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tallymarkedman) wrote2013-04-25 09:01 pm
tallymarkedman) wrote2013-04-25 09:01 pm
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Out of Character Information
Character Name: Rory Williams
Canon: Doctor Who
Timeline: Between the episodes "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon".
Character's Age: In his late 20s to early 30s. Give or take a thousand or so years of memories.
Powers, Skills, Pets and Equipment:
Rory will get the ability of energy-leech, which will mean that he can leech energy from a plant or the ground, and use to to heal wounds.
As for equipment, he's coming from when he's on the run from the American government and the Silence, so all he really has on him is what he's wearing, a sharpie-marker, wallet and a TARDIS key.
Canon History:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rory_Williams
Personality:
When you first get to know Rory, he may seem a bit easily intimidated and generally unsettled by odd things when they happen, especially the sort of things that tend to happen because of or around The Doctor. However, he is almost always able to overcome this intimidation, this unsettled feeling in order to do what needs to be one to help people. Such as helping Amy clear the hospital while the Doctor is attempting to save the Earth, or trying to keep a Silurian soldier alive while The Doctor attempts to free hostages. Or keeping a record of his coma patients appearing outside the hospital in order to figure out what is going on with that. We get it Rory, you're a good guy.
He has a head for science and medicine, having learned all about time travel and pocket dimensions on his own. However, he does not tend to like to draw attention to himself or his accomplishments. He does not tend to even like to mention when he is unhappy or bothered by something, generally using snark or sarcasm as sort of subconscious indicators instead. When he does let people know these things, it is usually to people that he feels absolutely need to know these facts.
Rory is capable of great acts of bravery, having dueled with a 'vampire' in order to keep Amy safe. And really, he would do anything to keep her safe, up to and including leaping in front of aliens spitting dust that can burn away flesh and bone. He wants to spend the rest of his life with Amy, loving her that much. Wherever, whenever. Be it in the TARDIS on constant adventures or having a peaceful little life in Upper Leadworth. He doesn't care where they spend their life, as long as he's with her. That said, he would prefer a quiet sort of life.
Why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting?
He's a nurse. People always need nurses. Who doesn't love a nurse?
Network Post Sample:
http://capeandcowl.livejournal.com/3052999.html
http://capeandcowl.livejournal.com/2850495.html
Third Person Sample:
http://capeandcowllogs.livejournal.com/1339472.html
http://capeandcowllogs.livejournal.com/1221871.html
http://tyforexplaining.livejournal.com/16593.html
I also have this thing I wrote for another game:
Anything else? Nothing else!!
Playing Here: None, Zilch, Nobody
Where did you find us? I was enabled by Kristi, Kim, and various other players
Are you 16 years of age or older? I am exactly 34.
Where did you find us? I was enabled by Kristi, Kim, and various other players
Are you 16 years of age or older? I am exactly 34.
In Character Information
Character Name: Rory Williams
Canon: Doctor Who
Timeline: Between the episodes "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon".
Character's Age: In his late 20s to early 30s. Give or take a thousand or so years of memories.
Powers, Skills, Pets and Equipment:
Rory will get the ability of energy-leech, which will mean that he can leech energy from a plant or the ground, and use to to heal wounds.
As for equipment, he's coming from when he's on the run from the American government and the Silence, so all he really has on him is what he's wearing, a sharpie-marker, wallet and a TARDIS key.
Canon History:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rory_Williams
Personality:
When you first get to know Rory, he may seem a bit easily intimidated and generally unsettled by odd things when they happen, especially the sort of things that tend to happen because of or around The Doctor. However, he is almost always able to overcome this intimidation, this unsettled feeling in order to do what needs to be one to help people. Such as helping Amy clear the hospital while the Doctor is attempting to save the Earth, or trying to keep a Silurian soldier alive while The Doctor attempts to free hostages. Or keeping a record of his coma patients appearing outside the hospital in order to figure out what is going on with that. We get it Rory, you're a good guy.
He has a head for science and medicine, having learned all about time travel and pocket dimensions on his own. However, he does not tend to like to draw attention to himself or his accomplishments. He does not tend to even like to mention when he is unhappy or bothered by something, generally using snark or sarcasm as sort of subconscious indicators instead. When he does let people know these things, it is usually to people that he feels absolutely need to know these facts.
Rory is capable of great acts of bravery, having dueled with a 'vampire' in order to keep Amy safe. And really, he would do anything to keep her safe, up to and including leaping in front of aliens spitting dust that can burn away flesh and bone. He wants to spend the rest of his life with Amy, loving her that much. Wherever, whenever. Be it in the TARDIS on constant adventures or having a peaceful little life in Upper Leadworth. He doesn't care where they spend their life, as long as he's with her. That said, he would prefer a quiet sort of life.
Why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting?
He's a nurse. People always need nurses. Who doesn't love a nurse?
Writing Samples
Network Post Sample:
http://capeandcowl.livejournal.com/3052999.html
http://capeandcowl.livejournal.com/2850495.html
Third Person Sample:
http://capeandcowllogs.livejournal.com/1339472.html
http://capeandcowllogs.livejournal.com/1221871.html
http://tyforexplaining.livejournal.com/16593.html
I also have this thing I wrote for another game:
He was a Centurion. She was Soothsayer. They had a daughter.
She was a codebreaker for the resistance. He was a soldier for the British. (Hitler was rubbish) They had a daughter.
He was a nurse. She was a kissogram. They had a daughter.
She was the girl who waited. (But what was she waiting for?) He was the last centurion. They had a baby.
It was always them. It was always them. Decimus, Candria and Calandra. Ezra, Emily and Rivka Hayes. Rory, Amelia and Melody Williams. It was forever and always them.
Sometimes he found her, sometimes she found him, but they always found each other. They always have the girl.
(The only water in the forest is the river)
And there was always a man. He always came. It was always the same. A doctor, a witch, a soldier, a warrior, a healer, a killer, a man.
Ascarus, Myrddin, Hal Gryden, Klaus Von Wer (a doctor, a killer, a man), Ian Foreman, Johann Schmidt, Jean Forgeron, Edward Galloway, Michael Noble, James Bowman, John Smith. All those lives, perhaps a hundred more, and he always ended up with them. The Raggedy Doctor. The Girl Who Waited. The Last Centurion.
They always traveled with him. Sometimes because they wanted to. Sometimes because they had to. Sometimes one of them was assigned to, the other followed. Sometimes, that was how they met. Sometimes it nearly drove them apart. Sometimes it got them killed. (The man who dies and dies and dies again.) Sometimes one of them ended up sealed in a technocratic box. (A living body, perhaps still inside, but there’s no one in it. Is a girl alive if no one sees her?)
Their daughter was always taken from them. Sometimes at birth. Sometimes as a girl. Sometimes as a young woman. They always got her back. Sometimes as a girl. Sometimes as an adult.
The Technocracy, The Akashics, sleepers. The who always changed, but the why never did. To create the perfect killer, to kill him before he found something. The what always changed. She didn’t always kill him. When she killed him, she met his next incarnation. And married him. When she didn’t, he was a kindly uncle. Or her best friend. Or her imaginary friend. Or her killer.
Or her husband. That seemed to happen a lot.
None of them remembered it, and nothing ever really changed. Not the basics. Until it did. Until he did. Until Rory met Amelia, until Rory was hurt trying to save her while the three of them explored a cave system. (We were on the hill, I can’t die here.) (A world underneath the world)
He died. Of course. He didn’t die. Obviously. He died and he didn’t die, and in the process of not dying, every memory of every life he’d ever had awakened in his mind.
Anything else? Nothing else!!
Personality Revision
One example of this might be helping Amy clear the hospital while the Doctor is attempting to save the Earth, or trying to keep a Silurian soldier alive while The Doctor attempts to free hostages. Or keeping a record of his coma patients appearing outside the hospital in order to figure out what is going on with that. We get it Rory, you're a good guy.
Rory has a general empathy for most people, it really takes a lot to get on his bad side. Like kidnapping his wife and unborn child, for instance. If he's feeling particularly compassionate, he'll even put himself in harm's way to help someone, such as when the Flesh dopple of Jennifer Lucas was in danger, or in order to stop The Silence. Because of this empathy, he's usually the first one to try to calm newcomers to the TARDIS and the Doctor's life. His compassion is what makes him such a good nurse. It can also get him in trouble. A lot of trouble. Like, dead amount of trouble.
Look, Rory has died before. Not once, not twice but a lot. He's come close to death at least nine times, and has actually died at least three times. Yet, he's almost always come back from the dead. He is, in fact, quite overconfident about that fact. It may be one of the reasons why he doesn't pay any mind to dangers posed by his compassion or his love for Amy.
And Rory does love Amy. Stubbornly so, in fact. He probably has not loved or been with anyone but Amy Pond, and his love for her has caused him to do great things. Such as sitting watch while she was contained inside the Pandorica for many years, or searching the galaxy for her when she was kidnapped by The Silence. (Though the latter, at this point in Rory's canon, has not happened yet. There are a few things in here that have not happened for him yet, but are important towards personality explanation.)
Rory is capable of great acts of bravery, having dueled with a 'vampire' in order to keep Amy safe. And really, he would do anything to keep her safe, up to and including leaping in front of aliens spitting dust that can burn away flesh and bone.
He wants to spend the rest of his life with Amy, loving her that much. Wherever, whenever. Be it in the TARDIS on constant adventures or having a peaceful little life in Upper Leadworth. He doesn't care where they spend their life, as long as he's with her. That said, he would prefer a quiet sort of life.
He has a head for science and medicine, having learned all about time travel and pocket dimensions on his own. When he and Amy were miniaturized by the Teselecta, he was the one who was able to determine that it was done with a miniaturization ray. He also managed to perform repairs on the TARDIS, as well as figure out how to ride a motorcycle with no real previous experience. Though, it's certainly possible that he acquired quite a few of these skills in the nearly 2,000 years he was an Auton and waiting for the Pandorica to re-open.
He still maintains the memories of being an Auton, having re-obtained these after Amy brought back the Doctor, but he is able to sort of segment them and shut them away like something behind a door. He has not told anyone about this, not even Amy.
Rory can be a bit humble, he does not tend to like to draw attention to himself or his accomplishments. He does not tend to even like to mention when he is unhappy or bothered by something, generally using snark or sarcasm as sort of subconscious indicators instead. When he does let people know these things, it is usually to people that he feels absolutely need to know these facts, and only when he thinks that they need to know them.
Setting Revision