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YOU
NAME: Jane
AGE: 18
JOURNAL: [profile] lil_kaylee_frye
RESERVE: Here!

YOUR CHARACTER
FANDOM: Doctor Who
AGE: 35
APPEARANCE: Donna Noble, as played by Catherine Tate
CANON POINT: Just after the Doctor's botched regeneration in Journey's End.
MEMORY LOSS: No.

WIKI: Main history

PERSONALITY: From an early age Donna displayed just how stubborn she was as when she was six, she was refused a summer holiday so decided to take matters into her own hands and get a bus to Strathclyde. In her first appearance, Donna was primarily portrayed as loud and brash, with one fierce temper, making sure to keep the Doctor at arm's length. Her knowledge of the world around her was limited to what she could find in a gossip magazine or on the television so she is very well-versed in pop culture. She was noted to have missed several major alien invasions the people of the Doctor Who universe would have experienced, e.g. the Sycorax invasion of 2005, the Dalek/Cyberman invasion of 2006 for very typically human things, i.e. she on holiday, she was hungover. Over the course of The Runaway Bride - her first episode - she slowly warmed to the Doctor and showed her more sympathetic side when she displayed horror and shock, urging the Doctor to stop as he murdered the Racnoss, despite the threat they presented to the planet. It was because of this that she turned down his offer of travelling with him in the TARDIS.

However, meeting the Doctor clearly changed her life. Her eyes were opened to the bigger picture~~. She grew to regret her decision not to accompany the Doctor and spent almost a year searching for him, showing how determined she can be. She read and scoured the Internet for him, looking out for any possible alien activity to investigate, knowing it was more than likely the Doctor would turn up. And lo and behold! she ran into him will investigating Adipose Industries. The main reason Donna travelled with the Doctor was to be able to travel the universe and feel like she's doing something worthwhile rather than just being stuck in some dead-end job, and living the same boring, old life. She wants excitement and thrills, even going to Egypt for two weeks after she first met the Doctor in a vain attempt to recapture some of the excitement she felt when she was with him. However, that proved unhelpful as eventually she had to arrive home and so began her search for a certain Time Lord.

The Doctor is probably the most important person in Donna's life - well, apart from her beloved grandfather. The Doctor means the world to her - with her even going as far to say that she trusts him with her life (but never tell him that!) - because of the opportunity he has given her to tour the universe and she constantly looks out for him by comforting him when he's down, helping him in defeating the alien baddies, etc. etc. However, their relationship is strictly platonic, despite the numerous times they've been mistaken for a couple. Despite how much she cares for the Doctor, however, she isn't afraid to give him a sharp slap or piece of her mind if she thinks he's stepping out of line.

While throughout her canon she may have mellowed somewhat from her initial appearance, she still can shout and will stand up for what she believes to be right, for example, she doesn't approve of Ood Operations and how they use the subserviant Ood species as slaves to make a tidy profit with and she plays a key role in setting the Ood free. Her fiery temper hides a deep well of compassion, which is seen in the aforementioned encounter with the Ood and also when Donna accepts the Doctor's daughter, Jenny, more readily than himself and encourages the Doctor to accept her as his own and when Donna pleads the Doctor to save even just a single family from Pompeii. She is capable of empathizing with other people, for example if she sees someone in distress she will try to comfort them. Donna is notably a pacifist, refusing to use violence (slaps don't count!) unless absolutely necessary, for example, she is appalled by UNIT and, upon meeting Martha, she asks the Doctor, "Is that what you did to her, turned her into a soldier?" as though worried that the same might happen to her. During her tenure on the show the only time she killed was when she murdered an alien wasp called the Vespiform which was trying to kill famous novelist, Agatha Christie, and afterwards she claimed she couldn't help herself. 

Donna is sometimes portrayed as unintelligent (usually for comic relief), but on other occasions she is shown to be quite clever such as when she mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days while working for a library. 

The major flaw of Donna's character is that she has some very serious issues with her self-esteem, constantly putting herself down as not being anything special or really of any worth. This probably stems from Donna's mother always putting her down about her hopping about from job to job, how she doesn't have a house of her own, basically anything. Her self-esteem issues are part of the reason why Donna is so loud, with the Meta-crisis Doctor saying that she's "shouting at the world because no-one's listening." 

POWERS: Donna has no magical powers. :(

RP SAMPLE: Neither one of them says a word as they return to the TARDIS, hand in hand. Just the fact that they have the other is comfort enough for the moment. Donna's heart aches - for the husband, the children and the life she's lost. Well, not really, she supposes, they were just a computer simulation, pixels organized by the super brain of a little girl. You can't lose what you've never really had, she tries to comfort herself with that knowledge. It doesn't help. If anything, the grief she feels grows just that little bit more unbearable. Really, she wants nothing more than to just let her strong facade of an exterior crumble and to rant and cry and scream at the unfairness of it all. Oh, God. She'd been happy. She wonders if that happiness was just as much a simulation as Lee and the kids.

The grief is mixed in with guilt and that makes it all the more terrible. She'd promised Lee - and herself - that she'd find him, no matter where he was, she'd said she'd find him. And she didn't. She gives a tiny, almost inaudible sigh. Maybe she did just dream him up out of nothingness. She'd obviously been dwelling on a bunch of failed relationships - from Matthew who'd turned out to be gay to Lance who'd tried to feed her to some giant spider thing - and dreamed up the perfect man. Lee McAvoy, gorgeous and couldn't speak a word. Oh, she'd give anything to hear that little stammer of his again! She smiled slightly at the memory of him trying to say her name when they first met.

She knows she has to stay strong. For the Doctor's sake, at least. He's hurting, as well. She knows he is, even though he's too stubborn to admit it. That River Song woman, whoever she was, seemed to mean something to him. And her to him. Now, she was dead. She'd sacrificed herself so he could live on and experience whatever future they would have together - River and the Doctor. Shaking her head, Donna tried to rid her mind of the memory of the look River gave her when she heard her name. That didn't matter now. Donna gave the Doctor's hand - her best friend's hand - a little squeeze and offered him a small, sad smile which he returned. They'd be all right. Eventually.

ANYTHING ELSE?: Nope!

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