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IC:
Character name: The Doctor
Fandom: Doctor Who
Timeline: Just after he hears the four knocks and figures out what he has to to do save the world. :)
Age: Over the thousands mark. But he's not really sure (in his Eleventh regeneration he shaves 100 years or so off of his age, because he really can't remember, and if you could remove 100 years from your age, wouldn't you?)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
The Doctor is a Time Lord, and as such, he has plenty of abilities. Considering the fact that he's an alien, he still looks human (or, rather, the human species look like Time Lords, as they were around long before humans!), but there are a few major biological differences between the two. For starters, Time Lords are sort of... equipped with this arrogant sense of self, as they've been brought up to believe themselves to be better than everyone else (as a 'higher species') because they are, by right of birth, a race that pride themselves on watching and knowing everything. Whilst this isn't an ability, I thought it was worth mentioning due to the Doctor's arrogance and purely shameless way of announcing just how brilliant he is whenever someone is close enough to listen.
Back onto biological differences, Time Lords have two hearts which beat at 170 beats per minute, a respiratory bypass system (means they can't be strangled, basically) and their internal body temperature is a shocking 15 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are, seemingly, no match for Time Lords as they're able to stand the cold and the heat in dangerous doses. They can also stand up to.. well, a very long time, thanks to their respiratory system, in any type of vacuum, though they have to take a long breath before being pushed out into space (since, you know, no one can hear you scream).
Next up is the healing coma. Time Lords have been lovingly given the ability to fall into a deep coma in order for their bodies to heal whatever it is that needs healing. When they enter this state, their body temperature falls to below freezing. They can also stop both of their hearts beating, which effectively means that they can play dead better than Fido.
Time Lords are also (mostly) unaffected by electrical surges, crazy energy whips, the radiation emitted from X-Ray machines (he can absorb radiation and push it back out using his foot! That's right, ladies; how is this man single?), time (in general, they don't age once they've fallen into a regeneration), and they can choose whether alcohol or drugs ingested actually give them any 'highs' or 'lows'.
Regenerations are also a particularly well-known ability. When a Time Lord regenerates, it means that each and every cell within their body dies, and is then reformed to create a new DNA, new face, new body and new everything. It hurts, because the Time Lord regenerating physically dies (though the mind remains alive to witness all of these changes), and each nerve is set alight and activated to transform into something different. Whilst regeneration is a very important Time Lord ability, I hopefully won't have to use it, because I'd rather not stray into AU territory if it can be helped.
Oh, and Time Lords can sense and smell other Time Lords.
His mental powers are easily summed up with being psychic. When touching someone else (be it through a head butt - which is a quick fire way of pushing a large amount of information into the person the Time Lord has chosen to head butt, though it obviously causes pain - or a gentle press of fingers), Time Lords can transfer data (memories, thoughts, drum beats) over to the recipient. Time Lords can also communicate via telepathy, he can read minds and he can meld his mind to someone else, pulling their mental illness back in order to understand certain events. Time Lords can give their abilities away - such as in 'The Planet of the Ood', the Doctor gives Donna the chance to hear the Ood's song of captivity, but when she can no longer bear the weight of the song, he strips the ability away. It's also worth saying that they see time as a whole all of the time, so they understand and can physically see all possible outcomes of a present situation and they see how it arrived there. They can also feel earth as it moves through time and space like some sort of... pull.
Time Lords are able to communicate with one another using Astral Projections after going into a trance, but if he's disturbed whilst making one, his mind could rip away from his body and he would instantly die. In 'The Last of the Time Lords', the Doctor telepathically worms his way into the ArchAngel network set up by the Master that is tapped into the human population whilst the entire human race chant his name. The amount of psychic energy offered let him de-age himself and effectively become Tinkerbell a god, with a bright blue light shining around him, and the ability to float up into the air. He could also deflect direct shots aimed at him from the Master's laser screwdriver, and then he telekinetically disarms the Master completely.
They can also wipe memories when it's needed, as well as being able to slide a sort of mirror over what might be considered a dangerous set of memories (such as for Donna, when he has to hide their adventures). This form of amnesia isn't perfect, though; if she's ever presented with something that reminds her of the Doctor, then it could trigger everything to come spilling out.
Also, he licks things. A lot of things. Everything, really. He says it's to determine something - such as the properties by taste, smell and temperature in whatever he's licking.
But really, I just thinks he likes to lick things.
How would they use their abilities?:
To protect people both himself and those around him (also to alleviate MASS AMOUNTS OF GUILT IN HIS HEARTS).
Appearance:
This regeneration of the Doctor is both skinny and tall at 6'1 (aka: taller than the Master bahaha). He wears suits that seem to be one size too small for him, (blues, blacks, browns and pinstripes) and converse all star shoes (reds, whites, blacks, browns, beige). He also wears a brown, thin trench coat for all of those nights that are cold and - well, it's Britain, so rainy. He's tall, has a strangely attractive face that can pull a myriad of various (and occasionally hilarious) expressions. His hair, like all good spiky hair-dos, is god-like, and lathered in far too much gel for its own good.
Background/Personality:
The Doctor's been around for thousands of years. He's a Time Lord - an alien race, and the last one of his kind. During his own personal history, he's saved planets, ended wars, started wars, watched as people sacrificed themselves for him and had several companions (some that died, and some that were left in worse condition than when they were found). The Doctor has lived, seen and done nearly everything there is to be done, and after committing mass genocide on his own race to end a war that had been continuing for countless millennia, his regenerations have coped with it differently. This version of the Doctor has a large amount of regret and is unable to get past his previous actions. So whilst his guilt is horrendous for all of the things shared with his companions, it's nothing compared to the hatred he feels for himself concerning his own species sent to death by his own hands. It's a burden he can't get over, and he never truly will - at least, not as this regeneration.
The Tenth Doctor came about after absorbing the TARDIS' time vortex from his companion, Rose Tyler. The time vortex was slowly and painfully killing off each and every cell in his body until eventually, he had no choice but to Regenerate. The shock of a new face and a new body had Rose emotional and confused, so the Doctor had her returned to her house (instead of gallivanting off to the planet of Barcelona). Unfortunately, thanks to the ferocity of the forced regeneration he'd undergone, the Doctor started experiencing a violent form of hyperactivity. This had the TARDIS swing out of control, and they crash landed close to Powell Estate in central London. He takes this moment to set his identity straight with Rose, who was still somewhat taken aback, by reiterating the first word he'd ever said to her: run. His memory was the next side effect, and he was very dazed as he wished Rose's mother, Jackie, a good Christmas (as well as Rose's boyfriend at the time, Mickey) before falling into a coma. She does end up believing him, especially when he rouses out of his coma to help fight evil rotating Christmas trees (Doctor Who villains are wonderful, aren't they?). Pulling himself out of his healing sleep caused him to flop right back over once he'd helped the invasion calm down. Fortunately, it was only a momentary distraction on the Sycorax's part, but the Doctor eventually recovered enough to hold the full invasion back on Christmas morning. This ends in an epic sword fight - which meant having his hand chopped off (but he was able to regrow it, thanks to the leftover energy from his recent regeneration).
Rose. She deserves her own section, doesn't she? Rose Tyler, the Doctor's first companion as the Tenth Doctor, quickly became something more. Rose's affection for him grew into love, and the Doctor, in return, had presumably fallen for her - despite how very asexual the Doctor is, due to his own beliefs as well as the general taboo of a Time Lord falling for a 'lesser species'. Whilst it wasn't seen as illegal, it was certainly seen as odd - and the Doctor still tried to adhere to the complex structure of laws the race of the Time Lords had set up. Preventing the earth from being invaded disrupts the 'watch, but do not interfere' law, and the Doctor has skipped around and at times completely ignored this rule, especially if it meant watching the earth's destruction. He sees what was, what is and what will be - if something, even if it seems insignificant at the time, corrupts the way time should flow, the Doctor will know about it (... eventually) and he will make it his business to fix it and put things back onto their correct course.
Now, with Rose, life was great. They had their good times, and the Doctor was so much freer with who he was when he was with her - he was at the beginning of his adventure, so much optimism and silly little quirks. He was still feeling himself out, seeing what this regeneration likes (bananas) and dislikes (pears). The universe was at his fingertips, he was (mostly) angst-free and he was up for having a great time. Still, he had that niggling feeling about Rose, but he was also very good at ignoring and denying his feelings for anyone. Though the emotion he held for Rose was strong, it was also as brilliant as it was horrifying. He'd long since denied himself the pleasure of falling head over heels, so it certainly hit him by surprise - and, of course, he dealt with it appropriately: lock it up, throw away the key and deny deny deny.
After being pushed into an alternate reality with her mother, the Doctor's forced to face these emotions and counter them head on, but there was a real sense of loss after he realised that she'd be gone, and that she'd never be able to return.
Unfortunately, the Doctor underestimated Rose. She did return, by manipulating time and space, but she could only be there for a limited amount of time. He lost her all over again, due to his 'Handy' counterpart (Handy is an affectionate name for the Doctor's hand once lurking in a glass jar. Donna ~touched~ this spare hand, and made a metacrisis Ten; a clone, if you will, born out of battle, war and rage. He's half human and half Time Lord, equipped with the Doctor's brain and energy, but with only one heart, no regeneration and the ability to age).
He couldn't even bring himself to say the words out loud when he knew that Rose would be lost to him for good, because that would mean confirming something he'd actively tried to push away far too many times to count.
So, now in the knowledge that Rose Tyler has her happy ending, the Doctor leaves to search for his.
Martha was his second dose of angst. Martha Jones, his companion after Rose, had been a trainee doctor before she met the Doctor (who swept her off of her feet, really). Oh, he and Martha had a wonderful time - up until she had to go and fall in love with him, that is. The Doctor played it off, acted as though he didn't notice, all aloof and at times was horribly cruel to her. Unfortunately, Martha couldn't handle not being noticed and she left of her own accord, and whilst the Doctor understood her reasoning, he found himself crestfallen.
Donna was his third dose of angst, and his next companion post-Martha. Due to her starting the Metacrisis, she had her DNA switched in with Handy, and he had some of his switched with her. This meant that Donna, a normal, average human being had part Time Lord in her (and not the good part, either). The Doctor's brain, full of so much information and a vast amount of useless facts, overwhelmed her and the Doctor, fearing she'd melt down from all of that strain, was forced to put a sort of amnesia on her so that she would forget her time with him, but remain safe. From that point on, he's forced to accept that his actions cause pain. Because of his interference, he has to wipe Donna's memories of everything they had shared, leaving her upset without any cause, and it's pointed out to him by DAVROS that he has left every one of his companions broken in some way (or perhaps 'weaponised', in that when he leaves his companions they're able to fight for themselves and have learnt so much from the Doctor regarding the truth of the universe). And this isn't even mentioning all of the people that had apparently sacrificed themselves in the Doctor's name - people he's barely met, and even people he's never met, all dying in his name.
It makes him feel horrible, because he isn't the saint they seem to think he is. Known as The Oncoming Storm (a name dubbed upon him by the Daleks and later repeated by the Ood), he has a lot of emotions boiling up below the surface and it's only rarely that he gets to act as the righteous man he is, able to kill people without a second's thought, able to do so much damage with so little. He's also known as the Lonely Angel, a Time Lord condemning himself to walk the universe alone due to his own anguish, a Time Lord that's bent, broken and slashed through the laws of time for his own benefit. He barely even knows who he is any more.
The first thing to note about The Tenth Doctor, is that he's talkative. He's cheeky, he's got a large sense of humour, and he always has something to say, no matter the situation. His humour is always varying - this regeneration seems to enjoy private jokes the most, constantly commenting on whatever might be popular at the time (Harry Potter has had an entire episodes' worth of in-jokes, as well as other fandoms). He often yo-yo's whenever his mood is considered, either cracking jokes or jumping straight into anger - and it changes all over the place. One moment he'll be joking, and the next he's terribly serious. You can never quite get a read on what the Doctor is thinking. If there's one thing you can count on, it's the Doctor having a way of changing the conversation, especially when the subject rolls onto him (as Donna aptly comments in 'The Doctor's Daughter': 'You talk all the time but you never say anything'). He's extremely avoidant when talking about himself, only willing to talk about the things he's decided are safe subjects, whilst anything about his previous life and his involvement within the Time War remains his own burden.
Like all of his past regenerations, he's intelligent, and this particular Doctor has a soft spot for all things technical. There's been several instances where he's seen some extraordinary mechanics and he's been absolutely taken aback by its sheer genius. When faced with some intricate machinery, he often becomes astounded and feels the need to pull things apart just to see how things work. Even if the technology belongs to the enemy, he can take the time out of their fight to mention that whatever they've created is a work of art. His wit complements his technical smarts, leading him to be the immensely chatty person he is, as well as his excessive arrogance. He realises that he's incredibly smart, but he doesn't always draw attention to that - he is just genuinely impressed when he sees someone else living up to their full potential when intelligent.
He's constantly meddling. He can't sit still. Despite the race of Time Lords having many laws against the interfering of other Time Lords, Ten just can't help himself. Whilst he still holds himself accountable and listens to the large majority of rules, he ignores the rest of them in favour of helping. He has taken a liking to Earth - England in particular - and will actively work at protecting it whenever something odd shows up, because he can see how their world will end, as well as how it began and what it is currently. When facing his enemies, he has a very angry and righteous attitude; it's stated very early that they will only get one warning, and once that warning has expired, he will do everything within his power to see that their plans (often for world domination) have come to an end. He isn't above punishments, and when he does punish someone, he makes sure the penalty is befitting for whatever their actions might have been. Always moral, and never forgiving - his anger is the result of pent up anguish and he will fight for the earth for as long as he possibly can.
When put up against the Master, the Doctor feels an overwhelming sense of guilt. To the Doctor, the Master is both a memoir of everything he had to do to his own race, and the last of the Time Lords. He is extremely hypocritical when dealing with him, because he can't just kill him and everything he stands for. Despite the destructive side the Master often exhibits, the Doctor will always forgive him and will always take responsibility for him, no matter what the situation. The Doctor and the Master will always face off against one another, the Doctor representing the good side and the Master the bad - though, nothing is ever so black and white, for the Doctor is hardly a saint. The Master will always be a complicated issue for Ten, just because he is always so guilty and locked within the past.
He is a very complicated man - but considering the years he's been alive, he really shouldn't be anything less. He's had so much personal history, he's learnt and done so much with his life, and with this regeneration harbouring so much angst, it all sort of... comes out, whether it's through punishing other species for their crimes or through self denial and preservation. He's everything and nothing, and so much more than that - he has so much light and so much dark that it's so intriguing to see how he fights with himself throughout the entire series as the Tenth regeneration.
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1st person sample:
[... Don't panic. Don't panic. Good bit of advice, as far as being given advice from an inanimate object goes. But he's the Doctor. If he wants to panic, he's going to panic, thank you very much. And so:]
What? ... What?! What?!
[The voice is somewhat disjointed - new technology, give him a second or two, will you? Then there's fiddling - a very short amount of fiddling, mind, but there's still fiddling. Finally, the screen switches on and there's a pair of dark brown eyes being lit up by a bright reflection of him, his eyebrows raised and his hair stupidly spiky.]
Oh. Oh! Is that- right. Okay. Introductions. They help, don't they? I'm the Doctor, hello. I was - well, I was on Earth, actually, and this is obviously not Earth, though I don't recognise the make of this ship. And I recognise everything, so that's interesting - but, oh, before I get sidetracked, has anyone seen a big blue box? Says Police Box on it in big white letters? I used to have one of those key rings that say 'if found, return to Time and Space', but it wasn't very effective, since no one really knew where Time and Space was exactly. And it wouldn't help now, anyway, because I haven't lost my keys, I've lost the ship. Which happens more often than I'd like to say, actually.
Anyway.
[Suddenly his smile falls and he becomes more serious. He does that, the sudden mood change where he's all laughs before something more serious falls down.]
I can't see Earth. Something's happened.
3rd person sample:
Four knocks. Four, strong, horribly heart wrenching knocks. It echoes throughout the room, throughout his mind, passing through him completely and it makes his pulse pick up, because he knows that this - this is his end. This is how he'll die. This is his the end of the Doctor he's become so comfortable with.
This is it. Three simple words, and they mean more than they should; they weigh heavily on his shoulders, and he's panicking without even taking a look, expecting the worst, expecting time rifts or Daleks or death to literally take him without seeing a thing. He thinks that would be better secretly, because it's never pleasant, not really, to feel the pain of life literally draining from you, the body hanging onto life and outwardly refusing to just give up, even though it's inevitable. He turns, it's slow, it feels so slow, and the Doctor will swallow his trepidation in favour of doing what's right.
Even if what's right is so harrowing.
It's glass; see-through and everything you'd imagine glass to be: solid, strong and impenetrable until it's pushed too far and it shatters into too many pieces to count and pick up in one go. Just a box, and there's so many good things about being just a box, but this isn't one of them. He knows, Rassilon, he already knows what he has to do, with Wilfred Mott standing there so humanly, waving, asking to be let out. The Doctor smiles, but he thinks it's broken, not quite the smile he wears so well, more like a sad and forced one, eyebrows hunched and he's all soft expressions as he steps forwards.
But each step brings something new to change - for the world to disintegrate before his very eyes, slow but precise things flickering in and out of existence. He frowns, his pace slowing until he stands perfectly still.
Perfectly still in a new room. A room that he wasn't in before. A room that's entirely different from what he just experienced - and he can't help but utter the word:
"What?"
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IC:
Character name: The Doctor
Fandom: Doctor Who
Timeline: Just after he hears the four knocks and figures out what he has to to do save the world. :)
Age: Over the thousands mark. But he's not really sure (in his Eleventh regeneration he shaves 100 years or so off of his age, because he really can't remember, and if you could remove 100 years from your age, wouldn't you?)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
The Doctor is a Time Lord, and as such, he has plenty of abilities. Considering the fact that he's an alien, he still looks human (or, rather, the human species look like Time Lords, as they were around long before humans!), but there are a few major biological differences between the two. For starters, Time Lords are sort of... equipped with this arrogant sense of self, as they've been brought up to believe themselves to be better than everyone else (as a 'higher species') because they are, by right of birth, a race that pride themselves on watching and knowing everything. Whilst this isn't an ability, I thought it was worth mentioning due to the Doctor's arrogance and purely shameless way of announcing just how brilliant he is whenever someone is close enough to listen.
Back onto biological differences, Time Lords have two hearts which beat at 170 beats per minute, a respiratory bypass system (means they can't be strangled, basically) and their internal body temperature is a shocking 15 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are, seemingly, no match for Time Lords as they're able to stand the cold and the heat in dangerous doses. They can also stand up to.. well, a very long time, thanks to their respiratory system, in any type of vacuum, though they have to take a long breath before being pushed out into space (since, you know, no one can hear you scream).
Next up is the healing coma. Time Lords have been lovingly given the ability to fall into a deep coma in order for their bodies to heal whatever it is that needs healing. When they enter this state, their body temperature falls to below freezing. They can also stop both of their hearts beating, which effectively means that they can play dead better than Fido.
Time Lords are also (mostly) unaffected by electrical surges, crazy energy whips, the radiation emitted from X-Ray machines (he can absorb radiation and push it back out using his foot! That's right, ladies; how is this man single?), time (in general, they don't age once they've fallen into a regeneration), and they can choose whether alcohol or drugs ingested actually give them any 'highs' or 'lows'.
Regenerations are also a particularly well-known ability. When a Time Lord regenerates, it means that each and every cell within their body dies, and is then reformed to create a new DNA, new face, new body and new everything. It hurts, because the Time Lord regenerating physically dies (though the mind remains alive to witness all of these changes), and each nerve is set alight and activated to transform into something different. Whilst regeneration is a very important Time Lord ability, I hopefully won't have to use it, because I'd rather not stray into AU territory if it can be helped.
Oh, and Time Lords can sense and smell other Time Lords.
His mental powers are easily summed up with being psychic. When touching someone else (be it through a head butt - which is a quick fire way of pushing a large amount of information into the person the Time Lord has chosen to head butt, though it obviously causes pain - or a gentle press of fingers), Time Lords can transfer data (memories, thoughts, drum beats) over to the recipient. Time Lords can also communicate via telepathy, he can read minds and he can meld his mind to someone else, pulling their mental illness back in order to understand certain events. Time Lords can give their abilities away - such as in 'The Planet of the Ood', the Doctor gives Donna the chance to hear the Ood's song of captivity, but when she can no longer bear the weight of the song, he strips the ability away. It's also worth saying that they see time as a whole all of the time, so they understand and can physically see all possible outcomes of a present situation and they see how it arrived there. They can also feel earth as it moves through time and space like some sort of... pull.
Time Lords are able to communicate with one another using Astral Projections after going into a trance, but if he's disturbed whilst making one, his mind could rip away from his body and he would instantly die. In 'The Last of the Time Lords', the Doctor telepathically worms his way into the ArchAngel network set up by the Master that is tapped into the human population whilst the entire human race chant his name. The amount of psychic energy offered let him de-age himself and effectively become Tinkerbell a god, with a bright blue light shining around him, and the ability to float up into the air. He could also deflect direct shots aimed at him from the Master's laser screwdriver, and then he telekinetically disarms the Master completely.
They can also wipe memories when it's needed, as well as being able to slide a sort of mirror over what might be considered a dangerous set of memories (such as for Donna, when he has to hide their adventures). This form of amnesia isn't perfect, though; if she's ever presented with something that reminds her of the Doctor, then it could trigger everything to come spilling out.
Also, he licks things. A lot of things. Everything, really. He says it's to determine something - such as the properties by taste, smell and temperature in whatever he's licking.
But really, I just thinks he likes to lick things.
How would they use their abilities?:
To protect people both himself and those around him (also to alleviate MASS AMOUNTS OF GUILT IN HIS HEARTS).
Appearance:
This regeneration of the Doctor is both skinny and tall at 6'1 (aka: taller than the Master bahaha). He wears suits that seem to be one size too small for him, (blues, blacks, browns and pinstripes) and converse all star shoes (reds, whites, blacks, browns, beige). He also wears a brown, thin trench coat for all of those nights that are cold and - well, it's Britain, so rainy. He's tall, has a strangely attractive face that can pull a myriad of various (and occasionally hilarious) expressions. His hair, like all good spiky hair-dos, is god-like, and lathered in far too much gel for its own good.
Background/Personality:
The Doctor's been around for thousands of years. He's a Time Lord - an alien race, and the last one of his kind. During his own personal history, he's saved planets, ended wars, started wars, watched as people sacrificed themselves for him and had several companions (some that died, and some that were left in worse condition than when they were found). The Doctor has lived, seen and done nearly everything there is to be done, and after committing mass genocide on his own race to end a war that had been continuing for countless millennia, his regenerations have coped with it differently. This version of the Doctor has a large amount of regret and is unable to get past his previous actions. So whilst his guilt is horrendous for all of the things shared with his companions, it's nothing compared to the hatred he feels for himself concerning his own species sent to death by his own hands. It's a burden he can't get over, and he never truly will - at least, not as this regeneration.
The Tenth Doctor came about after absorbing the TARDIS' time vortex from his companion, Rose Tyler. The time vortex was slowly and painfully killing off each and every cell in his body until eventually, he had no choice but to Regenerate. The shock of a new face and a new body had Rose emotional and confused, so the Doctor had her returned to her house (instead of gallivanting off to the planet of Barcelona). Unfortunately, thanks to the ferocity of the forced regeneration he'd undergone, the Doctor started experiencing a violent form of hyperactivity. This had the TARDIS swing out of control, and they crash landed close to Powell Estate in central London. He takes this moment to set his identity straight with Rose, who was still somewhat taken aback, by reiterating the first word he'd ever said to her: run. His memory was the next side effect, and he was very dazed as he wished Rose's mother, Jackie, a good Christmas (as well as Rose's boyfriend at the time, Mickey) before falling into a coma. She does end up believing him, especially when he rouses out of his coma to help fight evil rotating Christmas trees (Doctor Who villains are wonderful, aren't they?). Pulling himself out of his healing sleep caused him to flop right back over once he'd helped the invasion calm down. Fortunately, it was only a momentary distraction on the Sycorax's part, but the Doctor eventually recovered enough to hold the full invasion back on Christmas morning. This ends in an epic sword fight - which meant having his hand chopped off (but he was able to regrow it, thanks to the leftover energy from his recent regeneration).
Rose. She deserves her own section, doesn't she? Rose Tyler, the Doctor's first companion as the Tenth Doctor, quickly became something more. Rose's affection for him grew into love, and the Doctor, in return, had presumably fallen for her - despite how very asexual the Doctor is, due to his own beliefs as well as the general taboo of a Time Lord falling for a 'lesser species'. Whilst it wasn't seen as illegal, it was certainly seen as odd - and the Doctor still tried to adhere to the complex structure of laws the race of the Time Lords had set up. Preventing the earth from being invaded disrupts the 'watch, but do not interfere' law, and the Doctor has skipped around and at times completely ignored this rule, especially if it meant watching the earth's destruction. He sees what was, what is and what will be - if something, even if it seems insignificant at the time, corrupts the way time should flow, the Doctor will know about it (... eventually) and he will make it his business to fix it and put things back onto their correct course.
Now, with Rose, life was great. They had their good times, and the Doctor was so much freer with who he was when he was with her - he was at the beginning of his adventure, so much optimism and silly little quirks. He was still feeling himself out, seeing what this regeneration likes (bananas) and dislikes (pears). The universe was at his fingertips, he was (mostly) angst-free and he was up for having a great time. Still, he had that niggling feeling about Rose, but he was also very good at ignoring and denying his feelings for anyone. Though the emotion he held for Rose was strong, it was also as brilliant as it was horrifying. He'd long since denied himself the pleasure of falling head over heels, so it certainly hit him by surprise - and, of course, he dealt with it appropriately: lock it up, throw away the key and deny deny deny.
After being pushed into an alternate reality with her mother, the Doctor's forced to face these emotions and counter them head on, but there was a real sense of loss after he realised that she'd be gone, and that she'd never be able to return.
Unfortunately, the Doctor underestimated Rose. She did return, by manipulating time and space, but she could only be there for a limited amount of time. He lost her all over again, due to his 'Handy' counterpart (Handy is an affectionate name for the Doctor's hand once lurking in a glass jar. Donna ~touched~ this spare hand, and made a metacrisis Ten; a clone, if you will, born out of battle, war and rage. He's half human and half Time Lord, equipped with the Doctor's brain and energy, but with only one heart, no regeneration and the ability to age).
He couldn't even bring himself to say the words out loud when he knew that Rose would be lost to him for good, because that would mean confirming something he'd actively tried to push away far too many times to count.
So, now in the knowledge that Rose Tyler has her happy ending, the Doctor leaves to search for his.
Martha was his second dose of angst. Martha Jones, his companion after Rose, had been a trainee doctor before she met the Doctor (who swept her off of her feet, really). Oh, he and Martha had a wonderful time - up until she had to go and fall in love with him, that is. The Doctor played it off, acted as though he didn't notice, all aloof and at times was horribly cruel to her. Unfortunately, Martha couldn't handle not being noticed and she left of her own accord, and whilst the Doctor understood her reasoning, he found himself crestfallen.
Donna was his third dose of angst, and his next companion post-Martha. Due to her starting the Metacrisis, she had her DNA switched in with Handy, and he had some of his switched with her. This meant that Donna, a normal, average human being had part Time Lord in her (and not the good part, either). The Doctor's brain, full of so much information and a vast amount of useless facts, overwhelmed her and the Doctor, fearing she'd melt down from all of that strain, was forced to put a sort of amnesia on her so that she would forget her time with him, but remain safe. From that point on, he's forced to accept that his actions cause pain. Because of his interference, he has to wipe Donna's memories of everything they had shared, leaving her upset without any cause, and it's pointed out to him by DAVROS that he has left every one of his companions broken in some way (or perhaps 'weaponised', in that when he leaves his companions they're able to fight for themselves and have learnt so much from the Doctor regarding the truth of the universe). And this isn't even mentioning all of the people that had apparently sacrificed themselves in the Doctor's name - people he's barely met, and even people he's never met, all dying in his name.
It makes him feel horrible, because he isn't the saint they seem to think he is. Known as The Oncoming Storm (a name dubbed upon him by the Daleks and later repeated by the Ood), he has a lot of emotions boiling up below the surface and it's only rarely that he gets to act as the righteous man he is, able to kill people without a second's thought, able to do so much damage with so little. He's also known as the Lonely Angel, a Time Lord condemning himself to walk the universe alone due to his own anguish, a Time Lord that's bent, broken and slashed through the laws of time for his own benefit. He barely even knows who he is any more.
The first thing to note about The Tenth Doctor, is that he's talkative. He's cheeky, he's got a large sense of humour, and he always has something to say, no matter the situation. His humour is always varying - this regeneration seems to enjoy private jokes the most, constantly commenting on whatever might be popular at the time (Harry Potter has had an entire episodes' worth of in-jokes, as well as other fandoms). He often yo-yo's whenever his mood is considered, either cracking jokes or jumping straight into anger - and it changes all over the place. One moment he'll be joking, and the next he's terribly serious. You can never quite get a read on what the Doctor is thinking. If there's one thing you can count on, it's the Doctor having a way of changing the conversation, especially when the subject rolls onto him (as Donna aptly comments in 'The Doctor's Daughter': 'You talk all the time but you never say anything'). He's extremely avoidant when talking about himself, only willing to talk about the things he's decided are safe subjects, whilst anything about his previous life and his involvement within the Time War remains his own burden.
Like all of his past regenerations, he's intelligent, and this particular Doctor has a soft spot for all things technical. There's been several instances where he's seen some extraordinary mechanics and he's been absolutely taken aback by its sheer genius. When faced with some intricate machinery, he often becomes astounded and feels the need to pull things apart just to see how things work. Even if the technology belongs to the enemy, he can take the time out of their fight to mention that whatever they've created is a work of art. His wit complements his technical smarts, leading him to be the immensely chatty person he is, as well as his excessive arrogance. He realises that he's incredibly smart, but he doesn't always draw attention to that - he is just genuinely impressed when he sees someone else living up to their full potential when intelligent.
He's constantly meddling. He can't sit still. Despite the race of Time Lords having many laws against the interfering of other Time Lords, Ten just can't help himself. Whilst he still holds himself accountable and listens to the large majority of rules, he ignores the rest of them in favour of helping. He has taken a liking to Earth - England in particular - and will actively work at protecting it whenever something odd shows up, because he can see how their world will end, as well as how it began and what it is currently. When facing his enemies, he has a very angry and righteous attitude; it's stated very early that they will only get one warning, and once that warning has expired, he will do everything within his power to see that their plans (often for world domination) have come to an end. He isn't above punishments, and when he does punish someone, he makes sure the penalty is befitting for whatever their actions might have been. Always moral, and never forgiving - his anger is the result of pent up anguish and he will fight for the earth for as long as he possibly can.
When put up against the Master, the Doctor feels an overwhelming sense of guilt. To the Doctor, the Master is both a memoir of everything he had to do to his own race, and the last of the Time Lords. He is extremely hypocritical when dealing with him, because he can't just kill him and everything he stands for. Despite the destructive side the Master often exhibits, the Doctor will always forgive him and will always take responsibility for him, no matter what the situation. The Doctor and the Master will always face off against one another, the Doctor representing the good side and the Master the bad - though, nothing is ever so black and white, for the Doctor is hardly a saint. The Master will always be a complicated issue for Ten, just because he is always so guilty and locked within the past.
He is a very complicated man - but considering the years he's been alive, he really shouldn't be anything less. He's had so much personal history, he's learnt and done so much with his life, and with this regeneration harbouring so much angst, it all sort of... comes out, whether it's through punishing other species for their crimes or through self denial and preservation. He's everything and nothing, and so much more than that - he has so much light and so much dark that it's so intriguing to see how he fights with himself throughout the entire series as the Tenth regeneration.
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1st person sample:
[... Don't panic. Don't panic. Good bit of advice, as far as being given advice from an inanimate object goes. But he's the Doctor. If he wants to panic, he's going to panic, thank you very much. And so:]
What? ... What?! What?!
[The voice is somewhat disjointed - new technology, give him a second or two, will you? Then there's fiddling - a very short amount of fiddling, mind, but there's still fiddling. Finally, the screen switches on and there's a pair of dark brown eyes being lit up by a bright reflection of him, his eyebrows raised and his hair stupidly spiky.]
Oh. Oh! Is that- right. Okay. Introductions. They help, don't they? I'm the Doctor, hello. I was - well, I was on Earth, actually, and this is obviously not Earth, though I don't recognise the make of this ship. And I recognise everything, so that's interesting - but, oh, before I get sidetracked, has anyone seen a big blue box? Says Police Box on it in big white letters? I used to have one of those key rings that say 'if found, return to Time and Space', but it wasn't very effective, since no one really knew where Time and Space was exactly. And it wouldn't help now, anyway, because I haven't lost my keys, I've lost the ship. Which happens more often than I'd like to say, actually.
Anyway.
[Suddenly his smile falls and he becomes more serious. He does that, the sudden mood change where he's all laughs before something more serious falls down.]
I can't see Earth. Something's happened.
3rd person sample:
Four knocks. Four, strong, horribly heart wrenching knocks. It echoes throughout the room, throughout his mind, passing through him completely and it makes his pulse pick up, because he knows that this - this is his end. This is how he'll die. This is his the end of the Doctor he's become so comfortable with.
This is it. Three simple words, and they mean more than they should; they weigh heavily on his shoulders, and he's panicking without even taking a look, expecting the worst, expecting time rifts or Daleks or death to literally take him without seeing a thing. He thinks that would be better secretly, because it's never pleasant, not really, to feel the pain of life literally draining from you, the body hanging onto life and outwardly refusing to just give up, even though it's inevitable. He turns, it's slow, it feels so slow, and the Doctor will swallow his trepidation in favour of doing what's right.
Even if what's right is so harrowing.
It's glass; see-through and everything you'd imagine glass to be: solid, strong and impenetrable until it's pushed too far and it shatters into too many pieces to count and pick up in one go. Just a box, and there's so many good things about being just a box, but this isn't one of them. He knows, Rassilon, he already knows what he has to do, with Wilfred Mott standing there so humanly, waving, asking to be let out. The Doctor smiles, but he thinks it's broken, not quite the smile he wears so well, more like a sad and forced one, eyebrows hunched and he's all soft expressions as he steps forwards.
But each step brings something new to change - for the world to disintegrate before his very eyes, slow but precise things flickering in and out of existence. He frowns, his pace slowing until he stands perfectly still.
Perfectly still in a new room. A room that he wasn't in before. A room that's entirely different from what he just experienced - and he can't help but utter the word:
"What?"
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