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Player Name: Ace
Player LJ: miurnin
Email and/or AIM: phishschtick
Timezone: Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)
Other Characters: None
Character: Owen Harper
Series/Fandom: Torchwood
Deviance: 8
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Canon Used: Aired episodes.
Appearance: ☻ ☻
Psychology: Meet Dr. Owen Harper, a man of indulgence, cynicism and a questionable bedside manner. As Torchwood's highly intelligent medic and self-proclaimed second-in-command, he has a lot to be egotistical about -- and he certainly plays on that fact. Owen is brilliant and he knows it. This, however, makes him a bit of a pain to be around.
His outlook on life and love has been dampened by a bad relationship with his mother and the extraterrestrial death of his fiancée, Katie, which ultimately prompted his joining Torchwood.
He has a cynical, pessimistic outlook on life and people, always being the first to point out in dire situations that the team's screwed, and keeps himself emotionally distant, preferring one-night stands over long-term relationships. He pushes members of his team away emotionally by acting like a complete ass and is often known to make inappropriate, snide or sarcastic comments and use foul language liberally. He does, however, have a strong sense of justice, seeking out and, though initially planning just to scare him, later nearly killing a man who had raped and murdered a young girl -- which also shows his courage and, unfortunately, his fiery, dangerous temper. When focused on a task Owen can become completely absorbed until he achieves the results he's striving for. And underneath his hard exterior, should anyone manage to break through all the pain and anger, Owen is a caring soul who only wants to save lives; exactly the reason he became a doctor in the first place. He can be a total romantic, and though the idea of being in love scares him - especially since Katie - he can be a sweetheart to those he grows to care about romantically and become destructive and self-destructive if that love is taken away.
Owen is also a very clean, tasteful person and conscious about his appearance. He hates the country for its unhygienic qualities, moisturizes, has nice clothes, a nice car and a very nice flat with a view.
Generally, Owen comes off as a somewhat charismatic, flirtatious person -- the kind of guy you want to go out for a drink with. Good luck getting closer than that, though, because he puts up several walls to protect himself from hurt.
Owen, as the team medic and quite used to digging around alien corpses, is generally unfazed by blood and gore. He's empathetic, but is so quiet about it that people sometimes see him as insensitive. He has a loyalty that is hard to shake, but it needs to be earned. Despite his rampant ego, Owen actually has a surprisingly low opinion of himself and has been willing to sacrifice himself several times. If it weren't for Torchwood and saving lives, having a purpose, he probably wouldn't know what to do with himself and might have made some bad choices in life.
When Owen is nervous or feeling awkward, his hands are quite often put into his pockets. When he's working or thinking, he chews on things -- usually pens, or gum if there's any close at hand. He has a particular love for good coffee (thank you, Ianto) and pizza -- Meat Feast being his usual type.
Owen, deep down, is a good person with a fierce loyalty to his job and a determination to help people and save lives, all scabbed over by the pain and bad experiences throughout his life. He cares a great deal about his teammates -- but don't tell them that.
Other Skills/Abilities: Owen is a brilliant doctor with extensive medical knowledge for someone his age. He seems to have some sort of empathy/understanding/that sort of thing with Cardiff's resident alien pest, Weevils, and he's a good shot.
Other Weaknesses: I... can't think of any.
History: Owen Harper has not had a happy life. He's never mentioned his father, but his mother was rarely kind to him. According to him, on his tenth birthday she spent the entire day screaming about how she loved him because he was her son, but that didn't mean she had to like him -- and on his sixteenth birthday, she packed his bags - "that's the nicest thing you've done for me in years, mother" - and kicked him out. Owen has been self-sufficient and hard-working since a young age, but thankfully he had the intelligence and drive to see him through school and into medical school at a young age. While working at a hospital in London, he met the girl he would eventually get engaged to: Katie Russell. Owen, whose life up to that point had been bitter and philanderous, seemed to finally have a light come on in his life. He really, truly loved Katie. They'd sit up together and make plans for their future, for their wedding. But then she started forgetting things. The doctors at the hospital Owen worked at diagnosed it as early-onset Alzheimers, which Owen thought impossible; Katie was only in her twenties. Obsessed with what was truly making her ill, Owen demanded more tests. Eventually, they found what seemed to be a brain tumour -- one that could be removed. Relieved, they agreed to the operation required to remove it. The day of the operation came.
This was the worst day of Owen's life.
This was the day he first met Captain Jack Harkness.
After waiting outside of the O.R. for several hours, something happened inside, and that was when Jack appeared. He told Owen not to go in, but he did, and what he saw was horrifying: the medical team, all dead, and a parasitic creature attached to Katie's exposed brain. It had killed everyone -- including Katie. After that, Jack disappeared, and Owen devoted all of his time and energy to finding this man and finding out what happened to Katie; if it had really been an alien that had killed her. No one believed him. Jack was not on any of the CCTV footage. Owen was left with his grief and his questions. Then one day when Owen was visiting Katie's grave, he saw Jack again, who approached him and asked him to work for him. To work for Torchwood, who needed a medic as devoted to the job as Owen had been to finding Jack. With nothing left, Owen accepted the offer.
Four years later, after Gwen Cooper was hired to replace Suzie Costello, Owen had seen his fair share of horrors and wonders -- though mostly horrors. Katie's death had affected him greatly, which made him even more callous, cynical and hard to be around than he'd ever been. It didn't make Owen any less dedicated to his job, however. The Christmas after Gwen joined Torchwood, an airplane from 1953 came through the rift into their time -- 2007, with no apparent means of returning. Torchwood were responsible for integrating its passengers into the modern world, and that's how Owen met Diane Holmes, the pilot of the plane, and soon fell in love with her. It terrified him, frankly, how quickly it happened, but Owen was in love. Diane, though clearly in love, too, wanted to try and fly back through the rift again, despite Owen begging her not to. So she left, leaving only her scarf behind with him, and in one fell swoop broke both his heart and his will to live. After Diane left, 24 December, 2007 (which is one of the reasons he dislikes Christmas so much) Owen went on what was more or less a suicide mission to find out who was using Weevils in a sort of underground fight club. After everything in his life having built up on him; his mother, his life, Katie, everything he'd seen while working for Torchwood, Diane, everything he'd lost -- he didn't care anymore. He would've let the Weevil tear him apart if it weren't for Jack, and when he woke up in the hospital after the fact, he showed contempt at Jack for saving his life. He didn't want to be saved.
After Diane, Owen was on a dangerous and unsteady path in his life. He was reckless and did stupid things without any consideration towards his own life. After Jack and Tosh were trapped in 1941, he worked to tear open the rift and brought about Abbadon because a vision of Diane told him to; she told him that if he did it, they'd be together. He even went so far as to shoot Jack in the head, killing him (temporarily) for getting in the way (and doubting him; Jack's doubt that Owen would actually have the courage to shoot him is one of the biggest things that drove him to do it). Owen later showed regret for this, though; after Jack returned from death after dealing with Abbadon, Owen broke down and apologized, and Jack held him as he cried.
Very soon afterwards, however, Jack disappeared, not long before the election of Prime Minister Harold Saxon. Torchwood was left without a leader, so the four remaining members did what they could to keep the team going and to keep doing their jobs. Jack, of course, was with the Doctor at the end of the universe, and then on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was -- but, of course, they didn't know that. After the Year was reversed, all that they knew was that the American president had been killed, and Harold Saxon had been shot dead by his wife. Then Jack returned. The team was back together.
Current Story Point: Somewhere between 2x03, To The Last Man and 2x04, Meat.
Reality Description: Owen's reality is Cardiff, 2008. There is a rift in the city that runs through time and space, causing aliens, alien technology and things of the past - or future - to fall through. This is the same reality in which the Doctor resides - one with time travel, in which aliens and alien activity are a common occurrence on Earth - , so there are some discrepancies in history from that of the real world.
Owen works for Torchwood Three, an organization outside the government and beyond the police based underneath Cardiff, Wales. Torchwood was created in 1879 by Queen Victoria after she met the Doctor, who, along with his companion Rose, helped to save the Empire from a werewolf-like alien. She sought to protect her people by creating an Institute to investigate these sorts of happenings. Over the years it has expanded over Britain into different factions, and has lent a big hand in arming and protecting the human race against alien invasion. Torchwood Three currently consists of five people; Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato. Torchwood is essentially based on the Rift, monitoring its activity through use of equipment developed over the years and acting accordingly on its power spikes and whatnot. The Rift has been known to bring through an assortment of things, from aliens halfway across the universe to alien technology to an airplane from 1953, and poses an enormous threat to the world at large if tampered with. To this day Torchwood has never completely figured it out. Also, the Doctor tends to use this very Rift to refuel his TARDIS.
Player LJ: miurnin
Email and/or AIM: phishschtick
Timezone: Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)
Other Characters: None
Character: Owen Harper
Series/Fandom: Torchwood
Deviance: 8
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Canon Used: Aired episodes.
Appearance: ☻ ☻
Psychology: Meet Dr. Owen Harper, a man of indulgence, cynicism and a questionable bedside manner. As Torchwood's highly intelligent medic and self-proclaimed second-in-command, he has a lot to be egotistical about -- and he certainly plays on that fact. Owen is brilliant and he knows it. This, however, makes him a bit of a pain to be around.
His outlook on life and love has been dampened by a bad relationship with his mother and the extraterrestrial death of his fiancée, Katie, which ultimately prompted his joining Torchwood.
He has a cynical, pessimistic outlook on life and people, always being the first to point out in dire situations that the team's screwed, and keeps himself emotionally distant, preferring one-night stands over long-term relationships. He pushes members of his team away emotionally by acting like a complete ass and is often known to make inappropriate, snide or sarcastic comments and use foul language liberally. He does, however, have a strong sense of justice, seeking out and, though initially planning just to scare him, later nearly killing a man who had raped and murdered a young girl -- which also shows his courage and, unfortunately, his fiery, dangerous temper. When focused on a task Owen can become completely absorbed until he achieves the results he's striving for. And underneath his hard exterior, should anyone manage to break through all the pain and anger, Owen is a caring soul who only wants to save lives; exactly the reason he became a doctor in the first place. He can be a total romantic, and though the idea of being in love scares him - especially since Katie - he can be a sweetheart to those he grows to care about romantically and become destructive and self-destructive if that love is taken away.
Owen is also a very clean, tasteful person and conscious about his appearance. He hates the country for its unhygienic qualities, moisturizes, has nice clothes, a nice car and a very nice flat with a view.
Generally, Owen comes off as a somewhat charismatic, flirtatious person -- the kind of guy you want to go out for a drink with. Good luck getting closer than that, though, because he puts up several walls to protect himself from hurt.
Owen, as the team medic and quite used to digging around alien corpses, is generally unfazed by blood and gore. He's empathetic, but is so quiet about it that people sometimes see him as insensitive. He has a loyalty that is hard to shake, but it needs to be earned. Despite his rampant ego, Owen actually has a surprisingly low opinion of himself and has been willing to sacrifice himself several times. If it weren't for Torchwood and saving lives, having a purpose, he probably wouldn't know what to do with himself and might have made some bad choices in life.
When Owen is nervous or feeling awkward, his hands are quite often put into his pockets. When he's working or thinking, he chews on things -- usually pens, or gum if there's any close at hand. He has a particular love for good coffee (thank you, Ianto) and pizza -- Meat Feast being his usual type.
Owen, deep down, is a good person with a fierce loyalty to his job and a determination to help people and save lives, all scabbed over by the pain and bad experiences throughout his life. He cares a great deal about his teammates -- but don't tell them that.
Other Skills/Abilities: Owen is a brilliant doctor with extensive medical knowledge for someone his age. He seems to have some sort of empathy/understanding/that sort of thing with Cardiff's resident alien pest, Weevils, and he's a good shot.
Other Weaknesses: I... can't think of any.
History: Owen Harper has not had a happy life. He's never mentioned his father, but his mother was rarely kind to him. According to him, on his tenth birthday she spent the entire day screaming about how she loved him because he was her son, but that didn't mean she had to like him -- and on his sixteenth birthday, she packed his bags - "that's the nicest thing you've done for me in years, mother" - and kicked him out. Owen has been self-sufficient and hard-working since a young age, but thankfully he had the intelligence and drive to see him through school and into medical school at a young age. While working at a hospital in London, he met the girl he would eventually get engaged to: Katie Russell. Owen, whose life up to that point had been bitter and philanderous, seemed to finally have a light come on in his life. He really, truly loved Katie. They'd sit up together and make plans for their future, for their wedding. But then she started forgetting things. The doctors at the hospital Owen worked at diagnosed it as early-onset Alzheimers, which Owen thought impossible; Katie was only in her twenties. Obsessed with what was truly making her ill, Owen demanded more tests. Eventually, they found what seemed to be a brain tumour -- one that could be removed. Relieved, they agreed to the operation required to remove it. The day of the operation came.
This was the worst day of Owen's life.
This was the day he first met Captain Jack Harkness.
After waiting outside of the O.R. for several hours, something happened inside, and that was when Jack appeared. He told Owen not to go in, but he did, and what he saw was horrifying: the medical team, all dead, and a parasitic creature attached to Katie's exposed brain. It had killed everyone -- including Katie. After that, Jack disappeared, and Owen devoted all of his time and energy to finding this man and finding out what happened to Katie; if it had really been an alien that had killed her. No one believed him. Jack was not on any of the CCTV footage. Owen was left with his grief and his questions. Then one day when Owen was visiting Katie's grave, he saw Jack again, who approached him and asked him to work for him. To work for Torchwood, who needed a medic as devoted to the job as Owen had been to finding Jack. With nothing left, Owen accepted the offer.
Four years later, after Gwen Cooper was hired to replace Suzie Costello, Owen had seen his fair share of horrors and wonders -- though mostly horrors. Katie's death had affected him greatly, which made him even more callous, cynical and hard to be around than he'd ever been. It didn't make Owen any less dedicated to his job, however. The Christmas after Gwen joined Torchwood, an airplane from 1953 came through the rift into their time -- 2007, with no apparent means of returning. Torchwood were responsible for integrating its passengers into the modern world, and that's how Owen met Diane Holmes, the pilot of the plane, and soon fell in love with her. It terrified him, frankly, how quickly it happened, but Owen was in love. Diane, though clearly in love, too, wanted to try and fly back through the rift again, despite Owen begging her not to. So she left, leaving only her scarf behind with him, and in one fell swoop broke both his heart and his will to live. After Diane left, 24 December, 2007 (which is one of the reasons he dislikes Christmas so much) Owen went on what was more or less a suicide mission to find out who was using Weevils in a sort of underground fight club. After everything in his life having built up on him; his mother, his life, Katie, everything he'd seen while working for Torchwood, Diane, everything he'd lost -- he didn't care anymore. He would've let the Weevil tear him apart if it weren't for Jack, and when he woke up in the hospital after the fact, he showed contempt at Jack for saving his life. He didn't want to be saved.
After Diane, Owen was on a dangerous and unsteady path in his life. He was reckless and did stupid things without any consideration towards his own life. After Jack and Tosh were trapped in 1941, he worked to tear open the rift and brought about Abbadon because a vision of Diane told him to; she told him that if he did it, they'd be together. He even went so far as to shoot Jack in the head, killing him (temporarily) for getting in the way (and doubting him; Jack's doubt that Owen would actually have the courage to shoot him is one of the biggest things that drove him to do it). Owen later showed regret for this, though; after Jack returned from death after dealing with Abbadon, Owen broke down and apologized, and Jack held him as he cried.
Very soon afterwards, however, Jack disappeared, not long before the election of Prime Minister Harold Saxon. Torchwood was left without a leader, so the four remaining members did what they could to keep the team going and to keep doing their jobs. Jack, of course, was with the Doctor at the end of the universe, and then on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was -- but, of course, they didn't know that. After the Year was reversed, all that they knew was that the American president had been killed, and Harold Saxon had been shot dead by his wife. Then Jack returned. The team was back together.
Current Story Point: Somewhere between 2x03, To The Last Man and 2x04, Meat.
Reality Description: Owen's reality is Cardiff, 2008. There is a rift in the city that runs through time and space, causing aliens, alien technology and things of the past - or future - to fall through. This is the same reality in which the Doctor resides - one with time travel, in which aliens and alien activity are a common occurrence on Earth - , so there are some discrepancies in history from that of the real world.
Owen works for Torchwood Three, an organization outside the government and beyond the police based underneath Cardiff, Wales. Torchwood was created in 1879 by Queen Victoria after she met the Doctor, who, along with his companion Rose, helped to save the Empire from a werewolf-like alien. She sought to protect her people by creating an Institute to investigate these sorts of happenings. Over the years it has expanded over Britain into different factions, and has lent a big hand in arming and protecting the human race against alien invasion. Torchwood Three currently consists of five people; Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato. Torchwood is essentially based on the Rift, monitoring its activity through use of equipment developed over the years and acting accordingly on its power spikes and whatnot. The Rift has been known to bring through an assortment of things, from aliens halfway across the universe to alien technology to an airplane from 1953, and poses an enormous threat to the world at large if tampered with. To this day Torchwood has never completely figured it out. Also, the Doctor tends to use this very Rift to refuel his TARDIS.