PLAYER Name: Sceadu Age: 27 Personal Journal:amphibologies E-mail: dracogriff (at) gmail.com AIM/MSN/etc: sceadugesceaft (AIM)
CHARACTER Name: The Doctor Canon: Doctor Who Age: Estimates vary on how old the Doctor actually is, apart from “old”. However, he appears to be to somewhere in his 30s. Timeline: post “Embrace the Darkness” If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: The simplest way to explain the Doctor’s Eighth incarnation is to say that he is one of the chattier Doctors. Admittedly, being talkative is a trait common to many Doctors, but the Eighth takes it very nearly to the logical extreme - he is more often found talking to himself than, to the point that at least one of his companions remarks that it’s entirely unlike him to silent. He’s also prone to what is either soliloquizing or thinking aloud - he recognizes it at as a bad habit, but can never seem to manage to stop doing it either. This habit is not much helped by the fact that the Doctor also has a habit of going off on tangents as they occur to him, much less the fact that he tends to have his head in the clouds at the best of times.
That said, Eight is no less brilliant than any of his other incarnation. It’s simply that this, like many other of the traits that tend to be common across multiple Doctors, tends to be very well hidden are the fact that he is not only fairly charming and polite, but also that he is - at best - a little bit distractible, at least when it comes to staying on a single topic of conversion. This is not much helped by the fact that his tendency to make sweeping gestures, and the fact that he tends to get more than a little loud when he’s either angry or excited - as evident largely towards the end of the TV movie, but also throughout the course of his audios.
The audios also begin to flesh this incarnation out a little more than what had otherwise been present in the movie. It’s here that we first see that there is more to him than otherwise thought. The best example of this comes in Seasons of Fear - when the local villain minorly injures Eight’s companion, the Doctor wastes absolutely no time in not only threatening him with more suffering than he might have wished for, but later throwing him quite literally off the top of a castle. This later proves to be one of the few things that can manage to stun him into silence - as he explains to his companion after a bit of prodding, he wasn’t at all considering that he might have killed the man in throwing him off as he had and given his preference to avoid violence at , it disturbs him to have come so close without even thinking about it. That said, once the Doctor has decided on a course of action, he will most certainly not give up. This is mostly in cases where the lives of people or worlds are in danger, but on least one occasion (The Chimes of Midnight) he refuses to let the villain in question - a sentient house - talk him into letting it live. Not only should the house never have been, it was also fueling it existence on death itself. That the life of his companion at the time also stood in the balance probably didn’t hurt either. If the Doctor truly cares for anyone, it’s the people he brings along with him.
However, the Doctor also has more than a few bad habits. The most notable of these is fact that he seems to be almost unable to to help people in need. In fact, his sense of heroism is so strong that he has made more than one attempt to make a heroic sacrifice for the sake of his companion - as of Embrace the Darkness, she has begun to realize his habit of trying to make a dramatic sacrifice for her and absolutely no intention of letting him do so. However, this combined with Eight’s tendency to never to give up means that he is almost exceedingly willing to help even people he’s not so much as heard of before.
In times of strain, he also has something of a habit of resorting to sarcasm, largely in an attempt to distract himself from the situation at hand. Whether or not it actually works is another matter entirely, but even at the very end of his life, it’s still very much a habit of his - as the Sisterhood of Karn would be all too glad to attest to.
The Eighth Doctor | Doctor Who | Reserved (1/2)
Name: Sceadu
Age: 27
Personal Journal:
E-mail: dracogriff (at) gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: sceadugesceaft (AIM)
CHARACTER
Name: The Doctor
Canon: Doctor Who
Age: Estimates vary on how old the Doctor actually is, apart from “old”. However, he appears to be to somewhere in his 30s.
Timeline: post “Embrace the Darkness”
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: The simplest way to explain the Doctor’s Eighth incarnation is to say that he is one of the chattier Doctors. Admittedly, being talkative is a trait common to many Doctors, but the Eighth takes it very nearly to the logical extreme - he is more often found talking to himself than, to the point that at least one of his companions remarks that it’s entirely unlike him to silent. He’s also prone to what is either soliloquizing or thinking aloud - he recognizes it at as a bad habit, but can never seem to manage to stop doing it either. This habit is not much helped by the fact that the Doctor also has a habit of going off on tangents as they occur to him, much less the fact that he tends to have his head in the clouds at the best of times.
That said, Eight is no less brilliant than any of his other incarnation. It’s simply that this, like many other of the traits that tend to be common across multiple Doctors, tends to be very well hidden are the fact that he is not only fairly charming and polite, but also that he is - at best - a little bit distractible, at least when it comes to staying on a single topic of conversion. This is not much helped by the fact that his tendency to make sweeping gestures, and the fact that he tends to get more than a little loud when he’s either angry or excited - as evident largely towards the end of the TV movie, but also throughout the course of his audios.
The audios also begin to flesh this incarnation out a little more than what had otherwise been present in the movie. It’s here that we first see that there is more to him than otherwise thought. The best example of this comes in Seasons of Fear - when the local villain minorly injures Eight’s companion, the Doctor wastes absolutely no time in not only threatening him with more suffering than he might have wished for, but later throwing him quite literally off the top of a castle. This later proves to be one of the few things that can manage to stun him into silence - as he explains to his companion after a bit of prodding, he wasn’t at all considering that he might have killed the man in throwing him off as he had and given his preference to avoid violence at , it disturbs him to have come so close without even thinking about it. That said, once the Doctor has decided on a course of action, he will most certainly not give up. This is mostly in cases where the lives of people or worlds are in danger, but on least one occasion (The Chimes of Midnight) he refuses to let the villain in question - a sentient house - talk him into letting it live. Not only should the house never have been, it was also fueling it existence on death itself. That the life of his companion at the time also stood in the balance probably didn’t hurt either. If the Doctor truly cares for anyone, it’s the people he brings along with him.
However, the Doctor also has more than a few bad habits. The most notable of these is
fact that he seems to be almost unable to to help people in need. In fact, his sense of heroism is so strong that he has made more than one attempt to make a heroic sacrifice for the sake of his companion - as of Embrace the Darkness, she has begun to realize his habit of trying to make a dramatic sacrifice for her and absolutely no intention of letting him do so. However, this combined with Eight’s tendency to never to give up means that he is almost exceedingly willing to help even people he’s not so much as heard of before.
In times of strain, he also has something of a habit of resorting to sarcasm, largely in an attempt to distract himself from the situation at hand. Whether or not it actually works is another matter entirely, but even at the very end of his life, it’s still very much a habit of his - as the Sisterhood of Karn would be all too glad to attest to.
Background: Main wiki page for the Doctor as a whole
More on the Eight Doctor in particular
However, as the Eight Doctor’s life was pretty much a merry jaunt through paradoxes and parallel universes both, a somewhat more coherent rundown of the events of his life to date can be found here at his journal