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dictaphonicYour name or online alias: Megumi
Your email: kmegumi2@yahoo.com
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Character's Full Name: William (Will) Arrowsmith
Character's Canon: Doctor Who
Character's Canon Point: After Daleks Among Us (once they escape Russia and continue their travels)
Character's Journal Name:dictaphonic
What would you like your character's tag to be?: will arrowsmith
Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...
Character's background (their past and present): Will Arrowsmith is from the universe of Doctor Who, which features an Earth very like our own but that encounters science fiction as reality--aliens, time travel, etc. While the general public does not know that these things exist, many people do. Will lives in London in 1990 and is an employee of UNIT, which is a secret organization that protects the Earth from extraterrestrial threats. He is a new employee and currently the probationary assistant to UNIT's Scientific Advisor, Doctor Elizabeth Klein. During his brief time with UNIT so far, Will has distinguished himself with meticulous, impressively researched theoretical work. However, his field work has been a disaster.
Recently, Will's situation has changed drastically, though. The Seventh Doctor, a Time Lord and traveler in time and space, picked up both Klein and Will in his ship, the TARDIS. He brought them on a search for Kurt Schalk, a Nazi scientist contacted by near-omnipotent alien beings, the Shepherd and Shepherdess, who placed blueprints in his mind to create the Persuasion Machine--a machine that could convince anyone to accept any viewpoint. They planned to use him and his machine to transform the whole universe to their will, but in April 1945, Dusseldorf, the town where Schalk was experimenting, was liberated by the Allies and the bunker bombed.
The Doctor's group went to Dusseldorf in search of Shalk, but they only found his assistant and friend, Lukas Hinterberger, who seemed to recognize Klein. With his help, they pursued Schalk to the Greek island of Minos, but they also found the Shepherd and Shepherdess there. Trying to save all their lives, the Doctor tricked the two and managed to trap them on a prison planet held in a universe in the Star Chamber within the TARDIS. However, while he and Will were doing this, Klein was alone with Schalk and Hinterberger. Other aliens, the Khlecht, arrived and captured Schalk by force, after which Hinterberger fled. The Khlecht then sold Schalk on to the highest bidder. The Doctor and Will found Klein alone on Minos.
Still on the trail of Schalk, Klein and Will next went undercover at an elicit arms sale run by Garundel, a sneaky Urodelian whom the Doctor already knew. Garundel claimed to have the sedated body of Schalk that he had purchased from the Khlecht, as well as a working Persuasion Machine built from the blueprints in his mind. While Will wasn't a very convincing Warlord of Zebrednik, he and Klein did manage to infiltrate the sale. Their plan failed, however, after aliens attacked the sale and Ziv, Garundel's assistant, tried to run with the goods and Will as a hostage. In the end, they learned from Garundel that the man who had been captured on Minos was not actually Kurt Schalk but, in reality, the true Lukas Hinterberger, his assistant. Schalk had used the prototype machine to persuade Hinterberger to believe he was Schalk and to persuade himself to believe he was Hinterberger in order to improve his own chances of escaping all the forces who were after him. The real Hinterberger, whom Garundel had been offering to sell, was actually dead, and Garundel's Persuasion Machine was only a prototype with limited capabilities, based on Hinterberger's knowledge alone. The Doctor managed to seize the prototype machine and leave with Will and Klein. They returned to Earth to find out what had happened to the real Kurt Schalk--the man they had met and known as Lukas Hinterberger and left behind on Minos.
While they were gone, however, this man had been kidnapped by the Daleks, a race of xenophobic mutants. The Doctor found that they had Schalk on the planet Azimuth. However, in their attempts to find Schalk, the Doctor and Will ended up the prisoners of the Daleks, but the Daleks wanted Klein specifically. Wondering why--and why Hinterberger had recognized her in 1945--Klein used the TARDIS to travel back and find out. There, she discovered herself as a baby. Klein was not the daughter of the parents she thought; she had been cloned from Kurt Schalk and his assistant Elizabeth Volkenrath in their lab in Dusseldorf to serve as the template and first operator of the planned Persuasion Machine--a child who would be inculcated with specific ideas from birth to be an effective operator. She was identical to Volkenrath, allowing her to move around freely and help to get her baby self rescued by her adoptive father, Ralf Klein. However, then she encountered the real Volkenrath, who took her hostage and abandoned her there, going back in the TARDIS in her place.
Everyone on Azimuth assumed Volkenrath was Klein. The Daleks tried to use her to run the Persuasion Machine, which they had built after capturing Schalk. However, she turned on them and used the machine to destroy the Daleks. Will, not knowing that "Klein" would regain the upper hand, had simultaneously snuck back to the TARDIS and freed the Shepherd to try to get his help defeating the Daleks. The Shepherd, having been betrayed and imprisoned by the Doctor, was much more interested in revenge than in helping. At the sight of this terrifying being, Volkenrath used the machine again--this time to destroy its designer. Her efforts worked, but making the machine force a near-omnipotent being to die caused it to explode. She was severely injured and died almost immediately from her injuries.
Realizing that she was not the real Klein, the Doctor and Will then returned to 1945 to find her. They followed the trail of Volkenrath--who was really Klein--as she had been captured by the Russians and taken to a military prison. They were able to break in and rescue her, and then they returned to the TARDIS to resume their journey together.
Character's personality: Will Arrowsmith is a scientist, intellectual, assistant, and eccentric. He has been marked his whole life by his affinity for the sciences, as well as his almost encyclopedic recall of facts about all topics under the sun. These talents have granted him great successes at school and university and have landed him his current job at UNIT. While he is a bookworm through and through, he also relishes in the opportunity to apply his knowledge to real life situations. However, he is clumsy, awkward, and lacking in both common sense and social aptitude, which means that his scientific know-how often does not result in the practical contributions that he means to make, especially in high-pressure situations.
Will has nothing if not an indomitable spirit and insatiable desire to help, though. Despite his inability to make plans in the field, he is an excellent assistant and excels under the direction of others, especially if those directions are focused on scientific implementation. Despite this, Will desperately wants to be a successful field agent for UNIT. He is marked by his struggle between his clear intellectual talents but his desire to become what he is not: a field man--and the failures that come from his attempts to be just that.
In terms of personal interactions, Will loves people but has never quite understood how to relate to them. He is very eccentric and frequently babbles nervously, speaking his thoughts without thinking them through. This means he is often rude, which he knows, but he doesn't know how to tell when he's being rude. He apologizes frequently in an attempt to make up for this disconnect. He also has a compulsion to think aloud and, whenever possible, record those thoughts. He finds it calming, though it is often off-putting to others. For this reason, he is never found without his trusty dictaphone or, failing that, any recording device he can get his hands on. When found without a recording device, he still frequently speaks to himself out loud. Overall, Will is most at home in a science lab but still insists on fighting his nature to try to become something more. He is loyal, determined, smart, and kind, and he hopes that if he tries hard enough, he'll be able to surpass his personal weaknesses to become something greater.
Character's skills/abilities/powers: Will is brilliant young scientist with amazing factual recall and almost encyclopedic levels of knowledge on a variety of topics. Otherwise, he is a normal human being--and not a very physically impressive one.
Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: Will would like to bring his sonic dictaphone, which is a recording device with an internal memory card.
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ten_fwd from another game? If you are, which game?: No.
If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were changed by and what challenges they faced in the climate of their previous game(s):
Why do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them? I want to play Will here because it seems like a great setting for him to put his scientific skills to work while simultaneously having to deal with social interaction, which is not his strong suit but is a lot of fun for me. I'd also like to see how he develops out on his own in the world, as it were, without Dr Klein or the Doctor he knows leading him.
Writing Sample #1: Here (including the top post)
Writing Sample #2 (optional): Here (including the top post)
Your email: kmegumi2@yahoo.com
Another preferred means of contact: PM to
dictaphonicCharacter's Full Name: William (Will) Arrowsmith
Character's Canon: Doctor Who
Character's Canon Point: After Daleks Among Us (once they escape Russia and continue their travels)
Character's Journal Name:
dictaphonicWhat would you like your character's tag to be?: will arrowsmith
Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...
Character's background (their past and present): Will Arrowsmith is from the universe of Doctor Who, which features an Earth very like our own but that encounters science fiction as reality--aliens, time travel, etc. While the general public does not know that these things exist, many people do. Will lives in London in 1990 and is an employee of UNIT, which is a secret organization that protects the Earth from extraterrestrial threats. He is a new employee and currently the probationary assistant to UNIT's Scientific Advisor, Doctor Elizabeth Klein. During his brief time with UNIT so far, Will has distinguished himself with meticulous, impressively researched theoretical work. However, his field work has been a disaster.
Recently, Will's situation has changed drastically, though. The Seventh Doctor, a Time Lord and traveler in time and space, picked up both Klein and Will in his ship, the TARDIS. He brought them on a search for Kurt Schalk, a Nazi scientist contacted by near-omnipotent alien beings, the Shepherd and Shepherdess, who placed blueprints in his mind to create the Persuasion Machine--a machine that could convince anyone to accept any viewpoint. They planned to use him and his machine to transform the whole universe to their will, but in April 1945, Dusseldorf, the town where Schalk was experimenting, was liberated by the Allies and the bunker bombed.
The Doctor's group went to Dusseldorf in search of Shalk, but they only found his assistant and friend, Lukas Hinterberger, who seemed to recognize Klein. With his help, they pursued Schalk to the Greek island of Minos, but they also found the Shepherd and Shepherdess there. Trying to save all their lives, the Doctor tricked the two and managed to trap them on a prison planet held in a universe in the Star Chamber within the TARDIS. However, while he and Will were doing this, Klein was alone with Schalk and Hinterberger. Other aliens, the Khlecht, arrived and captured Schalk by force, after which Hinterberger fled. The Khlecht then sold Schalk on to the highest bidder. The Doctor and Will found Klein alone on Minos.
Still on the trail of Schalk, Klein and Will next went undercover at an elicit arms sale run by Garundel, a sneaky Urodelian whom the Doctor already knew. Garundel claimed to have the sedated body of Schalk that he had purchased from the Khlecht, as well as a working Persuasion Machine built from the blueprints in his mind. While Will wasn't a very convincing Warlord of Zebrednik, he and Klein did manage to infiltrate the sale. Their plan failed, however, after aliens attacked the sale and Ziv, Garundel's assistant, tried to run with the goods and Will as a hostage. In the end, they learned from Garundel that the man who had been captured on Minos was not actually Kurt Schalk but, in reality, the true Lukas Hinterberger, his assistant. Schalk had used the prototype machine to persuade Hinterberger to believe he was Schalk and to persuade himself to believe he was Hinterberger in order to improve his own chances of escaping all the forces who were after him. The real Hinterberger, whom Garundel had been offering to sell, was actually dead, and Garundel's Persuasion Machine was only a prototype with limited capabilities, based on Hinterberger's knowledge alone. The Doctor managed to seize the prototype machine and leave with Will and Klein. They returned to Earth to find out what had happened to the real Kurt Schalk--the man they had met and known as Lukas Hinterberger and left behind on Minos.
While they were gone, however, this man had been kidnapped by the Daleks, a race of xenophobic mutants. The Doctor found that they had Schalk on the planet Azimuth. However, in their attempts to find Schalk, the Doctor and Will ended up the prisoners of the Daleks, but the Daleks wanted Klein specifically. Wondering why--and why Hinterberger had recognized her in 1945--Klein used the TARDIS to travel back and find out. There, she discovered herself as a baby. Klein was not the daughter of the parents she thought; she had been cloned from Kurt Schalk and his assistant Elizabeth Volkenrath in their lab in Dusseldorf to serve as the template and first operator of the planned Persuasion Machine--a child who would be inculcated with specific ideas from birth to be an effective operator. She was identical to Volkenrath, allowing her to move around freely and help to get her baby self rescued by her adoptive father, Ralf Klein. However, then she encountered the real Volkenrath, who took her hostage and abandoned her there, going back in the TARDIS in her place.
Everyone on Azimuth assumed Volkenrath was Klein. The Daleks tried to use her to run the Persuasion Machine, which they had built after capturing Schalk. However, she turned on them and used the machine to destroy the Daleks. Will, not knowing that "Klein" would regain the upper hand, had simultaneously snuck back to the TARDIS and freed the Shepherd to try to get his help defeating the Daleks. The Shepherd, having been betrayed and imprisoned by the Doctor, was much more interested in revenge than in helping. At the sight of this terrifying being, Volkenrath used the machine again--this time to destroy its designer. Her efforts worked, but making the machine force a near-omnipotent being to die caused it to explode. She was severely injured and died almost immediately from her injuries.
Realizing that she was not the real Klein, the Doctor and Will then returned to 1945 to find her. They followed the trail of Volkenrath--who was really Klein--as she had been captured by the Russians and taken to a military prison. They were able to break in and rescue her, and then they returned to the TARDIS to resume their journey together.
Character's personality: Will Arrowsmith is a scientist, intellectual, assistant, and eccentric. He has been marked his whole life by his affinity for the sciences, as well as his almost encyclopedic recall of facts about all topics under the sun. These talents have granted him great successes at school and university and have landed him his current job at UNIT. While he is a bookworm through and through, he also relishes in the opportunity to apply his knowledge to real life situations. However, he is clumsy, awkward, and lacking in both common sense and social aptitude, which means that his scientific know-how often does not result in the practical contributions that he means to make, especially in high-pressure situations.
Will has nothing if not an indomitable spirit and insatiable desire to help, though. Despite his inability to make plans in the field, he is an excellent assistant and excels under the direction of others, especially if those directions are focused on scientific implementation. Despite this, Will desperately wants to be a successful field agent for UNIT. He is marked by his struggle between his clear intellectual talents but his desire to become what he is not: a field man--and the failures that come from his attempts to be just that.
In terms of personal interactions, Will loves people but has never quite understood how to relate to them. He is very eccentric and frequently babbles nervously, speaking his thoughts without thinking them through. This means he is often rude, which he knows, but he doesn't know how to tell when he's being rude. He apologizes frequently in an attempt to make up for this disconnect. He also has a compulsion to think aloud and, whenever possible, record those thoughts. He finds it calming, though it is often off-putting to others. For this reason, he is never found without his trusty dictaphone or, failing that, any recording device he can get his hands on. When found without a recording device, he still frequently speaks to himself out loud. Overall, Will is most at home in a science lab but still insists on fighting his nature to try to become something more. He is loyal, determined, smart, and kind, and he hopes that if he tries hard enough, he'll be able to surpass his personal weaknesses to become something greater.
Character's skills/abilities/powers: Will is brilliant young scientist with amazing factual recall and almost encyclopedic levels of knowledge on a variety of topics. Otherwise, he is a normal human being--and not a very physically impressive one.
Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: Will would like to bring his sonic dictaphone, which is a recording device with an internal memory card.
Are you bringing your character to
ten_fwd from another game? If you are, which game?: No.If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were changed by and what challenges they faced in the climate of their previous game(s):
Why do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them? I want to play Will here because it seems like a great setting for him to put his scientific skills to work while simultaneously having to deal with social interaction, which is not his strong suit but is a lot of fun for me. I'd also like to see how he develops out on his own in the world, as it were, without Dr Klein or the Doctor he knows leading him.
Writing Sample #1: Here (including the top post)
Writing Sample #2 (optional): Here (including the top post)
