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Somarium - The TARDIS (Sexy)

[Player name] Xae
[Age] 27
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[Other characters currently played] N/A

[Character name] The TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) || Sexy || Idris || The Ship || Old Girl || Dear Old Thing || Dear
[Age] Unknown but at least over 700. (Over 5000 with alternate timelines thrown in, due to her time as the Edifice.) Her human vessel appears to be in her late 20s or early 30s and she's been in this body less than a day.
[Canon] Doctor Who
[Point in time taken from canon] Series 6.04: The Doctor's Wife || Right as her and the Doctor materialize into an archived TARDIS console

[Background]

No actual history for the TARDIS so I wrote it and her time as a human

[Personality]

Even as a ship the TARDIS was a sentient being with a personality that showed through ever since the beginning of her time with the Doctor. She was adventurous wanting to leave Gallifrey to see the universe even though she’d already considered a museum piece. There was a bit of a wild and reckless side to her when the Doctor came looking for a TARDIS to take out into the great beyond. Her doors were unlocked the moment she realized that he’d be the perfect match to “borrow” her. In return the TARDIS stole him already having no intention of bringing him back. She must have been pretty impressive considering the Doctor has his pick of other TARDISes to take that day. Sure she’s been pretty faulty from nearly the start as her outer appearance got stuck the first time they landed on Earth along with several other problems such as not taking him where he wanted to go but she always took him where he needed to go and helped him run.

She was almost always very kind, often looking after the Doctor when he otherwise couldn’t such as during his regenerations when she could. Sometimes she was even able to make this kindness known such as giving him medical supplies when he couldn’t reach or acting on her own to ensure his safety or even just moving a lever when he felt impossibly alone and sad. A lot of the time her kindness also extended beyond the Doctor as she often protected his companions from certain things such as diseases and other alien viruses. There were even viruses that the Doctor and his companions could not fight off that the TARDIS took on herself even at the cost of her own life.

If there’s one thing about the TARDIS that shows through even while she was a ship it was her loyalty to the Doctor. While she might not have always seemed reliable she always, always did her best to look out for him. Whether it was making sure he got to the places he needed to be or looking after his health the TARDIS has never really left his side for very long. She has been his longest and most faithful companion through everything and it shows. In return the Doctor has sensed her loyalty; even the sixth incarnation considered her his most trusted companion. It really helped all those times the Doctor found himself with amnesia or when he’d lost her. While on the Impossible Planet she’d ended up somewhere where the tenth Doctor would find her in his time of need, and the same was said for the eleventh Doctor when being chased by Gangers. This could have been planned by the TARDIS as sometimes she does pick their landing destination.

The eighth Doctor called her ‘sentimental’ which, let’s face it, she is. Even when the desktop theme of the TARDIS changed or companions left she had this habit of archiving things. Sure some were pretty much locked away and hidden to the point that not even the Doctor knew about them but they were there. If she hadn’t had to jettison parts of the TARDIS to escape danger she would have held onto them forever. She’s also been known to visit Earth over and over again because she knows that it’s the Doctor’s favorite planet that’s inhabited by his favorite species. Even when she was the Edifice the Doctor was one of the few that was allowed to wander the corridors and open locked doors. She also seems to like appearing as a 1960s Police Box as the chameleon circuit seemed to be working but every time they landed she still took the appearance. It could be due to the fact that the ninth Doctor stated that he like it that way.

”It’s camouflaged. It’s disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materializes in a new location, within the first nanosecond of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a twelve-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand-mile radius and then determines which outer shell would best blend in with the environment.... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.” – The Doctor


Even when she changed her outer shell to look newer after the eleventh’s regeneration the St. John’s Ambulance sticker was on her door like it had been in the days before the War. Though perhaps the shape also serves as a warning, or a beacon across time and space as most people or creatures the Doctor’s met over time and space have come to recognize it. Once a normal police box made an invading army retreat just by sitting there as they thought it belonged to the Doctor. In the end she’s the Doctor’s TARDIS and that’s the way she wants it to stay. Though she has shown that she’s exceptionally fond of Melody Pond/River Song as she taught the Time Lady how to pilot the TARDIS when the Doctor was incapacitated.

Not everything about the TARDIS was kindness and sunshine as she’s also been known to show hostility towards the Doctor’s companions. When he took on Charley the TARDIS refused to protect her from alien viruses simply because she was a walking paradox. She also tried her very best to escape Jack Harkness by going to the end of the universe in an attempt to shake him off as he is so very time-locked and wrong. If she met him while she was in a human body the TARDIS would probably treat him as if he was a wrong thing at first while getting used to him. And considering all of the things the Master has done to her she would probably be a bit scornful and bitter toward him though she would tolerate him for the Doctor’s sake.

According to K-9 the TARDIS was ‘stupid’ but it’s due to the fact that she does not use words to communicate. Despite that she still has her ways of reaching out and connecting with her Doctor with the various sounds she makes or lights that flash – even if he does ignore those warning lights. Even though the TARDIS is sentimental she often thinks of the companions as strays and gives them nicknames rather then use their names. It’s probably that way for all of the companions, a way to refer to them seeing as how the Doctor has never gone by his real name so she won’t use theirs either. Not to mention that she’s never actually used their names before so why not just call them whatever she wants. As a machine she just doesn't quite see people the way others do.

When the Doctor lost his home world and his people in the Last Great Time War, she did too. Because of this there’s a great sadness and loneliness that left a gaping whole in the universe. They share the same grief and probably lean on each other more than they ever did before the War. Being the last of their kind certainly leaves a great big scar that will probably never heal and together they run. They run from the pain and heartache, never staying still very long. While their past was often about adventures and good times it changed a little to keep themselves busy so they wouldn’t have time to think on their tragedies.

As a ship the TARDIS had always been thought of as feminine. The Doctor always referred to her as Old Girl or Dear and she even took a female appearance when she constructed a virtual world and virtual body. There were even times when his companions caught him stroking bits of the TARDIS and they treated it like the pair was an old married couple. Despite all of the affection they have for each other they certainly have their bickering moments, especially when she’s got the ability to speak. They’re hardly the perfect “couple” all of the time but disagreeing is good for them.

When she was dumped into the body of a human a lot of her personality was much the same. At first “Idris” seemed like a crazed woman who spoke nonsense, was rather violent and had no sense of personal space. This is due to the fact that she has all of time and space pouring into a human brain and she gets a little muddled and disoriented. Things are said or done out of order and she doesn’t always know what words to use as it’s her first time speaking out loud. Since she’s not used to human actions she’s been known to do physical things that people point out such as biting the Doctor when Uncle said she was a biter. Sometimes she takes things a little too literally such as fish fingers and locating the ‘off-switch’ in order to rest.

She has this tendency to ramble on probably due to both the fact that it’s something she picked up from the Doctor and having the ability to finally express herself. While sometimes she gets words confused such as saying ‘goodbye’ when she meant ‘hello’ or can’t put words to emotions she has eventually she does find the word she’s looking for. Still she has no problem expressing her displeasure at certain things he does as she’s obviously wanted to tell him for a long, long time. She chides him like a nagging mother or wife, the way they bicker can certainly make it look like the old married couple others see when she’s a box. Sure she nitpicks at him for certain things like the way he opens the TARDIS doors or never reads instructions but the Doctor gives as good as he gets. When he tried to accuse her of never being reliable she retorted that she always took him where he needed to go and he agreed.

However, she can be quite cheeky and playful too such as when he said he had only ‘borrowed’ her. There was no hesitation when she said she had no intention to give him back. It was this moment when she announced that she’d wanted to see the universe and so she stole him. There’s a sort of brutal honesty that comes with having the TARDIS in human form, though it can be a bit embarrassing too. When the Doctor asked “what do I call you?” she replied with the nickname he’d given her that seemed to make him embarrassed. Again it showed when faced with what she saw as a TARDIS graveyard with the corpses of her dead sisters. Still, she doesn’t let it affect her for too long when there are more important things to focus on.

Let’s not forget that she’s stubborn in both forms. Of course it’s easier a box that can’t really be argued with but as a human she doesn’t back down either, not from a fight or an impossible task. She’s simply too old and has so much faith in her Doctor to be afraid of certain things. While in her human body there’s a sadness to her because she knows that her time to talk and run around will be over soon and she will miss being able to do that with her Doctor, she also doesn’t exactly like facing the fact that he regenerates and will one day die. There will always be things that she fears or dislikes enough to step back and run from but she knows that they have to happen.

While box-shaped the TARDIS doesn’t really have any sense of privacy seeing as how she’s not only everywhere all the time but also the ship in which everyone lives in. It certainly carried over as she invades personal bubbles in order to touch people who believed her to be a complete stranger. Though, it might be a little more uncomfortable to know that she’s in their head when she uses her telepathy to talk to people. Or to know that what they did while she was a ship now has words to express private moments to others.

Due to the fact that she’s existed across time and space for most of her life she often has issues with tenses and can use them all at times. Sometimes she even confuses herself with what she says or corrects her sentences without really realizing it. This combined with her honesty makes her say things that haven’t happened yet or could be considered spoilers about the future without thinking first, especially if she’s disoriented. However the longer she’s in the body she seems to get a grasp on everything from having conversations the way most beings do and over her own actions.

At the end of her time in a human body she gets to say things that she’s always wanted to tell the Doctor, such as “hello” and “I love you”. All-in-all, the TARDIS is the most faithful companion as she will be there with him until the bitter end. If he’s happy, then so is she. Time and space, a boy and his box, the Doctor and the TARDIS – next stop: everywhere.


[Abilities]

Being stuck in a human body limits a lot of the normal TARDIS abilities such as actually traveling through time and space, especially she's a person and not a ship. Sure she can pass off the power to another TARDIS' bones but she can't do it alone. She can also see and exists through all of time and space, like an all-knowing being. However due to the fact that they're in another universe and she's been cut off from hers it's not nearly as strong as it could be. This ability will be like a wild card with her human mind and she can see either into the near future or very distant one.

Her precognition will be limited even more to the point where she can only rarely see what people are going to say in the near-future or have a random big one with plotting. She will not be able to see into people's past (retrocognition) without mun permission.


She can speak or translate any known language from just about any world across the stars. While she can do this for other people who have stepped inside the TARDIS, it's not known if she can while she's a human. So maybe it only extends to the people who have been inside the TARDIS where they developed a telepathic link.

To go hand-in-hand with her precognition and retrocognition abilities she's rather telepathic and can form a mental link with anyone she wants. This allows her to talk directly into their head to give them information and even allows them to communicate back to her. Again, only with mun permission.

Since she's technically a machine with enormous amounts of knowledge of the universes tucked away inside her head, she can build or operate most technologies at an advanced level. Even build things from pieces of scrapped objects.

Because of the fact that Idris is a vessel for the TARDIS's power she can lend that power to other objects, though she's only done it to another TARDIS console to give it the ability to go through time and space so it's more than likely not going to work on any other devices.

She's capable of perfectly replicating the sound the TARDIS makes during materialization and de-materialization and I suspect she could make other sounds such as the Cloister Bell that rings as a warning, as well but it's not anything TOO special.

Now she can pass her powers off to a human but that would kill them so she won't be doing that at all. Ever since the walls of the universes were cut off the TARDIS doesn't have nearly the power she does normally. There are times she's even come close to dying so her power isn't nearly as strong here in this parallel universe which means she should be able to sustain her own human body much longer than she would have otherwise.


[Other important stuff]

[Sample post]
[First Person]

[Video]

[Have a good look at the ground, people. There's also a pair of brown boots and a hint of bluish-green fabric lurking on the edge of the picture. The disembodied voice is feminine and very British-sounding.]

A blue 1963 police telephone box that's not actually a telephone box but a ship and has two telephones even though one doesn't work except for that once is no longer a ship that looks like a telephone box but is stuck in a fleshy, squishy, human-y body now has a telephone that looks like a blue 1963 police telephone box. [Say that ten times fast.] Witty!

Suppose I won't get boxsick this way. Oh, that's not a thing is it? No, it isn't. How tragic because it certainly should be. Can't exactly call it homesick seeing as how traveling is what we do. Can't say vortex sick, not after that parasite. [Is she talking to herself? Why yes, yes she is. At least she finally flips the Dreamberry over to give everyone a good look at her face though her gaze isn't focused on it at all. Her clothes are a bit ratty and her hair looks like something's been nesting in it.] So boxsick: sad or depressed when you can't find the box you keep all of your things in, including yourself.

[There's a bit of a pause. A tilt of the Dreamberry shows that she's somewhere very, very high up over-looking Somni. It's a rooftop garden on one of the taller skyscrapers in the city.]

Not Earth but does seem to resemble something homo sapiens would build. This is not where we should have landed so then what is this place? [Sexy leans over the ledge of the roof, clearly not disturbed at all by the dizzying height. She sniffs the air but her nose instantly scrunches up in disgust.] Wrong. So very wrong. It's like falling out of the universe or him. Everything's all wrong but tolerable.

[Even as she speaks Sexy seems to be doing something with the Dreamberry.] Oh. Oh! Dreamwalking. That explains the kidney. Ships don't dream, though they don't generally have kidneys either so wibbly-wobbly doolally. [Yeah good luck with the mad woman, Somarium.]

[Finally. Finally she turns her eyes to the 'berry.] Hello, I'm Sexy. I seem to have misplaced my Doctor.


[Third Person]

The world was swimming and muddled. It shouldn't be swimming, it should be pulsing, singing, spinning -- stretched out in front of her like a road map with all of the best shortcuts marked. Instead it was like trying to drag oneself out of quicksand or a swamp. Time seemed to crawl to an impossible slow, a slow like she hasn't felt in a long while. Even when they fell out of the plughole of the universe or slipped between the cracks to a parallel world it all went by so very quickly. A drop of water in an ocean-covered planet was the most accurate description that came to mind while in this disoriented state. Seconds ticked by but they felt like minutes, and minutes felt like hours before she finally moved.

One finger, then another and finally all ten before both hands were brought to hover over her face. She had hands and eyes to see them with, she was still stuck in a human body. Alive. That's the word she was looking for. The thump-thump of her single heart that beat in her chest was proof that she was alive in a way she'd never been before. It wasn't over yet -- her life of walking and talking wasn't over, she still had time. A joyous laugh rippled up until it escaped her lips though there wasn't really anyone to hear it. Or at least no one in her line of sight anyway. The sound seemed to carry on the wind before being drowned out but she didn't care. Now she could laugh or get mad or do all of those other things that the strays did, maybe even slap him like the DoctorDonna.

No. No she knew what she wanted to do. She wanted to do things that they strays couldn't. Like reminisce about adventures long over or worlds once visited, comfort him in those depressed moments without ever needing to say a word because she knew, give forgiveness for some things that no one else could need, scold him for doing things like hitting her with the mallet or tearing pages out of her manual then tossing it into a supernova. And most importantly, someone somewhere needed to keep him company to keep him from his darker moments. Who better than the one who'd been with him longest, who knew him better than anyone, who'd be with him until the bitter end?

Her gaze moved beyond her wiggling digits to the wide open blue sky and she forgot to breath for so long that it took the burning sensation in her chest to make her realize it. Seeing it like this was very different from flying across it. If she waited then the blue would fade turning the sky orange, red, purple until finally the darkness set it and filled the sky with the light of the universe. The sky surrounding House didn't have a sky full of stars like this or perhaps she'd been too busy to notice. Getting taken from her home and running out of time with the Doctor could have that affect on a being. So she would love to lay here with something that felt and smelt like grass tickling the back of her neck just gazing up at the sky until it changed colors and showed her the 'mysterious' beyond.

And so she did. Colors from one end of the spectrum to the other crawled across the sky in a magnificent display until finally tiny lights dotted the darkness. None of them were familiar at all but it hardly mattered. Sure as a being that existed across all of time and space it should be frightening to look up and not recognize anything, no patterns or constellations but she wasn't an ordinary being. No, she was a TARDIS and not just any TARDIS. The Doctor's TARDIS who wanted to see the universe so she stole a Time Lord and ran away. This...this was an adventure. A brand new adventure in a faraway place. Excitement bubbled up deep in her body and finally Sexy got up from the grass so she could go in search of her Thief.



[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] I need a change from the games I'm currently in and I find myself looking here at all the things more and more. Obviously it's a sign from destiny.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] The fourth wall. Considering who I'm apping it's good to know where we'll stand and how to handle this.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Used to play here a while ago
[Any questions?] Nope~