Jan 01, 2019 01:00
Character History: Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, theDoctor reverts to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverts back to the moment just after the President dies. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
After dropping her family and Jack off at their respective homes, Martha tells the Doctor she will not be traveling with him anymore. It is here that she enteres the game.
Personality:
Martha Jones is a very tenacious person. She cares greatly about helping people, which is one of the reasons she wanted to become a doctor in the first place. She is very smart, and very caring. As a companion to the Doctor, she will do just about anything to save him. This is evident in episodes such as “The Family” when she watches over him in his human state. She makes sure he doesn’t do anything to change the course of events. She also watches him fall in love with another human being. One that isn’t her. As much as she loves the Doctor, Martha is also very in tune to her family and the rest of the world. When the Master effectively creates an apocalypse, it is Martha who escapes and walks the Earth, helping people, telling stories, and eventually saving the world as well as the Doctor.
And even though she just left the Doctor, she loves him. A love that will probably never go away even though it’s never meant to be. Martha is strong enough to get out before it consumes her. And while that takes great courage, it doesn’t mean she loves him any less. At least not yet.
Appearance ( Martha is a 23 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, and her eyes are very expressive.
What is the point of your character’s canon in which you are introducing your character?: Just after she leaves the Doctor at the end of Season 3
Is your character alive or dead at the point of entry to the game?: Alive
What skills does your character have?: Martha has a very theoretical and a somewhat applied medical knowledge. She can run... a lot... Martha is also open-minded and intelligent. She basically your normal smart human, dedicated, athletic human being. Who can save the world.
Inventory
- The Cell Phone she gave the Doctor
- A poster that says Vote for Saxon
- DVD of instructions for the Doctor turning human
- A Journal that appears to contain dreams. Title Page reads “This belongs to John Smith
- Photo of her entire family
- Photo of her and the Doctor looking happy on the TARDIS
- A plastic button that says, “Hooray, I’m nine!”
- TARDIS key/Perception Filter
- Vortex Manipulator
- An iPod classic circa 2003 with earbuds and recharger.