Awful lot of running

How's my driving?

Player Information

Name: Alexandra
Age: 17
AIM SN: emerald_alex
email: alexandra@emeraldpenguin.co.uk
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currently Played Characters: None
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Character Information

General

Canon Source: Doctor Who
Canon Format: Television series
Character's Name: Jenny
Character's Age: Approximately 25, unless you look at it in literal terms in which case barely a day. However her growth was accelerated greatly and she was essentially ‘born’ fully grown.
Conditional: N/a
What form will your character's NV take? Like this but dark blue.

Abilities

Character's Canon Abilities:
The amount of Time Lord in Jenny is disputed quite a lot within the fandom however I’ve always played her as essentially Time Lord, only her lack of knowledge and the fact that she was born from a machine of human creation has diluted this fact. Hence why she doesn’t regenerate initially but has two hearts and is able to be revived with a little help from The Source.

Jenny’s two hearts shows that she at least has basic Time Lord physiological traits; her internal organs are not human. This means that she has a body temperature of about 15 degrees Celsius and the respiratory bypass system which means she could survive strangulation.

She has exception reflexes, timing and gymnastic ability, exceeding that of a human – particularly as she has no training - she’s born with the ability. She is also a highly skilled fighter, both in hand to hand combat and using firearms. These abilities, as well as a full knowledge of military tactics are programmed into her.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? 

Since the Time Lords, as a race, possess some telepathic abilities I would like to explore these.  These include:

Connecting to other’s minds to look at their thoughts or memories or to let people see their own.   In ‘The girl in the Fireplace’ the Doctor reads the mind of Madame de Pompadour to look at her memories while she looks at his own. 

Transmitting messages to others minds.  In ‘The end of Time’ the Master transmits the sound of drums for the Doctor to hear, also in ‘Planet of the Ood’ the Doctor allows Donna to listen into the Ood’s telepathic song. 

At great personal risk, the Doctor uses astral projection in ‘The two Doctors’.   Also, in order to transfer large amounts of information quickly, in ‘The Lodger’ the Doctor hits his head against Craig’s to explain something to him quickly. 

Time Lords’ also have a ‘time sense’, so to speak.  They can sense disturbances or distortions in time that would otherwise be unnoticed, this is a very subtle thing though, something that simply does not affect them like others. 

Weapons: Jenny has given up carrying weapons after starting to embrace her Dad’s principals on violence and being able to chose whether or not to fight. However watch out if she gets her hands on a gun and decides it needs to be used, she was born to fight.

History/Personality/Plans/etc.

Character History:
Jenny was born a child of the machine from a tissue sample taken forcibly from the Tenth Doctor. He is therefore her biological Father. She was born in order to fight in a war between the humans and the Hath on the planet Messaline; a pre programmed soldier she has vast military knowledge and yet doesn’t have a name. When the Doctor’s companion Donna realises this she names her Jenny, after the Doctor describes her as a 'generated anomaly'.

Jenny is quick to join in the fighting when a group of Hath come upon the humans, the Doctor and his companions. She engages in fire against the Hath and blowing up the tunnel, separating the Doctor and Donna from Martha, whom Jenny then refers to as ‘collateral damage’ angering both Donna and the Doctor. The Doctor especially is angry with Jenny, bitterly referring to her as a solider for much of the episode after this. The fact that someone who was born specifically for violence is also his daughter is something which the Doctor seems very uncomfortable with.

Despite being eager to prove herself in battle, General Cobb- the leader of the human army, is concerned that Jenny may be contaminated with the Doctor’s pacifism and locks her away with him and Donna. While they are imprisoned, Jenny questions the Doctor on how he can deny that he too is a soldier when he intends to fight back against the humans who are holding them captive. This leaves him speechless and Jenny gains Donna’s firm approval.

Jenny flirts with the guard and steals their gun in order to break the group out of prison. She is prevented by the Doctor from using any further unnecessary violence in their escape. The longer Jenny spends in the Doctor’s company, the more she comes round to his way of thinking. This is finally highlighted when she makes the choice not to shoot the General and joins the Doctor and Donna in running.

At the end of the episode Jenny jumps in front of a bullet meant for the Doctor and ‘dies’ in his arms, despite his hopes that she might regenerate. However it is not until after he, Donna and Martha have left that Jenny wakes up again. This is either due to her Time Lord DNA, the terraforming agent or perhaps a combination of the two. Time Lord’s have the ability to go into a healing coma which could be could be the cause of Jenny waking up when she had recovered from the bullet.

She then leaves the planet in one of the ship’s capsule, resolving to follow in her father’s footsteps; “Planets to save, civilisations to rescue, creatures to defeat and an awful lot of running to do.”

Link to the  episode's wiki page.


Point in Canon: Post episode

Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/a

Character Personality:
Initially, Jenny is not a very likeable character. Although slightly cheeky and quick witted she has been born a soldier and only a soldier. She is eager for the violence of war, happy to fight and is unable to see fault in her actions when they cause them to lose Martha during the fighting. She only sees the loss as collateral damage, a number to add to the total of the dead. 

Born to fight and to die in a war her outlook on life is very different from the Doctors which causes them to clash initially. Despite this Jenny looks up to him as a strong tactician and fighter, even though he denies being either of these things. As the Doctor continues to oppose her military instinct, her natural bubbly and happy personality begins to break through as she has to face the challenges she faces in new ways that won’t earn her father’s disapproval, something which is very important to her.

By being taken away from the influence of the humans and their war and into the Doctor’s company while he tried to prevent the war allowed her to escape from that side of herself and develop her own personality, which is similar to that of her father’s in that she has a lot of love for life and a strong determination in everything she does. It also reflects the fact that although she was ‘born’ as an adult, she is only a few hours old and therefore has a slight naivety about her, as well as a child-like wonder in new things. This awe of new discoveries fits closely with her desire to be like, and be acknowledged as such by the Doctor. She is overjoyed when Donna and the Doctor mention that she could look forward to seeing some new worlds, there by implying that she would travel with them. 

By the end of the episode, Jenny’s desire to be like her Dad is fulfilled in the last way any of them wanted; The Doctor states that she was too much like him after she takes a bullet meant for him and they believe it has killed her. Thus showing how loyal she is. 

Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/a

Character Plans: I would love to play her against some of the other Doctor Who muses in this game, particularly some of the different regenerations of the Doctor.

Another thing I would love to explore is the possibility of her being able to use traits that Time Lords possess but that she doesn’t use in the episode she features in. Since she was born with the Doctor’s DNA and he is often seen using his telepathic abilities (transferring them to Donna so she can listen to the Ood’s song, talking to cats, transferring information via a psychic head butt with Craig), this is something I’ve always wondered about in regards to Jenny. Of course anything she was able to develop would only be a fraction of the Doctor’s capabilities as he’s a full Time Lord with centuries of knowledge and experience.

Appearance/PB: Georgia Moffett

Writing Samples

First Person Sample

[Video]

[When Jenny’s face appears on screen she looks more than a little frustrated.]

Okay, my sense of direction is not so bad that I could suddenly just find myself in some grubby square place. Plus it’s pretty hard to lose a space shuttle, especially when you’re inside it.

[She runs a hand over her face and shakes her head slightly before offering the camera a small smile]

Still, I said new worlds. Perhaps that isn’t something you can really plan, it would definitely be less of an adventure if you could.

Third Person Sample

It was dark out, very dark, but by keeping all the lights off, Jenny was able to squint through the barred window and make out the shapes moving around outside. She’d never seen anything like it; the grotesque figures, moving, lurching around outside, their desire for destruction and violence unmistakable.

Inside, the different parts of Jenny’s nature were at war with each other. Part of her, the solider and the protector, wanted to be fighting, wanted to be out there, fending off the Darkness and responding to the monsters’ enraged cries with the swift aim of her gun.

The other half of her, the tactician and the runner wanted to move away from the window. She should get out of the creatures' lines of sight, move away from the window and sit tight until dawn came. And then she should try to gather more information on these strange creatures of the night.

But in the end she did neither, and instead she spent the night watching the procession, not engaging them, and not backing away from the window. By the time the sun began to rise Jenny has lost count of how many creatures she had seen but she had careful recollections of the possible weaknesses of all. Still, she needed to gather more information before anything else. She needed to make sure that it was her battle to fight and if it can be fought at all.

She’ll ask around and do some investigating of her own. Knowledge, she’s pretty sure that it’s the only weapon her Dad would approve of.