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you.
name: Eileen
age: 30
contact: mmeubiquity@yahoo.com
rp experience: I've been tabletopping and LARPing for well over a decade, and journal RPing for about a year and a half.
how did you hear about us?: The RPs That Don't Suck community
character.
name: Rose Tyler
nickname(s): Bad Wolf
pb: Billie Piper
fairy tale & character: Doctor Who & Rose Tyler
age: 22
room: B116
doctor: Dr. Lupin
diagnosis: Bereavement (denial), delusional disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, bipolar disorder, folie a deux
personality: Rose has a basically sweet, friendly nature, but it's been all but occluded by the events of the past few years. Although it is still clear that she's a deeply compassionate person, and will go out of her way to help someone in distress, she is at turns incredibly focused on her goal of punching through time and space to be reunited with the man she loves, and extremely despondent over her failure to do so.
She also has a tendency to react strongly against perceived injustices. Although these reactions are seldom violent, she can be verbally aggressive, and more than once has provoked physical confrontations that she's had to flee from.
history: Rose had a rough childhood. Her father died in a hit-and-run accident when she was only a few months old, and her mother dealt with the loss and pressures of raising Rose alone by turning to excesses of alcohol and men, leaving Rose to fend for herself. Although she is blessed with a great deal of innate intelligence and imagination, she had next to no encouragement at home, so those talents were largely uncultivated, and her school performance was far below her capabilities. As soon as she could, she dropped out of school to work in a shop. It was around this time her bipolar tendencies began to emerge. In her manic periods she dreamed up wild schemes of escape, while in her depressive periods she was convinced that she would be trapped in this meaningless life forever.
That all changed the night she met the Doctor.
She was walking home from the shop through a bad part of London one night when a gang of four young men chased her into an alley. They were certainly intent on robbing her, and in all likelihood would have raped and murdered her as well., had a man not appeared in a nearby doorway, taken her hand, and fled with her to safety.
His name wasn't really "the Doctor," of course, but that's what he called himself, and over time Rose forgot his real name. He told her the men who attacked her weren't really people, but shopwindow dummies come to life. It was the first of a long string of delusions he would introduce her to. At first Rose recognized him for what he was... a completely delusional nutter. But he was obviously lonely, and look a liking to the young woman. Rose in return saw in him a caring parental figure she never had, and subconsciously saw an opportunity to "save" her father through saving this man. He asked Rose to travel with him in his beat-up VW microbus, telling her it was a space ship and a time machine. Rose didn't mind the crazy-talk. It was a way out, and she took it.
"The Doctor," she came to learn, was a never ending source of delusions and conspiracy theories, most involving aliens taking over the world. He believed these things utterly, with such conviction that slowly but surely Rose began to believe as well. Then she began to believe, as he did, that they were actually traveling through time and space together. They traveled all over Britain, then all over Europe, stopping at times to fight the plots of "alien invaders," such as the building of a nuclear plant in Cardiff, Wales. In the process, Rose came to see "the Doctor" quite differently, not as a father figure, but as a romantic interest.
All of that came to an abrupt halt one rainy night in the countryside. "The Doctor" swerved to miss an object in the road, overcorrected, and lost control of the vehicle. Rose survived the crash, but "the Doctor" was mortally injured. Rose was unable to find her mobile phone to call for help, and they were far enough in the country that another car didn't pass by for hours. Rose held her friend as he choked on his own blood, and told him she loved him. And he seemed to be about to answer in kind, but lost consciousness after saying her name. By the time emergency workers reached them, "the Doctor" had bled to death in Rose's arms.
Stricken with grief and quite adept at this point at believing the impossible, Rose became convinced that "the Doctor" wasn't dead. The thing in the road had been an alien device that had split the universe in two, tearing them apart and trapping each of them in an alternate universe. She became determined to break through time and space and find the universe where her Doctor was being held captive.
Rose believes her time with "the Doctor" has given her the ability to recognize fluctuations in time and space, and step through holes as they appear, entering alternate but identical universes. While she believes she has done this successfully, one day she stepped into traffic, thinking the oncoming cars would not be in the next universe. She was struck and badly injured, spending a week in the hospital. It was there that her delusional state came to official light, and upon her discharge from the hospital she was brought to Cheshire Crossings.
examples:
3rd Person:
She walked down the crowded sidewalk, against the flow of pedestrians, feeling them slide past her. They couldn't feel her, of course... she was a fraction of a second out of time. It was a side effect of time travel, the Doctor had told her. She still remembered the first time she had felt the lag, when she and the Doctor stood side by side in Trafalgar Square, tourists and city-dwellers alike bustling past them and not seeing them at all, at all. The Doctor had slipped his hand into hers, and it was the first time she saw, she understood.
She believed.
The Doctor...
She was so tired, but she couldn't let herself stop. If she stopped, she might miss that one moment in a million when she could slip across dimensions, find the right one, the one where the Doctor was trapped.
She began to feel that tingle of an approaching shift, and her feet quickened, until she was running, and the people around her were a blur.
Doctor... God, please let this be it...
She rounded the corner...
And was in another universe.
1st Person:
I wonder how many universes I've been to so far. I've lost count, to be honest. To anyone else, of course, they all look alike. And of course for the most part they are. There are only tiny things that are different, that someone who is not experienced in such things would never notice. A bird sounds different. Apples taste just a bit more like apricots. That sort of thing.
I'm looking for something big. I'm looking for a world that contains the most wondrous man in existence.
As long as I do everything I can to reach him, he'll find me. I know he will. I know that there are evil things out there, but if I believe in anything, I believe in him.
I will find him. He will find me. We will find each other.
We will.
We have to.
picture:
you.
name: Eileen
age: 30
contact: mmeubiquity@yahoo.com
rp experience: I've been tabletopping and LARPing for well over a decade, and journal RPing for about a year and a half.
how did you hear about us?: The RPs That Don't Suck community
character.
name: Rose Tyler
nickname(s): Bad Wolf
pb: Billie Piper
fairy tale & character: Doctor Who & Rose Tyler
age: 22
room: B116
doctor: Dr. Lupin
diagnosis: Bereavement (denial), delusional disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, bipolar disorder, folie a deux
personality: Rose has a basically sweet, friendly nature, but it's been all but occluded by the events of the past few years. Although it is still clear that she's a deeply compassionate person, and will go out of her way to help someone in distress, she is at turns incredibly focused on her goal of punching through time and space to be reunited with the man she loves, and extremely despondent over her failure to do so.
She also has a tendency to react strongly against perceived injustices. Although these reactions are seldom violent, she can be verbally aggressive, and more than once has provoked physical confrontations that she's had to flee from.
history: Rose had a rough childhood. Her father died in a hit-and-run accident when she was only a few months old, and her mother dealt with the loss and pressures of raising Rose alone by turning to excesses of alcohol and men, leaving Rose to fend for herself. Although she is blessed with a great deal of innate intelligence and imagination, she had next to no encouragement at home, so those talents were largely uncultivated, and her school performance was far below her capabilities. As soon as she could, she dropped out of school to work in a shop. It was around this time her bipolar tendencies began to emerge. In her manic periods she dreamed up wild schemes of escape, while in her depressive periods she was convinced that she would be trapped in this meaningless life forever.
That all changed the night she met the Doctor.
She was walking home from the shop through a bad part of London one night when a gang of four young men chased her into an alley. They were certainly intent on robbing her, and in all likelihood would have raped and murdered her as well., had a man not appeared in a nearby doorway, taken her hand, and fled with her to safety.
His name wasn't really "the Doctor," of course, but that's what he called himself, and over time Rose forgot his real name. He told her the men who attacked her weren't really people, but shopwindow dummies come to life. It was the first of a long string of delusions he would introduce her to. At first Rose recognized him for what he was... a completely delusional nutter. But he was obviously lonely, and look a liking to the young woman. Rose in return saw in him a caring parental figure she never had, and subconsciously saw an opportunity to "save" her father through saving this man. He asked Rose to travel with him in his beat-up VW microbus, telling her it was a space ship and a time machine. Rose didn't mind the crazy-talk. It was a way out, and she took it.
"The Doctor," she came to learn, was a never ending source of delusions and conspiracy theories, most involving aliens taking over the world. He believed these things utterly, with such conviction that slowly but surely Rose began to believe as well. Then she began to believe, as he did, that they were actually traveling through time and space together. They traveled all over Britain, then all over Europe, stopping at times to fight the plots of "alien invaders," such as the building of a nuclear plant in Cardiff, Wales. In the process, Rose came to see "the Doctor" quite differently, not as a father figure, but as a romantic interest.
All of that came to an abrupt halt one rainy night in the countryside. "The Doctor" swerved to miss an object in the road, overcorrected, and lost control of the vehicle. Rose survived the crash, but "the Doctor" was mortally injured. Rose was unable to find her mobile phone to call for help, and they were far enough in the country that another car didn't pass by for hours. Rose held her friend as he choked on his own blood, and told him she loved him. And he seemed to be about to answer in kind, but lost consciousness after saying her name. By the time emergency workers reached them, "the Doctor" had bled to death in Rose's arms.
Stricken with grief and quite adept at this point at believing the impossible, Rose became convinced that "the Doctor" wasn't dead. The thing in the road had been an alien device that had split the universe in two, tearing them apart and trapping each of them in an alternate universe. She became determined to break through time and space and find the universe where her Doctor was being held captive.
Rose believes her time with "the Doctor" has given her the ability to recognize fluctuations in time and space, and step through holes as they appear, entering alternate but identical universes. While she believes she has done this successfully, one day she stepped into traffic, thinking the oncoming cars would not be in the next universe. She was struck and badly injured, spending a week in the hospital. It was there that her delusional state came to official light, and upon her discharge from the hospital she was brought to Cheshire Crossings.
examples:
3rd Person:
She walked down the crowded sidewalk, against the flow of pedestrians, feeling them slide past her. They couldn't feel her, of course... she was a fraction of a second out of time. It was a side effect of time travel, the Doctor had told her. She still remembered the first time she had felt the lag, when she and the Doctor stood side by side in Trafalgar Square, tourists and city-dwellers alike bustling past them and not seeing them at all, at all. The Doctor had slipped his hand into hers, and it was the first time she saw, she understood.
She believed.
The Doctor...
She was so tired, but she couldn't let herself stop. If she stopped, she might miss that one moment in a million when she could slip across dimensions, find the right one, the one where the Doctor was trapped.
She began to feel that tingle of an approaching shift, and her feet quickened, until she was running, and the people around her were a blur.
Doctor... God, please let this be it...
She rounded the corner...
And was in another universe.
1st Person:
I wonder how many universes I've been to so far. I've lost count, to be honest. To anyone else, of course, they all look alike. And of course for the most part they are. There are only tiny things that are different, that someone who is not experienced in such things would never notice. A bird sounds different. Apples taste just a bit more like apricots. That sort of thing.
I'm looking for something big. I'm looking for a world that contains the most wondrous man in existence.
As long as I do everything I can to reach him, he'll find me. I know he will. I know that there are evil things out there, but if I believe in anything, I believe in him.
I will find him. He will find me. We will find each other.
We will.
We have to.
picture: