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walkstheearthP L A Y E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Your Name: Shelly
OOC Journal: Trinketstangled
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: 22!
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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Martha Jones
Canon: Doctor Who (2005 series)
Original or Alternate Universe: Canon universe
Canon Point: During the year that never was, right after she's been caught by the Master
Number: Any number will do. RNG please!
Setting: All of time and space. From the End of Time to Shakespeare's Globe to far off Stars.
History: The first time Martha shows up on screen, she's almost instantly juggling every member of her family on the phone, wrapped up in the drama of a birthday party for her younger brother's twenty first, where her father plans to bring Analise, who is the very stereotypical blond, younger than his ex-wife, girlfriend.
She's in the middle of calls from every side when a man pops up in front of, takes his tie off, and says 'Like so'.
Martha stops just long enough to look horribly confused but then continues on, writing it off as general strangeness. She has a second strange encounter moments from walking in the front door of the hospital she's interning at, as she's bumped into by a man all in leather, with a motorcycle helmet on.
As she goes about following her instructor, attempting diagnosis, she runs into the man who'd pulled his tie off, called Mr. Smith, who denies meeting her earlier. When she tries to listen for his heart, she hears a double beat and shakes it off as her Instructor distracts.
Later while she's talking to her sister over the phone at lunch, both her sister and her co-worker notice that it's raining over the Hospital and only the hospital, and that the rain is going upwards.
The Hospital is then transported to the moon, causing an immediate panic in most of the people, though Martha just gets to windows to see what's going on, and starts making guesses about what's going on, why, and why they all still have air.
This is about the point Mr. Smith pops up behind her, and starts telling her that she's thinking smartly and drags her off to go explore. They go off to an observation deck, and wander outside, discussing that aliens must be responsible and Martha's fear setting in about getting home. She does, however, stay put and stay composed, excited even though she's scared.
Mr. Smith then informs her that he is A) actually the Doctor, and B) a bit later tells her that he's an alien himself.
The Judoon, who had stolen the hospital and transported it to the moon, arrived and started cataloguing each and every person in the hospital looking for an alien, which, of course, caused a major problem for the Doctor, so he and Martha had to find who the Judoon were looking for, before the Judoon decided the hospital was harboring a fugitive and decided to kill them all, or decided the Doctor was the problem alien.
When Martha went to go find Mr. Stoker to ask him about unusual patients, she accidentally found the other Alien on accident, which caused a merry chase that eventually ended in the Doctor kissing Martha to trick the scanner and give him more time to track the other Alien, a plasmavore.
The plasmavore ended up drinking the Doctor's blood, seemingly killing him, and Martha borrowed a scanner to convince the Judoon of the plasmavore being a an alien since it drank the Doctor's blood and was no longer able to pretend it was human.
The plasmavore had turned the MRI into a massive magnetic pulse canon that would destroy half the earth and the Judoon basically ran away, claiming no further jurisdiction with the plasmavore caught. With the entire building filling with magnetic energy and everything quickly running out of air, Martha did CPR on the Doctor, waking him so he was able to turn off the scanner, but taking the last of Martha's air.
With the pulse gone, the Judoon sent the Hospital back, and with getting back to earth, everyone was saved.
She went to her Brother's birthday that night, instantly wrapped in family drama, when she saw the Doctor off in an alley, and she followed him. The doctor offered her a trip in time and space to thank her, and she didn't believe him about the time part, so he went back in time to that morning to show her by taking off his tie. Martha gleeful agreed to go.
Martha's trip ended up being to London 1599, where she went to watch Loves Labors Lost at Shakespeare's Globe, where she met the man himself who was quickly enamored by her, implying by the end of the episode that she's the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Over the course of the episode she helps the Doctor through her medical knowledge, ID-ing how a body was killed, restart the Doctor's heart, and she came up with the final part of a spell to stop the villains by using a Harry Potter spell to save them all.
This trip also set up the beginning of Martha's love for the Doctor, and his utter non-acknowledgement of it.
One trip quickly turned into two as Martha was taken into the future of New New York, and was kidnapped by people hoping to use the extra passenger to escape to a new level of living in the Motorway, where they travel distances like 5 miles in 12 years, some people living their whole lives in tiny travel cars. Turns out there are things living in the bottom of the motorway, that try and eat passengers. Martha and her Carjackers get trapped in the bottom of the eternal traffic jam with no way out, finding that every exit out is locked, and they start being chased by the giant crabs at the bo-….Um. Yes. The giant crabs at the bottom of the motorway. Martha makes them turn everything off, and it gets the monsters off their tail. After waiting until they're nearly our of air, Martha convinces the couple that the Doctor will save them, and they go flying again on faith, waiting for him to open the motorway. He does, and all the cars escape the motorway for the first time in years.
Martha got to the Doctor just in time to see the death of the Face of Boe, an old friend of the Doctor, there for his last message 'You are not alone' and that the Doctor is the last of his race.
This leads Martha to get the Doctor to talk of his lost home in depth for the first time since the end of the time war.
Martha's next trip was to the original NYC in the 1930's, she and the Doctor were distracted by missing people in Hooverville. They teamed up with the locals to try and find the people, ending up running into a Showgirl named Tallulah who's looking for her man Laslow, who disappeared like the people who were vanishing from Hooverville. Martha made quick friends with her, and provided support, while waiting. Martha saw him and tried to chase him down, getting kidnapped….yet again, and dragged off to the Daleks, who were finding humans to be either slaves or future human/Dalek hybrids.
Turns out the Daleks had survived the last season in the form of the Cult of Skaro, a group with a sense of self left so they could come up with new ideas. The Daleks decided they needed to evolve, which was the reason for the kidnappings. Martha was there for the birth of the first Human Dalek.
She, Laslow, the Doctor, and Frank escaped, but were chased back to Hooverville and the Daleks took the Doctor back to their lab to help them, before he was taken, he left his psychic paper with Martha, leaving her no real explanation.
Martha was left to figure out what to do from there, following the Doctor to the Empire State Building, and helping him stop the Daleks from awakening the hybrids when the Daleks overthrew their leader.
She was there for the Death of Dalek Sec, and the end of the Dalek humans when they were deemed too human and therefore not worth keeping, after the last of the Cult escaped, she and the Doctor left Laslow and Tallulah with Frank and headed back to Martha's time.
Back home, Martha's sister had become involved in a project called the Lazarus project, which was supposed to grant immortality. Instead it created a monster in the form of the creator of the project, who went on a rampage. Martha and Tish helped the Doctor stop him, and at the end of the adventure, Martha became a full companion, calling the end to the 'Only one trip' stuff.
In the next trip they ended up stuck on a ship crashing into the sun, Martha and the Doctor tried to help in fixing the ship, but were distracted by a strange virus that overtook a member of the crew, which turned out to be the crewman being possessed by sun they're falling into.
Martha and a crewman get trapped in an escape pod and jettisoned at one point, where Martha calls her mother to say goodbye without actuality telling her what's wrong.
After she's rescued, the Doctor is possessed, and Martha ends up waiting with him and saving him by freezing him and then getting the crew to release the fuel they'd taken from the sun.
After that they end up in 1913, hiding from an alien chasing the Doctor. The Doctor himself hides as a human, taking his own memories, and Martha works as a Maid at a school that the human version of the Doctor teaches at. The aliens track them down eventually, possessing nearby people, and Martha convinces the Doctor to take back his memories despite the fact that he's fallen in love with a woman at the school. Both of them leave the time horribly unhappy, as the Doctor has to leave behind this tiny human happiness and Martha had to watch him fall for someone who wasn't her.
Then she and the Doctor got stuck in 1969 due to the weeping angels, and had to use a timeloop to get the TARDIS back so they could escape.
She and the Doctor accidentally pick up Jack Harkness on a routine trip to the Rift, and in the TARDIS trying to shake him off, they end up at the end of the universe, meeting the last of humanity, clawing at the stars to try and save themselves.
Martha, Jack, and the Doctor helped the professor, a man named Yana, who was trying to help the last of the humans escape in a rocket, and just as they were getting the Rocket off the ground, Martha noticed Yana's watch, realizing it was like the device that had contained the Doctor's memories while he was human.
Yana opened the watch, revealing himself to be the Master, and he stole the TARDIS, regenerating in it's main console room and zipping to the 21st Century.
Martha, Jack, and the Doctor took Jack's Vortex manipulator home instead, and when they arrived, they realized the Master had gotten there before them, installing himself as the new Prime Minister using a network of satellites to psychically control the planet.
When they go to Martha's apartment to regroup, they find a bomb and barely avoid death. Martha phones her mom, and both her mother and father break free of handlers, telling her to run, as they've been caught by the Master. The master also catches Martha's sister Tish, and Martha barely manages to warn her Brother and his family to run.
While on the run, the Doctor builds the three of them perception filters out of their TARDIS keys, which they use to get onboard an airship the Master is using to make 'first contact' with an alien race. This alien race turns out to be under the Master's control, they assassinate the president, and then take charge of the ship. The Master then uses the race called the Toclafane to kill 1/10th of the planet, and catches Jack, Martha, and the Doctor.
The Doctor, realizing the level of in trouble they are, sends Martha off with a mission, sending her on her own with the Vortex Manipulator, making her have to leave her family and friends to the Master.
She vows to return, and spends the next year on a mission, supposedly gathering parts of a gun to kill the Master. Instead she spends the year spreading a story and an instruction, making the whole world think of the Doctor, so he can use the psychic energy of the whole planet to stop the Master.
When Martha finally has walked everywhere, spreading her story, she comes back to England where she visits a doctor who can help identify the Toclafane, it turns out that they are the remains of the human race that had gone to the stars at the end of the universe. Martha is horrified, but continues on to stop the paradox and save the earth.
The Master catches her on the last leg of her decoy journey, and the night before the Master's big final count down, after she's been captured, is when she's being taken from.
Personality: It is a well known fact in Doctor Who, that the Doctor only takes the best.
Martha Jones is no exception.
From the first moment she's seen, Martha is proven to be level headed, and a problem solver, she carries her family drama (the likes of which that would drive most people insane) and attempts to control it. When the entire building is transported to the moon, Martha is one of the first to actively try to figure out what's happening and catches the sight of the Doctor because of it. Martha is willing to do what she can to help, performing CPR on the Doctor even with dwindling oxygen, because the Doctor could help stop a machine set to kill.
All of this is only in her first appearance.
After she's brought along by the Doctor (Her first trip is only meant to be a 'Thank You' for saving his life, but one trip quickly becomes many.) jumps into things, trying quickly to assimilate the information she can, to help or to understand. Martha is very intelligent, able to pick up concepts quickly and because of it is nearly is dragged off to become a Dalek hybrid.
Though frequently put in horrifying situations, from a ship falling into a sun, to facing the Daleks, to facing the Master, and Martha always manages to be the person who is absolutely relentless in making sure things turn out. She wont leave someone behind unless there is absolutely no other option, but will make the call to do so if needed.
Martha is also wonderfully, terribly, in love with the Doctor at this point. She's done all she can for him, fought for him and lived for him, and he can't see her standing right there. It's depressing to her, and at some points a source of anger and irritation, though she still helps him and adores him, no matter what's asked. This said, shortly after this canonpoint, Martha decides to leave, feeling that her relationship with the Doctor is unhealthy and that she needs to go her own way, citing a friend that would drop everything every time a particular boy came round and how much she tried to tell the friend how toxic this was, and how she didn't want to be that.
She also has a devotion to her family that shines through when the Master begins going after them to get to her and, therefore, the Doctor. She tries to get them to a safe haven even though it isn't safe for her to use the phone line because of possible tracing, and does manage to warn her little brother and his family.
The biggest recent effect on Martha at this point, of course, is the year that is referred to in canon as 'The Year That Never Was", a year of the Master's rule, held in place by a paradox. During this year, Martha has to leave her family, Jack, and the Doctor in the hands of the Master so that she can save the world. Martha spends a year becoming a legend. She's the only woman to escape Japan. The woman who walks the earth. She saw ten percent of the planet die and still fights. She's treated as a savior, the only person people think can stop the Master. And she carries that weight as if born for it, leading and storytelling as she goes. All the time people think she's searching for a weapon, she even says that she is, producing a gun that she's supposedly collecting parts for.
This isn't true. It's a cover.
What Martha does, is she spends a year telling stories. A story. The story of the Doctor. She tells them that she loves him, and tells them that he can save everything. She spends a year pointing all of the minds of the planet towards one word, and spreading the tale of the Doctor like a virus under the Master's nose.
This isn't just some silly moral boost, this is actually the plan. Using huge psychic hookup the Master had been using for population control, she was directing all of that hope and love and awe actually at the Doctor, who could use it.
The plan works for the sole reason that Martha is determined enough to get the word across the world, into the minds of so many people it's practically unimaginable.
She's spent a year being the person people expect to have answers, and even when she admits she doesn't know something, she still manages a sense of authority. But this has come with a cost. As stated, Martha makes hard choices. And Martha has had to run, has had to leave people behind to face things she'd never wish on anyone because someone needs to save the world and she's the only person who can.
It's a lot to carry.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Martha has no special superhuman powers, she's an exam away from being a doctor, and has some pretty decent survival skills. She's also able to take on leadership rolls, make hard decisions of the 'needs of the many' variety, and has a charisma score that probably adds something like a plus +5 to most rolls.
She's a bit too willing to put herself at the front of the line and let herself be a target for personal safety, though it's entirely out of devotion or responsibility. She will take risks others would probably never agree to, and would never want to. This risk taking is often a strength, but only because her luck has been insane so far.
Inventory:
- One (1) leather jacket, black
- One (1) pair of pants, black
- One (1) tank top, purple
- One (1) pair black socks
- One (1) pair black boots
- One (1) one black belt.
- Two (3) Silver rings
- One (1) pair of silver wishbone earrings
- One (1) necklace, Silver and Red.
- One (1) flip cellphone that has been modified by the Doctor
- One (1)Vortex Manipulator, it wont function, but it looks like some sort of strange wrist apparatus. Almost like a watch.
-One Key that is able to hide her appearance (This is a perception filter, and it makes you unable to focus on a particular object. It doesn't work on the highly intelligent or people who are aware of the thing being disguised. Martha refers to it as knowing it's there, but not wanting to know it's there. (The wiki says it also doesn't work on people out of their time, but if this was true as of the Tenth Doctor then it would make the whole plot of the episodes where it's used not work. And since it's a rule from a 5th Doctor side story, I'm going to call it a non thing by that point.).
Appearance: She's played by the ever wonderful Freema Agyeman
Age: 23
AU Clarification: N/A
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
She'd noticed the tattoo in the shower. This was actually new as far as experiences went. Waking up in a strange, likely medical, pod, with a number tattoo was new.
That she could say. Not much she could say that about anymore.
Shakespeare, world travel, cat people. Not new. So it was something.
Martha tried to knock most of the water out of her hair, mostly just glad that she was able to get that stuff out. Whatever it was, it wasn't pleasant in the first place, but more importantly, it had been a while since she'd had the luxury of a real shower. She was going to take what she could.
Besides, that part was the easiest to deal with. The dizziness was enough to make her want to lay back down, but she was pretty certain that wasn't the best idea.
The jumpsuit was a nice touch, really, but Martha got herself back into her gear, not bothering to button her coat, and pulling out her phone.
….The lack of a signal was enough to get her nervous, and she looked to the provided communication device instead.
Alright then. Might as well.
Comms Sample:
[Martha flips on the communicator and she's got her hair down and her eyes are huge as she looks around, biting her lip and looking out with a sense of inquisitiveness that can't be beaten down even with all she's seen.]
This ship's pretty keen and all but honestly, I don't know where I am.
I really don't know where I am. That's not very new, but I'd like to.
I had things I was supposed to be doing, and I don't-
[ She pauses, and she begins to fidget with a piece of cord around her neck. Whatever the charm is, it can't be seen in frame. She looks off down the hall and then back, actually smiling at the comma as an afterthought.
What exactly are we supposed to be doing here?
Your Name: Shelly
OOC Journal: Trinketstangled
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: 22!
Email + IM: Poptartenvy_9@yahoo.com, bellsandtrinkets on AIM
Characters Played at Ataraxion: None yet!
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Martha Jones
Canon: Doctor Who (2005 series)
Original or Alternate Universe: Canon universe
Canon Point: During the year that never was, right after she's been caught by the Master
Number: Any number will do. RNG please!
Setting: All of time and space. From the End of Time to Shakespeare's Globe to far off Stars.
History: The first time Martha shows up on screen, she's almost instantly juggling every member of her family on the phone, wrapped up in the drama of a birthday party for her younger brother's twenty first, where her father plans to bring Analise, who is the very stereotypical blond, younger than his ex-wife, girlfriend.
She's in the middle of calls from every side when a man pops up in front of, takes his tie off, and says 'Like so'.
Martha stops just long enough to look horribly confused but then continues on, writing it off as general strangeness. She has a second strange encounter moments from walking in the front door of the hospital she's interning at, as she's bumped into by a man all in leather, with a motorcycle helmet on.
As she goes about following her instructor, attempting diagnosis, she runs into the man who'd pulled his tie off, called Mr. Smith, who denies meeting her earlier. When she tries to listen for his heart, she hears a double beat and shakes it off as her Instructor distracts.
Later while she's talking to her sister over the phone at lunch, both her sister and her co-worker notice that it's raining over the Hospital and only the hospital, and that the rain is going upwards.
The Hospital is then transported to the moon, causing an immediate panic in most of the people, though Martha just gets to windows to see what's going on, and starts making guesses about what's going on, why, and why they all still have air.
This is about the point Mr. Smith pops up behind her, and starts telling her that she's thinking smartly and drags her off to go explore. They go off to an observation deck, and wander outside, discussing that aliens must be responsible and Martha's fear setting in about getting home. She does, however, stay put and stay composed, excited even though she's scared.
Mr. Smith then informs her that he is A) actually the Doctor, and B) a bit later tells her that he's an alien himself.
The Judoon, who had stolen the hospital and transported it to the moon, arrived and started cataloguing each and every person in the hospital looking for an alien, which, of course, caused a major problem for the Doctor, so he and Martha had to find who the Judoon were looking for, before the Judoon decided the hospital was harboring a fugitive and decided to kill them all, or decided the Doctor was the problem alien.
When Martha went to go find Mr. Stoker to ask him about unusual patients, she accidentally found the other Alien on accident, which caused a merry chase that eventually ended in the Doctor kissing Martha to trick the scanner and give him more time to track the other Alien, a plasmavore.
The plasmavore ended up drinking the Doctor's blood, seemingly killing him, and Martha borrowed a scanner to convince the Judoon of the plasmavore being a an alien since it drank the Doctor's blood and was no longer able to pretend it was human.
The plasmavore had turned the MRI into a massive magnetic pulse canon that would destroy half the earth and the Judoon basically ran away, claiming no further jurisdiction with the plasmavore caught. With the entire building filling with magnetic energy and everything quickly running out of air, Martha did CPR on the Doctor, waking him so he was able to turn off the scanner, but taking the last of Martha's air.
With the pulse gone, the Judoon sent the Hospital back, and with getting back to earth, everyone was saved.
She went to her Brother's birthday that night, instantly wrapped in family drama, when she saw the Doctor off in an alley, and she followed him. The doctor offered her a trip in time and space to thank her, and she didn't believe him about the time part, so he went back in time to that morning to show her by taking off his tie. Martha gleeful agreed to go.
Martha's trip ended up being to London 1599, where she went to watch Loves Labors Lost at Shakespeare's Globe, where she met the man himself who was quickly enamored by her, implying by the end of the episode that she's the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Over the course of the episode she helps the Doctor through her medical knowledge, ID-ing how a body was killed, restart the Doctor's heart, and she came up with the final part of a spell to stop the villains by using a Harry Potter spell to save them all.
This trip also set up the beginning of Martha's love for the Doctor, and his utter non-acknowledgement of it.
One trip quickly turned into two as Martha was taken into the future of New New York, and was kidnapped by people hoping to use the extra passenger to escape to a new level of living in the Motorway, where they travel distances like 5 miles in 12 years, some people living their whole lives in tiny travel cars. Turns out there are things living in the bottom of the motorway, that try and eat passengers. Martha and her Carjackers get trapped in the bottom of the eternal traffic jam with no way out, finding that every exit out is locked, and they start being chased by the giant crabs at the bo-….Um. Yes. The giant crabs at the bottom of the motorway. Martha makes them turn everything off, and it gets the monsters off their tail. After waiting until they're nearly our of air, Martha convinces the couple that the Doctor will save them, and they go flying again on faith, waiting for him to open the motorway. He does, and all the cars escape the motorway for the first time in years.
Martha got to the Doctor just in time to see the death of the Face of Boe, an old friend of the Doctor, there for his last message 'You are not alone' and that the Doctor is the last of his race.
This leads Martha to get the Doctor to talk of his lost home in depth for the first time since the end of the time war.
Martha's next trip was to the original NYC in the 1930's, she and the Doctor were distracted by missing people in Hooverville. They teamed up with the locals to try and find the people, ending up running into a Showgirl named Tallulah who's looking for her man Laslow, who disappeared like the people who were vanishing from Hooverville. Martha made quick friends with her, and provided support, while waiting. Martha saw him and tried to chase him down, getting kidnapped….yet again, and dragged off to the Daleks, who were finding humans to be either slaves or future human/Dalek hybrids.
Turns out the Daleks had survived the last season in the form of the Cult of Skaro, a group with a sense of self left so they could come up with new ideas. The Daleks decided they needed to evolve, which was the reason for the kidnappings. Martha was there for the birth of the first Human Dalek.
She, Laslow, the Doctor, and Frank escaped, but were chased back to Hooverville and the Daleks took the Doctor back to their lab to help them, before he was taken, he left his psychic paper with Martha, leaving her no real explanation.
Martha was left to figure out what to do from there, following the Doctor to the Empire State Building, and helping him stop the Daleks from awakening the hybrids when the Daleks overthrew their leader.
She was there for the Death of Dalek Sec, and the end of the Dalek humans when they were deemed too human and therefore not worth keeping, after the last of the Cult escaped, she and the Doctor left Laslow and Tallulah with Frank and headed back to Martha's time.
Back home, Martha's sister had become involved in a project called the Lazarus project, which was supposed to grant immortality. Instead it created a monster in the form of the creator of the project, who went on a rampage. Martha and Tish helped the Doctor stop him, and at the end of the adventure, Martha became a full companion, calling the end to the 'Only one trip' stuff.
In the next trip they ended up stuck on a ship crashing into the sun, Martha and the Doctor tried to help in fixing the ship, but were distracted by a strange virus that overtook a member of the crew, which turned out to be the crewman being possessed by sun they're falling into.
Martha and a crewman get trapped in an escape pod and jettisoned at one point, where Martha calls her mother to say goodbye without actuality telling her what's wrong.
After she's rescued, the Doctor is possessed, and Martha ends up waiting with him and saving him by freezing him and then getting the crew to release the fuel they'd taken from the sun.
After that they end up in 1913, hiding from an alien chasing the Doctor. The Doctor himself hides as a human, taking his own memories, and Martha works as a Maid at a school that the human version of the Doctor teaches at. The aliens track them down eventually, possessing nearby people, and Martha convinces the Doctor to take back his memories despite the fact that he's fallen in love with a woman at the school. Both of them leave the time horribly unhappy, as the Doctor has to leave behind this tiny human happiness and Martha had to watch him fall for someone who wasn't her.
Then she and the Doctor got stuck in 1969 due to the weeping angels, and had to use a timeloop to get the TARDIS back so they could escape.
She and the Doctor accidentally pick up Jack Harkness on a routine trip to the Rift, and in the TARDIS trying to shake him off, they end up at the end of the universe, meeting the last of humanity, clawing at the stars to try and save themselves.
Martha, Jack, and the Doctor helped the professor, a man named Yana, who was trying to help the last of the humans escape in a rocket, and just as they were getting the Rocket off the ground, Martha noticed Yana's watch, realizing it was like the device that had contained the Doctor's memories while he was human.
Yana opened the watch, revealing himself to be the Master, and he stole the TARDIS, regenerating in it's main console room and zipping to the 21st Century.
Martha, Jack, and the Doctor took Jack's Vortex manipulator home instead, and when they arrived, they realized the Master had gotten there before them, installing himself as the new Prime Minister using a network of satellites to psychically control the planet.
When they go to Martha's apartment to regroup, they find a bomb and barely avoid death. Martha phones her mom, and both her mother and father break free of handlers, telling her to run, as they've been caught by the Master. The master also catches Martha's sister Tish, and Martha barely manages to warn her Brother and his family to run.
While on the run, the Doctor builds the three of them perception filters out of their TARDIS keys, which they use to get onboard an airship the Master is using to make 'first contact' with an alien race. This alien race turns out to be under the Master's control, they assassinate the president, and then take charge of the ship. The Master then uses the race called the Toclafane to kill 1/10th of the planet, and catches Jack, Martha, and the Doctor.
The Doctor, realizing the level of in trouble they are, sends Martha off with a mission, sending her on her own with the Vortex Manipulator, making her have to leave her family and friends to the Master.
She vows to return, and spends the next year on a mission, supposedly gathering parts of a gun to kill the Master. Instead she spends the year spreading a story and an instruction, making the whole world think of the Doctor, so he can use the psychic energy of the whole planet to stop the Master.
When Martha finally has walked everywhere, spreading her story, she comes back to England where she visits a doctor who can help identify the Toclafane, it turns out that they are the remains of the human race that had gone to the stars at the end of the universe. Martha is horrified, but continues on to stop the paradox and save the earth.
The Master catches her on the last leg of her decoy journey, and the night before the Master's big final count down, after she's been captured, is when she's being taken from.
Personality: It is a well known fact in Doctor Who, that the Doctor only takes the best.
Martha Jones is no exception.
From the first moment she's seen, Martha is proven to be level headed, and a problem solver, she carries her family drama (the likes of which that would drive most people insane) and attempts to control it. When the entire building is transported to the moon, Martha is one of the first to actively try to figure out what's happening and catches the sight of the Doctor because of it. Martha is willing to do what she can to help, performing CPR on the Doctor even with dwindling oxygen, because the Doctor could help stop a machine set to kill.
All of this is only in her first appearance.
After she's brought along by the Doctor (Her first trip is only meant to be a 'Thank You' for saving his life, but one trip quickly becomes many.) jumps into things, trying quickly to assimilate the information she can, to help or to understand. Martha is very intelligent, able to pick up concepts quickly and because of it is nearly is dragged off to become a Dalek hybrid.
Though frequently put in horrifying situations, from a ship falling into a sun, to facing the Daleks, to facing the Master, and Martha always manages to be the person who is absolutely relentless in making sure things turn out. She wont leave someone behind unless there is absolutely no other option, but will make the call to do so if needed.
Martha is also wonderfully, terribly, in love with the Doctor at this point. She's done all she can for him, fought for him and lived for him, and he can't see her standing right there. It's depressing to her, and at some points a source of anger and irritation, though she still helps him and adores him, no matter what's asked. This said, shortly after this canonpoint, Martha decides to leave, feeling that her relationship with the Doctor is unhealthy and that she needs to go her own way, citing a friend that would drop everything every time a particular boy came round and how much she tried to tell the friend how toxic this was, and how she didn't want to be that.
She also has a devotion to her family that shines through when the Master begins going after them to get to her and, therefore, the Doctor. She tries to get them to a safe haven even though it isn't safe for her to use the phone line because of possible tracing, and does manage to warn her little brother and his family.
The biggest recent effect on Martha at this point, of course, is the year that is referred to in canon as 'The Year That Never Was", a year of the Master's rule, held in place by a paradox. During this year, Martha has to leave her family, Jack, and the Doctor in the hands of the Master so that she can save the world. Martha spends a year becoming a legend. She's the only woman to escape Japan. The woman who walks the earth. She saw ten percent of the planet die and still fights. She's treated as a savior, the only person people think can stop the Master. And she carries that weight as if born for it, leading and storytelling as she goes. All the time people think she's searching for a weapon, she even says that she is, producing a gun that she's supposedly collecting parts for.
This isn't true. It's a cover.
What Martha does, is she spends a year telling stories. A story. The story of the Doctor. She tells them that she loves him, and tells them that he can save everything. She spends a year pointing all of the minds of the planet towards one word, and spreading the tale of the Doctor like a virus under the Master's nose.
This isn't just some silly moral boost, this is actually the plan. Using huge psychic hookup the Master had been using for population control, she was directing all of that hope and love and awe actually at the Doctor, who could use it.
The plan works for the sole reason that Martha is determined enough to get the word across the world, into the minds of so many people it's practically unimaginable.
She's spent a year being the person people expect to have answers, and even when she admits she doesn't know something, she still manages a sense of authority. But this has come with a cost. As stated, Martha makes hard choices. And Martha has had to run, has had to leave people behind to face things she'd never wish on anyone because someone needs to save the world and she's the only person who can.
It's a lot to carry.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Martha has no special superhuman powers, she's an exam away from being a doctor, and has some pretty decent survival skills. She's also able to take on leadership rolls, make hard decisions of the 'needs of the many' variety, and has a charisma score that probably adds something like a plus +5 to most rolls.
She's a bit too willing to put herself at the front of the line and let herself be a target for personal safety, though it's entirely out of devotion or responsibility. She will take risks others would probably never agree to, and would never want to. This risk taking is often a strength, but only because her luck has been insane so far.
Inventory:
- One (1) leather jacket, black
- One (1) pair of pants, black
- One (1) tank top, purple
- One (1) pair black socks
- One (1) pair black boots
- One (1) one black belt.
- Two (3) Silver rings
- One (1) pair of silver wishbone earrings
- One (1) necklace, Silver and Red.
- One (1) flip cellphone that has been modified by the Doctor
- One (1)Vortex Manipulator, it wont function, but it looks like some sort of strange wrist apparatus. Almost like a watch.
-One Key that is able to hide her appearance (This is a perception filter, and it makes you unable to focus on a particular object. It doesn't work on the highly intelligent or people who are aware of the thing being disguised. Martha refers to it as knowing it's there, but not wanting to know it's there. (The wiki says it also doesn't work on people out of their time, but if this was true as of the Tenth Doctor then it would make the whole plot of the episodes where it's used not work. And since it's a rule from a 5th Doctor side story, I'm going to call it a non thing by that point.).
Appearance: She's played by the ever wonderful Freema Agyeman
Age: 23
AU Clarification: N/A
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
She'd noticed the tattoo in the shower. This was actually new as far as experiences went. Waking up in a strange, likely medical, pod, with a number tattoo was new.
That she could say. Not much she could say that about anymore.
Shakespeare, world travel, cat people. Not new. So it was something.
Martha tried to knock most of the water out of her hair, mostly just glad that she was able to get that stuff out. Whatever it was, it wasn't pleasant in the first place, but more importantly, it had been a while since she'd had the luxury of a real shower. She was going to take what she could.
Besides, that part was the easiest to deal with. The dizziness was enough to make her want to lay back down, but she was pretty certain that wasn't the best idea.
The jumpsuit was a nice touch, really, but Martha got herself back into her gear, not bothering to button her coat, and pulling out her phone.
….The lack of a signal was enough to get her nervous, and she looked to the provided communication device instead.
Alright then. Might as well.
Comms Sample:
[Martha flips on the communicator and she's got her hair down and her eyes are huge as she looks around, biting her lip and looking out with a sense of inquisitiveness that can't be beaten down even with all she's seen.]
This ship's pretty keen and all but honestly, I don't know where I am.
I really don't know where I am. That's not very new, but I'd like to.
I had things I was supposed to be doing, and I don't-
[ She pauses, and she begins to fidget with a piece of cord around her neck. Whatever the charm is, it can't be seen in frame. She looks off down the hall and then back, actually smiling at the comma as an afterthought.
What exactly are we supposed to be doing here?
