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Name: Xae
Age: 20+
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Name: The TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) | Type-40, Mark 3 | The Ship | The Box | Old Girl | Dear Old Thing | Dear | Sexy
Canon: Doctor Who
Age: Unknown, could possibly be in the thousands (or even millions if we're counting time locks) | Appears early 20s
Timeline: Season 1, Episode 6: The Aztecs
Personality:
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Name: Xae
Age: 20+
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xaetelE-mail: trucidoindignus@gmail.com
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CHARACTER
Name: The TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) | Type-40, Mark 3 | The Ship | The Box | Old Girl | Dear Old Thing | Dear | Sexy
Canon: Doctor Who
Age: Unknown, could possibly be in the thousands (or even millions if we're counting time locks) | Appears early 20s
Timeline: Season 1, Episode 6: The Aztecs
Personality:
The TARDIS is ever-constant in her personality, much like her outer shell. She is the same at the beginning of the series as she is at the end, perhaps because she truly does exist throughout all of time and space. Really the only thing that's different is her experiences. Due to the fact that there are multiple realities based off of simple decisions made it also means that she doesn't always know which one is going to happen, not until she lives through them.
Even as a ship the TARDIS is a sentient being with a personality that showed through ever since the beginning of her time with the Doctor. She is adventurous wanting to leave Gallifrey to see the universe even though she’d already considered a museum piece. There is 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 been the perfect match to “borrow” her. In return the TARDIS stole him, having no intention of bringing him back. She must have been pretty impressive considering the Doctor had his pick of other TARDISes to take that day. Sure she’s been pretty faulty from the start as her outer appearance got stuck when they landed on Earth along with several other problems such as not taking him where he wanted to go but she always takes him where he needs to go and helps him run.
She's almost always very kind, often looking after the Doctor when he otherwise couldn’t such as during his regenerations when she could. Sometimes she's even able to make this kindness known such as giving him medical supplies when he can’t reach or acting on her own to ensure his safety or even just moving a lever when he feels impossibly alone and sad. A lot of the time her kindness also extends beyond the Doctor as she often protects his companions from certain things such as diseases and other alien viruses. There are even viruses that the Doctor and his companions could not fight off that the TARDIS takes 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’s her loyalty to the Doctor. While she may not seem reliable she always, always does her best to look out for him. Whether it’s making sure he gets to the places he needs to be or looking after his health the TARDIS never really leaves his side for very long. She is his longest and most faithful companion through everything and it shows. In return, the Doctor senses her loyalty; even the sixth incarnation considers her his most trusted companion. It really helps during all those times the Doctor finds himself with amnesia or when he’s lost her. While on the Impossible Planet she ends up somewhere where the tenth Doctor will find her in his time of need, and the same is 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 calls her ‘sentimental’ which, let’s face it, she is. Even when the desktop themes of the TARDIS changes or companions leave she has this habit of archiving things. Sure some are pretty much locked away and hidden to the point that not even the Doctor knows about them but they are there. If she hasn’t had to jettison parts of the TARDIS to escape danger she can hold onto them forever. She also visits Earth over and over again because she knows that it’s the Doctor’s favorite planet; that is inhabited by his favorite species. She also seems to like appearing as a 1960s Police Box as the chameleon circuit is working but every time they land she still takes on the appearance. It could be due to the fact that the ninth Doctor states that he likes 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 changes her outer shell to look new after the eleventh’s regeneration, the St. John’s Ambulance sticker was on her door like it had been in the days at the beginning. 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. A normal police box makes 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 is kindness and sunshine as she also shows hostility towards the Doctor’s companions. When he takes on Charley the TARDIS refuses to protect her from alien viruses simply because she is a walking paradox. She also tries 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 will probably treat him as if he was a wrong thing at first and it will take a while to get used to him. And considering all of the things the Master does to her she will be a bit scornful and bitter toward him, though she will tolerate him for the Doctor’s sake.
According to K-9 the TARDIS is ‘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 name. It’s 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 said 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 looses his home world and his people in the Last Great Time War, she does too. Because of this there’s a great sadness and loneliness that leaves 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 never heal and together: they run. They run from the pain and heartache, never staying still very long. While their past is often about adventures and good times it changes a little to keep themselves busy; so they wouldn’t have time to think on their tragedies.
As a ship, the TARDIS has always been thought of as feminine. The Doctor always refers to her as Old Girl or Dear and she even takes a female appearance when she constructs a virtual world and virtual body. There were even times when his companions catch him stroking bits of the TARDIS and they treat it like the pair is an old married couple. Despite all of the affection they have for each other they certainly have their bickering moments, especially when she has the ability to speak. They’re hardly the perfect “couple” all of the time but disagreeing is good for them.
When she’s dumped into the body of a human, a lot of her personality is much the same. At first “Idris” seems like a crazed woman who speaks nonsense, is rather malleable to the influence of others and has 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 isn’t used to human actions she does physical things that people point out; such as biting the Doctor when Uncle says she's 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 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 tries to accuse her of never being reliable, she retorts that she always took him where he needed to go and he agrees.
However, she can be quite cheeky and playful too; such as when he said he had only ‘borrowed’ her. There is no hesitation when she says she had no intention to give him back. It is 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 asks “what do I call you?” she replies with the nickname he’d given her that seems to make him embarrassed. Again, it shows when faced with what she sees 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 as 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 too much faith in her Doctor to be afraid of certain things. While in her human body there’s a sort of sadness to her life, 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 carries over as she invades personal bubbles in order to touch people who believe her to be a complete stranger. Though, it might be a little more uncomfortable for other people to know that she’s in their head when she uses her telepathy to talk to them.
Due to the fact that she exists across time and space for most of her life, she often has issues with tenses and can use all of them at the same time. 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 the more she seems to get a grasp on everything; from having conversations the way most beings do to having control 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.
Even as a ship the TARDIS is a sentient being with a personality that showed through ever since the beginning of her time with the Doctor. She is adventurous wanting to leave Gallifrey to see the universe even though she’d already considered a museum piece. There is 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 been the perfect match to “borrow” her. In return the TARDIS stole him, having no intention of bringing him back. She must have been pretty impressive considering the Doctor had his pick of other TARDISes to take that day. Sure she’s been pretty faulty from the start as her outer appearance got stuck when they landed on Earth along with several other problems such as not taking him where he wanted to go but she always takes him where he needs to go and helps him run.
She's almost always very kind, often looking after the Doctor when he otherwise couldn’t such as during his regenerations when she could. Sometimes she's even able to make this kindness known such as giving him medical supplies when he can’t reach or acting on her own to ensure his safety or even just moving a lever when he feels impossibly alone and sad. A lot of the time her kindness also extends beyond the Doctor as she often protects his companions from certain things such as diseases and other alien viruses. There are even viruses that the Doctor and his companions could not fight off that the TARDIS takes 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’s her loyalty to the Doctor. While she may not seem reliable she always, always does her best to look out for him. Whether it’s making sure he gets to the places he needs to be or looking after his health the TARDIS never really leaves his side for very long. She is his longest and most faithful companion through everything and it shows. In return, the Doctor senses her loyalty; even the sixth incarnation considers her his most trusted companion. It really helps during all those times the Doctor finds himself with amnesia or when he’s lost her. While on the Impossible Planet she ends up somewhere where the tenth Doctor will find her in his time of need, and the same is 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 calls her ‘sentimental’ which, let’s face it, she is. Even when the desktop themes of the TARDIS changes or companions leave she has this habit of archiving things. Sure some are pretty much locked away and hidden to the point that not even the Doctor knows about them but they are there. If she hasn’t had to jettison parts of the TARDIS to escape danger she can hold onto them forever. She also visits Earth over and over again because she knows that it’s the Doctor’s favorite planet; that is inhabited by his favorite species. She also seems to like appearing as a 1960s Police Box as the chameleon circuit is working but every time they land she still takes on the appearance. It could be due to the fact that the ninth Doctor states that he likes it that way.
Even when she changes her outer shell to look new after the eleventh’s regeneration, the St. John’s Ambulance sticker was on her door like it had been in the days at the beginning. 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. A normal police box makes 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 is kindness and sunshine as she also shows hostility towards the Doctor’s companions. When he takes on Charley the TARDIS refuses to protect her from alien viruses simply because she is a walking paradox. She also tries 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 will probably treat him as if he was a wrong thing at first and it will take a while to get used to him. And considering all of the things the Master does to her she will be a bit scornful and bitter toward him, though she will tolerate him for the Doctor’s sake.
According to K-9 the TARDIS is ‘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 name. It’s 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 said 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 looses his home world and his people in the Last Great Time War, she does too. Because of this there’s a great sadness and loneliness that leaves 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 never heal and together: they run. They run from the pain and heartache, never staying still very long. While their past is often about adventures and good times it changes a little to keep themselves busy; so they wouldn’t have time to think on their tragedies.
As a ship, the TARDIS has always been thought of as feminine. The Doctor always refers to her as Old Girl or Dear and she even takes a female appearance when she constructs a virtual world and virtual body. There were even times when his companions catch him stroking bits of the TARDIS and they treat it like the pair is an old married couple. Despite all of the affection they have for each other they certainly have their bickering moments, especially when she has the ability to speak. They’re hardly the perfect “couple” all of the time but disagreeing is good for them.
When she’s dumped into the body of a human, a lot of her personality is much the same. At first “Idris” seems like a crazed woman who speaks nonsense, is rather malleable to the influence of others and has 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 isn’t used to human actions she does physical things that people point out; such as biting the Doctor when Uncle says she's 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 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 tries to accuse her of never being reliable, she retorts that she always took him where he needed to go and he agrees.
However, she can be quite cheeky and playful too; such as when he said he had only ‘borrowed’ her. There is no hesitation when she says she had no intention to give him back. It is 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 asks “what do I call you?” she replies with the nickname he’d given her that seems to make him embarrassed. Again, it shows when faced with what she sees 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 as 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 too much faith in her Doctor to be afraid of certain things. While in her human body there’s a sort of sadness to her life, 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 carries over as she invades personal bubbles in order to touch people who believe her to be a complete stranger. Though, it might be a little more uncomfortable for other people to know that she’s in their head when she uses her telepathy to talk to them.
Due to the fact that she exists across time and space for most of her life, she often has issues with tenses and can use all of them at the same time. 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 the more she seems to get a grasp on everything; from having conversations the way most beings do to having control 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.
Background:
For who knows how long, the TARDIS grew and grew. It could have taken hundreds of years or even thousands until she was at the point where she was capable of time travel. Then she spent who knows how long just sitting around until she ended up in a repair shop, without ever leaving her home planet. She was even in the process of being decommissioned when she was stolen away. That is until, like a classic Who story, a man came to whisk her away to see the stars. At first he was going to take another TARDIS but another Time Lord convinced him to take her instead. With him was his granddaughter, Arkytior (later known as Susan Foreman). Due to a power failure of the decommissioning process, the TARDIS took them to the moon in an emergency landing. The traveling group found themselves in a vivarium, while the Doctor found their unexpected repair man. Together, while the group explored the area, the creatures responsible for the vivarium took apart the TARDIS in order to see if she was a threat. They removed her temporal stasis capacitor which froze everyone in a moment in time but the TARDIS was able to recharge herself over a long period of time.
450 million years had passed and humanity had come into the picture, establishing a colony on their moon. This was their first contact with humans. Which, of course, ended up to be a battle against the Archaeons who were responsible for seeding life on several planets, including Earth. When the fighting started the Doctor ran, Susan choosing to go along with him rather than the Gallifreyan repair man - who decided to stay on the moon. With all the parts of the TARDIS back in place, he left the two species fighting. The Doctor watched a video containing Earth’s history and evolution; which entranced him to make it his next destination. However, his faulty TARDIS didn’t take him to Earth and instead took them to a planet with a blue sun and air like wine.
Sometime after that they ended up on a planet in the fourth dimension where the pair experienced more adventures. Here they nearly lost the TARDIS when she was washed away in a severe flood. With the help of one of the native hunters they were able to locate it. When they left the planet the Doctor decided that they should settle down somewhere so that Susan can make friends, which is how they end up in a junkyard on Totter’s Lane, on the planet Earth, in the year 1963. This is where the TARDIS took on her infamous appearance – a blue police box. It also marked the start of a new era (and our beloved show) where the Doctor took various companions on adventures.
While Susan attended the nearby school, two of her teachers (Ian and Barbara) began to get suspicious and followed her home one day only to discover that her home was a police box, that wasn’t really a police box. Once inside the TARDIS the Doctor wouldn’t allow them to leave and instead piloted them away from Earth. Or at least the Earth at the time they lived in. Exploring outside the ship, they discovered that the TARDIS had not taken on a new appearance in order to disguise herself in the new surroundings. They find that they had traveled to the past to the time of cavemen, where they were captured in hope of making fire. After being tied up, the group used bones to cut themselves free, only to be helped by one of the elder cavewomen and led them out the back of the cave. Fleeing into the forest with pursuers on their heels, the group attempted to make it back to the TARDIS. Just as their pursuers catch up with them, one of the cavemen was injured and both of the teachers insist on helping, even against the Doctor’s wishes. They carry the injured caveman back to the TARDIS, intent on treating him but they only find the rest of the cavemen laying in wait for them.
“Escorted” back to the cave, they find the elder who helped them is now dead and they are accused of killing her. However, the Doctor tricked one of the cavemen into revealing his bloody knife. Despite running off, the group is forced back into their prison until they teach the cavemen how to make fire. Ian made fire for the leader, in hopes that it would allow them to go free, but kept them locked up instead. A rival caveman appeared and he made an attempt to kill the current one, but instead he was the one that ended up dead. With his leadership now undisputed, the caveman declared that the group would become part of his tribe, forbidding them to ever leave the cave again. With an idea sparking from something Susan did, Ian devised a plan to scare the cavemen using skulls and fire to cast ghoulish figures on the wall. It worked and they escaped the cave once again, making their way back towards the TARDIS. Inside the TARDIS, they dematerialize but the Doctor admitted that he didn’t know when or even where they’d end up next as the ship was not showing any data. The Doctor would not be able to return Ian and Barbara to where they belonged for some time.
Their next location wasn’t even on Earth but was a planet called Skaro. This was the beginning of a long and terrible relationship with a species known as the Daleks. However, Ian and Barbara aren’t having that and they returned to the ship. Susan insisted at one point that she was touched by a human hand but no one believed her. Once inside the ship, Barbara wasn’t feeling well and the humans demanded that the Doctor take them away from the planet but before he could comply, a knocking came at the door though no one appeared on the scanner. In order to explore the nearby city the Doctor lied about needing something for the TARDIS, though it was really sabotage. The following morning they leave the ship only to find a metal box outside with vials of some sort of liquid inside. Susan put the box in the ship for safekeeping and the group made their way towards the city. Upon reaching the city the group separated and Barbara was soon captured. The rest of the group searched for her only to come across a room of machines where they learned that they’ve all been exposed to radiation. Now is the point where the Doctor admitted to the sabotage and Ian took the part to ensue that they didn’t leave without Barbara.
Before they can leave the room they are captured by odd mechanical beings known as Daleks. Ian attempted to run but was shot, his legs were paralyzed but they were reunited with Barbara. When the Daleks came to interrogate the Doctor, he then learned of their origins and the war that took place between the Daleks and the Thal. He attempted to persuade the Daleks that the traveling group would die from the radiation if they weren’t given a cure. It’s enough to convince the Daleks that one of their group could leave to search for a cure. Susan was the one to go retrieve the vials that were left outside the TARDIS after they realized what they were. The Daleks, being who they are, admit to the rest of the group that when the vials are returned they will take them from the travellers and leave them to die. After she’d retrieved the vials Susan met a man outside the TARDIS, a Thal man. He was surprised to hear that the Daleks are still alive, having believed them to have been wiped out during the war. He gifted Susan with more serum and told her that Daleks were not to be trusted, which thankfully she believed and kept the extra serum a secret upon her return. She told her companions that the Thals only wish for peace and supplies, which the Daleks overheard. While the mutated Daleks agreed to peace, they secretly planned to exterminate their old enemies. The Thals gathered food from the entrance of the city that was laid out by the Daleks, tricked into thinking that it was a true sign of peace between their two races.
Meanwhile, still trapped in their cell the group destroyed the camera that was filming them and devised a plan to capture one of the Daleks. When it was successful, they open up the casing to reveal the mutated creature inside. Taking it out, Ian squeezed inside and pretended to be the Dalek in order to escape, while under the guise of escorting the prisoners through the city. Back in the cell, the mutated creature died without its support system. With Ian still in the Dalek suit, they are stopped by another Dale but when questioned; the real Dalek discovered the ruse and sounded the alarm. They attempt to free Ian from the casing only to find him stuck in there and Ian convinced them to leave via the lift. Once out of the lift they send it back down to Ian, who had managed to get free just before more Daleks showed up to destroy it. They attempted to warn the Thals of an ambush but were too far away to do so and must continue their escape as Daleks continued to pursue them. While the others fled the city, Ian went to warn the Thals before they’re all destroyed. The group united with the remaining Thals and made their way to the Thal encampment. Upon arriving there, the Thals told the story from their point of view, which was entirely different from what the Daleks had said earlier.
When they go to leave the planet, they discover that they can’t as the Daleks took the sabotaged part from Ian earlier. Forced to return to the Thal camp, they convinced the now-pacifist species to become more aggressive when dealing with the Daleks. With the help of the Thals the group split up, one to act as a diversion while the other snuck back into the city to steal back the part. It certainly helped when the stolen radiation medicine began to have terrible effects on the Daleks, a good portion of them becoming terribly ill. However, it did help the rest and made them thrive off the radiation - which led them to plan to drop another bomb on the planet. The Doctor’s group took out the Daleks’ cameras, allowing them to sneak into the city. Even as they plan out the creation of a new bomb, the Doctor and Susan continue to sabotage the city. However, their actions alerted the Daleks of their position and they’re soon captured. In order to stop the Daleks from destroying the planet and killing the Thals, the Doctor told them that he could build them a TARDIS so they could leave but learned that they could do that themselves. Elsewhere, the Thals attacked the Daleks’ power source which left them immobile and to the point where they would eventually die without it. They begged the Doctor to restore the power but he refused. While the Thals did not approve of the action, they were glad the fight was finally over. After retrieving their necessary part, the group said their goodbyes to the Thals and returned to the TARDIS. It was only the first of many encounters the Doctor would have with the destructive Dalek race.
Their next adventure took place entirely on the TARDIS. A faulty spring caused the ship to act erratically towards her pilot and passengers, attempting to lead them all to the problem so they could fix it. She would electrify parts of the console where they shouldn’t be looking, the doors would open and close without prompting, and she even used her telepathic connection to everyone to give them erratic, but dangerous, behavior. After an attack on the Doctor by Ian, an explosion occurred, every fault signal lit up as a warning. Realizing that the power source was attempting to force its way out, the Doctor said that had minutes before they were destroyed. Threatened by this, the group decided to work together and it was Barbara who came up with the theory that all of the faults were the TARDIS’ way to communicate with them about the problem. Tracing the problem as the ship hurtled toward the creation of the universe, the Doctor managed to find it before it was too late. This is a huge turning point for the old Time Lord. He had seen humanity as beneath him, and treated his human companions as inferior but he began to see just how brilliant they truly could be. It caused him to apologize to both of them for his earlier actions. Both accepted the apology before setting off to explore their new destination.
The group is actually forced to flee from the ship as the damage from the faulty spring left them in the dark and cold. They find themselves on the snowy wastelands of Earth. Before they can do anything else, they must face the approaching cold night and two members of their group go to look for supplies while the Doctor stayed behind and attempted to fix the problem. However, Ian and Barbara saw a moving shadow and the group chased after it (because that’s what one does in DW) only to find themselves surrounded by Mongols. Marco Polo rescued them just as they were about to be killed, he welcomed the travellers into his fold. Together the group traveled to the edge of a desert where the Doctor is forbidden from working on the TARDIS. For days they cross the Gobi desert and the group continuously attempted to get possession of the TARDIS back. This brought mistrust between Polo and the group, encouraged by Tegana. Eventually the group continued on to Kublai Khan’s palace while the TARDIS was left behind. Tegana arranged to have the ship taken back to his people but Ian was able to prevent it by backtracking. The Doctor made friends with the Emperor and eventually a plot to kill him by Tegana and his people was uncovered. After Marco defeated him, he gave the Doctor the key to the TARDIS so they could make their escape.
Their next adventure took them to a planet that wasn’t Earth. The island they landed on was filled with danger: from the sea of acid to the glassy beach. Further investigation of the island revealed a tower and, of course, they had to go inside. What they discover there took them away from the TARDIS entirely, the people of the planet even going so far as to put a force-field around her to persuade the group to search for parts for a computer meant to maintain justice. They traveled over the planet, finding the necessary parts and run into trouble several times, including Susan being kidnapped. The travellers uncovered a wicked plot that saved the people of the world and even have a part in a murder mystery. In the end, the computer was destroyed and the group returned to the TARDIS.
Once again they end up back in Earth’s history, this time among the Aztecs. A one-way door trapped them on the wrong side and again they’re cut off from the TARDIS. Here is where Barbara attempted to change history by getting the Aztecs to stop sacrificing humans. It also began the Doctor’s tendency of getting involved with someone, as he accidentally became engaged to one of the Aztec women. Susan too was involved in a romance, though her crime more severe as she refused to marry one of the sacrifices. The last member of their party was not safe from conflict his as one of the Aztecs framed him for murder. With a little assistance from the Doctor’s new fiancée they managed to escape. To go along with the first ever romantic encounter the Doctor had, it was also the first time a companion questioned what the use of traveling through time was for if they couldn’t change anything. The Doctor told Barbara that while she may not have changed history she did manage to change one person’s life. This particular story ended when the Doctor said that the TARDIS wasn’t moving anymore but yet was at the same time and they feared they’d landed in something.
IMPORTANT: It should be noted that the Doctor Who verse spans over various media such as tv, novels, audio books and even comics. However, I only draw my TARDIS from tv and the audio books as the others tend to get a bit weird with information.
Also, she does exist across all of space and time which is um, complicated. The events of canon will be somewhere in her memory but so will all possible timelines. So people and even events might be familiar to her but she'll also know what could have happened instead. It may take her time to recognize someone or she will need prompting to register a moment that really happened. The only one I'll say for certain is the Time War, she knows that's coming because it's so damn big and important.
450 million years had passed and humanity had come into the picture, establishing a colony on their moon. This was their first contact with humans. Which, of course, ended up to be a battle against the Archaeons who were responsible for seeding life on several planets, including Earth. When the fighting started the Doctor ran, Susan choosing to go along with him rather than the Gallifreyan repair man - who decided to stay on the moon. With all the parts of the TARDIS back in place, he left the two species fighting. The Doctor watched a video containing Earth’s history and evolution; which entranced him to make it his next destination. However, his faulty TARDIS didn’t take him to Earth and instead took them to a planet with a blue sun and air like wine.
Sometime after that they ended up on a planet in the fourth dimension where the pair experienced more adventures. Here they nearly lost the TARDIS when she was washed away in a severe flood. With the help of one of the native hunters they were able to locate it. When they left the planet the Doctor decided that they should settle down somewhere so that Susan can make friends, which is how they end up in a junkyard on Totter’s Lane, on the planet Earth, in the year 1963. This is where the TARDIS took on her infamous appearance – a blue police box. It also marked the start of a new era (and our beloved show) where the Doctor took various companions on adventures.
While Susan attended the nearby school, two of her teachers (Ian and Barbara) began to get suspicious and followed her home one day only to discover that her home was a police box, that wasn’t really a police box. Once inside the TARDIS the Doctor wouldn’t allow them to leave and instead piloted them away from Earth. Or at least the Earth at the time they lived in. Exploring outside the ship, they discovered that the TARDIS had not taken on a new appearance in order to disguise herself in the new surroundings. They find that they had traveled to the past to the time of cavemen, where they were captured in hope of making fire. After being tied up, the group used bones to cut themselves free, only to be helped by one of the elder cavewomen and led them out the back of the cave. Fleeing into the forest with pursuers on their heels, the group attempted to make it back to the TARDIS. Just as their pursuers catch up with them, one of the cavemen was injured and both of the teachers insist on helping, even against the Doctor’s wishes. They carry the injured caveman back to the TARDIS, intent on treating him but they only find the rest of the cavemen laying in wait for them.
“Escorted” back to the cave, they find the elder who helped them is now dead and they are accused of killing her. However, the Doctor tricked one of the cavemen into revealing his bloody knife. Despite running off, the group is forced back into their prison until they teach the cavemen how to make fire. Ian made fire for the leader, in hopes that it would allow them to go free, but kept them locked up instead. A rival caveman appeared and he made an attempt to kill the current one, but instead he was the one that ended up dead. With his leadership now undisputed, the caveman declared that the group would become part of his tribe, forbidding them to ever leave the cave again. With an idea sparking from something Susan did, Ian devised a plan to scare the cavemen using skulls and fire to cast ghoulish figures on the wall. It worked and they escaped the cave once again, making their way back towards the TARDIS. Inside the TARDIS, they dematerialize but the Doctor admitted that he didn’t know when or even where they’d end up next as the ship was not showing any data. The Doctor would not be able to return Ian and Barbara to where they belonged for some time.
Their next location wasn’t even on Earth but was a planet called Skaro. This was the beginning of a long and terrible relationship with a species known as the Daleks. However, Ian and Barbara aren’t having that and they returned to the ship. Susan insisted at one point that she was touched by a human hand but no one believed her. Once inside the ship, Barbara wasn’t feeling well and the humans demanded that the Doctor take them away from the planet but before he could comply, a knocking came at the door though no one appeared on the scanner. In order to explore the nearby city the Doctor lied about needing something for the TARDIS, though it was really sabotage. The following morning they leave the ship only to find a metal box outside with vials of some sort of liquid inside. Susan put the box in the ship for safekeeping and the group made their way towards the city. Upon reaching the city the group separated and Barbara was soon captured. The rest of the group searched for her only to come across a room of machines where they learned that they’ve all been exposed to radiation. Now is the point where the Doctor admitted to the sabotage and Ian took the part to ensue that they didn’t leave without Barbara.
Before they can leave the room they are captured by odd mechanical beings known as Daleks. Ian attempted to run but was shot, his legs were paralyzed but they were reunited with Barbara. When the Daleks came to interrogate the Doctor, he then learned of their origins and the war that took place between the Daleks and the Thal. He attempted to persuade the Daleks that the traveling group would die from the radiation if they weren’t given a cure. It’s enough to convince the Daleks that one of their group could leave to search for a cure. Susan was the one to go retrieve the vials that were left outside the TARDIS after they realized what they were. The Daleks, being who they are, admit to the rest of the group that when the vials are returned they will take them from the travellers and leave them to die. After she’d retrieved the vials Susan met a man outside the TARDIS, a Thal man. He was surprised to hear that the Daleks are still alive, having believed them to have been wiped out during the war. He gifted Susan with more serum and told her that Daleks were not to be trusted, which thankfully she believed and kept the extra serum a secret upon her return. She told her companions that the Thals only wish for peace and supplies, which the Daleks overheard. While the mutated Daleks agreed to peace, they secretly planned to exterminate their old enemies. The Thals gathered food from the entrance of the city that was laid out by the Daleks, tricked into thinking that it was a true sign of peace between their two races.
Meanwhile, still trapped in their cell the group destroyed the camera that was filming them and devised a plan to capture one of the Daleks. When it was successful, they open up the casing to reveal the mutated creature inside. Taking it out, Ian squeezed inside and pretended to be the Dalek in order to escape, while under the guise of escorting the prisoners through the city. Back in the cell, the mutated creature died without its support system. With Ian still in the Dalek suit, they are stopped by another Dale but when questioned; the real Dalek discovered the ruse and sounded the alarm. They attempt to free Ian from the casing only to find him stuck in there and Ian convinced them to leave via the lift. Once out of the lift they send it back down to Ian, who had managed to get free just before more Daleks showed up to destroy it. They attempted to warn the Thals of an ambush but were too far away to do so and must continue their escape as Daleks continued to pursue them. While the others fled the city, Ian went to warn the Thals before they’re all destroyed. The group united with the remaining Thals and made their way to the Thal encampment. Upon arriving there, the Thals told the story from their point of view, which was entirely different from what the Daleks had said earlier.
When they go to leave the planet, they discover that they can’t as the Daleks took the sabotaged part from Ian earlier. Forced to return to the Thal camp, they convinced the now-pacifist species to become more aggressive when dealing with the Daleks. With the help of the Thals the group split up, one to act as a diversion while the other snuck back into the city to steal back the part. It certainly helped when the stolen radiation medicine began to have terrible effects on the Daleks, a good portion of them becoming terribly ill. However, it did help the rest and made them thrive off the radiation - which led them to plan to drop another bomb on the planet. The Doctor’s group took out the Daleks’ cameras, allowing them to sneak into the city. Even as they plan out the creation of a new bomb, the Doctor and Susan continue to sabotage the city. However, their actions alerted the Daleks of their position and they’re soon captured. In order to stop the Daleks from destroying the planet and killing the Thals, the Doctor told them that he could build them a TARDIS so they could leave but learned that they could do that themselves. Elsewhere, the Thals attacked the Daleks’ power source which left them immobile and to the point where they would eventually die without it. They begged the Doctor to restore the power but he refused. While the Thals did not approve of the action, they were glad the fight was finally over. After retrieving their necessary part, the group said their goodbyes to the Thals and returned to the TARDIS. It was only the first of many encounters the Doctor would have with the destructive Dalek race.
Their next adventure took place entirely on the TARDIS. A faulty spring caused the ship to act erratically towards her pilot and passengers, attempting to lead them all to the problem so they could fix it. She would electrify parts of the console where they shouldn’t be looking, the doors would open and close without prompting, and she even used her telepathic connection to everyone to give them erratic, but dangerous, behavior. After an attack on the Doctor by Ian, an explosion occurred, every fault signal lit up as a warning. Realizing that the power source was attempting to force its way out, the Doctor said that had minutes before they were destroyed. Threatened by this, the group decided to work together and it was Barbara who came up with the theory that all of the faults were the TARDIS’ way to communicate with them about the problem. Tracing the problem as the ship hurtled toward the creation of the universe, the Doctor managed to find it before it was too late. This is a huge turning point for the old Time Lord. He had seen humanity as beneath him, and treated his human companions as inferior but he began to see just how brilliant they truly could be. It caused him to apologize to both of them for his earlier actions. Both accepted the apology before setting off to explore their new destination.
The group is actually forced to flee from the ship as the damage from the faulty spring left them in the dark and cold. They find themselves on the snowy wastelands of Earth. Before they can do anything else, they must face the approaching cold night and two members of their group go to look for supplies while the Doctor stayed behind and attempted to fix the problem. However, Ian and Barbara saw a moving shadow and the group chased after it (because that’s what one does in DW) only to find themselves surrounded by Mongols. Marco Polo rescued them just as they were about to be killed, he welcomed the travellers into his fold. Together the group traveled to the edge of a desert where the Doctor is forbidden from working on the TARDIS. For days they cross the Gobi desert and the group continuously attempted to get possession of the TARDIS back. This brought mistrust between Polo and the group, encouraged by Tegana. Eventually the group continued on to Kublai Khan’s palace while the TARDIS was left behind. Tegana arranged to have the ship taken back to his people but Ian was able to prevent it by backtracking. The Doctor made friends with the Emperor and eventually a plot to kill him by Tegana and his people was uncovered. After Marco defeated him, he gave the Doctor the key to the TARDIS so they could make their escape.
Their next adventure took them to a planet that wasn’t Earth. The island they landed on was filled with danger: from the sea of acid to the glassy beach. Further investigation of the island revealed a tower and, of course, they had to go inside. What they discover there took them away from the TARDIS entirely, the people of the planet even going so far as to put a force-field around her to persuade the group to search for parts for a computer meant to maintain justice. They traveled over the planet, finding the necessary parts and run into trouble several times, including Susan being kidnapped. The travellers uncovered a wicked plot that saved the people of the world and even have a part in a murder mystery. In the end, the computer was destroyed and the group returned to the TARDIS.
Once again they end up back in Earth’s history, this time among the Aztecs. A one-way door trapped them on the wrong side and again they’re cut off from the TARDIS. Here is where Barbara attempted to change history by getting the Aztecs to stop sacrificing humans. It also began the Doctor’s tendency of getting involved with someone, as he accidentally became engaged to one of the Aztec women. Susan too was involved in a romance, though her crime more severe as she refused to marry one of the sacrifices. The last member of their party was not safe from conflict his as one of the Aztecs framed him for murder. With a little assistance from the Doctor’s new fiancée they managed to escape. To go along with the first ever romantic encounter the Doctor had, it was also the first time a companion questioned what the use of traveling through time was for if they couldn’t change anything. The Doctor told Barbara that while she may not have changed history she did manage to change one person’s life. This particular story ended when the Doctor said that the TARDIS wasn’t moving anymore but yet was at the same time and they feared they’d landed in something.
IMPORTANT: It should be noted that the Doctor Who verse spans over various media such as tv, novels, audio books and even comics. However, I only draw my TARDIS from tv and the audio books as the others tend to get a bit weird with information.
Also, she does exist across all of space and time which is um, complicated. The events of canon will be somewhere in her memory but so will all possible timelines. So people and even events might be familiar to her but she'll also know what could have happened instead. It may take her time to recognize someone or she will need prompting to register a moment that really happened. The only one I'll say for certain is the Time War, she knows that's coming because it's so damn big and important.
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 travel alone. She can also sees 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.
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.
As a box the TARDIS had no words to be able to talk to anyone through a mental link, so the TARDIS relied heavily on empathy. She could connect with another being (usually a Time Lord) in order to express her feelings - whether it be a sense of foreboding or something happy. Of course, her strongest bond is with the Doctor but anyone with this sort of ability or even just a telepathic one is someone she would be able to bond with on an empathic level. Only with mun permission.
Since she's technically a machine with enormous amounts of knowledge of the universe 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 her human body is a vessel for the TARDIS's power she can lend that power to other objects, though she's only does 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. Most technology isn't nearly advanced enough to share too much power with so she'll be limited to only the things she or the Doctors build.
She's capable of perfectly replicating the sound the TARDIS makes during materialization and de-materialization and 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. There are times she may even come close to dying but considering she's in another universe that's cut off from her own and her power source is located on Gallifrey, the TARDIS won't have to worry about her own body being unable to support that power. Also, with the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS there she will be able to siphon off her own into it when necessary.
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.
As a box the TARDIS had no words to be able to talk to anyone through a mental link, so the TARDIS relied heavily on empathy. She could connect with another being (usually a Time Lord) in order to express her feelings - whether it be a sense of foreboding or something happy. Of course, her strongest bond is with the Doctor but anyone with this sort of ability or even just a telepathic one is someone she would be able to bond with on an empathic level. Only with mun permission.
Since she's technically a machine with enormous amounts of knowledge of the universe 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 her human body is a vessel for the TARDIS's power she can lend that power to other objects, though she's only does 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. Most technology isn't nearly advanced enough to share too much power with so she'll be limited to only the things she or the Doctors build.
She's capable of perfectly replicating the sound the TARDIS makes during materialization and de-materialization and 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. There are times she may even come close to dying but considering she's in another universe that's cut off from her own and her power source is located on Gallifrey, the TARDIS won't have to worry about her own body being unable to support that power. Also, with the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS there she will be able to siphon off her own into it when necessary.
First Person:
[Video]
[Have a good look at the ground, people. There's also a pair of black flat shoes and a hint of dark blue 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 that travels through time and space that has one telephone even though it doesn't work is no longer a time-space 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 pocket watch that doesn't keep time. [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 considering the various parasites out there. [Is she talking to herself? Why yes, yes she is. At least she flips the pocket watch hover to give everyone a good look at her face though her gaze isn't focused on it at all.] 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.]
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? [ She sniffs the air but her nose instantly scrunches up in disgust.] Wrong. That's what it is. So very wrong. It's like falling out of the universe or being around him. Everything's all wrong but tolerable.
[Finally. Finally she turns her eyes to the watch.] Hello, I'm the TARDIS. I seem to have misplaced my Doctor.
[Have a good look at the ground, people. There's also a pair of black flat shoes and a hint of dark blue 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 that travels through time and space that has one telephone even though it doesn't work is no longer a time-space 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 pocket watch that doesn't keep time. [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 considering the various parasites out there. [Is she talking to herself? Why yes, yes she is. At least she flips the pocket watch hover to give everyone a good look at her face though her gaze isn't focused on it at all.] 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.]
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? [ She sniffs the air but her nose instantly scrunches up in disgust.] Wrong. That's what it is. So very wrong. It's like falling out of the universe or being around him. Everything's all wrong but tolerable.
[Finally. Finally she turns her eyes to the watch.] Hello, I'm the TARDIS. I seem to have misplaced my Doctor.
Third Person:
Black. Everything was black and dark and silent and surely this was the Void between worlds because it had never been like this before. All concept of up and down, time and space and feeling was distorted, lost. Therefore this must be what the Eternals called the Howling and others called Hell. Not even passing through the Void left this hollow emptiness she felt inside of her so perhaps she was stuck. Stuck somewhere she'd never been, never wanted to be. The very idea made her feel queasy. Telepathically she tried to reach out - to find the ever-constant light that surrounded him. That was him. But there was only oblivion as darkness set in again.
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 while – not since before him. When he came along it all started to go 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 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. 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.
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, then purple until finally the darkness set it and filled the sky with the light of the universe. 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 she got up from the platform so she could go in search of her Thief.
The connection she'd searched for before was there, stronger than it should have been and even odder - there wasn't just one of him. No there were more. One, two, three - possibly more. With her muddled link to their universe it was difficult to tell. There was also something else. Something that shouldn't be. She was here. Not here in this fragile human body but as a giant blue box. It shouldn't be possible, the same TARDIS from different points in time in the same location had the potential to destroy the universe. Yet, hours had passed and everything appeared to be fine. Only one way to find out what was going on here.
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 while – not since before him. When he came along it all started to go 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 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. 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.
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, then purple until finally the darkness set it and filled the sky with the light of the universe. 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 she got up from the platform so she could go in search of her Thief.
The connection she'd searched for before was there, stronger than it should have been and even odder - there wasn't just one of him. No there were more. One, two, three - possibly more. With her muddled link to their universe it was difficult to tell. There was also something else. Something that shouldn't be. She was here. Not here in this fragile human body but as a giant blue box. It shouldn't be possible, the same TARDIS from different points in time in the same location had the potential to destroy the universe. Yet, hours had passed and everything appeared to be fine. Only one way to find out what was going on here.
