Fitz Kreiner
Nov 7, 2012 3:34:38 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 3:34:38 GMT -5
Canon
Name:
Fitzgerald “Fitz” Michael Kreiner
Age: 28
Gender: Male.
Species: Human.
Planet of Origin: Earth.
Occupation: Not a groupie.
Name:
Fitzgerald “Fitz” Michael Kreiner
Age: 28
Gender: Male.
Species: Human.
Planet of Origin: Earth.
Occupation: Not a groupie.
Physical Description: Fitz likes to think of himself as a very attractive man. He has short dark hair, curly around his ears. It’s a trait inherited from his mother. He has his father’s eyes: a warm and friendly gray. His nose is a little too long for his face, a German mark he also bears from his father. He’s tall and lanky, not exactly towering over the Doctor, but he has a few good inches on him. He’s got an odd sort of quirking smile, and he can make his ears wriggle. He dresses in a variety ways – sometimes he dresses up in the finest suits (although he tends to stick out like a tender thumb) and bowties, but most of the time he just pulls on his leather jacket over clothes he founds scattered all over his room in the TARDIS.Personality: Fitzgerald Kreiner is a misanthrope, tending to have trouble getting along with other people. His tongue is sharp and he has a habit of making people feel silly. He’s a practiced liar and can make even the most outlandish story sound plausible. He’s skilled at changing his voices – he can put on a convincing French accent (although the only phrases he knows are ‘voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir’ and ‘ménage-a-trois’, though he's quick to point out that that's all you really need to know), a Russian accent, and he can make his voice sound enough like different people to scare away a group of thugs by making them think they are outnumbered.He’s stubborn and determined. He doesn’t give up easily and he’s been known for his rather dogged tenacity. He doesn’t have an addictive personality, despite his slight dependency on alcohol and cigarettes. When the Doctor and Sam take him to an intergalactic casino, Fitz was able to stop gambling easily after he lost his initial stakes. He also drank more when he realized that he was on his ‘last pack’ of cigarettes. He also swears that every pack is his "last pack", a fact which the Doctor has given up trying to reiterate. Fitz also has selective hearing, to go with his stubborn nature.Fitz has a good sense of humor that enables him to take defeat in stride. Which is lucky enough for when his plans don’t work out. It's often. Incredibly often. He gets a little shaken from defeat, but moves on from his failure with a laugh. Fitz has a habit of trying to make light dark situations. When his mother was being ‘possessed’, he had joked that she was kind of trying to destroy the world. Another instance was when he was mistaken for an assassin and, when asked if he knew anything about quantum physics, said that he couldn’t even spell it.Fitz thinks himself a lady’s man. It’s gotten him in trouble more often than it's worth. Lately, though, he finds his mind keeps drifting back to a certain and rather infuriating Time Lord with sad blue eyes. He’s protective of the Doctor and, when the Doctor gets amnesia (as he’s often prone to do) Fitz sometimes withholds information from the Doctor to protect him. He’s loyal to the Doctor, even if sometimes the man does get on his nerves… a lot. Not that this brief and silly little crush on the Doctor will stop him from flirting up a storm, because in the wake of rejection, rebounds abound.History: His misfortunate began not with his life, but with his parents’ lives. To be fair, the fault was not to be laid on either parent. It wasn’t Otto Kreiner’s fault he hailed from Germany, and likewise, it was Muriel Tarr’s fault she fell in love with Otto. And although nowadays neither of those would be a problem, they met and wedded in the gloomy summer of 1935, only a few years before the beginning of the Second World War. Fitzgerald Michael Kreiner was born early in 1936.He was four years old when the war broke out. His father had died early, leaving his mother to fend for herself and for her young son. Although Fitz wasn’t old enough to understand why he and his mother were treated so cruelly, he knew that it had something to do with his father being German. His mother was in and out of mental hospitals when he was a child – claiming this and that, getting diagnosed with this or that, and he moved from home to home. He would come home with bruises and scratches from the older children as they participated in ‘VF day’ – Victimize Fitz – by kicking the boy down the streets.When he was seventeen, his mother was admitted into a ‘progressive’ treatment facility. He moved into a small third floor flat in Archway. He got a mediocre job full of stupid tourists – a florist. Him. Fitz Kreiner – a florist. He began to perform at a pub named Molly’s, adopting a limp and a ‘fake’ identity. Fitz Fortune – people were more likely not to hate him if his heritage weren’t obvious. His skills with the guitar were, as Sam Jones even begrudgingly admitted, very good. On stage, he was a completely different person than Fitz Kreiner, the man who didn’t have much ambition or direction in life.The first night he had taken Sam had a ‘date’, showing her Molly’s. It was what happened immediately after that set his life forward into “Act Two”. He tried to kiss her and, angered by his lack of permission, Sam stormed off and nearly got herself kidnapped or raped or murdered. Possibly all three, but Fitz didn’t quite stop to ask what they had planned on doing with her, so you’ll have to forgive the lack of knowledge. He chased them off by disguising his voice to sound like several others, making the thugs think they were outnumbered. It was all very heroic, and trust him, he wasn’t shaking or anything.The damsel in distress fainted in his arms, and that’s when he noticed the corpse on the ground. It was the first corpse he’d seen, and certainly the first he touched. Unfortunately for Kreiner, it would be nowhere near his last. He took Sam back to his house and called the Doctor, explaining what happened. After a spat in the morning – Fitz had joked that she had thanked him enough, if you catch his nude drift – she flung herself back out the doors and Fitz didn’t follow her that time.To make a long story short – the police came, tried to arrest him for the murder of the man, and he, the ever law-abiding Fitz Kreiner, made a mad dash for the door. Once the policemen had realized what was going on, the lanky man was halfway to the end of Archway. He helped the Doctor retrieve Sam (who was alarmingly good at getting herself in trouble, but the Doctor didn’t mention it, so Fitz kept his trap shut) and he even let the crazy man cut him up with a scalpel to remove a leech that could save Sam.It was already too late for his mother. The Doctor had knocked the man unconscious before the death of the hopeless woman. As she died, Muriel Kreiner screamed for her son. Sam noted that the Time Lord had told Fitz she’d died instantly. The Doctor said that sometimes there were things that would only hurt more if the truth was known – and it was a philosophy that, although he never found out about his mother, Fitz himself would adopt for the Doctor and his amnesiac episodes.Although Sam was hesitant about Fitz joining their ‘team’, the Doctor insisted that he didn’t feel right leaving Fitz on Earth. Since then, he’s been travelling with the Doctor.
Additional information: A chronic smoker and drinker. I left off his history at the end of book #19 – The Taint, but his personality reflects on books much later than #19.