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CANON INFORMATION NIGHT!
The game's pretty big isn't it? With so many characters it's sometimes hard to keep up with everyone's canon and character backgrounds. Not to mention that the apps aren't always placed in the character's journal, and it leaves you wondering how they are, or even where they come from.
WELL WONDER NO MORE! It's time for a canon and character night!
The idea behind this post is primarily an information exchange. Just fill in this form, and think about factoids and things in a list form. Remember, you're trying to sell your character & canon to others, so talk about what makes them unique and fun. With any luck, you'll learn some new things about other people's characters that you can base relationships or friendships on, or even find a new fandom which catches your interest!
Note: Please mark the top of your thread with the canon. This way, other people in your canon can add whatever they want to it, such as their character stuff, and other cool factoids about the canon that they might remember.
You are perfectly fine and more than allowed to ask questions about the fandoms to the other players if you wish as well!
WELL WONDER NO MORE! It's time for a canon and character night!
The idea behind this post is primarily an information exchange. Just fill in this form, and think about factoids and things in a list form. Remember, you're trying to sell your character & canon to others, so talk about what makes them unique and fun. With any luck, you'll learn some new things about other people's characters that you can base relationships or friendships on, or even find a new fandom which catches your interest!
Note: Please mark the top of your thread with the canon. This way, other people in your canon can add whatever they want to it, such as their character stuff, and other cool factoids about the canon that they might remember.
You are perfectly fine and more than allowed to ask questions about the fandoms to the other players if you wish as well!
Only doing Eleven's run things!
Canon: Doctor Who
Spoilers in things I'm linking
Interesting things about the character:
- He's a 900 (give or take) old alien. Time Lord, in fact.
- Bowties are indeed cool. So are cravats, checkered pants, rainbow coats, and the list goes on: just be rest assured that if he's ever worn it, it's got tons of cool points.
- He requires absolute silence when he's in thinking mode
- He's a coward. But he generally cowards and adventures in the right direction. He also has the eerie habit of somehow giving things a "nudge" - this is either played up as funny or manipulative, depending on the Doctor.
- Aliens trespassing on Earth. Don't worry, he'll give you a good scolding.
- He's rather good with children. As in he tends to treat them as mini adult humans. Also apparently he will roll into your house and help yourself to your food.
- Better hope he doesn't need to do a fast mind meld on you. It's rather...unconventional
- He has fabulous hair. This is almost a requirement for being a Doctor. Except Nine. But he had a leather jacket and that's a-okay.
- Big chin? It's like a diving rod, it sniffs out ~adventure~.
- Nervous about traveling in the TARDIS? Don't worry, he's worked out the perfect way to reassure you.
- That said, he doesn't have the perfect temper around humans and their weaknesses, especially when he himself is under pressure and about to do something he's not cool with .
- When he dies in certain ways, he can explode into Time Lord sparkles (thanks for that...telling description, Rory). In other words, Time Lords can try to save themselves by shifting into another body and another personality that is still the same man. Eleven has to do it in style and regenerate to find himself crash-landing. Because that's just how he rolls.
- The Doctor has friends across time and space, so according to him, he's on the bowling team with Virgina Woolf. And he got married to Marylin Monroe, but that doesn't count.
- He comes across as very eccentric to most humans, who end up getting swept along with him because he talks so fast and flashes his psychic paper around he doesn't give them a chance to react.
- The Doctor loves a good wedding. And dancing. And generally having fun.
- He's not a high achiever academically. Back on Gallifrey, he had low scores.
- He lies about his age.
- In fact, he lies about a lot of things.
- He's a lot of fun to be around, until it sinks in just how dangerous life with him is. But on the flip side, you get Space Florida!
Interesting things about the canon/fandom:
- The canon has been present since the 1960s. It did have a break between Seven's run in the 1980s to the revival in 2005 (Nine's run). There was a Doctor Who television movie, but let's not talk about that.
- Eleven actors have played the Doctor. Matt Smith is currently the youngest, the previous one had been Peter Davidson with Five.
- Because of the style of the show, you could in theory have it go on forever just by cycling out the Doctor/companion actors and actresses, and it would still be Doctor Who.
- Going to ninja this in but Jamie McCrimmon, played by Beth, is the longest serving male companion on Doctor Who. I think also companions overall?
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- You won't really see Nine-Ten-Eleven in audio dramas like the classic Doctors. Big Finish can only use One-Eight. Which is really unfortunate because...
- Six has a companion who is a noir detective penguin. Actually he's a shapeshifter, but let's go with detective penguin.
- The current Doctor actor, Matt Smith, wrote fanfiction with the Doctor to help him get into character. He wrote about traveling with Einstein as a companion.
- He's also said he'd like a story where the Eleventh Doctor visits dinosaurs...and picks up Frank Sinatra on the way.
- They've been using variations of the same theme song since the 60s. The logos haven't been quite as consistent. The best is probably the terribly shiny 80s one.
Anything else?:
Doctors are weird. And cool. But mostly weird.
They also love comfy shoes
They don't protest against Scots clinging to them.
They do love dancing. And making faces.
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Forgot to add - trailer links
Series 5 trailer (Eleven's first run)
Series 5 trailer
A Christmas Carol
Eleven's first Christmas special trailer
Series 6 trailer
Eleven gets a cowboy hat briefly
Series 6b trailer (this series was cut in half, hence: 6b)
Eleven gets his top hat back. Also the Ponds get a motorcycle
Fan trailer for Series 1-5 of New Doctor Who
spoilers for 1-5
Fan Trailer with clips from Old and New Who
Seems like mostly Old to New