Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2012 19:21:11 GMT -5
Canon, Semi-
Name: Millennia
Age: At least her name’s worth, one should think, although she has not truly lived for most of it
Species: Gallifreyan (Time Lord Aspirant)
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey
Occupation: For the past age, a living doll. She was a student at the Prydon Academy, with a knack for temporal engineering, once upon a time. Probably still does, once she has the chance to dust off her brains a bit.
Physical Description:
Tall and willowy, but with a broad expressive face. Quick to smile and equally quick to duck away and hide behind shuttered eyes and long blue hair the moment you see her do so. That’s the trick to staying invisible when you are so tall, you know. Make your hair so distinctive that it is all anyone really remembers. Blue for a new life, grieving, and luck.
Besides, she quite likes blue. Even if it doesn’t match her eyes, which she has been told is a complete shame.
You musn’t judge her, because she was loomed that way, so dear Millennia did not really have much choice in the matter. And since she was not so fanciful as to waste a regeneration on looks alone, that is how she shall remain for some time.
Face Claim:
Millennia I: Kristina Horner
Personality:
(Personality and History is for Millennia I only, for I am a selfish narrator who believes that to peek ahead to future incarnations would be a breach of the First Law of Time. Never sneak into your parents closet and see your birthday presents early, it will inevitably ruin the surprise no matter how clever you feel at the time.)
Millennia can be a bit dotty, now and then. You would too, of course, if a Lord of Dreams took over the body of your love and then turned you into a living doll for so very long. Even worse, if the one friend who even knew what horrible thing had happened to you believed you to be dead and therefore beyond help!
Oh, but she's quite clever too. She feels that she has to be quiet about it, and is quite shy of having her intelligence recognized. Millennia's House prefers to be known for its wealth and political power rather than any intelligence scientifically. Her cousins never seemed too bothered by her being a ‘bookworm’ though. Maybe they thought being friends with the Deca would count as political clout enough someday?
Even then, Millennia would say she is nowhere near as smart as the Doctor or Koschei or Ushas or... well, most of her friends really. She doesn't really know why they let her in their group to begin with, but she is quite glad they did. It felt – feels? – so nice to have friends. People you can share hot chocolate with and who don’t mind if you really want a cat and may even help you smuggle a pet in to the Academy no matter what Borusa says. People who stood up for her when so many Aspirants wanted to make comments about a child of Brightshore being interested in anything that so much as ended in ‘engineering’. People Millennia would stand by to the end of time.
History:
There really isn’t much to share. Millennia entered Prydon Academy at the age of eight and spent several decades being quiet and growing far more tall than she should ever have imagined. Soon she met Magnus, then Vansell, Rallon, Jelpax... so many others. She found herself with more friends in a matter of days than people she normally exchanged words with in a given month.
They were all, naturally, entirely insane. But Millennia knew immediately that she liked them quite well all the same.
They had so many mishaps and adventures, Millennia even instigated a few (getting Hobbes was worth it) although Lord Borusa always seemed most distressed on those occasions. Perhaps he hoped that Millennia would be the voice of reason in the group, but she has never been much of a politician. The life of a politician is stuffy and boring. She would much rather curl up with a good mathematics book and a cup of klah.
Her last adventure is the one you want to know about, though. Theta had come by excited about a new idea. Investigating ‘toymakers’, he said. Well, Rallon wanted to go too, so of course Millennia followed. They had begun dating and while Millennia not be the most likely to start trouble, she certainly didn't want to be left out of a new discovery!
That was either her worst or best decision.
On the one hand, you might say being imprisoned as a doll for a good five hundred years qualifies as very bad. On the other, being able to manage to engineer a time loop in that small window of time? Genius. Even if you still have to live through the same horrific death over and over, you’re not quite dead until someone turns off the replay button.
Miscellaneous: (separated from the normal history since this is subject to other player's opinions, and I don't mind altering it a bit to fit whatever the current Deca's headcanons are)
- Millennia has a striped cat named Hobbes that some of the boys helped her get.
- She had a crush on Vansell long before Rallon, but gave up when it became clear he was more interested in the CIA than in dating.
- Millennia never really regretted saying yes to Rallon though. At least, not until she became a doll. Now they're relationship is... complicated, would be a good word.
- Magnus was the first to befriend her and therefore her favorite.
- She thinks the Doctor and the Master are terribly brilliant but also frightfully mad sometimes, even by the Deca's standards.
- Drax is the one she goes to for help with her studies.
- Jelpax was her first kiss, but Ushas was her first proper date.
- The Meddler is the one who encouraged her love of temporal engineering the most, and she values his opinion greatly.
Additional Medical Information: They don’t give medical checkups to dolls, you know. Even ones who find being a doll insufferable and would much rather be in school or even Fairyland.
Sample:
Dating, as far as Milli could tell, was frought with all sorts of perils. What if your date didn't like cats? Or tiny marshmallows? (Though really, what sort of person does not like tiny marshmallows?) Or what if the person you liked was just eons smarter than you no matter how very much you tried to keep up and ate your green leafy vegetables?
Really, Milli was glad Ushas was taking the time to make a study out of this. But oh, she did feel so awkward! A date was still a date, wasn't it? Even if she could clearly see Ushas was more interested in scribbling away furiously than talking to her or drinking the handmade hot chocolate.
Milli knew that it would be quite nice to have advice on this sort of thing, even scientific advice, but she couldn't help but feel just a little bit put out. So Milli sat down and combed her hair free of any tangles, before finally braving the question, "Did I do something wrong already?"