Taxon Application
Your name/crazy internet handle/whatever: Jia
Personal journal: kokoroverboten
Email: eeferclarinet@yahoo.com
Characters played (if applicable): N/A
Character name: The Valeyard / The Tenth Doctor.
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon point: Right after "Planet of the Dead", Special One, after Season 4.
Programmed Possessions:
The TARDIS is a time-traveling device. The acronym stands for “Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space.” It masquerades as a British Police Telephone box from the human Earth-era of the 1940s, mostly because of a broken chameleon circuit that the Doctor has neglected to fix. The TARDIS has a wardrobe that serves he and his companion with clothing from time-appropriate eras, the disembodied hand of his 9th incarnation, and a number of other sundry items. It is also somewhat conscious and shares a symbiotic, telepathic link with the Doctor.
A sonic screwdriver. The sonic screwdriver is a device that allows the Doctor to access computers without having to use passwords or keycodes, unlocks metal doors, seals doors (all doors but wood ones)
He also has a wallet that contains a piece of paper that is somewhat psychic - it shows whatever the user wants it to show, and convinces most people that it says what the user wants it to. Those who are psychic, or know of the paper's powers will not be fooled.
A black suit.
A pair of black Converses.
A long, brown coat, though it mostly hangs over the seat of the TARDIS. He does not wear it.
Abilities/Weaknesses:
The Doctor has the ability to regenerate when his current form is due for human "death", and the ability to travel through time. Time Lords are allowed to regenerate a total of thirteen times before a "permanent death" occurs. He can also see all of time laid out before him, like a gigantic picture, though sometimes things are entirely unclear to him.
Time Lord Specific Abilities:
- Ages slower than humans.
- Has reflexes faster than a human.
- Has stronger and more capable senses (taste/scent/sight/feeling/noise)
- Can sense Time; knows what can be changed, and what can't; has a sense of all of the
possible time lines; can sense time lines that have been erased
- Gifted with a bypass respiratory system, which means strangling him is difficult.
- He has two hearts. Wounding one will not kill him, though it may cause him to regenerate.
- Can withstand incredibly high temperatures (200 C), as well as incredibly low ones.
- Able to withstand high radiation that would be lethal to humans.
- Can remain conscious under intense G-forces.
- Extremely slow metabolism, doesn't eat or sleep much.
- Able to enter a healing trance which will get him out of most physical and mental damage.
- Telepathic - Contact is the easiest form of telepathy between two Time Lords, or even a Time Lord and a non-Time Lord. It involves touching temples and connecting the minds. It is possible without touch between two Time Lords.
Time Lord Specific Weaknesses:
- Time Lord physiology makes him much more vulnerable to changing magnetic fields than humans are.
- Deathly allergic to aspirin.
- If separated from the TARDIS entirely, it will kill him.
- Physical contact with others is difficult and painful, as his body temperature is much lower than most species. (60F)
- More susceptible to being sensitive to psychic happenings.
- [AU!Specific] - A desperate need to connect and be with others. Years in silence have driven him a touch batty.
Psychology/Personality:
The Doctor tends towards manic, sudden changes in behavior. One minute he can be cheerful and nonsensical, the next he can be intense or furious. It has been noted that this quirk in his personality makes him difficult to associate with because he is completely unpredictable. Generally, his companions have had very little luck in getting to know him, as he tends to be emotionally closed off to everyone he meets. His Tenth incarnation is far more personable than his Ninth however. Some people attribute this shift in personality to his former companion, Rose Tyler. Even though he cannot afford to become too close to people, he does so quickly and and generally tries to make friends [or at least be friendly to] everyone around him.
The losses of his companions, especially Donna Noble, and eventually River Song [both at canon-point, and at a point in his individual history] affected him deeply, so much so that he came to the conclusion that he would never take on another companion again, and while he always traveled, he traveled alone, and avoided contact from other species.
While the Tenth Doctor is typically good humored [although sometimes melancholy], this particular version of him can be more akin to the Master and to his Ninth incarnation. The years spent in self-induced isolation have made him progressively more alien than human. Alone, in silence but for the singing of the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor has begun to view the universe a little more objectively than before. This note to his personality has created a huge rift between how he was, and how he is now. His basic instinct is to save others, though now he is more inclined to simply stand by and let others die.
The Doctor is notably a pacifist. He will not touch guns. He sees them as unnecessary, and usually tries to find a way to end a conflict without a fight. This quirk in his personality has nearly cost him his life on a number of occasions. While he will not engage in a direct conflict, he has been known to stand by and allow people to die. He is also a bit of a coward. While this personality quirk is more clearly seen in the Family of Blood while he is John Smith, the human professor, it also shows up a few other times - as the Ninth Doctor, when asked if he's a killer or a coward by the Dalek ruler at the time, when told by various authorities on a number of occasions on other planets and on Earth, the Doctor flees all of their attempts to capture him instead of facing the justice systems.
The Doctor is also the owner of a very, very bad temper. There are a few things that will unfailingly set him off. Injustice, murder of an innocent, willful ignorance. His reactions to these things are often far, far out of proportion than the situation generally warrants.
The Doctor tends to be sort of a walking contradiction. Even though he can be entirely cold, he is, as a general rule, always thinking about the betterment of others, regardless of his own sacrifices. The Doctor is a title he took because he goes places, goes to times, and fixes them, or puts them back in their natural order.- there are civilizations and people who have not wanted his aid. Rejection is something the Doctor does not deal well with on any front - it depresses him tremendously.
Time has passed without remark. He's quieter, more subdued. There is a coldness that lurks behind his eyes that was not always there. The Doctor spends his days traveling with the TARDIS as his only companion, watching the passage of time from the silence of his ship, brokenly trying to make the universe better, fixing time where it breaks with little care to how his efforts affect others.
Donna Noble once said of him, "I think you need someone to stop you..."
There is no one now.
History:
The Doctor explores the universe, using his vast knowledge of science, technology and history (from his perspective) to avert whatever crises he encounters - and he has encountered quite a number. The imprecise nature of his travels is attributed to the age and unreliability of the TARDIS's navigation system. However, after his trial and restriction to late twentieth century Earth, he demonstrates the ability to reach a destination of his own choosing more often than not.
The Doctor has, to date, ten incarnations that have been counted and recorded. They are all male. He is the last of the Gallefreyan race, with the exception of his old rival, The Master, who shows up in various incarnations in his lives, from time to time.
The Doctor has always had a policy of being "involved" with the universe - a direct and blantant violation of official Time Lord credo. He's usually labeled as a renegade. Most of the time, however, his actions are tolerated, especially given that he has saved not just Gallifrey, his home world, but also the universe several times over.
The Doctor's standing in Time Lord society waxed and waned over the years, from being a hunted man to being appointed Lord President of the High Council. He didn't assume the office for very long, and was eventually removed from it in his absence. His wanderlust eventually took over.
By the time of his ninth incarnation the Doctor believes himself to be the last surviving Time Lord following the Last Great Time War. At this point, Ten's canon is completely and entirely the same up until the most recent episode of the series [Planet of the Dead.] When the African American woman on the bus tells the Doctor that his end is near, the Doctor does not continue traveling, and does not follow the current arc of the series [wherever it is going.] He simply turns about and flees into the blackness of space.
At this point in his life, the Doctor spends somewhere around sixty to a hundred years [time is unclear, he deliberately had the TARDIS stop keeping count], in solitude at the end of the universe, working on various projects in the TARDIS, occasionally visiting different points in time to gather information or to relieve boredom. He continues to travel, but always alone, avoiding interaction, even going so far as to ignore the plight of his beloved Earth in several instances.At some point, it's rather unclear when as the Doctor doesn't really know either, he got bored. The silence and the loneliness became too harsh to bear alone, and while entirely unfit for human consumption, the Doctor begins traveling again.
Somewhere in his mad flight across the universe [all the while desperately avoiding Earth and anywhere where the Master might be] he visits a certain River Song's home-world. Through a series of misadventures, the two become very close, and going against all of his common sense and past experiences the Doctor takes her on as his companion.
These were, in the Doctor's mind, golden times. The Doctor took River to places he'd never been, places he'd loved as a child, bared nearly every secret to her that he could bring himself to. He loved her desperately, tried to fill the blackness and the silence at his center in him with her - and it didn't work. Nothing ever did. Instead of drawing upon River's strength to help himself, he became dependent on her. The two were famous arguers. River a force to be reckoned with, the Doctor only a force of nature. River would not allow the Doctor to order her about as he had all of his other companions, and the Doctor, argumentative by nature, ended up trying to convince her that she really should do as she was told. Generally, this didn't end well. Both were viciously intelligent, keen intellectuals and deep thinkers. They almost never came to the same conclusion on a matter. Most of the time, they were at each others' throats one moment, though, they'd usually end up sharing desert on a tropic moon within the hour, peacefully discussing the day's events.
However, at one point, when River Song stormed out of the TARDIS for what must have been the hundredth time, something in the Doctor broke. All of the memories of previous losses, of Donna Noble, in particular, came flooding back to him, wiping all of the happiness he'd experienced with River at his side. He closed the door behind her and flew away, back out to his old haunt at the end of time, and watched the universe fold in on itself, bit by bit. Someday, he'd go back, he thought, he'd turn around, and he'd just... go back. Right to the second where she'd run away from him.
The Doctor didn't "move on" from this incident with River Song as he always did, he didn't keep travelling. There was too much hurt. That lead weight of guilt in his chest ached, and there was nothing he could do, no one he could find or turn to.
Whether it was his own pride or the blackness at his center, he never returned. So he stared into that blackness, alone but for the singing of his ship, and for all the TARDIS' love, she could not bring the light back into his eyes. When the Doctor finally pulled his away from the destruction of the known universe, something had changed in him. A sense of black futility crept into his heart and twisted his desire to help others, his need to be needed. He realized that there was little point to any of the things he had ever done, all the way from ending the Time War, to saving Earth as many times as he had. People were transient, merely blips on the radar in comparison with his long lifetime.
When he began traveling again, the Doctor began dispensing justice with a cold and merciless hand, prefering to merely fix the problem [generally to do with a break in time, he had little patience for more social problems] with little regard to whom he hurt, or how much havoc he released upon a world. That is, if he bothered to interfere at all. Ripples of fear spread across the galaxy when the Doctor and his TARDIS drew near. Death followed in his wake, and the Doctor, self-centered and reveling in his egoism, no longer cared. Being that the Doctor is who he is, when he has some time to reflect in the times he is not meddling with the universe, [in his mind, trying to make it better], he is overwhelmed with guilt and remorse.
Taxon takes him from this point in his life.
For mun's purposes, we'll stick the total date at about 500 years from "Planet of the Dead" at which the Doctor avoids humanity all together and sticks to the outer rim of the universe. Just for my reference.
First Person Sample:
[The Doctor has taken to speaking to the TARDIS, because he never really does shut up, ever. Que his conversation with his ship when arriving in Taxon.]
"A--nd there we go! See, there? Told you this wouldn't be too bad, though, how someone pulled us out of transit is beyond me. Hn. I don't think this is somewhere we really want to be... not so much. And no. Not at all, nope, not this world, not staying here, too much interference with the systems.
...wait. Wait a minute. Oh, that's really quite impossible. What do you mean you can't reach the temporal vortex, it's right there in front of you, I'm pointing at it, and it's there, alright! Let's try this again, right? And here we go, brand new world, not this one, that's for certain and-...
What do you mean you can't?"
Third Person Sample:
The Doctor sits inside the TARDIS, staring with blank eyes down at the controls. His thin hands rest lightly upon the console, and he fights down the panic and bile that rises in his throat. He can't leave.. He's trapped. Taking a shallow sort of breath, the Doctor flips a few dials, twists a knob. When nothing happens he kicks the side of the power conduit housing in pure frustration. This accomplishes little, other than causing sparks to fly from the console's controls. Somewhere in his mind, the TARDIS' singing - more Earth's whalesong than language rumbles disapprovingly in the back of his head. He doesn't understand most of it, and it's the only language the TARDIS doesn't give him the ability to hear.
Hands fall back onto the console, gentler, and he speaks in a soft murmur to his ship, a string of musical language that only he now knows. At least he can attempt to traverse the planet. Despite his coaxing, it seems that nothing will bring the TARDIS where he wants the both of them. Far away from this strange world. Programming a shorter jump into the navigational computer the Doctor skims his fingers along the controls.
When the coordinates check out, The Doctor breathes a sigh of relief. The familiar blue glow of the ship's engines fills the room, reflecting off of the coral beams. He's not sure where he's going. Then again, he never is.
Personal journal: kokoroverboten
Email: eeferclarinet@yahoo.com
Characters played (if applicable): N/A
Character name: The Valeyard / The Tenth Doctor.
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon point: Right after "Planet of the Dead", Special One, after Season 4.
Programmed Possessions:
The TARDIS is a time-traveling device. The acronym stands for “Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space.” It masquerades as a British Police Telephone box from the human Earth-era of the 1940s, mostly because of a broken chameleon circuit that the Doctor has neglected to fix. The TARDIS has a wardrobe that serves he and his companion with clothing from time-appropriate eras, the disembodied hand of his 9th incarnation, and a number of other sundry items. It is also somewhat conscious and shares a symbiotic, telepathic link with the Doctor.
A sonic screwdriver. The sonic screwdriver is a device that allows the Doctor to access computers without having to use passwords or keycodes, unlocks metal doors, seals doors (all doors but wood ones)
He also has a wallet that contains a piece of paper that is somewhat psychic - it shows whatever the user wants it to show, and convinces most people that it says what the user wants it to. Those who are psychic, or know of the paper's powers will not be fooled.
A black suit.
A pair of black Converses.
A long, brown coat, though it mostly hangs over the seat of the TARDIS. He does not wear it.
Abilities/Weaknesses:
The Doctor has the ability to regenerate when his current form is due for human "death", and the ability to travel through time. Time Lords are allowed to regenerate a total of thirteen times before a "permanent death" occurs. He can also see all of time laid out before him, like a gigantic picture, though sometimes things are entirely unclear to him.
Time Lord Specific Abilities:
- Ages slower than humans.
- Has reflexes faster than a human.
- Has stronger and more capable senses (taste/scent/sight/feeling/noise)
- Can sense Time; knows what can be changed, and what can't; has a sense of all of the
possible time lines; can sense time lines that have been erased
- Gifted with a bypass respiratory system, which means strangling him is difficult.
- He has two hearts. Wounding one will not kill him, though it may cause him to regenerate.
- Can withstand incredibly high temperatures (200 C), as well as incredibly low ones.
- Able to withstand high radiation that would be lethal to humans.
- Can remain conscious under intense G-forces.
- Extremely slow metabolism, doesn't eat or sleep much.
- Able to enter a healing trance which will get him out of most physical and mental damage.
- Telepathic - Contact is the easiest form of telepathy between two Time Lords, or even a Time Lord and a non-Time Lord. It involves touching temples and connecting the minds. It is possible without touch between two Time Lords.
Time Lord Specific Weaknesses:
- Time Lord physiology makes him much more vulnerable to changing magnetic fields than humans are.
- Deathly allergic to aspirin.
- If separated from the TARDIS entirely, it will kill him.
- Physical contact with others is difficult and painful, as his body temperature is much lower than most species. (60F)
- More susceptible to being sensitive to psychic happenings.
- [AU!Specific] - A desperate need to connect and be with others. Years in silence have driven him a touch batty.
Psychology/Personality:
The Doctor tends towards manic, sudden changes in behavior. One minute he can be cheerful and nonsensical, the next he can be intense or furious. It has been noted that this quirk in his personality makes him difficult to associate with because he is completely unpredictable. Generally, his companions have had very little luck in getting to know him, as he tends to be emotionally closed off to everyone he meets. His Tenth incarnation is far more personable than his Ninth however. Some people attribute this shift in personality to his former companion, Rose Tyler. Even though he cannot afford to become too close to people, he does so quickly and and generally tries to make friends [or at least be friendly to] everyone around him.
The losses of his companions, especially Donna Noble, and eventually River Song [both at canon-point, and at a point in his individual history] affected him deeply, so much so that he came to the conclusion that he would never take on another companion again, and while he always traveled, he traveled alone, and avoided contact from other species.
While the Tenth Doctor is typically good humored [although sometimes melancholy], this particular version of him can be more akin to the Master and to his Ninth incarnation. The years spent in self-induced isolation have made him progressively more alien than human. Alone, in silence but for the singing of the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor has begun to view the universe a little more objectively than before. This note to his personality has created a huge rift between how he was, and how he is now. His basic instinct is to save others, though now he is more inclined to simply stand by and let others die.
The Doctor is notably a pacifist. He will not touch guns. He sees them as unnecessary, and usually tries to find a way to end a conflict without a fight. This quirk in his personality has nearly cost him his life on a number of occasions. While he will not engage in a direct conflict, he has been known to stand by and allow people to die. He is also a bit of a coward. While this personality quirk is more clearly seen in the Family of Blood while he is John Smith, the human professor, it also shows up a few other times - as the Ninth Doctor, when asked if he's a killer or a coward by the Dalek ruler at the time, when told by various authorities on a number of occasions on other planets and on Earth, the Doctor flees all of their attempts to capture him instead of facing the justice systems.
The Doctor is also the owner of a very, very bad temper. There are a few things that will unfailingly set him off. Injustice, murder of an innocent, willful ignorance. His reactions to these things are often far, far out of proportion than the situation generally warrants.
The Doctor tends to be sort of a walking contradiction. Even though he can be entirely cold, he is, as a general rule, always thinking about the betterment of others, regardless of his own sacrifices. The Doctor is a title he took because he goes places, goes to times, and fixes them, or puts them back in their natural order.- there are civilizations and people who have not wanted his aid. Rejection is something the Doctor does not deal well with on any front - it depresses him tremendously.
Time has passed without remark. He's quieter, more subdued. There is a coldness that lurks behind his eyes that was not always there. The Doctor spends his days traveling with the TARDIS as his only companion, watching the passage of time from the silence of his ship, brokenly trying to make the universe better, fixing time where it breaks with little care to how his efforts affect others.
Donna Noble once said of him, "I think you need someone to stop you..."
There is no one now.
History:
The Doctor explores the universe, using his vast knowledge of science, technology and history (from his perspective) to avert whatever crises he encounters - and he has encountered quite a number. The imprecise nature of his travels is attributed to the age and unreliability of the TARDIS's navigation system. However, after his trial and restriction to late twentieth century Earth, he demonstrates the ability to reach a destination of his own choosing more often than not.
The Doctor has, to date, ten incarnations that have been counted and recorded. They are all male. He is the last of the Gallefreyan race, with the exception of his old rival, The Master, who shows up in various incarnations in his lives, from time to time.
The Doctor has always had a policy of being "involved" with the universe - a direct and blantant violation of official Time Lord credo. He's usually labeled as a renegade. Most of the time, however, his actions are tolerated, especially given that he has saved not just Gallifrey, his home world, but also the universe several times over.
The Doctor's standing in Time Lord society waxed and waned over the years, from being a hunted man to being appointed Lord President of the High Council. He didn't assume the office for very long, and was eventually removed from it in his absence. His wanderlust eventually took over.
By the time of his ninth incarnation the Doctor believes himself to be the last surviving Time Lord following the Last Great Time War. At this point, Ten's canon is completely and entirely the same up until the most recent episode of the series [Planet of the Dead.] When the African American woman on the bus tells the Doctor that his end is near, the Doctor does not continue traveling, and does not follow the current arc of the series [wherever it is going.] He simply turns about and flees into the blackness of space.
At this point in his life, the Doctor spends somewhere around sixty to a hundred years [time is unclear, he deliberately had the TARDIS stop keeping count], in solitude at the end of the universe, working on various projects in the TARDIS, occasionally visiting different points in time to gather information or to relieve boredom. He continues to travel, but always alone, avoiding interaction, even going so far as to ignore the plight of his beloved Earth in several instances.At some point, it's rather unclear when as the Doctor doesn't really know either, he got bored. The silence and the loneliness became too harsh to bear alone, and while entirely unfit for human consumption, the Doctor begins traveling again.
Somewhere in his mad flight across the universe [all the while desperately avoiding Earth and anywhere where the Master might be] he visits a certain River Song's home-world. Through a series of misadventures, the two become very close, and going against all of his common sense and past experiences the Doctor takes her on as his companion.
These were, in the Doctor's mind, golden times. The Doctor took River to places he'd never been, places he'd loved as a child, bared nearly every secret to her that he could bring himself to. He loved her desperately, tried to fill the blackness and the silence at his center in him with her - and it didn't work. Nothing ever did. Instead of drawing upon River's strength to help himself, he became dependent on her. The two were famous arguers. River a force to be reckoned with, the Doctor only a force of nature. River would not allow the Doctor to order her about as he had all of his other companions, and the Doctor, argumentative by nature, ended up trying to convince her that she really should do as she was told. Generally, this didn't end well. Both were viciously intelligent, keen intellectuals and deep thinkers. They almost never came to the same conclusion on a matter. Most of the time, they were at each others' throats one moment, though, they'd usually end up sharing desert on a tropic moon within the hour, peacefully discussing the day's events.
However, at one point, when River Song stormed out of the TARDIS for what must have been the hundredth time, something in the Doctor broke. All of the memories of previous losses, of Donna Noble, in particular, came flooding back to him, wiping all of the happiness he'd experienced with River at his side. He closed the door behind her and flew away, back out to his old haunt at the end of time, and watched the universe fold in on itself, bit by bit. Someday, he'd go back, he thought, he'd turn around, and he'd just... go back. Right to the second where she'd run away from him.
The Doctor didn't "move on" from this incident with River Song as he always did, he didn't keep travelling. There was too much hurt. That lead weight of guilt in his chest ached, and there was nothing he could do, no one he could find or turn to.
Whether it was his own pride or the blackness at his center, he never returned. So he stared into that blackness, alone but for the singing of his ship, and for all the TARDIS' love, she could not bring the light back into his eyes. When the Doctor finally pulled his away from the destruction of the known universe, something had changed in him. A sense of black futility crept into his heart and twisted his desire to help others, his need to be needed. He realized that there was little point to any of the things he had ever done, all the way from ending the Time War, to saving Earth as many times as he had. People were transient, merely blips on the radar in comparison with his long lifetime.
When he began traveling again, the Doctor began dispensing justice with a cold and merciless hand, prefering to merely fix the problem [generally to do with a break in time, he had little patience for more social problems] with little regard to whom he hurt, or how much havoc he released upon a world. That is, if he bothered to interfere at all. Ripples of fear spread across the galaxy when the Doctor and his TARDIS drew near. Death followed in his wake, and the Doctor, self-centered and reveling in his egoism, no longer cared. Being that the Doctor is who he is, when he has some time to reflect in the times he is not meddling with the universe, [in his mind, trying to make it better], he is overwhelmed with guilt and remorse.
Taxon takes him from this point in his life.
For mun's purposes, we'll stick the total date at about 500 years from "Planet of the Dead" at which the Doctor avoids humanity all together and sticks to the outer rim of the universe. Just for my reference.
First Person Sample:
[The Doctor has taken to speaking to the TARDIS, because he never really does shut up, ever. Que his conversation with his ship when arriving in Taxon.]
"A--nd there we go! See, there? Told you this wouldn't be too bad, though, how someone pulled us out of transit is beyond me. Hn. I don't think this is somewhere we really want to be... not so much. And no. Not at all, nope, not this world, not staying here, too much interference with the systems.
...wait. Wait a minute. Oh, that's really quite impossible. What do you mean you can't reach the temporal vortex, it's right there in front of you, I'm pointing at it, and it's there, alright! Let's try this again, right? And here we go, brand new world, not this one, that's for certain and-...
What do you mean you can't?"
Third Person Sample:
The Doctor sits inside the TARDIS, staring with blank eyes down at the controls. His thin hands rest lightly upon the console, and he fights down the panic and bile that rises in his throat. He can't leave.. He's trapped. Taking a shallow sort of breath, the Doctor flips a few dials, twists a knob. When nothing happens he kicks the side of the power conduit housing in pure frustration. This accomplishes little, other than causing sparks to fly from the console's controls. Somewhere in his mind, the TARDIS' singing - more Earth's whalesong than language rumbles disapprovingly in the back of his head. He doesn't understand most of it, and it's the only language the TARDIS doesn't give him the ability to hear.
Hands fall back onto the console, gentler, and he speaks in a soft murmur to his ship, a string of musical language that only he now knows. At least he can attempt to traverse the planet. Despite his coaxing, it seems that nothing will bring the TARDIS where he wants the both of them. Far away from this strange world. Programming a shorter jump into the navigational computer the Doctor skims his fingers along the controls.
When the coordinates check out, The Doctor breathes a sigh of relief. The familiar blue glow of the ship's engines fills the room, reflecting off of the coral beams. He's not sure where he's going. Then again, he never is.