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THE DOCTOR

BASICS:

age: 40 billion+, looks mid-50s (sometimes) species: time lord occupation: adventurer/part-time caretaker romantic/sexual orientation: grey-romantic, asexual

ABOUT:

♦ The Doctor comes and goes as he pleases, which means it can be any generation at any point in time. He’s well aware of the rift activity and spike in alien invasions that are going on at and near Coal Hill Academy, but he’s not too bothered by them. Well that was until he discovered many of his companions began to show up and populate the school. Then, he discovered UNIT and Torchwood began to get involved, which really set him off. So now he’s taken it as a personal mission to fix things himself, he just needs to avoid a few certain persons every now and then.

♦ No matter what regeneration that shows up, the Doctor will always go by the alias of ‘John Smith’ and will continuously take on the mantle of Caretaker for the school. Many people believe there’s about twelve different Caretakers, and wonder why Coal Hill needs that many, but really, it’s just the Doctor. (He’s also not a very good Caretaker and tends to only clean one hallway, neglecting the rest of the school.) ♦ Sometimes, when no one’s around or looking, the Doctor will stick strange devices in places so that he can always keep an eye on the school. Of course, why he would plant one in Clara’s room is a mystery to most, and he’s just counting down the days until Clara finds it. ♦ Stores his TARDIS in the shed or the broom closet when he’s at the school. Many students and some faculty wonder what happens when one version of the Doctor goes in, and another comes out. There’s rumours going around that it’s a portal to another world... and well, they wouldn’t be entirely wrong. ♦ The Doctor avoids certain people, either because they left on bad terms, or because he doesn’t want them to know he’s there. Oftentimes, he escapes through windows or up into the ceiling to avoid detection. Usually it ends with him being seen. He’s not very good at going under the radar.

personality:

The Doctor isn’t one to beat around the bush, unless, of course, said bush has a infestation problem and the only way to cure it is to actually beat around it. He’s an odd alien who does things in his own time (which is to say, not linear and not slow like it is for humans). Sometimes he’ll spout off random facts and help students with classwork, and sometimes he’ll literally hiss at children. It’s a gamble and one that leaves his companions wondering what face they’re going to get that week. Still, deep down, the Doctor is one of the most caring and protective individuals that anyone would be lucky to meet. He doesn’t always see himself as that, preferring to state that he doesn’t care, or that he can’t, but he knows better and he always tries very hard to show that he’s trying.

☑ intelligent, quick-witted, caring ☒ stubborn, hubris, guilt-ridden

CONNECTIONS:

JACK HARKNESS

BASICS:

age: 2500+, looks mid-30s species: human/immortal occupation: american history romantic/sexual orientation: grey-romantic, pansexual

ABOUT:

♦ Jack was once a lover of Oscar Wilde. Having fascinated the author so much, Wilde wrote a book based around him. That book was ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Which Jack suggested the last name in memory of his lost brother. To this day, Jack reads the book in amusement and in fond memory of Mr. Wilde. ♦ Jack is a collector of books and anytime he sees one he doesn’t have, he’ll find a way to acquire it so he can add it to his personal collection. ♦ Jack listens to a wide variety of music but he has a special love for songs that relate to immortality and it being a curse. He knows it’s cliche, but he has a special love for Queen’s ‘Who wants to live forever?’. 

♦ Jack could have taught a plethora of subjects at Coal Hill and would have been easily qualified for any of them; however, the reason he chose American History was that no one else was willing to teach it, and that being a ‘honourary’ American himself, he thought he was best suited for the job. Plus, he knew that not many other teachers at the school could say they lived through all the wars in America; and fought in quite a few of them.

personality: Captain Jack Harkness is a loyal, pragmatic, flirtatious, and commanding man. However, that is just one side of the coin of his life. He can be shallow, stunted emotionally, demanding, and harsh when he wants to be or when he feels he needs to be. Jack is guarded and selective with who he talks to. Of course, if asked, many would say that he’s always talking; however, Jack would tell them that they never actually got to know the real him at all. He’s careful and decisive with his plans and is almost always ten steps ahead of everyone else. When it comes to affairs of the heart or any sort of emotion, Jack prefers to keep them guarded as well. He’s learnt a lot over the centuries that wearing one’s heart on their sleeves is a great way at getting themselves killed. Jack’s loyalty though is easily won and very hard to lose. Once he’s decided that you’re ‘worth’ it, there’s nothing that can stop him from ever taking a stand by your side. And then, in the darkest corners of Jack’s mind; lies a series of problems that he hasn’t yet found the time to cope with. Still he suffers from survivor’s guilt, as well as a mild form of PTSD. Jack has channelled a lot of his pain into organisational methods and collecting books. When he recedes into moments where his darkness takes him over, Jack can be found sitting alone and working on paperwork to the point of exhaustion, or quietly stewing in a corner...much different from his usual cheerful, flirtatious, and up-beat self. ☑ charismatic, charming, organised. ☒ stubborn, harsh, stunted emotions.

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THE METACRISIS DOCTOR

BASICS:

age: 950+ , looks mid-30s species: human/timelord occupation: maths romantic/sexual orientation: pan-romantic, demi-sexual

ABOUT:

♦ The Metacrisis Doctor, affectionately known as ‘Doc’, arrived at Coal Hill with his now ‘accidental’ husband Jack Harkness. The two spent years travelling the universe through space and time together until a spike in rift activity caught their attention. Now he works as a Maths teacher at the school while keeping an eye on everyone and their safety; while also investigating and trying to find the Doctor once more. ♦ The Metacrisis Doctor generally goes by the name of ‘the Doctor’; however, he’s adopted the moniker of ‘Doc’. Symbolically, it represents that he’s “half of the Doctor”, and since most faces of the Doctor (and in particularly his tenth face) won’t answer to that name, it works.

♦ Doc can’t always keep track of all the billions of cultures and customs that he has in his head, which is why his manners range from acceptable to appalling. In his defence, licking marmalade off your knife is considered perfectly good manners on Xorrx VIII in the Wombat Era.

♦ Doc originally interviewed for the physics teacher position, then flunked out of it when he started talking about particles that hadn’t been discovered in the 21st century.

personality:

Doc started with a personality that was a carbon copy of the Tenth Doctor personality at the start of the Tenth Doctor’s regeneration. While the scars from the Time War were still fresh, he was also young, in love and full of hope. 

However, as time went by, he became more jaded, less exuberant and less warm. His break with Rose made him close himself off once more. His inability to regenerate also made him somewhat more cautious, and he grew less impulsive, more prone to thinking (and brooding). 

At heart, he is still idealistic, but he is reluctant to become attached to people around him (other than Jack, whose immortality means that he can never lose him). He’s also conflicted - on one hand, he believes in helping and wants to help; on the other hand, he is somewhat disillusioned with humanity and their treatment of aliens, and is still wrestling with questions of whether intervening to save humanity is the right thing or not. 

☑ idealistic, courageous, caring ☒ stubborn, cynical, feeling avoidant

CONNECTIONS:

♢ jack harkness: Doc loves Jack. In Jack, he’s found someone who can relate to him, someone who’s human but also not, who can understand the stress and strain of immortality, who knew him both before and after the metacrisis. Jack was the first person to help him realise that his differences from the Doctor were a good thing. Initially, his interactions with Jack were driven by guilt over his actions in abandoning Jack on Satellite V, and his tenth’s face callous treatment of him; he was very much driven to try and try and undo some of the damage that time and immortality had wrecked on him. That protective streak grew rapidly to something more, but Doc refused to act on his feelings when he was mortal. Now that he’s effectively immortal, he still finds it nearly impossible to articulate those feelings, preferring to pretend that he and Jack are nothing more than friends.

Still, he very obviously did not protest when they accidentally got married, and while he rolls his eyes when Jack calls him husband, he doesn’t actually refute it.

And Jack keeps getting flowers from a secret admirer on Valentine’s Day. Except that it’s Valentine Day’s day from the 51st century on the Boeshane Peninsula.

♢ the doctor: It’s Complicated ™. Doc likes the Doctor a lot, and wants to get along with him. He also wants to help the Doctor, being the one person who really knows (or knew) the Doctor and the pain that he carries. Unfortunately, like siblings with the best of intentions, they end up squabbling more often than not, only to help each other out without hesitation with the other really needs it.

At the same time, they occasionally get territorial over old companions, investigations, and competitions over being the cleverest in the room.

RORY WILLIAMS

BASICS:

age: 35 species: human occupation: nurse romantic/sexual orientation: pansexual, panromantic

ABOUT:

♦ When the time rift spit he and Amy back to the year 2016, it did something funky to their memory -- leaving them with no memory of their time in New York, or travelling with the Doctor. And so, he doesn’t quite remember what inspired the move to London, but he likes the big city life. And his job - working in the ER of a Shoreditch area hospital. And the life he’s built with Amy. He just wishes he could kick the feeling that he’s missing something -- someone -- very important. 

♦ He loves Amy’s stories. Always has and always will. But he can’t help the feeling that the stories are perhaps more familiar than they should be. He’s always put that down to how often he’s heard them and gone on with his life, but even that doesn’t seem quite right.

personality:

☑ loyal, loving, smart ☒ jealous, over-protective, stubborn

CONNECTIONS:

♢ amy pond - Amy was the love of his life from the moment he moved in next door. Some of the areas around his 20s with her are a little blurry but that’s only to be expected. They were 20 after all.

♢ the doctor - Amy’s rather fond of the school caretakers. At first perhaps he was a little concerned, a little bit of insecurity lingering from childhood. But as time as gone on he’s gotten rather fond of them as well, particularly the one with a rather big chin as well as the Scottish one that stops by sometimes.