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synodiporia_ooc2014-01-27 01:49 pm
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In addition, the choice of David Tennant's legal name being given to the Doctor's human form raises some questions about fourthwalling and crossing boundaries that leave us hesitant.
If you'd like, you're certainly welcome to rewrite the noted sections and resubmit your application, possibly along with some rationale for the choice of name, or changing the name. Thanks again.
Re: revisions
That's embarrassing! I'd changed his reserve to David Smith and forgot all about it on the application! David is from a very old, long running AU where all of the characters took their actor's names. I hadn't meant to keep that on. I will work on these revisions today and get them to you ASAP. Thank you for allowing me to revise.
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NAME: Professor David Smith (fobwatched Doctor)
CANON PERSONALITY: The Tenth incarnation of the Doctor is by far the most morally and emotionally complex of his previous regenerations. This Doctor is rude, light-hearted, witty, sarcastic, jovial, manic, forgetful, clever, burdened and remorseless...often all at the same time. He is extremely excitable, given to babbling, and often talks as if his sole intent is to gain the interest or at least the attention of those around him.
The Doctor has a selective morality. He is just as likely to be cruel to his enemies (such as to the Family of Blood who hunted the Doctor for his immortality and thus ended up being punished by being trapped forever, deathless) or kind (as when dealing with the Master and the multiple atrocities he'd committed over the Doctor's long life span)...all depending on his mood or his own emotional ties to the situation. He is also extremely protective and doesn't always think through his impulsiveness to punish others (as with causing the downfall of Harriet Jones or leaving Sarah Jane Smith). Though many other incarnations of the Doctor abhor the thought of killing or harming living creatures (including his future self, the Eleventh Doctor), the Tenth Doctor often appears to outsiders to have little to no qualms about it and gives no second chances to offenders. Because of this, the Doctor has earned the titles "The Oncoming Storm" and "The Destroyer of Worlds." Intelligent races that know about him typically tend to fear him, including the Daleks who are arguably one of the most ruthless races in the Doctor Who series. He does, however, suffer survivor's guilt over causing the destruction of his home planet and the genocide of his people, something he not only blames himself for doing despite it being the only way to save the entire universe, but also selectively chooses to forget it happened. This guilt has caused him to become an incredibly lonely old man, despite how well he hides it.
The Doctor wears a mask of frivolousness and of being a carefree spirit. He shirks duty in favour of sightseeing or flirting (such as when he wooed Madame de Pompadour or during his trip to Victorian Scotland where he accidentally led the crown to create Torchwood while fending off a werewolf threat). His favourite race is, unsurprisingly, humanity because only humans can see the universe with as much curiosity as he does. For this reason, he often takes on human travelling companions. Though rarely linked romantically to these companions, this incarnation of the Doctor sees a little more action than his previous regenerations. He is flirty and generally is quite pleased when he is kissed. However, he seems to prefer hand holding and hugs to other sorts of physical, sexual expressions and comes off as being quite asexual most of the time.
The Doctor also fears his own mortality. Unlike his past and his future lives, always willing to regenerate into the next, the Tenth Doctor is afraid of losing himself. For instance, instead of regenerating when he lost his arm, the Doctor channeled regeneration energy into a new limb so that he could keep his current personality and life. Because of the Doctor's vanity, and his loneliness upon losing all of his human companions (Rose during a Dalek invasion, Martha and Jack voluntarily leaving him to return to their own lives), when he decides to fob watch himself again to become David Smith, it is done once more as an attempt to keep himself from ending his current life.
David Smith is very much like the Doctor. Thanks to the Chameleon Arch's ability to rewrite a pre-programmed personality and history along with overwriting the DNA of any person, the Doctor was able to mould David in his own likeness. David, like the Doctor, is overly jovial and carefree and because he's human, comes off mostly as being scatterbrained. He suffered a trauma in his childhood that he has repressed (a convenient way for the Doctor to mask his own self inflicted traumas of genocide). He is extremely smart, holding two degrees in practical and theoretical physics but also thinks he's quite insane. He tells no one about his dreams at night, save for Harry Saxon (his reluctant and one-sided best friend). David is extremely loyal but hasn't been able to trust himself to care for other living beings because he often forgets about them. As part of his therapy, David has managed not to kill a few house plants and has moved up to goldfish. Galileo II is happy and healthy.
FIRST PERSON SAMPLE
[Despite the smile on his face, David looks terrified. His hair stands straight on end and his glasses are slightly askew. He clears his throat before he speaks, adjusting the reverse camera on the device so his entire face is in view.]
This might well be horrible timing and so, so sorry to be a bother to anyone listening, but I believe I could use a bit of help. Has anyone seen a short, brown haired man with a temper and likely a 'kick me' sign on his back wandering around shaking his fists or throwing chalk at people?
He really is very nice, incredibly friendly, when you get to know him. He answers to the name of Harold Saxon. [Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. Harold Saxon is an arrogant, evil little man that can't figure out how to make David go away and therefore, becomes more arrogant and evil the more David pesters him.]
If so, could you tell him that I did not tape the sign on his back and send him in my direction once he's agreed to drop the chalk? Or no! Wait! Better idea. Do not mention my name [-- a name he hadn't given but still expects everyone to know--] and just point me in his general direction? It's well passed tea time and as you can imagine, an Englishman without a proper tea time is likely prone to all sorts of things not strictly proper.
[Rambling? Yeah he might as well be rambling now even as he walks. Suddenly, David stops and looks around. The device slides from his hands to give everyone a decent image of some grass and one red trainer beneath a brown trouser covered leg. Yes, he's just realising he's not where he assumed he'd been before.]
What...? What? WHAT?!
Oh no! It's happening again! Where am I now?!
Re: Revisions
Thank you very much for your time, and for considering this game.