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History: Your character's life. You may link to a wiki here, but we would love to hear your own take on it! This is nearly as important as personality, as we will be using both sections to compare to the City history and make sure it's appropriate.
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City
Name: This shouldn't allude to their canon name.
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History: Two paragraphs minimum, but this section doesn't need to be very long. You can contact the mods to work with us on this. Absolutely needs to relate to the character in some way or another. Ironic placement, while fun, would not work for the setting. Any powers they may have in the Cave will not be present in this history.
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Proof: This is what will be waiting for a character in their living quarters when they first wake up in the Cave. It should be a photo, a voice clip, a video, etc., anything that would feature the Sleeper in a way that could be recognized. An item that would make a very solid case for your character living in the Diamond City before the Disaster.
Playing
First-person sample: (Should be at least 5 or 6 sentences. Links allowed: 15 comments minimum. If AU, samples must be of the same AU.)
Third-person sample: (At least 300 words. Links allowed. If AU, samples must be of the same AU.)
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The Doctor (First)
Player
Name: Liam
Username:
Current/former characters: N/A
Sleeper
Character: The Doctor (First)
Username:
Canon: Doctor Who (Classic)
Canon point: Just after the Dalek Invasion of Earth, where he left Susan.
Age: Late 60s (say 67 for City ID's sake?)
Appearance: The Doctor is an old man with grey hair and wrinkles, standing around 5'8". He's usually found wearing a pair of checkered pants, a dress shirt (usually striped), and a black tie, and often seen wearing his black jacket, though he does occasionally change outfits to suit the environment he happens to land in. He dons a pair of wire-framed glasses for reading, and carries around a wooden walking cane, often putting it to use. He's aged, and though he carries himself with dignity, he can often be found hunched over or leaning against things for support due to back pains that he may complain about.
Played-by: William Hartnell
Personality: The Doctor is ever so curious about everything, wanting to investigate everything he sees, but at the same time, tries his best not to get involved in the affairs of others. This never seems to work, as he always finds himself dragged into everything by his companions, whom he can never seem to convince not to get involved - even if they only get involved by accident. Why does he travel with these people again?
He's a genius, and he knows it. He knows he's smarter than most of those around him, but he's also easily distracted, a bit flighty, and can lose his train of thought if a new shiny draws his attention. When his intelligence does show itself, it's usually in the form of hints or riddles, rather than giving the direct answer to a problem. Quirky, some might call him. Other just think he's frustrating.
He's also pretty solitary - while he does have his companions, he sometimes prefers seclusion, and at times will bicker and complain endlessly about people, but at other times he can be rather charming and sociable. He'll be rude and cold-hearted one minute, then apologizing the next and trying to make those he upset feel better.
Unfortunately, he has the habit of being overprotective of women, insisting they not put themselves in danger, or berating them when they do. He will, in time, outgrow this, as he learns that the women around him can more than look out for themselves (and with how aged and frail he can be at times, look out for him, as well).
History: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/First_Doctor#Early_life (Up to his leaving Susan behind with David in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.)
Powers/skills: Eidetic memory (with the side-effect of making it difficilt to draw from a particular memory because he remembers everything, and he's old okay :|), can solve problems easily (if he can focus on them), and good at talking people out of possible violent situations (diplomacy, go!).
(I'd say the first counts as a power while the other two are skills?)
City
Name: Dr William Harris Olsen (:D)
Position: Doctor of Science, Scientist and Professor
History: William was born to a wealthy family in the central district, a family of entrepreneurs and merchants. He's the only child to Denise and Brandon Olsen, both upstanding citizens held in high regard. While an only child, William had many cousins who were all raised on the family's estate alongside him, sharing lessons and tutelage until they separated for school.
The children were encouraged to follow their own career choices, and his cousins each went off to do their own things, some training to take over the family businesses, others taking up the arts, or other ventures. William went on to study science, having a fondness for the unknown and unexplainable, wanting to learn how things worked and how to make them work better. He never had much luck with technology - that area always escaped him - but chemistry, biology, and other areas of science intrigued him, and he spent much of his time working on various home experiments. Many a time his experiments lead to disastrous outcomes, starting fires or the occasional chemical burn, minor explosions, and even one time releasing chemical fumes that knocked him unconcious - and might have killed him had his mother not noticed and been able to air out the place.
He still managed to survive those years, surprisingly, and went on to study at the best schools, eventually attaining himself a doctorate. He managed this a year early, and that only because he wasted much of his time on his own experiments. He was terrible about writing formal papers, and it took a studious professor with an inquisitive mind to question him and be able to figure out the full magnitude of his studies.
Many of his personal experiments never saw the light of day until years later, when he took on a like-minded, but much younger, scientist as an apprentice, who pestered William into formally presenting his findings. It took some years for him to finally give in and start doing so, and his apprentice had to do most of the writing, but his research was finally seeing recognition, earning him praise and recognition amongst the scientific community.
At the age of forty, he married a young woman, Elena, and they had three children. William was far more interested in his work than family life, so it was up to Elena to raise the children, though William's apprentice, quickly becoming a close friend, was around his home often enough that his children (and later grandchildren) called them aunt/uncle. He helped in some family affairs, and even assisted when he could with Elena's failing health in later years.
With an apprentice under his wing, and his work recognized, William was offered a teaching position at the age of forty-five. His apprentice had to coerce him into it before he finally accepted, and became a professor at the very school where he'd earned his doctorate. At fifty-five, he retired due to his wife's failing health, and spent the last years of Elena's life trying to find a solution to her illness, a genetic heart condition that doctors were unable to resolve. He managed to supply her with medication to make life easier and more comfortable, but she was unable to continue normal life, and spent her last years in the reading room, reading to her young grandchildren, with one of her children present to look after her.
After Elena passed away, William gave up on that research, returning his attention to his other studies. While this focused mainly on attempting to create life (to which his apprentice protested), he managed to create some chemical compounds with useful applications - stronger glues, cough medicines, an antiseptic that worked very well. These were mostly by accident, but the community still saw them as successes.
William was sixty-seven by the time of the Disaster, his children grown with children of their own, and his apprentice, now his best friend, still stood by him despite their differing of opinions. That best friend was the only person who could get through to him when no one else could, not even his own children, and was the one person he listened to when it came time to enter the pods and sleep.
Proof: Research notes in his handwriting and his framed doctorate indicating his name, age when achieved, and the school he attended.
Playing
First-person sample: Are you trying to tell me that all my years with the TARDIS - all my years spent traveling through time and space, exploring strange new worlds with different alien races and technologies, vastly different landscapes and native life - that none of it happened? That it was all some sort of dream? That's preposterous. Simply preposterous, my good man! Can you imagine the sort of mind it would require to concoct such an elaborate alternate reality? No, of course you can't. It would require such a highly evolved mind with high intelligence and vast creativity - well, I suppose I do have the right mind for it. If anyone would, it would be me. But it's preposterous!
Oh, very well. If I must live the life of this... Doctor William Olsen, is it? Well, at least it's dignified. I suppose I must do what I must do.
Third-person sample: Leaving Susan behind had been the most difficult decision he'd ever had to make. It was for her own good, he told himself. He hadn't wanted to make her choose - he knew she wouldn't have chosen David no matter his insistance - yet it still felt like abandonment. He'd abandoned his granddaughter on a world ravaged by the Daleks, and though the war was over, it was still quite dangerous.
He would return. He'd promised as much, and he intended to keep that promise. But oh, how he hoped he'd made the right choice, that David would take care of Susan and keep her safe - if he came back and something had happened to her he'd... He'd never forgive himself.
He did his best to keep all his concern contained. Ian and Barbara were still there, and he didn't want them to see all that nonsense. No, he had to be strong. He'd left most of his family behind on Gallifrey, Susan was just one person, and she was in capable hands. She'd be fine.
"Now then," he said, turning to the TARDIS' control panel. "Shall we see where the old girl will take us next?"
With the flick of a switch and the turning of a dial, the TARDIS rumbled to life...
...And then he woke up. To find himself not in the TARDIS.
"What-" he started, eyes wide as he looked around, disoriented and confused. Where was his TARDIS? Where were Ian and Barbara? And who were these people ushering him around like some common criminal?
He felt it best to go along with them, at least for the moment. If this were some sort of prisoner camp, it wouldn't do to get into trouble until he figured out what was going on, and where Ian and Barbara had been taken. But how had they been taken? So many questions! Clearly these people had to be highly advanced to be able to wipe his memory of being taken, if that was what they'd done. That had to be it. They'd traveled to this planet and then they'd been captured, had the memory of it wiped, and now they were stuck here. For the time being. The TARDIS was out there somewhere, and only cooperation would let him find it.
He listened to the explanations, but found himself laughing through most of it. Yes, of course - his entire life had all been a dream. The TARDIS wasn't real, time travel wasn't real. It all made perfect sense! Except not really. This was a ruse, he knew - a way to convince him to stay, so that they could benefit from the expertise of a skilled scientist. Well, he'd let them benefit - for now. So long as he fit into this life they claimed he had, he'd be able to investigate, to search for clues as to the nature of this world, the location of the TARDIS, and hopefully find Ian and Barbara. Play the role handed to him, fit in, and do his best to find the truth.
Did you read the rules? Yes.
Revisions
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Your application is good! We just have a few questions about your app before we can decide to accept or decline. Please expand on...
Age
While we are fine with the age set to give the Doctor in his human form, we would like to know how old you believe the Doctor, as a Time Lord, to also be at his point in canon.
Personality
While this personality gives us a good look at the outer shell of his actions, we would like to see deeper and understand why he is this way. Does he not get involved due to a sense of duty, or a dislike of putting himself in the center? For a "distractable professor" type, why is the Doctor content to simply show his genius through vague answers and riddles? Can you explain the dichotomy between his apparent pleasure of traveling with companions and his need for solitude?
How does he react to the human population in general, and how do you imagine him coping with becoming human himself?
City proof
We require for City proofs to be items that place the characters themselves within the setting of the City, such as videos, pictures or audio confirmation. Our suggestion would be to tuck a photograph in the corner of the framed doctorate.
Re: Revisions (SORRY had to repost due to italics fail)
Age:
I think canonwise he's about 250-300? It is really difficult to pinpoint his age haha, let's say 275.
Personality:
He doesn't tend to get involved because he believes that, no matter what he does, he won't be able to change history, and that trying would be a lesson in futility, as he explained to Barbara when she tried to change the Aztecs. Whether or not he can alter the timeline, he believes he is dutybound not to. There are occasions where he will, but this usually happens because he finds himself stuck in a situation where the only way out is to fight, for one side or the other. Self-preservation seems to overrule his sense of duty.
He is far from modest. Often he can be heard tooting his own horn about his intelligence and his superiority. However, he tends to prefer helping others learn for themselves, testing their own minds and ways of thinking. He seems to think others races need to be taught, and takes it upon himself to do the teaching, trying to guide them towards the right path rather than leading them there by the hand.
Having never really been alone in his life up to this point, it's difficult for him to be content as a solitary person over long periods of time. He'll seek out companionship, winding up with someone to travel with - first his granddaughter, then Ian and Barbara. It can take time for him to warm up to someone, seeming distrustful or callous at first, but in time they'll grow on him and he'll be more forthcoming, more willing to help them understand things, so long as they don't ask too many foolish questions.
He has a problem with common ground - since he grew up on Gallifrey, has many years of experience in the galaxy, and is well older than any human, or some other species for that matter, it can be difficult for them to see things the same way as him, to understand how things work. Many don't share the same interests, and it can be difficult to make friends with someone who seems to have nothing in common with you - if it weren't for his adventures, and those he winds up with enjoying the thrill of travel and the unknown, he'd likely travel alone. And he knows that he'll far outlive those around him, so can be reluctant to become to close to others. He feels out of place in much of human society, and this puts a damper on his willingness to connect.
The human population has promise. There's nothing inherently wrong with them. They're young, and this comes with all the problems of youth - they're judgemental, impresionable, rash, impulsive, and have difficulty seeing beyond their own scope of vision. Much of humanity would sooner see an alien tested on in a lab than make friends with them.
As to being human himself... He likely won't believe it ever. He'll laugh it off. If proof is ever shown, however, he won't take it well - how does one handle being proven that their entire life was a lie? With difficulty. Especially for someone who always thought he was superior to humanity - to find out he's one of them, he's one of the young race of rash and judgemental people he's always held to be beneath him - it will be quite the discovery, and will be very difficult for him to overcome. He will likely try to excuse it - the tests were faked, something was done to him to make him human, perhaps the body he's in was a clone made to look like him - whatever he can until there really is no way to continue claiming it as a falsehood.
City Proof:
I was going to include a photo and forgot to add it in :( So yeah, let's go with that. Maybe a family photo of him and his children/grandchildren?
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