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APPLICATIONS
✗ Applications are processed weekly, every weekend. The cut-off time for the submission of applications is 11:59PST on Saturday.
✗ Before applying, please read the FAQ and Rules pages.
✗ Please submit your application with the journal you plan to use if you have one made already. If not, another journal is fine, but we prefer your intended journal so it makes for an easier time in granting access to the mod journal and the contacts page.
✗ For very long applications, we would ask you to please separate them into various comments so that they will not take up too much of the page.
✗ Please title your application as { [CANON/CANON OC/OC]CHARACTER NAME || Series Title || reserve/no reserve || X of X } in the subect header
✗ IMPORTANT: Our application form was edited on September 07, 2015. Please use the revised form.
✗ If you are looking for an example of what an application should be like, please refer to the application here for an example of a canon character application, and here for an original character application.
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A note for CR AU applications
Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
The Eighth Doctor | Doctor Who | Reserved (1/2)
Name: Sceadu
Age: 27
Personal Journal:
E-mail: dracogriff (at) gmail.com
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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
The Eighth Doctor | Doctor Who | Reserved (2/2)
Like all Gallifreyans, he is also mildly telepathic. This mostly extends to a sort of telepathic link with other Time Lords, he is also capable of using it to read - and sometimes alter people’s minds - as well transfer memories. With effort, he can also communicate telepathically at long range, but this appears to be limited to specifically other Time Lords.
Rounding out the various biological quirks is the fact that his biochemistry is different enough that various poisons either affect him differently - in his later incarnations, he’s been shown to be able to counteract the effects of cyanide poisoning given a few extra bit and pieces, and X-ray radiation affects Time Lords so little as to be very nearly harmless - or take longer to actually kill him. On the flip side, aspirin is toxic to him, even in small doses.
Finally, like all Time Lords he’s capable of regenerating into a new form - and a new personality - in order to escape death.
Alongside this, the Doctor knows in a number of languages. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, Old High Gallifreyan, Gallifreyan (his native tongue), Judoon, Delphon, several Chinese dialects, Ancient North Martian, Tritovore, French, English, and some Sycoraxic. Anything he’s not familiar with is usually taken care of by the TARDIS’s translation circuits.
He also naturally smells like honey, for reasons that have never really been explained.
First Person: [There’s a brief moment of silence, and then a voice speaks up. What he was doing prior to speaking - and it is most definitely a male voice - isn’t quite so certain, although presumably some of it was spent working out the approximate workings of the communicator.]
Ah, there we are. Strange sort of thing though, isn’t it? Communicator inside a pocket watch - almost mistook it for mine. Not quite the same design though. Similar, yes, but not quite. Either someone’s done a very poor job of duplicating it or it’s a very common design for these sort of things.
Still, the question is - just what sort of network is this. Watch-based, yes, but what is it actually for? Who else is here, and more importantly, why does whoever made these in the first place want to be so sure we stayed in contact?
[Yeah, he’s... pretty much talking to himself at this point. Distractions or interruptions are probably a good idea.]
Third Person: By most circumstances, there were certain things that were fairly common to time travel. New locations, occasionally new alien species, and an awful lot of problems to get into. Most of them, however, tended not to come with quite such interesting transport. True, it looked like a train, but any train that could pull him out of the TARDIS itself was a very impressive train and no mistake.
Unfortunately for the Doctor, any attempts at curiosity were not really going to be feasible. Not when the train was already pulling into what seemed to be a station. Not one he knew, of course, but that was at least not anything new. New places were part of the fun, and given that the train was now stationary there was certainly nothing stopping him from seeing what he could find about the train. Or at least, that was his intent. The train, meanwhile, seemed to have other ideas, and he wasn’t really certain what to make of it.
The fact the train also vanished shortly after he finally bent to the pressure attempting to shoo him off the train was simply another oddity. Of course, with train now gone there wasn’t anything he could actually observe, but well. Sooner or later it would be back. Or at least, presumably it would be back. For now, there was at least something else to look at. What could be made of this new city... well, that would be something to find out and with one last look at where the train had been, the Doctor set out into the city at large. He had a TARDIS to find, at the very least, to say nothing of Charley.
The only question then, was what this particular world - or city - happened to have in store for him.
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