Post by The Fifth Doctor on Jan 16, 2010 9:57:51 GMT -5
Name: Wow! Personal question!
Alias or Custom Title: Doctor
Age/Age appearance: 750(ish)/late twenties
Appearence:
Hometown: Little place on a little planet in a little galaxy in a little universe. Apart from the little. Obviously.
Family: Pretend I don't exist, for the most part, I do them the same honour.
Special Characteristics: Oh, I'm just an ordinary ol' Timelord, just with dashing good looks, endless charisma... and a stick of celery on my lapel. Scoff if you will, but don't come crying to me when it turns purple and you get poisoned!
Status: Timelord (deceased, kinda, I'll explain later).
History: The fourth Doctor regenerated into the fifth Doctor when, after a confrontation with the Master, he fell to his death. A white figure, called the Watcher, who had been following the Doctor, joined with the dying Timelord and became the fifth Doctor.
Despite a rocky start, wherein something of a personality crisis occurred, with added memory problems, forcing his companions of the time, Nyssa and newbie, Tegan, to take care of him, unfortunately, Adric, the most senior, if youngest, companion, managed to get himself kidnapped by the Master.
Fortunately, by the time they rescued Adric and rid of the Master, the fifth Doctor managed to find a personality of his own.
Quiet, thoughtful and even vulnerable, the Doctor did have steel to him, whenever his companions were threatened or he felt he wasn't taken seriously. Also, when his companions did the latter or didn't listen to him, it would sometimes result in a huff.
Just such a huff concerned Adric, after he told the Doctor he wanted to return to E-space. The Doctor refused, due to the danger of passing the universal divide.
But a ploy by the Cybermen of this universe, involving crashing a ship into the Earth, made the argument mute, when Adric, in an attempt to stop their plans, stayed on board. He failed and the ship crashed in the surface. The Doctor was powerless to stop it, because the crash was fixed point: the 'asteroid' impact that ended the dinosaurs.
Eventually, after a lifetime (well the fifth's lifetime anyway) of Tegan's nagging, the Doctor finally arrived at Tegan's destination. Heathrow. After the typical Master plan, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS, and, thinking Tegan wouldn't want to continue travelling, left her at Heathrow.
They weren't separated for very long, however, as while the Doctor was on the trail of Omega, who was trying to use the Doctor's form (what cheek!) to come into this universe, Tegan was trying to find her cousin who had fallen into a trap and used as a patsy for Omega in Amsterdam.
After Tegan telling them she'd been fired, Nyssa welcomed her with open arms, but the Doctor didn't so much, because he didn't quite trust this turnaround and worried if she was just going to run off again (he'd assumed that it was her decision to leave rather than his. The Doctor's hatred of goodbyes bites him in the backside!).
It was an encounter with the Brigadier that brought another companion into the Doctor's life. Letherbridge had retired to teach at a boarding school, wherein there happened to be an exiled alien, one Vislor Turlough, who when meeting the Doctor showed knowledge beyond that of a normal human, especially that of a young man.
He also tried to kill the Doctor, rather clumsily with a rock, thwarted when the ground shook and he fell over. It turns out that the Black Guardian, sore after losing possession of the Key of Time when the Doctor decided to destroy it, blackmailed Turlough into assassinating him, in return getting Turlough home.
When push came to shove, however, Turlough, when the Black Guardian ordered him to kill the Doctor in front of him, refused and attacked the Guardian himself.
The Black Guardian was forced away, and the Doctor, in recognition of Turlough's bravery, allowed Turlough to keep travelling.
Despite the Doctor's misgivings, Tegan wasn't the next to leave him, but Nyssa, having spent some time infected with the disease from a plague ship, remained, to help the sick remaining, and worked to improve to conditions. It was hard for the Doctor to argue against task worthy of Florence Nightingale.
It was the Daleks that sent Tegan running from the TARDIS. Tegan told the Doctor that travelling with him stopped being fun and taking the advice of the aunt who had been killed when she first met the Master and the Doctor, Tegan decided to get out.
Left with Turlough, the Doctor travelled on until, finding his brother, Turlough found that his exile could come to an end and he returned to Trion.
The Doctor still wasn't left alone, as his final companion, a woman named Pergilliam Brown, Peri, joined him.
The pair ended up on Androzani, where they ended up caught in a civil war. They also get captured by both sides, by virtue of robotic duplication. While this duplication allowed to cheat death once, by firing squad, the real Doctor and Peri ended up poisoned by spectrox toxaemia, to which, naturally there was only one cure.
The Doctor, through various gambits, managed to get the cure and rescue both himself and Peri and reached the TARDIS. However, in the scuffle, he lost half the cure and only had enough for one dose. He selflessly gave this dose to Peri and worked to regenerate.
And then this happened: "...Adric?" the Doctor opened his eyes and found himself in a place where all he could see was white. No, there was someone else there. Someone he knew. "Adric?" he asked, in disbelief. He's dead. This can't be 'heaven', can it? He'd need to do some apologising to Joan, if that was the case.
"No," she replied, amused. Ah, no, not Adric, a woman. But he knew her, he was sure. Any name slipped away, lost in the fugue of the harsh regeneration. "You're safe," she assured him.
That was all very good, but not what he was worried about. Who was she? He looked down at his hands. They were clean. But why wouldn't they be? The burns! "Peri!" he cried out, trying to get up.
The woman pushed him back down, gently if firmly. "She's fine. The antidote worked, and she continued with your next incarnation."
"My next...? How? If I'm here...?"
"It was a delicate process," she explained. "Made all the more difficult..." she trailed off. "I had to take you so the timeline wouldn't be effected. This seemed to be the only way."
"Never concerned the Timelords before," he replied, still not knowing who she was but recognised what she was at any rate. That was progress, wasn't it?
Almost immediately after he said it, however, he found himself regretting it. The woman seemed hurt by the remark. "It concerns me," she replied. "Aside from the removal, I wish you to help your future, Doctor and my efforts should make that significantly less complicated."
"Help with what?" he asked.
The woman seemed distracted. "There's no time," she looked at him, showing him how helpless she felt. "You'll know," she added, before the Doctor felt compelled to close his eyes again.
Note: the fifth Doctor knows no more about the White Woman in End of Time than we the audience do because of the fugue caused by the regeneration (all power stayed with the Doctor within the timeline but the Doctor's mind was still confused) and whatever means she used to get him out of the timeline without effecting the sixth Doctor and seeing how depending on your view she could be a) Romana, b) his mother or wife c) Susan, she would look quite different to how she looked during fifth's era, her appearance would be of no help.
Also I don't really want to be the one to decide who she really is.
The 'Joan' mentioned is Joan of Arc, naturally.
And the mistaking for Adric idea came from community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/ where someone put the two together and postulated that she was in fact Adric with a sex change. Now, I wouldn't go that far but they are not dissimilar either.
I don't think I'm forcing the Admin or anyone else to adhere to the events of End of Time, I just wanted to do something different than alternate universe as that has already been done and this stuck out to me.
Obviously, let me know if I'm taking liberties, I can just have him able to cure both himself and Peri in an AU and crash into this universe. Or even you have a suggestion that I hadn't thought of.
Previous role-playing experience (if any): See Martha.
Alias or Custom Title: Doctor
Age/Age appearance: 750(ish)/late twenties
Appearence:
Hometown: Little place on a little planet in a little galaxy in a little universe. Apart from the little. Obviously.
Family: Pretend I don't exist, for the most part, I do them the same honour.
Special Characteristics: Oh, I'm just an ordinary ol' Timelord, just with dashing good looks, endless charisma... and a stick of celery on my lapel. Scoff if you will, but don't come crying to me when it turns purple and you get poisoned!
Status: Timelord (deceased, kinda, I'll explain later).
History: The fourth Doctor regenerated into the fifth Doctor when, after a confrontation with the Master, he fell to his death. A white figure, called the Watcher, who had been following the Doctor, joined with the dying Timelord and became the fifth Doctor.
Despite a rocky start, wherein something of a personality crisis occurred, with added memory problems, forcing his companions of the time, Nyssa and newbie, Tegan, to take care of him, unfortunately, Adric, the most senior, if youngest, companion, managed to get himself kidnapped by the Master.
Fortunately, by the time they rescued Adric and rid of the Master, the fifth Doctor managed to find a personality of his own.
Quiet, thoughtful and even vulnerable, the Doctor did have steel to him, whenever his companions were threatened or he felt he wasn't taken seriously. Also, when his companions did the latter or didn't listen to him, it would sometimes result in a huff.
Just such a huff concerned Adric, after he told the Doctor he wanted to return to E-space. The Doctor refused, due to the danger of passing the universal divide.
But a ploy by the Cybermen of this universe, involving crashing a ship into the Earth, made the argument mute, when Adric, in an attempt to stop their plans, stayed on board. He failed and the ship crashed in the surface. The Doctor was powerless to stop it, because the crash was fixed point: the 'asteroid' impact that ended the dinosaurs.
Eventually, after a lifetime (well the fifth's lifetime anyway) of Tegan's nagging, the Doctor finally arrived at Tegan's destination. Heathrow. After the typical Master plan, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS, and, thinking Tegan wouldn't want to continue travelling, left her at Heathrow.
They weren't separated for very long, however, as while the Doctor was on the trail of Omega, who was trying to use the Doctor's form (what cheek!) to come into this universe, Tegan was trying to find her cousin who had fallen into a trap and used as a patsy for Omega in Amsterdam.
After Tegan telling them she'd been fired, Nyssa welcomed her with open arms, but the Doctor didn't so much, because he didn't quite trust this turnaround and worried if she was just going to run off again (he'd assumed that it was her decision to leave rather than his. The Doctor's hatred of goodbyes bites him in the backside!).
It was an encounter with the Brigadier that brought another companion into the Doctor's life. Letherbridge had retired to teach at a boarding school, wherein there happened to be an exiled alien, one Vislor Turlough, who when meeting the Doctor showed knowledge beyond that of a normal human, especially that of a young man.
He also tried to kill the Doctor, rather clumsily with a rock, thwarted when the ground shook and he fell over. It turns out that the Black Guardian, sore after losing possession of the Key of Time when the Doctor decided to destroy it, blackmailed Turlough into assassinating him, in return getting Turlough home.
When push came to shove, however, Turlough, when the Black Guardian ordered him to kill the Doctor in front of him, refused and attacked the Guardian himself.
The Black Guardian was forced away, and the Doctor, in recognition of Turlough's bravery, allowed Turlough to keep travelling.
Despite the Doctor's misgivings, Tegan wasn't the next to leave him, but Nyssa, having spent some time infected with the disease from a plague ship, remained, to help the sick remaining, and worked to improve to conditions. It was hard for the Doctor to argue against task worthy of Florence Nightingale.
It was the Daleks that sent Tegan running from the TARDIS. Tegan told the Doctor that travelling with him stopped being fun and taking the advice of the aunt who had been killed when she first met the Master and the Doctor, Tegan decided to get out.
Left with Turlough, the Doctor travelled on until, finding his brother, Turlough found that his exile could come to an end and he returned to Trion.
The Doctor still wasn't left alone, as his final companion, a woman named Pergilliam Brown, Peri, joined him.
The pair ended up on Androzani, where they ended up caught in a civil war. They also get captured by both sides, by virtue of robotic duplication. While this duplication allowed to cheat death once, by firing squad, the real Doctor and Peri ended up poisoned by spectrox toxaemia, to which, naturally there was only one cure.
The Doctor, through various gambits, managed to get the cure and rescue both himself and Peri and reached the TARDIS. However, in the scuffle, he lost half the cure and only had enough for one dose. He selflessly gave this dose to Peri and worked to regenerate.
And then this happened: "...Adric?" the Doctor opened his eyes and found himself in a place where all he could see was white. No, there was someone else there. Someone he knew. "Adric?" he asked, in disbelief. He's dead. This can't be 'heaven', can it? He'd need to do some apologising to Joan, if that was the case.
"No," she replied, amused. Ah, no, not Adric, a woman. But he knew her, he was sure. Any name slipped away, lost in the fugue of the harsh regeneration. "You're safe," she assured him.
That was all very good, but not what he was worried about. Who was she? He looked down at his hands. They were clean. But why wouldn't they be? The burns! "Peri!" he cried out, trying to get up.
The woman pushed him back down, gently if firmly. "She's fine. The antidote worked, and she continued with your next incarnation."
"My next...? How? If I'm here...?"
"It was a delicate process," she explained. "Made all the more difficult..." she trailed off. "I had to take you so the timeline wouldn't be effected. This seemed to be the only way."
"Never concerned the Timelords before," he replied, still not knowing who she was but recognised what she was at any rate. That was progress, wasn't it?
Almost immediately after he said it, however, he found himself regretting it. The woman seemed hurt by the remark. "It concerns me," she replied. "Aside from the removal, I wish you to help your future, Doctor and my efforts should make that significantly less complicated."
"Help with what?" he asked.
The woman seemed distracted. "There's no time," she looked at him, showing him how helpless she felt. "You'll know," she added, before the Doctor felt compelled to close his eyes again.
Note: the fifth Doctor knows no more about the White Woman in End of Time than we the audience do because of the fugue caused by the regeneration (all power stayed with the Doctor within the timeline but the Doctor's mind was still confused) and whatever means she used to get him out of the timeline without effecting the sixth Doctor and seeing how depending on your view she could be a) Romana, b) his mother or wife c) Susan, she would look quite different to how she looked during fifth's era, her appearance would be of no help.
Also I don't really want to be the one to decide who she really is.
The 'Joan' mentioned is Joan of Arc, naturally.
And the mistaking for Adric idea came from community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/ where someone put the two together and postulated that she was in fact Adric with a sex change. Now, I wouldn't go that far but they are not dissimilar either.
I don't think I'm forcing the Admin or anyone else to adhere to the events of End of Time, I just wanted to do something different than alternate universe as that has already been done and this stuck out to me.
Obviously, let me know if I'm taking liberties, I can just have him able to cure both himself and Peri in an AU and crash into this universe. Or even you have a suggestion that I hadn't thought of.
Previous role-playing experience (if any): See Martha.
