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thisischristmas) wrote2015-09-06 12:49 am
thisischristmas) wrote2015-09-06 12:49 am
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Name: Nico / Nruu
Character Name: The Doctor (Eleven)
Series: Doctor Who
Timeline: before Trensalore, after Day of the Doctor
Canon Resource Link: 33 years of history, the wiki
Character History:
This show has been around since the 1960s. Buckle in.
Time Lords. They are a species that naturally sees the whole of space and time in their heads. They used to be an observing race only. Well, mostly. Until they weren't. Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, came under attack. The Time Lords fought what they called the Time War for hundreds of years. They attempted to wipe out the Daleks, which are basically cyborg Nazis.
Then one Time Lord stole a space ship and blew Gallifrey up. The blast took out the Daleks, and that Time Lord flew off into all of space and time. He took on a new name. The Doctor.
Time Lords have a particular biological quirk. When they are near death, they regenerate. Their cells undergo a complete change in order to heal itself. Their body and personality change. The Doctor spent eleven incarnations traveling with human companions and saving multiple planets and civilizations across the universe. His favorite is Earth.
The Doctor has had decades of companions and near-countless enemies. This incarnation's companions are as follows: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song, Craig Owens, and Clara Oswald. His companions don't last long. It's a dangerous life, and the Doctor tends to turn his companions into weapons. They want to help, they want to make him proud, and so they put their lives in jeopardy. It often doesn't end well.
In order to better understand the Doctor's eleventh incarnation, a summary of his adventures are as follows:
The Doctor met young Amelia Pond. A girl of maybe seven. There was a crack in her wall, a crack in the fabric of the universe, and it scared her. He promised to take her on an adventure. Unfortunately, he was fresh from regeneration, so he left to stabilize himself. "Five minutes," he said.
And so the Doctor came back. Fifteen years later. Oops. He, Rory, and Amy saved the world, and they began traveling together. They fought Weeping Angels, statue-like aliens that transport you back in time so you live out your life and die before you were even born. They pushed back the Daleks. (Yeah, they were never destroyed. They never are.) They escaped their own dreams crafted by the Doctor's dark side--because truly, the thing he hates most is himself. They encountered the lizard people that inhabited the Earth before humans did. Silurians.
When a drill digging into the Earth threatened the lives of the Silurians, they attacked. The Doctor passionately, stubbornly held with both his hearts that no one would use weapons. No one would die. And there would be no war. He believes that humanity can be amazing. He told them to be the best of humanity, to agree to share the planet. He inspired them to be extraordinary. But one human did attack. She killed a Silurian, and that future was dashed. The Doctor told her that she could tell her grandchildren of the amazing future they could have had, and why she was the reason it wasn't reality. Later, he told her she could show her son what not to be, raising him to be better.
But the crack in the wall followed them. They found what it truly was: pure time energy. It erased the existence of any who got near it, making it as if they had never lived. It was born from the TARDIS exploding in the future.
Unfortunately, a Silurian shot Rory. He died, and the crack consumed his existence. The Doctor did his best to help Amy remember, but he failed. Amy Pond forgot her fiancée ever existed, and so the Doctor and she continued adventuring together. Amy, happily. The Doctor, secretly sad.
The Doctor and Amy then met Vincent van Gogh. After saving his life from two very scared aliens, they showed Vincent that his art would be appreciated in the future. After returning him to the past, Amy rushed to a museum to see if they changed history. Time can be rewritten. Maybe Vincent didn't kill himself after having that small bit of happiness.
He still had. Amy cried. She said that they hadn't made a difference. The Doctor hugged her and said, "I wouldn't say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant."
And sure enough, on van Gogh's famous painting of a vase of sunflowers, there was one name: Amy. They made a difference. The Doctor's optimism and child-like enthusiasm almost always come through.
Within these adventures, the Doctor met River Song. Again. The tenth Doctor met her for the first time on the day she died. Every meeting since, their timelines have been going in the opposite direction. River's last moment with the Doctor will be the Doctor's first. The Doctor's last moment with River will be her first. The life of a time traveler is complicated.
But that's just what happens when a time traveler marries a time traveler in the future.
The Doctor's friends warned him of the TARDIS exploding in the near future. They knew the Pandorica had something to do with it, and so they had to find it. A legend that was very real. Inside, it held the most dangerous thing in the universe. A nameless terrible thing soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared thing in the universe. Nothing could stop it or reason with it. One day, it would drop out of the sky and tear down your world. So a good wizard locked it up.
They found the Pandorica beneath Stonehenge, naturally. Unfortunately, they accidentally set off a beacon, and all the Doctor's enemies came after it. Among the Romans nearby...was Rory Williams the Centurian. Nothing is completely forgotten, and Amy's engagement ring sparked the beginning of the memory of Rory. But she didn't remember him, not consciously. "I'm sorry, Rory," said the Doctor. "You're going to have to be very brave."
The Cybermen were using Amy's memories to make a scenario that the Doctor would believe in order to get him to the Pandorica. Pandora's Box was Amy's favorite book as a kid. The Romans invading England was Amy's favorite subject in school. And once, Rory dressed as a Centurian with Amy. The Romans were Nesteen duplicates, plastic with illusions of humanity.
Rory began to die. He would become nothing but a robot. Then Amy remembered. The Romans became their true selves and captured the Doctor. They opened the Pandorica. It was empty. They thrust the Doctor into it. Amy and Rory hugged. He shot Amy. She died.
The cracks in the skin of the universe would destroy it. The Doctor's TARDIS caused the cracks. He would destroy the universe. So all of the Doctor's enemies came together to save the universe...from him.
The most feared thing in all the universe. The legends were true.
Meanwhile, River Song in the TARDIS accidentally blew it up exactly when she shouldn't. On Amy's wedding day in 2010. River created the cracks in the universe.
The stars disappeared from reality like they never existed. Whole universes were swallowed up, ended before they began. But Amelia Pond remembered. Young Amelia remembered the stars. In her house, she found a museum brochure that held the Pandorica. It was circled in red, and written beside it was the script: "Come along, Pond."
She went to the museum and saw the Pandorica. On it was a sticky note. "Stick around, Pond." So she did. She hid and stayed after hours in the museum.
The Pandorica opened up. Inside was Amy Pond. "Okay kid, this is where it gets complicated."
Flash back to nearly 2,000 years before. Rory held Amy's body. The Doctor appeared from the future wearing a fez. He told Rory to get him out of the Pandorica and to leave his screwdriver in Amy's top pocket. Then he disappeared. So Rory opened it up, finding a clueless Doctor. The Doctor said he could help Amy given the time, but whole races were wiped out. Billions of people never existed. "The whole universe isn't more important than your girlfriend," said the Doctor.
Rory punched him. "She is to me!" The Doctor leapt to his feet joyfully, welcoming Rory back. He had to be sure Rory was truly Rory; he had a gun in him, afterall, and the Doctor wasn't keen to die.
They strapped Amy into the Pandorica. She was only mostly dead, and the thing was crafted to never let you escape, even in death. She only needed her own DNA for it to completely heal herself. She'd get the DNA from her younger self in 2,000 years.
Rory was left behind again. There was no guard for the Pandorica, so Rory took on the duty. The Centurian stood guard over his fiancé for 2,000 years. The Doctor appeared from right after he escaped the Pandorica. A Dalek came to life from one of the exhibits and attacked Amy, Amelia, and the Doctor. The night guard came and shot the Dalek. It was Rory!
The light from the Pandorica revived the Dalek. The Doctor and the gang ran. The Doctor put on the fez and picked up a mop to bar the door. Rory recognized it as what the Doctor was wearing when he told him what to do 2,000 years ago. The Doctor used a vortex manipulator wristwatch to travel back in time. It's nasty business, quick and very linear, and so the Doctor disappeared and reappeared at least eight times, with seconds between each. He then laid out the breadcrumbs that led Amelia there.
The Doctor appeared on the top of the stairs from the future, dying. He collapsed, whispered in the fez Doctor's ear, and died. He had twelve minutes to live. Amelia disappeared, as the crack made it so she never existed. Amy, Rory, and the Doctor were all barely hanging on in the eye of the time-wipe storm.
But if all the stars had gone like they never existed, how did the Earth still have a Sun? The Doctor used a satellite to listen to it. It was the TARDIS exploding. It was keeping the Earth warm. And River Song was in a time loop right at the heart of the explosion. The Doctor appeared in the TARDIS moments before the explosion and brought her along.
The Doctor explained everything to his friends. The blast of the TARDIS destroyed the universe except for what was inside the Pandorica. The perfect prison. Because inside it was a memory of the universe, anything that came into contact with the Pandorica would be revived from unreality. It's like cloning a body with a single cell. The light transmits the memory, and that's how they were going to relight the fire of the universe.
Then the Dalek shot the Doctor. He went back in time twelve minutes to warn himself. Then he died. River killed the Dalek. Amy and Rory ran back to where they left the Doctor's body. He wasn't there. Amy exclaimed that he was dead. The Doctor had said so! "Rule one," River said. "The Doctor lies."
The Doctor had used them as a diversion so he could get inside the Pandorica and save the universe. The Doctor planned to throw the Pandorica into the center of the explosion using his vortex manipulator. It would heighten the Pandorica's restoration field and transmit the light to the whole of the universe. Big Bang Two.
The cracks would close, but the Doctor would be on the wrong side of the cracks. It would be as if he had never existed. He and Amy said goodbye. He flew into the explosion. Then he woke up in the TARDIS, surprising even himself. He was in his own timeline, rewinding it. Unraveling. Erasing.
The Doctor tried speaking to Amy throughout his timeline. Amy could hear him, but she couldn't see him. So when he rewound to the time with the Weeping Angels, when Amy's eyes had to be closed, the Doctor told her. "Remember what I told you when you were seven." So he flashed back to that time, at her house. The night she waited. He picked up the sleeping Amelia and put her to bed. He talked to her sleeping form. He thought if she could hear him, he could hang on. Silly old Doctor. When she woke up, she would have a mom and dad, and the Doctor would be a story in her head. "But that's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box." He told her the story of how he stole the TARDIS, or rather, borrowed it. He comforted himself that he would be there in her dreams, even though he wouldn't exist, and those days would never come.
So Amy woke up on the day of her wedding, and she had parents. She knew she was forgetting something, but she didn't know what. And she got married.
Would be a great way to end, but the Doctor hates endings.
River left her blue diary with Amy as a wedding present. The diary of her time with the Doctor. "Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something blue." Very similar to what the Doctor said to Amy when she went to bed the night she waited.
She remembered. In the middle of her reception, Amy stood and yelled that the Doctor was late. He told her the story to spark her memory, because all you need is a spark. The TARDIS appeared in the reception hall, and the Doctor stepped out in a suit. The Doctor danced with the kids ridiculously. The girl who waited and the boy who waited were finally married. And the Doctor slipped away.
Amy and Rory chased after him, and they all said goodbye to the present. They would continue traveling with him.
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory then tried to save a ship trapped in a cloud belt. A Mr. Scrooge-type man, Kasran Sardic, controlled the cloud belt, and he wouldn't clear the skies to save them. The Doctor went down his chimney to stop him. He threatened Kasran. But then a child threw a rock at the man, and Kasran raised his hand to hit him...and didn't. The Doctor stopped. He had missed something. There were portraits of an old man all around the room, and every chair was turned away from them. Of course! Kasran's father had been abusive, and Kasran was scared of being like him. There was hope for Kasran. So the Doctor went back in time to meet Kasran as a child, while Kasran was crying after his father had hit him. He brought joy to the boy's life...and sadness.
The Doctor changed Mr. Scrooge through boyish adventure, joy, and the love of a young girl destined to die sooner than the rest.
Then the Doctor walked to his death. An astronaut rose out of the water and shot him dead. This time for real. He knew the astronaut, and he forgave her. Amy and friends burned the Doctor's body Viking style.
They followed the instructions given to them by blue envelopes to meet up at a diner, and there the Doctor was, two hundred years younger. He had a blue envelope, too. They and an American ex-FBI, Canton, went on a quest to save a little girl being attacked by astronauts. They came across the Silence, a race of aliens that you forget you ever saw once you're not looking at them. They found the astronaut. Inside was the little girl. Amy, thinking it was the Doctor's killer, shot her. The Silence attacked.
The Doctor's friends ran from the Silence. They decided to mark their skin every time they saw a Silence. The Doctor injected a recorder under their skin so they could describe what they saw. If there was a recording, it would blink red. The Silence has been hiding amongst humanity for eons, ruling them since "the wheel and the fire." While you are staring at them, someone can plant an idea in your head, and once you turn away, you'll do it without thinking about it. The Silence could have been doing this to humanity. The Doctor wasn't fighting the Silence. He was leading a revolution.
Amy began having illusions of a woman in an eyepatch appearing in impossible places. Moments after her first vision, someone captured Amy while she was pregnant. She was a hostage for the Silence, but the child in the astronaut suit escaped. The Doctor and co. appeared where the Silence were holding Amy. The Doctor began talking them to death while Rory untied Amy.
Then the Doctor was truly brilliant. He recorded the Silence explaining what they are, and that humanity should kill them all on sight. He planted the message in the video of the Moon landing. All over the world, people turned and saw the Silence. And they followed the order. Humanity attacked and won.
The Doctor, Rory, and Amy went on adventure after adventure, but Amy was never truly with them, even before the Silence. She had been held prisoner all along. It was a doppelganger in her place. Amy gave birth, and the eyepatch woman took away her child. The woman turned this child into a soldier. The child could regenerate. She had the essence of time in her, because Amy was pregnant while time traveling. Time Lords became the way they are over billions of years of spending time in the time vortex.
That child grew up to shoot the Doctor. The child in the astronaut suit. That child was River Song. The people of the Gamma forest don't have a word for Pond, because the only water they have is a river. Pond, Melody. River Song.
The Doctor snuck into the place where Amy was being held and broke her out, but their enemies took Amy's and Rory's baby. The people who took Amy wanted to create a Time Lord and use it as a weapon to kill the Doctor. This infuriated him on a moral level. But the universe fears the Doctor. The word "doctor" means "healer" in many galaxies, and that's because they got the word from him. To the people in the Gamma forests, "doctor" has come to mean "mighty warrior," and that pains him greatly.
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory then got trapped in a hotel. Their individual faiths were what led the monster there to target them. The Doctor lied to Amy to get her to lose her faith in him. "I took you with me because I was vain. I wanted to be adored. It's time to see each other as we really are. Amy Williams. It's time to stop waiting." And it worked.
Then the Doctor gave Amy and Rory a house, a car, and he left them. He left because they were still breathing, and he'd like to keep it that way. For a little while, the Doctor tried to stop saving humans because he didn't want to make it worse. So he visited an old friend, Craig, recognized a problem, and tried to ignore it by getting a job at a shop. He worked in the children's toy department, because he's amazing with kids. But he couldn't stop paying attention to what was going on. The Doctor and Craig ended up saving the town from Cybermen. The Doctor can't stop. Not even with his death on the horizon.
It was the Doctor's day to die. It was a fixed point in time. It always had to happen. The astronaut-wearing River Song discharged her suit into the air, so the Doctor couldn't die. Time unraveled, disintegrating, and all of history happened at once. Reality would be destroyed. The only way to fix it was for the Doctor to die. For River and the Doctor to touch. The two polarities of the time anomaly would right it all.
"All of reality is dying because of me and I can't bear it another day," the Doctor said. So he begged River to help him. They married, and they kissed. And River killed the Doctor again.
Except it wasn't really the Doctor. He had planned this ahead of time. He was in a robotic suit made to look like the Doctor, he and a bunch of miniaturized people piloting it. As long as the world thought he was dead, and his friends had seen him "die," it would remain in history as the Doctor's death. Therefore, he wouldn't be rewriting history.
Of course, the secret didn't last for long. Two years later, though he erased every record of his existence, it seemed the whole universe knew the Doctor was alive. He just couldn't stay away, and neither could Amy and Rory.
Then Amy and Rory encountered the Weeping Angels for the last time. The creatures sent them back in time. The Doctor couldn't visit them without creating a paradox. He would never see them again.
The Doctor grieved. He retreated into himself. The Doctor refused to have any contact with humans any longer. Three of his alien friends acted as a buffer, keeping visitors and intruders away.
But Clara Oswald, clever, impossible Clara, worked her way past all that. The Doctor met her in a Dalek camp. She died. Then he met her in Victorian era London. She was a caretaker, and the Doctor never turns away from children in danger. Clara and the Doctor fought back sentient evil snowmen.
And then she died.
Years later, moments later, the Doctor met Clara again. A different time, a different situation, a different life. But she was definitely Clara Oswald. She was a nanny, naturally, and the Doctor swept her up into his time-traveling spaceship, his blue box, the TARDIS. He refused to lose her again. And he wanted to unravel the mystery that was Clara Oswald, same as he wanted to solve Amy's mystery.
The Doctor loves a mystery. It's the unknown that interests him, because he knows ever so much already. He used to travel in order to be proved wrong, to find out more about the universe, because the moment he knew everything was the moment the universe would grow boring. Now he travels to run. He runs toward every amazing thing in the universe while he can, before the planet dies or the star fades. The universe is infinitely expanding, stars dying and being reborn every moment. Nothing lasts and everything is forever. He wants to see them before they fade, as he knows he will fade, one day. The Doctor is an old man with a bucket list.
Then, one morning, the Doctor saved Gallifrey. All incarnations of the Doctor locked Gallifrey up in a pocket universe. The past incarnations didn't remember because they messed with the timestream so much. To the rest of the universe, and the Doctor who blew up Gallifrey, the Dalek crossfire made it look like Gallifrey exploded. But she's out there, somewhere. The present incarnation of the Doctor decided to find her. A brighter future with shining possibilities for a man who had become so dark.
Abilities/Special Powers:
♞Time Lord physiology. Two hearts. Regenerative abilities. Psychic abilities--he can psychically meld with other Time Lords; he can search about in another person's mind and fix or lock away their memories; and he can project his own memories into another person by knocking his head against theirs. He can also psychically communicate with the TARDIS, as it is a living thing, and he can sort through all of time in his head.
♞Genius. He's very smart at everything but human interaction. Then he's absolutely bollocks most of the time.
♞Weaponry, ironically.
♞Hacking. All things technology-y.
♞Understanding and talking to animals and babies.
♞Sonic screwdriver. It's a probish gizmo that can do just about anything through sonic waves except open wooden doors. It can't work on wood, at all, ever. (Well, unless he had 400 years to spare.) Generally he uses it to open doors, emit a high-pitched noise that hurts the ears to impede bad guys, and short out mechanical enemies.
Third-Person Sample:
The Doctor had been without his TARDIS before. Being stuck in the supposed whimsical world of Wonderland was no different. He would find his sexy, sentient ship, herd everyone inside, and fly away into the stars. Like Peter Pan.
He had not, however, stayed this long in one place for a long while, much less a forced holiday without his TARDIS. The only fact that kept him from going batty was that the translating matrix was clearly still in effect. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to communicate with humans, birds, or even cats! That would be a travesty. Then he would have to learn Cat! And English. No one ever wanted to learn English.
If English, Japanese, and all the others were being translated into Gallifreyan, then the TARDIS couldn't have gotten far. She was his only friend on his lone journey some years, and she would be the only one there for him at the end of it all. Every companion died or left at some point or another, but his psychic ship was a constant. When he felt like chatting, she supplied a certain sort of conversation. She would always listen, and though it wasn't quite talking, it was perhaps the most beautiful conversation anyone could have. Though the Doctor claimed he was mad, and he certainly acted it, speaking could keep a man from going entirely insane.
He loved his ship. The Doctor felt exposed without her. But with this information in hand, he could hold onto hope that he would find her again, or she, him.
Still, the Doctor was used to running for his life every other day, having an adventure. If the dull minds of the humans he was boarded with didn't drive him mad, the slow clockwork of Wonderland's events would surely do the trick. No hold on, that was rude, wasn't it? Only most of Wonderland's occupants were thick and dull like, like . . . like a butter knife stuck through margarine. There, that was better, much nicer.
There wasn't enough going on. He had to keep busy. Anyone who knew the Doctor, therefore, would not find it a surprise to see him going about every tea room in the mansion, setting up board games and houses of cards and sweets and streamers and confetti and glitter. Somewhere around floor 5, he had run out of confetti, and on floor 8, he had no more glitter. Naturally, from there, he settled for scattering about hundreds and thousands or, as the Americans would call them, sprinkles.
Did he plan to spread hundreds and thousands about the floor, tables, and chairs of the tea rooms? No. Naturally, he just popped into any random room to nick them from any old magic closet.
Perhaps he just popped right into yours!
"Hello sorry bit of a rush, mind if I use your closet?" The occupant had better be quick, because the Doctor is moving to skip right over to it. He has no sense for others' privacy.
First-Person Sample:
VIDEO
[The first thing you hear is an electronic, pulsating buzz. The first thing you see is a glowing green light. Then the strange probe retreats, and a grinning young man's face is much too close. Hello, wide angle lens]
There we are, right! Hullo. I'm the Doctor. This message should be going out to every forced resident of this manor. I know, clever me, I bypassed the main circuits and rerouted the radiofrequency energy using sonic waves and divided the cells before distributing them to every receiver, not all that complicated aaaaand that is entirely normal because these over-glorified walkie-talkies are programmed for that. Right. Okay.
Forget that, start over, hullooo, Wonderland. Did someone call for a doctor? Because it looks like you sorely need one.
No no, don't bother to give me the usual welcome, I've read it all in on this LAN network you lot have got, no. What I need is your full attention.
[the Doctor sets the device on a desk and stands back, his arms outstretched theatrically. His smile is dangerous, dark, and excited. His eyes shine with war] Duchess, Queens, Cats, and Mad Hats, listen up. Search your books for stories of the Doctor. All the planets of people who have got in my way. Then tell me . . .
Would you like to be added to the list?
I'm leaving, and I'm taking all these nice people with me. [he gives a sarcastic, three-fingered salute] I'll be seeing you. [and the transmission cuts out]
Character Name: The Doctor (Eleven)
Series: Doctor Who
Timeline: before Trensalore, after Day of the Doctor
Canon Resource Link: 33 years of history, the wiki
Character History:
This show has been around since the 1960s. Buckle in.
Time Lords. They are a species that naturally sees the whole of space and time in their heads. They used to be an observing race only. Well, mostly. Until they weren't. Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, came under attack. The Time Lords fought what they called the Time War for hundreds of years. They attempted to wipe out the Daleks, which are basically cyborg Nazis.
Then one Time Lord stole a space ship and blew Gallifrey up. The blast took out the Daleks, and that Time Lord flew off into all of space and time. He took on a new name. The Doctor.
Time Lords have a particular biological quirk. When they are near death, they regenerate. Their cells undergo a complete change in order to heal itself. Their body and personality change. The Doctor spent eleven incarnations traveling with human companions and saving multiple planets and civilizations across the universe. His favorite is Earth.
The Doctor has had decades of companions and near-countless enemies. This incarnation's companions are as follows: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song, Craig Owens, and Clara Oswald. His companions don't last long. It's a dangerous life, and the Doctor tends to turn his companions into weapons. They want to help, they want to make him proud, and so they put their lives in jeopardy. It often doesn't end well.
In order to better understand the Doctor's eleventh incarnation, a summary of his adventures are as follows:
The Doctor met young Amelia Pond. A girl of maybe seven. There was a crack in her wall, a crack in the fabric of the universe, and it scared her. He promised to take her on an adventure. Unfortunately, he was fresh from regeneration, so he left to stabilize himself. "Five minutes," he said.
And so the Doctor came back. Fifteen years later. Oops. He, Rory, and Amy saved the world, and they began traveling together. They fought Weeping Angels, statue-like aliens that transport you back in time so you live out your life and die before you were even born. They pushed back the Daleks. (Yeah, they were never destroyed. They never are.) They escaped their own dreams crafted by the Doctor's dark side--because truly, the thing he hates most is himself. They encountered the lizard people that inhabited the Earth before humans did. Silurians.
When a drill digging into the Earth threatened the lives of the Silurians, they attacked. The Doctor passionately, stubbornly held with both his hearts that no one would use weapons. No one would die. And there would be no war. He believes that humanity can be amazing. He told them to be the best of humanity, to agree to share the planet. He inspired them to be extraordinary. But one human did attack. She killed a Silurian, and that future was dashed. The Doctor told her that she could tell her grandchildren of the amazing future they could have had, and why she was the reason it wasn't reality. Later, he told her she could show her son what not to be, raising him to be better.
But the crack in the wall followed them. They found what it truly was: pure time energy. It erased the existence of any who got near it, making it as if they had never lived. It was born from the TARDIS exploding in the future.
Unfortunately, a Silurian shot Rory. He died, and the crack consumed his existence. The Doctor did his best to help Amy remember, but he failed. Amy Pond forgot her fiancée ever existed, and so the Doctor and she continued adventuring together. Amy, happily. The Doctor, secretly sad.
The Doctor and Amy then met Vincent van Gogh. After saving his life from two very scared aliens, they showed Vincent that his art would be appreciated in the future. After returning him to the past, Amy rushed to a museum to see if they changed history. Time can be rewritten. Maybe Vincent didn't kill himself after having that small bit of happiness.
He still had. Amy cried. She said that they hadn't made a difference. The Doctor hugged her and said, "I wouldn't say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant."
And sure enough, on van Gogh's famous painting of a vase of sunflowers, there was one name: Amy. They made a difference. The Doctor's optimism and child-like enthusiasm almost always come through.
Within these adventures, the Doctor met River Song. Again. The tenth Doctor met her for the first time on the day she died. Every meeting since, their timelines have been going in the opposite direction. River's last moment with the Doctor will be the Doctor's first. The Doctor's last moment with River will be her first. The life of a time traveler is complicated.
But that's just what happens when a time traveler marries a time traveler in the future.
The Doctor's friends warned him of the TARDIS exploding in the near future. They knew the Pandorica had something to do with it, and so they had to find it. A legend that was very real. Inside, it held the most dangerous thing in the universe. A nameless terrible thing soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared thing in the universe. Nothing could stop it or reason with it. One day, it would drop out of the sky and tear down your world. So a good wizard locked it up.
They found the Pandorica beneath Stonehenge, naturally. Unfortunately, they accidentally set off a beacon, and all the Doctor's enemies came after it. Among the Romans nearby...was Rory Williams the Centurian. Nothing is completely forgotten, and Amy's engagement ring sparked the beginning of the memory of Rory. But she didn't remember him, not consciously. "I'm sorry, Rory," said the Doctor. "You're going to have to be very brave."
The Cybermen were using Amy's memories to make a scenario that the Doctor would believe in order to get him to the Pandorica. Pandora's Box was Amy's favorite book as a kid. The Romans invading England was Amy's favorite subject in school. And once, Rory dressed as a Centurian with Amy. The Romans were Nesteen duplicates, plastic with illusions of humanity.
Rory began to die. He would become nothing but a robot. Then Amy remembered. The Romans became their true selves and captured the Doctor. They opened the Pandorica. It was empty. They thrust the Doctor into it. Amy and Rory hugged. He shot Amy. She died.
The cracks in the skin of the universe would destroy it. The Doctor's TARDIS caused the cracks. He would destroy the universe. So all of the Doctor's enemies came together to save the universe...from him.
The most feared thing in all the universe. The legends were true.
Meanwhile, River Song in the TARDIS accidentally blew it up exactly when she shouldn't. On Amy's wedding day in 2010. River created the cracks in the universe.
The stars disappeared from reality like they never existed. Whole universes were swallowed up, ended before they began. But Amelia Pond remembered. Young Amelia remembered the stars. In her house, she found a museum brochure that held the Pandorica. It was circled in red, and written beside it was the script: "Come along, Pond."
She went to the museum and saw the Pandorica. On it was a sticky note. "Stick around, Pond." So she did. She hid and stayed after hours in the museum.
The Pandorica opened up. Inside was Amy Pond. "Okay kid, this is where it gets complicated."
Flash back to nearly 2,000 years before. Rory held Amy's body. The Doctor appeared from the future wearing a fez. He told Rory to get him out of the Pandorica and to leave his screwdriver in Amy's top pocket. Then he disappeared. So Rory opened it up, finding a clueless Doctor. The Doctor said he could help Amy given the time, but whole races were wiped out. Billions of people never existed. "The whole universe isn't more important than your girlfriend," said the Doctor.
Rory punched him. "She is to me!" The Doctor leapt to his feet joyfully, welcoming Rory back. He had to be sure Rory was truly Rory; he had a gun in him, afterall, and the Doctor wasn't keen to die.
They strapped Amy into the Pandorica. She was only mostly dead, and the thing was crafted to never let you escape, even in death. She only needed her own DNA for it to completely heal herself. She'd get the DNA from her younger self in 2,000 years.
Rory was left behind again. There was no guard for the Pandorica, so Rory took on the duty. The Centurian stood guard over his fiancé for 2,000 years. The Doctor appeared from right after he escaped the Pandorica. A Dalek came to life from one of the exhibits and attacked Amy, Amelia, and the Doctor. The night guard came and shot the Dalek. It was Rory!
The light from the Pandorica revived the Dalek. The Doctor and the gang ran. The Doctor put on the fez and picked up a mop to bar the door. Rory recognized it as what the Doctor was wearing when he told him what to do 2,000 years ago. The Doctor used a vortex manipulator wristwatch to travel back in time. It's nasty business, quick and very linear, and so the Doctor disappeared and reappeared at least eight times, with seconds between each. He then laid out the breadcrumbs that led Amelia there.
The Doctor appeared on the top of the stairs from the future, dying. He collapsed, whispered in the fez Doctor's ear, and died. He had twelve minutes to live. Amelia disappeared, as the crack made it so she never existed. Amy, Rory, and the Doctor were all barely hanging on in the eye of the time-wipe storm.
But if all the stars had gone like they never existed, how did the Earth still have a Sun? The Doctor used a satellite to listen to it. It was the TARDIS exploding. It was keeping the Earth warm. And River Song was in a time loop right at the heart of the explosion. The Doctor appeared in the TARDIS moments before the explosion and brought her along.
The Doctor explained everything to his friends. The blast of the TARDIS destroyed the universe except for what was inside the Pandorica. The perfect prison. Because inside it was a memory of the universe, anything that came into contact with the Pandorica would be revived from unreality. It's like cloning a body with a single cell. The light transmits the memory, and that's how they were going to relight the fire of the universe.
Then the Dalek shot the Doctor. He went back in time twelve minutes to warn himself. Then he died. River killed the Dalek. Amy and Rory ran back to where they left the Doctor's body. He wasn't there. Amy exclaimed that he was dead. The Doctor had said so! "Rule one," River said. "The Doctor lies."
The Doctor had used them as a diversion so he could get inside the Pandorica and save the universe. The Doctor planned to throw the Pandorica into the center of the explosion using his vortex manipulator. It would heighten the Pandorica's restoration field and transmit the light to the whole of the universe. Big Bang Two.
The cracks would close, but the Doctor would be on the wrong side of the cracks. It would be as if he had never existed. He and Amy said goodbye. He flew into the explosion. Then he woke up in the TARDIS, surprising even himself. He was in his own timeline, rewinding it. Unraveling. Erasing.
The Doctor tried speaking to Amy throughout his timeline. Amy could hear him, but she couldn't see him. So when he rewound to the time with the Weeping Angels, when Amy's eyes had to be closed, the Doctor told her. "Remember what I told you when you were seven." So he flashed back to that time, at her house. The night she waited. He picked up the sleeping Amelia and put her to bed. He talked to her sleeping form. He thought if she could hear him, he could hang on. Silly old Doctor. When she woke up, she would have a mom and dad, and the Doctor would be a story in her head. "But that's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box." He told her the story of how he stole the TARDIS, or rather, borrowed it. He comforted himself that he would be there in her dreams, even though he wouldn't exist, and those days would never come.
So Amy woke up on the day of her wedding, and she had parents. She knew she was forgetting something, but she didn't know what. And she got married.
Would be a great way to end, but the Doctor hates endings.
River left her blue diary with Amy as a wedding present. The diary of her time with the Doctor. "Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something blue." Very similar to what the Doctor said to Amy when she went to bed the night she waited.
She remembered. In the middle of her reception, Amy stood and yelled that the Doctor was late. He told her the story to spark her memory, because all you need is a spark. The TARDIS appeared in the reception hall, and the Doctor stepped out in a suit. The Doctor danced with the kids ridiculously. The girl who waited and the boy who waited were finally married. And the Doctor slipped away.
Amy and Rory chased after him, and they all said goodbye to the present. They would continue traveling with him.
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory then tried to save a ship trapped in a cloud belt. A Mr. Scrooge-type man, Kasran Sardic, controlled the cloud belt, and he wouldn't clear the skies to save them. The Doctor went down his chimney to stop him. He threatened Kasran. But then a child threw a rock at the man, and Kasran raised his hand to hit him...and didn't. The Doctor stopped. He had missed something. There were portraits of an old man all around the room, and every chair was turned away from them. Of course! Kasran's father had been abusive, and Kasran was scared of being like him. There was hope for Kasran. So the Doctor went back in time to meet Kasran as a child, while Kasran was crying after his father had hit him. He brought joy to the boy's life...and sadness.
The Doctor changed Mr. Scrooge through boyish adventure, joy, and the love of a young girl destined to die sooner than the rest.
Then the Doctor walked to his death. An astronaut rose out of the water and shot him dead. This time for real. He knew the astronaut, and he forgave her. Amy and friends burned the Doctor's body Viking style.
They followed the instructions given to them by blue envelopes to meet up at a diner, and there the Doctor was, two hundred years younger. He had a blue envelope, too. They and an American ex-FBI, Canton, went on a quest to save a little girl being attacked by astronauts. They came across the Silence, a race of aliens that you forget you ever saw once you're not looking at them. They found the astronaut. Inside was the little girl. Amy, thinking it was the Doctor's killer, shot her. The Silence attacked.
The Doctor's friends ran from the Silence. They decided to mark their skin every time they saw a Silence. The Doctor injected a recorder under their skin so they could describe what they saw. If there was a recording, it would blink red. The Silence has been hiding amongst humanity for eons, ruling them since "the wheel and the fire." While you are staring at them, someone can plant an idea in your head, and once you turn away, you'll do it without thinking about it. The Silence could have been doing this to humanity. The Doctor wasn't fighting the Silence. He was leading a revolution.
Amy began having illusions of a woman in an eyepatch appearing in impossible places. Moments after her first vision, someone captured Amy while she was pregnant. She was a hostage for the Silence, but the child in the astronaut suit escaped. The Doctor and co. appeared where the Silence were holding Amy. The Doctor began talking them to death while Rory untied Amy.
Then the Doctor was truly brilliant. He recorded the Silence explaining what they are, and that humanity should kill them all on sight. He planted the message in the video of the Moon landing. All over the world, people turned and saw the Silence. And they followed the order. Humanity attacked and won.
The Doctor, Rory, and Amy went on adventure after adventure, but Amy was never truly with them, even before the Silence. She had been held prisoner all along. It was a doppelganger in her place. Amy gave birth, and the eyepatch woman took away her child. The woman turned this child into a soldier. The child could regenerate. She had the essence of time in her, because Amy was pregnant while time traveling. Time Lords became the way they are over billions of years of spending time in the time vortex.
That child grew up to shoot the Doctor. The child in the astronaut suit. That child was River Song. The people of the Gamma forest don't have a word for Pond, because the only water they have is a river. Pond, Melody. River Song.
The Doctor snuck into the place where Amy was being held and broke her out, but their enemies took Amy's and Rory's baby. The people who took Amy wanted to create a Time Lord and use it as a weapon to kill the Doctor. This infuriated him on a moral level. But the universe fears the Doctor. The word "doctor" means "healer" in many galaxies, and that's because they got the word from him. To the people in the Gamma forests, "doctor" has come to mean "mighty warrior," and that pains him greatly.
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory then got trapped in a hotel. Their individual faiths were what led the monster there to target them. The Doctor lied to Amy to get her to lose her faith in him. "I took you with me because I was vain. I wanted to be adored. It's time to see each other as we really are. Amy Williams. It's time to stop waiting." And it worked.
Then the Doctor gave Amy and Rory a house, a car, and he left them. He left because they were still breathing, and he'd like to keep it that way. For a little while, the Doctor tried to stop saving humans because he didn't want to make it worse. So he visited an old friend, Craig, recognized a problem, and tried to ignore it by getting a job at a shop. He worked in the children's toy department, because he's amazing with kids. But he couldn't stop paying attention to what was going on. The Doctor and Craig ended up saving the town from Cybermen. The Doctor can't stop. Not even with his death on the horizon.
It was the Doctor's day to die. It was a fixed point in time. It always had to happen. The astronaut-wearing River Song discharged her suit into the air, so the Doctor couldn't die. Time unraveled, disintegrating, and all of history happened at once. Reality would be destroyed. The only way to fix it was for the Doctor to die. For River and the Doctor to touch. The two polarities of the time anomaly would right it all.
"All of reality is dying because of me and I can't bear it another day," the Doctor said. So he begged River to help him. They married, and they kissed. And River killed the Doctor again.
Except it wasn't really the Doctor. He had planned this ahead of time. He was in a robotic suit made to look like the Doctor, he and a bunch of miniaturized people piloting it. As long as the world thought he was dead, and his friends had seen him "die," it would remain in history as the Doctor's death. Therefore, he wouldn't be rewriting history.
Of course, the secret didn't last for long. Two years later, though he erased every record of his existence, it seemed the whole universe knew the Doctor was alive. He just couldn't stay away, and neither could Amy and Rory.
Then Amy and Rory encountered the Weeping Angels for the last time. The creatures sent them back in time. The Doctor couldn't visit them without creating a paradox. He would never see them again.
The Doctor grieved. He retreated into himself. The Doctor refused to have any contact with humans any longer. Three of his alien friends acted as a buffer, keeping visitors and intruders away.
But Clara Oswald, clever, impossible Clara, worked her way past all that. The Doctor met her in a Dalek camp. She died. Then he met her in Victorian era London. She was a caretaker, and the Doctor never turns away from children in danger. Clara and the Doctor fought back sentient evil snowmen.
And then she died.
Years later, moments later, the Doctor met Clara again. A different time, a different situation, a different life. But she was definitely Clara Oswald. She was a nanny, naturally, and the Doctor swept her up into his time-traveling spaceship, his blue box, the TARDIS. He refused to lose her again. And he wanted to unravel the mystery that was Clara Oswald, same as he wanted to solve Amy's mystery.
The Doctor loves a mystery. It's the unknown that interests him, because he knows ever so much already. He used to travel in order to be proved wrong, to find out more about the universe, because the moment he knew everything was the moment the universe would grow boring. Now he travels to run. He runs toward every amazing thing in the universe while he can, before the planet dies or the star fades. The universe is infinitely expanding, stars dying and being reborn every moment. Nothing lasts and everything is forever. He wants to see them before they fade, as he knows he will fade, one day. The Doctor is an old man with a bucket list.
Then, one morning, the Doctor saved Gallifrey. All incarnations of the Doctor locked Gallifrey up in a pocket universe. The past incarnations didn't remember because they messed with the timestream so much. To the rest of the universe, and the Doctor who blew up Gallifrey, the Dalek crossfire made it look like Gallifrey exploded. But she's out there, somewhere. The present incarnation of the Doctor decided to find her. A brighter future with shining possibilities for a man who had become so dark.
Abilities/Special Powers:
♞Time Lord physiology. Two hearts. Regenerative abilities. Psychic abilities--he can psychically meld with other Time Lords; he can search about in another person's mind and fix or lock away their memories; and he can project his own memories into another person by knocking his head against theirs. He can also psychically communicate with the TARDIS, as it is a living thing, and he can sort through all of time in his head.
♞Genius. He's very smart at everything but human interaction. Then he's absolutely bollocks most of the time.
♞Weaponry, ironically.
♞Hacking. All things technology-y.
♞Understanding and talking to animals and babies.
♞Sonic screwdriver. It's a probish gizmo that can do just about anything through sonic waves except open wooden doors. It can't work on wood, at all, ever. (Well, unless he had 400 years to spare.) Generally he uses it to open doors, emit a high-pitched noise that hurts the ears to impede bad guys, and short out mechanical enemies.
Third-Person Sample:
The Doctor had been without his TARDIS before. Being stuck in the supposed whimsical world of Wonderland was no different. He would find his sexy, sentient ship, herd everyone inside, and fly away into the stars. Like Peter Pan.
He had not, however, stayed this long in one place for a long while, much less a forced holiday without his TARDIS. The only fact that kept him from going batty was that the translating matrix was clearly still in effect. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to communicate with humans, birds, or even cats! That would be a travesty. Then he would have to learn Cat! And English. No one ever wanted to learn English.
If English, Japanese, and all the others were being translated into Gallifreyan, then the TARDIS couldn't have gotten far. She was his only friend on his lone journey some years, and she would be the only one there for him at the end of it all. Every companion died or left at some point or another, but his psychic ship was a constant. When he felt like chatting, she supplied a certain sort of conversation. She would always listen, and though it wasn't quite talking, it was perhaps the most beautiful conversation anyone could have. Though the Doctor claimed he was mad, and he certainly acted it, speaking could keep a man from going entirely insane.
He loved his ship. The Doctor felt exposed without her. But with this information in hand, he could hold onto hope that he would find her again, or she, him.
Still, the Doctor was used to running for his life every other day, having an adventure. If the dull minds of the humans he was boarded with didn't drive him mad, the slow clockwork of Wonderland's events would surely do the trick. No hold on, that was rude, wasn't it? Only most of Wonderland's occupants were thick and dull like, like . . . like a butter knife stuck through margarine. There, that was better, much nicer.
There wasn't enough going on. He had to keep busy. Anyone who knew the Doctor, therefore, would not find it a surprise to see him going about every tea room in the mansion, setting up board games and houses of cards and sweets and streamers and confetti and glitter. Somewhere around floor 5, he had run out of confetti, and on floor 8, he had no more glitter. Naturally, from there, he settled for scattering about hundreds and thousands or, as the Americans would call them, sprinkles.
Did he plan to spread hundreds and thousands about the floor, tables, and chairs of the tea rooms? No. Naturally, he just popped into any random room to nick them from any old magic closet.
Perhaps he just popped right into yours!
"Hello sorry bit of a rush, mind if I use your closet?" The occupant had better be quick, because the Doctor is moving to skip right over to it. He has no sense for others' privacy.
First-Person Sample:
VIDEO
[The first thing you hear is an electronic, pulsating buzz. The first thing you see is a glowing green light. Then the strange probe retreats, and a grinning young man's face is much too close. Hello, wide angle lens]
There we are, right! Hullo. I'm the Doctor. This message should be going out to every forced resident of this manor. I know, clever me, I bypassed the main circuits and rerouted the radiofrequency energy using sonic waves and divided the cells before distributing them to every receiver, not all that complicated aaaaand that is entirely normal because these over-glorified walkie-talkies are programmed for that. Right. Okay.
Forget that, start over, hullooo, Wonderland. Did someone call for a doctor? Because it looks like you sorely need one.
No no, don't bother to give me the usual welcome, I've read it all in on this LAN network you lot have got, no. What I need is your full attention.
[the Doctor sets the device on a desk and stands back, his arms outstretched theatrically. His smile is dangerous, dark, and excited. His eyes shine with war] Duchess, Queens, Cats, and Mad Hats, listen up. Search your books for stories of the Doctor. All the planets of people who have got in my way. Then tell me . . .
Would you like to be added to the list?
I'm leaving, and I'm taking all these nice people with me. [he gives a sarcastic, three-fingered salute] I'll be seeing you. [and the transmission cuts out]