Post by Amy Pond on Nov 7, 2011 7:18:08 GMT -5
"Oops. Did I say that? I'm sorry - so terribly sorry. See, the thing about me is that I lie - so very much. It's OK, big boy. You'll get used to it."
Hey, guys - it's Katie (AKA Amy, River, "Amy Song" <--- Thanks, SJ!), and as I was sitting around waiting for posts, I thought, "Gee... Wouldn't it be cool to app a third character here?" Then, I thought, "But, shoot! There are SO MANY CHOICES in canon alone... And, I want someone who has a TARDIS of her own... someone I can post with MULTIPLE DOCTORS with... and, someone who might get a bit more love than my beloved River" (not everyone hates her, you know! lol).
Then, I saw the name "Iris Wildthyme" and was intrigued by her last name alone... So, I started researching her online (yay, Google!) and totally dug her background, which meant: I had found what I had been looking for.
Several hours later (I should TOTALLY have gone to bed HOURS ago - oops!), I now have a finished bio, which I think is quite decent. With her approval, I plan to create a new login ID with her first and last name (and I will reply to this thread with the new account just to make the connection visible), and I am TOTALLY looking forward to writing with a whole bunch of different Doctors and Companions - and I am definitely interested in somehow affiliating her with Jack's version of Torchwood (just an FYI - PM me, or the new account when it's created, if you'd like to plot).
*HUGS*
Canon
Name: Iris Wildthyme
Alias: Brenda Soobie (used in the 1960s on Earth with the Eighth Doctor)
Age: A bit older than The Doctor
Species: Gallifreyan, Time Lord (Lady)
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey
Occupation: Iris has worked for UNIT as a Scientific Advisor, and also for the Ministry of Incursions and Ontological Wonders (MIAOW).
Physical Description: Currently in what is believed to be her seventh regeneration, Iris now appears as a stunning, curvy late-20s/early-30s woman with whimsical blue-gray eyes and full, pouty lips. Her hair color varies, though Iris prefers to be blonde. [Portrayed by Kate Winslet]
Personality: The first of Iris’ incarnations faced Morbius in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, going up against aliens such as the Quarks and the Zarbi - Iris is no pushover. She’s one tough cookie and can totally hold her own! Iris has a playful, mischievous personality. She delights in baiting the Doctor and getting into trouble. Some call her “The Lady Doctor”, since her travels tend to be so much like his own. Her Mancunian accent and frequent appearances on Earth do seem to suggest that - like her friend, The Doctor - she has some love for the planet Gallifrey (though, she doesn’t really have any “warm fuzzies” for the other Time Lords - especially Rassilon).
Like The Doctor, Iris prefers to travel with companions, rather than alone. Iris tends to brag that she has a house in every world, time zone and planet that she’s visited, to which The Doctor once commented that she collects homes as he does companions. Iris also loves gin, perhaps even more than The Doctor loves Jelly Babies - she may be a little bit of an alcoholic.
History:
According to both The Doctor and Iris herself, she is a Gallifreyan. Iris claims to have been raised by a House of Aunts (as opposed to Cousins) in the mountains of southern Gallifrey, and that her mother abandoned her when she was quite young, having run off with an older off-worlder. This all has been unable to be confirmed, however, since Iris had managed to erase all of her records from the Matrix before she fled Gallifrey - which explains why the other Time Lords, and everyone else knows virtually nothing about her.
Her escape was facilitated by her discovery of an experimental TARDIS that had been rejected and left to “die” after a crash-landing in the wilderness, just outside the Capitol city of Gallifrey. Iris clandestinely “healed” it, and when she couldn’t abide the hypocritical Rassilon and his ever-growing Laws of Time anymore, Iris used this TARDIS to make her escape from the Time Lords and all of their rules, and strike out on her own, never to return. Because Iris was traveling through Time and Space when Gallifrey was time-locked and destroyed, she did not wind up a causality of The Last Great Time War. In fact, due to her travels through Time and Space, Iris appears to live her life out of synch with the rest of Gallifrey, and she may have been aware of its future destruction, due to having traveled through the space that once had been Gallifrey on one of many jaunts into the future.
Iris has had several adventures with The Doctor including various regenerations of each. No matter what each other looks like, because they are both Time Lords, they can sense each other if they are near enough, and can recognize each other.
Iris once proposed to the Doctor in Venice, when she appeared to be a woman in her sixties, with long white hair worn in a braid that reached down to the ground.
On one occasion, Iris spent Christmas with the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka. Iris was not very fond of Tegan, describing her as "that shrill Australian woman."
She was in London in 1867 when the Doctor and Nyssa were stranded there due to Thomas Brewster accidentally sending the TARDIS on a solo flight. The Doctor (perhaps wisely) decided against requesting Iris' assistance in retrieving it.
Iris once shared breakfast with President Abraham Lincoln on the White House lawn in the 1860s after saving the United States from "Martian invaders" for the third time. She said that they had "such a laugh." She also met Napoléon Bonaparte on the Russian front in 1812 and claimed that, in spite of what the history books said, he was "anything but small."
Under the alias Brenda Soobie, Iris visited 1960s Las Vegas where she met the Eighth Doctor, along with his companions Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.
Iris, with her companion Tom, visited Earth and aided the Third Doctor in defeating Verdigris. In this same incarnation, Iris also met the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones. Iris ate a Kaled mutant during this period and regenerated...
Iris' next incarnation met the Eighth Doctor in Paris, 1934 and also in the Obverse.
Iris encountered the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith in 1764. At this point, The Doctor already knew Iris as an "old friend", and she is seen to be travelling in a 20th century London Routemaster double-decker bus (the No. 22 to Putney Common, to be specific), which is, in reality, her TARDIS. Iris had been trying to obtain a house in every century and had brought her newest companion, Turner, with hopes of marrying him off to the wealthy Bella Huntingdon, thereby gaining access to the impressive Huntingdon estate. In reality, the Huntingdons were of an alien species and Lady Huntingdon wanted Iris' TARDIS so she could return to her home world. When Iris refused, Lady Huntingdon raced to the TARDIS and attacked Iris when she got there. Thankfully, The Doctor was able to trap Lady Huntingdon in a message pod/pocket universe. With her real estate plan foiled, Iris left 1764, leaving Turner trapped in the past with his alien fiancee.
In her sixth incarnation, Iris had an adventure with the Doctor's fifth incarnation on Artaris. Iris travelled to Artaris again, where she met Bernice Summerfield. After this adventure, Iris dropped the drunken Bernice off on a starship to take her home and continued on her adventures, alone...
Since then, Iris has regenerated for what is believed to be a seventh time, and therefore has a new face for her old (and new) friends to meet.
Her TARDIS:
Iris claimed that she rescued her TARDIS from being scrapped, nursing it back to health. In contrast with other TARDISes, Iris’ was slightly smaller on the inside, a fact attributed to the fact that her TARDIS was dying when she found it. Since then, it seems to have “healed” and acts quite like a “normal” TARDIS (if such a term can actually be used to describe such a creature) - at least, insofar as it is now bigger on the inside. Like it’s supposed to be.
As her TARDIS was initially experimental, Iris has found that it can easily and painlessly traverse between dimensions - her TARDIS is, in fact, transdimensional.
The “desktop theme” inside the TARDIS is vastly different than that of The Doctor’s TARDIS - Iris’ TARDIS has the controls up on the dashboard, where the driver’s seat would be on a bus, and she operates it in a similar manner that one would drive a bus. Now that it is bigger on the inside, the interior of Iris’ TARDIS no longer resembles that of a double-decker bus - at least, not beyond the first row of passenger seats. From there, the “bus” opens up into rooms, upon rooms, upon rooms... and unlike The Doctor’s TARDIS, it is opulent and richly decorated (as opposed to sparse and sterile).
Like The Doctor’s TARDIS, Iris’ has a “fussy” chameleon circuit, and just like Iris, her TARDIS is a bit of a renegade too, and it has chosen to “wear” the guise of a 20th century London Routemaster double-decker bus; however, unlike The Doctor’s TARDIS, Iris’ is able to allow its chameleon circuit to function “properly” when it senses that caution is more prudent than vanity. Rather than taking on another form, the TARDIS thinks that the double-decker bus “look” is “cool”, and it would rather turn itself invisible than take on any other appearance.
Hey, guys - it's Katie (AKA Amy, River, "Amy Song" <--- Thanks, SJ!), and as I was sitting around waiting for posts, I thought, "Gee... Wouldn't it be cool to app a third character here?" Then, I thought, "But, shoot! There are SO MANY CHOICES in canon alone... And, I want someone who has a TARDIS of her own... someone I can post with MULTIPLE DOCTORS with... and, someone who might get a bit more love than my beloved River" (not everyone hates her, you know! lol).
Then, I saw the name "Iris Wildthyme" and was intrigued by her last name alone... So, I started researching her online (yay, Google!) and totally dug her background, which meant: I had found what I had been looking for.
Several hours later (I should TOTALLY have gone to bed HOURS ago - oops!), I now have a finished bio, which I think is quite decent. With her approval, I plan to create a new login ID with her first and last name (and I will reply to this thread with the new account just to make the connection visible), and I am TOTALLY looking forward to writing with a whole bunch of different Doctors and Companions - and I am definitely interested in somehow affiliating her with Jack's version of Torchwood (just an FYI - PM me, or the new account when it's created, if you'd like to plot).
*HUGS*
Canon
Name: Iris Wildthyme
Alias: Brenda Soobie (used in the 1960s on Earth with the Eighth Doctor)
Age: A bit older than The Doctor
Species: Gallifreyan, Time Lord (Lady)
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey
Occupation: Iris has worked for UNIT as a Scientific Advisor, and also for the Ministry of Incursions and Ontological Wonders (MIAOW).
Physical Description: Currently in what is believed to be her seventh regeneration, Iris now appears as a stunning, curvy late-20s/early-30s woman with whimsical blue-gray eyes and full, pouty lips. Her hair color varies, though Iris prefers to be blonde. [Portrayed by Kate Winslet]
Personality: The first of Iris’ incarnations faced Morbius in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, going up against aliens such as the Quarks and the Zarbi - Iris is no pushover. She’s one tough cookie and can totally hold her own! Iris has a playful, mischievous personality. She delights in baiting the Doctor and getting into trouble. Some call her “The Lady Doctor”, since her travels tend to be so much like his own. Her Mancunian accent and frequent appearances on Earth do seem to suggest that - like her friend, The Doctor - she has some love for the planet Gallifrey (though, she doesn’t really have any “warm fuzzies” for the other Time Lords - especially Rassilon).
Like The Doctor, Iris prefers to travel with companions, rather than alone. Iris tends to brag that she has a house in every world, time zone and planet that she’s visited, to which The Doctor once commented that she collects homes as he does companions. Iris also loves gin, perhaps even more than The Doctor loves Jelly Babies - she may be a little bit of an alcoholic.
History:
According to both The Doctor and Iris herself, she is a Gallifreyan. Iris claims to have been raised by a House of Aunts (as opposed to Cousins) in the mountains of southern Gallifrey, and that her mother abandoned her when she was quite young, having run off with an older off-worlder. This all has been unable to be confirmed, however, since Iris had managed to erase all of her records from the Matrix before she fled Gallifrey - which explains why the other Time Lords, and everyone else knows virtually nothing about her.
Her escape was facilitated by her discovery of an experimental TARDIS that had been rejected and left to “die” after a crash-landing in the wilderness, just outside the Capitol city of Gallifrey. Iris clandestinely “healed” it, and when she couldn’t abide the hypocritical Rassilon and his ever-growing Laws of Time anymore, Iris used this TARDIS to make her escape from the Time Lords and all of their rules, and strike out on her own, never to return. Because Iris was traveling through Time and Space when Gallifrey was time-locked and destroyed, she did not wind up a causality of The Last Great Time War. In fact, due to her travels through Time and Space, Iris appears to live her life out of synch with the rest of Gallifrey, and she may have been aware of its future destruction, due to having traveled through the space that once had been Gallifrey on one of many jaunts into the future.
Iris has had several adventures with The Doctor including various regenerations of each. No matter what each other looks like, because they are both Time Lords, they can sense each other if they are near enough, and can recognize each other.
Iris once proposed to the Doctor in Venice, when she appeared to be a woman in her sixties, with long white hair worn in a braid that reached down to the ground.
On one occasion, Iris spent Christmas with the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka. Iris was not very fond of Tegan, describing her as "that shrill Australian woman."
She was in London in 1867 when the Doctor and Nyssa were stranded there due to Thomas Brewster accidentally sending the TARDIS on a solo flight. The Doctor (perhaps wisely) decided against requesting Iris' assistance in retrieving it.
Iris once shared breakfast with President Abraham Lincoln on the White House lawn in the 1860s after saving the United States from "Martian invaders" for the third time. She said that they had "such a laugh." She also met Napoléon Bonaparte on the Russian front in 1812 and claimed that, in spite of what the history books said, he was "anything but small."
Under the alias Brenda Soobie, Iris visited 1960s Las Vegas where she met the Eighth Doctor, along with his companions Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.
Iris, with her companion Tom, visited Earth and aided the Third Doctor in defeating Verdigris. In this same incarnation, Iris also met the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones. Iris ate a Kaled mutant during this period and regenerated...
Iris' next incarnation met the Eighth Doctor in Paris, 1934 and also in the Obverse.
Iris encountered the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith in 1764. At this point, The Doctor already knew Iris as an "old friend", and she is seen to be travelling in a 20th century London Routemaster double-decker bus (the No. 22 to Putney Common, to be specific), which is, in reality, her TARDIS. Iris had been trying to obtain a house in every century and had brought her newest companion, Turner, with hopes of marrying him off to the wealthy Bella Huntingdon, thereby gaining access to the impressive Huntingdon estate. In reality, the Huntingdons were of an alien species and Lady Huntingdon wanted Iris' TARDIS so she could return to her home world. When Iris refused, Lady Huntingdon raced to the TARDIS and attacked Iris when she got there. Thankfully, The Doctor was able to trap Lady Huntingdon in a message pod/pocket universe. With her real estate plan foiled, Iris left 1764, leaving Turner trapped in the past with his alien fiancee.
In her sixth incarnation, Iris had an adventure with the Doctor's fifth incarnation on Artaris. Iris travelled to Artaris again, where she met Bernice Summerfield. After this adventure, Iris dropped the drunken Bernice off on a starship to take her home and continued on her adventures, alone...
Since then, Iris has regenerated for what is believed to be a seventh time, and therefore has a new face for her old (and new) friends to meet.
Her TARDIS:
Iris claimed that she rescued her TARDIS from being scrapped, nursing it back to health. In contrast with other TARDISes, Iris’ was slightly smaller on the inside, a fact attributed to the fact that her TARDIS was dying when she found it. Since then, it seems to have “healed” and acts quite like a “normal” TARDIS (if such a term can actually be used to describe such a creature) - at least, insofar as it is now bigger on the inside. Like it’s supposed to be.
As her TARDIS was initially experimental, Iris has found that it can easily and painlessly traverse between dimensions - her TARDIS is, in fact, transdimensional.
The “desktop theme” inside the TARDIS is vastly different than that of The Doctor’s TARDIS - Iris’ TARDIS has the controls up on the dashboard, where the driver’s seat would be on a bus, and she operates it in a similar manner that one would drive a bus. Now that it is bigger on the inside, the interior of Iris’ TARDIS no longer resembles that of a double-decker bus - at least, not beyond the first row of passenger seats. From there, the “bus” opens up into rooms, upon rooms, upon rooms... and unlike The Doctor’s TARDIS, it is opulent and richly decorated (as opposed to sparse and sterile).
Like The Doctor’s TARDIS, Iris’ has a “fussy” chameleon circuit, and just like Iris, her TARDIS is a bit of a renegade too, and it has chosen to “wear” the guise of a 20th century London Routemaster double-decker bus; however, unlike The Doctor’s TARDIS, Iris’ is able to allow its chameleon circuit to function “properly” when it senses that caution is more prudent than vanity. Rather than taking on another form, the TARDIS thinks that the double-decker bus “look” is “cool”, and it would rather turn itself invisible than take on any other appearance.
