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aftertheskyPlayer Information
Name/Alias: Yubsie
Personal Journal: yubsie
Email: Yubsie@gmail.com (noticing a pattern?)
I am 18+ years old
Do you have other characters in game? If not, how did you hear about us? No, a lot of people on my plurk list are in the game
May we post and/or link your application for others to see as an example in the future? Yes
Character Information
Character Name: Sarah Jane Smith
Canon: Doctor Who/The Sarah Jane Adventures
Canon Point: End of The Sarah Jane Adventures
Character Journal: afterthesky
Appearance: Sarah Jane is of average height and build. She has aged rather gracefully, not really looking as close to sixty as she is. As part of that, she has auburn hair that doesn't show any particular sign of greying. She tends to dress in snappy professional clothing that allows her to go reporter mode at a moments notice while still allowing her to move easily if she needs to save the world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Sarah_Jane_Smith_2006.jpg
Age: Roughly 60 (depending on when exactly the last season of SJA was set
History: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Smith
Personality: Sarah Jane is at her heart a reporter. She has never been able to resist investigating any mystery that comes her way. She initially met the Doctor because she was certain that the mysterious think tank her aunt had been invited to would yield a good story. This driving curiosity has stayed with her ever since. Though it took her a bit of time to figure out what to do with herself after being left back on Earth, she eventually fell back on investigation and finding that there were plenty of alien goings on right under her nose to keep her busy. Her first instinct will be to investigate everything about this alternate New York. She is accustomed to strange things happening, it’s only natural that she shake off any initial confusion and set to work trying to determine what’s really going on.
In her youth Sarah Jane was very physically demonstrative, with a tendency to hold hands with everyone who wasn’t actively trying to kill her. After being left on Earth and getting involved in her personal alien dealings, she tended to be a bit more withdrawn. Given the dangerous nature of her work, she was unwilling to involve others. However, after Maria involved herself in her life whether she wanted her to or not, leading to Sarah Jane adopting Luke, she began letting people back in. And hugging a lot. That said, she is constantly aware of the danger her work presents to her young companions and is rather protective of all of them.
More specific than that, she's also a devoted, though unusual, mother. She doesn't do well with very young children, finding babies merely “rubbery”, but tends to do quite well with the eight and up crowd. She tends to be very approachable, assuming she doesn't just go nosing around first. Her general approach to parenting is realizing that the kids are going to try to investigate the weird thing no matter what she says and at least if she goes with them she can keep them from getting in too deep.
Sarah Jane has a great distaste for resorting to violent resolution of problems. Although this is partially motivated by the youth of her companions, it goes back further than that. She simply believes that there is a better way. Whenever possible, she prefers to find a peaceful solution to conflict. In her experience, there are considerably more aliens who are simply lost and confused than who actually mean the Earth harm. Even when faced with violent opponents, she usually manages to find a clever way of sending them packing without resorting to heavy firepower. However, there have been occasions where, despite her best efforts, she has needed to resort to lethal force. These occasions do not sit easily with her.
Sarah Jane is a staunch feminist, as demonstrated by the fact that one her first adventure, she attempted to spark women’s lib in a medieval kitchen. Admirable, though probably not the best thing for the timeline. This is rooted in the simple fact that she knows herself to be every bit as competent as a man. This does not stop her from forming close friendships with old fashioned men such as Harry Sullivan, but she doesn’t let their friendship mean he can get away with being patronizing.
Powers/Special Abilities: The only thing even close to a supernatural ability is a strong resistance to mind control. By virtue of it having happened so often in Classic Who that it just STOPPED WORKING a lot of the time. Though it is a resistance, not an immunity.
Also, while not a supernatural ability, I feel the need to note that she is conversational in Doctor. No one is fluent.
River Power: X-Ray vision
Reason for Character Choice: Sarah Jane is by far my favourite companion (me and half the fandom, yeah). I particularly enjoy the place she wound up in New Who, having travelled with the Doctor and later learned to do all this alien fighting independently. I've been playing her off and on for years and at this point I miss her, so I let the Who cast enable me.
Additional Information: N/A
Writing Samples
First-Person Transmission Sample: http://exitvoid.dreamwidth.org/667527.html
Third-Person Log Sample: It was the utterly mundane things that tripped her up, a lot of the time. Dealing with alien incursions was almost a regular occurrence, at this point. She knew what to do about those. Hypnosis, trying to find her way out of someone's clutches? Those were just part and parcel of the life she led. Even after the children came along, that was her life. She knew how to protect them from those dangers. She knew how to get them out.
It was what was quite possibly just an ordinary stomach bug that had her off balance.
Luke never got sick. The Bane had seen to that when they combined so many others. Even when she'd thought he was, it had turned out to be alien interference and brought her right back to the world she knew how to operate in. She had thought Sky might be the same, not being human. But it seemed that whatever was going around the school right now did affect her daughter's alien immune system.
Which was the even greater concern. Would this stay mundane? So far it seemed like an ordinary stomach ache, but who knew what might happen next. There wasn't a good point of reference for this. She'd rung Harry about it, but even with all his work with UNIT, this was new territory for him. Not to mention that he didn't have a practice anymore.
At least Martha Jones was back in the area, if it came to it. Which it hopefully wouldn't. For now, it was tinned soup and hot tea. Just like in any other home in England. She nudged the door open with her foot. "How are you feeling?"
"About the same." Even though she'd never heard that voice before from a child of her own, she still recognized it as the trademark voice of a sick child. "Tired and bored."
It was funny, how a child she shared no genetic material could still take after her so utterly. Of course Sky was frustrated having to stay in bed, even if she didn't feel up to doing anything else. This, at least, she had an idea about. She set the bowl and mug down on the bedside table and picked up the book that was sitting neglected there. "Now, what chapter were you on?"
Name/Alias: Yubsie
Personal Journal: yubsie
Email: Yubsie@gmail.com (noticing a pattern?)
I am 18+ years old
Do you have other characters in game? If not, how did you hear about us? No, a lot of people on my plurk list are in the game
May we post and/or link your application for others to see as an example in the future? Yes
Character Information
Character Name: Sarah Jane Smith
Canon: Doctor Who/The Sarah Jane Adventures
Canon Point: End of The Sarah Jane Adventures
Character Journal: afterthesky
Appearance: Sarah Jane is of average height and build. She has aged rather gracefully, not really looking as close to sixty as she is. As part of that, she has auburn hair that doesn't show any particular sign of greying. She tends to dress in snappy professional clothing that allows her to go reporter mode at a moments notice while still allowing her to move easily if she needs to save the world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Sarah_Jane_Smith_2006.jpg
Age: Roughly 60 (depending on when exactly the last season of SJA was set
History: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Smith
Personality: Sarah Jane is at her heart a reporter. She has never been able to resist investigating any mystery that comes her way. She initially met the Doctor because she was certain that the mysterious think tank her aunt had been invited to would yield a good story. This driving curiosity has stayed with her ever since. Though it took her a bit of time to figure out what to do with herself after being left back on Earth, she eventually fell back on investigation and finding that there were plenty of alien goings on right under her nose to keep her busy. Her first instinct will be to investigate everything about this alternate New York. She is accustomed to strange things happening, it’s only natural that she shake off any initial confusion and set to work trying to determine what’s really going on.
In her youth Sarah Jane was very physically demonstrative, with a tendency to hold hands with everyone who wasn’t actively trying to kill her. After being left on Earth and getting involved in her personal alien dealings, she tended to be a bit more withdrawn. Given the dangerous nature of her work, she was unwilling to involve others. However, after Maria involved herself in her life whether she wanted her to or not, leading to Sarah Jane adopting Luke, she began letting people back in. And hugging a lot. That said, she is constantly aware of the danger her work presents to her young companions and is rather protective of all of them.
More specific than that, she's also a devoted, though unusual, mother. She doesn't do well with very young children, finding babies merely “rubbery”, but tends to do quite well with the eight and up crowd. She tends to be very approachable, assuming she doesn't just go nosing around first. Her general approach to parenting is realizing that the kids are going to try to investigate the weird thing no matter what she says and at least if she goes with them she can keep them from getting in too deep.
Sarah Jane has a great distaste for resorting to violent resolution of problems. Although this is partially motivated by the youth of her companions, it goes back further than that. She simply believes that there is a better way. Whenever possible, she prefers to find a peaceful solution to conflict. In her experience, there are considerably more aliens who are simply lost and confused than who actually mean the Earth harm. Even when faced with violent opponents, she usually manages to find a clever way of sending them packing without resorting to heavy firepower. However, there have been occasions where, despite her best efforts, she has needed to resort to lethal force. These occasions do not sit easily with her.
Sarah Jane is a staunch feminist, as demonstrated by the fact that one her first adventure, she attempted to spark women’s lib in a medieval kitchen. Admirable, though probably not the best thing for the timeline. This is rooted in the simple fact that she knows herself to be every bit as competent as a man. This does not stop her from forming close friendships with old fashioned men such as Harry Sullivan, but she doesn’t let their friendship mean he can get away with being patronizing.
Powers/Special Abilities: The only thing even close to a supernatural ability is a strong resistance to mind control. By virtue of it having happened so often in Classic Who that it just STOPPED WORKING a lot of the time. Though it is a resistance, not an immunity.
Also, while not a supernatural ability, I feel the need to note that she is conversational in Doctor. No one is fluent.
River Power: X-Ray vision
Reason for Character Choice: Sarah Jane is by far my favourite companion (me and half the fandom, yeah). I particularly enjoy the place she wound up in New Who, having travelled with the Doctor and later learned to do all this alien fighting independently. I've been playing her off and on for years and at this point I miss her, so I let the Who cast enable me.
Additional Information: N/A
Writing Samples
First-Person Transmission Sample: http://exitvoid.dreamwidth.org/667527.html
Third-Person Log Sample: It was the utterly mundane things that tripped her up, a lot of the time. Dealing with alien incursions was almost a regular occurrence, at this point. She knew what to do about those. Hypnosis, trying to find her way out of someone's clutches? Those were just part and parcel of the life she led. Even after the children came along, that was her life. She knew how to protect them from those dangers. She knew how to get them out.
It was what was quite possibly just an ordinary stomach bug that had her off balance.
Luke never got sick. The Bane had seen to that when they combined so many others. Even when she'd thought he was, it had turned out to be alien interference and brought her right back to the world she knew how to operate in. She had thought Sky might be the same, not being human. But it seemed that whatever was going around the school right now did affect her daughter's alien immune system.
Which was the even greater concern. Would this stay mundane? So far it seemed like an ordinary stomach ache, but who knew what might happen next. There wasn't a good point of reference for this. She'd rung Harry about it, but even with all his work with UNIT, this was new territory for him. Not to mention that he didn't have a practice anymore.
At least Martha Jones was back in the area, if it came to it. Which it hopefully wouldn't. For now, it was tinned soup and hot tea. Just like in any other home in England. She nudged the door open with her foot. "How are you feeling?"
"About the same." Even though she'd never heard that voice before from a child of her own, she still recognized it as the trademark voice of a sick child. "Tired and bored."
It was funny, how a child she shared no genetic material could still take after her so utterly. Of course Sky was frustrated having to stay in bed, even if she didn't feel up to doing anything else. This, at least, she had an idea about. She set the bowl and mug down on the bedside table and picked up the book that was sitting neglected there. "Now, what chapter were you on?"
