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APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

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Rose is never afraid to speak her mind. Whether it's speaking out against the flap of skin claiming to be the 'last' human in the year five billion, insisting Gwenyth open up about boys, shouting the Doctor down when she feels he's stepped out of line, teasing the Queen of England, calling Sarah Jane out on what she felt was underhanded behavior, or giving her alternate mother and father unsolicited advice on their failing relationship, she'll tell it like she sees it to anyone anywhere at any time. She is capable of tact, and doesn't generally set out to hurt anyone's feelings, but her temper and especially her jealous streak (most present when things come to the Doctor, but not exclusive to him) can circumvent that. For the most part her temper and her jealousy tend to flare up and then fade fairly quickly, once the irritant is removed from her presence.

More than simply her stubbornness, however, Rose has an indomitable will. She never quite gives up, partly because of her willpower, and partly because of the many impossible things she's seen in her travels with the Doctor. When the Doctor sent her back two hundred thousand years into the past and locked the TARDIS, she took on the entire time vortex just to get back and help him. When the Doctor sent her away to another universe to protect her, she turned around and came right back, regardless of his protests. And when she fell through and found herself trapped in the same parallel universe, she built a machine to go back--despite the Doctor's insistence that it was impossible--and spent two years hopping across dimensions and universes just to find a way back to him again.

Despite Rose's kindness and compassion, Rose can be a fierce woman. If she feels her moral center has been impinged upon, she will stand up for what she believes in, no matter what. More than that, if she feels that the Doctor is in danger, she will do whatever it takes to help or save him. In fact, she is one of only three companions of the Doctor who is willing to kill for him, without regret. She destroyed the Dalek fleet with the time vortex and later flaunted it to the other remaining Daleks, she sent the Beast--still in Toby's body--into the black hole without blinking, just to ensure he would be trapped there, and though from her point in time she hasn't had the chance to, would easily kill more Daleks in her search for the Doctor, and to protect innocents.

She differs from his other companions, and indeed most people, in that she does not hesitate or regret if the only way to save people is to kill whatever threatens them, even if she doesn't leap immediately to the concept if there is indeed another way presenting itself.

Rose is capable of both extreme selfishness and extreme selflessness. When she cares for a person, that person or persons are her entire world, and in returns she expects the same, even if it's unreasonable to expect it--such as her expectation that Mickey would wait at home for her while she traveled the universe, or her idea that the Doctor had only ever and would only ever travel with her. And yet, at the same time, for those that she loves, she will give up anything. When the Doctor first asked her to come with, she said no even though she wanted to go, because she felt that Mickey and her mother needed her.

When Mickey wanted to stay behind in the parallel universe with his alternate grandmother where he felt he belonged, she let him go with only token protests and a tearful goodbye. When she chose to travel with the Doctor, she gave up her world, her home, her family, and her life to be there for him for as long as she lived. More than once she made it clear that her own happiness rested with the Doctor's well-being and happiness, and his continued presence, rather than that of her mother or Mickey, or even her long-lost father.

Furthermore, it's not just the people she cares deeply for that she will make sacrifices for. She is more than willing to give up her life, health, and well-being to save the world, the universe, or simply to protect a few people. She insisted that the Doctor perform a risky maneuver to save the world from the Slitheen plot even though it very likely would have resulted in her death, and despite the fact that letting go of the magna clamps would very likely result in her death (worse, in being trapped in an oblivion the Doctor himself characterized as 'hell'), Rose let go to fix the lever and ensure that all of the Daleks and the Cybermen would be flushed from the universe. Indeed, if not for the last minute return of Pete, she would have sacrificed her life to ensure the completion of the void program.

While Rose is no genius, she is clever. She takes to new things quickly, and learns intuitively, and is highly adaptable, even to things that seem completely mad to her. When it comes to matters of the heart and emotion, she has an innate ability to understand and relate to almost anyone, and with that connection, she can help. From providing an ideal companion to a lonely nine hundred year old immortal, to leading an abandoned Dalek to peace, to leading an alternate Donna to realize her potential even without the Doctor's presence, helping people is something that comes naturally to her. She picked up a good deal about alien culture and technology on her journeys with the Doctor, and more than that, she picked up a good deal of the Doctor's leadership skills. When separated from him on the Sanctuary base, she organized the survivors together and took charge of the situation, saving as many people there as she could, and when dealing with the Isolus when the Doctor was turned into a living cartoon, she worked out the answer to how to help the Isolus get home before it could turn the rest of the world into drawings as well, and implemented the plan on her own. All of these things work together to make her a prime candidate not only for Torchwood work but for UNIT, which she also took charge of when interacting with them.

Rose is, and always has been proactive and resourceful. She doesn't wait for permission, she doesn't just run away from danger and hide, and she doesn't sit by and let things happen. Not even when she's told to sit and wait. She doesn't just wait to be rescued unless she has no other choice, even if it means getting into more trouble, and she doesn't simply give up and give in to self-pity and misery. She orchestrates and organizes and leads if no one else will, she fights even when no one else stands, and will use whatever she's given to do whatever she needs to.

Her years with the Doctor taught her a number of his mannerisms without her quite realizing it. She refuses to be saluted, she knows how to ramble and talk about nothing to distract or defuse situations, she can make the tough decisions when she needs to--and know when those times are, and can handle herself completely independently. The gentleness, innocence, and the cynicism that she originally possessed when she met the Doctor melted away to something harder and stronger over the years, and the innocent disbelief changed to an understanding that anything in the universe just might happen. Even if the Doctor himself says it won't.

Other: She's...mostly happily stuck in a parallel universe from the rest of her cast, so she should find the nexus-community a welcome thing to communicate with the others out there, and her own reality hopping days should mean it's...not a huge thing to her to see it connects to a whole slew of universes?

Additional Links: Um, probably the TARDIS wikia here (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rose_Tyler) would be a good source.

First Person (entry type): It's Tony's birthday tomorrow. Can you believe that? Can't even keep track of his age when I'm not traveling across realities or time. Still strange, though. Never had a sibling, never thought I would. Better than the Doctor's doing, though. Keeping track of birthdays is apparently a terrifying step in domesticity to take. Who knew, yeah?

Anyone want to pass on birthday wishes? Writing up a general 'birthday wishes' card for all the people in Torchwood he's not old enough to know the names of yet, so I can stick yours in with it, if you want. Oi, that means you, too. You know who you are.

Did I miss anything ground breaking across the great...nexus thing yesterday? Cos there was nothing to miss in that bloody jungle I got stuck in all day. Catch me up.

Third Person: She...never expected to see another reality again. No...no, that's not true. She probably always expected something would come up. She'd been dealing with parallel realities so long, it seemed almost as strange as not seeing the Doctor anymore not to see them, and she had the Doctor with her now, every day. It was only a matter of time before she found a way across universes again.

She just...hadn't expected it to be in the form of kidnapping by a random reality-hopper skipping through her universe. She might have even turned down the offer to go and see her home universe again if she'd been given a chance to say anything but 'what?'. After all, the only proof she had that she'd ever get back was that she couldn't seem to stay in this universe no matter how much she tried...and she had a life and a Doctor she wasn't willing to abandon in Pete's World.

But then again, apparently 'choice' was another one of those things missing when reality hopping was involved. She was as battered by the tides of reality as the Doctor was by the tides of time, tossed between the two universes without any real choices involved...and sometimes just to spite her.

Yet, she couldn't say she was unhappy to see this world again, untouched and pristine as if the Daleks never kidnapped it at all. It had all the fortitude that the Doctor loved it for. The thought that she could share that view as an outsider earned a small, wry smile. She'd seen so many realities, and split her lifetime up so much between these two, she didn't really belong to either anymore. But it was never the universe that made it feel like home.

Which brought her to the point she was here at all. After a moment, she fished out her superphone from her pocket, and glanced up into the sky. She had a long overdue call to make.

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