[MA] Week 2: Muse Inquiries: Work
Muse Name: Rose Tyler
Fandom: Doctor Who
Prompt Number: Prompt Week 2
Title: Muse Inquiries 2
Warnings/Disclaimers: OOC
Word Count: N/A
1. What is your character's career or job? Did you determine this, or is this their job in canon?
In canon, Rose works for Torchwood in the alternate universe (Pete's World) that she lives in. After helping the Doctor save worlds and seeing what was out there, she couldn't go back to just going to work every day. She wanted to do something to help and that was something that she was qualified to do.
2. Is your character good at their job? Describe how you can see this, not only in their canon, but in how you play them.
We don't get a glimpse of Rose at work until the episode Turn Left in S4. You can see the respect that she garners from the military and co-workers. They look to her for guidance and she confidently does her job. This suggests that she is good at what she does. Military may follow orders but they do not suffer fools and if she wasn't good they certainly wouldn't have looked to her as the go to person.
I write Rose as confident in what she does. I'm not saying she's perfect. She'd definitely make mistakes along the way but she'd be confident in what to do with alien technology and ideas in how to get them to function. Her experience fighting would also lend her to be on the front lines of any hostilities with self-assurance.
3. Did you change or add a career to your character? If they are canon, did you change them from the career they had in the source material? If they are an OC, did you start out with one career for them, then change? If you changed their career, how much do you think this changed the character?
I didn't change Rose's career at all. It was a logical step in the show and it seemed logical to continue it. As they say, how do you keep them on the farm after they've seen Paris?
4. How much of your character's core personality is shaped by their career?
They're tied together. Rose's confidence and desire to help people was shaped by being with the Doctor. That translated to continuing it when she tried to have that 'fantastic life' he'd wanted her to have. The life he couldn't have for himself. His confidence in Rose gave her the push to work for Torchwood. I believe her success in that career instilled even more confidence in herself which lent to being better at what she did.
5. How often do you write them in their work setting? Do you do research about the workplace and job that they do?
I don't do much research for Rose as I do for other characters that I write. It's hard to do for a think tank of alien technology that is completely fantasy. On that note, however, I do massive amounts of research on the Whoniverse and the technology and aliens that can be mined.
I usually write introspections and character building so I haven't delved into the workplace much. I want to rectify that and explore that side of her. Plus, I suck at action (ironic I know) and that will force me to face that stumbling block.
6. Is your character in a job that you do? Is it a job that you wish you could do, or admire?
It's not something that I do but it is something that I would love to do. As long as I had backup because the first time I had to face a Dalek or Cyberman I'd probably freak and run the marathon in the opposite direction in less than an hour.
7. If your character is engaged in a career that involves criminal behavior, do you feel that you show the consequences in a balanced manner?
No, it doesn't involve criminal behavior but I do try to show the consequences of all Rose's actions.
8. Do you write about the daily tasks and performance of this job?
No, I don't. I think that it would be interesting to do though. Not the excitement of meeting aliens or anything but the day to day experiments on the technology or the drudgery of paperwork. A sort of day in the life.
9. How does the career of the character affect their relationships with others? Do you write about them?
I don't write about her relationships with others in regard to her career. At least not yet. In fanon, most people have Rose's father as the head of Torchwood which makes an interesting dynamic. She'd lived twenty something years without her father around and now she has to get used to a stranger as her father and as a boss. Add to that, the Doctor v.2.0 that she has to get used to as well as doing her job. Will the people that automatically looked to her now start looking to him because he's the Doctor? Will their relationship go back to what it was with her deferring everything to him? It would definitely be something interesting to explore. Quite a few bumps along the road.
10. Do you show the relation between the work the character does and how he pays his bills and meets his needs?
I haven't yet. Most of what I've written has been Rose's travels with the Doctor but it's something that I would love to explore. Her life changed completely when she went to Pete's World. Not just closed off from everything that she'd known but she'd gone from working class to Pete who was wealthy. That had to be an adjustment as well.
Fandom: Doctor Who
Prompt Number: Prompt Week 2
Title: Muse Inquiries 2
Warnings/Disclaimers: OOC
Word Count: N/A
1. What is your character's career or job? Did you determine this, or is this their job in canon?
In canon, Rose works for Torchwood in the alternate universe (Pete's World) that she lives in. After helping the Doctor save worlds and seeing what was out there, she couldn't go back to just going to work every day. She wanted to do something to help and that was something that she was qualified to do.
2. Is your character good at their job? Describe how you can see this, not only in their canon, but in how you play them.
We don't get a glimpse of Rose at work until the episode Turn Left in S4. You can see the respect that she garners from the military and co-workers. They look to her for guidance and she confidently does her job. This suggests that she is good at what she does. Military may follow orders but they do not suffer fools and if she wasn't good they certainly wouldn't have looked to her as the go to person.
I write Rose as confident in what she does. I'm not saying she's perfect. She'd definitely make mistakes along the way but she'd be confident in what to do with alien technology and ideas in how to get them to function. Her experience fighting would also lend her to be on the front lines of any hostilities with self-assurance.
3. Did you change or add a career to your character? If they are canon, did you change them from the career they had in the source material? If they are an OC, did you start out with one career for them, then change? If you changed their career, how much do you think this changed the character?
I didn't change Rose's career at all. It was a logical step in the show and it seemed logical to continue it. As they say, how do you keep them on the farm after they've seen Paris?
4. How much of your character's core personality is shaped by their career?
They're tied together. Rose's confidence and desire to help people was shaped by being with the Doctor. That translated to continuing it when she tried to have that 'fantastic life' he'd wanted her to have. The life he couldn't have for himself. His confidence in Rose gave her the push to work for Torchwood. I believe her success in that career instilled even more confidence in herself which lent to being better at what she did.
5. How often do you write them in their work setting? Do you do research about the workplace and job that they do?
I don't do much research for Rose as I do for other characters that I write. It's hard to do for a think tank of alien technology that is completely fantasy. On that note, however, I do massive amounts of research on the Whoniverse and the technology and aliens that can be mined.
I usually write introspections and character building so I haven't delved into the workplace much. I want to rectify that and explore that side of her. Plus, I suck at action (ironic I know) and that will force me to face that stumbling block.
6. Is your character in a job that you do? Is it a job that you wish you could do, or admire?
It's not something that I do but it is something that I would love to do. As long as I had backup because the first time I had to face a Dalek or Cyberman I'd probably freak and run the marathon in the opposite direction in less than an hour.
7. If your character is engaged in a career that involves criminal behavior, do you feel that you show the consequences in a balanced manner?
No, it doesn't involve criminal behavior but I do try to show the consequences of all Rose's actions.
8. Do you write about the daily tasks and performance of this job?
No, I don't. I think that it would be interesting to do though. Not the excitement of meeting aliens or anything but the day to day experiments on the technology or the drudgery of paperwork. A sort of day in the life.
9. How does the career of the character affect their relationships with others? Do you write about them?
I don't write about her relationships with others in regard to her career. At least not yet. In fanon, most people have Rose's father as the head of Torchwood which makes an interesting dynamic. She'd lived twenty something years without her father around and now she has to get used to a stranger as her father and as a boss. Add to that, the Doctor v.2.0 that she has to get used to as well as doing her job. Will the people that automatically looked to her now start looking to him because he's the Doctor? Will their relationship go back to what it was with her deferring everything to him? It would definitely be something interesting to explore. Quite a few bumps along the road.
10. Do you show the relation between the work the character does and how he pays his bills and meets his needs?
I haven't yet. Most of what I've written has been Rose's travels with the Doctor but it's something that I would love to explore. Her life changed completely when she went to Pete's World. Not just closed off from everything that she'd known but she'd gone from working class to Pete who was wealthy. That had to be an adjustment as well.