Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do, then I should warn you - you're gonna see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won't be quiet, it won't be safe, and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be: The trip of a lifetime!
CHARACTER NAME: The Doctor NICKNAME/ALIAS: Doctor. The Doctor. Time Lord. John Smith. There's only one living woman who knows his real name, and she's not sharing that information any time soon.
Rose: What did you say your name was? The Doctor: I told you; The Doctor. Rose: Yeah, but, Doctor what? The Doctor: Just The Doctor. Rose: The doctor? The Doctor: Hello! Rose: Is that meant to be impressive? The Doctor: Sort of, yeah.
PB: Christopher Eccleston AGE: 900 and some change; appears to be in his late thirties/early forties GENDER: Male SPECIES: Alien; Time Lord. The Doctor would have you know that he doesn't look human--you, in fact, look time lord. They came first. CATEGORY: Canon. SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Straight, but this is also irrelevant. While the Doctor shows he has feelings for some women, like Rose, at this point he is mostly asexual and not at all interested in any kind of romantic or sexual relationship. FAMILY: The Doctor had a wife, once, as well as at least one child. But that was a long time ago.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The Doctor looks very human, very human indeed. He's not outright good looking, and he himself will comment on how absurd his ears are, and how they stick off his head. He has a brilliant and infectious smile, close-cropped brown hair, and a pretty big nose (which he also comments on). He prefers to wear a black leather jacket and black pants in this regeneration, and is hardly ever seen without those garments. He can appear very imposing, and often comes off as grumpy or glowery. He has two hearts, located in his chest--stopping one will not kill him. EYE COLOR: Blue HAIR COLOR: Brown HEIGHT: six feet (this regeneration) WEIGHT: 180-200 lbs, depending on how much he's slowed down to eat. SCARS: None that are visible. PIERCINGS: No. TATTOOS: No.
PERSONALITY: The Doctor is incredibly intelligent, and that's the most remarkable thing about him, other than his age and the size of his ears. He will reason his way out of a problem, often out loud, jumping from point A to B in an erratic fashion most humans would not even follow. He has a difficult time being alone, and tends to travel with a human female companion more often than not. He sometimes doesn't see things which are readily apparent to humans, or doesn't think of them (ex: Rose asks is her boyfriend is alive, though he's been kidnapped by aliens, and the Doctor says 'I don't know. I hadn't thought of that.') He is both in love with humanity and annoyed with them, in an alternating pattern. He will tout their ingenuity and ability to endure, but once humanity or a specific human does something stupid, he will talk about them in a borderline racist way, calling them 'stupid apes.' Still, the Doctor is good-hearted, despite all he's been through, and funny and witty and lovable. He doesn't always share what he knows and will try to spare the feelings of his companions/friends in bad situations if at all possible.
Rose: Hold on, if you're an alien, why do you sound like you're from the north? The Doctor: Lots of planets have a north!
QUIRKS/TRAITS: Has a tendency to say 'Fantastic!' as an exclamation. Has a tendency to refer to people by their full, first and last names. Speaks with a very pronounced Northern English accent. Adept pickpocket.
LIKES: Traveling through space and time. Days where everybody lives. The ability the human race has to endure, and their continued curiosity and exploration of the universe. Bananas. DISLIKES: Daleks. Being alone. Thoughtlessness. Paradoxes.
OBSESSIONS: The Doctor's only obsession is maintaining the balance of space and time within the universe. He DOES save people, but if their survival will hurt that balance, it's not something he would do.
FRIENDS: The Doctor always has a companion, and currently, though she will not arrive with him, that companion is Rose. Her sometimes-boyfriend Mickey also has traveled with the Doctor. Other than that, his friends/allies include all at Torchwood, most of the British government, some members of the FBI and CIA, and various other human beings in top positions at agencies such as these.
ENEMIES: Many, but top among them would be the Daleks and Cybermen. Anything that will cause a timeline or time event to not go as planned is the Doctor's enemy. But the Daleks were responsible for the destruction of the Time Lords, which makes the Doctor's feelings toward them very, very personal.
LOVE INTERESTS: Rose, one could argue. But The Doctor, while he cares about her a great deal, is too emotionally distant at this point to be anything but her friend.
PETS: K-9 now lives with Sarah Jane, so none.
HISTORY: As the Doctor's history is so, so extensive, please bear with me for now. While the game normally does not allow wiki links, in this case, the sheer volume of information is overwhelming and not easily digestible to someone unfamiliar with the show. A wiki is really the best way to handle the history of doctors 1-8. This wiki covers all of it, doctor by doctor: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki.
That said, the 9th Doctor's history appears below:
The Doctor was born on the planet Gallifrey, approximately 900 years ago. He would later describe Gallifrey in great detail, including its beautiful sunsets. He attended school there, like all time lord children, and stared into the universe, excited by what was there. Others who stared into that point were driven mad, or found it all too much to bear.
The Doctor: You think it'll last forever: people and cars and concrete. But it won't. One day it's all gone. Even the sky. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned, like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust. Before its time. Rose: What happened? The Doctor: There was a war, and we lost. Rose: A war with who? [The Doctor doesn't answer, seemingly lost in thought.] What about your people? The Doctor: I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left traveling on my own, 'cause there's no one else.
The 9th incarnation of the Doctor was born of war--a very big war, that destroyed his entire planet and species. The war was with the Daleks, a race of aliens who wear protective armor and aim to exterminate pretty much everything. He lost everything, but in true time lord fashion, did not attempt to go back in time to change it. Some things are fixed points and must not change.
Shortly after his 9th incarnation....
In 2005 London, the Doctor rescued 19-year-old shop girl Rose Tyler from Autons at her workplace, Henrik's, blowing up the building. They defeated the Nestene Consciousness controlling the Autons, who had come to earth to feed on pollution. The Doctor tried to persuade the Consciousness to leave Earth, but it refused and took him prisoner. Rose rescued him and destroyed the Consciousness with the Doctor's anti-plastic. The Doctor invited her to travel with him on his journeys through space and time in his TARDIS. Rose accepted.
For her first trip time-travelling, the Doctor took Rose to the distant future, when the Earth was destroyed by the sun. The Doctor saved the other sightseers from Lady Cassandra's plot to burn them alive for insurance money. He let her frame of skin dry out and explode as punishment when he foiled her plan, (DW: The End of the World) though Cassandra's brainmeat survived. (DW: New Earth) He told Rose of the Last Great Time War, and how he was the last of the Time Lords.
He took Rose to Cardiff in 1869, where they met Charles Dickens. He found ethereal beings known as Gelth, victims of war who wished to inhabit corpses to gain new bodies. The Doctor used the psychic Gwyneth to speak to them through the Rift to help them, but the Gelth needed many bodies and planned to kill humans to supply their wants. Thanks to Gwyneth's sacrifice, the Gelth were trapped in the Rift.
The Doctor tried to take Rose to her own time, but arrived a year late. To his surprise, a spaceship crashed into the Thames and alerted the world to the presence of aliens. He found the spaceship belonged the Slitheen, who planned to reduce Earth to radioactive waste to sell as cheap fuel on the intergalactic market. At the cost of Downing Street, the Doctor blew up the Slitheen. He invited Mickey to join Rose and him in their travels, but was refused. The Doctor gave him a computer virus to wipe out all mentions of him on the internet.
Dalek: Then I shall follow the Primary Order. The Dalek instinct to destroy, to conquer! The Doctor: [angry and solemn] What for!? What's the point!? Don't you see it's all gone!? Everything you were, everything you stood for. Dalek: [confused] Then what should I do? The Doctor: Alright, then. If you want orders, follow this one. [tense silence] Kill yourself. Dalek: The Daleks must survive! The Doctor: The Daleks have failed! Now why don't you finish the job, and make the Daleks extinct?! Rid the universe of your filth! Why don't you just die?! Dalek: [pauses in consideration] You would make a good Dalek.
Tracking a distress signal, the Doctor went to the Vault in Utah in 2012. He found a lone Dalek had survived the Time War and was being kept amongst other alien artifacts by Henry van Statten. To the Doctor's shock, the Dalek's personality changed after absorbing Rose's DNA and residual time vortex radiation. After the Dalek had committed suicide to prevent itself from changing completely, the Doctor took along one of the Vault's employees, Adam Mitchell, at Rose's request. Van Statten had his memory wiped by his employees.
The Doctor took them to the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire to see the human race at its zenith. He found it no better than 21st century Earth. Alien species had not been visiting for some time. The Doctor found that a Jagrafess called Max had been controlling the human race from Satellite Five by manipulating information. Thanks to one of the workers who learned of the truth, the satellite's heat was rerouted, sending heat to Max's control room. The Doctor returned Adam home after he tried to use knowledge of the future for his own gain.
At Rose's request, the Doctor took her to when her father died so she could be there for him. However, she saved her father from being hit by the car that would have killed him. Rose's actions had caused the TARDIS' to be thrown off into the vortex. After being attacked by a creature from outside time, the Doctor started working on a way to repair the damage to the universe while leaving Pete alive. However, after Rose touched her infant self, the Doctor sacrificed himself to the creature brought by the paradox, leaving Pete to sacrifice himself next by getting hit by the car that killed him.
The Doctor tracked a Chula ambulance to 1941 London and met the conman Jack Harkness, a 51st century ex-Time Agent who mistook them for members of the Time Agency. The Doctor soon learned that a child in a gasmask had been killed and was half-way resurrected by the nanogenes inside the ambulance. The nanogenes had not seen a human before. They took the gasmask for the child's face and fused it to him, spreading to other people who touched him, also transforming them into gasmask zombies. The Doctor fixed the nanogenes' mistakes by comparing the DNA of the child and his mother Nancy, restoring the infected zombies to normal. The Doctor rescued Jack from his ship just before it exploded, taking him into the TARDIS.
While on a refuelling trip in Cardiff, the Doctor and his companions captured Blon Fel-Fotch, the sole survivor of the Slitheen they had defeated earlier. Though Blon tried fleeing, the Doctor reversed her teleportation device several times until she gave up and was taken prisoner to be returned to Raxacoricofallapatorius for trial. The Doctor confiscated her extrapolator and dined with her as her last request. After Blon was turned into an egg by the heart of the TARDIS, which granted her wish for a fresh start and ended her backup plot to escape Earth, the Doctor decided to drop her off in the hatchery on her homeworld.
This is the point at which he will arrive in York--alone. Rose will be making a trip to see her mother, and Jack will have left.
TALENTS/SKILLS/POWERS/SPECIAL ABILITIES: Regeneration: As a Time Lord, the Doctor is actually quite difficult to kill. Instead, when critically injured, he regenerates--changing his entire body into a new one, right down to the taste buds. Each regeneration is not like the last, even in personality, though the memories and feelings of the last doctor always remain. Sonic Screwdriver: The Doctor has a gadget called a Sonic Screwdriver that, basically, he can point at various objects to make them work or comply with him. He most often uses it as a lockpick. It can also perform medical scans, remote control other devices, track alien life, and operate alien or human-created computers. It can also be used for other purposes, but these are the most noteworthy. Some of the uses in the new series include: repairing electronic equipment; re-attaching materials such as barbed wire; detecting, intercepting and sending signals; remotely operating the TARDIS; burning, cutting, or igniting substances; fusing metal; scanning and identifying substances; amplifying or augmenting sound; modifying mobile phones to enable "universal roaming”; disabling alien disguises; resonating concrete. It is sometimes used to disassemble robotic enemies or turn other objects into weapons; healing cuts and wounds. In "The Parting of the Ways" and "Utopia" it is used to operate the TARDIS controls remotely; when the Doctor attempts to counteract the Master's theft of the TARDIS, it is used to limit the TARDIS' destination. In "Doomsday", the Doctor states that the sonic screwdriver does not kill, wound or maim; however, it is sometimes brandished in a threatening manner, such as in "The Christmas Invasion", "The Runaway Bride", "The Lazarus Experiment", The Infinite Quest and The Impossible Planet. In "World War Three", when confronted by a group of Slitheen, the Doctor threatens to "triplicate the flammability" of a bottle of port wine with the sonic screwdriver, though one of the Slitheen realises he is bluffing. In "Closing Time", ringed energy beams are seen emitted from the device, giving it a more weapon-like appearance, particularly when used to disable a weakened Cyberman at a distance.
The TARDIS: (Time and Relative Dimension in Space) A properly maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and any place in the universe. The interior of a TARDIS is much larger than its exterior, which can blend in with its surroundings using the ship's "chameleon circuit." Each Time Lord has a TARDIS, and the Doctor's is an obsolete model with a broken chameleon circuit, stuck in the form of a British Police Box from the 1950s-1960s. The TARDIS possesses telepathic circuits, although the Doctor prefers to pilot it manually. Upon landing, the TARDIS makes a nose that sounds something like a spaceship landing and a car zooming by mixed together. When other people operate the TARDIS (like River Song), the ship does not make this noise. This could be because the Doctor admits that, while the TARDIS came with an owner's manual, he didn't finish reading it. The TARDIS is intelligent and arguably sentient. If required, the TARDIS can become temporarily invisible, but this is a significant power drain. Despite its outside appearance, the TARDIS seems to be virtually impenetrable. Once, when being chased by a monster, the Doctor reassured his companion, Rose Tyler, that "the assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't break through those doors, and believe me, they've tried."
STRENGTHS: Age, knowledge, regenerative ability, intellect. WEAKNESSES: His companions, being the last of his kind. LONG-TERM GOALS: To restore order to York. SHORT-TERM GOALS: Some chips would be nice. NOTEWORTHY: (anything else you feel is relevant to your character not otherwise covered) LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: ('to be decided' is acceptable, but this should be updated on your character journal once established) TBD. He'll be living in the TARDIS upon arrival, and may eventually take a house somewhere, but that isn't really immediately a concern.
What your character thinks of those they’ve met: There is currently no one in game the Doctor would have met. He loves Rose a great deal, and at this point finds Capt. Jack Harkness to be okay, if not an outright pain in the ass. He also has met Rose's mother, and her sometime-boyfriend, Mickey (whom he refers to as "Mickey the Idiot," and also Ricky. His feelings on Mickey are self-evident.)
Who your character would like to meet: EVERYBODY.
NPCs?: Technically the TARDIS is kind of an NPC. Its computer sometimes calls up information that the Doctor could not know all on his own, or sometimes plays recordings and/or projections of former companions.