Ryan's Gulch

[timesnewroman]

☞ Player Information;
Name: Hannah
Player Journal: entwistling
Age: Too old to rock n' roll, but too young to die. or 21, which may in fact not be too old to rock n' roll.
Contact: muttonchops
Other characters currently played at Ryan's Gulch: Sebastian Moran (tigers)

☞ Character Information;
Character Name: Rory Williams
Canon: Doctor Who
OU or AU?: OU
Canon point: Christmas dinner at the end of "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe".

Setting: Everything you ever wanted to know about Doctor Who but were too afraid to ask
History: Right over yonder

Personality:
When Rory is first introduced, he comes off as incredibly, utterly and phenomenally...average. He appears very nervous, stumbling over his sentences and seeming very unsure of himself in general. He's a sweet, kind young man and he keeps a job as a nurse in the small village of Leadworth. Judging by his nervous demeanor, it's not difficult to imagine him having never even been out of the town at all. He has a very awkward air about him, the very definition of "bumbling", coming across as timid, yet he's very friendly and always willing to lend a hand when someone needs it.

Rory is a very kind-hearted man, and his need to help others goes far beyond it simply having a job as a nurse. He's the first to jump in when someone is in need of medical services, but he's also incredibly empathetic. He seems to be able to muster up a drop of kindness for nearly anyone (except maybe Hitler, whom he tells to shut up), and this kindness always goes beyond the usual "help an old lady cross the road” brand of kindness. Not only has he sacrificed his life for Amy and the Doctor more than once, but he risked his life to help to clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero could kill them, and even made sincere attempts to comfort a dying Silurian woman despite her immense hostility toward all humans. He doesn't discriminate. When someone is hurt and it's within his power to help, he does what he can.

Although there are times when Rory may come across as cowardly, bravery is something he's not at all lacking in. Even before the Auton incident, Rory was willing to charge into danger to save people. See the above paragraph for examples. He's ridiculously selfless, and this is exactly part of the reason why he dies so often in canon. In series five alone, Rory "dies" twice, and both of these deaths are attributed to attempts to save Amy and the Doctor. In addition to this, he is fiercely loyal and trusting towards those he knows well, and always willing to give the benefit of the doubt to those he sort of knows, even if they're little old ladies who are attempting to kill him. He can get very angry, but it's not especially long-lasting. He doesn't hold a grudge.

It's still important to mention that sometimes Rory is so kind that it's actually a bit of a downfall. He's so ridiculously nice that he can rarely bring himself to argue and oftentimes allows himself to be walked all over. Examples of this are relatively minor, but worth mentioning. When Rory attempts to show Dr. Ramsden the photos he took of the coma patients (who are somehow magically up and walking around), she refuses to look and instead gives Rory a whole lot of time off. He doesn't argue. He simply continues to take photos of the patients in hopes of finding someone else to explain it to. This aside, there are multiple accounts of him allowing Amy to push him around. He takes it. Let's face it. Rory does not wear the pants in that relationship.

As I said before, Rory loves Amy more than anything and more than anyone. He follows her anywhere she wants him, initially only joining The Doctor as a companion at her request when he would have been perfectly happy staying home—but only if Amy stayed as well. He grows jealous when anyone shows even the remotest amount of interest in her, including a spark of jealousy when another Roman soldier gives her a blanket after the Auton incident. When there's an Amy in the world, Rory's needs are always secondary. The biggest show of his loyalty to Amy comes along when The Doctor is forced to shut Amy inside the Pandorica for 2000 years in order to save her. He offers to take Rory back to the present along with him, but Rory refuses. For every single hour of those 2000 years and although he doesn't need to, Rory never leaves the box. The Pandorica is the strongest prison in the world and it's unlikely that anything could have harmed Amy while she was inside. But Rory sleeplessly guards it, always conscious, constantly pulling it out of harm's way, all to be completely sure that the woman he loves is safe.

Despite his previous insecurities with Amy's friendship with the Doctor, Rory is now on friendly terms with the timelord. He trusts him and soaks up what he can learn from him, and the two are honestly quite well matched as friends. Rory remains one of the few people not to have freaked out upon entering the TARDIS, figuring out that it's an entirely different dimension right away. He's intelligent and although he sometimes has trouble following the Doctor's train of thought, he's never too far behind. At first, he's incredibly self conscious around the Doctor and compares himself to him often. ("Yours is bigger than mine", anyone?) This need to compare has faded somewhat significantly the Auton incident, but he continues to be just a little bit wary of the Doctor in certain situations, mainly ones that place Amy in danger, but he's able to realize that the Doctor isn't malicious and would ever put them in danger on purpose.

Rory is relatively quick to take action in difficult situations. When Amy is taken by the Silurians through the cracks in the earth, Rory doesn't spend too much time outwardly moping or feeling sorry for losing her. He very quickly takes action and helps the Doctor to do whatever he can to get Amy back. He's appointed as leader of the small group of humans attempting to reason with the Silurians to get their loved ones back and although he stumbles all the way through this position, he never complains and he does his very best. Although he cries over Amy's body when he accidentally kills her as an Auton, this can be forgiven if you think about just how much he'd been through up to that point.

Abilities: Rory, while having two thousand years worth of memories, is a normal human being with no supernatural abilities. He does, however, have a fairly extensive knowledge of medicine and first aid. He's a nurse, and he would hope to continue to use this knowledge to help people.

How did your character arrive in Rapture? Teleportation gone awry.

Network sample: [When the feed first flickers to life, the young, pointy-nosed man on screen seems to look terribly concerned as he attempts to get the EZWave to work. It's his default expression, you know. When he's figured it out (by essentially pressing every button), he gives a little sigh and raises his eyes. ]

Talking to a camera...fantastic. [ He forces a smile and gives the screen a little nod. ] Uh...I know there's probably more of you out there than what's just down there. [ He gestures to the window, meaning the streets below. ]

If any of you happen to find a girl named Amy--Amy Pond...Red hair, very Scottish...please tell her that her husband's here and looking for her. Also, same goes if you find a man with a bowtie and a police box.

[ He pauses, furrowing his eyebrows. ]

Minus the...husband bit. [ Embarrassing. ]

My name's Rory Po--Rory Williams, if it helps at all. [ Another awkward pause, followed and an awkward nod. ] Um...thank you.

Log sample:
For a man like Rory, finding oneself in seemingly impossible situations is a standard, everyday happening. Although it's been some time since the last "impossible" happenstance, after travelling through space in a police box with a hyperactive alien, literally dying and then living out over one thousand years as a plastic Roman Centurion, an underwater city stuck in the 1950s is a relatively ordinary type of day.

But this time he’s alone. That’s certainly new. He’s never been truly alone in a situation like this before. Even during the hellishly long stretch of time he spent waiting for the Pandorica to open, Amy had still technically been there. No matter how far out of reach of conversation she had been, she was still there. This time she isn’t, and neither is the Doctor, as far as Rory can tell, and now he's at a loss as to what to do with himself.

Amy is Rory's entire life, which means the Doctor is a large part of his life by extension. In their own ways, they've both been with him for almost his entire life. Now, as he kicks his way through the underwater streets of Rapture, he doesn’t feel complete without them, like he’s lost a limb or two just by putting distance between himself and them.

There’s nothing he can do about it now, though. He’ll just have to wait again and pray it doesn't take two thousand years.

{I know there's an Eleven here shhhh I write what I want.}