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PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Megan
AGE: 30
CONTACT: sparklepwny @ plurk
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

TYPE: Canon (Doctor Who)
NAME: the Doctor (Twelfth)
AGE: 2200+
MOTIVATION: What precisely drives the Doctor is largely one of the mysteries of canon, only vaguely alluded to sometimes. But generally speaking: he says in Day of the Doctor that his name is a promise, to never be cruel or cowardly, to never give up or give in. Basically, his name is his motivation - he has to be the Doctor (the one who fixes things, as the Master points out).
ARRIVAL SCENARIO: The Artifact - bonded to Clara Oswald

HISTORY: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor oh god I'm so sorry

PERSONALITY: While the Eleventh Doctor looks young but acts old, Twelve looks old, but has a surprisingly young spirit. You can see it in his unguarded moments, in the complete disregard for his safety with which he runs out across the rooftops of London after a burning dinosaur or dives into the Thames or hijacks a carriage horse. You can see it in his expression, the few fleeting unguarded glimpses of a small child he lets slip when talking to Clara at the end of the first episode, when he’s praying that she’ll accept him for who he is. He desperately needs Clara’s trust and approval (possibly in a similar way to Amy’s being the first face Eleven saw); as Vastra says, he regenerated into an older face because he trusted Clara, because he thought that he didn’t need to be young and pretty for her to accept him, and at the end of the episode, it’s obvious that he desperately wants to be accepted, in a far younger and more vulnerable way than he would normally be willing to let on. In a similar way, he relies on Clara in “Into the Dalek”, when he asks her if he’s a good man; the actual answer doesn’t matter as much as Clara’s belief that he’s a good man, because as long as she believes it of him, then he can believe it of himself. (In the end, however, he concludes that he’s neither a good man nor a bad man - he’s simply the Doctor, an idiot with a blue box and a screwdriver.)

Though there are times when he tries to appear more callous and condescending - like in the second episode, when he pretends to save a soldier by giving him a sliver of his sonic screwdriver’s battery so he can actually track his remains - it has more to do with prioritizing the needs of the many over the needs of the few. He still grieves for each and every individual he loses, but he knows, pragmatically speaking, that sometimes losses are necessary; as he tells Clara, part of being the Doctor is being the one who makes impossible choices. He had to talk the Half-Faced Man into killing himself (or had to push him, depending on what actually happened) in order to defeat the rest of the droids and save Clara, Vastra, Jenny, and Strax, and he had to track the soldier’s remains to the “larder” so that the rest of them could hide there and be safe from the Dalek antibodies in order to continue their mission. He casually observes the deaths the mummy causes on the Orient Express in order to gather information on what it might be, then, once he’s worked out how to stop it, allows Clara to believe that he needs the mummy’s next victim to sacrifice her (even though he actually needs her there in order to stop the mummy). And, of course, he comes to the realisation that it’s necessary to switch on Danny’s emotional inhibitor to find out Missy’s plan, even though it means essentially killing what remains of the man Clara loved - and after that, he gives Danny control of the Cyber-army, knowing that he’ll have to sacrifice himself to save the human race.

That’s not to say that he never focuses on the individual: at the end of the first episode, he tells the Half-Faced Man that the view of London from above isn’t beautiful, but rather below, the view close-up, with every small detail important to him. His blind hatred of the Dalek race as a whole is overcome for just one brief moment when he tries his best to redeem the “broken” Dalek after fixing him and making him murderous again. (Of course, the Dalek ultimately feeds on the Doctor’s hatred of the Daleks and his conviction that they must all be destroyed - again, for the greater good of the universe - leading the Dalek to proclaim that the Doctor is a better Dalek than he is.) Later, he saves Davros, his age-old enemy and creator of the Daleks, as a child stranded in a handmine field. He even manages to reunite Robin Hood with his lost love Marian, despite his argumentative interactions with the other man. And, at the end of s8 he gives up Clara, convinced that she’ll be happier leading a normal life with Danny than she would be travelling with him.

He’s rather more abrasive overall, making flippant (and potentially hurtful) comments to nearly everyone - calling Clara, Strax, Vastra, and Jenny pudding-brains, telling Clara that she’s built like a man, and describing Clara as his carer- “she cares so I don’t have to”. He tells a grieving woman to stop crying just after he saved her life (though her brother’s was lost shortly before the Doctor rescued her). He doesn't necessarily mean to do it; he has cards (written by Clara) to help him with his interactions with people, so he doesn't say the wrong thing.

He still doesn’t like soldiers - but, as he says, “you [soldiers] don’t need to be liked, you have all the guns.” (This is especially evident in all his interactions with Danny - although, over time, it also becomes tinged by his obvious jealousy of Clara and Danny’s relationship.) He’s more subdued than his predecessor - rather than taking over the room and being the centre of attention, he waits for the room to come to him - but still not inclined to suffer fools gladly. When confronted with the same soldier demanding to be taken back to her ship - threatening him with a gun, in fact - he tells her sternly that she’s not doing it properly until she relents and asks him nicely, using the word please.

After the finale of season 9, the Doctor is more emotionally distraught (although less likely to show it than previous regenerations). He's gone through billions of years of torture in his confession dial (actually killing himself repeatedly, only to be recreated by the teleport to go through the same cycle again) to get to his home planet, instated a coup against Rassilon - all of this to get them to bring Clara back, rather than to reveal the secret of the prophecy. And, of course, he's had his memories of Clara erased, albeit imperfectly. He remembers that she exists, that he cared deeply for her, that he can never be with her. Forgetting her is the only way he can move on with his life, but he can't help prodding at the holes in his memory, in the same way you're drawn to poke at the hole where a tooth once was.

Every Doctor has their quirks, and this one seems to be fond of puns (although the same can be said for several others, including the Tenth). He also has a certain fixation on writing equations on everything, finding a piece of chalk during his regeneration sickness and writing on every surface in his bedroom, and adding a number of chalkboards to the TARDIS console room when redecorating. His hatred of soldiers is especially vehement in this regeneration, and he occasionally has trouble with remembering names and faces (or he just does it out of spite, like his insistence on calling Danny PE to the bitter end). He seems to be a slightly quirky aging rocker-esque character (with a disregard for anachronisms), driving a tank into a castle courtyard in the Middle Ages for a rockstar entrance (complete with electric guitar) and builds sonic sunglasses.

SKILLS / POWERS:
- Regeneration! Instead of dying, Time Lords regenerate every cell in their bodies and take on a new face/appearance (or don't, if they're vain).
- Vaguely unspecified psychic powers. These largely include telepathy and whatever the plot happens to call for that week.
- Also some sort of weird innate time sense, I'm not really sure how to describe it. He claims to be able to feel the Earth turning, and...let's just lump this under weird timey-wimey shit. Look, vague canon is vague.
- Bicardial anatomy. Two hearts!
- A ridiculously good immune system and a certain resistance to electricity and radiation (he's seen absorbing lethal amounts of both in canon and simply walking away). Probably less susceptible to injuries and/or faster healing than humans. (He also survives a fall that would kill a normal human with minor cuts and bruises, though he admittedly regenerates shortly thereafter from massive doses of radiation poisoning.)
- Assorted technological skills and knowledge picked up by travelling through time and space for two thousand years. Basically, being an alien genius.
- To expand on the previous point, he was educated at the Prydonian Academy on Gallifrey. He learned a variety of things - particularly advanced sciences and mathematics - and a number of languages. (Sorry I can't expand on this, but the Doctor's younger years are rarely discussed in canon.) He's also very good at history, having experienced quite a lot of it first-hand.
NERFING: Nerfing is fine! Honestly I'm not sure how much of it is even going to be nerfed anyway, other than the regeneration and psychic powers.

INVENTORY: An electric guitar slung over one shoulder, his new sonic screwdriver, psychic paper (you don't have to be psychic to use it), a cigarette case that holds jelly babies, an assortment of small denomination coins from throughout time and space, a few lengths of twine, other minor contents of his pockets (paperclips and the like).

TEST DRIVE LINKS: https://flawedmemes.dreamwidth.org/257.html?thread=62465#cmt62465
SAMPLE ONE: http://bemused.dreamwidth.org/18469.html?thread=551973#cmt551973
SAMPLE TWO: http://bemused.dreamwidth.org/18469.html?thread=554021#cmt554021