Post by Susan Foreman on Jul 12, 2010 19:08:56 GMT -5
She's a canon.
Her name is Susan Foreman.
She's around four hundred and sixty years old.*
She's a Time Lady from the planet Gallifrey.
Her occupation is a wanderer. She'd like to find her grandfather.
Appearance;
Susan's new body was similar to the one she had when she began her travels with Ian and Barbara and her grandfather. Unlike her grandfather's penchant for appearing older and wise (at least he had when she knew him) she preferred a younger form.** She kept her hair short and black as it had originally been. Instead of the sixties of fashion, however, she kept it straightened to give it more of a modern look. Her eyes had changed from dark brown to a bright shade of blue, much like her grandfather's. Susan had opted to be taller than her previous form - for both practical reasons (she couldn't reach the tops of her cupboards) and personal reasons (she found that there wasn't nice pants for short people). Her skin retained the paleness from her original form.
Personality;
Susan could remember a time when she had been reluctant to join her grandfather on his journeys. All she had wanted was to just to settle down and start a family. During her travels with her grandfather she witnessed pain and death, rarely beauty of any sort. Eventually she found love in David Campbell. The Doctor had forced her out of the TARDIS and locked her out, leaving her in post-invaded Earth. He knew that because she was intensely loyal to him she wouldn't have left of her own free will.
After both her son and her husband died, Susan felt the need to change. She voluntarily regenerated. Much of her personality remained the same - her fear of rats and her loyal nature being a few - however she did change. She thrived for adventure, unlike the previous Susan who had merely wanted to be domestic. Her new-found sense of adventure went unfulfilled due to being stuck in one time period without a TARDIS or even a vortex manipulator.
The woman was considerably more introverted and cynical than her previous incarnation. She was not aloof by any means, but she wasn't a social butterfly. Susan had a tendency to over-analyze what people say and dwell on them. She's gotten in the habit of using her telepathic skills to read the surface thoughts of what others think; she finds it helpful when trying to judge whether somebody means a comment jokingly or hostile.
History;
Susan left Gallifrey with her grandfather. Before staying on Earth for five months they traveled to various planets and time periods. After settling on the destination the girl changed her name to 'Susan Foreman', most likely do to the 'Foreman' owning the land on which she and her grandfather resided. While during her five-month stay on Earth she attended a local school and impressed her teachers Ian and Barbara with her advanced history and science knowledge. They puzzled over her lack of knowledge of basic things -- how many shillings in a pound, for example.
Her adventures began when they followed her home. Soon all three had been kidnapped by the Doctor and were waist-deep in adventures and excitement. Susan often expressed her desires to just settle down and start a family - something she longed for, perhaps, because of her grandfather's restlessness and her desire to break away from what was expected as a relative of the infamous Time Lord. Although she wished to settle down, she felt that her time with her grandfather had been cut off too quickly.
When she fell in love the man had effectively kicked her out. Although she understood his intentions she couldn't help but resent him after Alex and David passed away. She was stuck on Earth without a way back to Gallifrey, and to make matters worse she was stuck in the future without a TARDIS or time traveling device. Although her previous incarnation had met up with the Doctor a few times after later regenerations on his part, she still had not seen him for at least twenty years - although, what did time matter when one was a Time Lord? For her grandfather perhaps only days passed.
Her human husband had passed on due to being shot while working as a freedom fighter. He was recognized as a national hero for defending London and the world against the Dalek invasion. Her son soon joined a rebel resistance, hurt after his father's death. After the Doctor went back in her life briefly to intervene and make sure that Alex didn't get himself killed when aliens attacked, the teenage Time Lord grew restless. He went out to go fight against an alien threat that was rumoured to be taking hold in a club. However, Alex was murdered and death took hold too quickly, not allowing him enough time to regenerate.
She was approximately four hundred and fifty when she decided that she needed a change. It was her first regeneration, and she found another reason to be bitter with her grandfather. He hadn't told her how much it would hurt. When she looked back on it she can't see how she had expected it to be painless. Her entire anatomy had changed - her limbs had grown, her eyes changed, her skin burnt, and her chest had to make room for another heart. Perhaps the Time Lords' greatest advantage was meant to be such a disadvantage.
*they never actually go into Susan's "real" age. An Unearthly Child said she was fifteen (human?) years, but then later went on to say she was older than Ian & Barbara combined. I figure that Time Lords would age slower; also, the Doctor was described as a "relatively young Time Lord". so I'm not exactly sure. ^^*
** I'm going with that Time Lords can choose the way they appear when they voluntarily regenerate because the second Romana spent like ten minutes deciding on a body in Destiny of the Daleks.**
- also I got lazy and reused a submission. >~> and I kind of went with that it was okay to regenerate her. because the Doctor can't stay in the same body for more than five years it seems, so after forty years Susan should get at least one. XD -
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