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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!
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:
Martha Jones is a woman built on determination, faith, and love.
From a young age she became fascinated with becoming a doctor, due to an arm break, and pursued that to an end beyond all else. She is inherently practical, often coming to point B as point A has barely been established, and often asks questions without fear of ‘sounding like an idiot’ because they need to be asked to figure out the next step in a problem. Martha also is very inquisitive, much like her asking questions without worry, she also fiddles with things, reads everything nearby, and tends to have leveled up spot more than most companions. Along with taking things in, Martha is able to accept them very quickly, having an open mind about people, ideas, and places, which causes her to form friendships on her and the Doctor’s travels, as well as being able to assimilate into the current situation fairly well, all things considered.
She is very intelligent, both in an abstract sense, as she remembers things, takes things in, comes up with plans, and implements them often before other people have really had the ability to come up with something else, and in the sense that other creatures have measured her intelligence as ‘high’.
Among other things, Martha is very able to rationalize the needs of the many, though that is a more recent development, likely fed by her time with the Doctor as it develops over the series, even in later appearances.
At the start of the series, it’s never quite clear how good Martha’s self esteem is, and it takes quite the beating from the Doctor, the various peoples on their travels, and the various ways in which she holds herself up to pretty high standards. As time goes on, it’s pretty clear, with some smaller lapses, Martha is very settled in herself, and even takes people’s judgments as a challenge. Say she can’t be a Doctor as a Black Woman in the early 1900’s? She’s going to give you a pretty badass speech including every bone of the hand and explaining exactly how well she knows what she knows. Think she can’t walk the earth and save the world? She’s going to laugh at you two seconds to doomsday.
She is able to push through remarkably hard times, both personally, physically, and in ways that effect the whole world, and is able to do it with a sense of compassion and kindness that sets her apart.
Compassion is one of Martha’s key attributes, even when she’s angry, or upset, or jealous, she’s able to overcome that either to celebrate with someone or to stand up for them.
Martha is able to admit when she’s scared or hurt, though occasionally it does come out somewhat passive aggressively, or in some cases just aggressively, no passivity to it at all. She is able to stand up to people she cares about when she believes they are wrong, or even just when she is completely fed up, and even when at the absolute end of her rope, she’s able to continue on. It’s hard to make Martha legitimately angry, often getting more frustrated than anything else, and it’s mostly in relation to friends or family being in danger or hurt. Fear often is coupled with anger in Martha, making her quicker to lash out than usual or easier to upset, though she can work her way through it should the need be.
She has a need to be strong for the people she loves, and has a need to do what she does and do it well, be that being a Doctor, being a companion, or just being Martha.
Martha has an undeniable relentlessness in trying to make things work out, often looking like blind faith in the Doctor or the situation, but really it’s just that she wont let it go any differently. Stuck in the 1960’s? Get a job, figure out how to get the TARDIS back, and move on. Stuck with a 10th of the world’s population killed in a day and a crazy world dictator? Fix it through spreading a word. Have your father’s crazy girlfriend at your brother’s birthday? Rearrange the times so your mother and her don’t see each other. Though it doesn’t always work out for the best, it often does, and often because Martha just wouldn’t quit.
In short, Martha’s willing to do what needs to be done, willing to be there for people who need someone, and there, most importantly, to help.
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:
It had been a complete accident that she had been alone in the first place.
In the short while she'd been on the Tranquility, she'd found herself getting better accustomed to her frequent treks to the Medbay, and had actually managed to get from point A to B without getting horribly lost, so there was that.
For the work itself, she found she was enjoying it, the people were interesting, and she liked having something to do that didn't feel like it was nothing. It had taken her a bit to catch up, the technology was beyond what she'd been trained in, but she'd seen stranger things than a surgery that could run itself, so she figured she was alright in the long run.
Martha had taken a late shift, or what could be assumed was a late shift, space was always a bit relative, and so had found herself in a near deserted Medbay on her way out. Regardless, she'd peeked in to say goodbye before heading off to the last few on shift, to let them know she was leaving.
Then she must've taken a wrong turn, or possibly the elevator hadn't understood her, or she hadn't understood it, but either way, when Martha looked up from reading over her Comm, she didn't recognize a thing.
Sure, it was close enough, the color was right and all, but the turns were wrong and Martha stopped.
"What in-…." She paused and turned back to look in the direction of the lift, uncertain, and the Comm began beeping, the hazard warning clear across the screen.
She decided it was clearly time to leave and with a look over her shoulder, she hurried back to the elevator, trying to signal it back, hoping the creeping sense of something watching was just paranoia and had nothing to do with reality.
That was about the time a scratching came from somewhere down the hall, like metal on metal, Martha stopped again, and looked towards the noise, her eyes widening as the sound came closer. There was something there, Martha was sure. She tried to call the lift again, a little more urgently this time, and put her back to the lift door, ready to step back if it opened.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" She asked looking off into the shadows, trying to catch a glimpse of what was coming.
The scraping got louder and Martha took a deep breath trying to stay calm as a shadow moved at the edges of the dark, one of the panels casting enough light to tell something of a shape, enough to know it didn't walk on two legs.
The doors behind her finally opened and she stepped back with as she saw the shadow move again, disappearing into the dark. Just as the lift's doors slid shut, there was a massive clang, and a loud screech like nails on a chalkboard, enough to rattle the lift door, and knock Martha to the wall.
As she stood there, leaned against the panelling, she turned on the comm, hoping she was correct in having reached security, she hit a button wrong twice due to shaking fingers, but she did eventually get through.
"I don't know where I- I'm not quite sure what happened, but something just tried to attack me. I didn't get a good look at it," She said. "But it shook the whole lift."
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?
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and this
Oh Mr. Hawke, what a terrible lamp you have.
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:
Martha Jones is a woman built on determination, faith, and love.
From a young age she became fascinated with becoming a doctor, due to an arm break, and pursued that to an end beyond all else. She is inherently practical, often coming to point B as point A has barely been established, and often asks questions without fear of ‘sounding like an idiot’ because they need to be asked to figure out the next step in a problem. Martha also is very inquisitive, much like her asking questions without worry, she also fiddles with things, reads everything nearby, and tends to have leveled up spot more than most companions. Along with taking things in, Martha is able to accept them very quickly, having an open mind about people, ideas, and places, which causes her to form friendships on her and the Doctor’s travels, as well as being able to assimilate into the current situation fairly well, all things considered.
She is very intelligent, both in an abstract sense, as she remembers things, takes things in, comes up with plans, and implements them often before other people have really had the ability to come up with something else, and in the sense that other creatures have measured her intelligence as ‘high’.
Among other things, Martha is very able to rationalize the needs of the many, though that is a more recent development, likely fed by her time with the Doctor as it develops over the series, even in later appearances.
At the start of the series, it’s never quite clear how good Martha’s self esteem is, and it takes quite the beating from the Doctor, the various peoples on their travels, and the various ways in which she holds herself up to pretty high standards. As time goes on, it’s pretty clear, with some smaller lapses, Martha is very settled in herself, and even takes people’s judgments as a challenge. Say she can’t be a Doctor as a Black Woman in the early 1900’s? She’s going to give you a pretty badass speech including every bone of the hand and explaining exactly how well she knows what she knows. Think she can’t walk the earth and save the world? She’s going to laugh at you two seconds to doomsday.
She is able to push through remarkably hard times, both personally, physically, and in ways that effect the whole world, and is able to do it with a sense of compassion and kindness that sets her apart.
Compassion is one of Martha’s key attributes, even when she’s angry, or upset, or jealous, she’s able to overcome that either to celebrate with someone or to stand up for them.
Martha is able to admit when she’s scared or hurt, though occasionally it does come out somewhat passive aggressively, or in some cases just aggressively, no passivity to it at all. She is able to stand up to people she cares about when she believes they are wrong, or even just when she is completely fed up, and even when at the absolute end of her rope, she’s able to continue on. It’s hard to make Martha legitimately angry, often getting more frustrated than anything else, and it’s mostly in relation to friends or family being in danger or hurt. Fear often is coupled with anger in Martha, making her quicker to lash out than usual or easier to upset, though she can work her way through it should the need be.
She has a need to be strong for the people she loves, and has a need to do what she does and do it well, be that being a Doctor, being a companion, or just being Martha.
Martha has an undeniable relentlessness in trying to make things work out, often looking like blind faith in the Doctor or the situation, but really it’s just that she wont let it go any differently. Stuck in the 1960’s? Get a job, figure out how to get the TARDIS back, and move on. Stuck with a 10th of the world’s population killed in a day and a crazy world dictator? Fix it through spreading a word. Have your father’s crazy girlfriend at your brother’s birthday? Rearrange the times so your mother and her don’t see each other. Though it doesn’t always work out for the best, it often does, and often because Martha just wouldn’t quit.
In short, Martha’s willing to do what needs to be done, willing to be there for people who need someone, and there, most importantly, to help.
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:
It had been a complete accident that she had been alone in the first place.
In the short while she'd been on the Tranquility, she'd found herself getting better accustomed to her frequent treks to the Medbay, and had actually managed to get from point A to B without getting horribly lost, so there was that.
For the work itself, she found she was enjoying it, the people were interesting, and she liked having something to do that didn't feel like it was nothing. It had taken her a bit to catch up, the technology was beyond what she'd been trained in, but she'd seen stranger things than a surgery that could run itself, so she figured she was alright in the long run.
Martha had taken a late shift, or what could be assumed was a late shift, space was always a bit relative, and so had found herself in a near deserted Medbay on her way out. Regardless, she'd peeked in to say goodbye before heading off to the last few on shift, to let them know she was leaving.
Then she must've taken a wrong turn, or possibly the elevator hadn't understood her, or she hadn't understood it, but either way, when Martha looked up from reading over her Comm, she didn't recognize a thing.
Sure, it was close enough, the color was right and all, but the turns were wrong and Martha stopped.
"What in-…." She paused and turned back to look in the direction of the lift, uncertain, and the Comm began beeping, the hazard warning clear across the screen.
She decided it was clearly time to leave and with a look over her shoulder, she hurried back to the elevator, trying to signal it back, hoping the creeping sense of something watching was just paranoia and had nothing to do with reality.
That was about the time a scratching came from somewhere down the hall, like metal on metal, Martha stopped again, and looked towards the noise, her eyes widening as the sound came closer. There was something there, Martha was sure. She tried to call the lift again, a little more urgently this time, and put her back to the lift door, ready to step back if it opened.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" She asked looking off into the shadows, trying to catch a glimpse of what was coming.
The scraping got louder and Martha took a deep breath trying to stay calm as a shadow moved at the edges of the dark, one of the panels casting enough light to tell something of a shape, enough to know it didn't walk on two legs.
The doors behind her finally opened and she stepped back with as she saw the shadow move again, disappearing into the dark. Just as the lift's doors slid shut, there was a massive clang, and a loud screech like nails on a chalkboard, enough to rattle the lift door, and knock Martha to the wall.
As she stood there, leaned against the panelling, she turned on the comm, hoping she was correct in having reached security, she hit a button wrong twice due to shaking fingers, but she did eventually get through.
"I don't know where I- I'm not quite sure what happened, but something just tried to attack me. I didn't get a good look at it," She said. "But it shook the whole lift."
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?
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and this
Oh Mr. Hawke, what a terrible lamp you have.
Canon Point Explanation!
Date: 2013-06-08 07:49 pm (UTC)She's still a bit more hardened and militaristic than we ever see her before or since, and I mostly want to try her out in this difficult time for her, especially in a new and difficult situation that would try everything she has and has learned.