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Character Name: The (Seventh) Doctor
Series: Doctor Who
Age: 996 Gallifreyan years.
From When?: Immediately prior to his regeneration into the Eighth Doctor.

Inmate/Warden: Warden. I believe that he would be a warden because, even though he was one of the darkest of the Doctors, he also made rescuing people one of his ambitions. He spent much of his time focused on that task.

Item: I'm uninventive and will say his fobwatch. There are other items I could use, but this is the most fitting.

Abilities/Powers: The Doctor can heal faster than usual (though he's not immortal, but it would take more than could kill an ordinary human to wound him). He can't be strangled, he has a respiratory bypass system that would make it exceedingly difficult to do so, and his primary weakness in relation to breathing is Praxis gasses.

He can absorb information faster than most humans and possess the ability to manipulate thought. This is frequently done, as with Vulcans, through physical contact to pressure points at the face. Though they're unable to read the thoughts or manipulate the minds of artificial intelligences.

He studied at Prydonian Academy and specialized in thermodynamics, though he's a more than competent engineer.

This particular Doctor has slight of hand and escape. He's an illusionist who likes to entertain people with tricks, and hasn't met a strait-jacket he couldn't wiggle his way out of.

He's not as physically strong as some of his other selves, but compensates by being an excellent manipulator and judge of character. His psychic abilities are also far beyond other incarnations, his barriers especially resistant and physical contact not always necessary for him to intrude on the minds of others.

Personality: In one of the comics, the Doctor is referred to as being schizophrenic. Outside of his delusions of importance being a reality, this is actually quite true of him. No matter what the regeneration, he tends to use exotic language peppered with made up words that only he has attached meaning to give descriptions. He frequently has inappropriate emotional reactions to situations, making it difficult for him to maintain relationships with those he cares about; either leading to him leaving them "for their own good" no matter what they feel about the situation or them leaving him because he'll never have a real concept of how they feel.

He's very creative but expresses it through feats of engineering. His artistic attempts are occasionally successful depending on the regeneration, but he's always good with electronics. Anything he produces, no matter how jury-rigged it appears to be, is inevitably a masterpiece of innovation. His particular favorite activity is taking primitive Earth devices and augmenting them so that they function far outside of their standard limitations. He's always a little bit sad when a device of his breaks.

Unfortunately, adding to the inappropriate emotional responses to things, sometimes he seems underwhelmed when a friend of his is hurt. Just slightly more than when something he has built has managed to fall apart. He is hurt by it, but he doesn't know what to do. In only one incarnation did he seem really able to cope with loss and in that one his emotions tended to consume him because he didn't properly manage them.

He also runs from his problems. Both his potential history as the Gallifreyan founding father, the Other, and his various futures that more often than not seem like inevitabilities. Gallifrey, in some form or fashion, is intended to be destroyed by his hand. Whether this was something he read in the Prydonian libraries when he kept the futures collection or what he saw when he looked into the Untempered Schism (both posed by various canons), he ran from that point on.

This particular Doctor is one of the more argumentative ones, though he has an intensely peaceful nature. He does like to recuperate roughians and has a soft spot for young misguided deviants. He will refuse to involve himself with questionable activities, and death is always a last option for him. He believes everything has a right to live, everything has a right to become better. Though his efforts at saving people are very much his attempt to make up for the darkness in his own personality. If he helps them, then they can go on to be better people. He knows what he can do, what he will do, and what he has done. His guilt for it drives him to have successors with stronger moral inclinations.

He comes off as klutzy, bumbling, and unsure, but then his true nature stands out brilliantly in short, well-hidden introspective doses. Where he makes very clear that he knows that as a Time Lord, he can, has, and will be one of the greatest threats and saviors to the universe. He messes up his sayings often, though probably out of half paying attention than either faking it or being an idiot, or he seems to be perpetually distracted.

His favorite key is E flat, his favorite ice cream is boysenberry ripple, and his favorite pasta is spaghetti. He hates burnt toast, bus stations, unrequited love, tyranny, and cruelty.

History: -http://meshyfish.com/~roo/docwho3.html

-http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#7TH

While the TARDIS was crashing onto Lakertya, caught in a trap set by the Rani, the Sixth Doctor died and changed into the Seventh. After being injected with something to cause amnesia, he unwittingly helped her build her machine to detonate a strange matter asteroid while she was disguised as Mel. He eventually came to his senses and freed the Lakertyans from the Rani's hold.

He continued to travel with Mel in his new form, and at Mel's urging they stopped at a hotel called Paradise Towers. Only it turned out that all of the citizens left behind when the middle age group was drafted to go off to war were left trapped inside of the hotel, and the sinister architect who constructed it was looking for a way to be reborn. The Doctor formulated a plan to stop him, though Pecks the cowardly war stowaway was the one who finalized it.

When detoured to the Shangi-La Holiday Camp rather than Disneyland, the Doctor and Mel discover that there's an alien queen hiding out there, and that a race called the Bannermen are trying to hunt her down and finalize the extermination of her race. Using the voice of the Queen's developing offspring, he managed to cripple the Bannermen attack fleet.

When they went to Iceworld, he and Mel ran into an old acquaintance Glitz, as well as met Ace McShane. Ace's love of all things that detonated helped get them out of the situation, as the Doctor and Glitz investigated stories of a dragon and buried treasure. As it happened, the dragon was a manufactured organism.

The Doctor with Ace then prevented the Daleks from utilizing a Time Lord relic, the Omega Device so that they might have equal mastery of time. Instead, he tricked the Daleks and Davros into destroying Skaro.

They then went to a planet, Terra Alpha, where it was illegal to be unhappy, and unhappiness or anything that might encourage melancholy was an offense punishable by death and the policy was enforced by a group known as the happiness patrol. The executioner was a confectionery artificial life form known as the Kandy Man, and the Kandy Man was destroyed and the planet eventually freed from its tyrannical rule.

The Cybermen, some Nazis, and a witch from the 1600's all tried to acquire an item made of living metal, a Gallifreyan defense system invented by Rassilon and Omega in the form of a statue made of validium. The Doctor had to set the statue against the encroaching cybermen army rather than allow them to utilize it to take over the earth. Though here he started showing his concerns for his history being revealed, as the witch (Lady Peinforte) threatened to reveal elements of his past as revealed to her by the statue (which she had named Silver Nemesis). However, because the Cybermen didn't particularly care about his secrets her efforts were for naught.

The Doctor later discovered that he was Merlin (at least in one universe), and participated in a skewed of the events of Camalot. Morgaine, the mother of Mordred, summoned the Destroyer of Worlds. The Destroyer was finally killed by UNIT Brigadier Bambera.

He was more inclined than other Doctor's to go on feelings of “evil”, even from other people. Such as when Ace said that she felt “evil” in a Perivale house that she had visited in 1983, he investigated to discover two alien survey agents, one being held captive as an evolutionary Control in the experiment. The Doctor released Control, and then peaceably talked the other agent into allowing evolution to persist.

He took Ace to where the two of them faced a horde of vampire-like heomovores, summoned from the Northumbrian waters by Fenric. He revealed to Ace that she was one of Fenric's pawns, but lied to her and made it seem as if she was one of his pawns as well in their unending chess game. He later reconciled with her.

The Doctor came up against the Master and the Cheetah people, as the Master fell under their influence and had to find a way to escape it. The Cheetah planet was on the verge of destruction, and when Ace was taken the Doctor had to go after her. He discovered the Master there, using the Cheetah people and also under their influence. Exhibitions of violence turned someone into one of them, there, and the hunted became the hunters quickly. But also, the Master hadn't progressed to the point he could traverse dimensions and had control of his facilities still. So he needed a human to turn and get him to Earth before he became completely feral.

Ace fell under the influence, but the Doctor worked to spare her. He tricked the Master, sending him back to the planet before its destruction, though Ace thought the Doctor had died. She was very relieved to discover he was alive, and then they continued on their journey.

Far down the road, it was a stray bullet from a San Francisco shoot-out on the Eve of the change of the Millenium that triggered the transformation of this Doctor into the eighth. Ironically killed by a random act of violence.

Sample Journal Entry: Hello, I'm the Doctor.

[He pops off his hat in greeting to the camera, eyebrows shooting up with the gesture and then replaces it.]

Yes, another one, I know. But we're really not all the same are we? We have our own ticks and habits above similarities. Sometimes I think we're all squabbling siblings vying for the same body rather than an individual. Something that I occasionally reflect on. [He rolls the "R" in "reflect" thickly.]

Anyway, the Admiral informed me that more of me might be meandering about here, so I'll assume that most of you are at least vaguely acquainted with who I am. Whether you believe me to be an "old geezer" I've gotten that one a few times or the one with the scarf, it is still me. But all of you I haven't had the pleasure of making acquaintances with.

So, introduce yourselves! No time likes to give presents.

Sample RP: He needed more information. Anything. Any scrap of evidence or shard of leftover proof. There was no device that he could detect. No unusual readings in energy fluctuations according to the TARDIS's sensors but who knew how reliable those were in this strange place. At least he managed to acquire a cup of tea to motivate him through flitting around his TARDIS.

He had stopped scouring on all fours and climbing onto overhangs for the evening, as the entire ordeal of running about and chasing red herrings was completely exhausting. So for the moment, the Doctor was content to sit and have a snack in the kitchens, his saddle shoes nowhere to be seen and apparently abandoned in some place or another because they had gotten in the way, leaving him in his sock feat.

"You know the odd thing about walking into a TARDIS that isn't your own?" he said to his sandwich. "It doesn't fit. Ever tried on a suit you can't wear any more? No, of course you haven't. But it's quite a bit like that. You remember enjoying it, the fabric still fills the same, but it's... a little off. Too tight in some areas. Snug in others...."

The sandwich didn't have much to say. Sandwiches tended not to talk much about things they didn't know about.

Special Notes: Whatever opinions I have concerning the Doctor are not in any way dictating how someone else should play him or other incarnations, just how I view and will play the character as a whole.

I also want to use the Virgin New Adventures and Big Finish Audio canon, including "Human Nature" and "The Fires of Vulcan". If we get a Ten later, I would rather treat this as another timeline.

He was 953 in Time and the Rani, though the new series just makes him around 900.  So I just put "Gallifreyan years" because it's easier.