Dreaming application
✢ The Player
Player Name: Yusagi
Age: 22
LJ: darkbunnyrabbit
AIM / MSN / Y!M: AIM-noyuichan
E-mail: yusagi2003@yahoo.com
Other Characters: N/A
✢ The Character
Character Name: Rose Tyler
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just before Stolen Earth
Age: 26-ish
Appearance: Slim, moderately tanned, brown eyes, dyed blonde hair, athletic but not muscular. She tends toward colorful but pragmatic clothing, and fairly simple hair styles now. She always wears her hoop earrings...but for the most part, there's very little specifically about her to stand out in any physical way. That said, she carries herself with all the confidence and experience of a highly capable leader.
Abilities / Powers: She's saturated in artron energy, which makes her immune to most diseases, and as a by-product of travel (likely due to the energy) she can remember things about her own personal timeline being changed such as multiple versions of her father's death, and remembering the previous version of a timeloop. Erasing things from her timeline isn't a sure thing, either. None of these things are natural, but her DNA has been altered somewhat simply by traveling in the TARDIS, so it may appear natural now.
Inventory: 1 - Dark mauve t shirt
1 - Dark blue leather jacket w/2 pockets
1 - Leather analog watch.
* Inside the pockets are:
1 - Leather wallet with a picture of her mother before Pete's World, and a family picture including Tony.
40 Pounds, 13 Pence
3 assorted Pete's World credit cards
1 Torchwood Identification Card
1 Standard Identification Card
1 pair - Black stretch cotton trousers
1 pair - White-and-pink knickers
1 pair - Black combat boots
1 pair - Gold hoop earrings
1 - Rope necklace w/TARDIS key
A few washers/broken gears
This
Personality: The first thing one would likely notice about Rose is her genuine kindness and her compassion for all things, whether or not others would consider them worthy of compassion. When she first met a Dalek--who was thought to be the last of the killing machines who ravaged the universe--she felt sympathy for its plight, and even after witnessing it kill several people, she still appealed to its reason to stop the killing. Because of her compassion, the Dalek actually absorbed some of her DNA, and became capable of reason and mercy itself. In the same way, her belief in the Doctor's better side, even when he tried to kill the repentant Dalek, dragged him out of his dark depression and made him a better person, and the sort of hero she saw in him.
Rose has a strong moral center, and an equally strong will. She will not deviate from what she believes is right even if the culture and morality of the times around her are different. She will fight with anyone, even the Doctor, to maintain that. When the Doctor wanted to give up Cardiff's corpses for the Gelth's use, she challenged him and refused to give way even when he insisted her morality was inferior. Likewise, she refused to accept that the Ood of the Sanctuary Base could want to be slaves, despite the base residents', the Doctor's, and even the Ood themselves' insistence that they really did live to serve. Similarly, when the Doctor appeared indifferent about Mickey's possible death, or the danger her mother was in by the Slitheen, she was quick to remind him that the two were important to her as much as they weren't to him.
Rose is never afraid to speak her mind. Whether it's speaking out against the flap of skin claiming to be the 'last' human in the year five billion, insisting Gwenyth open up about boys, shouting the Doctor down when she feels he's stepped out of line, teasing the Queen of England, calling Sarah Jane out on what she felt was underhanded behavior, or giving her alternate mother and father unsolicited advice on their failing relationship, she'll tell it like she sees it to anyone anywhere at any time. She is capable of tact, and doesn't generally set out to hurt anyone's feelings, but her temper and especially her jealous streak (most present when things come to the Doctor, but not exclusive to him) can circumvent that. For the most part her temper and her jealousy tend to flare up and then fade fairly quickly, once the irritant is removed from her presence.
More than simply her stubbornness, however, Rose has an indomitable will. She never quite gives up, partly because of her willpower, and partly because of the many impossible things she's seen in her travels with the Doctor. When the Doctor sent her back two hundred thousand years into the past and locked the TARDIS, she took on the entire time vortex just to get back and help him. When the Doctor sent her away to another universe to protect her, she turned around and came right back, regardless of his protests. And when she fell through and found herself trapped in the same parallel universe, she built a machine to go back--despite the Doctor's insistence that it was impossible--and spent two years hopping across dimensions and universes just to find a way back to him again.
Unfortunately, her stubbornness does not always work to her advantage. Her strong will is indiscriminate, and her penchant for speaking her mind is nearly likewise. When she was trapped on the Sanctuary base and believed the Doctor had fallen to his death, she stubbornly refused to accept that he was really dead, or to leave him behind even if he were, and had to be sedated and dragged onto the shuttle, which nearly got the other survivors into trouble, when their unconscious adversaries started to stir because of her delay. Afterward when she woke in the shuttle, she nearly forced them to turn the shuttle around and drop her off, despite the fact that it would endanger all of them to do so. As it turned out, if she'd had her way, she would have missed the Doctor's rescue and fallen into the black hole with the rest of the base-or possibly have doomed the rest of the survivors instead. Her insistence on finding a way back through to her proper universe could very well have endangered both universes, or gotten her killed in the process, as the Doctor had warned more than once, but she pushed onward regardless. While her strong will can be seen as admirable, and the Doctor often sees it as such, it also often lands her and those with her into trouble, and could very well one day land her into worse than she can handle.
Furthermore, when she spoke up to her alternate mother about the failing marriage between she and Pete, she plowed right into personal territory and incurred Jackie's wrath. If the Cybermen hadn't chosen then to attack the mansion, she and the Doctor would likely have been thrown out onto the street before they could do anything to help. Speaking up to her alternate father about herself only served to drive him away, and if not for his meeting with her own Jackie, would have ruined any chance she had to adopt him as a father.
Rose is curious, impulsive, and doesn't always think before she does things, especially if something catches her attention. She makes her own decisions about things, and rarely waits for anyone else to make them for her, but they are not always the right ones to make. While her compassion for the Dalek in Van Staten's basement changed it, because she didn't think to ask the Doctor about it first, she caused its release and thus the deaths of everyone on the lower levels. She often wanders off on her own while on adventures and this has more than once caused her trouble, such as when she investigated the sound of a young boy and found herself hanging from a barrage balloon in the middle of the London Blitz. When she chose to investigate the basement of New Earth's hospital, she fell into the Lady Cassandra's trap and not only got herself possessed, she was nearly killed. Exploring the Madame de Pompadour against the Doctor's instructions spaceship got both she and Mickey captured and nearly dissected. Following a lead about the strange televisions without the Doctor's support got her face/soul absorbed by the Wire, and left her fate in the Doctor's hands. Intervening to save her father's life when he was meant to die nearly destroyed all of Earth, and even temporarily caused the Doctor's death.
While she does learn from mistakes, and becomes quite capable on her own, she never loses her curiosity and her impulsiveness. As a rule, she always follows her gut instinct, and won't deviate from that even if it's not wise to do. Even if the Doctor or others tell her not to.
Despite Rose's kindness and compassion, Rose can be a fierce woman. If she feels her moral center has been impinged upon, she will stand up for what she believes in, no matter what. More than that, if she feels that the Doctor is in danger, she will do whatever it takes to help or save him. In fact, she is one of only three companions of the Doctor who is willing to kill for him, without regret. She destroyed the Dalek fleet with the time vortex and later flaunted it to the other remaining Daleks, she sent the Beast--still in Toby's body--into the black hole without blinking, just to ensure he would be trapped there, and though from her point in time she hasn't had the chance to, would easily kill more Daleks in her search for the Doctor, and to protect innocents. She differs from his other companions, and indeed most people, in that she does not hesitate or regret if the only way to save people is to kill whatever threatens them, even if she doesn't leap immediately to the concept if there is indeed another way presenting itself.
Rose is capable of both extreme selfishness and extreme selflessness. When she cares for a person, that person or persons are her entire world, and in returns she expects the same, even if it's unreasonable to expect it--such as her expectation that Mickey would wait at home for her while she traveled the universe, or her idea that the Doctor had only ever and would only ever travel with her. While she holds great devotion to the people she loves, if her love fades, so does her devotion. After starting to travel with the Doctor and growing distant from Mickey, she fails to consider Mickey's feelings except when he spells them out to her, and even then she often disregards them when particularly self-absorbed. Likewise, when the Doctor regenerated and changed from the familiar face to a strange new man she hadn't yet accepted, she lamented that the Doctor had left her-and in the Doctor's words, gave up on him-while he was in his regenerative coma, rather than feeling concern for his condition. Despite her mother's reluctance to leave her behind, she refused to stay with her mother if it meant leaving the Doctor, even if that meant never seeing her mother again. It's not to say that she always disregards the feelings or wishes of others, especially those that she cares for. She is an empathic creature, but in times of emotional crisis, or when her own feelings are strong enough, she is likely to disregard anything conflicting that, whether it be Mickey's desire to have a conversation not centered on the Doctor while the Doctor is sick, or the Doctor's desire to see her safe above all things when that safety means separation from him.
And yet, at the same time, for those that she loves, she will give up anything. When the Doctor first asked her to come with, she said no even though she wanted to go, because she felt that Mickey and her mother needed her. When Mickey wanted to stay behind in the parallel universe with his alternate grandmother where he felt he belonged, she let him go with only token protests and a tearful goodbye. When she chose to travel with the Doctor, she gave up her world, her home, her family, and her life to be there for him for as long as she lived. More than once she made it clear that her own happiness rested with the Doctor's well-being and happiness, and his continued presence, rather than that of her mother or Mickey, or even her long-lost father.
Furthermore, it's not just the people she cares deeply for that she will make sacrifices for. She is more than willing to give up her life, health, and well-being to save the world, the universe, or simply to protect a few people. She insisted that the Doctor perform a risky maneuver to save the world from the Slitheen plot even though it very likely would have resulted in her death, and despite the fact that letting go of the magna clamps would very likely result in her death (worse, in being trapped in an oblivion the Doctor himself characterized as 'hell'), Rose let go to fix the lever and ensure that all of the Daleks and the Cybermen would be flushed from the universe. Indeed, if not for the last minute return of Pete, she would have sacrificed her life to ensure the completion of the void program.
Yet, at the same time, when her stubbornness combines with her selfishness, she can drag others into danger for her own purposes, such as her insistence-to holding the pilot at gunpoint-that she be left behind with the Doctor. Her actions slowed and distracted the crew, and if they had been successful, would have very likely resulted in either their deaths or the release of the Beast to the universe. While it is rare for her stubbornness an her selfishness to combine to the point of harming-or nearly harming-others, it tends to be a case of strong emotional distress, even to the point of hysteria. She is fundamentally a good person, and most times will not hesitate to sacrifice herself if the situation calls for it, when caught in the wrong way-often if it involves the Doctor in some way-she is more likely to take whatever path she feels is most beneficial to the Doctor, preferably involving herself, regardless of whether he would agree.
While Rose is no genius, she is clever. She takes to new things quickly, and learns intuitively, and is highly adaptable, even to things that seem completely mad to her. When it comes to matters of the heart and emotion, she has an innate ability to understand and relate to almost anyone, and with that connection, she can help. From providing an ideal companion to a lonely nine hundred year old immortal, to leading an abandoned Dalek to peace, to leading an alternate Donna to realize her potential even without the Doctor's presence, helping people is something that comes naturally to her. She picked up a good deal about alien culture and technology on her journeys with the Doctor, and more than that, she picked up a good deal of the Doctor's leadership skills. When separated from him on the Sanctuary base, she organized the survivors together and took charge of the situation, saving as many people there as she could, and when dealing with the Isolus when the Doctor was turned into a living cartoon, she worked out the answer to how to help the Isolus get home before it could turn the rest of the world into drawings as well, and implemented the plan on her own. All of these things work together to make her a prime candidate not only for Torchwood work but for UNIT, which she also took charge of when interacting with them.
Rose is, and always has been proactive and resourceful. She doesn't wait for permission, she doesn't just run away from danger and hide, and she doesn't sit by and let things happen. Not even when she's told to sit and wait. She doesn't just wait to be rescued unless she has no other choice, even if it means getting into more trouble, and she doesn't simply give up and give in to self-pity and misery. She orchestrates and organizes and leads if no one else will, she fights even when no one else stands, and will use whatever she's given to do whatever she needs to.
Her years with the Doctor taught her a number of his mannerisms without her quite realizing it. She refuses to be saluted, she knows how to ramble and talk about nothing to distract or defuse situations, she can make the tough decisions when she needs to--and know when those times are, and can handle herself completely independently. The gentleness, innocence, and the cynicism that she originally possessed when she met the Doctor melted away to something harder and stronger over the years, and the innocent disbelief changed to an understanding that anything in the universe just might happen. Even if the Doctor himself says it won't.
History: Rose Tyler was born on the 27th of April, 1987. According to her, nothing of importance happened in her first nineteen years. Her father was killed in a hit-and-run accident before her first birthday, and she was raised in a small London flat by her diligent mother. Her greatest academic accomplishment was earning the bronze in a junior school under seven's gymnastics challenge, and an unwise romantic association caused her to drop out of high school without graduating. The romance also landed her in enough debt that she needed to combine her mother's work and her own to pay it off.
Although she'd never know it, her life was full of time travel. When she was twelve, a mysterious person (her mother simply said 'Father Christmas') left her a red bicycle for Christmas, when her mother hadn't the money to buy it. Eventually, she would learn her mysterious benefactor was the Doctor, but what she would never know was the strange figure that occasionally observed her on the playground through childhood and on her first date was a friend she'd one day make--who was stranded in the past. She would also never know that the strange drunk she encountered on New Years day of 2005, was also the Doctor, who'd come to see her one last time before regenerating. Furthermore, she even traveled back to her own past and changed the circumstances of her father's death--staying by his side until he died, and causing the driver to stay until authorities arrived as well. Given the circumstances of the change, it's unclear whether her memories of her mother telling her the stories of her father were added to, or were unaffected.
By the time she was nineteen, she worked at Henrik's Department store, had a relationship with long-time friend Mickey Smith, and lived with her mother in the Powell Estate. Her only experiences traveling were a school trip to France and an annual holiday week with her Mother to South Wales.
In the Summer of 2005, everything in her life changed. Late one night, in the basement of the department store she worked in, she was attacked by living mannequins. She was narrowly saved by a strange man who called himself the Doctor, who then helped her escape the building. Afterward, the building was destroyed in an explosion, leaving her unemployed. The Doctor reappeared the next morning and again saved her life from a remnant of the mannequins that attacked her the night before. This time she followed him and demanded more information, but he remained cryptic. After only a brief explanation of the living plastic and of himself, he vanished into thin air, leaving her all the more curious.
Determined to find answers, despite his instructions to forget him, she turned to the internet to find more information on him. In her search, she found a man who compiled information on the Doctor, named Clive Finch. Even he could only tell her that 'the Doctor' appeared throughout time on Earth, tracked through photographs, and that wherever the Doctor went danger followed. His thought that the Doctor was somehow an immortal, however, led Rose to conclude he was simply a conspiracy theorist, and therefore her trail of information on the Doctor ended.
She didn't have to wait long for more answers, however, as it turned out her boyfriend Mickey had been replaced with a plastic duplicate of himself, and she had to be rescued--again--by the Doctor. This time, they had to escape by retreating to his ship, the TARDIS (not before she tripped the fire alarm in the pizzeria she and the Mickey duplicate had gone to, though, to keep the other patrons safe). Her introduction to the Doctor's world was overshadowed by the fact that she believed the plastic-people killed the real Mickey to replace him.
Although she fought with the Doctor for awhile over his apparent nonchalance to the fact that Mickey had been killed, she still helped him find the Nestene Consciousness, which controlled all of the living plastic, by spotting the hidden-in-plain-sight broadcaster. She again chafed against the Doctor's methods when she discovered Mickey still alive in the Nestene's chamber, and realized the Doctor simply hadn't thought to mention Mickey might still be alive. Still, when the Doctor's plan to stop the Nestene's invasion failed and the Consciousness started a wholesale invasion on Earth, Rose stepped in, using the gymnastic skills she still possessed, to save the Doctor's life and destroy the Nestene Consciousness.
Despite the close call and her disagreements with the Doctor, however, Rose loved the experience. When the Doctor asked if she wanted to go traveling with him throughout all of space, she almost agreed. Almost. In the end, despite her desire to travel with the Doctor, she chose her responsibility to her mother and Mickey, and let the Doctor vanish in his magical machine with a heavy heart.
When he reappeared a few moments later to make the offer again (It also traveled in time, he thought she ought to know), however, she ran to join him with a smile, and never truly looked back.
On her first trip with the Doctor, he took her to the year five billion, the day the Earth was swallowed by the sun. The Doctor upgraded her phone so that she could speak to her mother in the past--a gift made morbid when she realized her mother was five billion years dead where she stood now--and Rose was nearly killed herself when the observation satellite was sabotaged. Yet, what most moved her in the experience was the fact that, due to the sabotage, no one was looking when Earth died. The loss gave her some small perspective of the Doctor, when he revealed his own planet was lost in war. It was one of the first moments she truly bonded with the Doctor. He took her out for chips then, when she bounced back from the future destruction of Earth and later she and the Doctor would refer to it as their 'first date'.
Rose next found herself in Cardiff, caught in a ghost story with Charles Dickens, and yet again nearly lost her life. In the process, she once again fought with the Doctor's differing morals, and bonded more while trapped in a cellar, attacked by ghost-zombies.
When Rose tried to come home to visit her mother only twelve hours later, she found herself instead twelve months later and a missing person. Her shock lasted only long enough for a timely alien invasion, and an attempt to destroy Earth. They only narrowly averted it, through a gamble that nearly killed her and the Doctor both. When they left Earth again it was with her mother and boyfriend's full knowledge, and a full backpack of supplies.
Together, they traveled to the future and found the last Dalek in existence, of the creatures who warred with and destroyed the Doctor's people. Despite the Doctor's hatred of the creature, Rose found compassion for its pitiable state, and through an accidental impression of DNA, began a change in it for the better. When she stopped the Doctor from trying to kill the Dalek, she learned that he was the one to destroy his own world, though not why. Still, all that mattered to her was that he was almost willing to kill a repentant creature.
When they left the museum that housed the Dalek, Rose convinced the Doctor to take along an attractive young scientist there, named Adam, but she soon regretted the decision. When they traveled to the future and saved the human race from oppression by a Jagrafess, Adam tried to take crucial information back to the past for his own gain, and even her inherent compassion had no issue with the Doctor leaving Adam behind at his home.
A short time later, when the Doctor asked Rose when she would like to go, she told the Doctor the story of her father's death, and asked to go back to see her father. When he complied and took her back to see her parents' wedding, she got up the courage to ask to see her father's death, and be there for him when he died--as he'd died alone in the street. When he took her there, however, she was overwhelmed by the sight and couldn't manage to go to him in time.
When she asked for a second chance, the Doctor took her back again, warning he could only do it once. On an impulse, however, Rose changed time and saved her father's life instead, creating a paradox. While the Doctor was initially livid, Rose realized the error of her ways quickly enough. She truly regretted her decision, and a simple apology was all the Doctor required to repair their relationship. Despite the Doctor's best attempts, however, time itself could only be repaired with her father's death. That time, Rose managed to be with him when he died.
Some time later, the two met a time traveling conman, while investigating strange gasmask creatures infecting World War II London, and after yet another close call they decided to take the conman, Jack Harkness, along with them on their travels. The three became fast friends, but Rose still missed Mickey, and came up with a story of needing her passport to make them come back home to Cardiff. As it happened, they arrived just in time to stop the remnant of the Slitheen family, who'd tried to destroy Earth last time Rose visited her mother, from once again destroying Earth. In the process, Rose learned that Mickey had started seeing other people, having grown tired of waiting for her, and effectively ended their relationship.
During their capture of the Slitheen, they noticed that the words 'Bad Wolf' followed them wherever they went, throughout all of time and space, but Rose could make no sense of them. They eventually stopped the Slitheen's plan only when the ship was nearly torn apart, and the Heart of the TARDIS was exposed. Rose learned then that the heart was telepathic, and capable of almost anything.
A while later, after a trip to Tokyo, Rose was abducted off of the TARDIS and forced onto a futuristic Weakest Link programme, where being voted off meant death-by-Annedroid. Because the game show and the station she found herself on was set in the year 200,000, Rose's performance was absolutely dismal...which allowed her to stay in the game until the very end, due to her opponents' strategies. Unfortunately, even in the heads-up match, she still only got one of the questions correct, and ended up losing the game, just as the Doctor and Jack burst into the game's stadium to save her. Despite running for safety, she was caught by the Anne-droid's kill shot all the same.
Fortunately, it wasn't a kill shot at all. Instead, she found herself transmatted to a nearby Dalek ship, where she was meant to be kept for raw genetic material. Before this could happen, however, the Doctor found out the truth, and contacted the ship, promising to stop the Daleks and save Rose. He made good on his promise to save Rose, but the fleet of Daleks and the mad emperor that led them was a daunting task. Rose kept an optimistic attitude, even when Jack left to take care of survivors, and gave she and the Doctor a goodbye kiss, and tried to help where she could.
In the end, however, the Doctor tricked her into the TARDIS, and sent her home without him. The TARDIS locked its controls and activated the hologram Emergency Programme One, which ordered her to go home, live a fantastic life...and forget about him.
Rose couldn't. Despite her mother, Jackie, and Mickey trying to console her and get her to accept that her traveling was done, she refused to accept that there was nothing she could do to save the Doctor. While sitting outside, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do with her life, she spotted words again, scrawled all around her. 'Bad Wolf'. She realized suddenly what it was: It wasn't an ominous warning, it was a message, promising that she could get back to the Doctor if she only tried.
With a great amount of effort, and help from Jackie and Mickey and a big yellow truck, she was able to once more rip open the TARDIS console, and gaze into the the Heart. The Heart looked back into her, read her wishes, and flooded her with the Time Vortex, sending her speeding back to the year 200,000. The entity that controlled the TARDIS when she returned to Satellite Five was a symbiotic being of the TARDIS and Rose both, not quite Rose alone. She named herself Bad Wolf, after the game station they'd found themselves trapped on, and scattered the words Bad Wolf through time and space for her past self to find--effectively making herself. All of time and space flowed through her, and perhaps infinite power, as well. She destroyed the Daleks that meant to attack the Doctor and Earth, and brought Jack back to life--in truth she made him a fixed point in time that could never die, but she would never know that.
Yet all the knowledge of time and space, the entire time vortex running through her mind, it was overloading and killing her.
The Doctor drew the Vortex out of her in time to save her life, though the trauma of the damage done by it would still leave her without memories of the event for nearly a year. The price of his taking the vortex out of her, however, was that the full weight of it settled on him, and forced a regeneration.
Which the Doctor didn't fully manage to explain to her before it happened.
It took Rose awhile to accept that the strange new man with a new personality and a new face and a new voice was the same Doctor that she knew, but after another alien invasion interrupted Christmas, she settled on the fact that he really was the Doctor after all, and happily returned to traveling with him.
The two took even more vigorously to travel, with the Doctor's new light-hearted, excitable personality. They returned to the year five billion to see New Earth, fought werewolves, met Queen Victoria, were knighted then banished, and then met the Doctor's old traveling companion, Sarah Jane. Rose was initially shocked and hurt by the revelation that the Doctor had traveled with others--and more importantly, had been so close to someone he never even mentioned anymore. She confronted both the Doctor and Sarah Jane on the matter. While the Doctor's response left her unsatisfied, despite his promise never to leave her behind, she quickly made up with--and befriended--Sarah Jane. She offered for Sarah Jane to come with them when they left, but the woman chose to stay behind. Instead, they took along Mickey--despite Rose's misgivings over traveling with her ex-boyfriend.
Their next adventure landed them on a space ship in the fifty-first century, somehow connected to Eighteenth Century France. She met the Madame de Pompadour while on the ship, and suffered a scare when the Doctor left--with apparently no way to return--to France to save the Madame. Rose and Mickey were trapped on the space ship alone with no apparent way off or home and very little chance of rescue for five and a half hours before the Doctor returned triumphantly. The experience shook her, although she never admitted it.
After their adventure on the space ship, the three of them continued on through other, lighter adventures, before the TARDIS suddenly crashed through a crack in the universe, and landed in a parallel universe. A parallel universe where her father was still alive and married to her mother, but Rose was never born.
Against the Doctor's advisement, Rose insisted on going to see her alternate parents, and the two of them quickly became caught up in thwarting a plot to convert the world into viscous robotic Cybermen. Although they were able to stop the plot, her alternate mother was converted and killed before they could save her. When Rose admitted to her alternate father who she truly was, he rebuffed her and fled. To make things worse, when the Doctor finished preparing for a one-way trip back to their proper universe, Mickey announced that he'd stay behind in the alternate universe, with the family and friends he'd found there, resulting in a tearful parting.
Despite her sadness, the Doctor took care to find ways to cheer her up once more, and before long they were traveling once more, almost as if they'd never slowed down at all. On a failed trip to see Elvis during his prime, she and the Doctor discovered some sort of creature that stole people's faces (and perhaps their souls), and planned on devouring all of London during the Queen's coronation. While investigating, Rose herself became a victim of the creature, and had to be rescued by the Doctor along with the others.
Later, on a planet far into the future and very far away from Earth, they found themselves trapped at the edge of a black hole and without a TARDIS. The situation forced Rose to consider the concept that she and the Doctor might have to settle down somewhere after all, and while the concept that they might share a house and mortgage was too awkward to discuss, she found it wasn't so bad to be trapped impossibly far from home as long as she was trapped with the Doctor.
Unfortunately, it wasn't long before they were separated, the Doctor far down a mineshaft, and Rose in a small base populated by suddenly hostile creature, and both threatened by an ominous creature that claimed to be the Devil itself. The Beast, as it also called itself, promised her that she would soon die in battle, but it was the Doctor that she thought died first, after falling into a great big hole in the deep mine. When she heard the news of his fall, she decided to stay on the planet even when the rest of the base was evacuating, because she couldn't bear the thought of leaving the Doctor all alone, even if he were dead. Fortunately for her, the base commander didn't give her a choice, and literally dragged her onto the shuttle.
While she was still extremely reluctant to leave, even after she was past the point of no return, her mind quickly enough turned away from the Doctor to the ease of their escape. She suspected that there was an ulterior motive to why they were being allowed to leave, but could come up with nothing before their method of escape closed to them, and Toby, the passenger on the base possessed by the Beast, revealed that he was still holding the Beast's consciousness.
Rose recovered from her shock quickly enough to unbuckle Toby and shoot out the windshield of the shuttle, sending him into the black hole, before the Doctor returned in the TARDIS and saved them all once more.
When she told the Doctor what the Beast prophesied, he brushed it aside as a lie, and their sobering adventure quickly melted away into smiles and laughter again, as always.
Despite her varied travels, she remained in contact with her mother, Jackie, sending back her laundry on a regular basis to let her mother clean it, and when a young man tried to get to she and the Doctor through Jackie, she returned to Earth to give him a piece of her mind. Yet, when she learned the truth of his situation, that he'd lost his mother as a child and searched for answers about the Doctor he'd seen over her body, she changed her stance from anger to sympathy, and worked on his side to get the Doctor to help him.
During a trip to the London Olympics in 2012, the Doctor was briefly turned into a living drawing by a young girl and an alien, and Rose herself had to save the day, finding a way to free the Doctor and send the alien back to its family, and save the young girl from an animated version of her angry father. Rose was briefly distraught when the Doctor appeared not to return, but soon caught him on television, carrying the torch. Empowered by their many successful escapes and scrapes with death, Rose was certain they'd seen the worst, and could take anything thrown at them.
And they could, until the day they made a return visit to her mother with a gift from a far off market. In the time they were gone, strange ghosts began appearing on Earth, masquerading as loved ones. While she and the Doctor investigated what the 'ghosts' truly were, Jackie voiced her concerns over how much Rose changed in the two years she spent with the Doctor. Rose remained proud of the way she changed, moving from shop girl to someone who helped save the world on a regular basis, but Jackie remained frightened that, if Rose stayed traveling, she'd lose who she was. Still, Rose had promised the Doctor that she would stay with him forever, and she meant it.
It wasn't long, as Rose and the Doctor investigated the source of the 'ghosts' at an installation called Torchwood, before the 'ghosts' were revealed to be much more sinister. While the Doctor personally investigated the ghosts, Rose took the Doctor's psychic paper--a blank, all-purpose ID--and investigated the lower labs. In one, she found Mickey, somehow returned, and a strange floating sphere, which opened to reveal Daleks. She bought time by regaling the Daleks with her story of how she destroyed their Emperor, and laughed in their face. Of course, the Doctor returned before the Daleks could choose to attack them, but they were all three quickly drawn into a war between Daleks and Cybermen, with the prize and the crossfire being Earth.
After Jackie met the alternate version of Pete, who came with Mickey to fight the Cybermen, the Doctor quickly came up with a plan to get rid of both Daleks and Cybermen. Unfortunately, the only way that Rose and the others would be safe from it would be if she were in the other universe, where the Cybermen came from, when it happened. And when he reversed the door into the void, which would drag the Cybermen and Daleks back into the void where they'd been hiding for years, the walls between the universes would seal completely, trapping Rose on the other side. Despite her protests, the Doctor once more tricked her, sending her across to the other universe where she would be safe.
This time she returned much more quickly, simply reversing the universe hopper that sent her across. While the Doctor was initially angry and insisted she would never see her mother or her family again if she stayed, she stubbornly remained committed: she'd chosen long ago to stay with him forever, and she would never go back on that. As it happened (perhaps he anticipated her actions), the Doctor had two magnetic clamps--which would allow them to hold on to something secure while the void dragged the Daleks and Cybermen away.
Everything went brilliantly until a stray Dalek struck the lever controlling the void on Rose's side of the large room, shutting down the system prematurely.
Despite the danger, Rose released her hold on the magnetic clamp to hold onto the human-sized lever and drag it back to its proper position. Without a secure hold onto the clamp, however, the pull of the void was much more fierce. Despite the Doctor's horrified screams and her fullest strength, she couldn't hold on to the lever long enough for the void program to complete.
For a few horrible moments, she fell blindly toward her death, as this time the Doctor could do no more than watch. At the last possible moment, her alternate father reappeared--perhaps to persuade her to return--and caught her, taking her safely to the other universe. Trapping her there. The void snapped shut after them, and neither the transport buttons nor her screams could force it back open and allow her home.
She waited five and a half hours in alternate Canary Wharf for him to reappear. She waited five and a half days at Tyler mansion before she gave up looking for an easy way back through, and accepted the offer to join the alternate universe's Torchwood, utilizing the knowledge of aliens she gathered while traveling with the Doctor.
Three months later, she had a dream of the Doctor calling her somewhere, a dream which repeated itself whenever she fell asleep. Despite how mad it seemed, she believed it was really him, and her family and Mickey agreed. The Doctor could work miracles, even when he'd said he couldn't. So she got into her father's jeep, and they drove, following the call for miles and miles, out of the country, across the water, to a rainy beach on Norway.
Rose took the translation 'Bad Wolf Bay' to be encouragement, but when the Doctor arrived, it was only as an image, one brief chance to say goodbye. Forever.
Her heart broke even as the Doctor remained proud of everything she'd done and become. With the knowledge that she'd never see him again, she finally summoned up the courage to admit she loved him, but before the Doctor could return the sentiment, the final gap in the universes closed, and he vanished mid-sentence.
She threw herself into work a week later, when she grew sick of moping about at home doing nothing, but just like all the other times she'd been separated from the Doctor, she didn't give up. She took the project the Preachers--the group Mickey joined as precursor to Torchwood--used to cross the universes when the Daleks and Cybermen tore holes in the walls of the universe, and set about studying and working to find an alternate way to cross back over.
The Dimension Cannon project initially provided a frustrating lack of results. Shortly after her parent's second child, Tony Tyler, was born, the Cannon suddenly started working, though without any guidance controls. At first, Rose took this to be a wonderful thing.
And then the stars in the sky went out. And the other universes she traveled to also had their stars missing or vanishing. One Earth she traveled to, she barely escaped before it simply vanished.
She spent a year and a half searching parallel worlds for the Doctor, working with her Torchwood in her own universe, and the UNIT and Torchwood of their worlds. It was a learning process to find out how to interact with them, and just what she could and couldn't say to worlds whose time ran more slowly than other universes she'd traveled to. In the end, she learned never to say more than she had to, even if it meant never giving out her name to anyone, for fear of setting the world off balance.
Her traveling through universes changed from searching for the Doctor for her own benefit to searching for him to warn him of the coming darkness. When she wasn't using the Dimension Cannon to search through worlds for signs of the Doctor, she used it to send distress messages to wherever he might be, or searched the databases of Torchwood and UNIT for answers to what the darkness might be.
At nearly the two year mark, she finally came across a universe where she heard UNIT soldiers talking about 'the Doctor'. When she rushed to where he was, however, she was horrified to find he'd been killed. After so very long searching, she was to late to save even him.
When she left Canary Wharf, her heart had broken. When she left Bad Wolf Bay, it felt as if her heart had been ripped away and crushed. When she walked away from London, she only felt empty. Except, when she returned to her control center, Jake Simmonds--an ex-Preacher--made a strange discovery: the universe she'd just stepped out of wasn't a normal one. Instead, it was some sort of bubble of reality, twisting around something within it, projecting the false reality over the regular universe.
So Rose returned, and spent two years in the suspended bubble universe searching for the source of its change, and what it all twisted around. Working with UNIT and the dying TARDIS in the bubble, she was able to discern that the reality all twisted around a woman named Donna Noble. Working outside the bubble in her other universe, where time flowed differently from the bubble-universe, she and Torchwood were able to discover when the universe splintered off...and just like how her original father had fixed her paradox, how it could be fixed.
Unfortunately, though Torchwood could see all of the time in the bubble, neither Torchwood nor UNIT had time travel technology, so she had to spend most of the false-reality's two years finding a way to rig UNIT's technology to the TARDIS, to allow them to send Donna back and fix the timeline. Along the way, Rose discovered that, in the proper timeline, Donna was meant to travel with the Doctor. With effort, she finally convinced the alternate Donna to go back and change the timeline, despite the fact that to change it, the alternate Donna had to sacrifice her life.
Knowing that the alternate Donna was the memories that the real Donna would likely retain, Rose took the only opportunity she knew for certain she'd get to give Donna a message for the Doctor. Only two words: Bad Wolf. This time as a warning she hoped the Doctor would understand.
She returned to her universe as the bubble one faded, to the news that the Dimension Cannon still held the coordinates to the proper universe. Her home universe, where the Doctor still lived, where she'd spent two-and-a-half years looking for a way back to. The last thing she remembers is engaging the cannon to return to the Earth she was born on.
First Person Sample: http://thoughtformed.livejournal.com/338695.html (A recent intro post. Note: The game uses the new comment pages)
Third Person Sample: (Sample swiped from another game) One would think that working with Torchwood, there'd never be a slow day, especially when the Doctor was involved and inevitably dragging them into trouble. One would be wrong. Working with Torchwood was nothing like living one long adventure with the Doctor, or even jumping universe-to-universe with the Dimension cannon. More often than not, she found her days at least partly full--nearly half--of paperwork and desk work.
Today was more than half, and thus started to creep into mind-numbingly boring territory. Boring, paperwork days made her wonder if she wouldn't find more adventure freelancing and exploring the world--then undoubtedly beyond--with the Doctor. Maybe she would have...but with that unpredictability and adventure would come a lack of back up, no quick escapes, and no way to know they wouldn't step around a corner and be killed. The concept only made it more exhilarating for her, but the idea that it just might be the Doctor who took that blow instead of her? That was horrifying. In the end, they were trying to figure out some kind of domestic life, anyway, and it was better to start while they had a choice than flounder when they didn't, and risk inciting resentment for it.
It wasn't so bad, anyway. After the initial vexation she felt at the lack of adventure, once she got home to the people she loved and the life she'd chosen, it was always worth it. It would always be worth it to spend a lifetime with the Doctor and to have her family as well.
Especially when that lifetime meant waking up far too early in the morning because Torchwood missed a warning sign the day before, and now there was an alien invasion to repel.
Especially when it meant running.
"Do what?" She glanced over her shoulder at the giant...robot. Mechanoid, the Doctor called it. Different from a giant Cyberman in that the huge robot stomping through the city wasn't autonomous, there was someone sitting in a control pod somewhere inside of it, organizing its salvage efforts. Which was good, even though no one inside it seemed willing to communicate, because that meant there was less to shut down.
"We need you off of the ground. We're going to electrify the street you're on to short out the mechanoid's systems...and you don't want to be on it when we do."
"How long do I have?"
"How long do you need? Get off of the ground. Get into an automobile. We can give you a minute."
"What about everyone else? This is a long street."
"The area is clear except for you Ms. Tyler, now clear out!"
She grimaced over her shoulder a moment, before dashing toward the nearest vehicle. Fortunately, being a high ranking and frankly important member of Torchwood meant having access to any toys she wanted--with good reason, as she'd identified most of them anyway--and that included a remote which was particularly good at unlocking automobiles (and very little else, but it was surprising how often just that came in handy). She made it into the appropriate car, still a distance away from the roving mechanoid with plenty of time to spare. "I'm clear, you can go."
"Acknowledged."
Honestly, she wasn't all that keen on the plan herself, but with a threat as obvious as this one, the Doctor was doubtlessly involved...so it was probably his plan. That meant it had about half a chance of succeeding and half a chance of wasting a colossal amount of energy...but it'd probably catch the driver's attention either way. So that'd be a plus. Probably.
She counted to fifteen in her head before she spotted the young girl crouched nearby one of the other autos, as if she hoped to hide herself from the marauding machine behind another machine. "Oi!" She shouted, before reaching to roll down the window. Of course--of course--it was electric, and naturally the steering column had a PIN security system on it. She could break it, of course, but not in the remaining time. It took only a moment for her to decide to leap out of the vehicle and sprint to where the child crouched.
Ten seconds left--or eight? She swept up the child and raced back for the mini.
Five.
She swung open the door and shoved the young girl into the car with as much haste as she could reasonably manage.
How long?
She turned her head to gauge the distance of the mech as she lurched forward through the door...and nothing. Well, maybe not nothing. She was definitely sitting on something, and after a moment, she realized the room was only dark, not nonexistent. As she pushed herself up to her feet, her hand drifted to the stunner at her side. Not that the place was necessarily hostile, even if her arrival seemed suspect, but it had a flashlight on the end of it.
Except for the part where it wasn't there. The holster for it was, but the stunner itself was gone. Not a good sign. Then again, maybe the locals just got...skittish about weapons? Wherever 'local' was.
She was about to speak, but her words abruptly cut short when the monitors flickered to life. After that, it seemed like the only times she could manage go get a word in edgewise were to answer questions, not ask them. Not that she had much time for even that, really, through the explanations and general exposition the figure offered.
Honestly, what most surprised her about suddenly being swept off to another planet and drafted into a war she hadn't the slightest clue about, was that it hadn't happened earlier.
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✢ The Character
Character Name: Rose Tyler
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just before Stolen Earth
Age: 26-ish
Appearance: Slim, moderately tanned, brown eyes, dyed blonde hair, athletic but not muscular. She tends toward colorful but pragmatic clothing, and fairly simple hair styles now. She always wears her hoop earrings...but for the most part, there's very little specifically about her to stand out in any physical way. That said, she carries herself with all the confidence and experience of a highly capable leader.
Abilities / Powers: She's saturated in artron energy, which makes her immune to most diseases, and as a by-product of travel (likely due to the energy) she can remember things about her own personal timeline being changed such as multiple versions of her father's death, and remembering the previous version of a timeloop. Erasing things from her timeline isn't a sure thing, either. None of these things are natural, but her DNA has been altered somewhat simply by traveling in the TARDIS, so it may appear natural now.
Inventory: 1 - Dark mauve t shirt
1 - Dark blue leather jacket w/2 pockets
1 - Leather analog watch.
* Inside the pockets are:
1 - Leather wallet with a picture of her mother before Pete's World, and a family picture including Tony.
40 Pounds, 13 Pence
3 assorted Pete's World credit cards
1 Torchwood Identification Card
1 Standard Identification Card
1 pair - Black stretch cotton trousers
1 pair - White-and-pink knickers
1 pair - Black combat boots
1 pair - Gold hoop earrings
1 - Rope necklace w/TARDIS key
A few washers/broken gears
This
Personality: The first thing one would likely notice about Rose is her genuine kindness and her compassion for all things, whether or not others would consider them worthy of compassion. When she first met a Dalek--who was thought to be the last of the killing machines who ravaged the universe--she felt sympathy for its plight, and even after witnessing it kill several people, she still appealed to its reason to stop the killing. Because of her compassion, the Dalek actually absorbed some of her DNA, and became capable of reason and mercy itself. In the same way, her belief in the Doctor's better side, even when he tried to kill the repentant Dalek, dragged him out of his dark depression and made him a better person, and the sort of hero she saw in him.
Rose has a strong moral center, and an equally strong will. She will not deviate from what she believes is right even if the culture and morality of the times around her are different. She will fight with anyone, even the Doctor, to maintain that. When the Doctor wanted to give up Cardiff's corpses for the Gelth's use, she challenged him and refused to give way even when he insisted her morality was inferior. Likewise, she refused to accept that the Ood of the Sanctuary Base could want to be slaves, despite the base residents', the Doctor's, and even the Ood themselves' insistence that they really did live to serve. Similarly, when the Doctor appeared indifferent about Mickey's possible death, or the danger her mother was in by the Slitheen, she was quick to remind him that the two were important to her as much as they weren't to him.
Rose is never afraid to speak her mind. Whether it's speaking out against the flap of skin claiming to be the 'last' human in the year five billion, insisting Gwenyth open up about boys, shouting the Doctor down when she feels he's stepped out of line, teasing the Queen of England, calling Sarah Jane out on what she felt was underhanded behavior, or giving her alternate mother and father unsolicited advice on their failing relationship, she'll tell it like she sees it to anyone anywhere at any time. She is capable of tact, and doesn't generally set out to hurt anyone's feelings, but her temper and especially her jealous streak (most present when things come to the Doctor, but not exclusive to him) can circumvent that. For the most part her temper and her jealousy tend to flare up and then fade fairly quickly, once the irritant is removed from her presence.
More than simply her stubbornness, however, Rose has an indomitable will. She never quite gives up, partly because of her willpower, and partly because of the many impossible things she's seen in her travels with the Doctor. When the Doctor sent her back two hundred thousand years into the past and locked the TARDIS, she took on the entire time vortex just to get back and help him. When the Doctor sent her away to another universe to protect her, she turned around and came right back, regardless of his protests. And when she fell through and found herself trapped in the same parallel universe, she built a machine to go back--despite the Doctor's insistence that it was impossible--and spent two years hopping across dimensions and universes just to find a way back to him again.
Unfortunately, her stubbornness does not always work to her advantage. Her strong will is indiscriminate, and her penchant for speaking her mind is nearly likewise. When she was trapped on the Sanctuary base and believed the Doctor had fallen to his death, she stubbornly refused to accept that he was really dead, or to leave him behind even if he were, and had to be sedated and dragged onto the shuttle, which nearly got the other survivors into trouble, when their unconscious adversaries started to stir because of her delay. Afterward when she woke in the shuttle, she nearly forced them to turn the shuttle around and drop her off, despite the fact that it would endanger all of them to do so. As it turned out, if she'd had her way, she would have missed the Doctor's rescue and fallen into the black hole with the rest of the base-or possibly have doomed the rest of the survivors instead. Her insistence on finding a way back through to her proper universe could very well have endangered both universes, or gotten her killed in the process, as the Doctor had warned more than once, but she pushed onward regardless. While her strong will can be seen as admirable, and the Doctor often sees it as such, it also often lands her and those with her into trouble, and could very well one day land her into worse than she can handle.
Furthermore, when she spoke up to her alternate mother about the failing marriage between she and Pete, she plowed right into personal territory and incurred Jackie's wrath. If the Cybermen hadn't chosen then to attack the mansion, she and the Doctor would likely have been thrown out onto the street before they could do anything to help. Speaking up to her alternate father about herself only served to drive him away, and if not for his meeting with her own Jackie, would have ruined any chance she had to adopt him as a father.
Rose is curious, impulsive, and doesn't always think before she does things, especially if something catches her attention. She makes her own decisions about things, and rarely waits for anyone else to make them for her, but they are not always the right ones to make. While her compassion for the Dalek in Van Staten's basement changed it, because she didn't think to ask the Doctor about it first, she caused its release and thus the deaths of everyone on the lower levels. She often wanders off on her own while on adventures and this has more than once caused her trouble, such as when she investigated the sound of a young boy and found herself hanging from a barrage balloon in the middle of the London Blitz. When she chose to investigate the basement of New Earth's hospital, she fell into the Lady Cassandra's trap and not only got herself possessed, she was nearly killed. Exploring the Madame de Pompadour against the Doctor's instructions spaceship got both she and Mickey captured and nearly dissected. Following a lead about the strange televisions without the Doctor's support got her face/soul absorbed by the Wire, and left her fate in the Doctor's hands. Intervening to save her father's life when he was meant to die nearly destroyed all of Earth, and even temporarily caused the Doctor's death.
While she does learn from mistakes, and becomes quite capable on her own, she never loses her curiosity and her impulsiveness. As a rule, she always follows her gut instinct, and won't deviate from that even if it's not wise to do. Even if the Doctor or others tell her not to.
Despite Rose's kindness and compassion, Rose can be a fierce woman. If she feels her moral center has been impinged upon, she will stand up for what she believes in, no matter what. More than that, if she feels that the Doctor is in danger, she will do whatever it takes to help or save him. In fact, she is one of only three companions of the Doctor who is willing to kill for him, without regret. She destroyed the Dalek fleet with the time vortex and later flaunted it to the other remaining Daleks, she sent the Beast--still in Toby's body--into the black hole without blinking, just to ensure he would be trapped there, and though from her point in time she hasn't had the chance to, would easily kill more Daleks in her search for the Doctor, and to protect innocents. She differs from his other companions, and indeed most people, in that she does not hesitate or regret if the only way to save people is to kill whatever threatens them, even if she doesn't leap immediately to the concept if there is indeed another way presenting itself.
Rose is capable of both extreme selfishness and extreme selflessness. When she cares for a person, that person or persons are her entire world, and in returns she expects the same, even if it's unreasonable to expect it--such as her expectation that Mickey would wait at home for her while she traveled the universe, or her idea that the Doctor had only ever and would only ever travel with her. While she holds great devotion to the people she loves, if her love fades, so does her devotion. After starting to travel with the Doctor and growing distant from Mickey, she fails to consider Mickey's feelings except when he spells them out to her, and even then she often disregards them when particularly self-absorbed. Likewise, when the Doctor regenerated and changed from the familiar face to a strange new man she hadn't yet accepted, she lamented that the Doctor had left her-and in the Doctor's words, gave up on him-while he was in his regenerative coma, rather than feeling concern for his condition. Despite her mother's reluctance to leave her behind, she refused to stay with her mother if it meant leaving the Doctor, even if that meant never seeing her mother again. It's not to say that she always disregards the feelings or wishes of others, especially those that she cares for. She is an empathic creature, but in times of emotional crisis, or when her own feelings are strong enough, she is likely to disregard anything conflicting that, whether it be Mickey's desire to have a conversation not centered on the Doctor while the Doctor is sick, or the Doctor's desire to see her safe above all things when that safety means separation from him.
And yet, at the same time, for those that she loves, she will give up anything. When the Doctor first asked her to come with, she said no even though she wanted to go, because she felt that Mickey and her mother needed her. When Mickey wanted to stay behind in the parallel universe with his alternate grandmother where he felt he belonged, she let him go with only token protests and a tearful goodbye. When she chose to travel with the Doctor, she gave up her world, her home, her family, and her life to be there for him for as long as she lived. More than once she made it clear that her own happiness rested with the Doctor's well-being and happiness, and his continued presence, rather than that of her mother or Mickey, or even her long-lost father.
Furthermore, it's not just the people she cares deeply for that she will make sacrifices for. She is more than willing to give up her life, health, and well-being to save the world, the universe, or simply to protect a few people. She insisted that the Doctor perform a risky maneuver to save the world from the Slitheen plot even though it very likely would have resulted in her death, and despite the fact that letting go of the magna clamps would very likely result in her death (worse, in being trapped in an oblivion the Doctor himself characterized as 'hell'), Rose let go to fix the lever and ensure that all of the Daleks and the Cybermen would be flushed from the universe. Indeed, if not for the last minute return of Pete, she would have sacrificed her life to ensure the completion of the void program.
Yet, at the same time, when her stubbornness combines with her selfishness, she can drag others into danger for her own purposes, such as her insistence-to holding the pilot at gunpoint-that she be left behind with the Doctor. Her actions slowed and distracted the crew, and if they had been successful, would have very likely resulted in either their deaths or the release of the Beast to the universe. While it is rare for her stubbornness an her selfishness to combine to the point of harming-or nearly harming-others, it tends to be a case of strong emotional distress, even to the point of hysteria. She is fundamentally a good person, and most times will not hesitate to sacrifice herself if the situation calls for it, when caught in the wrong way-often if it involves the Doctor in some way-she is more likely to take whatever path she feels is most beneficial to the Doctor, preferably involving herself, regardless of whether he would agree.
While Rose is no genius, she is clever. She takes to new things quickly, and learns intuitively, and is highly adaptable, even to things that seem completely mad to her. When it comes to matters of the heart and emotion, she has an innate ability to understand and relate to almost anyone, and with that connection, she can help. From providing an ideal companion to a lonely nine hundred year old immortal, to leading an abandoned Dalek to peace, to leading an alternate Donna to realize her potential even without the Doctor's presence, helping people is something that comes naturally to her. She picked up a good deal about alien culture and technology on her journeys with the Doctor, and more than that, she picked up a good deal of the Doctor's leadership skills. When separated from him on the Sanctuary base, she organized the survivors together and took charge of the situation, saving as many people there as she could, and when dealing with the Isolus when the Doctor was turned into a living cartoon, she worked out the answer to how to help the Isolus get home before it could turn the rest of the world into drawings as well, and implemented the plan on her own. All of these things work together to make her a prime candidate not only for Torchwood work but for UNIT, which she also took charge of when interacting with them.
Rose is, and always has been proactive and resourceful. She doesn't wait for permission, she doesn't just run away from danger and hide, and she doesn't sit by and let things happen. Not even when she's told to sit and wait. She doesn't just wait to be rescued unless she has no other choice, even if it means getting into more trouble, and she doesn't simply give up and give in to self-pity and misery. She orchestrates and organizes and leads if no one else will, she fights even when no one else stands, and will use whatever she's given to do whatever she needs to.
Her years with the Doctor taught her a number of his mannerisms without her quite realizing it. She refuses to be saluted, she knows how to ramble and talk about nothing to distract or defuse situations, she can make the tough decisions when she needs to--and know when those times are, and can handle herself completely independently. The gentleness, innocence, and the cynicism that she originally possessed when she met the Doctor melted away to something harder and stronger over the years, and the innocent disbelief changed to an understanding that anything in the universe just might happen. Even if the Doctor himself says it won't.
History: Rose Tyler was born on the 27th of April, 1987. According to her, nothing of importance happened in her first nineteen years. Her father was killed in a hit-and-run accident before her first birthday, and she was raised in a small London flat by her diligent mother. Her greatest academic accomplishment was earning the bronze in a junior school under seven's gymnastics challenge, and an unwise romantic association caused her to drop out of high school without graduating. The romance also landed her in enough debt that she needed to combine her mother's work and her own to pay it off.
Although she'd never know it, her life was full of time travel. When she was twelve, a mysterious person (her mother simply said 'Father Christmas') left her a red bicycle for Christmas, when her mother hadn't the money to buy it. Eventually, she would learn her mysterious benefactor was the Doctor, but what she would never know was the strange figure that occasionally observed her on the playground through childhood and on her first date was a friend she'd one day make--who was stranded in the past. She would also never know that the strange drunk she encountered on New Years day of 2005, was also the Doctor, who'd come to see her one last time before regenerating. Furthermore, she even traveled back to her own past and changed the circumstances of her father's death--staying by his side until he died, and causing the driver to stay until authorities arrived as well. Given the circumstances of the change, it's unclear whether her memories of her mother telling her the stories of her father were added to, or were unaffected.
By the time she was nineteen, she worked at Henrik's Department store, had a relationship with long-time friend Mickey Smith, and lived with her mother in the Powell Estate. Her only experiences traveling were a school trip to France and an annual holiday week with her Mother to South Wales.
In the Summer of 2005, everything in her life changed. Late one night, in the basement of the department store she worked in, she was attacked by living mannequins. She was narrowly saved by a strange man who called himself the Doctor, who then helped her escape the building. Afterward, the building was destroyed in an explosion, leaving her unemployed. The Doctor reappeared the next morning and again saved her life from a remnant of the mannequins that attacked her the night before. This time she followed him and demanded more information, but he remained cryptic. After only a brief explanation of the living plastic and of himself, he vanished into thin air, leaving her all the more curious.
Determined to find answers, despite his instructions to forget him, she turned to the internet to find more information on him. In her search, she found a man who compiled information on the Doctor, named Clive Finch. Even he could only tell her that 'the Doctor' appeared throughout time on Earth, tracked through photographs, and that wherever the Doctor went danger followed. His thought that the Doctor was somehow an immortal, however, led Rose to conclude he was simply a conspiracy theorist, and therefore her trail of information on the Doctor ended.
She didn't have to wait long for more answers, however, as it turned out her boyfriend Mickey had been replaced with a plastic duplicate of himself, and she had to be rescued--again--by the Doctor. This time, they had to escape by retreating to his ship, the TARDIS (not before she tripped the fire alarm in the pizzeria she and the Mickey duplicate had gone to, though, to keep the other patrons safe). Her introduction to the Doctor's world was overshadowed by the fact that she believed the plastic-people killed the real Mickey to replace him.
Although she fought with the Doctor for awhile over his apparent nonchalance to the fact that Mickey had been killed, she still helped him find the Nestene Consciousness, which controlled all of the living plastic, by spotting the hidden-in-plain-sight broadcaster. She again chafed against the Doctor's methods when she discovered Mickey still alive in the Nestene's chamber, and realized the Doctor simply hadn't thought to mention Mickey might still be alive. Still, when the Doctor's plan to stop the Nestene's invasion failed and the Consciousness started a wholesale invasion on Earth, Rose stepped in, using the gymnastic skills she still possessed, to save the Doctor's life and destroy the Nestene Consciousness.
Despite the close call and her disagreements with the Doctor, however, Rose loved the experience. When the Doctor asked if she wanted to go traveling with him throughout all of space, she almost agreed. Almost. In the end, despite her desire to travel with the Doctor, she chose her responsibility to her mother and Mickey, and let the Doctor vanish in his magical machine with a heavy heart.
When he reappeared a few moments later to make the offer again (It also traveled in time, he thought she ought to know), however, she ran to join him with a smile, and never truly looked back.
On her first trip with the Doctor, he took her to the year five billion, the day the Earth was swallowed by the sun. The Doctor upgraded her phone so that she could speak to her mother in the past--a gift made morbid when she realized her mother was five billion years dead where she stood now--and Rose was nearly killed herself when the observation satellite was sabotaged. Yet, what most moved her in the experience was the fact that, due to the sabotage, no one was looking when Earth died. The loss gave her some small perspective of the Doctor, when he revealed his own planet was lost in war. It was one of the first moments she truly bonded with the Doctor. He took her out for chips then, when she bounced back from the future destruction of Earth and later she and the Doctor would refer to it as their 'first date'.
Rose next found herself in Cardiff, caught in a ghost story with Charles Dickens, and yet again nearly lost her life. In the process, she once again fought with the Doctor's differing morals, and bonded more while trapped in a cellar, attacked by ghost-zombies.
When Rose tried to come home to visit her mother only twelve hours later, she found herself instead twelve months later and a missing person. Her shock lasted only long enough for a timely alien invasion, and an attempt to destroy Earth. They only narrowly averted it, through a gamble that nearly killed her and the Doctor both. When they left Earth again it was with her mother and boyfriend's full knowledge, and a full backpack of supplies.
Together, they traveled to the future and found the last Dalek in existence, of the creatures who warred with and destroyed the Doctor's people. Despite the Doctor's hatred of the creature, Rose found compassion for its pitiable state, and through an accidental impression of DNA, began a change in it for the better. When she stopped the Doctor from trying to kill the Dalek, she learned that he was the one to destroy his own world, though not why. Still, all that mattered to her was that he was almost willing to kill a repentant creature.
When they left the museum that housed the Dalek, Rose convinced the Doctor to take along an attractive young scientist there, named Adam, but she soon regretted the decision. When they traveled to the future and saved the human race from oppression by a Jagrafess, Adam tried to take crucial information back to the past for his own gain, and even her inherent compassion had no issue with the Doctor leaving Adam behind at his home.
A short time later, when the Doctor asked Rose when she would like to go, she told the Doctor the story of her father's death, and asked to go back to see her father. When he complied and took her back to see her parents' wedding, she got up the courage to ask to see her father's death, and be there for him when he died--as he'd died alone in the street. When he took her there, however, she was overwhelmed by the sight and couldn't manage to go to him in time.
When she asked for a second chance, the Doctor took her back again, warning he could only do it once. On an impulse, however, Rose changed time and saved her father's life instead, creating a paradox. While the Doctor was initially livid, Rose realized the error of her ways quickly enough. She truly regretted her decision, and a simple apology was all the Doctor required to repair their relationship. Despite the Doctor's best attempts, however, time itself could only be repaired with her father's death. That time, Rose managed to be with him when he died.
Some time later, the two met a time traveling conman, while investigating strange gasmask creatures infecting World War II London, and after yet another close call they decided to take the conman, Jack Harkness, along with them on their travels. The three became fast friends, but Rose still missed Mickey, and came up with a story of needing her passport to make them come back home to Cardiff. As it happened, they arrived just in time to stop the remnant of the Slitheen family, who'd tried to destroy Earth last time Rose visited her mother, from once again destroying Earth. In the process, Rose learned that Mickey had started seeing other people, having grown tired of waiting for her, and effectively ended their relationship.
During their capture of the Slitheen, they noticed that the words 'Bad Wolf' followed them wherever they went, throughout all of time and space, but Rose could make no sense of them. They eventually stopped the Slitheen's plan only when the ship was nearly torn apart, and the Heart of the TARDIS was exposed. Rose learned then that the heart was telepathic, and capable of almost anything.
A while later, after a trip to Tokyo, Rose was abducted off of the TARDIS and forced onto a futuristic Weakest Link programme, where being voted off meant death-by-Annedroid. Because the game show and the station she found herself on was set in the year 200,000, Rose's performance was absolutely dismal...which allowed her to stay in the game until the very end, due to her opponents' strategies. Unfortunately, even in the heads-up match, she still only got one of the questions correct, and ended up losing the game, just as the Doctor and Jack burst into the game's stadium to save her. Despite running for safety, she was caught by the Anne-droid's kill shot all the same.
Fortunately, it wasn't a kill shot at all. Instead, she found herself transmatted to a nearby Dalek ship, where she was meant to be kept for raw genetic material. Before this could happen, however, the Doctor found out the truth, and contacted the ship, promising to stop the Daleks and save Rose. He made good on his promise to save Rose, but the fleet of Daleks and the mad emperor that led them was a daunting task. Rose kept an optimistic attitude, even when Jack left to take care of survivors, and gave she and the Doctor a goodbye kiss, and tried to help where she could.
In the end, however, the Doctor tricked her into the TARDIS, and sent her home without him. The TARDIS locked its controls and activated the hologram Emergency Programme One, which ordered her to go home, live a fantastic life...and forget about him.
Rose couldn't. Despite her mother, Jackie, and Mickey trying to console her and get her to accept that her traveling was done, she refused to accept that there was nothing she could do to save the Doctor. While sitting outside, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do with her life, she spotted words again, scrawled all around her. 'Bad Wolf'. She realized suddenly what it was: It wasn't an ominous warning, it was a message, promising that she could get back to the Doctor if she only tried.
With a great amount of effort, and help from Jackie and Mickey and a big yellow truck, she was able to once more rip open the TARDIS console, and gaze into the the Heart. The Heart looked back into her, read her wishes, and flooded her with the Time Vortex, sending her speeding back to the year 200,000. The entity that controlled the TARDIS when she returned to Satellite Five was a symbiotic being of the TARDIS and Rose both, not quite Rose alone. She named herself Bad Wolf, after the game station they'd found themselves trapped on, and scattered the words Bad Wolf through time and space for her past self to find--effectively making herself. All of time and space flowed through her, and perhaps infinite power, as well. She destroyed the Daleks that meant to attack the Doctor and Earth, and brought Jack back to life--in truth she made him a fixed point in time that could never die, but she would never know that.
Yet all the knowledge of time and space, the entire time vortex running through her mind, it was overloading and killing her.
The Doctor drew the Vortex out of her in time to save her life, though the trauma of the damage done by it would still leave her without memories of the event for nearly a year. The price of his taking the vortex out of her, however, was that the full weight of it settled on him, and forced a regeneration.
Which the Doctor didn't fully manage to explain to her before it happened.
It took Rose awhile to accept that the strange new man with a new personality and a new face and a new voice was the same Doctor that she knew, but after another alien invasion interrupted Christmas, she settled on the fact that he really was the Doctor after all, and happily returned to traveling with him.
The two took even more vigorously to travel, with the Doctor's new light-hearted, excitable personality. They returned to the year five billion to see New Earth, fought werewolves, met Queen Victoria, were knighted then banished, and then met the Doctor's old traveling companion, Sarah Jane. Rose was initially shocked and hurt by the revelation that the Doctor had traveled with others--and more importantly, had been so close to someone he never even mentioned anymore. She confronted both the Doctor and Sarah Jane on the matter. While the Doctor's response left her unsatisfied, despite his promise never to leave her behind, she quickly made up with--and befriended--Sarah Jane. She offered for Sarah Jane to come with them when they left, but the woman chose to stay behind. Instead, they took along Mickey--despite Rose's misgivings over traveling with her ex-boyfriend.
Their next adventure landed them on a space ship in the fifty-first century, somehow connected to Eighteenth Century France. She met the Madame de Pompadour while on the ship, and suffered a scare when the Doctor left--with apparently no way to return--to France to save the Madame. Rose and Mickey were trapped on the space ship alone with no apparent way off or home and very little chance of rescue for five and a half hours before the Doctor returned triumphantly. The experience shook her, although she never admitted it.
After their adventure on the space ship, the three of them continued on through other, lighter adventures, before the TARDIS suddenly crashed through a crack in the universe, and landed in a parallel universe. A parallel universe where her father was still alive and married to her mother, but Rose was never born.
Against the Doctor's advisement, Rose insisted on going to see her alternate parents, and the two of them quickly became caught up in thwarting a plot to convert the world into viscous robotic Cybermen. Although they were able to stop the plot, her alternate mother was converted and killed before they could save her. When Rose admitted to her alternate father who she truly was, he rebuffed her and fled. To make things worse, when the Doctor finished preparing for a one-way trip back to their proper universe, Mickey announced that he'd stay behind in the alternate universe, with the family and friends he'd found there, resulting in a tearful parting.
Despite her sadness, the Doctor took care to find ways to cheer her up once more, and before long they were traveling once more, almost as if they'd never slowed down at all. On a failed trip to see Elvis during his prime, she and the Doctor discovered some sort of creature that stole people's faces (and perhaps their souls), and planned on devouring all of London during the Queen's coronation. While investigating, Rose herself became a victim of the creature, and had to be rescued by the Doctor along with the others.
Later, on a planet far into the future and very far away from Earth, they found themselves trapped at the edge of a black hole and without a TARDIS. The situation forced Rose to consider the concept that she and the Doctor might have to settle down somewhere after all, and while the concept that they might share a house and mortgage was too awkward to discuss, she found it wasn't so bad to be trapped impossibly far from home as long as she was trapped with the Doctor.
Unfortunately, it wasn't long before they were separated, the Doctor far down a mineshaft, and Rose in a small base populated by suddenly hostile creature, and both threatened by an ominous creature that claimed to be the Devil itself. The Beast, as it also called itself, promised her that she would soon die in battle, but it was the Doctor that she thought died first, after falling into a great big hole in the deep mine. When she heard the news of his fall, she decided to stay on the planet even when the rest of the base was evacuating, because she couldn't bear the thought of leaving the Doctor all alone, even if he were dead. Fortunately for her, the base commander didn't give her a choice, and literally dragged her onto the shuttle.
While she was still extremely reluctant to leave, even after she was past the point of no return, her mind quickly enough turned away from the Doctor to the ease of their escape. She suspected that there was an ulterior motive to why they were being allowed to leave, but could come up with nothing before their method of escape closed to them, and Toby, the passenger on the base possessed by the Beast, revealed that he was still holding the Beast's consciousness.
Rose recovered from her shock quickly enough to unbuckle Toby and shoot out the windshield of the shuttle, sending him into the black hole, before the Doctor returned in the TARDIS and saved them all once more.
When she told the Doctor what the Beast prophesied, he brushed it aside as a lie, and their sobering adventure quickly melted away into smiles and laughter again, as always.
Despite her varied travels, she remained in contact with her mother, Jackie, sending back her laundry on a regular basis to let her mother clean it, and when a young man tried to get to she and the Doctor through Jackie, she returned to Earth to give him a piece of her mind. Yet, when she learned the truth of his situation, that he'd lost his mother as a child and searched for answers about the Doctor he'd seen over her body, she changed her stance from anger to sympathy, and worked on his side to get the Doctor to help him.
During a trip to the London Olympics in 2012, the Doctor was briefly turned into a living drawing by a young girl and an alien, and Rose herself had to save the day, finding a way to free the Doctor and send the alien back to its family, and save the young girl from an animated version of her angry father. Rose was briefly distraught when the Doctor appeared not to return, but soon caught him on television, carrying the torch. Empowered by their many successful escapes and scrapes with death, Rose was certain they'd seen the worst, and could take anything thrown at them.
And they could, until the day they made a return visit to her mother with a gift from a far off market. In the time they were gone, strange ghosts began appearing on Earth, masquerading as loved ones. While she and the Doctor investigated what the 'ghosts' truly were, Jackie voiced her concerns over how much Rose changed in the two years she spent with the Doctor. Rose remained proud of the way she changed, moving from shop girl to someone who helped save the world on a regular basis, but Jackie remained frightened that, if Rose stayed traveling, she'd lose who she was. Still, Rose had promised the Doctor that she would stay with him forever, and she meant it.
It wasn't long, as Rose and the Doctor investigated the source of the 'ghosts' at an installation called Torchwood, before the 'ghosts' were revealed to be much more sinister. While the Doctor personally investigated the ghosts, Rose took the Doctor's psychic paper--a blank, all-purpose ID--and investigated the lower labs. In one, she found Mickey, somehow returned, and a strange floating sphere, which opened to reveal Daleks. She bought time by regaling the Daleks with her story of how she destroyed their Emperor, and laughed in their face. Of course, the Doctor returned before the Daleks could choose to attack them, but they were all three quickly drawn into a war between Daleks and Cybermen, with the prize and the crossfire being Earth.
After Jackie met the alternate version of Pete, who came with Mickey to fight the Cybermen, the Doctor quickly came up with a plan to get rid of both Daleks and Cybermen. Unfortunately, the only way that Rose and the others would be safe from it would be if she were in the other universe, where the Cybermen came from, when it happened. And when he reversed the door into the void, which would drag the Cybermen and Daleks back into the void where they'd been hiding for years, the walls between the universes would seal completely, trapping Rose on the other side. Despite her protests, the Doctor once more tricked her, sending her across to the other universe where she would be safe.
This time she returned much more quickly, simply reversing the universe hopper that sent her across. While the Doctor was initially angry and insisted she would never see her mother or her family again if she stayed, she stubbornly remained committed: she'd chosen long ago to stay with him forever, and she would never go back on that. As it happened (perhaps he anticipated her actions), the Doctor had two magnetic clamps--which would allow them to hold on to something secure while the void dragged the Daleks and Cybermen away.
Everything went brilliantly until a stray Dalek struck the lever controlling the void on Rose's side of the large room, shutting down the system prematurely.
Despite the danger, Rose released her hold on the magnetic clamp to hold onto the human-sized lever and drag it back to its proper position. Without a secure hold onto the clamp, however, the pull of the void was much more fierce. Despite the Doctor's horrified screams and her fullest strength, she couldn't hold on to the lever long enough for the void program to complete.
For a few horrible moments, she fell blindly toward her death, as this time the Doctor could do no more than watch. At the last possible moment, her alternate father reappeared--perhaps to persuade her to return--and caught her, taking her safely to the other universe. Trapping her there. The void snapped shut after them, and neither the transport buttons nor her screams could force it back open and allow her home.
She waited five and a half hours in alternate Canary Wharf for him to reappear. She waited five and a half days at Tyler mansion before she gave up looking for an easy way back through, and accepted the offer to join the alternate universe's Torchwood, utilizing the knowledge of aliens she gathered while traveling with the Doctor.
Three months later, she had a dream of the Doctor calling her somewhere, a dream which repeated itself whenever she fell asleep. Despite how mad it seemed, she believed it was really him, and her family and Mickey agreed. The Doctor could work miracles, even when he'd said he couldn't. So she got into her father's jeep, and they drove, following the call for miles and miles, out of the country, across the water, to a rainy beach on Norway.
Rose took the translation 'Bad Wolf Bay' to be encouragement, but when the Doctor arrived, it was only as an image, one brief chance to say goodbye. Forever.
Her heart broke even as the Doctor remained proud of everything she'd done and become. With the knowledge that she'd never see him again, she finally summoned up the courage to admit she loved him, but before the Doctor could return the sentiment, the final gap in the universes closed, and he vanished mid-sentence.
She threw herself into work a week later, when she grew sick of moping about at home doing nothing, but just like all the other times she'd been separated from the Doctor, she didn't give up. She took the project the Preachers--the group Mickey joined as precursor to Torchwood--used to cross the universes when the Daleks and Cybermen tore holes in the walls of the universe, and set about studying and working to find an alternate way to cross back over.
The Dimension Cannon project initially provided a frustrating lack of results. Shortly after her parent's second child, Tony Tyler, was born, the Cannon suddenly started working, though without any guidance controls. At first, Rose took this to be a wonderful thing.
And then the stars in the sky went out. And the other universes she traveled to also had their stars missing or vanishing. One Earth she traveled to, she barely escaped before it simply vanished.
She spent a year and a half searching parallel worlds for the Doctor, working with her Torchwood in her own universe, and the UNIT and Torchwood of their worlds. It was a learning process to find out how to interact with them, and just what she could and couldn't say to worlds whose time ran more slowly than other universes she'd traveled to. In the end, she learned never to say more than she had to, even if it meant never giving out her name to anyone, for fear of setting the world off balance.
Her traveling through universes changed from searching for the Doctor for her own benefit to searching for him to warn him of the coming darkness. When she wasn't using the Dimension Cannon to search through worlds for signs of the Doctor, she used it to send distress messages to wherever he might be, or searched the databases of Torchwood and UNIT for answers to what the darkness might be.
At nearly the two year mark, she finally came across a universe where she heard UNIT soldiers talking about 'the Doctor'. When she rushed to where he was, however, she was horrified to find he'd been killed. After so very long searching, she was to late to save even him.
When she left Canary Wharf, her heart had broken. When she left Bad Wolf Bay, it felt as if her heart had been ripped away and crushed. When she walked away from London, she only felt empty. Except, when she returned to her control center, Jake Simmonds--an ex-Preacher--made a strange discovery: the universe she'd just stepped out of wasn't a normal one. Instead, it was some sort of bubble of reality, twisting around something within it, projecting the false reality over the regular universe.
So Rose returned, and spent two years in the suspended bubble universe searching for the source of its change, and what it all twisted around. Working with UNIT and the dying TARDIS in the bubble, she was able to discern that the reality all twisted around a woman named Donna Noble. Working outside the bubble in her other universe, where time flowed differently from the bubble-universe, she and Torchwood were able to discover when the universe splintered off...and just like how her original father had fixed her paradox, how it could be fixed.
Unfortunately, though Torchwood could see all of the time in the bubble, neither Torchwood nor UNIT had time travel technology, so she had to spend most of the false-reality's two years finding a way to rig UNIT's technology to the TARDIS, to allow them to send Donna back and fix the timeline. Along the way, Rose discovered that, in the proper timeline, Donna was meant to travel with the Doctor. With effort, she finally convinced the alternate Donna to go back and change the timeline, despite the fact that to change it, the alternate Donna had to sacrifice her life.
Knowing that the alternate Donna was the memories that the real Donna would likely retain, Rose took the only opportunity she knew for certain she'd get to give Donna a message for the Doctor. Only two words: Bad Wolf. This time as a warning she hoped the Doctor would understand.
She returned to her universe as the bubble one faded, to the news that the Dimension Cannon still held the coordinates to the proper universe. Her home universe, where the Doctor still lived, where she'd spent two-and-a-half years looking for a way back to. The last thing she remembers is engaging the cannon to return to the Earth she was born on.
First Person Sample: http://thoughtformed.livejournal.com/338695.html (A recent intro post. Note: The game uses the new comment pages)
Third Person Sample: (Sample swiped from another game) One would think that working with Torchwood, there'd never be a slow day, especially when the Doctor was involved and inevitably dragging them into trouble. One would be wrong. Working with Torchwood was nothing like living one long adventure with the Doctor, or even jumping universe-to-universe with the Dimension cannon. More often than not, she found her days at least partly full--nearly half--of paperwork and desk work.
Today was more than half, and thus started to creep into mind-numbingly boring territory. Boring, paperwork days made her wonder if she wouldn't find more adventure freelancing and exploring the world--then undoubtedly beyond--with the Doctor. Maybe she would have...but with that unpredictability and adventure would come a lack of back up, no quick escapes, and no way to know they wouldn't step around a corner and be killed. The concept only made it more exhilarating for her, but the idea that it just might be the Doctor who took that blow instead of her? That was horrifying. In the end, they were trying to figure out some kind of domestic life, anyway, and it was better to start while they had a choice than flounder when they didn't, and risk inciting resentment for it.
It wasn't so bad, anyway. After the initial vexation she felt at the lack of adventure, once she got home to the people she loved and the life she'd chosen, it was always worth it. It would always be worth it to spend a lifetime with the Doctor and to have her family as well.
Especially when that lifetime meant waking up far too early in the morning because Torchwood missed a warning sign the day before, and now there was an alien invasion to repel.
Especially when it meant running.
"Do what?" She glanced over her shoulder at the giant...robot. Mechanoid, the Doctor called it. Different from a giant Cyberman in that the huge robot stomping through the city wasn't autonomous, there was someone sitting in a control pod somewhere inside of it, organizing its salvage efforts. Which was good, even though no one inside it seemed willing to communicate, because that meant there was less to shut down.
"We need you off of the ground. We're going to electrify the street you're on to short out the mechanoid's systems...and you don't want to be on it when we do."
"How long do I have?"
"How long do you need? Get off of the ground. Get into an automobile. We can give you a minute."
"What about everyone else? This is a long street."
"The area is clear except for you Ms. Tyler, now clear out!"
She grimaced over her shoulder a moment, before dashing toward the nearest vehicle. Fortunately, being a high ranking and frankly important member of Torchwood meant having access to any toys she wanted--with good reason, as she'd identified most of them anyway--and that included a remote which was particularly good at unlocking automobiles (and very little else, but it was surprising how often just that came in handy). She made it into the appropriate car, still a distance away from the roving mechanoid with plenty of time to spare. "I'm clear, you can go."
"Acknowledged."
Honestly, she wasn't all that keen on the plan herself, but with a threat as obvious as this one, the Doctor was doubtlessly involved...so it was probably his plan. That meant it had about half a chance of succeeding and half a chance of wasting a colossal amount of energy...but it'd probably catch the driver's attention either way. So that'd be a plus. Probably.
She counted to fifteen in her head before she spotted the young girl crouched nearby one of the other autos, as if she hoped to hide herself from the marauding machine behind another machine. "Oi!" She shouted, before reaching to roll down the window. Of course--of course--it was electric, and naturally the steering column had a PIN security system on it. She could break it, of course, but not in the remaining time. It took only a moment for her to decide to leap out of the vehicle and sprint to where the child crouched.
Ten seconds left--or eight? She swept up the child and raced back for the mini.
Five.
She swung open the door and shoved the young girl into the car with as much haste as she could reasonably manage.
How long?
She turned her head to gauge the distance of the mech as she lurched forward through the door...and nothing. Well, maybe not nothing. She was definitely sitting on something, and after a moment, she realized the room was only dark, not nonexistent. As she pushed herself up to her feet, her hand drifted to the stunner at her side. Not that the place was necessarily hostile, even if her arrival seemed suspect, but it had a flashlight on the end of it.
Except for the part where it wasn't there. The holster for it was, but the stunner itself was gone. Not a good sign. Then again, maybe the locals just got...skittish about weapons? Wherever 'local' was.
She was about to speak, but her words abruptly cut short when the monitors flickered to life. After that, it seemed like the only times she could manage go get a word in edgewise were to answer questions, not ask them. Not that she had much time for even that, really, through the explanations and general exposition the figure offered.
Honestly, what most surprised her about suddenly being swept off to another planet and drafted into a war she hadn't the slightest clue about, was that it hadn't happened earlier.
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