Application for A Facility (wip)
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[NAME:] The Doctor (tenth regeneration)
[FANDOM:] Doctor Who
[TIMELINE:] Post 4.08, "Midnight."
[AGE:] Appears: Early thirties. In actuality: Around nine hundred and six.
[APPEARANCE:] [ picture ] [ awwwyeah ]
LOOKIN' GOOD FOR A NINE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD, DOCTOR. As a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to resolve any sort of potentially fatal wounds by regenerating his body. This is his tenth reincarnation, and this body is very tall (6'1"), pale, and quite thin. The doctor has striking features, fox-like and angular, as well as brown eyes. His hair is also brown - he has a lot of it and is quite proud of this fact, often running his fingers through it and scruffing it around when he's thinking. As a result, it tends to stick up at odd angles, particularly in the front.
This Doctor is rarely found without his trademark suit. He alternates between two: One is a blue one with red pinstripes (pictured), and the other is a brown suit with white pinstripes (awwwyeah'd). Both are generally worn with a buttoned shirt underneath (blue or white, usually), and either a tie or an open collar with a t-shirt underneath. He also favors Converse, an off-white pair to go with the brown suit and a red pair (pshooooes) to go with the blue suit.
He also has a long, sweeping, brown coat (also pictured) (and awwwyeah'd) that he generally wears with the suits. Supposedly, he got it from Janis Joplin.
[ABILITIES:] The Doctor is not only a Time Lord, he is the Time Lord - the last one alive, supposedly, after the Time War. Time Lords are an alien race, hailing from the planet Gallifrey. Consequentially, his physiology is very predominately human, save for his circulatory system requiring two hearts rather than one. Gallifreyans also have regenerative properties as aforementioned, though not very conventional - when he experiences any sort of mortal wounding, the heart of the TARDIS will literally rewrite every cell in his body. He'll live, but he'll be entirely revamped as a new person, not only physically but even with certain personality quirks and the like.
Normal Time Lords could only do this up to thirteen times. The Doctor has mentioned that he could have over 500 different faces if he so needed it. This property won't even be utilized in Facility, not unless he's canon updated to his eleventh reincarnation, but it's definitely worth mentioning.
Time Lords also have a large capacity for knowledge, lots and lots of knowledge, nine hundred years of history and things that the typical human mind couldn't handle. As a result, the Doctor is brilliant, very brilliant. He's easily able to think up complex schemes and fast ways out of situation without too long of a thought process at all, with little or no supplies to work with. He has a vast knowledge of gadgets and technology, easily able to utilize a number of alien machinery without previous prompting or instruction. He's adept with anything of the like, an expert engineer and hacker.
They seem to have some sort of low-level psychic property that allows them to transfer information into other people's minds, directly. Specifically, the Doctor has allowed someone to telepathically hear the mourning song of an alien race that she couldn't hear previously by simply touching his hands to her temples. He's also transferred a large amount of information about his past and his current mission into someone's head in one, large burst. A headbutt-y burst. It hurt a lot and he has done it once and probably never will again. Ever. Ever ever.
He's also been observed taking things OUT again. He wipes clean every memory of himself from Donna Noble's mind at one point, though the ability isn't foolproof - any triggering sights, people or things could restore the memories, easily.
...Also he can read obscenely fast. Like entire books in the span of five seconds.
All of these are worthy of note, but what's most important are his gadgets, as he would be lost without his babies:
- First and foremost is his TARDIS, TARDIS being an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. The TARDIS is a spaceship that travels by a process of de- and re-materialization (disappearing here and appearing there). It also doubles as a time machine, a literal living organism that manifests in the shape of a blue police box. It's bigger on the inside.
- The TARDIS has perception filters on it that make it very difficult to be seen by those who don't know any better. In layman's terms, it causes a person to see it, but as if they don't WANT to see it, so they'll look away, much like something they see out of the corner of their eye. It makes for excellent camouflage.
- There's a whole wealth of things inside, and just how much is inside the thing is really unknown. It seems to have entire back hallways and rooms, so far as to include giant closets of clothing (nearly department stores full), a library, at least fourteen bathrooms, an art gallery, kitchens, garages, swimming pools, you name it. The inside of the ship is literally in another dimension, and it's therefore HUGE.
- The Doctor seems to use the same sort of dimensional properties on his pockets. He's always storing random shit in there, idek.
- As well as its general uses - the spaceship, the time machine - the TARDIS also has a wealth of scanners and computers, general information and calculation. I'm assuming the tech itself will work, but communications with any and all outsiders will be shut off.
- The TARDIS also translates any and all alien languages and writing that it knows, thousands and thousands of languages, both for itself and for anyone who uses it, the Doctor included. This is rendered kind of useless, as the chip implants in Facility do... the same exact thing.
- Second, and possibly just as important, is the sonic screwdriver. The sonic screwdriver is hax. It can open locks, it can manipulate technological intricacies, it can change certain textures and chemical properties of things, it can function as a medical scanner, it can -- it can get spaghetti stains out of trousers, all depending on the settings. The sonic screwdriver is god.
- He also cranks out a bunch of other various gadgets, like his timey wimey detector (it goes 'bing' when there's stuff!), but I don't need to get into detail on that here, it will literally go on forever and this is long enough as is.
- NOTE: Obviously, his TARDIS won't be allowed in F1, but I was hoping for F3. I figure it will have to be nuked, probably only able to travel around the space of the F3, and limited time travel? I'm not sure how I'd even nuke any of that.
- Similarly, I'm not sure if his sonic screwdriver will be allowed - it's not a weapon, but it's very, very useful. HOWEVER, if you just say that the doors of the Facility are deadlocked, he can't get into them with just the sonic. Which I think is the most important thing that could be done with that, I really don't know if he'll be allowed to have it. It would likely render him a level A hacker with it.
[PERSONALITY:] The tenth Doctor is giddy about everything to ever exist, end of story.
Okay, but, no, really, one of the first noticeable things about him is how much ENERGY he seems to have. This Doctor is an exceedingly fast-paced one, constantly enthusiastic and chipper and just genuinely FASCINATED with so much of what he discovers. He's constantly referring to some of the most simple things and inventions as 'brilliant', invariably marveling at new things and experiences - sometimes, and most times, in the most inappropriate and potentially fatal of times. He talks very quickly, he rambles, he gushes his amazement, he can never very easily curb a train of thought. This is a Doctor that is, overall, just very excited, about everything.
Ostensibly, he's very childlike in this sense, but it doesn't negate the fact that the Doctor is, simply, an old man. Very old, centuries old, and he's been through so many ugly things that he can never shake. There's a very heavy and hidden part of the Doctor buried under all that playfulness that is just utterly trodden upon, that feels very strongly the weight of the Time War, and the fact that he is the last of his race. He's a very lonely person, and the universe is a very big place. This is part of why he nearly always brings companions with him on his travels.
There's also that ugly side of him that feels a great sense of acrimony for everything that's happened, that is unflinchingly protective of the things he loves and will go to a great extent to honor that protectiveness. There are times, when he's driven by these emotions, that he's capable of a righteous kind of anger, scarily righteous, and he'll stop at nothing to strike down those in his way, without hesitation. He's succumbed to much darker actions before, destroying Harriet Jones' entire career because of her violent actions on a Sycorax ship, and condemning the Family of Blood to a number of grievous and eternal punishments. He murders an entire family of Racnoss, their Empress included, and wouldn't have even bothered to budge or save himself from drowning just the same as them if Donna hadn't urged him out of the room.
Despite these much more frightful and harrowing sides of him, the Doctor is still, first and foremost, a very merciful creature. His refusal to pick up arms, even in violent and warlike situations, has nearly cost him his life more than once. If there is a non-aggressive solution to a problem, he will invariably execute it, or, at the very least, try. Even with some of his worst enemies, the Daleks and the Master amongst them, he attempted to find peaceful resolution to their wreaking havoc.
His mercy and his overbearing need to save people can be manic, almost obsessive. He can become incredibly overwhelmed in situations where someone's killed, particularly when he views their death as his own fault.
[HISTORY:] HAHAHA DO NOT READ THIS HISTORY OH GOD
this is awful
Nine hundred years... is a very long time. As such, to avoid a ridiculously long history, there is going to be a lot of glossing over in this, merely to keep things as concise as I can manage. Which isn't very, but it's better than if I covered a good forty years of canon in detail! Anyway. Here we go.
- As per usual, links are NOT NECESSARY to be clicked, only if you want to further look into the canon! Also kind of sort of for my own personal reference.
At the age of eight, as per a time-honored tradition of the Gallifreyans, the Doctor looking into the Untempered Schism, essentially a gap in the fabric of reality from which can be seen the whole of the Time Vortex. The process was painful and harrowing, and the children would have different reactions accordingly - some would be inspired, some would run away, and some would go mad. The Doctor ran, and never stopped running.
The Doctor did not have an impressive career at school. He attended the Time Lord Academy, and was a member of the Prydonian Chapter, as well as the Deca, alongside the Master, a good friend of his. He was known as Theta to his friends, back then.
At some point in his life, he's been a father and quite possibly married, though the details he gives are very scarce. The Doctor had three known grandchildren, Susan Foreman, John, and Gillian.
The Time Lords have a law in their culture when time travel is concerned - they may travel wherever they like, but only observe; they may never interfere. The Doctor broke this law, and rather than face his punishment, he stole a TARDIS and fled Gallifrey, traveling the stars and whatnot. After a long series of adventures involving some of his worst and most recurring enemies - Daleks, Cybermen - he found himself physically drained, his body too old to keep up with him. After a conflict with the Cybermen that left him weakened, he regenerated from his first reincarnation to his second.
More adventures! Until the Doctor was captured and placed on trial for that one small time he kind of ran the fuck away from his violating the cardinal rule of the Time Lords. His sentence would consist of exile on Earth in the 20th century and a forced regeneration, which is exactly what it sounds like.
The Doctor entered his third reincarnation with a sort of bitterness from being stranded on the one planet. During this time, he obviously spent a lot of time on Earth, unlikes his other incarnations, and worked as an unpaid scientific advisor for the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, or UNIT, a paranormal and extraterrestrial defense organization. The Master also shows up on Earth, gone renegade and not in a fun way, and steals a dormant Nestene energy unit from a museum in attempts to end mankind and silence the Doctor forever. After this fiasco, the Time Lords allow the Doctor limited use of his TARDIS.
He has several clashes with the Master that follow, as well as with the Daleks. It's not until a particular fight with the Spiders of Metebelis III that the Doctor sacrificed his own life by exposing himself to lethal levels of radiation. He must regenerate again, into his fourth reincarnation.
The Doctor, understandably, seems to view each of his reincarnations as a new and rejuvenated person, not as if each of them are him specifically, if just because each version of himself is so very different. As a consequence, the fourth reincarnation doesn't seem to have liked his predecessor very much. When on Karn, the fourth incarnation mentioned that he preferred his then-current form than "what he had last time".
Of course, the fourth Doctor is also a fucking weirdo.
He takes Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan to travel with him in the TARDIS. He fights Zygons, Harry goes home to Earth, he gets a telepathic summons to Gallifrey, Sarah goes home to Earth (though to Aberdeen, not South Croydon, oops), more adventures. He even attains the office for Lord President as part of a scheme to save his home world from an invasion force of two separate enemies, the Vardans and the Sontarans, posing as a very power-hungry Lord President.
His then-companion, Leela, requests to stay on Gallifrey, which he obliges, leaving the Capitol with K9 - that's right, a robot dog, bitches. He obtains a new companion, Romana, when the White Guardian sends him on a quest to assemble the segments of the Key to Time. In order to escape the wrath of the opposing Black Guardian, the Doctor installs a randomiser in the TARDIS console. Romana regenerates, and travels with K9. The Doctor is very sad :(
Actually quite sad, morose for the most of the rest of his reincarnation, even with the introduction of new companions, like Adric, Tegan and Nyssa. In another battle with the Master, the Doctor falls off the Pharos Project telescope, hundreds of yards. A mysterious entity merges with the Doctor, and he regenerates.
Fifth Doctor! Supposedly, this reincarnation is the Tenth's favorite. He even meets himself at some point in this timeline, and it's all very complex and timey wimey.
Cybermen fights! Adric dies, awww. So do dinosaurs. The Doctor, as a result, finally honors Tegan's requests to return to Earth, though continues to travel with Nyssa, for a while, until the court tries to kill him, is this even important because he never mentions this stuff, probably not, but it should be listed! And then Earth. And then Tegan again. Searching for the Key of Time too! Until, eventually, the Doctor and his current companion are exposed to Spectrox toxaemia. Only one antidote is available. The Doctor gives it to Peri.
He regenerates again. His sixth reincarnation is a bit of a dick. He's very arrogant, lording himself over almost everyone who's not Peri, who he has a bit of a soft side for. More adventures!! It's almost like I've stopped trying. But in all seriousness, he saves the planet(s) so many times that it's hard to keep track of all of them.
The Doctor's ship gets kidnapped and he's forced onto the Space Station Zenobia where he suffers partial amnesia because of his being plucked out of time. He's once again put on trial for interfering with universal matters, where the Valeyard (and oh, what an existential crisis THEY are) work as prosecutor, warping the evidence used against him and using his amnesia to their advantage. They try to charge him with the genocide of the Vervoids and everything, shit is so crazy. Butttt they made up all their evidence so they lost.
As a result of the trial, the Doctor is distraught and much more somber. He even contemplates suicide, at one point.
Other companions, glossing glossing glossing, and after he's weakened in a fight with the Lamprey, he's more susceptible to injury when the Rani assault his ship. He regenerates again, into a new person. WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE, WE'RE ALMOST THERE. You know, if anyone's still reading this cluterfuck at this point, kudos, but you're probably not gleaning anything from this, other than HE HASS LOTS OF FORMS AND DIES and so I know this is extra informative, and I should totes continue.
I'll just say that, surprise, there was more world-saving and adventures. The Doctor's seventh incarnation's death occurred when he was caught in the crossfire of a shoot out between rival Chinese-American youth gangs. The bullet wounds weren't lethal, but at the hospital, the anomaly of his two hearts was very noticed, and he bled out during an exploratory surgery. This regeneration was very slow due to the effects of the anesthesia.
At any rate, he becomes Eight, almost immediately getting into a battle with the Master, who will just never quit, because he's a jerk. He gets amnesia because of some crazy shit, he tries to kidnap some more young'ns. However, what's most important in this reincarnation, and what really and seriously forges a large part of the current Doctor's personality, is the Time War.
It's considered the greatest war in the universe, Daleks versus the Time Lords. The Daleks have always been a particularly harrowing opponent for the Doctor - they're ruthless, mechs, and will stop at nothing for their ideals - but it's after the Time War that they become something far more real and serious in the Doctor's mind, boogeymen that never seem to disappear completely. Though the exact circumstances of the war are very unknown, we know that the Doctor was held prisoner in a camp for a month. We know that, in the Time War, supposedly everyone died. Everyone, of both the Time Lords and Daleks, except for the Doctor. And we know this incarnation died alone.
As a result, the Doctor's ninth reincarnation is exceedingly bitter, and this is where a lot of his righteous anger starts to seep into his character. He suffers from a heavy degree of survivor's guilt because of the Time War, and takes Rose Tyler on his adventures with him, a not-so-special girl who ended up being something very important to the current Doctor, but some more on that later.
Him and Rose fight shit. And save the Earth. A few times. They also discover the Daleks are alive - one, specifically, who survived the Time War, because Daleks literally never seem to die ever. They meet Captain Jack Harkness, a 51st century ex-Time Agent and resident horn dog. Dude will mack on anything that moves. They also obtain a Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator. ...Whateva that meansss.
The Doctor and Rose discover that the Dalek Emperor is still alive in 200,100, commanding an army of Daleks crafted from humans. The Doctor sends Rose back to the 21st century in the TARDIS to try to save her, where she somehow manages to open the heart of the TARDIS and look into it, something no human was ever meant to do. She saves the Doctor and destroys the Daleks, even brings back to life a slain Jack Harkness, but she's literally absorbed the Time Vortex into herself and it's burning her up from the inside. In order to sponge it out of her body, the Doctor kisses her. He sacrifices himself, and regenerates into...
Barty Crouch! I mean, Ten.
And then he saves the world from the Sycorax! But not before going into a coma. Whoops. But he wakes up. And then loses his hand. And then grows back his hand. And -- okay, maybe we won't go into that many specifics. He saves New New York, he saves Queen Victoria, he reunites with Sarah Jane Smith and K9 in order to kick Giles' ass -- so many crazy things. Oh, yeah, and he defeats the Devil.
More important is concerning the parallel universe - it was one the Doctor (along with Rose and Mickey Smith) found on accident, when the TARDIS was malfunctioning. It had alternate versions of Rose's parents, and they saw the birth of that world's Cybermen. This was initially. It's not until later that this universe's importance becomes really apparent. Back in 21st century London, ghosts are appearing in the streets and nobody seems to know why. The signal's tracked to Torchwood Tower, where a Cybermen takes control and completes the goal, turning all the ghosts into real, live Cybermen.
Oh, and did I mention the Void Ship in this tower with all of the Daleks inside? oh shit. It's okay, the Doctor sucks them all into the Void, literally a gap in space and time where NOTHING is. Tried to, and succeeded until Rose's lever failed. She was almost sucked into the Void, until her father saved her and took her into the parallel universe, separating her from the Doctor. He's distraught. He goes so far as to park the TARDIS in orbit around a supernova for enough power to project an image through the last gap between the universes to say goodbye.
Rose confesses her love. The image cuts off before the Doctor can do the same.
And then he meets Donna! And then he saves Christmas and, consequentially, the Earth again. And then he unmeets Donna. She tells him, "YOU CRAZY. YOU ARE NINE HUNDRED YEAR OLD. TIME TO GET INTERESTED IN GIRL."
So he hugs some dude. Spoilers: Ten is from Derse, the human session.
What am I even talking about. Okay, no, he meets Martha Jones, who we're now pretending wasn't one of the interns who was turned into a Cyberman slave in the last season's finale. THEY GO BAREFOOT ON THE MOON!! Or actually the Doctor does, because Martha isn't cool enough to take off her shoes or shake radiation out of her toes. The Doctor gets hit on by Shakespeare and quotes Harry Potter. He does battle with Mycroft Holmes and a giant face tells him he has friends. And then he's human for a little while, but that's not important. N-neither are the scary angels who throw him back into the 60's.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS CARDIFF.
There's a rift in Cardiff, for some reason, where the Doctor "refuels" his TARDIS. Some hobo hugs it, and they go to the end of the universe. There, they meet a kind old man :) And by that I mean an old buddy is back. Remember that face that told him he had friends? Yeah, turns out the Doctor wasn't alone. There is another Time Lord: the Master. He regenerates into something hotter and goes back to London and becomes Prime Minister and takes over the world.
No, literally. He very successfully takes over the entire world, for a year.
He imprisons the Doctor during that time, as well as Martha's family. He's working towards introducing the Toclafane to invade Earth and take over, the Toclafane actually being the future of the human race from that end of the universe. What a paradox. But the Doctor becomes a floating Jesus because of the power of belief and reverses everything that happens?? I honestly have no clue wtf is going down here but it's neat, and the only people who remember are the ones who are in that room. The Doctor vies to keep the Master on board of his TARDIS, imprisoned for the rest of time, saying that the Master is his responsibility. Unfortunately (weirdly, to the Doctor, it is very unfortunate - the Master is the only other person of his race), Lucy Saxon, distraught from this harrowing last year, shoots him. The Master refuses to regenerate. He dies.
Martha leaves shortly after, to take care of her family. The Doctor really is alone again, and saves the world AGAIN on Christmas, before he's reunited with another old friend. This one isn't trying to kill him this time. DONNA!!
Donna is the friend he needs in a time like this, someone to whip him into shape and get him back on his feet after he's still feeling the loss of Rose, after the Master's death, after Martha admitted her own romantic entanglements with him. This is what he gets from traveling with so many horny young ladies, sheesh. ...More adventures time? Where he punches fat in the FACE and also meets some dudes from the Cambridge Latin Course. And also gives birth to a daughterrrr sort of it's complicated and he thinks she's dead anyway so oh well.
He fights SHADOW MONSTERS in the library, and eventually comes to vacation on the leisure planet Midnight. When Donna stays behind, the Doctor takes a shuttle ride out to the Sapphire Waterfall where an unknown creature attacks the transport. It invades Sky Silvestry, mimicking everything the passengers are saying and causing a bit of mass panic. The creature eventually hones in on what the Doctor is saying, echoing his words, then speaking with them. Then speaking FOR him. The people in the bus, hysterical, thinking he's the creature (who is actually Sky), attempt to throw him overboard. The stewardess knows better, and drags Sky out into the vacuum, saving the people inside.
... And here we are at present.
[RP SAMPLE - LOG:] He had his ear pressed to the desk, a screwed up expression on his face as he knocked very seriously against the surface of it to hear the hollow clanging inside. Brushed metal, the lot of it - cheap! Very cheap, economical - and didn't carry too much weight in a crisis. "Never had my own room before, and, blimey, they already don't trust me with it. It's all bolted!"
This was weird. Even by his standards, this was very weird. Not a word, not an explanation, not a window nor a pamphlet nor even a lock on the door - he was free to live as he so wanted. A bed and a desk and a closet, that was what his life had been reduced to here. And a communicator - explanatory enough. Something they'd contact him on later? Hard to say just yet, but it was something to work off.
"Well!" Talking to himself, he always did when he needed to think, and he most certainly needed to think right now. He needed to explore and to poke and prod and question and there was just so much, whole hallways and things that he didn't know that had to be seen. He rubs his hands together, going for the phone and pressing buttons wildly. Yeah, he could definitely use this. "Let's get started, then, shall we?"
[RP SAMPLE - JOURNAL:] video
[ And the screen flickers on to a new face, a serious expression set into his features and a whole lot of white and nothing else in the background as he props up the 'berry on his desk. ] Right.
[ Space, right? No. Had to be. Or underground, but it wasn't dank like underground, the air was very dry, and clean, too clean in the way that filtration systems allowed for. Definitely artificial, but it was so clean, he was leaning towards space. How he'd gotten here, where his ship was, where HE was, specifically, those were all questions he'd need answered. If anyone'd answer on this thing. ]
[ He's fumbling in his pockets, digging out a pair of very brainy specs and jamming them onto his face as he levels a curious look at the camera. ] Now. I'm the Doctor.
And I think we need to have a little chat.
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