River Song
Aug 17, 2012 21:47:57 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2012 21:47:57 GMT -5
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Name: River Song, also known as Melody Pond or Mels
Age: It isn't polite to ask a lady her age, you know. And she tends to meet people all out of order anyway. A hazard of time travel.
Gender: Female, every time
Species: Human x Time Lord cross
Planet of Origin: She was born on 'Demons Run', which is really more an asteroid than a planet. Her parents are from Earth, though.
Occupation: time traveller, archaelogist, professor, some time prisoner...
Physical Description: Born Melody Pond, River has regenerated twice in the course of her life. As 'River Song', she has the dress size she focused on so firmly, and a perfect mess of golden brown curls. She stands at 1.70 meters and appears to be close to forty, although with her Time Lord DNA it's difficult to pinpoint.
Personality:
As River Song, she is headstrong and no stranger to trouble. Perfectly at ease breaking back 'in' to prison to serve time for a murder she didn't really commit. (Although admittedly, she definitely did attempt it before sacrificing her own regeneration energy to save the Doctor, but that was long before Silencio Lake.)
Flirtatious and outwardly confident, especially around the Doctor, River lives for the times she sees the Doctor. She is also extremely loyal to him and her parents, though living her life in reverse to theirs makes life rather difficult for her.
Yet another hazard of time travel.
History:
Born on Demon's Run in the care of the Silence, the then Melody Pond was smuggled away and raised alone in a children's home where she lived in near constant fear of the 'space man' who came to eat her.
That was the first time she could remember seeing the Doctor and his companions, although she didn't understand it much. Her sole picture of her mother matched the woman who tried to shoot her, and along with everything else... she chose to flee.
Melody Pond would die for the first time six months later, regenerating into a young black child, matching the last person she had seen for skin tone. She would make her way to Leadworth by the 1990s, growing up alongside her parents Amelia and Rory, their best friend, matchmaker, and lead trouble maker all in one.
When Amy and Rory decide to summon the Doctor, Mels was ready. Stealing a car to reach them and then forcing her way into the TARDIS at gunpoint, having decided she might as well kill two birds with one stone.
If she was going to kill the Doctor (and that was certainly her plan after so many years of indoctrination), what the hell, why not kill Hitler as well?
Only, things didn't precisely go to plan. A stray bullet forces her to regenerate and Mels ends up revealing her identity as the child of the Ponds. On the up side, Mels did get the dress size she wanted, just before poisoning the Doctor with a kiss just as she had been brainwashed for years to do.
Mels leaves then to go 'shopping' as she terms it, but it doesn't take long for the Tesselecta to catch up to her and begin torturing her in accordance to their ideas of 'justice' for killing the Doctor.
And yet... the Doctor, despite the fact he has only 32 minutes left to live, tries to help her. Amy and Rory DO manage to disable the Tesselecta temporarily.
So very many revelations that day. It was the first time she heard the words 'River Song' and then learnt it meant her, her catchphrase 'Spoilers', and the day she was taught to pilot the TARDIS by the TARDIS herself.
Amy had it right when she hypothesized her daughter might have a 'time head', regenerations and an understanding with a space-time capsule definitely qualify.
Convinced by her parents and her experience that the Doctor was 'worth it', River sacrificed her own regeneration energy, saving him with a kiss just as she had almost killed him.
Soon after, now in 5123, River Song enters Luna University to study archaelogy. The evening before she would graduate into her doctorate, River was reclaimed by the Silence, who had been keeping tabs on her all along, and forced back into the space suit that haunted so many of her nightmares.
5:02pm on 22 April 2011
"By Silencio Lake. On the Plain of Sighs. An impossible astronaut will rise from the deep. And strike the Time Lord dead.”
The worst day of her life. One she broke time in an attempt to avoid. The day she married the Doctor and became a widow at her own hand all at once.
River was sentenced to Stormcage Prison not long after returning to her own time, for twelve thousand consecutive life sentences. It was there she spent most of her days, though her nights were spent with her Doctor. He even bought her a diary to keep track of their adventures together.
She didn't let Stormcage get her down. Whenever the Doctor needed her, she had her hallucinogenic lipstick to break out, and she was a dab hand at breaking back in. Really, River found the fuss her wardens made almost amusing after a while.
Then, the day after they had celebrated her birthday on the river Thames, came the call for help. Demons Run. The day the Doctor reached his greatest heights, and the day he fell farther than ever before.
And worse, she couldn't be there, not until the end. She couldn't cross her own timeline so significantly.
Weathering through her parents anger and the Doctor's rage, for one of the last certain adventures for her that her parents would know who she was.
The only water in the forest is the river.
Then came the invitation. An envelope of TARDIS blue, numbered two, with coordinates, time, and a map reference to the very worst day of her life.
It was even harder having to watch than actually being there in the space suit. Watching her mother grieve, and embracing her father's determination to help the Doctor with this mystery.
What she had not expected was seeing the Doctor again. He was supposed to lie low, not make her kill him, watch her kill him, and then waltz right back in. Only, as it turned out, this was a much younger Doctor, to whom so many more memories would still be 'spoilers'.
And yet again, she was interacting with her past. Space 1969, Jefferson Adams Hamilton. River's past was hazy, so she didn't have to pretend ignorance all of the time. Phoning President Nixon hadn't been quite as significant to her then. All she had known was that she was terrified, not that she had been calling upon the most powerful man in America at the time.
She learned again about the Silence, for the information had a way of being forgotten over time, even though thanks to Amy she had learnt about them in the aborted timeline where she had saved her Doctor.
It was during that elaborate ploy that the Doctor, in his brilliance, helped engineer the Silence's death sentence at their own hands. And it was then that the Silence stole Amy, replacing her with 'flesh', much as they had her so very many years ago and in some time to come.
River's life was becoming more and more a matter of keeping secrets. Her life ran antiparallel to those she loved, but even though River knew that there would soon be a day that her Doctor would have no idea who she was, she couldn't help but look forward to every meeting.
Winston Churchhill would call her from Stormcage later and she would acquire a vortex manipulator of her own to retrieve the message from Vincent Van Gogh. All of the Doctor's enemies gathering, forming the perfect trap. So perfect even her attempt to don Cleopatra's identity and convince a Roman legion to help only ended up bringing sleeper agents right to the Doctor's door.
She would be trapped herself, for millenia, for a millisecond, trapped in a loop with the TARDIS exploding over and over around her.
I'm sorry, my love.
Then the Doctor, her Doctor, saved her. Saved her though he barely knew her. Because he was the Doctor. He saved her, and then lied about his own death in order to save the universe at the cost of his own life.
Now her father's comment about the Doctor having crossed his own timeline and had the universe explode finally made sense.
But she couldn't leave it this way. So River was there at her parents' wedding, sneaking a look at her extended family and giving her mother the now blank TARDIS diary.
A clue to help her mad, brilliant, impossible mother bring back the Doctor. For she had realized long ago that if the Doctor died, no one would miss him more than her, and his erasure meant to so much of her life was empty.
Sadly, even when the Doctor came back and he returned her diary, River's time was still running out. The next time she saw the Doctor or her mother was at the crash of the Byzantium.
Father Angelo, Bishop Angelo really, had taken her out of Stormcage to attempt to earn a pardon. And River knew just who to call when she heard precisely what was hidden away on the Byzantium.
A Weeping Angel.
Guide in hand, River found an excuse to be on board, then accomplished her first, most important task.
Graffitiing the Category Four Starliner's homebox in Gallifreyan, much as she had/would the oldest cliff face in history, with one simple phrase.
Hello, sweetie.
The Doctor caught her outside the airlock, just as she knew he would, just as he always did. And, no doubt thanks to her mother, even got involved in investigating the crash as she had hoped.
But River had not expected the Angel's affect on her mother. And it was made worse by the fact she couldn't comfort her, not as she wanted to, because Amy had no idea who she was. It was so terribly clear that this was their first meeting from her point of view. Being an outsider to one's own family was a very bitter pill indeed.
And though everyone of the bishop's team was killed or erased (and yet, were they, if the Angels themselves never existed? there's a riddle for you) and the Doctor was told that she was a murderer and a resident of Stormcage, River couldn't say it was her worst day.
After all, the Doctor did know of her, even if it was early days for him. Better, she did manage to earn that pardon and finally become a professor.
That job would lead to her worst moment. After a wonderful night on the singing towers of Dyrillium, she led a team to nvestigate the Library. River knew something was off early on, but not what. So she called for help, and the Doctor came. He came like he always did, but for him... this was the first time he had really met her.
And just as River had long suspected... that day did kill her.
Time can be rewritten. But not those times. Don't you dare. Not one line.
Additional medical information: A child of the TARDIS, River possesses/possessed the ability to regenerate. She does, however, most likely only have one heart like her parents.
Role Play Sample:
Life in Stormcage was, in a word, boring. The long days, especially. River expected that the prison had been built on an asteroid (planet, whatever) with a day cycle longer than twelve hours specifically to torture her.
Well, no, probably not, but that knowledge didn't really make the hours pass any faster.
Her diary did help. Her pictures of the Doctor, though she always met him out of order, especially when her Doctor tended to send her into his own past to help from the sidelines. River didn't mind, even if she knew not to interact with him.
She loved seeing him in any face.
Writing down her trips with him from the night before was all well and good, but River could feel the clock ticking. She had snuck over to see her parents today after everything that had happened with the Byzantium. Seeing her mum, and knowing that Amy had no idea who she was, had been agonizing.
So she made a detour after her pardon hearing. Why not?
River had broken out so many times by now, she expected they would grant her pardon just because her presence was proof that escaping the 'most secure prison' was child's play to at least one person.
Besides, River always had been and always would be trouble.
She had needed comforting, so River went to a time her parents knew her. A time where they believed the Doctor dead and were trying to move on. Her mum by expanding her fragrance line and her dad now a full doctor.
One complete family, happy or not, just as she had dreamed for so many decades.
A Time Lord ages slowly, and River was no exception.
Wine, a family dinner, and, since she couldn't erase the pain coming for her, perhaps... just maybe... River would ease the pain her parents were experiencing.
They, at least, should know the Doctor's greatest secret that he had whispered to her so long ago when time stood still.
Look into my eyes.
Character Image:
Name: River Song, also known as Melody Pond or Mels
Age: It isn't polite to ask a lady her age, you know. And she tends to meet people all out of order anyway. A hazard of time travel.
Gender: Female, every time
Species: Human x Time Lord cross
Planet of Origin: She was born on 'Demons Run', which is really more an asteroid than a planet. Her parents are from Earth, though.
Occupation: time traveller, archaelogist, professor, some time prisoner...
Physical Description: Born Melody Pond, River has regenerated twice in the course of her life. As 'River Song', she has the dress size she focused on so firmly, and a perfect mess of golden brown curls. She stands at 1.70 meters and appears to be close to forty, although with her Time Lord DNA it's difficult to pinpoint.
Personality:
As River Song, she is headstrong and no stranger to trouble. Perfectly at ease breaking back 'in' to prison to serve time for a murder she didn't really commit. (Although admittedly, she definitely did attempt it before sacrificing her own regeneration energy to save the Doctor, but that was long before Silencio Lake.)
Flirtatious and outwardly confident, especially around the Doctor, River lives for the times she sees the Doctor. She is also extremely loyal to him and her parents, though living her life in reverse to theirs makes life rather difficult for her.
Yet another hazard of time travel.
History:
Born on Demon's Run in the care of the Silence, the then Melody Pond was smuggled away and raised alone in a children's home where she lived in near constant fear of the 'space man' who came to eat her.
That was the first time she could remember seeing the Doctor and his companions, although she didn't understand it much. Her sole picture of her mother matched the woman who tried to shoot her, and along with everything else... she chose to flee.
Melody Pond would die for the first time six months later, regenerating into a young black child, matching the last person she had seen for skin tone. She would make her way to Leadworth by the 1990s, growing up alongside her parents Amelia and Rory, their best friend, matchmaker, and lead trouble maker all in one.
When Amy and Rory decide to summon the Doctor, Mels was ready. Stealing a car to reach them and then forcing her way into the TARDIS at gunpoint, having decided she might as well kill two birds with one stone.
If she was going to kill the Doctor (and that was certainly her plan after so many years of indoctrination), what the hell, why not kill Hitler as well?
Only, things didn't precisely go to plan. A stray bullet forces her to regenerate and Mels ends up revealing her identity as the child of the Ponds. On the up side, Mels did get the dress size she wanted, just before poisoning the Doctor with a kiss just as she had been brainwashed for years to do.
Mels leaves then to go 'shopping' as she terms it, but it doesn't take long for the Tesselecta to catch up to her and begin torturing her in accordance to their ideas of 'justice' for killing the Doctor.
And yet... the Doctor, despite the fact he has only 32 minutes left to live, tries to help her. Amy and Rory DO manage to disable the Tesselecta temporarily.
So very many revelations that day. It was the first time she heard the words 'River Song' and then learnt it meant her, her catchphrase 'Spoilers', and the day she was taught to pilot the TARDIS by the TARDIS herself.
Amy had it right when she hypothesized her daughter might have a 'time head', regenerations and an understanding with a space-time capsule definitely qualify.
Convinced by her parents and her experience that the Doctor was 'worth it', River sacrificed her own regeneration energy, saving him with a kiss just as she had almost killed him.
Soon after, now in 5123, River Song enters Luna University to study archaelogy. The evening before she would graduate into her doctorate, River was reclaimed by the Silence, who had been keeping tabs on her all along, and forced back into the space suit that haunted so many of her nightmares.
5:02pm on 22 April 2011
"By Silencio Lake. On the Plain of Sighs. An impossible astronaut will rise from the deep. And strike the Time Lord dead.”
The worst day of her life. One she broke time in an attempt to avoid. The day she married the Doctor and became a widow at her own hand all at once.
River was sentenced to Stormcage Prison not long after returning to her own time, for twelve thousand consecutive life sentences. It was there she spent most of her days, though her nights were spent with her Doctor. He even bought her a diary to keep track of their adventures together.
She didn't let Stormcage get her down. Whenever the Doctor needed her, she had her hallucinogenic lipstick to break out, and she was a dab hand at breaking back in. Really, River found the fuss her wardens made almost amusing after a while.
Then, the day after they had celebrated her birthday on the river Thames, came the call for help. Demons Run. The day the Doctor reached his greatest heights, and the day he fell farther than ever before.
And worse, she couldn't be there, not until the end. She couldn't cross her own timeline so significantly.
Weathering through her parents anger and the Doctor's rage, for one of the last certain adventures for her that her parents would know who she was.
The only water in the forest is the river.
Then came the invitation. An envelope of TARDIS blue, numbered two, with coordinates, time, and a map reference to the very worst day of her life.
It was even harder having to watch than actually being there in the space suit. Watching her mother grieve, and embracing her father's determination to help the Doctor with this mystery.
What she had not expected was seeing the Doctor again. He was supposed to lie low, not make her kill him, watch her kill him, and then waltz right back in. Only, as it turned out, this was a much younger Doctor, to whom so many more memories would still be 'spoilers'.
And yet again, she was interacting with her past. Space 1969, Jefferson Adams Hamilton. River's past was hazy, so she didn't have to pretend ignorance all of the time. Phoning President Nixon hadn't been quite as significant to her then. All she had known was that she was terrified, not that she had been calling upon the most powerful man in America at the time.
She learned again about the Silence, for the information had a way of being forgotten over time, even though thanks to Amy she had learnt about them in the aborted timeline where she had saved her Doctor.
It was during that elaborate ploy that the Doctor, in his brilliance, helped engineer the Silence's death sentence at their own hands. And it was then that the Silence stole Amy, replacing her with 'flesh', much as they had her so very many years ago and in some time to come.
River's life was becoming more and more a matter of keeping secrets. Her life ran antiparallel to those she loved, but even though River knew that there would soon be a day that her Doctor would have no idea who she was, she couldn't help but look forward to every meeting.
Winston Churchhill would call her from Stormcage later and she would acquire a vortex manipulator of her own to retrieve the message from Vincent Van Gogh. All of the Doctor's enemies gathering, forming the perfect trap. So perfect even her attempt to don Cleopatra's identity and convince a Roman legion to help only ended up bringing sleeper agents right to the Doctor's door.
She would be trapped herself, for millenia, for a millisecond, trapped in a loop with the TARDIS exploding over and over around her.
I'm sorry, my love.
Then the Doctor, her Doctor, saved her. Saved her though he barely knew her. Because he was the Doctor. He saved her, and then lied about his own death in order to save the universe at the cost of his own life.
Now her father's comment about the Doctor having crossed his own timeline and had the universe explode finally made sense.
But she couldn't leave it this way. So River was there at her parents' wedding, sneaking a look at her extended family and giving her mother the now blank TARDIS diary.
A clue to help her mad, brilliant, impossible mother bring back the Doctor. For she had realized long ago that if the Doctor died, no one would miss him more than her, and his erasure meant to so much of her life was empty.
Sadly, even when the Doctor came back and he returned her diary, River's time was still running out. The next time she saw the Doctor or her mother was at the crash of the Byzantium.
Father Angelo, Bishop Angelo really, had taken her out of Stormcage to attempt to earn a pardon. And River knew just who to call when she heard precisely what was hidden away on the Byzantium.
A Weeping Angel.
Guide in hand, River found an excuse to be on board, then accomplished her first, most important task.
Graffitiing the Category Four Starliner's homebox in Gallifreyan, much as she had/would the oldest cliff face in history, with one simple phrase.
Hello, sweetie.
The Doctor caught her outside the airlock, just as she knew he would, just as he always did. And, no doubt thanks to her mother, even got involved in investigating the crash as she had hoped.
But River had not expected the Angel's affect on her mother. And it was made worse by the fact she couldn't comfort her, not as she wanted to, because Amy had no idea who she was. It was so terribly clear that this was their first meeting from her point of view. Being an outsider to one's own family was a very bitter pill indeed.
And though everyone of the bishop's team was killed or erased (and yet, were they, if the Angels themselves never existed? there's a riddle for you) and the Doctor was told that she was a murderer and a resident of Stormcage, River couldn't say it was her worst day.
After all, the Doctor did know of her, even if it was early days for him. Better, she did manage to earn that pardon and finally become a professor.
That job would lead to her worst moment. After a wonderful night on the singing towers of Dyrillium, she led a team to nvestigate the Library. River knew something was off early on, but not what. So she called for help, and the Doctor came. He came like he always did, but for him... this was the first time he had really met her.
And just as River had long suspected... that day did kill her.
Time can be rewritten. But not those times. Don't you dare. Not one line.
Additional medical information: A child of the TARDIS, River possesses/possessed the ability to regenerate. She does, however, most likely only have one heart like her parents.
Role Play Sample:
Life in Stormcage was, in a word, boring. The long days, especially. River expected that the prison had been built on an asteroid (planet, whatever) with a day cycle longer than twelve hours specifically to torture her.
Well, no, probably not, but that knowledge didn't really make the hours pass any faster.
Her diary did help. Her pictures of the Doctor, though she always met him out of order, especially when her Doctor tended to send her into his own past to help from the sidelines. River didn't mind, even if she knew not to interact with him.
She loved seeing him in any face.
Writing down her trips with him from the night before was all well and good, but River could feel the clock ticking. She had snuck over to see her parents today after everything that had happened with the Byzantium. Seeing her mum, and knowing that Amy had no idea who she was, had been agonizing.
So she made a detour after her pardon hearing. Why not?
River had broken out so many times by now, she expected they would grant her pardon just because her presence was proof that escaping the 'most secure prison' was child's play to at least one person.
Besides, River always had been and always would be trouble.
She had needed comforting, so River went to a time her parents knew her. A time where they believed the Doctor dead and were trying to move on. Her mum by expanding her fragrance line and her dad now a full doctor.
One complete family, happy or not, just as she had dreamed for so many decades.
A Time Lord ages slowly, and River was no exception.
Wine, a family dinner, and, since she couldn't erase the pain coming for her, perhaps... just maybe... River would ease the pain her parents were experiencing.
They, at least, should know the Doctor's greatest secret that he had whispered to her so long ago when time stood still.
Look into my eyes.