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dreamtofbeing) wrote2009-04-05 11:52 pm
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Backstory--OUT OF DATE
History:
The Doctor grew up on Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, as the son of a Gallifreyan politician. He had one older brother, whom he never knew well, since his brother was already living at one of the Time Lord academies when the Doctor was born. He never knew his mother, either; nobody in his family ever talked about her. By the age of eight, he was sent to the Prydonian Academy, where he spent the first century of his life in the company of his peers. He was never a brilliant student, although his mediocre grades were not so much caused by lack of intelligence as they were caused by unwillingness to comply with rules and regulations.
During his later years at the Academy and in the following decades, the Doctor was part of a political underground party led by Koschei, or later the Master. Among other issues, they opposed the Gallifreyan system of government and the absolutist power of the High Council as well as the strict and questionable criteria that determined eligibility to enrol at one of the Time Lord academies. The Doctor was the Master's right hand man, and second in leadership of the party. When the group got bigger and gained political influence, his strong involvement caused him and his family--he had married a fellow party member and had two children with her--to be persecuted and harassed.
When he had a falling out with the Master caused by differences of opinion on the party's goals and methods, the Doctor lost the support of the party, and was soon left with the choice of either facing a political trial for treason or leaving his home planet. The Doctor, aged 264 years at the time, chose to leave, leaving behind his friends and family, and went to live on Earth. In his second regeneration, his exile was made official when he was put on trial for violating the first Law of Time, the policy of non-interference.
The Doctor lived a very self-sufficient life after leaving his home planet, travelling and exploring the universe and rarely engaging in any permanent obligations. He became very used to complete independence; so much, in fact, that when Gallifrey revoked his exile and even offered him the position of High President, he declined. He only became a part of Gallifreyan society again when the High Council of Gallifrey decided to break their cardinal rule of non-interference and declared war against the Daleks, thus commencing the Time War.
The Doctor's involvement in the War consisted mainly of spy and recon missions. He fought the entirety of the War in his eighth regeneration. The nature of his missions required long periods of absence and radio silence, which left him mostly out of the loop regarding the actions of the High Council, which was why, when the War was nearing its end and things began to escalate, he wasn't aware of developments until it was too late to intervene.
Shortly before the end of the War, a civil rebellion broke out on Gallifrey. The rebellious movement was led by the new leaders of the party the Master and the Doctor had founded in their late years at the Academy. The civil war brought chaos and destruction to the heart of the Time Lord empire, and along with a stable, central leadership, Gallifrey lost their last chance to win the war against the Daleks. With the control of the Time Lords gone, the Time Vortex was destabilizing, and the only way to prevent the collapse of time itself was to destroy the centre of the multiple and multi-layered paradoxes that had been created during the War. The Doctor had no choice but to destroy Gallifrey, thereby realigning the Vortex and sending a temporal shockwave through all of time and space that left very few Dalek motherships and no Time Lords except the Doctor as survivors.
The Doctor spent quite a few years on his own, until he forced regeneration and returned to Earth, where he soon met Rose Tyler, whom he invited to travel with him in an attempt to resume his old life. His next regeneration happened when he absorbed the Vortex to save Rose. Now in his tenth regeneration, the Doctor spent the next few years coming to terms with the loss of his home planet and the changes the demise of the Time Lords had brought to the universe. He spent a year in captivity when the Master, who had managed to survive the Time War by turning himself human, usurped Earth and tried to destroy it by creating a paradox sustained by the modified TARDIS. In order to be able to undo all of the damage the Master was causing, the Doctor had to let it happen first. In the space of less than a decade, the Doctor saw both Gallifrey and his substitute home devastated, and even though he managed to save Earth in the end, the emotional trauma still lingered.
The Doctor believed the Master to be dead. This belief was proved wrong when, a year after the Master had "died", the Doctor met him again. The Master had escaped death by storing his consciousness in a ring and transferring it into a clone of his latest regeneration, and had been planning his revenge ever since. He had found a way to modify the Chameleon Arch to build a device that would turn the Doctor human. Other than the Arch, though, this device wouldn't store the Doctor's Time Lord consciousness in an external vessel. The Doctor would keep his knowledge and memories, but he would know them with the mental capacity of a human. Also, the process would not be reversible.
The Master captured the Doctor not long after the Doctor prevented Davros from destroying reality. When he used the modified Chameleon Arch on the Doctor, the Master not only turned him human, but he also broke the Doctor's telepathic, centuries-old bond with the TARDIS. The Master's TARDIS had been destroyed in the Time War, so when the Doctor's TARDIS was without a Time Lord, the Master bonded with her and made her his. His plan for the Doctor was to "keep him" for his amusement, much like the Doctor had implied he would "keep" the Master after he prevented him from bringing war to the universe.
As a human and without the connection to his TARDIS, the Doctor probably wouldn't have survived as the Master's prisoner for very long. As it was, though, he was transported to the city of Taxon no more than ten days after the Master captured him. When he arrived in the city, he was carrying a fob watch, very much like the one he previously used to store his Time Lord consciousness in. The watch is his TARDIS, who took on this shape the moment the Master fixed her Chameleon Circuit after bonding with her. The Doctor doesn't know this, though--to him, it is only a watch. Due to the fact that she is not currently bonded with a Time Lord--she broke her bond with the Master the moment she changed her shape--the TARDIS engaged a kind of "stand-by mode", which is why she doesn't reveal herself to the Doctor.
Psychology/Personality:
The Doctor needs people. Not specific ones; he doesn't need someone else in particular to be "complete", but he needs to see and experience life through other people. He's been around for a very long time--he lost exact count of the years at some point, but the number is nearing four digits--and he needs to see other people experience life for the first time to be reminded of its merits and beauty. On the other hand, though, he is a very private person who doesn't easily share his feelings or private thoughts. He's extroverted and likes social interaction, but he's still an outsider, observing or leading instead of mingling.
The Doctor has very strong convictions and principles. He firmly believes that all life is equal, and equally precious and valuable, and he'll take independent thought over blind faith in any given situation. He leads a life outside of all social rules, which allows him to be an uncompromised, objective and independent observer in almost all situations. This also makes him a very lonely individual, though, since any close relation to another person entails compromise. Therefore, all relationships he pursues are of an ambiguous nature--they are close, almost intimate, since he is sharing his life without reservation, but they are never meant to be lasting or permanent.
Emotions are important to him. Since he doesn't believe in following strict social rules, or a moral code that isn't his own, he relies on his experiences and feelings to decide the right or wrong course of action in any given situation. Due to his outsider status, he is usually detached enough from the situation to make the right call, but his impulsive decision-making can also lead to mistakes on his part. He's not a person to plan ahead, since he believes that every situation needs to be judged individually, considering all elements factoring into current events the moment they are occurring.
Being turned human, and being forced to become a part of a society, will make it impossible for him to be completely self-sufficient. He will have to adapt for the first time in his life, and will have to learn to accept compromise. It won't be easy for him, but in the end, the Doctor is a survivor, so he will most likely come to terms with his new life eventually.
In personal interaction, the Doctor is enthusiastic, friendly and outgoing, though he tends to be a bit clueless in regard to social etiquette. He has little patience for intolerance and wilful ignorance, and, if confronted with them, won't hold back about his opinion, which may make him come across as opinionated or abrasive. He has widespread interests and quite a short attention span, unless something manages to inspire a strong interest in him, in which case he can become very focused. He has a strong compulsion to help other people, but he won't let himself be used. He's very much his own person, which, depending on the individual, either alienates or draws other people towards him. Generally, he's a very forgiving person, and usually won't hold grudges even if there has been bad blood in the past.
Abilities/Weaknesses:
Physiologically, this Doctor is your average human being. He needs to sleep and eat as any human does, he can get sick, and he lost any super-fast healing powers or additional senses that he might have had as a Time Lord. As a human, the Doctor actually needs his glasses--or contact lenses--since he's rather near-sighted. Aside from that, he doesn't have any physical handicaps. However, he's not quite used to his human physiology yet, which is why things like actually having to sleep every night seem like a handicap, or at least a bothersome nuisance, to him. Some things that changed when he was turned human not as much bother as confuse or surprise him--for example, he discovered that when tasted with human taste buds, pears are actually delicious. There will surely be more surprises in store for him in his future as a human.
Intellectually, the Doctor kept a lot of his knowledge and memories when he was turned human. He has, however, lost the intuitive understanding of physical reality that the Gallifreyan time sense allowed him, which means that he knows of things and concepts that he's lost understanding of. Further, his mental capacity, while still rather extraordinary for a human, was diminished, which means that he doesn't remember his life as detailed anymore as he used to--his memories are fragmented and distorted, the way they are for humans. Judging by human standards, the Doctor is still a highly intelligent, educated and experienced individual, but from his viewpoint, being turned human restricted his mental capabilities enormously.
The Doctor grew up on Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, as the son of a Gallifreyan politician. He had one older brother, whom he never knew well, since his brother was already living at one of the Time Lord academies when the Doctor was born. He never knew his mother, either; nobody in his family ever talked about her. By the age of eight, he was sent to the Prydonian Academy, where he spent the first century of his life in the company of his peers. He was never a brilliant student, although his mediocre grades were not so much caused by lack of intelligence as they were caused by unwillingness to comply with rules and regulations.
During his later years at the Academy and in the following decades, the Doctor was part of a political underground party led by Koschei, or later the Master. Among other issues, they opposed the Gallifreyan system of government and the absolutist power of the High Council as well as the strict and questionable criteria that determined eligibility to enrol at one of the Time Lord academies. The Doctor was the Master's right hand man, and second in leadership of the party. When the group got bigger and gained political influence, his strong involvement caused him and his family--he had married a fellow party member and had two children with her--to be persecuted and harassed.
When he had a falling out with the Master caused by differences of opinion on the party's goals and methods, the Doctor lost the support of the party, and was soon left with the choice of either facing a political trial for treason or leaving his home planet. The Doctor, aged 264 years at the time, chose to leave, leaving behind his friends and family, and went to live on Earth. In his second regeneration, his exile was made official when he was put on trial for violating the first Law of Time, the policy of non-interference.
The Doctor lived a very self-sufficient life after leaving his home planet, travelling and exploring the universe and rarely engaging in any permanent obligations. He became very used to complete independence; so much, in fact, that when Gallifrey revoked his exile and even offered him the position of High President, he declined. He only became a part of Gallifreyan society again when the High Council of Gallifrey decided to break their cardinal rule of non-interference and declared war against the Daleks, thus commencing the Time War.
The Doctor's involvement in the War consisted mainly of spy and recon missions. He fought the entirety of the War in his eighth regeneration. The nature of his missions required long periods of absence and radio silence, which left him mostly out of the loop regarding the actions of the High Council, which was why, when the War was nearing its end and things began to escalate, he wasn't aware of developments until it was too late to intervene.
Shortly before the end of the War, a civil rebellion broke out on Gallifrey. The rebellious movement was led by the new leaders of the party the Master and the Doctor had founded in their late years at the Academy. The civil war brought chaos and destruction to the heart of the Time Lord empire, and along with a stable, central leadership, Gallifrey lost their last chance to win the war against the Daleks. With the control of the Time Lords gone, the Time Vortex was destabilizing, and the only way to prevent the collapse of time itself was to destroy the centre of the multiple and multi-layered paradoxes that had been created during the War. The Doctor had no choice but to destroy Gallifrey, thereby realigning the Vortex and sending a temporal shockwave through all of time and space that left very few Dalek motherships and no Time Lords except the Doctor as survivors.
The Doctor spent quite a few years on his own, until he forced regeneration and returned to Earth, where he soon met Rose Tyler, whom he invited to travel with him in an attempt to resume his old life. His next regeneration happened when he absorbed the Vortex to save Rose. Now in his tenth regeneration, the Doctor spent the next few years coming to terms with the loss of his home planet and the changes the demise of the Time Lords had brought to the universe. He spent a year in captivity when the Master, who had managed to survive the Time War by turning himself human, usurped Earth and tried to destroy it by creating a paradox sustained by the modified TARDIS. In order to be able to undo all of the damage the Master was causing, the Doctor had to let it happen first. In the space of less than a decade, the Doctor saw both Gallifrey and his substitute home devastated, and even though he managed to save Earth in the end, the emotional trauma still lingered.
The Doctor believed the Master to be dead. This belief was proved wrong when, a year after the Master had "died", the Doctor met him again. The Master had escaped death by storing his consciousness in a ring and transferring it into a clone of his latest regeneration, and had been planning his revenge ever since. He had found a way to modify the Chameleon Arch to build a device that would turn the Doctor human. Other than the Arch, though, this device wouldn't store the Doctor's Time Lord consciousness in an external vessel. The Doctor would keep his knowledge and memories, but he would know them with the mental capacity of a human. Also, the process would not be reversible.
The Master captured the Doctor not long after the Doctor prevented Davros from destroying reality. When he used the modified Chameleon Arch on the Doctor, the Master not only turned him human, but he also broke the Doctor's telepathic, centuries-old bond with the TARDIS. The Master's TARDIS had been destroyed in the Time War, so when the Doctor's TARDIS was without a Time Lord, the Master bonded with her and made her his. His plan for the Doctor was to "keep him" for his amusement, much like the Doctor had implied he would "keep" the Master after he prevented him from bringing war to the universe.
As a human and without the connection to his TARDIS, the Doctor probably wouldn't have survived as the Master's prisoner for very long. As it was, though, he was transported to the city of Taxon no more than ten days after the Master captured him. When he arrived in the city, he was carrying a fob watch, very much like the one he previously used to store his Time Lord consciousness in. The watch is his TARDIS, who took on this shape the moment the Master fixed her Chameleon Circuit after bonding with her. The Doctor doesn't know this, though--to him, it is only a watch. Due to the fact that she is not currently bonded with a Time Lord--she broke her bond with the Master the moment she changed her shape--the TARDIS engaged a kind of "stand-by mode", which is why she doesn't reveal herself to the Doctor.
Psychology/Personality:
The Doctor needs people. Not specific ones; he doesn't need someone else in particular to be "complete", but he needs to see and experience life through other people. He's been around for a very long time--he lost exact count of the years at some point, but the number is nearing four digits--and he needs to see other people experience life for the first time to be reminded of its merits and beauty. On the other hand, though, he is a very private person who doesn't easily share his feelings or private thoughts. He's extroverted and likes social interaction, but he's still an outsider, observing or leading instead of mingling.
The Doctor has very strong convictions and principles. He firmly believes that all life is equal, and equally precious and valuable, and he'll take independent thought over blind faith in any given situation. He leads a life outside of all social rules, which allows him to be an uncompromised, objective and independent observer in almost all situations. This also makes him a very lonely individual, though, since any close relation to another person entails compromise. Therefore, all relationships he pursues are of an ambiguous nature--they are close, almost intimate, since he is sharing his life without reservation, but they are never meant to be lasting or permanent.
Emotions are important to him. Since he doesn't believe in following strict social rules, or a moral code that isn't his own, he relies on his experiences and feelings to decide the right or wrong course of action in any given situation. Due to his outsider status, he is usually detached enough from the situation to make the right call, but his impulsive decision-making can also lead to mistakes on his part. He's not a person to plan ahead, since he believes that every situation needs to be judged individually, considering all elements factoring into current events the moment they are occurring.
Being turned human, and being forced to become a part of a society, will make it impossible for him to be completely self-sufficient. He will have to adapt for the first time in his life, and will have to learn to accept compromise. It won't be easy for him, but in the end, the Doctor is a survivor, so he will most likely come to terms with his new life eventually.
In personal interaction, the Doctor is enthusiastic, friendly and outgoing, though he tends to be a bit clueless in regard to social etiquette. He has little patience for intolerance and wilful ignorance, and, if confronted with them, won't hold back about his opinion, which may make him come across as opinionated or abrasive. He has widespread interests and quite a short attention span, unless something manages to inspire a strong interest in him, in which case he can become very focused. He has a strong compulsion to help other people, but he won't let himself be used. He's very much his own person, which, depending on the individual, either alienates or draws other people towards him. Generally, he's a very forgiving person, and usually won't hold grudges even if there has been bad blood in the past.
Abilities/Weaknesses:
Physiologically, this Doctor is your average human being. He needs to sleep and eat as any human does, he can get sick, and he lost any super-fast healing powers or additional senses that he might have had as a Time Lord. As a human, the Doctor actually needs his glasses--or contact lenses--since he's rather near-sighted. Aside from that, he doesn't have any physical handicaps. However, he's not quite used to his human physiology yet, which is why things like actually having to sleep every night seem like a handicap, or at least a bothersome nuisance, to him. Some things that changed when he was turned human not as much bother as confuse or surprise him--for example, he discovered that when tasted with human taste buds, pears are actually delicious. There will surely be more surprises in store for him in his future as a human.
Intellectually, the Doctor kept a lot of his knowledge and memories when he was turned human. He has, however, lost the intuitive understanding of physical reality that the Gallifreyan time sense allowed him, which means that he knows of things and concepts that he's lost understanding of. Further, his mental capacity, while still rather extraordinary for a human, was diminished, which means that he doesn't remember his life as detailed anymore as he used to--his memories are fragmented and distorted, the way they are for humans. Judging by human standards, the Doctor is still a highly intelligent, educated and experienced individual, but from his viewpoint, being turned human restricted his mental capabilities enormously.
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...And I'm using my Master account. Oops? I guess that enforces the message!
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But alright. I'll make a new post. Because you used your Master account.
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He's a pimp, now?
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*and pressing the pain doohickey, nao, yus*
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He's going to go and find Time Lord Ten now. Time Lord Ten will know how to get rid of that implant. Screw you, Master, you'll have wasted your one item on something completely useless.