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Canon: Doctor Who
Character: Rose Tyler
Timeline: 4x12 just as she takes her last Shift from the Noble house to the TARDIS.
Personality:
To be a companion of the Doctor’s, you need to have a certain spark in you that sets you apart, that draws him in. Someone he can befriend, but also someone who isn’t afraid to stand up and talk straight to him. To tell him no when he needs to hear it. Rose is all of these things, and so much more. But like any companion, she is rather possessive of him, perhaps more so than others because of her having fallen in love with him. It’s not uncommon to love the Doctor, a fantastical man who can make it seem like he can do just about anything you could ever dream of. But for Rose, she truly did love him, through and through.
When we first meet Rose, she isn’t a timid girl, by any means, but she is rather ‘under developed’ shall we say. It’s her meeting and traveling with the Doctor that help her grow into a better person, show her how to live a better life, to stand up for things, to say no, to do the right thing when no one else will. She’s rather naive in the beginning, and is for a while coming, even in the last few adventures she has with the Doctor (before the events of Doomsday), but that doesn’t stop her from being a quick thinker. She picks up on things fast, can follow, generally speaking, a slightly dumbed-down version of whatever the Doctor is thinking. And really, he doesn’t mind explaining things for her either; all to the better of her expanding knowledge.
But she provides a crucial side that the Doctor often needs, and doesn’t have on his own. Her humanity, her emotions and empathy to things. She feels where he doesn’t, often leading to saving themselves, and others around them when she acts upon them (with or without his permission sometimes). But it doesn’t always turn out so well; no one is perfect. Sometimes Rose’s impulses can turn a situation sour, or even dangerous. She has a bit of a mouth on her, and this has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion as well. She doesn’t always know the smartest thing to do, but Rose knows to trust her own gut instinct better than anything the Doctor could do (more specifically the Ninth Doctor), and it has saved his life on a number of occasions. She has her mother’s temper, and her father’s understanding. She’ll know if she buggers things, but it won’t stop her from trying, in the end.
Rose has a great deal of empathy to all kinds of living things, human and alien alike- even if she doesn’t always warm up to them right away. There are exceptions of course, with more dangerous aliens; Daleks, Cybermen, Sycorax, but it has never stopped her from going forth and braving the unknown. The Pink and Yellow girl, curious, maybe a bit brash with her words from time to time, but she is a sweet girl over all.
But like most girls, she does tend to have a jealous streak a mile-wide. Especially for the Doctor. It’s evident on a number of occasions how much dislike she holds for having to share him, specifically his Tenth incarnation, with even her friend and now ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith. Despite this slightly hypocritical behaviour, she carries on. It doesn’t normally last, but it does come in spurts. Take meeting Sarah Jane for instance. A previous companion who know just as much about the Doctor as she did, someone who seemed to have just as much of a friendship with him- someone so important, despite him having never mentioned her. Of course, it was over their heated competition of who was better (or who knew more) that evolved them from enemies to friends. It isn’t the first, nor the last time that Rose’s jealousy rears it’s head of course, and it does tend to be one of her strongest flaws. Or at least, the most glaringly obvious.
Another might be the same sort of instinct that gets the Doctor into trouble. Her adventurous side, curiosity and need to explore and investigate-- all of which have gotten herself into trouble time and time again. Usually with her ending up needing rescued- especially in the earlier days. But over time, she’s learned to fight for herself, to think on her feet much more than she did before- even if there were times we saw glimpses. Even in the first episode, Rose, we saw her take initiative, hit the fire alarm and clear everyone out at the first sign of danger.
For someone who lived such a boring life, Rose is rather skilled at adapting to each new environment. It might take a while, on occasion, but she has long since learned to dive into any new territory or culture head first.
When Rose first met the Doctor, she was only 19 years of age. He swept her off her feet and left the biggest impression anyone could ever leave on a girl. She effectively broke it off with her boyfriend the night of meeting him, and never really looked back. This is where the possessiveness, the clinginess comes from, her occasion to whine at things from time to time- to not want to do everything. It’s something she grows out of over time, of course. When we finally see her again in Turn Left, Rose is quite obviously a much more grown up woman. There’s no nonsense to her, and while the sympathy is there, she’s turned much colder than she had ever been while she was the main companion. She knew what needed to be done, and was willing to do it whatever the cost. She had effectively become a humanized version of the Doctor; something we see much of the beginnings of near the end of her travels, specifically within Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
She had helped develop and build a Dimension Cannon, knowing full well that trying to force her way through the void and into another universe would fracture and collapse both worlds. She’s stubborn to a fault, and there are very few who can talk her out of doing something once her mind is set to it. She would readily put her life on the line to save those who matter to her, and none matter more than the Doctor himself. And she has, put her life on the line, given up huge parts of her life to be with him. She was willing to never see her mother again, just to stay with the Doctor. The things we do for love.
Background:
Born on the 27th of April, 1986, Rose Marion Tyler’s life was rather uneventful. In fact, you could easily say that nothing really happened. Her father, Pete Tyler, died when she was only an infant, and her mother Jackie was left to raise her on her own. She never did remarry, but there were plenty of other ‘suitors’ that Rose grew up with. Never a steady man in her life. Besides Mickey, of course, but that’s another story.
Like said before, nothing really happened in Rose’s life; she grew apathetic to it all. A day of working, coming home and watching the telly, going to bed and doing it all over the next day. -- Now, because time lines are all Wibbly Wobbly in Doctor Who, Rose’s first meeting with the Doctor, was actually on January 1st, 2005, just after midnight. It was there she met the Tenth Doctor, who was (unbeknownst to her) dying of radiation poisoning. Thinking him to simply be drunk, she gave him his answers and was on her way- but not before being told that 2005 would be a ‘really great year’ for her.
A few months later, into the spring and summer, Rose met the Doctor again (although it was his first time meeting her) in his Ninth incarnation. She had stayed late after work and nearly ended up dead from a number of stray mannequins being controlled by the Nestine Consciousness. The Doctor rescues her, introductions are tossed about, and then he vanishes again, only to blow up her work place indefinitely. Upon returning home, she searches him up and finds out more about him. The Doctor who travels in a blue police box, his only companion; Death.
She eventually runs into him later that night, when she gets further caught up in the living-plastic’s attack. The two quickly become a slightly less-willing team, and Rose winds up saving the Doctor’s life in the end of it all, to which he turns around and asks her to travel with him; through Time and Space. She says no, at first... but with the mention of time travel, she decides that the chance isn’t worth missing. Bidding farewell to her then-boyfriend Mickey Smith, she takes leave with the Doctor in his blue police box; his first companion.
Their first date trip? The end of the Earth; the literal destruction of it. Of course it all goes awry, but they turn out okay in the end. He tells her of the destruction of his own home planet, how he’s the last of his kind, traveling on his own. But there’s her, and she won’t let him be alone as long as she can help it.
Rose even meets a Dalek, who she accidentally rejuvenates with a single touch (cause of the background radiation of traveling in the TARDIS). Unfortunately, Rose is very driven by her emotions, and some of these emotions are transferred to the Dalek itself. In the end, it becomes it’s undoing, unable to kill her when she is finally trapped. This of course, was a big moment for the Doctor. He thought he had lost her for good, taken her on a fantastic trip, only to have her murdered by a Dalek, the most dangerous enemy a Time Lord could have. Even after learning she’s alive, he takes arms (something the Doctor thoroughly refuses to do, time and time again [with the occasional exception in regenerations]). But she stops him, calls him for what he may be turning into. The Dalek commits suicide in the end, by order of Rose; the only way to put it out of it’s misery.
Rose and the Doctor leave then with a new companion in tow. A boy whom Rose has taken a bi of a fancy to. But it becomes evident rather quickly, that not everyone is cut out for this sort of thing. Adam gets himself into trouble, sneaks behind the Doctor’s back and nearly gets the trio killed and the TARDIS stolen. Rose loses her interest in him rather quick. He’s dropped off back home rather quick, the Doctor firmly stating how he only takes the best; and he’s got Rose.
At the request of Rose, they travel back in time to 1987, to the time that Pete Tyler was killed. She simply wanted to be there for him when he died, so he wouldn’t be alone. The Doctor was hesitant, but conceded in the end. Of course, this turned out no so great, when Rose not only crossed her and the Doctor’s own timeline, but stopped her father from being killed in the first place. This created a nasty case of Paradox and mess, and it cost the Doctor (and the TARDIS’) existence in the end. Rose had a bit more time with her father, but being the smart man that he was, he knew what had to be done. Rose was there for him in the end though.
World War II. The London Blitz. Rose Tyler wore a shirt emblazoning a Union Jack.
Despite a rocky start and separation from the Doctor, Rose is rescued by one Captain Jack Harkness. Not a real soldier, but a former Time Agent turned con man. An extensive flirt-off explodes between the two of them, and while they do end up at ends (especially when Jack and the Doctor meet), Jack winds up saving their lives and leaving to travel with them in the TARDIS. He becomes a new companion, alongside Rose.
Ever since Rose first stepped into the TARDIS, the phrase ‘Bad Wolf’ had been showing up all throughout the series, be it in the background, graffiti or posters, just little things that you never really notice. A coincidence. But it was more than that, coming up in slightly more obvious places, to where even Rose and the Doctor were starting to notice. After learning of a devastating plan for the Daleks to invade the Earth, the Doctor sent Rose home (after having almost lost her once, thinking her dead already) to her own time. He believed he would die soon, and with no hope of escape, he sent Rose and the TARDIS to safety. The TARDIS should never get in the hands of a Dalek.
But Rose was having none of it. Despite already being heartbroken, Rose finally starts to notice the sudden ‘BAD WOLF’ phrase everywhere she looks. A connection, a link between her and the Doctor. “Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there.” (Satellite Five was where the Doctor was, it’s station called Bad Wolf.) With the help of Mickey and her mother, Rose pries the panel off the console of the TARDIS and looks into the heart of it... And takes it into herself. With the Vortex screaming through her mind, she returns the TARDIS to it’s previous spot, back to the Doctor. And just in the nick of time, too. With the literal power of a goddess, Rose destroys the Daleks and saves the ‘her Doctor’ from death. Unfortunately, no creature can withstand the power of the Vortex running through their mind. It’s very quickly starting to kill her.
The Doctor takes the Vortex out of her with a kiss, and returns it to the TARDIS safely, except it is just as damaging to him as it was to Rose. Except where Rose simply garnered a bit of fatigue and memory lapse, the Doctor was once again dying. -- It might be pertinent to note that while Rose held the power of the Bad Wolf (she who creates herself, a living paradox), she brought life back to Jack, who had been killed just previously to her arrival. Unfortunately she gave him too much life, and effectively made him immortal. Unable to be killed. (Except by old age. And we do mean really, really old age, as Jack eventually becomes the Face of Boe.) It was during this time that Rose (as the Bad Wolf entity) may have changed all the signs and images in Shan Shen into ‘Bad Wolf’ as well. (4x11: Turn Left)
The Doctor regenerates into the Tenth Doctor, and while Rose is initially startled and extremely saddened by the lost of her Doctor, a single adventure (and saving Christmas, the Earth, etc) is all it takes for her to be completely at ease with him again. He really was the Doctor, despite his new face and personality.
New Earth was next up on the docket. A second visit (and possession!) by the Lady Cassandra (who ended up swapping between Rose and the Doctor a number of times) and a close call with infected patients of a quarantined hospital. The Doctor’s quick thinking was enough to save them all in the end, and heal all the sickly. It’s here, while Cassandra has switched possession from Rose to the Doctor, that Rose is taunted for her affections of the Doctor. ‘You like him, I’ve been inside your head.’ The Doctor unfortunately is an extremely skilled psychic-creature, and none of his thoughts or emotions were accessible to Cassandra while she had possession. Shame.
With a trip to Scotland and an encounter with Queen Victoria, the Doctor and Rose were knighted for defeating a werewolf. Except they were immediately banished as a threat to the British Empire. It was here that Torchwood was first formed; the Torchwood Institute, in order to combat and address future alien threats. And this included the Doctor.
Back in her own time, Rose and the Doctor infiltrated a school where an alien species known as the Krilotine were causing damage. Here she met a previous companion of the Doctor; Sarah Jane Smith. While at odds at first with jealousy and tension running high, the two eventually bonded. But Rose became worried; Sarah Jane had more or less been abandoned by the Doctor many years ago. Would the same happen to her? Would he forget about her completely? But the Doctor assured her he wouldn’t do that. “Not to you.”
But the Doctor has a bad case of ADD it seems, effectively abandoning Rose (and a tagalong Mickey) in their next adventure as he ventures off after Madame de Pompedour; a woman in need of rescue. Rose’s jealous surfaces again, but in much smaller doses. If the Doctor were to rescue Reinette (Madame de Pompedour), he would be trapped in that time, unable to return to the ship, to Rose, nor the TARDIS. Fortunately, because of Reinette’s sense of nostalgia, he is able to return only five hours later to Rose and Mickey.
Next stop-- Oops, the TARDIS fell through a slip between parallel universes. This one, later dubbed ‘Pete’s World’, is a universe where Pete Tyler is alive and well, a wealthy business man (all those crazy inventions paid off), but Rose Tyler doesn’t exist. At least, if you don’t count the tiny dog Jackie Tyler keeps as a pet (affectionately named ‘Rose’). This was the first appearance and meeting of the Cybermen. Rose was witness to their ‘cyber-conversion’ and the death of many, including that world’s version of Jackie Tyler. Mickey ends up staying in this parallel world, leaving a rather upset Rose to travel with the Doctor. He knows that Rose will never love him like she does the Doctor, and that’s that. He stays to help Pete defeat the rest of the Cybermen and care for his grandmother who was dead in the original world.
A tricky conversation is tossed about over possibly living together after having seemingly lost the TARDIS for good. Rose and the Doctor find themselves trapped on an Impossible Planet; Kroptor, and while they make it out alive, an entity that may very well have been Satan, gives Rose a prophecy. The lost girl, so far from home, who will die in battle so very soon.
Once back home, the TARDIS having been found (or rather, she found the Doctor), Rose and the Doctor encounter a boy from a Doctor-Fan-Club called LINDA. Seeing as this is a very Doctor-lite episode, not much is seen from them.
2012 Olympic Games! Where the Doctor ends up as a drawing and it’s left for Rose to save the day. With Love. And also a lot of flirting and please Rose, Doctor, pay attention to the situation, not each other.
Doomsday. The story of how Rose Tyler died. The story of Torchwood. Of Canary Wharf and how Rose refused to let herself be trapped in Pete’s World, refused to let the Doctor be alone. She had promised him forever, and she was going to fight to the last to keep that promise. Unfortunately, Rose is nearly lost to the Void along with the Daleks and Cybermen... Pete returns in the nick of time to save her, but Rose and the Doctor are separated for good this time. This upsetting point is only reinforced when the Doctor finds the last available gap between the parallel worlds, and uses up the force of a supernova-ing sun to say his final goodbyes. Rose confesses her love for him there, on Bad Wolf Bay, but the connection closes before he is able to return the sentiment. Rose has been officially declared as ‘dead’ back home in her original world.
This is the last we see of Rose for at least a year. It isn’t until Season 4’s first episode, where Donna becomes the Doctor’s new companion, that we see a mysterious glimpse of Rose. She doesn’t say anything, but she only sticks around for a few seconds after everyone has left, before fading into nothing. ~What could it mean?~
During her time living in Pete’s world, Rose turned to work for that world’s version of Torchwood. It was no longer an institute that caused harm, but did their best to keep the peace of the Earth. It was during this time that Rose presumably began work on the Dimension Cannon. Of course it doesn’t start to work until the walls of the universes begin to collapse, which gives her the ability to transport herself back into her original world.
During Season 4, we see a number of hints and clues that lead the audience to believe that Rose was coming back. When Donna was in the TARDIS on her own during the Sontaran Invasion, a brief glimpse of Rose can be seen on the screen, silently calling for the Doctor. (The image is also seen in Captain Jack’s Monster Files, in the file for the Hath). We don’t see anything else from Rose until later on when the Doctor takes a trip on his own on the planet Midnight, but while the screen image is the same, the Doctor’s back is turned, and he misses it.
When Donna Noble had an alternate time line (and universe) created around her to stop the Doctor from living and saving the world so many times, Rose was there, gate crashing the not!party to try and set things right again. There was no giving her name, and not just to Donna, but to anyone; it could upset the already unstable timelines. But she does help Donna return to her life with the Doctor, giving her a message to pass on. Bad Wolf. It’s during this time in the parallel/created universe, that we learn Rose has grown up quite a bit. She knows much more about everything than she ever did when she traveled with the Doctor, and despite still not knowing how to pilot the TARDIS (which was nearly deceased in that parallel anyway), she was still able to connect with it, to a degree.
Rose then returned to the original world, only to find it being invaded. She, along with the rest of the Children of Time (Martha, Donna, Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Sarah Jane, Harriet Jones, Wilf and Sylvia Noble [Rose was the only one unable to immediately connect with the Doctor]), recieved the message of ‘EXTERMINATE’. The Daleks were invading. Rose had warned Donna that ‘the darkness is coming’, and this was it. Pete’s world runs a few years in the future (three, to be exact), and Rose had seen the darkness; stars and planets and worlds all disappearing from existence, and jumped to her original world to try and stop it from happening. With the Darkness coming, it was collapsing the walls between universes; the only way she could jump between dimensions in the first place.
Rose assists in the world-wide call to the Doctor, to help him home in on pull the TARDIS through the gap in time (one second out of sync with the rest of the universe) to where Earth and the other 26 planets were held captive by the Daleks and Davros himself. It’s once the Doctor has landed on Earth again that Rose sends the call back to ‘Control’ to have them lock on and shift her to wherever it was.
[[This is where I’ll be taking Rose from.]]
Abilities/Additional Notes: Rose is purely human, but after traveling with the Doctor for so long, and living in her own parallel universe, she’s learned quite a lot from her high school drop-out base of knowledge. She knows a great deal about aliens, their tech and a number of traditions for a number of species.
It’s likely as well, that while Rose was living in her parallel world (affectionately called ‘Pete’s World’) she resumed her studies and went on to take college/university level classes of a number of science classes, all to further her ability to create the Dimension Cannon, as well as work comprehensively within Torchwood and U.N.I.T.
And like anyone who travels through time, primarily via the TARDIS, Rose has a substantial amount of background radiation. Completely harmless, but can be used to power up/rejuvenate/activate certain technology. Usually something of either Dalek or Gallifreyan design.
Sample Journal Post:
[There’s rustle of fabric and the stumble of tracks against the asphalt, alerting the populace to a new entry. An intake of breath- decidedly female, quivers in shock.]
But this... This isn’t right. [A groan of frustration, the buttons of what might just be a slider phone ringing out into the otherwise silent evening.] Control- I said lock into the TARDIS not slam down th’randomizer! Ugh, I don’t have time for this. ... Control? Hello!
[Now there really is silence. There’s a dial tone, but--] No signal? But that’s not even possible. [Her voice turns to a hiss- metal clicking, shifting, similar to some sort of gun. Except much, much larger.]
Sample RP:
Her heart is already hammering, giddiness and excitement overwhelming her as she fishes out her phone from her coat pocket. For the moment, it doesn’t matter that the universe(s) are in danger, that the entirety of creation could collapse. She was going to see him again, and she had no problem taking a selfish moment to herself. It was then that she strode into the main room, Wilfred and Sylvia already there, the phone to her ear as the informed voice on the other end accepted the call.
“Control? Yeah, I need another shift. Lock me onto the TARDIS.” And with that, it was done. Just a few seconds to wait for the booster. With her gun readjusted, a grin splitting across her face, she turned to the remaining Nobles. “Right then. Wish me luck!”
She could feel it. The pull of temporal energy wrapping around her, pulling her out of space and readying to transport her somewhere else. Somewhere near the TARDIS. Near enough that she’d be able to see it, that lovely Blue Box, alive and well instead of weakly humming away, practically strapped to life support in the devastated form she’d been in Donna’s parallel. And he’d be there. The Doctor. Her Doctor. She would finally be able to see him again.
The shift came and went. And yet it didn’t. It felt ... incomplete. For a brief moment, panic gripped at her chest- but she’d landed, somewhere. A city, at least. A destroyed city, from the looks of it. But then, that was entirely possible, what with the Daleks reigning terror and collecting parts of the human race as they were. But this wasn’t just a Ghost Town. This was .. old. There were no fires, no distant heat from recent explosions. The place was cold. Had they gotten the time wrong? With a frustrated huff, a forceful shove to the worry trying to creep into her belly, she yanked out her phone once again.
“Control- I said lock onto the TARDIS, not slam down th’randomizer!” But there was nothing. No rushed apologies, or even a terse word to shut it. Nothing but.. dial tone. Rose pulled the phone from her ear to inspect it. “No signal? How’s that... even possible?” Her voice was hushed, any trace of the elation she’d felt earlier having trickled down to near non-existence. So she’d been shifted somewhere, evidently not where she needed to be- the TARDIS was no where in sight, nor could she hear any sort of engines grinding. There wasn’t even the distant, shiver-inducing echo of EXTERMINATE on the horizon. Just ... nothing.
Where the hell am I now...?
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Are you 18 or over? Yup.
Canon: Doctor Who
Character: Rose Tyler
Timeline: 4x12 just as she takes her last Shift from the Noble house to the TARDIS.
Personality:
To be a companion of the Doctor’s, you need to have a certain spark in you that sets you apart, that draws him in. Someone he can befriend, but also someone who isn’t afraid to stand up and talk straight to him. To tell him no when he needs to hear it. Rose is all of these things, and so much more. But like any companion, she is rather possessive of him, perhaps more so than others because of her having fallen in love with him. It’s not uncommon to love the Doctor, a fantastical man who can make it seem like he can do just about anything you could ever dream of. But for Rose, she truly did love him, through and through.
When we first meet Rose, she isn’t a timid girl, by any means, but she is rather ‘under developed’ shall we say. It’s her meeting and traveling with the Doctor that help her grow into a better person, show her how to live a better life, to stand up for things, to say no, to do the right thing when no one else will. She’s rather naive in the beginning, and is for a while coming, even in the last few adventures she has with the Doctor (before the events of Doomsday), but that doesn’t stop her from being a quick thinker. She picks up on things fast, can follow, generally speaking, a slightly dumbed-down version of whatever the Doctor is thinking. And really, he doesn’t mind explaining things for her either; all to the better of her expanding knowledge.
But she provides a crucial side that the Doctor often needs, and doesn’t have on his own. Her humanity, her emotions and empathy to things. She feels where he doesn’t, often leading to saving themselves, and others around them when she acts upon them (with or without his permission sometimes). But it doesn’t always turn out so well; no one is perfect. Sometimes Rose’s impulses can turn a situation sour, or even dangerous. She has a bit of a mouth on her, and this has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion as well. She doesn’t always know the smartest thing to do, but Rose knows to trust her own gut instinct better than anything the Doctor could do (more specifically the Ninth Doctor), and it has saved his life on a number of occasions. She has her mother’s temper, and her father’s understanding. She’ll know if she buggers things, but it won’t stop her from trying, in the end.
Rose has a great deal of empathy to all kinds of living things, human and alien alike- even if she doesn’t always warm up to them right away. There are exceptions of course, with more dangerous aliens; Daleks, Cybermen, Sycorax, but it has never stopped her from going forth and braving the unknown. The Pink and Yellow girl, curious, maybe a bit brash with her words from time to time, but she is a sweet girl over all.
But like most girls, she does tend to have a jealous streak a mile-wide. Especially for the Doctor. It’s evident on a number of occasions how much dislike she holds for having to share him, specifically his Tenth incarnation, with even her friend and now ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith. Despite this slightly hypocritical behaviour, she carries on. It doesn’t normally last, but it does come in spurts. Take meeting Sarah Jane for instance. A previous companion who know just as much about the Doctor as she did, someone who seemed to have just as much of a friendship with him- someone so important, despite him having never mentioned her. Of course, it was over their heated competition of who was better (or who knew more) that evolved them from enemies to friends. It isn’t the first, nor the last time that Rose’s jealousy rears it’s head of course, and it does tend to be one of her strongest flaws. Or at least, the most glaringly obvious.
Another might be the same sort of instinct that gets the Doctor into trouble. Her adventurous side, curiosity and need to explore and investigate-- all of which have gotten herself into trouble time and time again. Usually with her ending up needing rescued- especially in the earlier days. But over time, she’s learned to fight for herself, to think on her feet much more than she did before- even if there were times we saw glimpses. Even in the first episode, Rose, we saw her take initiative, hit the fire alarm and clear everyone out at the first sign of danger.
For someone who lived such a boring life, Rose is rather skilled at adapting to each new environment. It might take a while, on occasion, but she has long since learned to dive into any new territory or culture head first.
When Rose first met the Doctor, she was only 19 years of age. He swept her off her feet and left the biggest impression anyone could ever leave on a girl. She effectively broke it off with her boyfriend the night of meeting him, and never really looked back. This is where the possessiveness, the clinginess comes from, her occasion to whine at things from time to time- to not want to do everything. It’s something she grows out of over time, of course. When we finally see her again in Turn Left, Rose is quite obviously a much more grown up woman. There’s no nonsense to her, and while the sympathy is there, she’s turned much colder than she had ever been while she was the main companion. She knew what needed to be done, and was willing to do it whatever the cost. She had effectively become a humanized version of the Doctor; something we see much of the beginnings of near the end of her travels, specifically within Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
She had helped develop and build a Dimension Cannon, knowing full well that trying to force her way through the void and into another universe would fracture and collapse both worlds. She’s stubborn to a fault, and there are very few who can talk her out of doing something once her mind is set to it. She would readily put her life on the line to save those who matter to her, and none matter more than the Doctor himself. And she has, put her life on the line, given up huge parts of her life to be with him. She was willing to never see her mother again, just to stay with the Doctor. The things we do for love.
Background:
Born on the 27th of April, 1986, Rose Marion Tyler’s life was rather uneventful. In fact, you could easily say that nothing really happened. Her father, Pete Tyler, died when she was only an infant, and her mother Jackie was left to raise her on her own. She never did remarry, but there were plenty of other ‘suitors’ that Rose grew up with. Never a steady man in her life. Besides Mickey, of course, but that’s another story.
Like said before, nothing really happened in Rose’s life; she grew apathetic to it all. A day of working, coming home and watching the telly, going to bed and doing it all over the next day. -- Now, because time lines are all Wibbly Wobbly in Doctor Who, Rose’s first meeting with the Doctor, was actually on January 1st, 2005, just after midnight. It was there she met the Tenth Doctor, who was (unbeknownst to her) dying of radiation poisoning. Thinking him to simply be drunk, she gave him his answers and was on her way- but not before being told that 2005 would be a ‘really great year’ for her.
A few months later, into the spring and summer, Rose met the Doctor again (although it was his first time meeting her) in his Ninth incarnation. She had stayed late after work and nearly ended up dead from a number of stray mannequins being controlled by the Nestine Consciousness. The Doctor rescues her, introductions are tossed about, and then he vanishes again, only to blow up her work place indefinitely. Upon returning home, she searches him up and finds out more about him. The Doctor who travels in a blue police box, his only companion; Death.
She eventually runs into him later that night, when she gets further caught up in the living-plastic’s attack. The two quickly become a slightly less-willing team, and Rose winds up saving the Doctor’s life in the end of it all, to which he turns around and asks her to travel with him; through Time and Space. She says no, at first... but with the mention of time travel, she decides that the chance isn’t worth missing. Bidding farewell to her then-boyfriend Mickey Smith, she takes leave with the Doctor in his blue police box; his first companion.
Their first date trip? The end of the Earth; the literal destruction of it. Of course it all goes awry, but they turn out okay in the end. He tells her of the destruction of his own home planet, how he’s the last of his kind, traveling on his own. But there’s her, and she won’t let him be alone as long as she can help it.
Rose even meets a Dalek, who she accidentally rejuvenates with a single touch (cause of the background radiation of traveling in the TARDIS). Unfortunately, Rose is very driven by her emotions, and some of these emotions are transferred to the Dalek itself. In the end, it becomes it’s undoing, unable to kill her when she is finally trapped. This of course, was a big moment for the Doctor. He thought he had lost her for good, taken her on a fantastic trip, only to have her murdered by a Dalek, the most dangerous enemy a Time Lord could have. Even after learning she’s alive, he takes arms (something the Doctor thoroughly refuses to do, time and time again [with the occasional exception in regenerations]). But she stops him, calls him for what he may be turning into. The Dalek commits suicide in the end, by order of Rose; the only way to put it out of it’s misery.
Rose and the Doctor leave then with a new companion in tow. A boy whom Rose has taken a bi of a fancy to. But it becomes evident rather quickly, that not everyone is cut out for this sort of thing. Adam gets himself into trouble, sneaks behind the Doctor’s back and nearly gets the trio killed and the TARDIS stolen. Rose loses her interest in him rather quick. He’s dropped off back home rather quick, the Doctor firmly stating how he only takes the best; and he’s got Rose.
At the request of Rose, they travel back in time to 1987, to the time that Pete Tyler was killed. She simply wanted to be there for him when he died, so he wouldn’t be alone. The Doctor was hesitant, but conceded in the end. Of course, this turned out no so great, when Rose not only crossed her and the Doctor’s own timeline, but stopped her father from being killed in the first place. This created a nasty case of Paradox and mess, and it cost the Doctor (and the TARDIS’) existence in the end. Rose had a bit more time with her father, but being the smart man that he was, he knew what had to be done. Rose was there for him in the end though.
World War II. The London Blitz. Rose Tyler wore a shirt emblazoning a Union Jack.
Despite a rocky start and separation from the Doctor, Rose is rescued by one Captain Jack Harkness. Not a real soldier, but a former Time Agent turned con man. An extensive flirt-off explodes between the two of them, and while they do end up at ends (especially when Jack and the Doctor meet), Jack winds up saving their lives and leaving to travel with them in the TARDIS. He becomes a new companion, alongside Rose.
Ever since Rose first stepped into the TARDIS, the phrase ‘Bad Wolf’ had been showing up all throughout the series, be it in the background, graffiti or posters, just little things that you never really notice. A coincidence. But it was more than that, coming up in slightly more obvious places, to where even Rose and the Doctor were starting to notice. After learning of a devastating plan for the Daleks to invade the Earth, the Doctor sent Rose home (after having almost lost her once, thinking her dead already) to her own time. He believed he would die soon, and with no hope of escape, he sent Rose and the TARDIS to safety. The TARDIS should never get in the hands of a Dalek.
But Rose was having none of it. Despite already being heartbroken, Rose finally starts to notice the sudden ‘BAD WOLF’ phrase everywhere she looks. A connection, a link between her and the Doctor. “Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there.” (Satellite Five was where the Doctor was, it’s station called Bad Wolf.) With the help of Mickey and her mother, Rose pries the panel off the console of the TARDIS and looks into the heart of it... And takes it into herself. With the Vortex screaming through her mind, she returns the TARDIS to it’s previous spot, back to the Doctor. And just in the nick of time, too. With the literal power of a goddess, Rose destroys the Daleks and saves the ‘her Doctor’ from death. Unfortunately, no creature can withstand the power of the Vortex running through their mind. It’s very quickly starting to kill her.
The Doctor takes the Vortex out of her with a kiss, and returns it to the TARDIS safely, except it is just as damaging to him as it was to Rose. Except where Rose simply garnered a bit of fatigue and memory lapse, the Doctor was once again dying. -- It might be pertinent to note that while Rose held the power of the Bad Wolf (she who creates herself, a living paradox), she brought life back to Jack, who had been killed just previously to her arrival. Unfortunately she gave him too much life, and effectively made him immortal. Unable to be killed. (Except by old age. And we do mean really, really old age, as Jack eventually becomes the Face of Boe.) It was during this time that Rose (as the Bad Wolf entity) may have changed all the signs and images in Shan Shen into ‘Bad Wolf’ as well. (4x11: Turn Left)
The Doctor regenerates into the Tenth Doctor, and while Rose is initially startled and extremely saddened by the lost of her Doctor, a single adventure (and saving Christmas, the Earth, etc) is all it takes for her to be completely at ease with him again. He really was the Doctor, despite his new face and personality.
New Earth was next up on the docket. A second visit (and possession!) by the Lady Cassandra (who ended up swapping between Rose and the Doctor a number of times) and a close call with infected patients of a quarantined hospital. The Doctor’s quick thinking was enough to save them all in the end, and heal all the sickly. It’s here, while Cassandra has switched possession from Rose to the Doctor, that Rose is taunted for her affections of the Doctor. ‘You like him, I’ve been inside your head.’ The Doctor unfortunately is an extremely skilled psychic-creature, and none of his thoughts or emotions were accessible to Cassandra while she had possession. Shame.
With a trip to Scotland and an encounter with Queen Victoria, the Doctor and Rose were knighted for defeating a werewolf. Except they were immediately banished as a threat to the British Empire. It was here that Torchwood was first formed; the Torchwood Institute, in order to combat and address future alien threats. And this included the Doctor.
Back in her own time, Rose and the Doctor infiltrated a school where an alien species known as the Krilotine were causing damage. Here she met a previous companion of the Doctor; Sarah Jane Smith. While at odds at first with jealousy and tension running high, the two eventually bonded. But Rose became worried; Sarah Jane had more or less been abandoned by the Doctor many years ago. Would the same happen to her? Would he forget about her completely? But the Doctor assured her he wouldn’t do that. “Not to you.”
But the Doctor has a bad case of ADD it seems, effectively abandoning Rose (and a tagalong Mickey) in their next adventure as he ventures off after Madame de Pompedour; a woman in need of rescue. Rose’s jealous surfaces again, but in much smaller doses. If the Doctor were to rescue Reinette (Madame de Pompedour), he would be trapped in that time, unable to return to the ship, to Rose, nor the TARDIS. Fortunately, because of Reinette’s sense of nostalgia, he is able to return only five hours later to Rose and Mickey.
Next stop-- Oops, the TARDIS fell through a slip between parallel universes. This one, later dubbed ‘Pete’s World’, is a universe where Pete Tyler is alive and well, a wealthy business man (all those crazy inventions paid off), but Rose Tyler doesn’t exist. At least, if you don’t count the tiny dog Jackie Tyler keeps as a pet (affectionately named ‘Rose’). This was the first appearance and meeting of the Cybermen. Rose was witness to their ‘cyber-conversion’ and the death of many, including that world’s version of Jackie Tyler. Mickey ends up staying in this parallel world, leaving a rather upset Rose to travel with the Doctor. He knows that Rose will never love him like she does the Doctor, and that’s that. He stays to help Pete defeat the rest of the Cybermen and care for his grandmother who was dead in the original world.
A tricky conversation is tossed about over possibly living together after having seemingly lost the TARDIS for good. Rose and the Doctor find themselves trapped on an Impossible Planet; Kroptor, and while they make it out alive, an entity that may very well have been Satan, gives Rose a prophecy. The lost girl, so far from home, who will die in battle so very soon.
Once back home, the TARDIS having been found (or rather, she found the Doctor), Rose and the Doctor encounter a boy from a Doctor-Fan-Club called LINDA. Seeing as this is a very Doctor-lite episode, not much is seen from them.
2012 Olympic Games! Where the Doctor ends up as a drawing and it’s left for Rose to save the day. With Love. And also a lot of flirting and please Rose, Doctor, pay attention to the situation, not each other.
Doomsday. The story of how Rose Tyler died. The story of Torchwood. Of Canary Wharf and how Rose refused to let herself be trapped in Pete’s World, refused to let the Doctor be alone. She had promised him forever, and she was going to fight to the last to keep that promise. Unfortunately, Rose is nearly lost to the Void along with the Daleks and Cybermen... Pete returns in the nick of time to save her, but Rose and the Doctor are separated for good this time. This upsetting point is only reinforced when the Doctor finds the last available gap between the parallel worlds, and uses up the force of a supernova-ing sun to say his final goodbyes. Rose confesses her love for him there, on Bad Wolf Bay, but the connection closes before he is able to return the sentiment. Rose has been officially declared as ‘dead’ back home in her original world.
This is the last we see of Rose for at least a year. It isn’t until Season 4’s first episode, where Donna becomes the Doctor’s new companion, that we see a mysterious glimpse of Rose. She doesn’t say anything, but she only sticks around for a few seconds after everyone has left, before fading into nothing. ~What could it mean?~
During her time living in Pete’s world, Rose turned to work for that world’s version of Torchwood. It was no longer an institute that caused harm, but did their best to keep the peace of the Earth. It was during this time that Rose presumably began work on the Dimension Cannon. Of course it doesn’t start to work until the walls of the universes begin to collapse, which gives her the ability to transport herself back into her original world.
During Season 4, we see a number of hints and clues that lead the audience to believe that Rose was coming back. When Donna was in the TARDIS on her own during the Sontaran Invasion, a brief glimpse of Rose can be seen on the screen, silently calling for the Doctor. (The image is also seen in Captain Jack’s Monster Files, in the file for the Hath). We don’t see anything else from Rose until later on when the Doctor takes a trip on his own on the planet Midnight, but while the screen image is the same, the Doctor’s back is turned, and he misses it.
When Donna Noble had an alternate time line (and universe) created around her to stop the Doctor from living and saving the world so many times, Rose was there, gate crashing the not!party to try and set things right again. There was no giving her name, and not just to Donna, but to anyone; it could upset the already unstable timelines. But she does help Donna return to her life with the Doctor, giving her a message to pass on. Bad Wolf. It’s during this time in the parallel/created universe, that we learn Rose has grown up quite a bit. She knows much more about everything than she ever did when she traveled with the Doctor, and despite still not knowing how to pilot the TARDIS (which was nearly deceased in that parallel anyway), she was still able to connect with it, to a degree.
Rose then returned to the original world, only to find it being invaded. She, along with the rest of the Children of Time (Martha, Donna, Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Sarah Jane, Harriet Jones, Wilf and Sylvia Noble [Rose was the only one unable to immediately connect with the Doctor]), recieved the message of ‘EXTERMINATE’. The Daleks were invading. Rose had warned Donna that ‘the darkness is coming’, and this was it. Pete’s world runs a few years in the future (three, to be exact), and Rose had seen the darkness; stars and planets and worlds all disappearing from existence, and jumped to her original world to try and stop it from happening. With the Darkness coming, it was collapsing the walls between universes; the only way she could jump between dimensions in the first place.
Rose assists in the world-wide call to the Doctor, to help him home in on pull the TARDIS through the gap in time (one second out of sync with the rest of the universe) to where Earth and the other 26 planets were held captive by the Daleks and Davros himself. It’s once the Doctor has landed on Earth again that Rose sends the call back to ‘Control’ to have them lock on and shift her to wherever it was.
[[This is where I’ll be taking Rose from.]]
Abilities/Additional Notes: Rose is purely human, but after traveling with the Doctor for so long, and living in her own parallel universe, she’s learned quite a lot from her high school drop-out base of knowledge. She knows a great deal about aliens, their tech and a number of traditions for a number of species.
It’s likely as well, that while Rose was living in her parallel world (affectionately called ‘Pete’s World’) she resumed her studies and went on to take college/university level classes of a number of science classes, all to further her ability to create the Dimension Cannon, as well as work comprehensively within Torchwood and U.N.I.T.
And like anyone who travels through time, primarily via the TARDIS, Rose has a substantial amount of background radiation. Completely harmless, but can be used to power up/rejuvenate/activate certain technology. Usually something of either Dalek or Gallifreyan design.
Sample Journal Post:
[There’s rustle of fabric and the stumble of tracks against the asphalt, alerting the populace to a new entry. An intake of breath- decidedly female, quivers in shock.]
But this... This isn’t right. [A groan of frustration, the buttons of what might just be a slider phone ringing out into the otherwise silent evening.] Control- I said lock into the TARDIS not slam down th’randomizer! Ugh, I don’t have time for this. ... Control? Hello!
[Now there really is silence. There’s a dial tone, but--] No signal? But that’s not even possible. [Her voice turns to a hiss- metal clicking, shifting, similar to some sort of gun. Except much, much larger.]
Sample RP:
Her heart is already hammering, giddiness and excitement overwhelming her as she fishes out her phone from her coat pocket. For the moment, it doesn’t matter that the universe(s) are in danger, that the entirety of creation could collapse. She was going to see him again, and she had no problem taking a selfish moment to herself. It was then that she strode into the main room, Wilfred and Sylvia already there, the phone to her ear as the informed voice on the other end accepted the call.
“Control? Yeah, I need another shift. Lock me onto the TARDIS.” And with that, it was done. Just a few seconds to wait for the booster. With her gun readjusted, a grin splitting across her face, she turned to the remaining Nobles. “Right then. Wish me luck!”
She could feel it. The pull of temporal energy wrapping around her, pulling her out of space and readying to transport her somewhere else. Somewhere near the TARDIS. Near enough that she’d be able to see it, that lovely Blue Box, alive and well instead of weakly humming away, practically strapped to life support in the devastated form she’d been in Donna’s parallel. And he’d be there. The Doctor. Her Doctor. She would finally be able to see him again.
The shift came and went. And yet it didn’t. It felt ... incomplete. For a brief moment, panic gripped at her chest- but she’d landed, somewhere. A city, at least. A destroyed city, from the looks of it. But then, that was entirely possible, what with the Daleks reigning terror and collecting parts of the human race as they were. But this wasn’t just a Ghost Town. This was .. old. There were no fires, no distant heat from recent explosions. The place was cold. Had they gotten the time wrong? With a frustrated huff, a forceful shove to the worry trying to creep into her belly, she yanked out her phone once again.
“Control- I said lock onto the TARDIS, not slam down th’randomizer!” But there was nothing. No rushed apologies, or even a terse word to shut it. Nothing but.. dial tone. Rose pulled the phone from her ear to inspect it. “No signal? How’s that... even possible?” Her voice was hushed, any trace of the elation she’d felt earlier having trickled down to near non-existence. So she’d been shifted somewhere, evidently not where she needed to be- the TARDIS was no where in sight, nor could she hear any sort of engines grinding. There wasn’t even the distant, shiver-inducing echo of EXTERMINATE on the horizon. Just ... nothing.
Where the hell am I now...?