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1. Player Information
Name:Al
Username: AIM: notrosesshadow Email: ajstudz@gmail.com
Current characters in ToS: Elphaba Thropp
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2. Canon Character Information
Name: Martha Jones
PB: Freema Agyeman
Journal:notrosesshadow
Age: Time travel makes that difficult to determine... plus a whole year that never happened... We'll say 26
Appearance: Martha is a 26 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, and her eyes are very expressive. She has a tattoo of a butterfly and the Iranian word for Freedom on her right arm. Her hair is currently braided. Anyone who knew her before might be surprised to note a simple silver band on her left ring finger.
History: Wiki Article
Powers/Talents: Excellent problem solving skills, logical, advanced medical knowledge found in a trauma surgeon - plus some extra that she's learned along the way, field medical knowledge, self defense training from her time in UNIT plus the Paradox Year, knows her way around a gun, master storyteller, good at running, excellent at hiding.
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone thinks. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. And she does, in fact, move on. Martha dates and eventually becomes engaged to Tom Milligan. They break up for unknown reasons unfortunately, but Martha does eventually marry Mickey Smith. I like to believe the two of them find a lot of common ground between both knowing about the Doctor and both loving someone who will never love them back. From the short clip we see of them, the relationship seems quite healthy as they exchange words even while being shot at by a Sontaren.
While the Paradox Year has left scars, Martha's been through so much more now that they're not so deep anymore. Mickey has helped some. Time others. She sleeps through the night without screaming now, and often doesn't even have nightmares.
As a freelance alien investigator, Martha is willing to help UNIT as necessary, but she's not doing the doctor thing anymore. Of course she can help out where necessary, but that's a completely different stage of her life now
Furthermore, Martha doesn't depend on the Doctor so much anymore. She knew something was wrong when she and Mickey last saw him. It seemed like an ending.
Why would your character be chosen? Martha is very tough. She survived walking the world while being public enemy number one in a post-apocalyptic world. She's also kind and nurturing, wanting to save people when she can.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Martha has spent somewhere between one to five years traveling with the Doctor. Aside from knowing about him, she is aware of numerous alien races both in the future and the past.
Why this character: Because it's Martha. Seriously... I dropped her for a variety of reasons and it hurt like hell. But the Martha I've always played wasn't fitting here and I wanted to bring her back anyway I could. This is a Martha who is much more confident and not bogged down by HWD memories as well as everything else. This should help A LOT. Also, Martha's personality should keep her from getting bogged down in the situations that I had issues with earlier.
AU Addendum:
Past Game History:
3. Original Character Information
4. Samples
First-Person: (5+ sentences) [Voice] I have to say, waking up in the cargo bay of a ship isn't quite the oddest place I've ever woken up. Mickey? Are you out there at all? Likely not if I'm a candidate for marriage - they'd want my husband out of the way I assume.
[A small sigh.]
What's the best way of getting in touch with the Nysgods?
Third-Person: Fighting Cybermen with the Doctor
Third Sample: "Working Out"
[Player information]
Player Name: Al
Age: 24
E-mail: ajstudz@gmail.com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: None
[Character information]
Name: Martha Jones
Canon: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just after the "resurrection" of the Doctor in "Last of the Time Lords"
Age: 23ish... Time Travel makes it difficult to tell
Appearance: Martha can usually be found in jeans, a tank or tee, and a jacket. She's very short, about 5'2" and she has a tattoo on her right shoulder of a butterfly and the Iranian word for freedom. She's reatively thin with dark, straight hair that's usually up, dark eyes that have a tendency to look hundreds of years older than she is when she thinks no one else is paying attention to her. And anyone who sits and observes her sitting alone in a coffee shop or reading a book or sleeping will notice her fingers start tap tap tap tapping in a strange 1, 2, 3, 4 pattern.
Inventory: Black pants, black shirt, black jacket, A key strung on a string with what looks like a chip on the back.
Abilities: Nothing really super. She is a doctor... quite good at healing people. She's also has some hand to hand combat thanks to her surviving a post-apocalyptic world by herself, but she's really better at hiding.
History: Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, the Doctor reverts to his 900 year old form. Martha runs to hug her family, but she never makes it those few feet. A different force has use for her.
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember. If she had made it that is.
Martha loves the Doctor. While she is coming to her senses and realizes she'll have to leave him, she is still very much in love with the man.
Last but not least, the Paradox Year left some deep emotional scars. Martha will show signs of PTSD. Most notably she has nightmares, but she also prefers smaller groups of people rather than larger ones, and loud noises do startle her.
[Samples]
First Person:
Finding out Oz was the werewolf who attacked her.
Fight with Jack for stealing Ianto for a bit. Martha's only in the first 15 or so.
Helping Ton Phanan deal with nightmares
Anything Else?
~Player Information~
Name/Pseudonym: Al
Age: 24
Email: ajstudz@gmail.com
Chat handles: [AIM]: notrosesshadow
Other characters currently in game: None
~Character Information~
Name: Martha Jones
Age: She thinks 23, but she's not quite sure. Time travel does that...
Canon: Doctor Who
Point of Entry: In between Journey's End and The End of Time. Just after her (unseen in canon) breakup with Tom MIlligan
User name:![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
notrosesshadow
Radio Callsign: Delta Juliet
Play by: Freema Agyeman
IJ Icon:
Physical description:
Petite (5'2")
Dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes.
Hair is straight and typically up
Tattoo on right shoulder
Character History (min. 100 words):
Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, theDoctor reverts to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverts back to the moment just after the President dies. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
After dropping her family and Jack off at their respective homes, Martha tells the Doctor she will not be traveling with him anymore. When we next see her, she is engaged to Mr. Tom Milligan, the doctor she met during the Paradox Year. She seems happy with him. Sadly, the last time we see Martha in the series, she is married instead to Mickey Smith. At some point, she and Tom split. Martha will be entering the game after this split.
Character Personality (min. 200 words):
Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. She’ll always love him though when all is said and done. But with time away from him… she can move on.
Last but not least, the Paradox Year left some deep emotional scars. Though the PTSD is, for the most part dormant, huge changes can bring relapses. Symptoms include night terrors, easily startled, and distrusting of new people.
RP Example (min. 200 words):
Martha paced back and forth under the giant oak, nervously twirling the ring on her finger. She loved Tom. She really really did. But things had been so awkward lately. They'd had so many minor arguments about silly things. And then he had called her at work. Asked her to meet him under The Oak. The one he'd proposed under.
And so she paced. A few minutes later she saw him coming. Tom was hard to miss. He was tall and quite massive. And yet there was hardly a mean bone in his body. Not that he couldn't be formidable. Though he didn't remember it, Martha had seen him do things most pediatricians would shy away from. She tried to smile at him as he came closer, but the expression on his face was not one of excitement to see her. Which she had sort of expected.
"Tom... I..."
"We need to break up, Martha."
She blinked. That was rather abrupt.
"Please don't look at me like that Martha. You know as well as I this isn't working. Between the fact that you're never home... and you look bored with me whenever you are home. You have nightmares you can't explain. You don't trust me to tell me important information about yourself. This isn't what a marriage is founded on Martha."
The words stung. Every one of them like a slap in the face. Tom had found the symptoms but not the causes. And he didn't have enough information to find the correct causes. Nor was Martha able to tell him. Not that she engineered their first meeting or that it wasn't really their first meeting. Not that she was gone most of the time because she was preventing alien attacks on earth. None of it.
There were no tears. Not yet. She merely looked up into his face. Hard... the woman he didn't remember meeting during the Paradox. "I do love you Tom. More... more than you'll ever know." She began twisting the ring again... this time off her finger. "I don't want to leave this relationship. Or you."
He shook his head, and she knew there was no turning back. He was a hurt puppy. He didn't understand, couldn't understand. And the best thing would be for her to leave. Preferably with tears but she didn't. Instead she gave him the ring, grabbing his hand while she had the chance. "I hope you know these were some of the happiest times in my life. Even if it didn't seem like it."
She took a deep breath. "Give me an hour to clear my things from the flat... I'll be out of your hair then." He nodded, dumbstruck. She squeezed his hand. "Goodbye Dr. Tom Milligan."
And still she didn't cry. Martha didn't cry until she was around the corner and knew he wouldn't see her...
She didn't remember falling asleep, or even being kidnapped. But when Martha woke, she was definitely not in the flat... or the street... or London. She realized that last one when a shark swam by the window.
She looked around and eventually sat up. Martha's nose crinkled at the orange jumpsuit she had definitely not been wearing earlier. Orange was not really her color. That was all she had by way of clothing. She examined it as best she could. There was an insignia on the breast. Next Wave. Hm... The only other thing sharing her space was a walkie-talkie type thing with the words 'Delta Juliet' along the top. She picked that up too.
"Delta Juliet...?" she murmured, jumping as the radio crackled to life. Carefully she put it down, not wanting to talk to her captors if indeed there were any and instead moving over towards the window. She was underwater. Martha fought up a sudden feeling of claustrophobia as she watched the fish swim by. What had happened?
✢ The Player
Player Name: Al
Age: 24
LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morgian_le_faye (Friends locked)
AIM / MSN / Y!M:AIM notrosesshadow
E-mail: ajstudz@gmail.com
Other Characters: None
✢ The Character
Character Name: Martha Jones
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just after she leaves the Doctor in Last of the Time Lords
Age: Time travel makes that difficult to determine... plus a whole year that never happened... We'll say 23
Appearance: Martha is a 23 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, and her eyes are very expressive.
Abilities / Powers: Martha has a very theoretical and a somewhat applied medical knowledge. She can run... a lot... Martha is also open-minded and intelligent. She basically your normal smart human, dedicated, athletic human being. Who can save the world.
Inventory: Perception filter, wallet with ID, a family photo or two, small bits of British money. Clothes she's wearing: Jeans, tank, red leather jacket, shoes. Hair tie around wrist
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. She’ll always love him though when all is said and done. But with time away from him… she can move on.
Last but not least, the Paradox Year left some deep emotional scars. Once removed from the TARDIS and everything, she will begin experiencing severe nightmares to start. More may crop up depending on what defenses she puts up to deal with being transported to a new hell.
History: (Since it's already typed up in other applications...)
Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, theDoctor reverts to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverts back to the moment just after the President dies. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
After dropping her family and Jack off at their respective homes, Martha tells the Doctor she will not be traveling with him anymore. It is here that she enteres the game.
First Person Sample: Introducing herself to people over a network
Third Person Sample: Trigger Warning: Martha is killed (Martha saving the world the only way she can)
Helping out a fellow prisoner
Other:
APPLICATION
PLAYER
↠ Name: Al
↠ Age: 26
↠ Characters Played: Not applicable at this time.
CHARACTER
↠ Name: Martha Jones
↠ Canon: Doctor Who
↠ Journal:notrosesshadow
↠ Age: Martha always has a difficult time with this question. Is she supposed to count the Paradox Year? Or how about the year spent partially in 1969 and partially in 1914? Because counting them puts her at 26, even though her ID says 24. Legally she's 24.
↠ Appearance: Martha is a 26 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, though occasionally flashes of a haunted quality play over her features. She has a tattoo of a butterfly and the Iranian word for Freedom on her right arm. She's definitely muscular, and by the say she carries herself, she's clearly had some sort of military training.
↠ Reference/History: Wiki Article
↠ Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone thinks. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. And she does, in fact, move on. Martha dates and eventually becomes engaged to Tom Milligan. They break up likely do to the fact that Martha keeps so much of her life secret including where she works and why she has nightmares occasionally.
In fact, after breaking up Martha requests to be transferred to New York where she can work to get over him. She's mostly healed from that experience by the time the Daleks take over the world.
Her relationship with the Doctor settles to platonic friendship, and she's even come to easy terms with Rose. By the time she comes to City of Sin, we see that Martha is decently healed from her scarring memories (though I doubt the City will make the Paradox Year memories go away nicely), confident in herself, and thinking about quitting her job with UNIT.
↠ Powers: Excellent problem solving skills, logical, advanced medical knowledge found in a trauma surgeon - plus some extra that she's learned along the way, field medical knowledge, self defense training from her time in UNIT plus the Paradox Year, knows her way around a gun, master storyteller, good at running, excellent at hiding. No magic or super powers though.
↠ Reason for Playing This Character: Martha is the second character I ever picked up in online RP, and she practically writes herself. I always enjoy seeing what she ends up doing in new places. I'm especially intrigued about City because it actually has a sizable Who cast. I can't remember the last game I was in with a decent Who cast. I'm excited to experience that with Martha.
↠ What is Your Character's Sin?: Pride. Martha's a good doctor and she knows it. She also knows that the world would not be where it was without her. And she knows she's better equipped than most of the people in UNIT to deal with alien incursions.
SAMPLES
↠ First Person: (Arrival message...) Well isn't this bloody brilliant. Doctor, if you can hear me, I'm stuck in some blasted city. My mobile's not working correctly so hopefully you can lock onto the coordinates of the phone I'm calling you on. I have to get back to work. Some idiot touched a big red button without proper investigation first and of course it would send me to a random time and place I've never been. No need to call me back. I'm sure the TARDIS will show up in a few minutes.
↠ Third Person: Martha sat outside the Chief's office... waiting. She knew almost exactly what he was going to tell her. The private standing guard looked at her nervously. Martha smiled at him with reassurance. "You boys might want some popcorn for this one. I expect he's in a right state over me."
His orders had been stupid. Always shoot to kill without asking questions. But he'd made a mistake. He'd put Martha in charge of the day and Martha disobeyed orders. Why he kept putting her in charge she didn't know. It's not like she ever followed orders. And in this case she'd been exactly right. The creature had crash landed. It just wanted to get back home. A quick call to the Doctor and everything was right as rain. No lives lost on either side except a few poor cows. A happy alien. It was important to show the men that not all aliens were hostile.
But she had still disobeyed his orders and now she had to pay the piper. At least she figured that's what the chief thought. He always seemed to forget how good she was at fighting back. And that she still had
the advantage. There were other places that would hire her. And he really couldn't afford to lose her. So Martha sat and waited for the secretary to call her in.
Player Name: Al
Player Age: 28
Character Name: Martha Jones
Character Canon: Doctor Who
Character Age: Martha has difficulty pinpointing her age due to a year that doesn't exist anymore, plus some time spent in 1969 as well as 1914. However, her ID says 25 so we'll just call her 25
Inventory: Black undershirt. Black jacket. Black pants. Black socks. Black combat boots. Underwear and bra. Hair tie. 6 hairpins. Silver stud earrings. Pocket knife. Black
mobile. Bluetooth earpiece for phone. Osterhagen Key (black square disc encased in plastic on a chain.) Diamond engagement ring
History: TARDIS Wiki entry on Martha Jones
Canon Point: Post Journey's End
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha made it through med school, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. Instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. She kissed a man from the future. And how many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Twice during her travels, with the Doctor, Martha found herself stuck in a different time period. Both 1913 and 1969 were incredibly difficult times to live as a young, black woman in England. Yet during both, she was able to get a job and help save the world.
Later, when the Master takes over the world, Martha proved that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, by escaping the Valiant and walking the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watched as the Master and his Spheres slaughtered people by the dozens and sent the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone thinks. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. And she does, in fact, move on. Martha dates and eventually becomes engaged to Tom Milligan.
Skills: First and foremost, Martha got her medical degree/licence training to be a trauma surgeon. Furthermore, she is the medical director of Project Indigo in UNIT - so not only does she have medical skills, she also has leadership skills. Thanks to the Paradox Year, she has decent survival skills - for Earth. Also keeps calm in a crisis. It might not transfer to other planets until she has proper training. Also, thanks to UNIT, she has some combat skills, and she knows her way around a gun.
Supernatural Abilities: N/A
Samples: 1. Hypervodka with Jack - From game MarinaNova
2. Stuck in Westeros - From bakerstreet
Aspirations: I really enjoy playing Martha period. However, I've long thought it would be interesting to put her into a Star Trek universe. Space travel doesn't phase her. Aliens don't phase her. MIlitary organizations don't phase her - though she can be a bit sassy when it involves following orders. I've sought out various Star Trek characters to play her against before because she works so well with them. To actually have a Star Trek game to play in is amazing. And I really feel she will fit perfectly in the setting.
PLAYER INFORMATION
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Al
Age: Late 20s
Time Zone: CST
Email: notrosesshadow@gmail.com
Other Contact Info: Plurk: notrosesshadow
Prefered method of contact: Email
Current Characters at The Fleet: None
Reserve: Here
Full Name: Martha Jones
Nicknames: N/A
Canon: Doctor Who
Sex/Gender: Female
Age: 24
PB: Freema Agyeman
Journal:notrosesshadow
4th Walling: Yes
Canon Point: The Year that Never Was just after the Master gets shot.
Physical description: Martha is a 26 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, though occasionally flashes of a haunted quality play over her features. She has a tattoo of a butterfly and the Iranian word for Freedom on her right arm. She's definitely muscular, though she seems a bit skittish.
History: Martha broke her arm when her brother pushed her off a swing. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. Around this time, her parents also divorced. Martha became peacekeeper for her parents, a job that she sometimes tired of.
At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. Her adventures are too numerous to note, but suffice it to say, Martha was able to show off her skills as a scientist, and learned a lot about the Universe.
They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid when she was captured by the Drast in Japan and forced to work in an internment camp. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learned the Toclafane were the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha told the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admitted she loves him, The Master came down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agreed to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brought in her family and Jack and ordered her to kneel for her execution. As he monologued about how she sucked as a companion to the Doctor, she laughed in his face and explained what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 Archangel satellites, the Doctor reverted to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverted back to the moment just after the President died. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse. And that's the worst of it. She also manages to hold down jobs in two different time periods when people were wildly racist towards black people and many other things.
Martha is also very quick thinking. In almost every episode, she comes up with some way to save the day, from the final word to close the Carrionites portal in Shakespeare Code, to electrocuting the pigmen in Daleks Take Manhattan.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
With all that, Martha suffers from some very serious PTSD. She tries to cover it, but one can only handle nightmares and lack of sleep for so long before they crack. This is something I'll be exploring in game.
Strengths Excellent problem solving skills, logical, advanced medical knowledge found in a trauma surgeon - plus some extra that she's learned along the way, field medical knowledge, self-learned self defense form the Paradox Year, knows her way around a gun, master storyteller, good at running, excellent at hiding. Also fairly good at reading people again, thanks to the Paradox Year and traveling with the Doctor
Weaknesses Suffers PTSD and paranoia. Can be headstrong. Will definitely sacrifice herself for the greater good.
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Images: No images... not good at any sort of manipulations...
Number of gara: TWO
Primary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: Lea: Brown and Purple
Secondary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: Owm: Tardis Blue
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Shapes/Configuration:
Gara 1: Centered on chest, 2 inches long Rod of Asclepius Staff is brown, snake is deep purple. Somewhat blends in with her skin tone.
Gara 2: Lower right of field, next to and "behind" first gara where there's overlap, Shape of a TARDIS, color of a TARDIS.
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2. Canon Character Information
Name: Martha Jones
PB: Freema Agyeman
Journal:
notrosesshadowAge: Time travel makes that difficult to determine... plus a whole year that never happened... We'll say 26
Appearance: Martha is a 26 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, and her eyes are very expressive. She has a tattoo of a butterfly and the Iranian word for Freedom on her right arm. Her hair is currently braided. Anyone who knew her before might be surprised to note a simple silver band on her left ring finger.
History: Wiki Article
Powers/Talents: Excellent problem solving skills, logical, advanced medical knowledge found in a trauma surgeon - plus some extra that she's learned along the way, field medical knowledge, self defense training from her time in UNIT plus the Paradox Year, knows her way around a gun, master storyteller, good at running, excellent at hiding.
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone thinks. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. And she does, in fact, move on. Martha dates and eventually becomes engaged to Tom Milligan. They break up for unknown reasons unfortunately, but Martha does eventually marry Mickey Smith. I like to believe the two of them find a lot of common ground between both knowing about the Doctor and both loving someone who will never love them back. From the short clip we see of them, the relationship seems quite healthy as they exchange words even while being shot at by a Sontaren.
While the Paradox Year has left scars, Martha's been through so much more now that they're not so deep anymore. Mickey has helped some. Time others. She sleeps through the night without screaming now, and often doesn't even have nightmares.
As a freelance alien investigator, Martha is willing to help UNIT as necessary, but she's not doing the doctor thing anymore. Of course she can help out where necessary, but that's a completely different stage of her life now
Furthermore, Martha doesn't depend on the Doctor so much anymore. She knew something was wrong when she and Mickey last saw him. It seemed like an ending.
Why would your character be chosen? Martha is very tough. She survived walking the world while being public enemy number one in a post-apocalyptic world. She's also kind and nurturing, wanting to save people when she can.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Martha has spent somewhere between one to five years traveling with the Doctor. Aside from knowing about him, she is aware of numerous alien races both in the future and the past.
Why this character: Because it's Martha. Seriously... I dropped her for a variety of reasons and it hurt like hell. But the Martha I've always played wasn't fitting here and I wanted to bring her back anyway I could. This is a Martha who is much more confident and not bogged down by HWD memories as well as everything else. This should help A LOT. Also, Martha's personality should keep her from getting bogged down in the situations that I had issues with earlier.
4. Samples
First-Person: (5+ sentences) [Voice] I have to say, waking up in the cargo bay of a ship isn't quite the oddest place I've ever woken up. Mickey? Are you out there at all? Likely not if I'm a candidate for marriage - they'd want my husband out of the way I assume.
[A small sigh.]
What's the best way of getting in touch with the Nysgods?
Third-Person: Fighting Cybermen with the Doctor
Third Sample: "Working Out"
[Player information]
Player Name: Al
Age: 24
E-mail: ajstudz@gmail.com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: None
[Character information]
Name: Martha Jones
Canon: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just after the "resurrection" of the Doctor in "Last of the Time Lords"
Age: 23ish... Time Travel makes it difficult to tell
Appearance: Martha can usually be found in jeans, a tank or tee, and a jacket. She's very short, about 5'2" and she has a tattoo on her right shoulder of a butterfly and the Iranian word for freedom. She's reatively thin with dark, straight hair that's usually up, dark eyes that have a tendency to look hundreds of years older than she is when she thinks no one else is paying attention to her. And anyone who sits and observes her sitting alone in a coffee shop or reading a book or sleeping will notice her fingers start tap tap tap tapping in a strange 1, 2, 3, 4 pattern.
Inventory: Black pants, black shirt, black jacket, A key strung on a string with what looks like a chip on the back.
Abilities: Nothing really super. She is a doctor... quite good at healing people. She's also has some hand to hand combat thanks to her surviving a post-apocalyptic world by herself, but she's really better at hiding.
History: Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, the Doctor reverts to his 900 year old form. Martha runs to hug her family, but she never makes it those few feet. A different force has use for her.
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember. If she had made it that is.
Martha loves the Doctor. While she is coming to her senses and realizes she'll have to leave him, she is still very much in love with the man.
Last but not least, the Paradox Year left some deep emotional scars. Martha will show signs of PTSD. Most notably she has nightmares, but she also prefers smaller groups of people rather than larger ones, and loud noises do startle her.
[Samples]
First Person:
Finding out Oz was the werewolf who attacked her.
Fight with Jack for stealing Ianto for a bit. Martha's only in the first 15 or so.
Helping Ton Phanan deal with nightmares
Anything Else?
~Player Information~
Name/Pseudonym: Al
Age: 24
Email: ajstudz@gmail.com
Chat handles: [AIM]: notrosesshadow
Other characters currently in game: None
~Character Information~
Name: Martha Jones
Age: She thinks 23, but she's not quite sure. Time travel does that...
Canon: Doctor Who
Point of Entry: In between Journey's End and The End of Time. Just after her (unseen in canon) breakup with Tom MIlligan
User name:
notrosesshadowRadio Callsign: Delta Juliet
Play by: Freema Agyeman
IJ Icon:
Physical description:
Petite (5'2")
Dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes.
Hair is straight and typically up
Tattoo on right shoulder
Character History (min. 100 words):
Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, theDoctor reverts to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverts back to the moment just after the President dies. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
After dropping her family and Jack off at their respective homes, Martha tells the Doctor she will not be traveling with him anymore. When we next see her, she is engaged to Mr. Tom Milligan, the doctor she met during the Paradox Year. She seems happy with him. Sadly, the last time we see Martha in the series, she is married instead to Mickey Smith. At some point, she and Tom split. Martha will be entering the game after this split.
Character Personality (min. 200 words):
Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. She’ll always love him though when all is said and done. But with time away from him… she can move on.
Last but not least, the Paradox Year left some deep emotional scars. Though the PTSD is, for the most part dormant, huge changes can bring relapses. Symptoms include night terrors, easily startled, and distrusting of new people.
RP Example (min. 200 words):
Martha paced back and forth under the giant oak, nervously twirling the ring on her finger. She loved Tom. She really really did. But things had been so awkward lately. They'd had so many minor arguments about silly things. And then he had called her at work. Asked her to meet him under The Oak. The one he'd proposed under.
And so she paced. A few minutes later she saw him coming. Tom was hard to miss. He was tall and quite massive. And yet there was hardly a mean bone in his body. Not that he couldn't be formidable. Though he didn't remember it, Martha had seen him do things most pediatricians would shy away from. She tried to smile at him as he came closer, but the expression on his face was not one of excitement to see her. Which she had sort of expected.
"Tom... I..."
"We need to break up, Martha."
She blinked. That was rather abrupt.
"Please don't look at me like that Martha. You know as well as I this isn't working. Between the fact that you're never home... and you look bored with me whenever you are home. You have nightmares you can't explain. You don't trust me to tell me important information about yourself. This isn't what a marriage is founded on Martha."
The words stung. Every one of them like a slap in the face. Tom had found the symptoms but not the causes. And he didn't have enough information to find the correct causes. Nor was Martha able to tell him. Not that she engineered their first meeting or that it wasn't really their first meeting. Not that she was gone most of the time because she was preventing alien attacks on earth. None of it.
There were no tears. Not yet. She merely looked up into his face. Hard... the woman he didn't remember meeting during the Paradox. "I do love you Tom. More... more than you'll ever know." She began twisting the ring again... this time off her finger. "I don't want to leave this relationship. Or you."
He shook his head, and she knew there was no turning back. He was a hurt puppy. He didn't understand, couldn't understand. And the best thing would be for her to leave. Preferably with tears but she didn't. Instead she gave him the ring, grabbing his hand while she had the chance. "I hope you know these were some of the happiest times in my life. Even if it didn't seem like it."
She took a deep breath. "Give me an hour to clear my things from the flat... I'll be out of your hair then." He nodded, dumbstruck. She squeezed his hand. "Goodbye Dr. Tom Milligan."
And still she didn't cry. Martha didn't cry until she was around the corner and knew he wouldn't see her...
She didn't remember falling asleep, or even being kidnapped. But when Martha woke, she was definitely not in the flat... or the street... or London. She realized that last one when a shark swam by the window.
She looked around and eventually sat up. Martha's nose crinkled at the orange jumpsuit she had definitely not been wearing earlier. Orange was not really her color. That was all she had by way of clothing. She examined it as best she could. There was an insignia on the breast. Next Wave. Hm... The only other thing sharing her space was a walkie-talkie type thing with the words 'Delta Juliet' along the top. She picked that up too.
"Delta Juliet...?" she murmured, jumping as the radio crackled to life. Carefully she put it down, not wanting to talk to her captors if indeed there were any and instead moving over towards the window. She was underwater. Martha fought up a sudden feeling of claustrophobia as she watched the fish swim by. What had happened?
✢ The Player
Player Name: Al
Age: 24
LJ:
morgian_le_faye (Friends locked)AIM / MSN / Y!M:AIM notrosesshadow
E-mail: ajstudz@gmail.com
Other Characters: None
✢ The Character
Character Name: Martha Jones
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Just after she leaves the Doctor in Last of the Time Lords
Age: Time travel makes that difficult to determine... plus a whole year that never happened... We'll say 23
Appearance: Martha is a 23 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, and her eyes are very expressive.
Abilities / Powers: Martha has a very theoretical and a somewhat applied medical knowledge. She can run... a lot... Martha is also open-minded and intelligent. She basically your normal smart human, dedicated, athletic human being. Who can save the world.
Inventory: Perception filter, wallet with ID, a family photo or two, small bits of British money. Clothes she's wearing: Jeans, tank, red leather jacket, shoes. Hair tie around wrist
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. She’ll always love him though when all is said and done. But with time away from him… she can move on.
Last but not least, the Paradox Year left some deep emotional scars. Once removed from the TARDIS and everything, she will begin experiencing severe nightmares to start. More may crop up depending on what defenses she puts up to deal with being transported to a new hell.
History: (Since it's already typed up in other applications...)
Martha broke her arm jumping off a swing when she was younger. She was fascinated by the healing process and decided from then on she wanted to be a doctor. Everything she did from that point forward aided her in becoming a doctor. At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid a bit in Japan. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learns the Toclafane are the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha tells the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admits she loves him, The Master comes down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agrees to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brings in her family and Jack and orders her to kneel so he can kill her. As he monologues about how she sucks as a companion, she laughs in his face and explains what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 archangel satellites, theDoctor reverts to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverts back to the moment just after the President dies. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
After dropping her family and Jack off at their respective homes, Martha tells the Doctor she will not be traveling with him anymore. It is here that she enteres the game.
First Person Sample: Introducing herself to people over a network
Third Person Sample: Trigger Warning: Martha is killed (Martha saving the world the only way she can)
Helping out a fellow prisoner
Other:
APPLICATION
PLAYER
↠ Name: Al
↠ Age: 26
↠ Characters Played: Not applicable at this time.
CHARACTER
↠ Name: Martha Jones
↠ Canon: Doctor Who
↠ Journal:
notrosesshadow↠ Age: Martha always has a difficult time with this question. Is she supposed to count the Paradox Year? Or how about the year spent partially in 1969 and partially in 1914? Because counting them puts her at 26, even though her ID says 24. Legally she's 24.
↠ Appearance: Martha is a 26 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, though occasionally flashes of a haunted quality play over her features. She has a tattoo of a butterfly and the Iranian word for Freedom on her right arm. She's definitely muscular, and by the say she carries herself, she's clearly had some sort of military training.
↠ Reference/History: Wiki Article
↠ Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone thinks. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. And she does, in fact, move on. Martha dates and eventually becomes engaged to Tom Milligan. They break up likely do to the fact that Martha keeps so much of her life secret including where she works and why she has nightmares occasionally.
In fact, after breaking up Martha requests to be transferred to New York where she can work to get over him. She's mostly healed from that experience by the time the Daleks take over the world.
Her relationship with the Doctor settles to platonic friendship, and she's even come to easy terms with Rose. By the time she comes to City of Sin, we see that Martha is decently healed from her scarring memories (though I doubt the City will make the Paradox Year memories go away nicely), confident in herself, and thinking about quitting her job with UNIT.
↠ Powers: Excellent problem solving skills, logical, advanced medical knowledge found in a trauma surgeon - plus some extra that she's learned along the way, field medical knowledge, self defense training from her time in UNIT plus the Paradox Year, knows her way around a gun, master storyteller, good at running, excellent at hiding. No magic or super powers though.
↠ Reason for Playing This Character: Martha is the second character I ever picked up in online RP, and she practically writes herself. I always enjoy seeing what she ends up doing in new places. I'm especially intrigued about City because it actually has a sizable Who cast. I can't remember the last game I was in with a decent Who cast. I'm excited to experience that with Martha.
↠ What is Your Character's Sin?: Pride. Martha's a good doctor and she knows it. She also knows that the world would not be where it was without her. And she knows she's better equipped than most of the people in UNIT to deal with alien incursions.
SAMPLES
↠ First Person: (Arrival message...) Well isn't this bloody brilliant. Doctor, if you can hear me, I'm stuck in some blasted city. My mobile's not working correctly so hopefully you can lock onto the coordinates of the phone I'm calling you on. I have to get back to work. Some idiot touched a big red button without proper investigation first and of course it would send me to a random time and place I've never been. No need to call me back. I'm sure the TARDIS will show up in a few minutes.
↠ Third Person: Martha sat outside the Chief's office... waiting. She knew almost exactly what he was going to tell her. The private standing guard looked at her nervously. Martha smiled at him with reassurance. "You boys might want some popcorn for this one. I expect he's in a right state over me."
His orders had been stupid. Always shoot to kill without asking questions. But he'd made a mistake. He'd put Martha in charge of the day and Martha disobeyed orders. Why he kept putting her in charge she didn't know. It's not like she ever followed orders. And in this case she'd been exactly right. The creature had crash landed. It just wanted to get back home. A quick call to the Doctor and everything was right as rain. No lives lost on either side except a few poor cows. A happy alien. It was important to show the men that not all aliens were hostile.
But she had still disobeyed his orders and now she had to pay the piper. At least she figured that's what the chief thought. He always seemed to forget how good she was at fighting back. And that she still had
the advantage. There were other places that would hire her. And he really couldn't afford to lose her. So Martha sat and waited for the secretary to call her in.
Player Name: Al
Player Age: 28
Character Name: Martha Jones
Character Canon: Doctor Who
Character Age: Martha has difficulty pinpointing her age due to a year that doesn't exist anymore, plus some time spent in 1969 as well as 1914. However, her ID says 25 so we'll just call her 25
Inventory: Black undershirt. Black jacket. Black pants. Black socks. Black combat boots. Underwear and bra. Hair tie. 6 hairpins. Silver stud earrings. Pocket knife. Black
mobile. Bluetooth earpiece for phone. Osterhagen Key (black square disc encased in plastic on a chain.) Diamond engagement ring
History: TARDIS Wiki entry on Martha Jones
Canon Point: Post Journey's End
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha made it through med school, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. Instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. She kissed a man from the future. And how many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Twice during her travels, with the Doctor, Martha found herself stuck in a different time period. Both 1913 and 1969 were incredibly difficult times to live as a young, black woman in England. Yet during both, she was able to get a job and help save the world.
Later, when the Master takes over the world, Martha proved that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, by escaping the Valiant and walking the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watched as the Master and his Spheres slaughtered people by the dozens and sent the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone thinks. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
Martha clearly has common sense as well. She leaves the Doctor in the end of it all letting him know that she needs to move on with her life or she’ll be stuck. And she does, in fact, move on. Martha dates and eventually becomes engaged to Tom Milligan.
Skills: First and foremost, Martha got her medical degree/licence training to be a trauma surgeon. Furthermore, she is the medical director of Project Indigo in UNIT - so not only does she have medical skills, she also has leadership skills. Thanks to the Paradox Year, she has decent survival skills - for Earth. Also keeps calm in a crisis. It might not transfer to other planets until she has proper training. Also, thanks to UNIT, she has some combat skills, and she knows her way around a gun.
Supernatural Abilities: N/A
Samples: 1. Hypervodka with Jack - From game MarinaNova
2. Stuck in Westeros - From bakerstreet
Aspirations: I really enjoy playing Martha period. However, I've long thought it would be interesting to put her into a Star Trek universe. Space travel doesn't phase her. Aliens don't phase her. MIlitary organizations don't phase her - though she can be a bit sassy when it involves following orders. I've sought out various Star Trek characters to play her against before because she works so well with them. To actually have a Star Trek game to play in is amazing. And I really feel she will fit perfectly in the setting.
PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Al
AGE: 27
CONTACT: email: notrosesshadow@gmail.com
CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/a
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Martha Jones
CANON: Doctor Who
AGE: Martha always has a difficult time with this question. Is she supposed to count the Paradox Year? Or how about the year spent partially in 1969 and partially in 1914? Because counting them puts her at 26, even though her ID says 24. Legally she's 24.
CANON POINT: Post 3.13 Last of the Time Lords
BACKGROUND: Doctor Who | Martha Jones
INCENTIVE: The representative offered to take away the memories of the Paradox year from Martha and her family.
FIT: Martha is a fairly physical person. Hugs are a natural way of communicating, as well as the occasional kiss. Martha's a bit of a flirt too. She's also just left The Doctor, upset that he would never love her back. She could very easily move into one night stands or a relationship. She is very understanding of the term consensual.
SAMPLES: Thread 1 | Thread 2
ANYTHING ELSE?
APPLICATION - THE FLEET - CANON CHARACTER
Player Information
Age: Late 20s
Time Zone: CST
Email: notrosesshadow@gmail.com
Other Contact Info: Plurk: notrosesshadow
Prefered method of contact: Email
Current Characters at The Fleet: None
Reserve: Here
Character Information
Nicknames: N/A
Canon: Doctor Who
Sex/Gender: Female
Age: 24
PB: Freema Agyeman
Journal:
notrosesshadow4th Walling: Yes
Canon Point: The Year that Never Was just after the Master gets shot.
Physical description: Martha is a 26 year old Black British woman. She is relatively short (5’2”) and in general petite. But what she lacks in size, she makes up for in personality. She generally has a smile on her face, though occasionally flashes of a haunted quality play over her features. She has a tattoo of a butterfly and the Iranian word for Freedom on her right arm. She's definitely muscular, though she seems a bit skittish.
Canon Information
At age 23, she was part of a fellowship at the Royal Hope Hospital in London. It was here that she crossed paths with The Doctor. Impressed with how she handled herself during the Judoon’s takeover of the hospital, he invited Martha to travel with him for two trips. She ended up staying longer, trying and failing to catch The Doctor’s notice. Her adventures are too numerous to note, but suffice it to say, Martha was able to show off her skills as a scientist, and learned a lot about the Universe.
They picked up Jack Harkness along the way and their travels took them to a remote world 3 trillion years in the Earth’s future where they discovered the last of the human race trying to find more space to move into. There, they met a Professor Yana, a Time Lord in disguise. The Time Lord was the Master, a particularly crazy and dangerous rival of The Doctor.
The Master stole the TARDIS and took it back to Earth. Martha, Jack, and the Doctor managed to get back to Earth with Jack’s Vortex Manipulator. They arrived a day after the election or four days after Martha had met The Doctor. Harold Saxon, i.e. The Master had been elected Prime Minister and had made contact with an alien species known as the Toclafane.
The trio spent the next twelve hours or so on the run. Finally, The Doctor made a Perception Filter out of the TARDIS keys and a microchip. People wouldn’t notice the trio standing around. They decided to stop the Master’s plan and Vortex Manipulated onto the Valiant. There they watched the Toclafane kill the American President and The Master wreak havoc. Their plans to stop him failed as Jack got killed momentarily and the Master suspended The Doctor’s regeneration powers causing him to get very very old. Martha received some final instructions from the Doctor before using Jack’s Vortex Manipulator to transport down to the Earth
From there, she began walking the Earth telling stories of the Doctor to all that would listen. She talked to survivor groups, eventually hooking up with The Underground in France. From there she traveled across Asia and fell off the grid when she was captured by the Drast in Japan and forced to work in an internment camp. She escaped Japan on the last ship out to San Fransisco before the Master burned Japan to the ground. Martha made it the rest of the way across America and came back to London with a gun and stories of a weapon to kill the Master. Here she met Tom Milligan and learned the Toclafane were the humans she met trillions of years in the future.
In a safehouse in London, Martha told the refugees a story of the Doctor. Just as she admitted she loves him, The Master came down the street calling for her and threatening to kill everyone in his way to finding her. She agreed to come with him to the Valiant. There, he brought in her family and Jack and ordered her to kneel for her execution. As he monologued about how she sucked as a companion to the Doctor, she laughed in his face and explained what her mission actually was. With people all across the world praying for the Doctor while tuned into the 15 Archangel satellites, the Doctor reverted to his 900 year old form and after much struggle, the world reverted back to the moment just after the President died. The Master dies by his wife’s hand, and the Year never happened to anyone except those on the Valiant.
Personality: Ever since age 8, when she watched the doctors fix up her broken arm, Martha wanted to be a doctor. She found the workings of the human body fascinating, and she desperately wanted to help people. To make them better. This dream defined her growing up. She spent much of her time shut up in her room (decorated with posters of the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, etc.) studying rather than playing with kids her age. Through discipline and not a small bit of intelligence, Martha succeeded in getting into medical school.
Obviously Martha is very intelligent in the matters of the sciences. To be a doctor and to get through medical school, one must make top marks and understand many of the inner workings of the body. They must also have enough discipline to study long and hard rather than shirking their duties. It is safe to say that, since Martha was working on her fellowship, she is both intelligent and diligent. Furthermore, the best doctors also have a decent bedside manner. They have to keep calm in all situations and handle not only unruly patients but also unruly patient visitors.
Martha has had plenty of experience mediating between upset people, as she seems to be her family mediator. Her parents divorced when she was younger and, the minute one family member called her up to complain about the other, they all did. Martha was able to calmly work through the problems though it didn’t make them go away. Though they did fight, Martha was very close to her family and would always try to help them out no matter how frustrating they are at that moment.
Aliens have publicly visited Martha’s world at least four times. While most people have managed to explain the visits as something else, Martha fully believes that they are aliens. What else would explain the Christmas Star, the ghosts, the other spaceship at Christmas, and of course, the one that took out Big Ben? Thus Martha does not panic when Royal Hope hospital ends up on the moon one day. In fact, instead of panicking like every other person in the hospital, she calmly walks to a door and stares in wonder. Perhaps it is the curiosity that drew the Doctor to her. He clearly is impressed with her no nonsense way of deciding it’s safe to breathe and there must be an air bubble.
It is in this first adventure together, in the hospital on the moon, that Martha proves to the audience that she will do whatever it takes to save everyone, even at the cost of her own life. Knowing that air is running out and seeing the Doctor not breathing on the floor, Martha uses her last breath to keep him alive because she knows he’s the only one who can save the hospital. Luckily, he’s able to save her. (It is revealed in a later season, during an alternate timeline, that Martha gave up her last breath to save another student in her fellowship who ended up being the only survivor… again proving her desire to save others even at the cost of her own life.)
When the Doctor offers her a trip on the TARDIS, just one, she happily accepts. As much as she loves her family, Martha is tired of the fighting. Tired of constantly being in the middle of everything. She’d like a vacation. He also opens a world of possibilities for her. I mean, how often does one get to travel in time and space. Her curiosity piqued, she has to say yes. And since he kissed her, since they saved the hospital together, she has a steadily growing crush on the alien.
During her travels with the Doctor, much more is revealed about Martha’s character. On the relatively innocuous but fun side, she is a flirt. She appreciates good-looking men and doesn’t see anything wrong with harmless flirting. And it has worked out for her. How many women can say they are the subjects in a Shakespearian sonnet?
On the more serious side, we learn how much mettle Martha is made out of. Again proving that the fate of the Doctor, Jack, her family, and the world is more important that her life, Martha escapes the Valiant and walks the Earth for a year experiencing hunger, bitter cold, and other hardships. On her way, she watches as the Master and his Spheres slaughter people by the dozens and send the rest to camps if they can. She brings happiness where she can… tells stories everywhere to get people thinking about the Doctor. Tells them what to do when the countdown happens. It’s clear during her travels that she never really let herself feel any of the pain and hurt. The only time she allows herself to cry is after the slaughter of Japan. From there, she buries everything in order to make it through the apocalypse. And that's the worst of it. She also manages to hold down jobs in two different time periods when people were wildly racist towards black people and many other things.
Martha is also very quick thinking. In almost every episode, she comes up with some way to save the day, from the final word to close the Carrionites portal in Shakespeare Code, to electrocuting the pigmen in Daleks Take Manhattan.
She calmly accepts her death at the end of the year, kneeling and bowing her head. Or so everyone things. But cunning Martha has one more trick up her sleeve. Aside from the fact that she is not afraid to die in order to help others, she actually laughs in the face of death before schooling the Master on his arrogance and how she saved the world.
And when the whole Doctor resurrection occurs, Martha’s first reaction is to run to her family. Hold them. Make sure they are safe. Again, she shows the audience just how important her family is to her. She couldn’t bear to see them imprisoned before, and now she will stay with them to help them heal from the tragedy that only a handful of people remember.
With all that, Martha suffers from some very serious PTSD. She tries to cover it, but one can only handle nightmares and lack of sleep for so long before they crack. This is something I'll be exploring in game.
Strengths Excellent problem solving skills, logical, advanced medical knowledge found in a trauma surgeon - plus some extra that she's learned along the way, field medical knowledge, self-learned self defense form the Paradox Year, knows her way around a gun, master storyteller, good at running, excellent at hiding. Also fairly good at reading people again, thanks to the Paradox Year and traveling with the Doctor
Weaknesses Suffers PTSD and paranoia. Can be headstrong. Will definitely sacrifice herself for the greater good.
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History: (History of events at previous game. Please give the notable memories your character is bringing with them. Be descriptive. At least three to five paragraphs.)
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Number of gara: TWO
Primary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: Lea: Brown and Purple
Secondary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: Owm: Tardis Blue
Tertiary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: (Skip if your character does not have a third gara)
Shapes/Configuration:
Gara 1: Centered on chest, 2 inches long Rod of Asclepius Staff is brown, snake is deep purple. Somewhat blends in with her skin tone.
Gara 2: Lower right of field, next to and "behind" first gara where there's overlap, Shape of a TARDIS, color of a TARDIS.
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