PLAYER NAME: Ashley CONTACT:formallyintroduced HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Plurk timeline. Mod approval to apply!
CHARACTER: River Song CANON: Doctor Who CANON POINT: Post Name of the Doctor
BACKGROUND:History | I do play her as audio compliant!
ABILITIES | POWERS: River is what she, herself, calls a proto-time lord. Whether this is actually a product of being conceived in the time vortex or more due to Kovarian and the Order of the Silence meddling with her DNA is still, perhaps, a matter for debate. As such, she shares many abilities with time lords, such as the Doctor.
Physiology – River is, physiologically speaking, more like a time lord than a human. She's more durable, faster, better reflexes, binary vascular system (two hearts!), enhanced senses, augmented lifespan. At one time, she even had the ability to regenerate.
Respiratory Bypass – Technically speaking, this accompanies the previous, but I felt it deserved its own bullet point. This allows her to go longer periods of time without breathing than the average human.
Time Sense – Much like the Doctor, River has a certain innate awareness of time, the nature of time, how timelines interact, and the like. It isn’t, however, quite as honed as the Doctor's, perhaps. But she could tell you, say, if you were wandering around in an altered timeline. Usually, in games, this betrays her a bit.
Telepathic Ability – This is a tricky one because she isn’t as skilled as the Doctor for certain. But she has significant mental defenses and has demonstrated the ability to plant an idea that became a waking nightmare into someone's mind and amplify the effect using other proto-time lords without them even being aware she was doing so. She's also particularly attuned to not just the Doctor's TARDIS, but any TARDIS she seems to walk into.
TARDIS Skills– River has certain skills I tend to attribute to being a “child of the TARDIS.” She has an instinctive ability to fly the timeship. While she has claimed that the TARDIS showed her how, she's also stated when piloting others that she likes to feel her way around and that she pilots more by instinct. She was also able to navigate within the matrix, detecting both the Doctor and his TARDIS because they were so familiar to her, as well as project herself out of the matrix to communicate with Liv and Helen. This was something she, herself, attributed to being a child of a TARDIS, saying the data strands inside the matrix were like mother's milk. And no matter how they protest, she is a much better driver than the Doctor.
Child Assassin – River was trained and conditioned from birth for the sole purpose of killing a time lord, a god. She was using weapons as a toddler. Combined with her time lord reflexes and senses? She’s a fierce opponent. And she isn’t afraid to play dirty either. She'll lie and she'll cheat, and she'll flirt with you and then poison you with her lipstick. She's skilled with a variety of weapons, as well as hand-to-hand, and she's got the will and determination to use both.
Escape Artist – River is excellent at breaking into and out of places. This is partly because she’s a thief/archaeologist and partly because she’s spent the majority of her life in prison for a crime she didn’t actually commit. Either way, it’s quite the party trick.
I don't believe she has any abilities that should need nerfed (though let me know if you feel otherwise!) but there's always an opt-out for her telepathy on my permissions post and, regardless, it isn't something I'd spring on anyone without prior discussion.
PERSONALITY: River Song is a woman with a reputation to keep. She typically comes out of the gate with a lot of flirtatious energy and confidence to spare. Unless, of course, you've given her reason to be angry and she wants you to know it.
One might find it hard to guess what's going on in River's mind because she's an expert at hiding what she's really thinking. Her entire life has been wrapped in lies and carefully told truths. Half of what she says doesn’t make sense and the other half should probably concern a reasonable person. But that’s how she likes it, and that much is obvious. It’s almost as though life is a game she’s playing and just maybe she’s in on a secret no one else seems to know about.
She has a natural tendency to take charge of a situation, as if she’s seen and done it all before. Maybe she has. Who can say which stories are true and which aren’t? Her energy draws people in, regardless.
While at times she can seem distant or detached, it isn’t difficult to notice she’s rarely cruel or even truly unkind. She is often practical and plain-spoken, intelligent and always curious.
River loves a good adventure, easily runs straight into trouble, probably with what most would consider an unhealthy amount of enthusiasm. Like a moth to a flame. But keep watching, because River doesn’t only rush toward danger, she’s dangerous herself. It's always there, shimmering under the surface in the quiet moments. When she stops flirting, pauses long enough to take a breath. There's a darkness, and the strength and determination to act on it.
She's put in her time, lived a life that was written before she was born and saw it through to its end. There's still a confidence and assurance about her, still a sense of recklessness (though it might have dimmed slightly), but there's an openness that's new. No more timelines to keep on track or secrets she has to keep for the sake of the universe. She finally has the freedom to live her life, as she chooses, even if she is technically dead and should by rights still either be lines of code in a database or faded into memory.
INVENTORY: Her diary & tardis key. (She had a copy of her diary in the database, and I like to think she kept a copy of the tardis key as well. They were items she tended to keep on her person.)
If she could also have her sonic screwdriver, but say maybe it has a mind of its own (only works when it chooses, does a less helpful thing, does something different than it should, etc.), I think that would give her something interesting to consider given her reconstitution from the Library database since the Doctor used said sonic to save and upload her.
NOTES: She should be good. Very surprised to be not a data ghost and not inside a computer and wow what is actual sensation again, but good.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? I'm leaning more plot-heavy, just jump right into it. But either is good.
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HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Plurk timeline. Mod approval to apply!
CHARACTER: River Song
CANON: Doctor Who
CANON POINT: Post Name of the Doctor
BACKGROUND: History | I do play her as audio compliant!
ABILITIES | POWERS: River is what she, herself, calls a proto-time lord. Whether this is actually a product of being conceived in the time vortex or more due to Kovarian and the Order of the Silence meddling with her DNA is still, perhaps, a matter for debate. As such, she shares many abilities with time lords, such as the Doctor.
I don't believe she has any abilities that should need nerfed (though let me know if you feel otherwise!) but there's always an opt-out for her telepathy on my permissions post and, regardless, it isn't something I'd spring on anyone without prior discussion.
PERSONALITY: River Song is a woman with a reputation to keep. She typically comes out of the gate with a lot of flirtatious energy and confidence to spare. Unless, of course, you've given her reason to be angry and she wants you to know it.
One might find it hard to guess what's going on in River's mind because she's an expert at hiding what she's really thinking. Her entire life has been wrapped in lies and carefully told truths. Half of what she says doesn’t make sense and the other half should probably concern a reasonable person. But that’s how she likes it, and that much is obvious. It’s almost as though life is a game she’s playing and just maybe she’s in on a secret no one else seems to know about.
She has a natural tendency to take charge of a situation, as if she’s seen and done it all before. Maybe she has. Who can say which stories are true and which aren’t? Her energy draws people in, regardless.
While at times she can seem distant or detached, it isn’t difficult to notice she’s rarely cruel or even truly unkind. She is often practical and plain-spoken, intelligent and always curious.
River loves a good adventure, easily runs straight into trouble, probably with what most would consider an unhealthy amount of enthusiasm. Like a moth to a flame. But keep watching, because River doesn’t only rush toward danger, she’s dangerous herself. It's always there, shimmering under the surface in the quiet moments. When she stops flirting, pauses long enough to take a breath. There's a darkness, and the strength and determination to act on it.
She's put in her time, lived a life that was written before she was born and saw it through to its end. There's still a confidence and assurance about her, still a sense of recklessness (though it might have dimmed slightly), but there's an openness that's new. No more timelines to keep on track or secrets she has to keep for the sake of the universe. She finally has the freedom to live her life, as she chooses, even if she is technically dead and should by rights still either be lines of code in a database or faded into memory.
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INVENTORY: Her diary & tardis key. (She had a copy of her diary in the database, and I like to think she kept a copy of the tardis key as well. They were items she tended to keep on her person.)
If she could also have her sonic screwdriver, but say maybe it has a mind of its own (only works when it chooses, does a less helpful thing, does something different than it should, etc.), I think that would give her something interesting to consider given her reconstitution from the Library database since the Doctor used said sonic to save and upload her.
NOTES: She should be good. Very surprised to be not a data ghost and not inside a computer and wow what is actual sensation again, but good.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? I'm leaning more plot-heavy, just jump right into it. But either is good.