Post by The Corsair on Jun 14, 2011 17:54:40 GMT -5
Canon/Original: Canon (barely mentioned, a lot of the backstory is my own work).
Name: The Corsair.
Aliases: "Jean" (French pronunciation, male name)... and during his Academy days, "Galendeltogkin" or "Galen" for short. Does not like to be called Galen anymore. Might threaten you with something sharp if you try it.
Age: Around 500 years.
Species: Time Lord.
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey.
Occupation: Adventurer, professional anti-hero, mercenary for a good cause, occasional pirate, ex-Time Agent.
Personality: Where the Doctor wanted to go out and live history instead of studying it, and the Master wants to rule the universe... the Corsair just wants to have FUN. With a gleefully irreverent attitude and a taste for danger, the Corsair's favourite periods in time are the high seas of 1700s Earth, where he originally acquired his name, and the well-travelled space-lanes of the fifty-first century.
Deep down a good and decent person, the Corsair is an idealist infatuated by the romantic image of the bad-boy attitude and piratical lifestyle, and hasn't lost any enthusiasm for this path even after experiencing just how cruel some people further down it can be. Exuberant and perhaps a touch melodramatic, the Corsair will tend not to overtly display any sense of higher morality, but will always try to do the right thing whenever possible.
Not that it's always possible, mind you.
History: A few years younger than the most infamous Time Lords such as the Doctor and the Master, the Corsair was generally overlooked by his peers in the Time Lord Academy. He was a dreamer, spending most of his time fantasising about high adventure on distant planets. He didn't want scientific merit, power, or even reality as history portrayed it. He was fascinated by the glamour of anti-heroes and magnificent villains of legend on alien worlds.
So it was that when he graduated from the Academy, and earned the right to pilot and own his own TARDIS (legally, I might add... Doctor). He took off into the great unknown in search of adventure.
He spent over a century chasing after every opportunity he could find to explore that which was unknown, not only to the local races but also to his own people. He actively sought out worlds with legend and myth of fantastical creatures, not to prove the myth wrong, as his more scientifically-minded peers might have done, but to pretend it was right.
His first lifetime was brought to an abrupt end by a run-in with the Time Agency. A relatively minor misunderstanding involving a ruby the size of his head, and an unnamed Agent with a laser gun and a twitchy trigger-finger. However, instead of retaliating or avoiding the Agency, the Corsair used the advantage of a new face to join them. He was only able to remain for about five years, before his lack of apparent aging made it necessary for him to leave, but during that time he did manage to make a few friends and enemies among the Agency ranks. And to acquire a Vortex Manipulator.
During his third lifetime, he attempted to impersonate Blackbeard, just for the fun of it. He was lucky to get out without Regenerating again. Bananas were involved in his escape. Undead monkeys were not.
The Corsair never received the summons to the Time War. From his perspective, it simply hasn't happened yet.
It's very rare for a Time Lord to change gender or apparent species when they Regenerate, however to this date the Corsair has been through five very different male forms, spent one lifetime as a reptilian alien of indeterminate gender, and has most recently been forced by an altercation with genetically engineered space-pirates, to regenerate yet again.
This time, into the form of a woman.
With her TARDIS' navigation systems shorted out, and the added disorientation of Regeneration-sickness, she now had absolutely no idea what planet or era she has been forced to land in, but wherever and whenever she is, she'll just have to make the best of it.
Physical Description: 5'6" and slender, with dark brown hair and darker grey eyes. The Corsair favours clothing of a swashbuckling style, dark colours with knee-length coat and boots, all far better suited to the 1700s than the present day.
While the Corsair usually prefers to wear a very particular tattoo of a serpent consuming its tail, this recent Regeneration has left her without it. A detail that makes her almost as uncomfortable as a twenty-first century human being naked in front of their high-school graduation class.
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Additional Notes: I'd like to start playing from the Corsair's TARDIS crashing, if I may. Preferably in Cardiff if Torchwood is interested in having me... or if there's an opportunity after 'The Doctor's Wife' for her to encounter the 11th Doctor, that could be fun too.
Or anywhere/when else, with anyone else, if neither of those two options are available.
I'm also willing to play the Corsair in the school days setting, as well (if I ever manage to read through what's already there!), but he would be a minor character or bit-part at best, as he was never really close to any of the major players there.
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P.S. Yes, that's Angelica from Pirates of the Caribbean 4, in my signature. No, I'm not trying to write a crossover, I just wanted to steal her face.
Name: The Corsair.
Aliases: "Jean" (French pronunciation, male name)... and during his Academy days, "Galendeltogkin" or "Galen" for short. Does not like to be called Galen anymore. Might threaten you with something sharp if you try it.
Age: Around 500 years.
Species: Time Lord.
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey.
Occupation: Adventurer, professional anti-hero, mercenary for a good cause, occasional pirate, ex-Time Agent.
Personality: Where the Doctor wanted to go out and live history instead of studying it, and the Master wants to rule the universe... the Corsair just wants to have FUN. With a gleefully irreverent attitude and a taste for danger, the Corsair's favourite periods in time are the high seas of 1700s Earth, where he originally acquired his name, and the well-travelled space-lanes of the fifty-first century.
Deep down a good and decent person, the Corsair is an idealist infatuated by the romantic image of the bad-boy attitude and piratical lifestyle, and hasn't lost any enthusiasm for this path even after experiencing just how cruel some people further down it can be. Exuberant and perhaps a touch melodramatic, the Corsair will tend not to overtly display any sense of higher morality, but will always try to do the right thing whenever possible.
Not that it's always possible, mind you.
History: A few years younger than the most infamous Time Lords such as the Doctor and the Master, the Corsair was generally overlooked by his peers in the Time Lord Academy. He was a dreamer, spending most of his time fantasising about high adventure on distant planets. He didn't want scientific merit, power, or even reality as history portrayed it. He was fascinated by the glamour of anti-heroes and magnificent villains of legend on alien worlds.
So it was that when he graduated from the Academy, and earned the right to pilot and own his own TARDIS (legally, I might add... Doctor). He took off into the great unknown in search of adventure.
He spent over a century chasing after every opportunity he could find to explore that which was unknown, not only to the local races but also to his own people. He actively sought out worlds with legend and myth of fantastical creatures, not to prove the myth wrong, as his more scientifically-minded peers might have done, but to pretend it was right.
His first lifetime was brought to an abrupt end by a run-in with the Time Agency. A relatively minor misunderstanding involving a ruby the size of his head, and an unnamed Agent with a laser gun and a twitchy trigger-finger. However, instead of retaliating or avoiding the Agency, the Corsair used the advantage of a new face to join them. He was only able to remain for about five years, before his lack of apparent aging made it necessary for him to leave, but during that time he did manage to make a few friends and enemies among the Agency ranks. And to acquire a Vortex Manipulator.
During his third lifetime, he attempted to impersonate Blackbeard, just for the fun of it. He was lucky to get out without Regenerating again. Bananas were involved in his escape. Undead monkeys were not.
The Corsair never received the summons to the Time War. From his perspective, it simply hasn't happened yet.
It's very rare for a Time Lord to change gender or apparent species when they Regenerate, however to this date the Corsair has been through five very different male forms, spent one lifetime as a reptilian alien of indeterminate gender, and has most recently been forced by an altercation with genetically engineered space-pirates, to regenerate yet again.
This time, into the form of a woman.
With her TARDIS' navigation systems shorted out, and the added disorientation of Regeneration-sickness, she now had absolutely no idea what planet or era she has been forced to land in, but wherever and whenever she is, she'll just have to make the best of it.
Physical Description: 5'6" and slender, with dark brown hair and darker grey eyes. The Corsair favours clothing of a swashbuckling style, dark colours with knee-length coat and boots, all far better suited to the 1700s than the present day.
While the Corsair usually prefers to wear a very particular tattoo of a serpent consuming its tail, this recent Regeneration has left her without it. A detail that makes her almost as uncomfortable as a twenty-first century human being naked in front of their high-school graduation class.
---
Additional Notes: I'd like to start playing from the Corsair's TARDIS crashing, if I may. Preferably in Cardiff if Torchwood is interested in having me... or if there's an opportunity after 'The Doctor's Wife' for her to encounter the 11th Doctor, that could be fun too.
Or anywhere/when else, with anyone else, if neither of those two options are available.
I'm also willing to play the Corsair in the school days setting, as well (if I ever manage to read through what's already there!), but he would be a minor character or bit-part at best, as he was never really close to any of the major players there.
---
P.S. Yes, that's Angelica from Pirates of the Caribbean 4, in my signature. No, I'm not trying to write a crossover, I just wanted to steal her face.
