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Character Name; The Doctor (10)
Canon; Doctor Who – the entirety of the Tenth Doctor’s run, including novels, specials, animated features, and the addition of the Fiftieth. Here is the general wiki, and here is the Tenth Doctor’s page!
Canon Point; Mid Fiftieth Anniversary; just after the three Doctors had an epiphany over how to save Gallifrey from the Time War, but before rushing off to actually do so. (As he is from mid timeline there, he would retain memories of the events of the fiftieth, although he will not be spilling the beans about them in any way shape or form due to timey wimey potential paradox situations, in case that was a concern!)
Age; He’s somewhere in his early to mid 900s, it’s hard to tell what’s a lie and what’s the truth with the Doctor and his age. Physically, he’s in his late thirties, early forties.
House; Odin
Power; Fire Magic
Personality; The first things that come to mind when you say "The Tenth" are attachment, humanity, and, unfortunately rage as well. Rage and sadness. This Doctor is more human than others, settling into the emotional roller coaster humanity brings, but also allowing him to mingle and bond with humans a little easier. He's less of a "mad man with a box", if you will, and more just a really eccentric Einstein. But like all his other incarnations, there's so much more to him than meets the eye. There are many complex, intertwining, but ultimately hidden layers beneath the personality he keeps up and shows everyone he meets. And it’s in those deeper, hidden layers of his psyche that the true complexity of his nine hundred years of life and the fact that he hails from an alien planet become obvious.
To understand the Tenth Doctor as close to fully as possible, its necessary to break up his personality into sections, to pick it apart and really hit hard at certain aspects, his feelings and reactions to certain situations. So where better to start than with the ones most people crave an insight into, no matter who they are? Love and hate, affection and sadness. Rage and hope. This Doctor, more than the others, was prone to love and attachment. While he still wrinkled his nose in distaste over the thought of domestic life, much like his Ninth incarnation, it was less for the thought of opening up and growing attached and more for the thought of settling down, of being forced to stop his running about and stop the excitement than anything else. Because, see, he was killed and born in an act of sacrifice, an act of love. His last incarnation died with a kiss, and this incarnation? Oh it loves kissing. He has no problem flirting, forming attachments, even catching a quick snog with an important political figure or two. Heck, he even deflowers Good Queen Bess near the end of his run. But fun and games aren't really love. They're a need for companionship, a need to have people with him, to form attachments and affections and feel that warmth that comes with bonding and liking another person. But love is something above that, and something he does feel, a lot despite seeming to be scared of it, nervous and heartbroken over the very thought of it. After all, like he told Rose all that time ago, it was the curse of Time Lords that he could never be with a human. Be it romantically or as friends. Because, in the end, he would stay the same, he would regenerate, he would always be young, while the human he's with would do nothing but age and whither away. They would die, and he refuses to simply watch that happen.
But despite everything he says, despite the way he keeps the important people at arm's length romantically and goes about snogging and flirting almost as badly as one Captain Jack Harkness, the fact that this Doctor love and loves completely is a set in stone truth. Because while he has that fear, that hatred of having to watch the people he cares about die, he was willing to suffer through that for Rose. He was willing to keep her by his side, to never leave her as he had left Sarah Jane. And as she was ripped from him that day at Canary Wharf, the despair and anguish he felt was real. It's been proven by Russel T. Davies - the series writer - that the words the Metacrisis whispered in Rose's ear, the words the Doctor had been trying to say to her before their time ended and they were both left, crying, on separate sides of the void, really were "I love you". So while this Doctor finds saying the words hard, impossibly hard, he does love. And he loves with every fiber of his being. So much so that it left him in pieces when he lost Rose to the void.
It was then, really, that another side of the Doctor appeared. A side he would harbor until his regeneration years later. It's a harder, angrier side of him, more prone to violence and destruction as he sinks within an endless circle of despair and complete rage and hatred. Perhaps one of the most potent examples of this side of him occurred just after he lost Rose, when Donna Noble appeared in his TARDIS and he was launched into yet another whirlwind adventure. At the end of it all, he was forced to kill hundreds of thousands of Racknoss hatchlings by completely emptying the river Thames into a hole drilled practically to the center of the Earth. But by do so, he had to stand and watch as the Queen screamed in sorrow, he had to listen to the panicked death cries of thousands of young voices. He had to stand in a torrent of water and fire and watch what he'd done. And he had no problem with that. He was so wrapped up in his hatred, his complete anger at losing Rose and the despair that caused him that he would have stood there and watched even as he himself was trapped under the water. If he hadn't had a human there with him, to yell at him to stop and beg him to leave, he would have died. And while Donna was there, in the end, the man he'd been during that one moment was far from gone. Far from.
But this "dark Doctor" aside, there are still aspects of the Doctor that need some more explanation. Namely, what goes hand in hand with his affections, his ability to connect to people and have them connect to him. His very namesake. He is a Doctor, a fixer of things. A savior, really, since modesty is hardly a common occurrence for him. So when people threaten him and those he cares about, he becomes single-minded and focused in saving them, in helping. In figuring things out. He becomes angry, harsh, and nothing stands in his way. Out goes the bouncing, hyper person he was and in comes the down to business "no power on this Earth can stop me!" man he becomes when people he cares about are being threatened. If there's one way to piss off the Doctor, to get him to act seriously and quickly and without remorse or question? Go after the people he cares about.
Keep in mind, however, that not everything about this incarnation is lost in despair, dark, angry, and harsh. Like so many of his other incarnations, this Doctor is full to bursting with a simple joy for life, an awe and excitement and actual giddiness for the advances and eccentricities of humanity. He never misses a chance to watch and grin, to hug and fanboy simply over the fact that humans are being so human and pushing the boundaries of time and space in order to try and figure things out. He approaches just about everything with a smile on his face and a bounce in his step, because more than anything else he wants to see. To experience. He didn't "borrow" a TARDIS all those years ago for nothing, after all. Even now, centuries and nine faces later, he still has that same little kid enthusiasm that pushes him from adventure to adventure. He wants to see and experience, to go to far off places even he's never been before and save people. He wants to go to the end of all things and back to the beginning, simply to say he's been there. He's seen it. He's experienced and learned. Because above all else, the Doctor has an overwhelming curiosity that goes hand in hand with his desire to save people, to help and fix. He's always being driven by an incurable need to figure things out, to know the who, what, where, when and why. Always the why of things. Because how his mind works, with how quickly it functions, he can take two completely separate events and tie them together to form a question everyone else would have missed. Questions that make him stick around, that lead him to investigating things everyone else would just wave off. Things like giant wasps and Agatha Christie, for instance.
Now, with all that heavy emotional stuff out of the way, there are a few more bits and pieces of this Doctor's psyche that bear mentioning. Mainly, how he defines himself. How he's always defined himself. Rude and not ginger. And man is he rude. He's constantly saying things, doing things almost automatically, things he doesn't quite notice are insulting until someone points it out. Really, he's just a bit full of himself at times like that. Going off and rambling about things out of the person's time, things that will disprove what they whole-heartedly believe and take pride in without even thinking about it. He insults people's life works without batting an eyelid, not even realizing he's doing it. Perhaps the best examples of this are in the episodes Tooth and Claw and the Wasp and the Unicorn. In Tooth and Claw he takes one look at their host's father's life work and, while he does say it looks good, he also goes on to say the whole thing's out of alignment, that whatever he would be seeing was horrible, a pretty thing to look at but hardly functional. In The Wasp and the Unicorn, he does a similar thing with Agatha Christie, saying he loves her books, that they always take him by surprise. Then, however, he starts correcting himself, saying “well, not always. Twice. Well, once. But it was a good once.”
But as much as this Doctor can be a bit full of himself, a bit rude, and more than a bit angry when he's stressed, he's still the same type of man he's always been. Even more-so, in some regards. The Tenth Doctor loves humanity. Absolutely loves it, with his entire being. He'll sacrifice himself for them in a minute, and while his past incarnations often get frustrated and fed up with the faults and flaws that make humans human, this Doctor simply grins and gets excited about it. All of it. Their drive to explore, to always understand even what's so far out of their grasp. To see and discover, to be first, even if it gets them into loads of trouble, even if it leads to corruption more often than not. Not only does he possess this giddy love of humans, but he's also extremely excitable. A partier. Even in the midst of danger, he still finds time enough to go dancing and get drunk. To travel back in time and learn how to be a sculptor from none other than Michelangelo himself, instead of hurrying and rescuing who needs to be rescued. He loves travelling that way, and more often than not he gets so wrapped up in his excitement that he forgets anything else.
... At least until that something else whacks him upside the head and gives him a lecture for running off on them.
Canon; Doctor Who – the entirety of the Tenth Doctor’s run, including novels, specials, animated features, and the addition of the Fiftieth. Here is the general wiki, and here is the Tenth Doctor’s page!
Canon Point; Mid Fiftieth Anniversary; just after the three Doctors had an epiphany over how to save Gallifrey from the Time War, but before rushing off to actually do so. (As he is from mid timeline there, he would retain memories of the events of the fiftieth, although he will not be spilling the beans about them in any way shape or form due to timey wimey potential paradox situations, in case that was a concern!)
Age; He’s somewhere in his early to mid 900s, it’s hard to tell what’s a lie and what’s the truth with the Doctor and his age. Physically, he’s in his late thirties, early forties.
House; Odin
Power; Fire Magic
Personality; The first things that come to mind when you say "The Tenth" are attachment, humanity, and, unfortunately rage as well. Rage and sadness. This Doctor is more human than others, settling into the emotional roller coaster humanity brings, but also allowing him to mingle and bond with humans a little easier. He's less of a "mad man with a box", if you will, and more just a really eccentric Einstein. But like all his other incarnations, there's so much more to him than meets the eye. There are many complex, intertwining, but ultimately hidden layers beneath the personality he keeps up and shows everyone he meets. And it’s in those deeper, hidden layers of his psyche that the true complexity of his nine hundred years of life and the fact that he hails from an alien planet become obvious.
To understand the Tenth Doctor as close to fully as possible, its necessary to break up his personality into sections, to pick it apart and really hit hard at certain aspects, his feelings and reactions to certain situations. So where better to start than with the ones most people crave an insight into, no matter who they are? Love and hate, affection and sadness. Rage and hope. This Doctor, more than the others, was prone to love and attachment. While he still wrinkled his nose in distaste over the thought of domestic life, much like his Ninth incarnation, it was less for the thought of opening up and growing attached and more for the thought of settling down, of being forced to stop his running about and stop the excitement than anything else. Because, see, he was killed and born in an act of sacrifice, an act of love. His last incarnation died with a kiss, and this incarnation? Oh it loves kissing. He has no problem flirting, forming attachments, even catching a quick snog with an important political figure or two. Heck, he even deflowers Good Queen Bess near the end of his run. But fun and games aren't really love. They're a need for companionship, a need to have people with him, to form attachments and affections and feel that warmth that comes with bonding and liking another person. But love is something above that, and something he does feel, a lot despite seeming to be scared of it, nervous and heartbroken over the very thought of it. After all, like he told Rose all that time ago, it was the curse of Time Lords that he could never be with a human. Be it romantically or as friends. Because, in the end, he would stay the same, he would regenerate, he would always be young, while the human he's with would do nothing but age and whither away. They would die, and he refuses to simply watch that happen.
But despite everything he says, despite the way he keeps the important people at arm's length romantically and goes about snogging and flirting almost as badly as one Captain Jack Harkness, the fact that this Doctor love and loves completely is a set in stone truth. Because while he has that fear, that hatred of having to watch the people he cares about die, he was willing to suffer through that for Rose. He was willing to keep her by his side, to never leave her as he had left Sarah Jane. And as she was ripped from him that day at Canary Wharf, the despair and anguish he felt was real. It's been proven by Russel T. Davies - the series writer - that the words the Metacrisis whispered in Rose's ear, the words the Doctor had been trying to say to her before their time ended and they were both left, crying, on separate sides of the void, really were "I love you". So while this Doctor finds saying the words hard, impossibly hard, he does love. And he loves with every fiber of his being. So much so that it left him in pieces when he lost Rose to the void.
It was then, really, that another side of the Doctor appeared. A side he would harbor until his regeneration years later. It's a harder, angrier side of him, more prone to violence and destruction as he sinks within an endless circle of despair and complete rage and hatred. Perhaps one of the most potent examples of this side of him occurred just after he lost Rose, when Donna Noble appeared in his TARDIS and he was launched into yet another whirlwind adventure. At the end of it all, he was forced to kill hundreds of thousands of Racknoss hatchlings by completely emptying the river Thames into a hole drilled practically to the center of the Earth. But by do so, he had to stand and watch as the Queen screamed in sorrow, he had to listen to the panicked death cries of thousands of young voices. He had to stand in a torrent of water and fire and watch what he'd done. And he had no problem with that. He was so wrapped up in his hatred, his complete anger at losing Rose and the despair that caused him that he would have stood there and watched even as he himself was trapped under the water. If he hadn't had a human there with him, to yell at him to stop and beg him to leave, he would have died. And while Donna was there, in the end, the man he'd been during that one moment was far from gone. Far from.
But this "dark Doctor" aside, there are still aspects of the Doctor that need some more explanation. Namely, what goes hand in hand with his affections, his ability to connect to people and have them connect to him. His very namesake. He is a Doctor, a fixer of things. A savior, really, since modesty is hardly a common occurrence for him. So when people threaten him and those he cares about, he becomes single-minded and focused in saving them, in helping. In figuring things out. He becomes angry, harsh, and nothing stands in his way. Out goes the bouncing, hyper person he was and in comes the down to business "no power on this Earth can stop me!" man he becomes when people he cares about are being threatened. If there's one way to piss off the Doctor, to get him to act seriously and quickly and without remorse or question? Go after the people he cares about.
Keep in mind, however, that not everything about this incarnation is lost in despair, dark, angry, and harsh. Like so many of his other incarnations, this Doctor is full to bursting with a simple joy for life, an awe and excitement and actual giddiness for the advances and eccentricities of humanity. He never misses a chance to watch and grin, to hug and fanboy simply over the fact that humans are being so human and pushing the boundaries of time and space in order to try and figure things out. He approaches just about everything with a smile on his face and a bounce in his step, because more than anything else he wants to see. To experience. He didn't "borrow" a TARDIS all those years ago for nothing, after all. Even now, centuries and nine faces later, he still has that same little kid enthusiasm that pushes him from adventure to adventure. He wants to see and experience, to go to far off places even he's never been before and save people. He wants to go to the end of all things and back to the beginning, simply to say he's been there. He's seen it. He's experienced and learned. Because above all else, the Doctor has an overwhelming curiosity that goes hand in hand with his desire to save people, to help and fix. He's always being driven by an incurable need to figure things out, to know the who, what, where, when and why. Always the why of things. Because how his mind works, with how quickly it functions, he can take two completely separate events and tie them together to form a question everyone else would have missed. Questions that make him stick around, that lead him to investigating things everyone else would just wave off. Things like giant wasps and Agatha Christie, for instance.
Now, with all that heavy emotional stuff out of the way, there are a few more bits and pieces of this Doctor's psyche that bear mentioning. Mainly, how he defines himself. How he's always defined himself. Rude and not ginger. And man is he rude. He's constantly saying things, doing things almost automatically, things he doesn't quite notice are insulting until someone points it out. Really, he's just a bit full of himself at times like that. Going off and rambling about things out of the person's time, things that will disprove what they whole-heartedly believe and take pride in without even thinking about it. He insults people's life works without batting an eyelid, not even realizing he's doing it. Perhaps the best examples of this are in the episodes Tooth and Claw and the Wasp and the Unicorn. In Tooth and Claw he takes one look at their host's father's life work and, while he does say it looks good, he also goes on to say the whole thing's out of alignment, that whatever he would be seeing was horrible, a pretty thing to look at but hardly functional. In The Wasp and the Unicorn, he does a similar thing with Agatha Christie, saying he loves her books, that they always take him by surprise. Then, however, he starts correcting himself, saying “well, not always. Twice. Well, once. But it was a good once.”
But as much as this Doctor can be a bit full of himself, a bit rude, and more than a bit angry when he's stressed, he's still the same type of man he's always been. Even more-so, in some regards. The Tenth Doctor loves humanity. Absolutely loves it, with his entire being. He'll sacrifice himself for them in a minute, and while his past incarnations often get frustrated and fed up with the faults and flaws that make humans human, this Doctor simply grins and gets excited about it. All of it. Their drive to explore, to always understand even what's so far out of their grasp. To see and discover, to be first, even if it gets them into loads of trouble, even if it leads to corruption more often than not. Not only does he possess this giddy love of humans, but he's also extremely excitable. A partier. Even in the midst of danger, he still finds time enough to go dancing and get drunk. To travel back in time and learn how to be a sculptor from none other than Michelangelo himself, instead of hurrying and rescuing who needs to be rescued. He loves travelling that way, and more often than not he gets so wrapped up in his excitement that he forgets anything else.
... At least until that something else whacks him upside the head and gives him a lecture for running off on them.