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Canon: Doctor Who
Character: RORANICUS PONDICUS Rory Williams
Timeline: A Good Man Goes to War • River Song tells him and Amy the surprise of their lives.
Personality:
Rory isn't much at first - plain and ordinary, he's someone people will notice as kind and reliable, but not at all extraordinary. He's a nice person, but he lacks the grandness required to take the central spotlight. He's awkward and not so sure of himself, especially when he talks and tries to get the words right, as Rory tends to change his phrases, eventually leaving people not to take him seriously and sometimes even embarrassing him. All of this low esteem was thanks to this imaginary Raggedy Doctor. Amy was very fond of him, and Rory was very fond of Amy, so when she wanted her childhood friend to dress like him, Rory was quick to fullfill this favor. In a way this Raggedy Doctor was Rory's inspiration. He felt to be constantly under this Doctor's shadow, and he knew how much Amy wanted to see him, but Rory knew he was just a game, so instead this childhood friend aspired to be as similar as this magnificent man, even if he was no way as near as wonderful but at least Amy would be happy. This even shows in Rory's job choice - in the end, he wanted to become a doctor, but eventually his insecurities led him to become a nurse.
But then, as it turns out, this Doctor was real, and for a while Rory was jealous, thinking that he was nothing but a replacement for him. Now that he's here to take Amy away, Rory feels unwanted. All the nurse could do was make pretend, but the Doctor can show Amy the real thing - vast galaxies and universe and everything she could have wished for... He knows there was something wrong and dangerous about the Doctor, but he is what Amy wanted for all these years. "If you truly love someone, you must set her free." As the saying goes, Rory is prepared to do that for Amy, but if she is ever in danger, he would always comes to protect her, with or without a Doctor present. It just happens that Amy couldn't let go of him either, and for that Rory was lucky - many boyfriends lost their loved ones thanks to a madman with a box, knocking on their doors and whisking them away to the ends of the universe. And because Amy was there, Rory had no qualms for a couple of trips aboard the TARDIS.
What makes Rory different from the other companions is that he didn't really want all that excitement and adventure. He would prefer a quiet and peaceful life in a small and sleepy town rather than all this daredevilry. In fact, Rory wouldn't have been a companion if not for dear Amy, because the Doctor's life doesn't appeal to him at all. But that doesn't mean he will run away from anything abnormal - he is sensible enough to believe what isn't usually believable, as long as there is a reason to its existence. When aliens started to appear in his life, he was quick to research about technology and extra terrestrial theories; to the extent that Rory became the first human to understand how is the TARDIS bigger on the inside without any help from the Doctor. He may not be clever or intelligent, but he has common sense, and his opinions and actions are very beneficial to others. And if there is danger, Rory won't run away - he has courage underneath all of that, and he would always do what any good man would. If there is something that must be done, he would stand up for it, even if it means that he would go against the Doctor.
All of these adventures have changed him, though, and trip by trip he becomes less and less normal. With two thousand years under his belt he is even older than the Doctor. He has seen empires rise and fall, lives born and die, and all those years can change people. Roman exposure has made him a warrior - far more brave and dignified, like a knight in shining armour, but also far more grim. The life with the Doctor has made Rory into one that takes lives instead of saving them. But with this comes along with self confidence - no longer does Rory feel like a replacement, but a man who can be respected and loved for his own actions. And really, Rory will not mind doing terrible things if it would save Amy's life.
Oh yes, Amy. The woman was the love of his life, from the beginning to the end. He wouldn't mind living and going anywhere, as long as Amy would be by his side. The two perfectly complement each other - Rory was as calm as water and as unyielding as the earth, while Amy was as brave as fire and as dreamy as air. Amy would show Rory how to live a little and have fun for himself, while Rory could protect Amy and make sure she doesn't wander off too far. Amy was the more dominant one in their relationship, and Rory doesn't mind because he loves her and he knows it will do Amy no good to just chain her down. But he knows Amy needs him too - whenever she is threatened or scared, Rory will always be there to save her, even when she is expecting someone else. Rory will move mountains and burn out stars just for her.
Rory is their voice of reason. The Doctor and Amy could be a bit too caught up in all the awe and wonder sometimes, so Rory makes sure that they don't lose their way, and finish things up. He has learned to trust the Doctor to be capable enough of finding a way, and the Doctor has learned that he can always rely on Rory, even to the extent of allowing him to help maintain the TARDIS. The Doctor makes sure for them to have fun, and Rory makes sure that they don't end up getting killed. While to others, the Doctor can seem to be a bit inhumane at times, so they look to Rory, who is generally friendly - if he doesn't like you, he'll just be a bit blunt. He is practical and simple, the perfect counterpart to the otherworldly and dramatic Doctor.
Above all of these lies one critical fact - in the end, he's still a nurse, and while he is now a fighter, Rory remains more as a healer. He has seen many people die in his travels, himself included, but Rory will never get used to it. In the end, it is his duty to save people, no matter who they may be. He has seen many terrible things, but his respect for all life remains intact. It is his first instinct to do his job, and if he has failed to do so, the best he could do is to give them a proper send off.
Rory Williams is a good nurse, a good friend, a good husband, and a good Roman.
Above all, Rory Williams is a good man.
Background:
Nothing much happened to Rory Williams when he was a kid. He was born in the small town of Leadworth, quiet and peaceful and hardly involved with the tales of the world. The closest thing that can be considered as odd in his early life was his closest friend, Amelia Pond. One day she raved to him about her Raggedy Doctor, who fell from the sky and ate only fish fingers and custard. Thanks to Amelia's whims, Rory then became a replacement for this Raggedy Doctor. Day by day he dresses up like him, tries to act like him and goes to imaginary adventures in his imaginary big blue box, taking young Amelia with him.
But soon Rory grew up, and childhood friend became sort of boyfriend. For twelve years the Raggedy Doctor was nothing but a game in his mind, but still he felt overshadowed by this wonderful man, leading him to become a nurse in the Royal Leadworth Hospital. Little did he know that this very job would change his life forever.
It all started with the coma patients he was attending to in the year 2008 doing an impossible feat - not only were they calling for a 'Doctor' simultaneously, Rory kept seeing the coma patients wandering across town. Unfortunately his boss didn't believe him and was forced to take a day off. Outside, the sun was looking a bit too strange and all the passersby decided to take pictures of the end of the world. But a walking patient took his attention more, and so sensible Rory took pictures of him - which led him to be interrogated by Amelia (who now calls herself Amy), and - of all people - the Raggedy Doctor himself. Turns out what Rory was seeing downtown were not coma patients, but Prisoner Zero, an alien that can take multiple forms. Prisoner Zero escaped his cell, and now his wardens, the Atraxi, are going to burn the entire Earth in twenty minutes if he doesn't surrender himself. Prisoner Zero needed a psychic link to borrow other appearances, and the coma patients were the perfect key. The Doctor then ordered Amy and a disbelieving Rory to go back to the hospital to clear out the area. They were a bit too late for the medical personnel, however, and Prisoner Zero was about to corner them when the Doctor came in and save the day, pinpointing the Prisoner's location to the Atraxi. After Prisoner Zero was secured and Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation kept the Atraxi from ever returning, the Doctor has saved the day. But then, he suddenly left, leaving no trace of him save for a large phone bill for Rory.
He didn't see the Doctor until two years later, at the day before his wedding. Once again the Doctor left his mark - he was the stripper at Rory's stag party. Apparently Amy - now his wife to be - has been travelling with the Doctor for all this time, and apparently Amy tried to take her advances towards the Doctor. The Time Lord decided to give them a wedding gift - specifically, a free trip to Venice, 1580, to shake off the couple's nerves (and, in Rory's case to calm down at the fact that his fiancée was cheating.)
All was starting to be well until vampire-looking creatures appeared to be kidnapping the Venice women. The Doctor, being the Doctor, decided to answer this threat although he required infiltration. Amy volunteered despite Rory's complaints, and was almost in proper danger if the Doctor and Rory didn't come up to save her. Turns out they were not vampires but fish aliens who survived the destruction of their planet which was engulfed in a crack of space and time. The kidnapped women were being converted to fish aliens, in order to mate with the fish aliens such that their species would survive. That's all fine and dandy, but thing is they would require the entirety of Venice for it, and the Doctor wasn't too fond of the idea. And that's why the Doctor saved the city, while Amy and Rory were fending off one of the meanie fish aliens. Amy wanted Rory to come along for more adventures with the Doctor, and Rory was all too glad to accept it.
Sometime later the Doctor's big blue box TARDIS was invaded by Psychic Pollen. The next thing they knew it was five years later, Rory and Amy are back in Leadworth expecting a baby, and the Doctor came to visit. This place represented Rory's ambitions: to be a doctor, living in a quiet and peaceful life, happily married to Amy. It was his perfect scenario - well, other than the fact that there were aliens about to kill them. Thing is, from time to time, they will wake up back in the TARDIS, systems failing and approaching a star that' freezing them to death. Enter the Dream Lord, who claims to have entrapped them. One is reality and the other is a dream, he says, and the only way to get out of the dream is to kill themselves ala Inception. Thing is, which is the dream? As they were figuring it out, Rory dies in the Leadworth world. Amy couldn't accept a life without Rory so she and the Doctor killed themselves there. Fortunately, the Leadworth world was a dream, but guess what? So is the other world. The Dream Lord couldn't exist outside reality, because the Dream Lord is the facet of the Doctor's darer aspects - he exists only inside the Doctor's mind, and the Psychic Pollen used it against him.
Their next destination was Rio - or, at least, that's where they should have been. They ended up in Cwmtaff 2020 where the deepest hole in Earth is being dug. Rory stayed behind to keep Amy's engagement ring safe, while the other two went ahead. This ended up with Rory being dragged into the strange case of the disappearing bodies. At the same time, someone's been dragging people into the hole and that is what exactly happened to Amy later on. That is where the Doctor discovered something important - there were Sirulians underground them, and they believed that the drill was destroying their home. This they learned from the Silurian warrior Alaya, whom they captured hostage.
The Doctor went in to negotiate while Rory stayed behind with the other related parties in order to guard Alaya. Turns out the Silurians were in Earth before the humans, and now they believe the humans were invading. Fortunately humankind is an amazing species, and right there was an agreement to share the Earth between the two races. All was going well when Ambrose, one of the humans, tortured Alaya to death. Outrage occurred, and so the agreement was postponed. The humans and the Doctor escaped, but with a price - Rory took a bullet for the Doctor and died. Worse, his body was too close to a crack in time, and so Rory's very existence was erased. The only thing that remained was the Doctor's memory of him, and the engagement ring he gave to Amy.
And then he was a Roman.
Yeah, it's very distracting.
So there he was, a Centurion, looking like a Roman, living like a Roman and doing Roman... stuff. This was his daily routine when another companion named River Song showed up, claiming to be Cleopatra and requesting volunteers for the Doctor. Rory, of course, volunteered.
The Doctor needed the Romans for one good reason - there's a box called the Pandorica, containing the most dangerous being in the universe, and now every single enemy the Doctor has - Daleks, Cybermen, Sonatarans, etc. are going for it. The Romans are the best reinforcements the Doctor can get, and they are definitely up for the job because if Rory wasn't there, Amy would have been converted into a Cyberman already. But now, Rory realises that Amy doesn't remember him at all. There's nothing left of their upcoming marriage now, except for that one engagement ring.
That's the last of their problems however, when you have battleships knocking upon your door. A clever trick by the Doctor fortunately gave his allies some time to try and figure out what's inside the Pandorica - and for Rory to try and talk to Amy. He urges her to remember, but Amy really couldn't, until...
"Williams. You're Rory Williams."
It would have been an amazing reunion, but then Rory figured out that something was wrong inside his head. He's being given a command, a command to... He yells out to Amy, telling her to run away, but she couldn't leave him, so she tries to help him, but for a moment she slips, and then -
Bang.
This Rory wasn't the real Rory, and none of the Romans are actually Roman - they were all Nestene duplicates, living plastic, believing themselves to be human until software commands them to do so. This Rory was created after Amy's memories of him, and thus creating a scenario the Doctor couldn't resist. The Romans were a trap to capture him, because the Pandorica was empty and now it opens for the most dangerous being in the universe - the Doctor himself.
River Song is inside an exploding TARDIS, the Doctor is trapped in the Pandorica, and a dead Amy lies in a grieving Rory's arms, and all the stars start to go out, as he universe starts to end with all the increasing cracks in time. All hope seems to be lost when something unusual happened -
Because right in front of Rory appeared the Doctor. With a broom. And a fez. Yeeep.
This Doctor needed Rory to get his past self out (don't ask how this Doctor existed while he can still be trapped forever - it's timey wimey, wibbly wobbly stuff.) and provided Rory his screwdriver. The Pandorica was easy enough for Rory to open from the outside, and there he is, the Doctor ready to save the world. "But what about Amy?" Rory asked. The Doctor says that he doesn't have time to save her, so what does Rory do? He punches the Doctor. Thank goodness it was just a Secret Test of Character. So, they decided to put Amy (who was just almost dead, apparently) in the Pandorica - it's a prison, it will keep her alive and she will be brand new once it gets a biological sample of a younger Amy - which they can achieve in about two thousand years from now. The Doctor has a teleporter, but Rory decided to stay because the Pandorica will be safer with him around.
So there Rory became a legend as The Last Centurion, always guarding the Pandorica, never letting anyone open it. He did it without sleep and without food for all these years. The Doctor told him to stay us of trouble, but that's hard when you're around for such a long time. One notable event was when the London Blitz happened and the Pandorica's storage room burned down. Rory pulled it out to safety, despite that heat is his weakness (mind you, he's still plastic). That was the last time The Last Centurion was seen, but really, Rory just switched jobs and became a Night Guard at the museum the Pandorica was in.
And the total score is - approximately two thousand years, no physical damage, and no sanity broken. Best boyfriend ever, or best boyfriend ever?
Time skip to 1996 and adult!Amy was restored by child!Amy. The light from the Pandorica has the potential to fix the destroyed fragments of the universe, including a Dalek "artifact" in the museum. Thank goodness Rory arrived to save the day. The Doctor comes back with River Song, and the three are just in time to save the universe - colliding the exploding TARDIS with the Pandorica creates Big Bang Two, thus restarting the universe. But thing is, the Doctor needs to be at the heart of the explosion, and so as a consequence he will be at the other side of the cracks, and he will be erased from existence.
And boom.
We return to the year 2010, just in time for Amy and Rory's wedding. Rory never died in this universe, so plastic Rory never existed. The wedding continued without a hitch, but then Amy felt that something was missing, and then, she started to remember.
Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.
"I remember you, Doctor, and you are late for my wedding!"
And lo and behold, in the middle of the dance floor was a big blue police box. And Rory, too, started to remember - Prisoner Zero, the stripper as his stag party, even the two thousand years when he was plastic. The Doctor was back, along with memories of their adventures.
Their wedding continued peacefully, save for the Doctor's atrocious dancing, but Rory won't mind, so long as his wife was still on his lap.
It all soon came to an end, and it was time for Amy and Rory to save their goodbyes - but to Leadworth, not to the Doctor, for they are ready to have more adventures at hand.
Yeah, they basically spent their wedding night in the TARDIS, where stuff happened. The Doctor claims that they were noisy.
But obviously, they should have a honeymoon they deserved. Their first trip leads them to a honeymoon planet where the Doctor dropped them off before his TARDIS was stolen (but that's a completely different story, and the TARDIS was reclaimed anyway). The next time we see them, they were in the honeymoon suite of a galaxy-class spaceship. However, said spaceship got into trouble so Amy and Rory (dressed up as a policewoman and a Centurion respectively - it's kinda obvious why, isn't it) went to the control room and put up a distress call for the Doctor. A little enactment of A Christmas Carol later, and tithe ship was able to land safely.
After that came two months of the Ponds Williams living quite normally, until they kept finding historical topics involving the Doctor, and then finally they received a message - with an envelope of TARDIS blue, and coordinates of latitude and longitude that leads them to... America! There, they reunite with the Doctor (who wears a Stetson now) and River Song. The group then had a picnic. They were having a jolly good time when suddenly an astronaut rises out of the lake nearby. The Doctor calmly walks toward the spaceman, and suddenly he is shot.
Aw, that's alright the Doctor can regenerate -
Wait what, was he just shot again?!
River tried to shoot the Space Man down, but to no avail. The trio went to attend to the Doctor, but it was all too late, as an old man confirms it - he is as good as dead. The only thing they could have done, as Rory suggested, it to give him a proper funeral. They return to a nearby diner, trying to figure out what the Doctor was referring to (Space 1969) before he died. They also figured out that four envelopes were distributed - one to the old man, one to River, and one to Amy and Rory. So who got the last envelope? Who does the Doctor trust the most?
Guess who it's the Doctor himself! Well, a younger Doctor. Now they are entrusted to convince this Doctor to go to 1969, without telling him what did they just witnessed. Fortunately, the Doctor trusted Amy enough to follow this. So vworp vworp they go, right into -
At President Nixon's office, Mr. President just recruited former FBI agent Canton Delaware (who happens to be the old man back at the present) to figure out the mystery of a child giving the President a direct call. "Help me, the space man is going to eat me," she said. They were having a dandy good time when all of a sudden, the Doctor and his crew pops up, with a solution to their problems - all the Doctor needed was a SWAT team, the map of Florida, a cup of coffee, twelve Jammy Dodgers and a fez.
Well, actually, all they needed was the map.
Either way, they managed to pinpoint the child's location, so they immediately went there via TARDIS travel. Canton decided to hop in, so now Rory had to explain all the time and space travel to the newcomer. Soon they ended up in somewhere that looked like an abandoned warehouse. River and Rory went down to investigate, while the Doctor and Amy stared behind. Inside, Roy and River encountered the Silence, aliens you forget once you look away from them.
The quad escaped with a plan in mind. Canton would pretend to capture the Doctor, and he will spend three months looking for the others. Rory and everyone else would go around the state, checking for the existence of the Silence - they would mark themselves for every Silent they would see, such that they would not forget that they had an encounter. Eventually they will be "shot down" by Canton, and then they will regroup. Apparently they are everywhere, and they are also capable of post-hypnotic suggestion which explains why the FBI was hunting them down. Humanity has been controlled by the Silence for all this time.
Amy and Canton were sent to investigate an orphanage as the Doctor messes with the mechanics of Apollo 11. He was captured, but Rory and River arrived just in time with President Nixon to save the Doctor from imprisonment. Soon they are launched off, however, because Canton just gave them a message - Amy's missing. The only thing they could find from her is a small recording device each received beforehand. It's playing live, and they can hear Amy calling for help - to the Doctor. Rory is dismayed, but he wants Amy to be saved nonetheless.
Soon they were able to save Amy and doom the Silence that kidnapped her with the same blow - televised is a recording of a Silent telling the human race to kill them all, and now nearly all the humans are doing a silent revolution, driven by post-hypnotic suggestion.
With the world saved, River returns to her cell and the trio return to the TARDIS. Amy apparently was calling Rory, not the Doctor, for help ("But you said 'fell from the sky'." "It's a figure of speech, you moron!") Fortunately they are all in good terms again, talking about timeheads and false pregnancies. But when the Doctor goes to scan Amy, all he gets is Schrodinger's Pregnancy. HMMM.
There was also a timey wimey spacey wacey incident regarding thermocouplings and short skirts, but let's not dwell about that.
Onwards! Their next travel leads them to a pirate ship, or all places, and it comes with a curse - the smallest of wounds would lead them to have a black spot o their hand, and then a siren would beckon them to come to her, only to be disintegrated to nothing. Pirates being pirates, they had them walk the plank, one by one. Now it was Amy's turn to save the day (with pirate clothes, even!) but that resulted in a wounded pirate - and a wounded Rory. To make things worse, the siren now has the phone box, and Rory ended up drowning and being captured by the siren, so now the Doctor has to figure this out without the help of his TARDIS. Again.
Thanks to the assistance of a stowaway, the Doctor manages to figure out that the siren was actually an alien nurse, and that she's been teleporting the wounded and sick into a sickbay. When they got there, they found the "dead" pirates, the TARDIS, and Rory himself. Now, in order to get Rory out, they also need to remove his life support, and that would make him choke on swallowed water again. So Rory decided to put his life on Amy's hands and taught her how to perform CPR. Thankfully Amy was a good learner and so they were shooting across the sooner than you can say "OH GOD THEY KILLED RORY AGAIN." What happened to the pirates, you ask? Oh, they became space pirates, that's all.
While the TARDIS was in open space, the Doctor suddenly got mail from a Time Lord outside the universe - well, their universe. The Doctor, of course, was all too thrilled to see the possibility of other Time Lords existing. But when they got to their location, all they saw was this weird junkyard, and a girl who calls the Doctor her thief. The Doctor makes Amy and Rory go back to the TARDIS while he investigates, because he feels that something is very wrong in here.
His guts were right. Inhabiting this universe is House, killer of Time Lords and eater of TARDISes. It just happened that he extracted the TARDIS' soul into the girl earlier and now inhabits the usual structure of the TARDIS. He starts the voyage to go into our universe, taking Rory and Amy with him.
As for the couple, they need to run for their lives in order not to get killed. Unfortunately, the two got separated. They eventually find each other, but time is screwed up, and soon Amy finds that Rory died of old age, and inscriptions of "HATE AMY KILL ME AMY DIE DIE DIE" were upon the walls. But then, the real Rory shows up. "He's messing with our minds," he says. He comforts her, and they start to run again. (It's most likely that Rory had the same treatment, but was calmer with it because really, it's hard to scare a man who's lived for two thousand years.)
Soon, Rory gets a telephatic message from the TARDIS (apparently she thinks he's "the pretty one", even). She tells them to go to an old control room. There, Rory can take down the shields and let the Doctor and the TARDIS in. Long story short, they succeeded in destroying House from the inside, but now the TARDIS has to go back into her actual body - the mechanisms of this big blue box. But before she left, she kept repeating a phrase to Rory - "The only water in the forest is the river."
After a few days and a round of darts, the Doctor takes them for fish and chips - actually, no, they end up in an acid factory in our near future. Apparently the factory workers use gangers - doppelgangers, bodies made out of a substance called the Flesh. They use them as their actual bodies are fast asleep and safe (think James Cameron's Avatar). That way, when those bodies disintegrate due to the acid, they don't actually die.
That's quite fine, actually, but then there's an electrical accident - the Flesh is alive, you see, and now they are actual copies of the factory workers. They are plagued with an identity crisis, and the originals aren't helping with the crisis at all. As they went looking for the gangers a factory worker named Jenny had to do a bathroom break. Rory accompanies her for protection only to find out that this Jenny was a ganger. But Rory was Rory, so instead he comforted her - he went through this process before, after all. But Jenny was still scared, so she ran away. As the rest of the group have their own shenanigans, Rory wanders about, looking for Jenny, but he ends up seeing two Jennys. He tried to stop the inevitable fight between them, but t was all too late and one - a ganger one - dies. The remaining Jenny then shows Rory a terrible sight - failed and incomplete Flesh, very much alive but rotting, left to die. Rory is moved and wants to change this and reveal it to the world, and so Jenny gives Rory a plan.
Jenny and Rory meet up with the Doctor and the other, but then the two trapped them up in an acid chamber. Rory just locked them just so he could explain the situation without interruption, but then it appears that he was just tricked - the Jenny with him? She was a ganger, too, and the real one's good as dead. In a few minutes the acid would overpour and the humans (and Time Lord) inside would die. Poor Rory was taken by the rebelling gangers who now happened to have a new ally - the ganger of the Doctor himself.
It was the center of the revolution where the strangest of events took place - the gangers were all too human, the Doctor and the ganger Doctor switched places, and in the end they all went to save their counterparts. Only Jenny remains, venturing out to kill them all. They would have been destroyed if not for the ganger Doctor sacrificing himself. In fact, only one version of each person survived (with a few exceptions, where neither version survived.)
It happens that the Doctor went to this area for a good reason - to study the Flesh. Because their Amy is a ganger, even since before America, and while she is among them in heart and soul, her body is somewhere in space, kidnapped for a reason - because Amy is pregnant, and she is about to give birth. With this revelation in mind, Doctor and Rory now begin looking for the real Amy.
They search far and wide across space and time, collecting assistance and even doing feats such as destroying Cyberman fleets - all for Amy. Rory donned his Centurion armour, by recommendation of the Doctor. They are, after all, gong into war against a station known as Demon's Run. Rory personally comes for River Song, asking her for help. But River says no she can only come at the very end where the Doctor finds out who she is. So the Doctor and his team successfully claim Demon's Run without bloodshed. Amy and Rory are reunited, and for the first time Rory holds his daughter, Melody Williams Pond.
They are about to leave when the Headless Monks retaliate and give large losses to their group. Furthermore, this Melody was apparently made out of Flesh, and the enemy still has the real version of her. They plan to make Melody a weapon, because she was conceived in the TARDIS and she is infused with Time Lord DNA.
It is at that time when River shows up. The Doctor is enraged - why did she show up too ate when he always appear in time whenever she needed him? River merely motions to Melody's cot, and the Doctor was suddenly all better, getting into the TARDIS and leaving them all alone. Amy and Rory then went to interrogate River on what she meant.
"The only water in the forest is the river."
In the language of the Gamma Forests, Melody Pond translates to another meaning - River Song.
While he stomachs this new revelation, Rory ends up in Adstringendum.
Abilities/Additional Notes:
Rory is a trained nurse, very much capable of handling out medical procedures and examining bodies (extremely useful when most adventures with the Doctor take a turn for the worse.) Often would Rory be the one to immediately tend to the wounded or check if everyone's alright, because Rory is, first and foremost, a good man who saves anyone.
And while Rory is completely human, he does have the memories of his Auton (or he was the Auton, as the Doctor seems to hint). While he doesn't always remember the two thousand years he spent while being plastic, he can access them from time to time, like a door he can open and close. This proves to be effective at times, because those years also include Roman military training and thus Rory can be quite experienced with a gladius. He can also wield a gun properly, considering that the Autons were built with their own guns.
Sample Journal Post:
[ hello adstringendum! right in front of your screen is a roman. or a man who dresses like a roman. yeah. he looks quite tired and concerned, but right now he's doing his best to make a formal impression.
it's not going very well. ]
Um. Hello. [ he coughs. ] I'm looking for someone, she was with me when this all happened so she should be around here somewhere. Safe, I hope.
He name's Amy Pond - well, actually Amy Williams. She's ginger, she's Scottish, she's very lovely, and she's my wife, so don't even think of doing anything to her, because... I'm her husband. [ er. ] A very... good. Husband. With a sword. A very big sword. Right.
[ he then stops for a while, as if an idea comes to his mind. ] And there's this other guy - he calls himself the Doctor, just the Doctor. You can't miss him, he always has this blue police box around and he loves wearing big, bright, bowties.
So if any of them are around, tell them I'm here. [ he reaches to end the feed, but then he stops. in here is supposed to be a filter, but the animus are evil spirits, so it's up there for everyone to see. suddenly he achieves looking more serious, but his voice is less formal now - it's softer. kinder. ]
Amy, if you can hear this - I'm coming. I'm coming, alright? We are going to get out of here, and we are going to find our daughter. I promise.
Sample RP:
A lot of strange things happen when you travel with the Doctor. Slimy aliens and evil robots are quite the staple in their voyages, and far weirder experiences can happen - talking transport and living plastic, for example. At every single step they make, Rory kept wondering if things can never be more extraordinary. Time and time again, as the hum of the TARDIS comes to a stop and the blue doors open, the Centurion was always proved wrong.
This time was no exception.
He wasn't so sure how it happened - the battle was over, they were abandoned by the Doctor, and now River Song just told them that she was Melody their very own daughter. Suddenly he earned a dizziness, and next thing he knew, he was here. It looked like Earth and it feels like Earth, but it seemed to be an abandoned wasteland as if he was pulled into some horror movie or zombie apocalypse (Rory wouldn't be surprised, actually, if that was the case.) Thing is, he was quite sure he was in outer space and he wasn't so certain on how could he end up in here without the help of TARDIS travel.
For once, he actually wanted to be back in that big blue box, arguing with the Doctor and enjoying his time with Amy -
Amy. The nausea was clearing up. That's right; she was with him when all of this happened. She could be here, somewhere, as lost as he is. Rory glanced at an object enclosed in his hands - there was a cellphone right beside him when he woke up, and he was quite sure someone intended him to have it, whoever that person may be. And maybe Amy has a similar phone as well.
It was a slim chance, but it was worth it. First he'll have to find Amy, anything else can follow up after that.
He took a deep breath, and pressed the 'record' button.
"Um. Hello..."
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Canon: Doctor Who
Character: RORANICUS PONDICUS Rory Williams
Timeline: A Good Man Goes to War • River Song tells him and Amy the surprise of their lives.
Personality:
Rory isn't much at first - plain and ordinary, he's someone people will notice as kind and reliable, but not at all extraordinary. He's a nice person, but he lacks the grandness required to take the central spotlight. He's awkward and not so sure of himself, especially when he talks and tries to get the words right, as Rory tends to change his phrases, eventually leaving people not to take him seriously and sometimes even embarrassing him. All of this low esteem was thanks to this imaginary Raggedy Doctor. Amy was very fond of him, and Rory was very fond of Amy, so when she wanted her childhood friend to dress like him, Rory was quick to fullfill this favor. In a way this Raggedy Doctor was Rory's inspiration. He felt to be constantly under this Doctor's shadow, and he knew how much Amy wanted to see him, but Rory knew he was just a game, so instead this childhood friend aspired to be as similar as this magnificent man, even if he was no way as near as wonderful but at least Amy would be happy. This even shows in Rory's job choice - in the end, he wanted to become a doctor, but eventually his insecurities led him to become a nurse.
But then, as it turns out, this Doctor was real, and for a while Rory was jealous, thinking that he was nothing but a replacement for him. Now that he's here to take Amy away, Rory feels unwanted. All the nurse could do was make pretend, but the Doctor can show Amy the real thing - vast galaxies and universe and everything she could have wished for... He knows there was something wrong and dangerous about the Doctor, but he is what Amy wanted for all these years. "If you truly love someone, you must set her free." As the saying goes, Rory is prepared to do that for Amy, but if she is ever in danger, he would always comes to protect her, with or without a Doctor present. It just happens that Amy couldn't let go of him either, and for that Rory was lucky - many boyfriends lost their loved ones thanks to a madman with a box, knocking on their doors and whisking them away to the ends of the universe. And because Amy was there, Rory had no qualms for a couple of trips aboard the TARDIS.
What makes Rory different from the other companions is that he didn't really want all that excitement and adventure. He would prefer a quiet and peaceful life in a small and sleepy town rather than all this daredevilry. In fact, Rory wouldn't have been a companion if not for dear Amy, because the Doctor's life doesn't appeal to him at all. But that doesn't mean he will run away from anything abnormal - he is sensible enough to believe what isn't usually believable, as long as there is a reason to its existence. When aliens started to appear in his life, he was quick to research about technology and extra terrestrial theories; to the extent that Rory became the first human to understand how is the TARDIS bigger on the inside without any help from the Doctor. He may not be clever or intelligent, but he has common sense, and his opinions and actions are very beneficial to others. And if there is danger, Rory won't run away - he has courage underneath all of that, and he would always do what any good man would. If there is something that must be done, he would stand up for it, even if it means that he would go against the Doctor.
All of these adventures have changed him, though, and trip by trip he becomes less and less normal. With two thousand years under his belt he is even older than the Doctor. He has seen empires rise and fall, lives born and die, and all those years can change people. Roman exposure has made him a warrior - far more brave and dignified, like a knight in shining armour, but also far more grim. The life with the Doctor has made Rory into one that takes lives instead of saving them. But with this comes along with self confidence - no longer does Rory feel like a replacement, but a man who can be respected and loved for his own actions. And really, Rory will not mind doing terrible things if it would save Amy's life.
Oh yes, Amy. The woman was the love of his life, from the beginning to the end. He wouldn't mind living and going anywhere, as long as Amy would be by his side. The two perfectly complement each other - Rory was as calm as water and as unyielding as the earth, while Amy was as brave as fire and as dreamy as air. Amy would show Rory how to live a little and have fun for himself, while Rory could protect Amy and make sure she doesn't wander off too far. Amy was the more dominant one in their relationship, and Rory doesn't mind because he loves her and he knows it will do Amy no good to just chain her down. But he knows Amy needs him too - whenever she is threatened or scared, Rory will always be there to save her, even when she is expecting someone else. Rory will move mountains and burn out stars just for her.
Rory is their voice of reason. The Doctor and Amy could be a bit too caught up in all the awe and wonder sometimes, so Rory makes sure that they don't lose their way, and finish things up. He has learned to trust the Doctor to be capable enough of finding a way, and the Doctor has learned that he can always rely on Rory, even to the extent of allowing him to help maintain the TARDIS. The Doctor makes sure for them to have fun, and Rory makes sure that they don't end up getting killed. While to others, the Doctor can seem to be a bit inhumane at times, so they look to Rory, who is generally friendly - if he doesn't like you, he'll just be a bit blunt. He is practical and simple, the perfect counterpart to the otherworldly and dramatic Doctor.
Above all of these lies one critical fact - in the end, he's still a nurse, and while he is now a fighter, Rory remains more as a healer. He has seen many people die in his travels, himself included, but Rory will never get used to it. In the end, it is his duty to save people, no matter who they may be. He has seen many terrible things, but his respect for all life remains intact. It is his first instinct to do his job, and if he has failed to do so, the best he could do is to give them a proper send off.
Rory Williams is a good nurse, a good friend, a good husband, and a good Roman.
Above all, Rory Williams is a good man.
Background:
Nothing much happened to Rory Williams when he was a kid. He was born in the small town of Leadworth, quiet and peaceful and hardly involved with the tales of the world. The closest thing that can be considered as odd in his early life was his closest friend, Amelia Pond. One day she raved to him about her Raggedy Doctor, who fell from the sky and ate only fish fingers and custard. Thanks to Amelia's whims, Rory then became a replacement for this Raggedy Doctor. Day by day he dresses up like him, tries to act like him and goes to imaginary adventures in his imaginary big blue box, taking young Amelia with him.
But soon Rory grew up, and childhood friend became sort of boyfriend. For twelve years the Raggedy Doctor was nothing but a game in his mind, but still he felt overshadowed by this wonderful man, leading him to become a nurse in the Royal Leadworth Hospital. Little did he know that this very job would change his life forever.
It all started with the coma patients he was attending to in the year 2008 doing an impossible feat - not only were they calling for a 'Doctor' simultaneously, Rory kept seeing the coma patients wandering across town. Unfortunately his boss didn't believe him and was forced to take a day off. Outside, the sun was looking a bit too strange and all the passersby decided to take pictures of the end of the world. But a walking patient took his attention more, and so sensible Rory took pictures of him - which led him to be interrogated by Amelia (who now calls herself Amy), and - of all people - the Raggedy Doctor himself. Turns out what Rory was seeing downtown were not coma patients, but Prisoner Zero, an alien that can take multiple forms. Prisoner Zero escaped his cell, and now his wardens, the Atraxi, are going to burn the entire Earth in twenty minutes if he doesn't surrender himself. Prisoner Zero needed a psychic link to borrow other appearances, and the coma patients were the perfect key. The Doctor then ordered Amy and a disbelieving Rory to go back to the hospital to clear out the area. They were a bit too late for the medical personnel, however, and Prisoner Zero was about to corner them when the Doctor came in and save the day, pinpointing the Prisoner's location to the Atraxi. After Prisoner Zero was secured and Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation kept the Atraxi from ever returning, the Doctor has saved the day. But then, he suddenly left, leaving no trace of him save for a large phone bill for Rory.
He didn't see the Doctor until two years later, at the day before his wedding. Once again the Doctor left his mark - he was the stripper at Rory's stag party. Apparently Amy - now his wife to be - has been travelling with the Doctor for all this time, and apparently Amy tried to take her advances towards the Doctor. The Time Lord decided to give them a wedding gift - specifically, a free trip to Venice, 1580, to shake off the couple's nerves (and, in Rory's case to calm down at the fact that his fiancée was cheating.)
All was starting to be well until vampire-looking creatures appeared to be kidnapping the Venice women. The Doctor, being the Doctor, decided to answer this threat although he required infiltration. Amy volunteered despite Rory's complaints, and was almost in proper danger if the Doctor and Rory didn't come up to save her. Turns out they were not vampires but fish aliens who survived the destruction of their planet which was engulfed in a crack of space and time. The kidnapped women were being converted to fish aliens, in order to mate with the fish aliens such that their species would survive. That's all fine and dandy, but thing is they would require the entirety of Venice for it, and the Doctor wasn't too fond of the idea. And that's why the Doctor saved the city, while Amy and Rory were fending off one of the meanie fish aliens. Amy wanted Rory to come along for more adventures with the Doctor, and Rory was all too glad to accept it.
Sometime later the Doctor's big blue box TARDIS was invaded by Psychic Pollen. The next thing they knew it was five years later, Rory and Amy are back in Leadworth expecting a baby, and the Doctor came to visit. This place represented Rory's ambitions: to be a doctor, living in a quiet and peaceful life, happily married to Amy. It was his perfect scenario - well, other than the fact that there were aliens about to kill them. Thing is, from time to time, they will wake up back in the TARDIS, systems failing and approaching a star that' freezing them to death. Enter the Dream Lord, who claims to have entrapped them. One is reality and the other is a dream, he says, and the only way to get out of the dream is to kill themselves ala Inception. Thing is, which is the dream? As they were figuring it out, Rory dies in the Leadworth world. Amy couldn't accept a life without Rory so she and the Doctor killed themselves there. Fortunately, the Leadworth world was a dream, but guess what? So is the other world. The Dream Lord couldn't exist outside reality, because the Dream Lord is the facet of the Doctor's darer aspects - he exists only inside the Doctor's mind, and the Psychic Pollen used it against him.
Their next destination was Rio - or, at least, that's where they should have been. They ended up in Cwmtaff 2020 where the deepest hole in Earth is being dug. Rory stayed behind to keep Amy's engagement ring safe, while the other two went ahead. This ended up with Rory being dragged into the strange case of the disappearing bodies. At the same time, someone's been dragging people into the hole and that is what exactly happened to Amy later on. That is where the Doctor discovered something important - there were Sirulians underground them, and they believed that the drill was destroying their home. This they learned from the Silurian warrior Alaya, whom they captured hostage.
The Doctor went in to negotiate while Rory stayed behind with the other related parties in order to guard Alaya. Turns out the Silurians were in Earth before the humans, and now they believe the humans were invading. Fortunately humankind is an amazing species, and right there was an agreement to share the Earth between the two races. All was going well when Ambrose, one of the humans, tortured Alaya to death. Outrage occurred, and so the agreement was postponed. The humans and the Doctor escaped, but with a price - Rory took a bullet for the Doctor and died. Worse, his body was too close to a crack in time, and so Rory's very existence was erased. The only thing that remained was the Doctor's memory of him, and the engagement ring he gave to Amy.
And then he was a Roman.
Yeah, it's very distracting.
So there he was, a Centurion, looking like a Roman, living like a Roman and doing Roman... stuff. This was his daily routine when another companion named River Song showed up, claiming to be Cleopatra and requesting volunteers for the Doctor. Rory, of course, volunteered.
The Doctor needed the Romans for one good reason - there's a box called the Pandorica, containing the most dangerous being in the universe, and now every single enemy the Doctor has - Daleks, Cybermen, Sonatarans, etc. are going for it. The Romans are the best reinforcements the Doctor can get, and they are definitely up for the job because if Rory wasn't there, Amy would have been converted into a Cyberman already. But now, Rory realises that Amy doesn't remember him at all. There's nothing left of their upcoming marriage now, except for that one engagement ring.
That's the last of their problems however, when you have battleships knocking upon your door. A clever trick by the Doctor fortunately gave his allies some time to try and figure out what's inside the Pandorica - and for Rory to try and talk to Amy. He urges her to remember, but Amy really couldn't, until...
"Williams. You're Rory Williams."
It would have been an amazing reunion, but then Rory figured out that something was wrong inside his head. He's being given a command, a command to... He yells out to Amy, telling her to run away, but she couldn't leave him, so she tries to help him, but for a moment she slips, and then -
Bang.
This Rory wasn't the real Rory, and none of the Romans are actually Roman - they were all Nestene duplicates, living plastic, believing themselves to be human until software commands them to do so. This Rory was created after Amy's memories of him, and thus creating a scenario the Doctor couldn't resist. The Romans were a trap to capture him, because the Pandorica was empty and now it opens for the most dangerous being in the universe - the Doctor himself.
River Song is inside an exploding TARDIS, the Doctor is trapped in the Pandorica, and a dead Amy lies in a grieving Rory's arms, and all the stars start to go out, as he universe starts to end with all the increasing cracks in time. All hope seems to be lost when something unusual happened -
Because right in front of Rory appeared the Doctor. With a broom. And a fez. Yeeep.
This Doctor needed Rory to get his past self out (don't ask how this Doctor existed while he can still be trapped forever - it's timey wimey, wibbly wobbly stuff.) and provided Rory his screwdriver. The Pandorica was easy enough for Rory to open from the outside, and there he is, the Doctor ready to save the world. "But what about Amy?" Rory asked. The Doctor says that he doesn't have time to save her, so what does Rory do? He punches the Doctor. Thank goodness it was just a Secret Test of Character. So, they decided to put Amy (who was just almost dead, apparently) in the Pandorica - it's a prison, it will keep her alive and she will be brand new once it gets a biological sample of a younger Amy - which they can achieve in about two thousand years from now. The Doctor has a teleporter, but Rory decided to stay because the Pandorica will be safer with him around.
So there Rory became a legend as The Last Centurion, always guarding the Pandorica, never letting anyone open it. He did it without sleep and without food for all these years. The Doctor told him to stay us of trouble, but that's hard when you're around for such a long time. One notable event was when the London Blitz happened and the Pandorica's storage room burned down. Rory pulled it out to safety, despite that heat is his weakness (mind you, he's still plastic). That was the last time The Last Centurion was seen, but really, Rory just switched jobs and became a Night Guard at the museum the Pandorica was in.
And the total score is - approximately two thousand years, no physical damage, and no sanity broken. Best boyfriend ever, or best boyfriend ever?
Time skip to 1996 and adult!Amy was restored by child!Amy. The light from the Pandorica has the potential to fix the destroyed fragments of the universe, including a Dalek "artifact" in the museum. Thank goodness Rory arrived to save the day. The Doctor comes back with River Song, and the three are just in time to save the universe - colliding the exploding TARDIS with the Pandorica creates Big Bang Two, thus restarting the universe. But thing is, the Doctor needs to be at the heart of the explosion, and so as a consequence he will be at the other side of the cracks, and he will be erased from existence.
And boom.
We return to the year 2010, just in time for Amy and Rory's wedding. Rory never died in this universe, so plastic Rory never existed. The wedding continued without a hitch, but then Amy felt that something was missing, and then, she started to remember.
Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.
"I remember you, Doctor, and you are late for my wedding!"
And lo and behold, in the middle of the dance floor was a big blue police box. And Rory, too, started to remember - Prisoner Zero, the stripper as his stag party, even the two thousand years when he was plastic. The Doctor was back, along with memories of their adventures.
Their wedding continued peacefully, save for the Doctor's atrocious dancing, but Rory won't mind, so long as his wife was still on his lap.
It all soon came to an end, and it was time for Amy and Rory to save their goodbyes - but to Leadworth, not to the Doctor, for they are ready to have more adventures at hand.
Yeah, they basically spent their wedding night in the TARDIS, where stuff happened. The Doctor claims that they were noisy.
But obviously, they should have a honeymoon they deserved. Their first trip leads them to a honeymoon planet where the Doctor dropped them off before his TARDIS was stolen (but that's a completely different story, and the TARDIS was reclaimed anyway). The next time we see them, they were in the honeymoon suite of a galaxy-class spaceship. However, said spaceship got into trouble so Amy and Rory (dressed up as a policewoman and a Centurion respectively - it's kinda obvious why, isn't it) went to the control room and put up a distress call for the Doctor. A little enactment of A Christmas Carol later, and tithe ship was able to land safely.
After that came two months of the Ponds Williams living quite normally, until they kept finding historical topics involving the Doctor, and then finally they received a message - with an envelope of TARDIS blue, and coordinates of latitude and longitude that leads them to... America! There, they reunite with the Doctor (who wears a Stetson now) and River Song. The group then had a picnic. They were having a jolly good time when suddenly an astronaut rises out of the lake nearby. The Doctor calmly walks toward the spaceman, and suddenly he is shot.
Aw, that's alright the Doctor can regenerate -
Wait what, was he just shot again?!
River tried to shoot the Space Man down, but to no avail. The trio went to attend to the Doctor, but it was all too late, as an old man confirms it - he is as good as dead. The only thing they could have done, as Rory suggested, it to give him a proper funeral. They return to a nearby diner, trying to figure out what the Doctor was referring to (Space 1969) before he died. They also figured out that four envelopes were distributed - one to the old man, one to River, and one to Amy and Rory. So who got the last envelope? Who does the Doctor trust the most?
Guess who it's the Doctor himself! Well, a younger Doctor. Now they are entrusted to convince this Doctor to go to 1969, without telling him what did they just witnessed. Fortunately, the Doctor trusted Amy enough to follow this. So vworp vworp they go, right into -
At President Nixon's office, Mr. President just recruited former FBI agent Canton Delaware (who happens to be the old man back at the present) to figure out the mystery of a child giving the President a direct call. "Help me, the space man is going to eat me," she said. They were having a dandy good time when all of a sudden, the Doctor and his crew pops up, with a solution to their problems - all the Doctor needed was a SWAT team, the map of Florida, a cup of coffee, twelve Jammy Dodgers and a fez.
Well, actually, all they needed was the map.
Either way, they managed to pinpoint the child's location, so they immediately went there via TARDIS travel. Canton decided to hop in, so now Rory had to explain all the time and space travel to the newcomer. Soon they ended up in somewhere that looked like an abandoned warehouse. River and Rory went down to investigate, while the Doctor and Amy stared behind. Inside, Roy and River encountered the Silence, aliens you forget once you look away from them.
The quad escaped with a plan in mind. Canton would pretend to capture the Doctor, and he will spend three months looking for the others. Rory and everyone else would go around the state, checking for the existence of the Silence - they would mark themselves for every Silent they would see, such that they would not forget that they had an encounter. Eventually they will be "shot down" by Canton, and then they will regroup. Apparently they are everywhere, and they are also capable of post-hypnotic suggestion which explains why the FBI was hunting them down. Humanity has been controlled by the Silence for all this time.
Amy and Canton were sent to investigate an orphanage as the Doctor messes with the mechanics of Apollo 11. He was captured, but Rory and River arrived just in time with President Nixon to save the Doctor from imprisonment. Soon they are launched off, however, because Canton just gave them a message - Amy's missing. The only thing they could find from her is a small recording device each received beforehand. It's playing live, and they can hear Amy calling for help - to the Doctor. Rory is dismayed, but he wants Amy to be saved nonetheless.
Soon they were able to save Amy and doom the Silence that kidnapped her with the same blow - televised is a recording of a Silent telling the human race to kill them all, and now nearly all the humans are doing a silent revolution, driven by post-hypnotic suggestion.
With the world saved, River returns to her cell and the trio return to the TARDIS. Amy apparently was calling Rory, not the Doctor, for help ("But you said 'fell from the sky'." "It's a figure of speech, you moron!") Fortunately they are all in good terms again, talking about timeheads and false pregnancies. But when the Doctor goes to scan Amy, all he gets is Schrodinger's Pregnancy. HMMM.
There was also a timey wimey spacey wacey incident regarding thermocouplings and short skirts, but let's not dwell about that.
Onwards! Their next travel leads them to a pirate ship, or all places, and it comes with a curse - the smallest of wounds would lead them to have a black spot o their hand, and then a siren would beckon them to come to her, only to be disintegrated to nothing. Pirates being pirates, they had them walk the plank, one by one. Now it was Amy's turn to save the day (with pirate clothes, even!) but that resulted in a wounded pirate - and a wounded Rory. To make things worse, the siren now has the phone box, and Rory ended up drowning and being captured by the siren, so now the Doctor has to figure this out without the help of his TARDIS. Again.
Thanks to the assistance of a stowaway, the Doctor manages to figure out that the siren was actually an alien nurse, and that she's been teleporting the wounded and sick into a sickbay. When they got there, they found the "dead" pirates, the TARDIS, and Rory himself. Now, in order to get Rory out, they also need to remove his life support, and that would make him choke on swallowed water again. So Rory decided to put his life on Amy's hands and taught her how to perform CPR. Thankfully Amy was a good learner and so they were shooting across the sooner than you can say "OH GOD THEY KILLED RORY AGAIN." What happened to the pirates, you ask? Oh, they became space pirates, that's all.
While the TARDIS was in open space, the Doctor suddenly got mail from a Time Lord outside the universe - well, their universe. The Doctor, of course, was all too thrilled to see the possibility of other Time Lords existing. But when they got to their location, all they saw was this weird junkyard, and a girl who calls the Doctor her thief. The Doctor makes Amy and Rory go back to the TARDIS while he investigates, because he feels that something is very wrong in here.
His guts were right. Inhabiting this universe is House, killer of Time Lords and eater of TARDISes. It just happened that he extracted the TARDIS' soul into the girl earlier and now inhabits the usual structure of the TARDIS. He starts the voyage to go into our universe, taking Rory and Amy with him.
As for the couple, they need to run for their lives in order not to get killed. Unfortunately, the two got separated. They eventually find each other, but time is screwed up, and soon Amy finds that Rory died of old age, and inscriptions of "HATE AMY KILL ME AMY DIE DIE DIE" were upon the walls. But then, the real Rory shows up. "He's messing with our minds," he says. He comforts her, and they start to run again. (It's most likely that Rory had the same treatment, but was calmer with it because really, it's hard to scare a man who's lived for two thousand years.)
Soon, Rory gets a telephatic message from the TARDIS (apparently she thinks he's "the pretty one", even). She tells them to go to an old control room. There, Rory can take down the shields and let the Doctor and the TARDIS in. Long story short, they succeeded in destroying House from the inside, but now the TARDIS has to go back into her actual body - the mechanisms of this big blue box. But before she left, she kept repeating a phrase to Rory - "The only water in the forest is the river."
After a few days and a round of darts, the Doctor takes them for fish and chips - actually, no, they end up in an acid factory in our near future. Apparently the factory workers use gangers - doppelgangers, bodies made out of a substance called the Flesh. They use them as their actual bodies are fast asleep and safe (think James Cameron's Avatar). That way, when those bodies disintegrate due to the acid, they don't actually die.
That's quite fine, actually, but then there's an electrical accident - the Flesh is alive, you see, and now they are actual copies of the factory workers. They are plagued with an identity crisis, and the originals aren't helping with the crisis at all. As they went looking for the gangers a factory worker named Jenny had to do a bathroom break. Rory accompanies her for protection only to find out that this Jenny was a ganger. But Rory was Rory, so instead he comforted her - he went through this process before, after all. But Jenny was still scared, so she ran away. As the rest of the group have their own shenanigans, Rory wanders about, looking for Jenny, but he ends up seeing two Jennys. He tried to stop the inevitable fight between them, but t was all too late and one - a ganger one - dies. The remaining Jenny then shows Rory a terrible sight - failed and incomplete Flesh, very much alive but rotting, left to die. Rory is moved and wants to change this and reveal it to the world, and so Jenny gives Rory a plan.
Jenny and Rory meet up with the Doctor and the other, but then the two trapped them up in an acid chamber. Rory just locked them just so he could explain the situation without interruption, but then it appears that he was just tricked - the Jenny with him? She was a ganger, too, and the real one's good as dead. In a few minutes the acid would overpour and the humans (and Time Lord) inside would die. Poor Rory was taken by the rebelling gangers who now happened to have a new ally - the ganger of the Doctor himself.
It was the center of the revolution where the strangest of events took place - the gangers were all too human, the Doctor and the ganger Doctor switched places, and in the end they all went to save their counterparts. Only Jenny remains, venturing out to kill them all. They would have been destroyed if not for the ganger Doctor sacrificing himself. In fact, only one version of each person survived (with a few exceptions, where neither version survived.)
It happens that the Doctor went to this area for a good reason - to study the Flesh. Because their Amy is a ganger, even since before America, and while she is among them in heart and soul, her body is somewhere in space, kidnapped for a reason - because Amy is pregnant, and she is about to give birth. With this revelation in mind, Doctor and Rory now begin looking for the real Amy.
They search far and wide across space and time, collecting assistance and even doing feats such as destroying Cyberman fleets - all for Amy. Rory donned his Centurion armour, by recommendation of the Doctor. They are, after all, gong into war against a station known as Demon's Run. Rory personally comes for River Song, asking her for help. But River says no she can only come at the very end where the Doctor finds out who she is. So the Doctor and his team successfully claim Demon's Run without bloodshed. Amy and Rory are reunited, and for the first time Rory holds his daughter, Melody Williams Pond.
They are about to leave when the Headless Monks retaliate and give large losses to their group. Furthermore, this Melody was apparently made out of Flesh, and the enemy still has the real version of her. They plan to make Melody a weapon, because she was conceived in the TARDIS and she is infused with Time Lord DNA.
It is at that time when River shows up. The Doctor is enraged - why did she show up too ate when he always appear in time whenever she needed him? River merely motions to Melody's cot, and the Doctor was suddenly all better, getting into the TARDIS and leaving them all alone. Amy and Rory then went to interrogate River on what she meant.
"The only water in the forest is the river."
In the language of the Gamma Forests, Melody Pond translates to another meaning - River Song.
While he stomachs this new revelation, Rory ends up in Adstringendum.
Abilities/Additional Notes:
Rory is a trained nurse, very much capable of handling out medical procedures and examining bodies (extremely useful when most adventures with the Doctor take a turn for the worse.) Often would Rory be the one to immediately tend to the wounded or check if everyone's alright, because Rory is, first and foremost, a good man who saves anyone.
And while Rory is completely human, he does have the memories of his Auton (or he was the Auton, as the Doctor seems to hint). While he doesn't always remember the two thousand years he spent while being plastic, he can access them from time to time, like a door he can open and close. This proves to be effective at times, because those years also include Roman military training and thus Rory can be quite experienced with a gladius. He can also wield a gun properly, considering that the Autons were built with their own guns.
Sample Journal Post:
[ hello adstringendum! right in front of your screen is a roman. or a man who dresses like a roman. yeah. he looks quite tired and concerned, but right now he's doing his best to make a formal impression.
it's not going very well. ]
Um. Hello. [ he coughs. ] I'm looking for someone, she was with me when this all happened so she should be around here somewhere. Safe, I hope.
He name's Amy Pond - well, actually Amy Williams. She's ginger, she's Scottish, she's very lovely, and she's my wife, so don't even think of doing anything to her, because... I'm her husband. [ er. ] A very... good. Husband. With a sword. A very big sword. Right.
[ he then stops for a while, as if an idea comes to his mind. ] And there's this other guy - he calls himself the Doctor, just the Doctor. You can't miss him, he always has this blue police box around and he loves wearing big, bright, bowties.
So if any of them are around, tell them I'm here. [ he reaches to end the feed, but then he stops. in here is supposed to be a filter, but the animus are evil spirits, so it's up there for everyone to see. suddenly he achieves looking more serious, but his voice is less formal now - it's softer. kinder. ]
Amy, if you can hear this - I'm coming. I'm coming, alright? We are going to get out of here, and we are going to find our daughter. I promise.
Sample RP:
A lot of strange things happen when you travel with the Doctor. Slimy aliens and evil robots are quite the staple in their voyages, and far weirder experiences can happen - talking transport and living plastic, for example. At every single step they make, Rory kept wondering if things can never be more extraordinary. Time and time again, as the hum of the TARDIS comes to a stop and the blue doors open, the Centurion was always proved wrong.
This time was no exception.
He wasn't so sure how it happened - the battle was over, they were abandoned by the Doctor, and now River Song just told them that she was Melody their very own daughter. Suddenly he earned a dizziness, and next thing he knew, he was here. It looked like Earth and it feels like Earth, but it seemed to be an abandoned wasteland as if he was pulled into some horror movie or zombie apocalypse (Rory wouldn't be surprised, actually, if that was the case.) Thing is, he was quite sure he was in outer space and he wasn't so certain on how could he end up in here without the help of TARDIS travel.
For once, he actually wanted to be back in that big blue box, arguing with the Doctor and enjoying his time with Amy -
Amy. The nausea was clearing up. That's right; she was with him when all of this happened. She could be here, somewhere, as lost as he is. Rory glanced at an object enclosed in his hands - there was a cellphone right beside him when he woke up, and he was quite sure someone intended him to have it, whoever that person may be. And maybe Amy has a similar phone as well.
It was a slim chance, but it was worth it. First he'll have to find Amy, anything else can follow up after that.
He took a deep breath, and pressed the 'record' button.
"Um. Hello..."