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Player Name: Toast
Player LJ: toastofrassilon
E-mail and/or AIM: keytone8@gmail.com
Timezone: EST
Current Characters: None
Character: The Ninth Doctor
Fandom/Series: Doctor Who
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Used: His canon point is during the episode “Rose,” but I will use info from the rest of his season for personality/background/etc., as well as the rest of Classic and New Who. I’ll also be using audio canon, particularly the Eighth Doctor stuff.
Age: 900 (ish)
Gender: Male
Species: Gallifreyan (Time Lord)
Appearance: The Ninth Doctor appears completely human, though he isn't. He’s 6' tall, with big ears, a big nose, short hair, and a fondness for jumpers and leather. He looks somewhere in his 40’s, despite his real age.
Personality: The Ninth Doctor’s psychology is complex, and it’s mostly due to the fact that he’s the only survivor of the Time War (or so he thinks). He caused the destruction of Gallifrey to stop his race from ascending to beings of pure consciousness (and destroying all of creation in the process). However, Nine is in epic denial about all of this. He chooses to remember the War simply as a fight between the Time Lords and the Daleks (a highly watered down version of the truth), so he can remember the Time Lords for how they were before Rassilon corrupted them all into nearly destroying Time itself.
He believes himself to be the last of the Time Lords, and craves whatever company he can get because of it. He’ll try to dissuade people from following him around, attempting to swan off when he can without explanations, but he’s actually desperately lonely. If someone’s determined enough to break past his walls and push back when he tries to push them away, he’ll protect them fiercely, and work to turn them into the best people they can be.
This Doctor expects only the best from his companions and friends. When they fail to meet his standards, he won’t hesitate to make the fact painfully obvious. He also has a ridiculously large ego when it comes to his own intelligence and importance (the universe sort of revolves around him), though part of this is simply to mask the guilt over his actions during the Time War. The Doctor would rather run from his problems than confront them, and readily admits that he’s a coward any day.
He’s often seemingly upbeat and cheerful in the presence of others, joking around and occasionally making terrible puns. But at the same time, he’s also distant and brooding. If someone asks where he’s from, or what sort of alien he is, or anything of that nature, he’ll likely attempt to beat around the bush with his answers until they give up, or are suitably distracted.
When it comes to physical contact, the Doctor is fairly tactile in comparison to other regenerations (usually in simple ways, like holding hands), but only when he initiates the contact himself. Otherwise it often throws him a bit, and makes him awkward. He also harbors a strong dislike for domestics.
The Doctor enjoys a good bit of trouble wherever he can find it. Or rather, whenever he happens to stumble into it. He almost always gives his foes a chance, but if they don’t cooperate, they have to deal with his more ruthless side. This Doctor is also a little more willing to get his hands dirty than some regenerations, even resorting to weapons if he has to. He still prefers talking to fighting though, if he can avoid it.
There are times when the Doctor gets truly angry, and they generally occur when someone has done something exceptionally wrong. For example, the deaths of innocent people (particularly people he’s fond of), is a quick way to incur the Doctor’s wrath. Life in any part of the universe is precious to him, and he does what he can to stop any senseless destruction of it. While part of this is due to guilt over being unable to save his own people, it is also simply part of his identity as the Doctor.
Daleks make him especially angry, and even rather manic, which is why they get no chances. It is not only because of the Time War, but because they wouldn’t hesitate to exterminate any innocent being that got in their path. In earlier regenerations (like his Fourth, for example), he would’ve balked at the thought of genocide, but his experience during the War has hardened the Doctor when it comes to Daleks.
The Doctor is still like a kid in a candy shop when it comes to exploring the events of history; it’s why he travels. Of course, this child-like attitude also manifests in other ways. He is extremely stubborn, and most of his arguments boil down to “Because I say so.” He often sulks when he doesn’t get his way, and is always quick to insult particularly stupid behavior.
Strengths/Abilities: The Doctor has a binary vascular system, which gives him an advantage when it comes to running, a cooler body temperature of 15 degrees Celcius, and a respiratory bypass system, which means he can hold his breath for quite a bit longer than humans. Like all Time Lords, the Doctor is telepathic, and has a mental link with other Time Lords. This is partially why he believes them all to be gone, because he can’t sense their presence mentally.
As a Time Lord, he can also see all the timelines of the past, present, and future, whether they are certain or not. He has a total of 13 lives (12 regenerations), which gives him the option of regenerating into a new body and personality instead of dying. When the High Council of the Time Lords still existed, it was possible to receive a new life cycle once the first set ran out, but the Council no longer exists.
Weaknesses: Aspirin is deadly. So are the normal forms of killing a person - the Doctor may have a few extra lives, another heart, and a respiratory bypass system, but a well-aimed gunshot can still force a regeneration.
History: Information about the Doctor’s specific regenerations can be found here!
The Doctor’s history began on Gallifrey. He studied at the Academy with the Master (though it took him a couple of attempts to pass), became a Time Lord, and stole a TARDIS, running off to have adventures with his companions, and avoiding the oppressive Gallifreyan society as long as he could. Occasionally he was forced back, usually to carry out some task that the other Time Lords would rather not deal with themselves - better to have an exile do it for them. He was offered the Presidency in his Fifth regeneration, though he ran from the responsibility. But even though he spent several centuries running from his home, he never wanted to destroy it.
The Time War began as a battle between the Time Lords and the Daleks, creatures bred to feel nothing but hatred. But the Daleks were only the beginning. More terrible creatures joined the war on Gallifrey, and Time Lords were being revived again and again to fight and die. One particular Time Lord Founder was also revived. Rassilon either overthrew Romana as President or she simply stepped down (the details are unknown), and eventually decided that the only way to end the War was to transcend it.
Unfortunately, as stated previously, the only way to become “pure consciousness” also involved destroying the whole of creation, including Time itself. The Doctor (who was in his Eighth incarnation), wouldn’t stand for it. With the help of something called “The Moment,” he destroyed the entire planet - Time Lords, Daleks, etc. all in one fell swoop. At some point during the War, Gallifrey had become time-locked, and once the Doctor ended everything, he knew he couldn’t return to change events.
The Doctor makes it clear that he was not the only survivor of the Time War by choice. After it was over, the consequences of his actions were too much for him to bear, and he regenerated into his Ninth self. He started running from day one, and didn’t even stop to look at his reflection in a mirror. His distraction of choice was disaster tourism - he lost himself in events like Kennedy’s assassination, the Titanic, the night Krakatoa exploded, World War 5, the fall of Troy, and pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party, among other things.
He quickly became a legend woven throughout the history of the Earth. It had always been his favorite planet, but after Gallifrey’s destruction, it became a second home for him, figuratively speaking, and he worked tirelessly to defend it. Before appearing in Luministi, he was tracking the Nestene Conciousness of the Autons, who were trying to overthrow the human race and destroy them for their resources.
The Doctor found a relay device on the roof of a department store that was transmitting a signal to create living plastic mannequins, and created a bomb to destroy it. After rescuing a girl named Rose Tyler and telling her to run for her life, he planted the bomb and did some running himself. The building exploded, and he woke up in Luministi.
Canon Point: During the episode “Rose,” right after Nine blows up the department store.
First Person Sample:
[The Doctor wakes up with a groan, brushing off the remnants the explosion he just caused as he sits up. A bit smugly;] Told her I might not die in the process. Now I’ve just got to figure out - no, hang on, what’s this? This is all wrong.
[he frowns at his surroundings, then registers the voice coming from the vidscreen. After the Mayor has finished, he protests] Oi! I’m thrilled you lot have developed nicely - that’s absolutely fantastic, actually. But you’ve got to send me back. See, I’m a bit busy trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering about on top of the Earth, and I can’t exactly do that at the mo’.
[he pauses, waiting for a response, and pokes at the vidscreen for a bit before realizing all he got was a recorded message.]
Brilliant. Now I’ve got to figure out where I’ve ended up; “Luministi” doesn’t ring any bells. And I’m not hanging about here waiting for that Mayor bloke to show up.
[With that, he leaves the townhouse to explore, ignoring the gift basket completely.]
Third Person Sample:
“So much for being unsinkable,” the Doctor muttered to himself, as he clung to an iceberg roughly 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Of course, he’d known the Titanic would sink - that’s why he’d gone, after all. Why he’d saved the Daniels family.
But he knew this wasn’t about saving people. It wasn’t even about saving himself. It was about falling off the edge of the world. About letting go, losing himself in the chaos, destruction, and death. The Oncoming Storm.
The Doctor glanced at his hands while his fingers clutched the ice, noticing how different they looked. He hadn’t really stopped to take in his new appearance, not even when he’d picked out a new look. A tougher look; one he was grateful for at the moment, because the leather jacket was doing a fantastic job of keeping him warm. Sort of, anyway.
Then his mind wandered to the War, as it often had since he regenerated. Every disaster brought up new things he had to forget, because he couldn’t allow himself to remember. His denial was intense, even though (and perhaps because) he was the only survivor. The only one who really knew the details.
And as far as he was concerned, it was going to stay that way. He never told anyone who he really was, or where he had come from. “All over the place” was his usual answer, and it was sort of true. The psychic paper in his pocket was also tremendously useful in that respect. The important bit was the here and now, really, and nobody needed to know anything else.
Of course, here and now, he was clinging to an iceberg. He was so caught up in his brooding that he barely noticed the rescue boat approaching until people were dragging him into it. They asked him questions, of course all of which he answered as vaguely as possible, with a bit of help from the psychic paper. He was beginning to regret the fact that he hadn’t brought the TARDIS along with him.
Speaking of the TARDIS, she wasn’t pleased with him when he finally returned to London…she never was after he threw himself into the deep end, pun fully intended. She was the reason he survived his regeneration at all; the reason he lived. If he died, so would she. Of course, that was nothing new, but their bond had increased dramatically after the War. And so she attempted to dissuade the Doctor from his reckless method of coping, but this regeneration was particularly stubborn.
He managed to sooth her annoyance with a week’s worth of repairs, before convincing her that Krakatoa would be a fantastic way to warm up and dry off.
Player LJ: toastofrassilon
E-mail and/or AIM: keytone8@gmail.com
Timezone: EST
Current Characters: None
Character: The Ninth Doctor
Fandom/Series: Doctor Who
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Used: His canon point is during the episode “Rose,” but I will use info from the rest of his season for personality/background/etc., as well as the rest of Classic and New Who. I’ll also be using audio canon, particularly the Eighth Doctor stuff.
Age: 900 (ish)
Gender: Male
Species: Gallifreyan (Time Lord)
Appearance: The Ninth Doctor appears completely human, though he isn't. He’s 6' tall, with big ears, a big nose, short hair, and a fondness for jumpers and leather. He looks somewhere in his 40’s, despite his real age.
Personality: The Ninth Doctor’s psychology is complex, and it’s mostly due to the fact that he’s the only survivor of the Time War (or so he thinks). He caused the destruction of Gallifrey to stop his race from ascending to beings of pure consciousness (and destroying all of creation in the process). However, Nine is in epic denial about all of this. He chooses to remember the War simply as a fight between the Time Lords and the Daleks (a highly watered down version of the truth), so he can remember the Time Lords for how they were before Rassilon corrupted them all into nearly destroying Time itself.
He believes himself to be the last of the Time Lords, and craves whatever company he can get because of it. He’ll try to dissuade people from following him around, attempting to swan off when he can without explanations, but he’s actually desperately lonely. If someone’s determined enough to break past his walls and push back when he tries to push them away, he’ll protect them fiercely, and work to turn them into the best people they can be.
This Doctor expects only the best from his companions and friends. When they fail to meet his standards, he won’t hesitate to make the fact painfully obvious. He also has a ridiculously large ego when it comes to his own intelligence and importance (the universe sort of revolves around him), though part of this is simply to mask the guilt over his actions during the Time War. The Doctor would rather run from his problems than confront them, and readily admits that he’s a coward any day.
He’s often seemingly upbeat and cheerful in the presence of others, joking around and occasionally making terrible puns. But at the same time, he’s also distant and brooding. If someone asks where he’s from, or what sort of alien he is, or anything of that nature, he’ll likely attempt to beat around the bush with his answers until they give up, or are suitably distracted.
When it comes to physical contact, the Doctor is fairly tactile in comparison to other regenerations (usually in simple ways, like holding hands), but only when he initiates the contact himself. Otherwise it often throws him a bit, and makes him awkward. He also harbors a strong dislike for domestics.
The Doctor enjoys a good bit of trouble wherever he can find it. Or rather, whenever he happens to stumble into it. He almost always gives his foes a chance, but if they don’t cooperate, they have to deal with his more ruthless side. This Doctor is also a little more willing to get his hands dirty than some regenerations, even resorting to weapons if he has to. He still prefers talking to fighting though, if he can avoid it.
There are times when the Doctor gets truly angry, and they generally occur when someone has done something exceptionally wrong. For example, the deaths of innocent people (particularly people he’s fond of), is a quick way to incur the Doctor’s wrath. Life in any part of the universe is precious to him, and he does what he can to stop any senseless destruction of it. While part of this is due to guilt over being unable to save his own people, it is also simply part of his identity as the Doctor.
Daleks make him especially angry, and even rather manic, which is why they get no chances. It is not only because of the Time War, but because they wouldn’t hesitate to exterminate any innocent being that got in their path. In earlier regenerations (like his Fourth, for example), he would’ve balked at the thought of genocide, but his experience during the War has hardened the Doctor when it comes to Daleks.
The Doctor is still like a kid in a candy shop when it comes to exploring the events of history; it’s why he travels. Of course, this child-like attitude also manifests in other ways. He is extremely stubborn, and most of his arguments boil down to “Because I say so.” He often sulks when he doesn’t get his way, and is always quick to insult particularly stupid behavior.
Strengths/Abilities: The Doctor has a binary vascular system, which gives him an advantage when it comes to running, a cooler body temperature of 15 degrees Celcius, and a respiratory bypass system, which means he can hold his breath for quite a bit longer than humans. Like all Time Lords, the Doctor is telepathic, and has a mental link with other Time Lords. This is partially why he believes them all to be gone, because he can’t sense their presence mentally.
As a Time Lord, he can also see all the timelines of the past, present, and future, whether they are certain or not. He has a total of 13 lives (12 regenerations), which gives him the option of regenerating into a new body and personality instead of dying. When the High Council of the Time Lords still existed, it was possible to receive a new life cycle once the first set ran out, but the Council no longer exists.
Weaknesses: Aspirin is deadly. So are the normal forms of killing a person - the Doctor may have a few extra lives, another heart, and a respiratory bypass system, but a well-aimed gunshot can still force a regeneration.
History: Information about the Doctor’s specific regenerations can be found here!
The Doctor’s history began on Gallifrey. He studied at the Academy with the Master (though it took him a couple of attempts to pass), became a Time Lord, and stole a TARDIS, running off to have adventures with his companions, and avoiding the oppressive Gallifreyan society as long as he could. Occasionally he was forced back, usually to carry out some task that the other Time Lords would rather not deal with themselves - better to have an exile do it for them. He was offered the Presidency in his Fifth regeneration, though he ran from the responsibility. But even though he spent several centuries running from his home, he never wanted to destroy it.
The Time War began as a battle between the Time Lords and the Daleks, creatures bred to feel nothing but hatred. But the Daleks were only the beginning. More terrible creatures joined the war on Gallifrey, and Time Lords were being revived again and again to fight and die. One particular Time Lord Founder was also revived. Rassilon either overthrew Romana as President or she simply stepped down (the details are unknown), and eventually decided that the only way to end the War was to transcend it.
Unfortunately, as stated previously, the only way to become “pure consciousness” also involved destroying the whole of creation, including Time itself. The Doctor (who was in his Eighth incarnation), wouldn’t stand for it. With the help of something called “The Moment,” he destroyed the entire planet - Time Lords, Daleks, etc. all in one fell swoop. At some point during the War, Gallifrey had become time-locked, and once the Doctor ended everything, he knew he couldn’t return to change events.
The Doctor makes it clear that he was not the only survivor of the Time War by choice. After it was over, the consequences of his actions were too much for him to bear, and he regenerated into his Ninth self. He started running from day one, and didn’t even stop to look at his reflection in a mirror. His distraction of choice was disaster tourism - he lost himself in events like Kennedy’s assassination, the Titanic, the night Krakatoa exploded, World War 5, the fall of Troy, and pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party, among other things.
He quickly became a legend woven throughout the history of the Earth. It had always been his favorite planet, but after Gallifrey’s destruction, it became a second home for him, figuratively speaking, and he worked tirelessly to defend it. Before appearing in Luministi, he was tracking the Nestene Conciousness of the Autons, who were trying to overthrow the human race and destroy them for their resources.
The Doctor found a relay device on the roof of a department store that was transmitting a signal to create living plastic mannequins, and created a bomb to destroy it. After rescuing a girl named Rose Tyler and telling her to run for her life, he planted the bomb and did some running himself. The building exploded, and he woke up in Luministi.
Canon Point: During the episode “Rose,” right after Nine blows up the department store.
First Person Sample:
[The Doctor wakes up with a groan, brushing off the remnants the explosion he just caused as he sits up. A bit smugly;] Told her I might not die in the process. Now I’ve just got to figure out - no, hang on, what’s this? This is all wrong.
[he frowns at his surroundings, then registers the voice coming from the vidscreen. After the Mayor has finished, he protests] Oi! I’m thrilled you lot have developed nicely - that’s absolutely fantastic, actually. But you’ve got to send me back. See, I’m a bit busy trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering about on top of the Earth, and I can’t exactly do that at the mo’.
[he pauses, waiting for a response, and pokes at the vidscreen for a bit before realizing all he got was a recorded message.]
Brilliant. Now I’ve got to figure out where I’ve ended up; “Luministi” doesn’t ring any bells. And I’m not hanging about here waiting for that Mayor bloke to show up.
[With that, he leaves the townhouse to explore, ignoring the gift basket completely.]
Third Person Sample:
“So much for being unsinkable,” the Doctor muttered to himself, as he clung to an iceberg roughly 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Of course, he’d known the Titanic would sink - that’s why he’d gone, after all. Why he’d saved the Daniels family.
But he knew this wasn’t about saving people. It wasn’t even about saving himself. It was about falling off the edge of the world. About letting go, losing himself in the chaos, destruction, and death. The Oncoming Storm.
The Doctor glanced at his hands while his fingers clutched the ice, noticing how different they looked. He hadn’t really stopped to take in his new appearance, not even when he’d picked out a new look. A tougher look; one he was grateful for at the moment, because the leather jacket was doing a fantastic job of keeping him warm. Sort of, anyway.
Then his mind wandered to the War, as it often had since he regenerated. Every disaster brought up new things he had to forget, because he couldn’t allow himself to remember. His denial was intense, even though (and perhaps because) he was the only survivor. The only one who really knew the details.
And as far as he was concerned, it was going to stay that way. He never told anyone who he really was, or where he had come from. “All over the place” was his usual answer, and it was sort of true. The psychic paper in his pocket was also tremendously useful in that respect. The important bit was the here and now, really, and nobody needed to know anything else.
Of course, here and now, he was clinging to an iceberg. He was so caught up in his brooding that he barely noticed the rescue boat approaching until people were dragging him into it. They asked him questions, of course all of which he answered as vaguely as possible, with a bit of help from the psychic paper. He was beginning to regret the fact that he hadn’t brought the TARDIS along with him.
Speaking of the TARDIS, she wasn’t pleased with him when he finally returned to London…she never was after he threw himself into the deep end, pun fully intended. She was the reason he survived his regeneration at all; the reason he lived. If he died, so would she. Of course, that was nothing new, but their bond had increased dramatically after the War. And so she attempted to dissuade the Doctor from his reckless method of coping, but this regeneration was particularly stubborn.
He managed to sooth her annoyance with a week’s worth of repairs, before convincing her that Krakatoa would be a fantastic way to warm up and dry off.