesn't need a companion who hero-worships him- sometimes he needs a person who can just about view him on the level.
You see, one of the absolute biggest aspects of Rory's characterization is just how much he loves Amy Pond. It's not all of who he is, but anybody who wrote a personality section about this man without mentioning this would be utterly Doing It Wrong. He's been in love with this woman for nearly his entire life- he wants her to be happy, healthy, safe and, well, with him. He's incredibly protective of her and willing to do whatever she needs him to do. Someone who hurts her or puts her in harm's way is entirely likely to get a verbal smackdown... and possibly a physical one, depending on the situation. I'd say the best way to really drive the point home is to point to canon once more; while Amy was sealed in the Pandorica for nearly two-thousand years, Rory was always close by to watch over her, to keep it from being opened before it should be, not wanting her to have to be alone. Two thousand years on that singular goal, without getting romantically involved with anybody else or giving up, and just as in love with her when she finally wakes up as he ever was. He was 100% sincere in his desire to rescue an alternate timeline Amy- older, accidentally left behind by herself for years and years. When the Doctor made him choose between her or rescuing Amy from earlier in the timeline to make it so it never happened (which, when you're faced with that Amy, feels so much like killing her), he was very clearly holding back tears with moderate success. As far as he's concerned, any Amy is still Amy, and he loves her just as much.
(to take to an unrelated note from his love for Amy, which I just can't seem to find a good place for setting here, I think that being made to make that choice is a very significant point in Rory's relationship to the Doctor. He says to him very plainly, "this isn't fair. You're turning me into you."
One big thing to note as a result of this episode is a bit of a breaking in trust where the Doctor's concerned- even apart from just the fact that the Doctor had lied to him and to the alternate Amy about being able to save two Amys from different points in the timeline at once, I think he was really upset at being given the authority over the decision to leave older-Amy behind and rewrite history. In the end, he was a little consoled by the fact that Amy was safe and sound in the TARDIS, and that future didn't have to happen for her, but at the same time I think there's a lingering hurt, and possibly disappointment over it all. He was never one to put the Doctor on a pedestal in the first place, but he did still have a tendency to trust him to be honest and always manage to come through. Just something that's taken a bit of a shift in perspective now, is all.)
Anyway, going on, his heart doesn't just extend to Amy and Amy alone. Rory is naturally kind and compassionate towards a lot of others in general (for all that his more pessimistic, awkward nature may tend to put a few off), willing to help out where he can and establish connections. The people he cares about, he cares about without inhibition, and just like with Amy, he's willing to do damn near anything to keep them safe. He hadn't been traveling with the Doctor for all that long by the time the events of the episodes "The Hungry Earth" and "Cold Blood" roll around, and he still winds up taking a shot pushing the Doctor out of danger- even after he was blaming said Doctor for Amy disappearing not too long ago. Even knowing that said Doctor has a particular knack for getting out of every deadly situation to come his way. These episodes also exhibit his compassionate nature very well. He feels very deeply for Ambrose and her situation (a husband and son taken away and a poisoned father), and seems genuinely upset by the death of Alaya: not just because she was their only bargaining chip to get back their missing loved ones, but because she didn't have to die (...I will admit, this may be subjective depending on the viewer, and it's my own feel for that moment).
Rory tends to be the group pessimist, the realist who strives to put things into perspective for the other two members of Team TARDIS. I think that he's actually sort of come to view and accept it as his particular duty- Mister Responsible. His dream life isn't anything glamorous or action-packed at all, either. A great life to Rory, in the long run, is just being married to Amy and living happily. Nice little house, nice town, making a good living, maybe having some kids along the way. Which isn't to say that he doesn't come to love the Doctor or accept TARDIS life- even enjoy it! It's just that he's also realistic enough to know it can't last forever, and he's mature enough to know what he'd want when it all comes to an end... however it ends.
Re-summarizing: awkward and a bit insecure, but with an incredible capacity for love and compassion. He would do anything for the people he loves, even if it meant forsaking the rest of the universe in the process, and he'd do it without a single regret. He has no issues breaking out his inner badass and taking names if a situation calls for it. Rory is a shining example of some of the best traits that humanity has to offer and of a person's ability to adapt and grow stronger. He is a sturdy foil to the Doctor, and a beautiful match to Amy to keep her feet on the ground.
...he also looks pretty awesome in authentic Roman armor.
abilities/powers: Rory is a professionally trained medical nurse, proficient in first aid care and capable of any task that could be expected of someone in the profession. And for a human he's in pretty good shape- at the very least, he's gained experience in running for extended periods of time. While he has no supernatural abilities to bring up for putting into play, he technically has about 2000 years' worth of memories stuffed into his brain, which he doesn't remember all the time, but can on occasion. He spent a not-really-existent lifetime as a Roman, who became a soldier, so he's fair to middling in strategy terms. It also seems that he can be proficient in combat with a sword if the situation calls for it... and if he feels like the situation is really calling for it.
That said, Rory is far from difficult to injure or kill, a fact that canon seems to like to remind viewers of more often than not. At the end of the day, he's just a human, and not the strongest of humans at that. While he can be clever and very strong morally/emotionally... springing into action is not the first thing that he thinks to do. Rory is largely a reactor and quite frankly, not usually a warrior at heart- and this is something that could seriously work against him. If he has an emotional attachment in an issue, it's likely to throw off his more rational judgement (a very good example would be the actions he took during the trio's encounter with the Flesh), to the point where he can become very gullible if he thinks he's doing the right thing.
first person sample: Here is a post from another game!
third person sample: Another example from prior RPing!
case no: no preference.