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APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

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*Jack revives Owen using a second Resurrection Gauntlet. Tosh tells Owen that she loves him, and then apparently Owen is dead again, but for some unexplained reason Owen is actually still undead. Tosh tells Owen she didn't mean it when she said she loves him. Owen proceeds to discover just how much his unlife really sucks.

*Tosh goes to visit the undead Owen, who is emo due to being undead. He tells her he's broken and demands to know why she's still in love with him, and breaks his pinky to prove his "I'm broken" point. Since he's technically dead, he can't heal, so he's stuck with a broken finger for the rest of all eternity.

*Gwen gets married and Tosh helps catch an alien shapeshifter that's impregnated Gwen.

*Tosh helps Gwen investigate disappearances that involve Rift activity; Gwen discovers a facility that holds people the Rift took and dropped back on Earth.

*Tosh and the rest of the Torchwood team are caught in a series of explosions while investigating a derelict buildilng.

*It turns out that John Hart is back and all kinds of crazy Rift activity is going on. John's causing chaos again, this time because Jack's brother Gray is controlling his actions. There's a lot of explosions, and a nuclear facility about to go supernova. Owen goes to stop the meltdown with Tosh instructing him what to do from the Hub, but Gray shoots her and kicks away her phone. She manages to crawl to her phone to give Owen the instructions, pretending to be unharmed, but there's a power surge at the nuclear facility and Owen's pretty much toast while Tosh is dying on the other end of the line. Owen apologizes for them never getting that date, and then they die.

Personality: Upon first impression, Toshiko is a quiet and reserved young woman whose primary focus in life is her job at Torchwood. She's a technological genius, often playing the role of Torchwood's eyes and ears from inside the Hub, acting as coordinator on missions that require a centralized team member to keep track of the rest of the team. When it comes to her job, she's capable, competent, and completely confident in her ability to do whatever technological thing needs to be done. She's equally capable out in the field, unafraid to face whatever challenge that working for Torchwood might throw at her. Ianto once remarks of her that she's "got that look" about her, a do-or-die sort of look when things come down to the wire. She's tough, because her job demands it of her; working with Torchwood means learning to expect the unexpected and to be able to push past fear and doubt when lives are at stake. There's a certain hardness to her that comes of being part of Torchwood.

In spite of this, however, Tosh is a sensitive and deeply emotional person; with regards to her job at Torchwood, she feels that it's both heart-breaking and inspiring. She remarks at one point that the majority of alien artifacts that come through the Rift are weapons, and reflects on the fact that war is universal, and not simply a human invention; on the other hand, she once found a letter from a father writing to tell his children that he missed them. Even after working for Torchwood for several years, she's still quietly optimistic, and believes that what she does makes a difference. Although the job means that there's not much of a chance for anything resembling a social life, she won't quit, because she believes that it's worth it to know that she's protecting humanity from whatever comes through the Rift.

Like the rest of the Torchwood crew, she's not much inclined to share what she does outside the job, which is likely because there's not much to share. In the course of the show, she goes through several short-lived relationships, all of them terminated because of Torchwood. Although she has a crush on Owen, she's too reserved and quiet to say anything when he and Gwen hook up, and when they break things off with each other, any advances she makes toward Owen are either too subtle or at exactly the wrong moment, and she's too shy to outright say anything to him.

Other: Toshiko is fluent in both English and Japanese. Also, there are two 1st-person samples, because after I wrote the first one I realized that maybe a Tosh-not-completely-involved-in-her-job sample would probably be good too.
Additional Links: Toshiko Sato (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Toshiko_Sato) @ TARDIS wiki

First Person (entry type):

Sample 1
[Video]
[Tosh has some piece of alien technology on a table under a light, examining it. She appears to be recording the examination as one might record an autopsy, with a small hand-held voice recorder.]

Toshiko Sato, twenty-first June, two thousand seven. Catalog number four-seven-seven, unidentified artifact.

[She sets the recorder down and picks up the object.]

Twenty point thirty-two centimeters in length. The artifact is cylindrical, tapering to a point at both ends. No distinguishing markings. [A pause, as she discovers something.] A slight indentation is evident approximately five centimeters from one end.

[Another pause, and she turns the object around, examining it for any other indentations, before tracing a finger over the one she's discovered.]

It's difficult to be absolutely certain, but I don't think this is a weapon. If I can just-- Application of pressure to the indentation has caused a seam to appear around the circumference of the artifact. Perhaps-- [She twists the two ends, and the object emits a low, bell-like tone.] Let's try that again.

[Again, she twists the ends, her hands in a different position this time, and the tone emitted is higher, with the same bell-like quality. She tries again, and gets another tone, and after a few minutes of experimentation manages to get something approaching a melody from the object.]

It's an instrument! [She smiles, playing a few more notes before setting the object down.] Artifact four-seven-seven, benign. Classification: musical instrument. End examination. [She stops the voice recorder, but the video continues to record.]

Where did you come from? What's your purpose? Who made you? [Her questions go unanswered, however, as a small alarm goes off in the distance, and she hurriedly puts the object away before darting off, and the feed ends.]

Sample 2
[Text]
When I was a child, I used to look at the stars all the time. I would try to count them, sometimes, and I would just look as long as I could, wondering if there was anything else out there. And then I stopped looking, because life got in the way. It has a habit of doing that, life. There's always something that needs doing, plans to be made, dates to be kept.

Then I joined Torchwood. And suddenly, it was like the universe itself opened up to me, and there were all these things to be discovered, and I knew there was something else out there. I have seen more of the universe beyond Earth than anyone else on this planet could even dream of seeing. There is more out there than anyone could possibly imagine. Vast civilizations so great and powerful, and the most we can see of them are fragments. Tiny pieces of these alien lives, drifting through the Rift. Sometimes I think it should make me feel alone, knowing that there are so many worlds out there that we haven't contacted. Sometimes I think it would be best if we never contacted them at all. But more than anything, it gives me hope. Hope, that someday humanity will reach out and find a place in the universe.

Third Person:

It was always the same. Wake up, get dressed, go to work. Rinse. Repeat. Working for Torchwood wasn't a bad gig, but there were times Toshiko couldn't help but wonder if there were something different, something beyond the Hub. It had its moments. There was no denying that it most certainly had its moments. Danger, excitement, adrenaline, the thrill of the chase. The delight in discovering something new.

But every now and then, some tiny, insignificant seed of doubt planted itself in the back of her mind; there's more to life than Torchwood, it whispered. There's more to life than the job.

Today was one of those days, when entering the Hub felt altogether too familiar, entirely too commonplace. Toshiko said her good mornings to Ianto and Gwen and Owen and Jack, and took her place at her desk, and logged onto her computer. Thanked Ianto when he brought her a cup of coffee. Lost herself in a world of facts and figures, monitering Rift activity, watching for unusual spikes. Today, there was nothing out of the ordinary.

Nothing out of the ordinary, apart from a small box, set off to one side at her desk. When she had a moment, she opened it; inside was a smaller box, maybe two inches across on each side. Silver. Engraved on each side in some alien script she had never seen before. And it was beautiful. When she lifted it out of its box, it shone as though lit by some inner glow, and she turned it over in her hands, watching the play of the light through the inscriptions.

She glanced up, to find Jack watching her, and she asked, "What is it?"

"We don't know," he answered. "It fell through the Rift this morning. I was hoping you could tell me something about it, Tosh."

She nodded, and turned to begin running tests, preparing to scan each side to run the inscriptions through the translation program she'd written, but she paused - just for a moment - to admire it.

Working for Torchwood had its moments.

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