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Apr. 3rd, 2013 11:21 pmOUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Player Name: Kathryn
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spoofmaster
Age: 25 (born 1987)
Contact: kathrynkr at gmail dot com
Characters Played: None in this game thus far.
IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: He doesn't have one of his own, but he likes to go by 'Doctor.' His mun tends to refer to him as 'Handy.'
Canon: Doctor Who
OU/AU/OC: OU
Canon Point: Two days after the episode "Journey's End"
History: The TARDIS wiki version.
Handy was brought into existence by accident aboard the Dalek Crucible when Donna Noble touched a jar holding a severed hand belonging to the Doctor. Shortly after his regeneration into his tenth body, the Doctor (an alien time traveler) had lost his right hand (which, he'd previously noted, had a "slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle") in a sword fight atop a spaceship floating above the Earth. Though the hand passed hands at several points, it was back in the possession of the Doctor by the time he and his companions fought the Daleks and Davros aboard the Crucible. Prior to their arrival aboard the Crucible, the Doctor had been shot by a Dalek. He halted the resulting regeneration by off-loading his regeneration energy into the severed hand, which, being a genetic match, functioned as a perfect biological receptacle. The Doctor's intention was to allow the energy to naturally dissipate, but he hadn't counted on the chain of events that led to Donna coming into direct contact with his handy receptacle. Her touch triggered an instantaneous biological meta-crisis through an equal exchange of energies, causing the hand to grow an entire new body based on the mixed biological codes of the Doctor and Donna. Handy awoke with all the memories of the Doctor up until the aborted regeneration, and all of Donna's memories up until she sparked the meta-crisis.
His first acts upon coming to life were to 1.) save the TARDIS (and Donna and himself) from certain destruction, 2.) utterly fail to free his friends from the clutches of Davros, and 3.) commit genocide against the Daleks after Donna saved their friends for him. The Doctor disapproved of that third item, to say the least; after returning the Earth and most of their human companions to their proper places, the Doctor proceeded to strand his meta-crisis double in another universe with Rose Tyler, another companion, claiming that his purpose in doing so was to give them a normal human life together and for Rose to temper his double's blood-lust.
Personality:
Handy is perpetually struggling with the thorny problem of identity; he often fears that he amounts to little more than an imperfect duplicate of another being, rather than meriting consideration on his own terms. His personality is an amalgam of those of the tenth Doctor and his companion, Donna, from whom he was jointly created, and he has inherited all the insecurities and (to his mind) worst aspects of both. From the Doctor, he got the tendency to constantly apologize for things that are not at all his fault while failing to realize he ought to be sorry for the things that are, as well as more than a little doubt about his own capabilities as a self-appointed guardian and arbiter of the downtrodden. Like the Doctor, too, he can be ruthless and go too far, but unlike the Doctor he does not feel remorse for the genocide he committed against the Daleks (though that is not to say that he doesn't feel remorse for all the terrible things the proper Doctor has done). From Donna, Handy got a generalized, pervasive feeling of unworthiness and unimportance. While he believes those feelings to be unfounded in her case (Donna is/was, after all, a savior of the universe and a fantastic person to boot), that has not stopped him from neatly adapting her worries that she would never do anything worthwhile with her life to his own situation.
Handy's connection to Rose Tyler, the companion with whom the Doctor stranded him in an alternate universe, goes back to long before his actual creation. She had traveled with the Doctor years before and was present at his regeneration into the version of which Handy is a copy, and arguably influenced the Doctor's subconscious during that regeneration (among other changes, his accent changed to match hers). Losing Rose sent the Doctor into something of a downward spiral, from which he was still recovering when the pair was reunited and Handy formed. Handy's feelings about being left with her are extremely mixed -- on the one hand (or hoof), he loves Rose; of all the beings in the universe, she might be the first to make him think seriously about settling down and living a more or less domestic life. On the other, the pressure to enter into a serious relationship with her adds to his fears that he won't measure up and that she'll regret being left with him instead of the "real" Doctor. Handy is neither human nor Time Lord, so regardless of which she wants, he's not at all sure he can deliver.
As negatively as he might view himself, though, Handy is not all doom and gloom. Though he can often behave in a self-absorbed fashion, Handy (like the Doctor before him) sees himself as a champion for justice; he will throw himself into danger at the drop of a hat if he believes his efforts will save the lives or freedom of others. It will take him a good while yet before he truly learns and understands about his own new-found mortality; he's been in the habit of using himself as a living shield for hundreds of years, always knowing that he would come back from most forms of death.
Handy's moods are mercurial; it's not unusual for him to go from pensive and sulky to bright and manic in the space of minutes, or vice versa. Sometimes he does this deliberately, taking a fake-it-till-you-make-it approach to happiness; other times, his mood genuinely shifts this quickly and he's simply along for the ride. Those who know him well can probably tell which is which.
Strengths:
Handy's both a fast talker and a fast runner. He's highly intelligent, thinking nothing of throwing together gadgetry beyond human ingenuity in order to accomplish whatever goal is immediately at hand, and he (or rather, the Doctor) has made a life out of swooping in and saving the day with brainpower alone.
Weaknesses:
Handy's a bit of a klutz, finding it difficult to adjust to his hybrid body -- and, of course, to having four legs instead of two. Despite his apparently bottomless well of knowledge regarding history and science, he can be surprisingly clueless about everyday matters like etiquette and money.
Possessions: He's got his little jacket and watch (pictured) annd...that's it, actually. Poor fella.
Pony/Animal Type: Earth pony
Cutie Mark: A red, human handprint, unique in the way all fingerprints are and signifying his hands-on approach to life and his aptitude for making things. Handy doesn't know what it means, though; he'll take it as a painful reminder of his origins.
Pony Picture:
SAMPLES
First Person: Time travel advice; talk of yetis.
Third Person: From the Borrowers meme, because why not.
Player Name: Kathryn
Player Journal:
spoofmasterAge: 25 (born 1987)
Contact: kathrynkr at gmail dot com
Characters Played: None in this game thus far.
IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: He doesn't have one of his own, but he likes to go by 'Doctor.' His mun tends to refer to him as 'Handy.'
Canon: Doctor Who
OU/AU/OC: OU
Canon Point: Two days after the episode "Journey's End"
History: The TARDIS wiki version.
Handy was brought into existence by accident aboard the Dalek Crucible when Donna Noble touched a jar holding a severed hand belonging to the Doctor. Shortly after his regeneration into his tenth body, the Doctor (an alien time traveler) had lost his right hand (which, he'd previously noted, had a "slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle") in a sword fight atop a spaceship floating above the Earth. Though the hand passed hands at several points, it was back in the possession of the Doctor by the time he and his companions fought the Daleks and Davros aboard the Crucible. Prior to their arrival aboard the Crucible, the Doctor had been shot by a Dalek. He halted the resulting regeneration by off-loading his regeneration energy into the severed hand, which, being a genetic match, functioned as a perfect biological receptacle. The Doctor's intention was to allow the energy to naturally dissipate, but he hadn't counted on the chain of events that led to Donna coming into direct contact with his handy receptacle. Her touch triggered an instantaneous biological meta-crisis through an equal exchange of energies, causing the hand to grow an entire new body based on the mixed biological codes of the Doctor and Donna. Handy awoke with all the memories of the Doctor up until the aborted regeneration, and all of Donna's memories up until she sparked the meta-crisis.
His first acts upon coming to life were to 1.) save the TARDIS (and Donna and himself) from certain destruction, 2.) utterly fail to free his friends from the clutches of Davros, and 3.) commit genocide against the Daleks after Donna saved their friends for him. The Doctor disapproved of that third item, to say the least; after returning the Earth and most of their human companions to their proper places, the Doctor proceeded to strand his meta-crisis double in another universe with Rose Tyler, another companion, claiming that his purpose in doing so was to give them a normal human life together and for Rose to temper his double's blood-lust.
Personality:
Handy is perpetually struggling with the thorny problem of identity; he often fears that he amounts to little more than an imperfect duplicate of another being, rather than meriting consideration on his own terms. His personality is an amalgam of those of the tenth Doctor and his companion, Donna, from whom he was jointly created, and he has inherited all the insecurities and (to his mind) worst aspects of both. From the Doctor, he got the tendency to constantly apologize for things that are not at all his fault while failing to realize he ought to be sorry for the things that are, as well as more than a little doubt about his own capabilities as a self-appointed guardian and arbiter of the downtrodden. Like the Doctor, too, he can be ruthless and go too far, but unlike the Doctor he does not feel remorse for the genocide he committed against the Daleks (though that is not to say that he doesn't feel remorse for all the terrible things the proper Doctor has done). From Donna, Handy got a generalized, pervasive feeling of unworthiness and unimportance. While he believes those feelings to be unfounded in her case (Donna is/was, after all, a savior of the universe and a fantastic person to boot), that has not stopped him from neatly adapting her worries that she would never do anything worthwhile with her life to his own situation.
Handy's connection to Rose Tyler, the companion with whom the Doctor stranded him in an alternate universe, goes back to long before his actual creation. She had traveled with the Doctor years before and was present at his regeneration into the version of which Handy is a copy, and arguably influenced the Doctor's subconscious during that regeneration (among other changes, his accent changed to match hers). Losing Rose sent the Doctor into something of a downward spiral, from which he was still recovering when the pair was reunited and Handy formed. Handy's feelings about being left with her are extremely mixed -- on the one hand (or hoof), he loves Rose; of all the beings in the universe, she might be the first to make him think seriously about settling down and living a more or less domestic life. On the other, the pressure to enter into a serious relationship with her adds to his fears that he won't measure up and that she'll regret being left with him instead of the "real" Doctor. Handy is neither human nor Time Lord, so regardless of which she wants, he's not at all sure he can deliver.
As negatively as he might view himself, though, Handy is not all doom and gloom. Though he can often behave in a self-absorbed fashion, Handy (like the Doctor before him) sees himself as a champion for justice; he will throw himself into danger at the drop of a hat if he believes his efforts will save the lives or freedom of others. It will take him a good while yet before he truly learns and understands about his own new-found mortality; he's been in the habit of using himself as a living shield for hundreds of years, always knowing that he would come back from most forms of death.
Handy's moods are mercurial; it's not unusual for him to go from pensive and sulky to bright and manic in the space of minutes, or vice versa. Sometimes he does this deliberately, taking a fake-it-till-you-make-it approach to happiness; other times, his mood genuinely shifts this quickly and he's simply along for the ride. Those who know him well can probably tell which is which.
Strengths:
Handy's both a fast talker and a fast runner. He's highly intelligent, thinking nothing of throwing together gadgetry beyond human ingenuity in order to accomplish whatever goal is immediately at hand, and he (or rather, the Doctor) has made a life out of swooping in and saving the day with brainpower alone.
Weaknesses:
Handy's a bit of a klutz, finding it difficult to adjust to his hybrid body -- and, of course, to having four legs instead of two. Despite his apparently bottomless well of knowledge regarding history and science, he can be surprisingly clueless about everyday matters like etiquette and money.
Possessions: He's got his little jacket and watch (pictured) annd...that's it, actually. Poor fella.
Pony/Animal Type: Earth pony
Cutie Mark: A red, human handprint, unique in the way all fingerprints are and signifying his hands-on approach to life and his aptitude for making things. Handy doesn't know what it means, though; he'll take it as a painful reminder of his origins.
Pony Picture:
SAMPLES
First Person: Time travel advice; talk of yetis.
Third Person: From the Borrowers meme, because why not.
