The [Fourth] Doctor (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
allpurposescarf) wrote2014-01-10 04:33 pm
allpurposescarf) wrote2014-01-10 04:33 pm
App for Asgard
Character Name; The Doctor (4)
Canon; Doctor Who; The Fourth Doctor on the wiki, The Doctor as a whole, from same
Canon Point;Post “The Deadly Assassin” updated to post "City of Death" as of 4/28/14
Age; By his own estimation, he’s about 750. By appearance, however, he seems to be significantly younger.
House; Loki
Power; Telepathy
Personality; Given that Four comes immediately after an incarnation of the Doctor that had been forcibly regenerated by the Time Lords and exiled to Earth with a non-functional TARDIS, it should perhaps come as no surprise that Four is not only prone to wanderlust but also has an exceedingly dim view of both authority figures in general and being dragged off to do something for someone, be that UNIT, his own people, or anyone else who sees fit to drag him terribly off course for some particular task or another.
Along with this, Four is also one of the most alien of the Doctor’s incarnation. His reactions and opinions are not always aligned with what what might be considered normal by human standards, and as such he can sometimes come across as a little callous - especially given that he doesn’t really think much of winding up his companions to either prove a point, or to help them get through a tight spot. He also doesn’t often react to human death in the same manner as his companions, and on at least one occasion has seemed to entirely ignore the mounting body count (although in the most egregious of this cases, all of life in the galaxy would have been destroyed had he not managed to deal with the problem at hand). Going along with this is the fact that Four is not always the most patient with people, especially with those he happens to see as stupid, frivolous, misguided or evil. Likewise, he often makes a deliberate attempt to indicate when what has once been a human being is now no longer so, via possession or otherwise and often gets sharp about it if people insist on referring to the being by a human name. While this is presumably done in order to keep people from making rash decisions as a consequence, Four isn’t really the best at explaining his reasoning to people.
This is not the face of the Doctor most people see first. In fact, it isn’t even how he usually is, although it doesn’t always take too much to push him into either irritation or anger. No, the face of the Doctor that most people know best is that of a man who is - in a word - alien. A strange man, who never quite seems to be entirely serious, is often quicker to grin then to frown, and who is very easy to write of as either some form of perennial joker or perhaps just a little bit loopy. This is only accentuated by the fact that he seems to be almost perpetually calm, even in situations where most normal people wouldn’t be, to the point that he has struck up casual conversations with whatever happens to be trying to kill him at the time. (Possibly to try and throw them off balance, but you can never quite tell, with Four.) And just in case the face he usually presents to the world wasn’t odd enough already, Four also has a distinct habit of being far more literal then anyone has a right to be, most often as part of his generally ongoing ploy to make people see him as nothing more than a very strange man.
That said, if someone can manage to get past the sheer concentrated weirdness that Four manages to exude, he’s a very nice man at heart. True, this is tempered somewhat by the fact that he is more than a little curious - perhaps even too much so - and has been known to vanish off and get himself into exactly the sort of thing that it’s been indicated that he shouldn’t. After all, that’s where all they interesting things are, and after an entire incarnation spent on Earth he’s not terribly interested in just paying attention to the neat and orderly things (and isn’t interested in taking either orders or requests anyway, most of the time). He also genuinely believes himself to be the greatest genius he’s ever met, and while he never really shoves the fact in anyone’s face (he’s too nice at heart to do that), but it does have an affect on his assumptions at the best of time, especially as regarding plans.
Four is nice. This doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of inflicting harm on his enemies. Underneath all the silliness and weirdness that comes part and parcel with who he is, lurks a brilliant mind and one of Four’s oldest enemies himself has stated that the Doctor is never more dangerous than when odds are against him. Needless to say, this is just as true for Four as it is for any of the other incarnations of the Doctor - when the odds are truly stacked against him, Four has relatively little problem using absolutely anything he can to earn an advantage whether that be an obscure legal loophole or challenging the monster-of-the-week to what boils down to the equivalent of mental wrestling match. For the most part, he is perfectly content to let his normal demeanor and weirdness distract his enemies for however long it takes for him to come up with a brilliant plan, or at least a plan that’s good enough to get the job done. However, when there is absolutely no other recourse, he will find some way to permanently end his enemies. Unlike most of his other incarnations, he doesn’t usually have any comments afterwards. Whether this means that he is less adverse to taking life, or is simply not terribly interested in making his thoughts on the matter known is a little less than clear.
Presented with the means to comment genocide however, he balks at it, asking himself only if he has the right to kill so many - even if they do happen to be Daleks.
Canon; Doctor Who; The Fourth Doctor on the wiki, The Doctor as a whole, from same
Canon Point;
Age; By his own estimation, he’s about 750. By appearance, however, he seems to be significantly younger.
House; Loki
Power; Telepathy
Personality; Given that Four comes immediately after an incarnation of the Doctor that had been forcibly regenerated by the Time Lords and exiled to Earth with a non-functional TARDIS, it should perhaps come as no surprise that Four is not only prone to wanderlust but also has an exceedingly dim view of both authority figures in general and being dragged off to do something for someone, be that UNIT, his own people, or anyone else who sees fit to drag him terribly off course for some particular task or another.
Along with this, Four is also one of the most alien of the Doctor’s incarnation. His reactions and opinions are not always aligned with what what might be considered normal by human standards, and as such he can sometimes come across as a little callous - especially given that he doesn’t really think much of winding up his companions to either prove a point, or to help them get through a tight spot. He also doesn’t often react to human death in the same manner as his companions, and on at least one occasion has seemed to entirely ignore the mounting body count (although in the most egregious of this cases, all of life in the galaxy would have been destroyed had he not managed to deal with the problem at hand). Going along with this is the fact that Four is not always the most patient with people, especially with those he happens to see as stupid, frivolous, misguided or evil. Likewise, he often makes a deliberate attempt to indicate when what has once been a human being is now no longer so, via possession or otherwise and often gets sharp about it if people insist on referring to the being by a human name. While this is presumably done in order to keep people from making rash decisions as a consequence, Four isn’t really the best at explaining his reasoning to people.
This is not the face of the Doctor most people see first. In fact, it isn’t even how he usually is, although it doesn’t always take too much to push him into either irritation or anger. No, the face of the Doctor that most people know best is that of a man who is - in a word - alien. A strange man, who never quite seems to be entirely serious, is often quicker to grin then to frown, and who is very easy to write of as either some form of perennial joker or perhaps just a little bit loopy. This is only accentuated by the fact that he seems to be almost perpetually calm, even in situations where most normal people wouldn’t be, to the point that he has struck up casual conversations with whatever happens to be trying to kill him at the time. (Possibly to try and throw them off balance, but you can never quite tell, with Four.) And just in case the face he usually presents to the world wasn’t odd enough already, Four also has a distinct habit of being far more literal then anyone has a right to be, most often as part of his generally ongoing ploy to make people see him as nothing more than a very strange man.
That said, if someone can manage to get past the sheer concentrated weirdness that Four manages to exude, he’s a very nice man at heart. True, this is tempered somewhat by the fact that he is more than a little curious - perhaps even too much so - and has been known to vanish off and get himself into exactly the sort of thing that it’s been indicated that he shouldn’t. After all, that’s where all they interesting things are, and after an entire incarnation spent on Earth he’s not terribly interested in just paying attention to the neat and orderly things (and isn’t interested in taking either orders or requests anyway, most of the time). He also genuinely believes himself to be the greatest genius he’s ever met, and while he never really shoves the fact in anyone’s face (he’s too nice at heart to do that), but it does have an affect on his assumptions at the best of time, especially as regarding plans.
Four is nice. This doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of inflicting harm on his enemies. Underneath all the silliness and weirdness that comes part and parcel with who he is, lurks a brilliant mind and one of Four’s oldest enemies himself has stated that the Doctor is never more dangerous than when odds are against him. Needless to say, this is just as true for Four as it is for any of the other incarnations of the Doctor - when the odds are truly stacked against him, Four has relatively little problem using absolutely anything he can to earn an advantage whether that be an obscure legal loophole or challenging the monster-of-the-week to what boils down to the equivalent of mental wrestling match. For the most part, he is perfectly content to let his normal demeanor and weirdness distract his enemies for however long it takes for him to come up with a brilliant plan, or at least a plan that’s good enough to get the job done. However, when there is absolutely no other recourse, he will find some way to permanently end his enemies. Unlike most of his other incarnations, he doesn’t usually have any comments afterwards. Whether this means that he is less adverse to taking life, or is simply not terribly interested in making his thoughts on the matter known is a little less than clear.
Presented with the means to comment genocide however, he balks at it, asking himself only if he has the right to kill so many - even if they do happen to be Daleks.