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groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
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Eastbound is primarily an invite-only game — each existing player can currently invite up to one person per month, or get in touch about further invites. Existing players can hold two characters in game. A third character can be applied, if players can prove they have met activity requirements for two consecutive months with their existing two characters and have stayed engaged with the game. If you don't have an invite, somehow stumbled upon this neck of the woods, and you’d like to stay, drop the mod journal a line — we'll try to figure it out.
As of Oct. 1, cast/game caps are off. Please note, as of Dec. 1, Eastbound only has 3-4 months of gameplay left.
WHAT CHARACTERS CAN BE APPLIED?
YES: canon and original characters, if they have a solid and consistent personality and background. Characters brought in after they've died are a-okay. For characters taken from a time point just as they're in the process of dying, please read below on meeting medical requirements.
NO (at this time): real people, original characters set in a canon environment, characters from canons or canon instalments that have been released for less than one month, characters with imported development from other games (CRAU), alternate universe, or gender-swapped versions of canon characters.
Children or characters with very specific medical/magical/environment needs: appable, but please make a note of how your character will ICly meet their requirements and stay alive. Likewise, if you are applying for a character taken just as they're dying, provide a suggestion for how they can be kept alive on arrival (this might be easier in some app cycles than others). You can bend the world a little to make miracles happen (ex: a substitute for the medication your character needs to survive can be found for a high price at certain apothecaries, etc.)
Characters that were dropped or swept by activity checks: yes, but they’ll come back without their previous memories, if they are applied in by a different player.
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eleventh doctor | doctor who
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HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Spoke with mod!
CHARACTER: The Eleventh Doctor
CANON: Doctor Who
CANON POINT: 7.7, The Rings of Akhaten, just after the Doctor has dropped off Clara back at her flat.
BACKGROUND: Wiki link!
That history page is quite massive/long, so just to condense it a bit: The Doctor is what’s known as a Time Lord, a humanoid species hailing from the planet Gallifrey. This species has the very unique ability to regenerate upon death, and this is the Doctor’s final regeneration, the end of the line for him. He is also quite old, over a thousand years.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
Time Lord ability/physiology: The Doctor has two hearts, a much larger brain than a human, the ability to withstand extreme heat and cold longer than humans, the ability to regenerate. Time Lords only need to sleep for an hour at a time and can go quite a long time without needing sleep. He could induce a healing coma to focus on healing himself in the event of serious but non-fatal injuries. He would not be able to regenerate because this is his last life/he has no regeneration cycles left.
Telepathy: He has the ability to communicate with other Time Lords and non-telepaths through telepathy. He can touch someone and convey thoughts through the mind. He can manipulate and block memories, put people to sleep, and hypnotize someone. He rarely employs these abilities, but if allowed, I think it would make sense for much of these abilities to be muted except that he could still have the ability to resist mind control and to break any mind control that might be used on a friend by someone else without their consent.
Intelligence: Very good at all things science-y, technology, he can build things from scraps, etc.
PERSONALITY:
Despite this being the Doctor’s very last regeneration (as far as he knows up to this point in his canon), he is known for being outwardly childish and with a youthful exuberance befitting someone far younger. It’s the knowledge that this is his very last life that makes him so excited about literally everything. He’s amused by and enjoys even the simplest things and he always finds ways to entertain himself. The Doctor gets bored quite easily, hates being idle and comfortable, and so even in “quiet” moments, he’s always finding ways to occupy his time. When he’s not traveling through time and space - which is rare indeed - he will tinker around, invent new gadgets, and even do the mundane sorts of things like yardwork, chores, and errands if he happens to be on Earth with a companion for any length of time. His complete and utter joy at all things is infectious and it’s what draws people to him so easily; he can charm anyone with his easy grin, jokes, meandering nonsense as he rattles off factoids. Despite his many other traits and the streak of darkness inherent in the Doctor no matter the incarnation, when everything is going right, when he’s happy, when no one is being hurt or threatened and life is just good, he is the very best of the best to be around. He wants everyone around him to know how wonderful the universe is, how wonderful they are, how very much there always is to see and do. He has seen the very best and the very worst and in spite of the darkest, most terrible pockets of the universe out there, the Doctor would show everyone in the universe all the good things all the time if he could. It’s why he never stops traveling, never stops wanting to meet people and bring them with him, even when he knows he shouldn’t, when he knows he can be dangerous to anyone who just happens to be around him. He can’t really help himself in that regard, he believes that joy should be shared. Though he's not always the best at it verbally, he tries to be conscious of making sure that people always know their worth, value, importance.
This version of the Doctor, more than any other before him, truly feels his age. Every second that he’s lived these thousand years is heavy in his bones. It’s a wonder the universe hasn’t collapsed with the weight of everything he carries with him as he gallivants across the stars. Though he’s been called the Doctor who “forgets,” it’s not that he truly forgets anything at all. It wouldn’t be possible, not for him. This Doctor hasn’t forgotten a single thing, and that’s precisely why he’s so joyful, why he has to bury all the darkest and worst memories down deep inside of him, crushing it all with silliness and laughter and a beguiling attempt to never take anything seriously. The part of his past he loathes the most, when he destroyed his own planet and people to save the rest of the universe, is something that he’s openly stated he has “moved on” from. This would have been a coping mechanism to survive. There is no universe without the Doctor and he knows that, so of course he “forgets” and “moves on” from the horrors of what he’s done. The Doctor has many, many rules, but he tries to live by one code: never cruel or cowardly, never give up and never give in. When he couldn’t save Gallifrey, he broke those rules and he broke the promise of the name he chose for himself; Doctor, a healer, a bringer of hope. He never gives up, but he did. And if he didn’t force himself to “forget” that, he wouldn’t have been any use to anyone at all.
There is no one, not a single other being or creature in the universe, who could ever hate the Doctor more than he hates himself. Despite that, however, he is fully aware of his brilliance, his capabilities, the many victories and battles he’s won, the stories that are told of him, good and bad. So, he keeps going, even when times are at their worst. When he lost Amy and Rory, he shut down completely, he didn’t want to help anymore. He avoided other people, he broke the promise of himself again until he could no longer ignore people in need. In the end, that is what will always pull the Doctor back from the brink, the knowledge that he can and must help.
This is not to say that the Doctor is a perfect or even good man, by any means. He is very flawed, inherently selfish, and he would be the first to admit to that, even while extolling his virtues, like his supreme intelligence, cleverness, charm. He is not a good man, nor a bad man. He’s a mad man in a box, a traveler, an explorer, someone who seeks out danger to eliminate the threat, someone who helps others in need. He will always do what he feels is the right thing, the thing that will protect the greater good and what will be best for everyone in the end. This sounds reasonable in theory, but this can lead to very dark and even cruel moments from the Doctor. A good example of this is when the Doctor had to save a ship filled with 4,003 people that was going to burn up in the atmosphere of a planet. In order to save the ship, he ultimately had to convince a very cruel man in control of the atmosphere that every one on that ship was worth saving. When the man refused, the Doctor took it upon himself to travel back in time in this man’s life, to manipulate events and to change everything he knew, to make him kinder, to ultimately take him back to the present when he would make the right choice to save others. On the outside, it would be easy to judge this as the end justifying the means, but it’s an example of how manipulative the Doctor can be in his pursuit of saving others.
The Doctor is very protective, most especially of the people he loves/his friends, but even of perfect strangers, even non-sentient beings. The thought of anyone or anything dying because of him or for him absolutely haunts him. As such, it’s the threat of impending doom and death that often brings out the sharp, callous, and sometimes harsh tongue in him. If he has to think and act quickly, he can be very dismissive and come across as almost cruel in the moment. When River sends out a distress call to the universe for his sake when it seems certain that he’ll die, he snaps at her, “You embarrass me.” He snaps this because he can’t bear the thought of anyone being hurt for his sake, and he truly doesn’t believe he’s worth all that fuss. He doesn’t like being worried over, fussed over; it’s him who’s supposed to do that with the people around him.
For his faults, though, the most dominant and prominent trait in the Eleventh Doctor is kindness, and the facets within. He can be short-tempered at times, but he is exceedingly soft, gentle, even tender. He is very tactile, someone who will easily reach for the hand of a friend, who thrives on hugs, and who even enjoys a platonic kiss or two. He’s the Doctor who has “never met anyone who isn’t important” and who will sit with a dying woman and comfort her with the kindest of lies, telling her that he remembers her, that he would never forget her, even though that wasn’t true; it brought her comfort and hope and that’s what matters most to him.
He loathes goodbyes and hates being alone so he will avoid both at all cost. He has lost so much through the years, he’s always losing the people he loves most, but he can also never stop latching on to people. He’s clingy and desperate for company, always, even knowing the inevitable heartbreak that awaits him.
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INVENTORY:
▶ His sonic screwdriver, though because this can do basically everything, it would make sense if the power in it was completely removed and he could basically only use it as an actual screwdriver
▶ Clothes he’s currently wearing
▶ TARDIS key
▶ Random strings of yarn
▶ Baseball signed by Babe Ruth
▶ A carrot
▶ Pair of scissors
▶ Caramel apple
NOTES:
No special accommodations needed! He will always find a way to carry on in any situation.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Slight preference for plot-heavy, but really happy either way!
APPLICATION RECEIVED
ACCEPTED
Thank you for your application!
ADMIN
NOTES
The Doctor’s pre-assigned username is dollhouse.
INTRO
i. Wake up at sea
This is the lighter plot option: your character would be one of the many rescued from the grips of the dark and magically perturbed Crossing Seas after a stretch of time in the stranding region. We can give the Doctor a few puzzle clue observations or aftermath symptoms, and he can be dragged aboard with the rest of the crew.
PROS: The Doctor’s immediately joining the rest of the pre-existing character squad and can interact both physically and by network.
CONS: less active plot than option 2, more of a slow-burn approach.
ii. Serthica
The Doctor is recruited by the Merchant and sent with other newcomers in the Mouse House — the impoverished outskirts of Arc IV location, Serthica. Here, the small group will have to work together on a few quests to smuggle the remaining party — which comes later by sea — into Serthica.
Note: we’ll need at least three of the newly accepted characters to pick this, or else we can’t run it — you’d have too small of a gang to run with and get bored. If Serthica is chosen, you will get a setup and quests write-up for newcomers on 1 August, giving you about nine days to play things out.
PROS: hit the ground running, play a pretty significant role in how the party sets up in Arc IV.
CONS: The Doctor can contact the party members at sea via network and inboxes, but he won’t meet physically until the seaborne travellers also join Serthica ( this will be around 11 August ). The Doctor would get a list of the names of the people coming by sea, if that helps.
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(p.s. he appreciates the cinnamon bun comparison; a favorite treat of his, too.)
Thanks, looking forward to playing here!
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