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[nick / name]: Leah
[personal LJ name]: cws_eat_chs
[other characters currently played]:
Chris Skelton :: Life on Mars :: justcautious
Campbell Bain :: Takin’ Over the Asylum :: loonyandproud
[e-mail]: malea.botor@gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: moralsremitted
[series]: Doctor Who
[character]: Rory Williams
[character history / background]: Here, have two wikis.
[character abilities]: He’s a nurse, and therefore has some decent medical training. He has also been taught certain aspects of flying/patching a TARDIS. He also has some vaaaague patchy knowledge of how to handle a sword. But it’s just remnants.
[character personality]:
The first impression a person gets from Rory is that he’s a bit nervous. He pauses a lot in his speech, he corrects himself halfway through-sometimes he’ll even open his mouth and raise a hand like he’s about to speak, and then take so long that someone will actually talk before him. However, at the same time, he’s clearly very driven. He went to get his Nursing Diploma the moment he was out of school, and he clearly gets good marks, and is committed to his studies. And beside that, even, he will speak up for himself and his principles once he gets around to it.
What I think of him as is a shy extrovert, and a lot of that is due, I believe, to the fact that Amy has been his best friend and eventually girlfriend for ages. Amy is a very confident woman, and likes to get her own way, and Rory seems to have been inclined towards shyness somewhat, but very much developed around Amy all the same. All of the pauses in his speech are because he is expecting to be interrupted at any moment. He can never completely feel settled, really. Aside from that, he’s a bit of a pessimist as well, or at the very least, an overreactor. When he finds out that Amy kissed the Doctor, he makes an almost instant jump to “She must want to call off the wedding” and starts trying to work out the logistics of it.
That’s another thing: once he’s come to a conclusion in his own particular logic, no matter if that conclusion is irrational, he will start being ‘rational’ about it, working out plans. He’s not brilliant at thinking on his feet, spur of the moment thinking for Rory leads to unfortunate situations like fencing a sword-wielding alien with a broom. But given time to think, he can come up with fairly decent plans. He has a complete plan for his life, what he wants to be, where and who he wants to live with, and exactly how he’s going to achieve it, even if the person he’s chosen, Amy, has a tendency to be spontaneous and upset his carefully laid-out plans. Of course, by now, he’s known Amy long enough that to a certain extent, he plans around her. He probably thinks of himself as a realist.
Rory chooses his battles, as far as what he will nervously back off from, and what he will continue arguing. He will humour Amy, and other forceful women to an extent (“Are you only saying yes because you’re scared of me?” “Yes.”; “He did it, the Doctor did it.” “Yeah, HE gets all the credit-” and then after a glare from Amy “…which is actually pretty fair if you think about it…”) but he doesn’t mince words talking about Amy’s flirtatiousness or inability to drive. Not that he mocks her on those things, just that he doesn’t attempt to pretend that those aren’t things Amy has or does. He doesn’t begrudge her her flirtiness, though. He’s a bit uncomfortable about it, but he won’t step in and get protective unless the person is clearly someone Amy doesn’t want flirting with her. He seems to have a much easier time arguing with other men, however, and when he first meets, and is left alone with the Doctor, he does a complete critique of him, not letting the Doctor brush him off or change the subject. His analysis of the Doctor, besides, indicates a certain amount of ability to self-analyse, as well as analyse the actions of others, telling the Doctor that he makes people dangerous to themselves because they want to impress him.
He has an extremely well-formed series of morals. It might actually be part of why he became a nurse: he really validly wants to help people. His first action upon seeing anyone injured is to hurry over to them and see if they’re okay, and if he can possibly help them out. He’d also never consider cheating on Amy, EVER, and actually even seems to be a bit awkward at his stag night, calling Amy in the middle of it to specifically tell her he loves her. He also becomes extremely devoted to people once he’s decided they’re his friend. Not that he won’t still trade jabs, or be sarcastic if he thinks they’re doing something ridiculous or bad but he is devoted enough to Amy that when he’s a plastic robot that one time… he stays to protect the box Amy is in stasis in, not sleeping or leaving her for 1800 or so years. He has also stated that he trusts the Doctor with his life.
In relation to the plastic robot thing, that arguably proves that he is actually quite strong mentally. He was conscious for every second of those 1800 or so years, only doing one task, not able to, say, pop off and read a book, really, and he came out of it pretty much…exactly the same. Possibly very slightly more confident than before. But only slightly. He’s also clever, and learns about anything he really wants to know about. As I said before, he powered through all of his studies to become a fully credited nurse by the time he was 21. He also researched all the “latest scientific theories” after the first time he met the Doctor, so that the time he meets him two years later, he has a pretty good idea about how the TARDIS and time travel works in theory, enough to not be particularly surprised by the TARDIS being bigger on the inside, and even saying how it works in the same words at the same time as the Doctor. This later translates into actually being allowed to help the Doctor fly the TARDIS.
Rory, being a realist, however, isn’t exactly…the biggest thinker. In fact, he’s probably always let Amy do most of the imagining for him. His life aspiration is to move to the slightly upmarket section of the small town he already lives in to settle down as a country doctor with Amy and have children and…basically never do much. He calls absolute drudgery and boredom “peaceful”. Not that he’s averse to adventure, however, when he first ends up in Venice in the past, he’s really quite excited (in his own, slightly subdued way), and starts grinning and running about with Amy. It’s just that he can’t imagine it by himself, and settles for a very normal, conventional view of the world and his future when left to his own devices. He’s mostly competent in adventures, given the chance, even if he’s not really any good at improvising, or fighting aliens. But he can take orders, and will, and he will ask if he’s not sure about something. Besides that, he notices things, like if lights have stopped blinking on devices, or if a bunch of coma patients have been seen walking about in the town. He seems to have gotten something of a taste for it, anyway, he’s just as enthusiastic as Amy, running in to make sure the Doctor doesn’t leave without them after their wedding.
He’s prone to being a bit jokey, although in a deadpan…Buffy-esque sort of way, with his phrasing, and the words he chooses. (“But those are aliens! Deadly aliens! Aliens…of death!”) His jokes are generally also a bit sarcastic, and he can tend towards a bit of gloominess. He also clearly feels somewhat underappreciated often and makes comments to that effect on occasion. To a certain extent, he wishes he were more interesting so that Amy would stop dashing off with random other guys, but he has no idea how to achieve the correct level of…interest. He makes a stab at it, five years into their future in…their dream, where he’s grown a ponytail. Which looks awful, but he’s ever hopeful.
Rory is a bit of a soppy romantic when it comes to Amy. It’s not that he doesn’t know her faults, because he is a realist but at the same time, he...loses a lot of that when it’s to do with Amy, because he’s so in love with her. His stag night, and as far as I KNOW, this isn’t a regular occurrence, had matching shirts. All of them. With a heart around a picture of Amy and Rory in the middle. He has also known Amy at least since he was 7, and very probably since she moved to Leadworth from Scotland, and he hasn’t ever given up on her. He also moons a little bit over their wedding ring when he goes to put it away to make sure Amy doesn’t lose it. He wants to get married probably more than Amy does.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: After the Comic Relief Specials.
[journal post]:
[Text]
I’m sure you’ll not even get this as someone’s messed with my mobile but I’ve been abducted. Or something’s gone off with the TARDIS. Either way, if you do get this…call me. Please.
[Further Text, about a half hour later]
That…wasn’t meant to go up there. Just ignore that, everyone.
This is…some sort of social networking thing, is it? It seems like a lot of trouble to go to for kidnapping victims but it could be a big experiment. Another one--big experiment--it’s starting to get just a bit old, actually. Is this one of the ones I get an explanation with? It….would help if someone could, cheers.
[More Text, a couple minutes later]
Amy, CALL ME.
[Text, almost immediately after]
Alright, I give up, how do I switch this over into actually being a phone again?
[third person / log sample]:
Overall, Rory rather thought it was better when he got to play the Raggedy Doctor. Not that he thought he could do it now that he was here, and there was a real, not-so-Raggedy Doctor, and him and Amy were bonding, and getting excited about vampires, of all things, and kissing, apparently…
All his life, Rory had never felt entirely sure of Amy. And he’d just dealt with it, worked on his studies, or hung around with mates and waited as she popped in and out of his life. Rory, Amy’s ‘sort of’ boyfriend. Not quite interesting enough to hold her attention properly, but always just there. He had a plan, a plan for his entire life, really, and he wasn’t quite sure what he’d do if the lynchpin of the plan kept running off.
But then he’d finally just asked, when things were going well, and she’d actually said yes, and he’d been foolish enough to believe that that meant that was it. She’d chosen him for good and he could relax and prepare for a wonderful life with the woman he loved, where nothing was unexpected and he could finally lose the ‘sort of’.
And then she’d ran off with the Doctor on the night before their wedding and Rory was back on unsteady ground. The Doctor was so many things that Rory wasn’t-completely confident and eloquent for one. And he could give Amy adventure and remain interesting while Rory was…what? Solid. Dependable. Forgettable.
Not that this wasn’t incredible; here they were in 15th century Venice! Amazing! And maybe it would have been okay if the Doctor had started out bringing both of them along. But even with the Doctor saying this was for the two of them, Rory couldn’t entirely make himself believe it. Maybe it’s just the Doctor saying, “Look at this useless fiancée of yours.” He’s there to be compared and he’s going to fall short. He should have known better than to try for permanence with Amy. The thing is, he knew he wasn’t going to stop trying. Stupid hopefulness on his part, probably but as long as Amy kept making him hope, he wouldn’t give up.
He wouldn’t force her into a wedding she didn’t want, though. He’s never forced Amy into anything. Even, he thought a bit regretfully, if it meant losing every deposit on everything they’d financed when they end up calling it off the night before. And everyone will be kind but no-one will be surprised.
The worst part was that this time, with it being the Doctor, Rory isn’t at all sure that Amy will ever come back. If you have the whole of time and space and an action hero, why choose Leadworth and a nurse? But he knows by now that he’ll keep plodding along and waiting all the same.
[personal LJ name]: cws_eat_chs
[other characters currently played]:
Chris Skelton :: Life on Mars :: justcautious
Campbell Bain :: Takin’ Over the Asylum :: loonyandproud
[e-mail]: malea.botor@gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: moralsremitted
[series]: Doctor Who
[character]: Rory Williams
[character history / background]: Here, have two wikis.
[character abilities]: He’s a nurse, and therefore has some decent medical training. He has also been taught certain aspects of flying/patching a TARDIS. He also has some vaaaague patchy knowledge of how to handle a sword. But it’s just remnants.
[character personality]:
The first impression a person gets from Rory is that he’s a bit nervous. He pauses a lot in his speech, he corrects himself halfway through-sometimes he’ll even open his mouth and raise a hand like he’s about to speak, and then take so long that someone will actually talk before him. However, at the same time, he’s clearly very driven. He went to get his Nursing Diploma the moment he was out of school, and he clearly gets good marks, and is committed to his studies. And beside that, even, he will speak up for himself and his principles once he gets around to it.
What I think of him as is a shy extrovert, and a lot of that is due, I believe, to the fact that Amy has been his best friend and eventually girlfriend for ages. Amy is a very confident woman, and likes to get her own way, and Rory seems to have been inclined towards shyness somewhat, but very much developed around Amy all the same. All of the pauses in his speech are because he is expecting to be interrupted at any moment. He can never completely feel settled, really. Aside from that, he’s a bit of a pessimist as well, or at the very least, an overreactor. When he finds out that Amy kissed the Doctor, he makes an almost instant jump to “She must want to call off the wedding” and starts trying to work out the logistics of it.
That’s another thing: once he’s come to a conclusion in his own particular logic, no matter if that conclusion is irrational, he will start being ‘rational’ about it, working out plans. He’s not brilliant at thinking on his feet, spur of the moment thinking for Rory leads to unfortunate situations like fencing a sword-wielding alien with a broom. But given time to think, he can come up with fairly decent plans. He has a complete plan for his life, what he wants to be, where and who he wants to live with, and exactly how he’s going to achieve it, even if the person he’s chosen, Amy, has a tendency to be spontaneous and upset his carefully laid-out plans. Of course, by now, he’s known Amy long enough that to a certain extent, he plans around her. He probably thinks of himself as a realist.
Rory chooses his battles, as far as what he will nervously back off from, and what he will continue arguing. He will humour Amy, and other forceful women to an extent (“Are you only saying yes because you’re scared of me?” “Yes.”; “He did it, the Doctor did it.” “Yeah, HE gets all the credit-” and then after a glare from Amy “…which is actually pretty fair if you think about it…”) but he doesn’t mince words talking about Amy’s flirtatiousness or inability to drive. Not that he mocks her on those things, just that he doesn’t attempt to pretend that those aren’t things Amy has or does. He doesn’t begrudge her her flirtiness, though. He’s a bit uncomfortable about it, but he won’t step in and get protective unless the person is clearly someone Amy doesn’t want flirting with her. He seems to have a much easier time arguing with other men, however, and when he first meets, and is left alone with the Doctor, he does a complete critique of him, not letting the Doctor brush him off or change the subject. His analysis of the Doctor, besides, indicates a certain amount of ability to self-analyse, as well as analyse the actions of others, telling the Doctor that he makes people dangerous to themselves because they want to impress him.
He has an extremely well-formed series of morals. It might actually be part of why he became a nurse: he really validly wants to help people. His first action upon seeing anyone injured is to hurry over to them and see if they’re okay, and if he can possibly help them out. He’d also never consider cheating on Amy, EVER, and actually even seems to be a bit awkward at his stag night, calling Amy in the middle of it to specifically tell her he loves her. He also becomes extremely devoted to people once he’s decided they’re his friend. Not that he won’t still trade jabs, or be sarcastic if he thinks they’re doing something ridiculous or bad but he is devoted enough to Amy that when he’s a plastic robot that one time… he stays to protect the box Amy is in stasis in, not sleeping or leaving her for 1800 or so years. He has also stated that he trusts the Doctor with his life.
In relation to the plastic robot thing, that arguably proves that he is actually quite strong mentally. He was conscious for every second of those 1800 or so years, only doing one task, not able to, say, pop off and read a book, really, and he came out of it pretty much…exactly the same. Possibly very slightly more confident than before. But only slightly. He’s also clever, and learns about anything he really wants to know about. As I said before, he powered through all of his studies to become a fully credited nurse by the time he was 21. He also researched all the “latest scientific theories” after the first time he met the Doctor, so that the time he meets him two years later, he has a pretty good idea about how the TARDIS and time travel works in theory, enough to not be particularly surprised by the TARDIS being bigger on the inside, and even saying how it works in the same words at the same time as the Doctor. This later translates into actually being allowed to help the Doctor fly the TARDIS.
Rory, being a realist, however, isn’t exactly…the biggest thinker. In fact, he’s probably always let Amy do most of the imagining for him. His life aspiration is to move to the slightly upmarket section of the small town he already lives in to settle down as a country doctor with Amy and have children and…basically never do much. He calls absolute drudgery and boredom “peaceful”. Not that he’s averse to adventure, however, when he first ends up in Venice in the past, he’s really quite excited (in his own, slightly subdued way), and starts grinning and running about with Amy. It’s just that he can’t imagine it by himself, and settles for a very normal, conventional view of the world and his future when left to his own devices. He’s mostly competent in adventures, given the chance, even if he’s not really any good at improvising, or fighting aliens. But he can take orders, and will, and he will ask if he’s not sure about something. Besides that, he notices things, like if lights have stopped blinking on devices, or if a bunch of coma patients have been seen walking about in the town. He seems to have gotten something of a taste for it, anyway, he’s just as enthusiastic as Amy, running in to make sure the Doctor doesn’t leave without them after their wedding.
He’s prone to being a bit jokey, although in a deadpan…Buffy-esque sort of way, with his phrasing, and the words he chooses. (“But those are aliens! Deadly aliens! Aliens…of death!”) His jokes are generally also a bit sarcastic, and he can tend towards a bit of gloominess. He also clearly feels somewhat underappreciated often and makes comments to that effect on occasion. To a certain extent, he wishes he were more interesting so that Amy would stop dashing off with random other guys, but he has no idea how to achieve the correct level of…interest. He makes a stab at it, five years into their future in…their dream, where he’s grown a ponytail. Which looks awful, but he’s ever hopeful.
Rory is a bit of a soppy romantic when it comes to Amy. It’s not that he doesn’t know her faults, because he is a realist but at the same time, he...loses a lot of that when it’s to do with Amy, because he’s so in love with her. His stag night, and as far as I KNOW, this isn’t a regular occurrence, had matching shirts. All of them. With a heart around a picture of Amy and Rory in the middle. He has also known Amy at least since he was 7, and very probably since she moved to Leadworth from Scotland, and he hasn’t ever given up on her. He also moons a little bit over their wedding ring when he goes to put it away to make sure Amy doesn’t lose it. He wants to get married probably more than Amy does.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: After the Comic Relief Specials.
[journal post]:
[Text]
I’m sure you’ll not even get this as someone’s messed with my mobile but I’ve been abducted. Or something’s gone off with the TARDIS. Either way, if you do get this…call me. Please.
[Further Text, about a half hour later]
That…wasn’t meant to go up there. Just ignore that, everyone.
This is…some sort of social networking thing, is it? It seems like a lot of trouble to go to for kidnapping victims but it could be a big experiment. Another one--big experiment--it’s starting to get just a bit old, actually. Is this one of the ones I get an explanation with? It….would help if someone could, cheers.
[More Text, a couple minutes later]
Amy, CALL ME.
[Text, almost immediately after]
Alright, I give up, how do I switch this over into actually being a phone again?
[third person / log sample]:
Overall, Rory rather thought it was better when he got to play the Raggedy Doctor. Not that he thought he could do it now that he was here, and there was a real, not-so-Raggedy Doctor, and him and Amy were bonding, and getting excited about vampires, of all things, and kissing, apparently…
All his life, Rory had never felt entirely sure of Amy. And he’d just dealt with it, worked on his studies, or hung around with mates and waited as she popped in and out of his life. Rory, Amy’s ‘sort of’ boyfriend. Not quite interesting enough to hold her attention properly, but always just there. He had a plan, a plan for his entire life, really, and he wasn’t quite sure what he’d do if the lynchpin of the plan kept running off.
But then he’d finally just asked, when things were going well, and she’d actually said yes, and he’d been foolish enough to believe that that meant that was it. She’d chosen him for good and he could relax and prepare for a wonderful life with the woman he loved, where nothing was unexpected and he could finally lose the ‘sort of’.
And then she’d ran off with the Doctor on the night before their wedding and Rory was back on unsteady ground. The Doctor was so many things that Rory wasn’t-completely confident and eloquent for one. And he could give Amy adventure and remain interesting while Rory was…what? Solid. Dependable. Forgettable.
Not that this wasn’t incredible; here they were in 15th century Venice! Amazing! And maybe it would have been okay if the Doctor had started out bringing both of them along. But even with the Doctor saying this was for the two of them, Rory couldn’t entirely make himself believe it. Maybe it’s just the Doctor saying, “Look at this useless fiancée of yours.” He’s there to be compared and he’s going to fall short. He should have known better than to try for permanence with Amy. The thing is, he knew he wasn’t going to stop trying. Stupid hopefulness on his part, probably but as long as Amy kept making him hope, he wouldn’t give up.
He wouldn’t force her into a wedding she didn’t want, though. He’s never forced Amy into anything. Even, he thought a bit regretfully, if it meant losing every deposit on everything they’d financed when they end up calling it off the night before. And everyone will be kind but no-one will be surprised.
The worst part was that this time, with it being the Doctor, Rory isn’t at all sure that Amy will ever come back. If you have the whole of time and space and an action hero, why choose Leadworth and a nurse? But he knows by now that he’ll keep plodding along and waiting all the same.