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name: Ru
age: 24
contact: bowtie at plurk
other characters: No one!
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name: Clara Oswald
canon: Doctor Who
reference: At the TARDIS wiki
canon point: After the episode Day of the Doctor.
background: The Doctor Who universe is like our own, large and expansive, but also filled with life. Millions of different alien species populate the stars in the sky. Some of them are as primitive as the human race in the 21st century or worse, others are filled with amazing technological wonders, some of these races are kind and welcoming, others are dangerous and looking to conquer the universe. Humanity itself is shown to evolve in the future, moving from earth to giant space convoys to settling new planets and mixing with other species.
Earth itself has often been visited by many of these alien races, both the good and the bad. Though it is unclear as to what the general perception of aliens is by the general public (despite the many episodes depicting Earth invasions it is unclear if in the universe the public is definitely aware of aliens, generally it seems they do not), there are certain groups such as UNIT and Torchwood that interact with aliens and defend the Earth against attacks. UNIT is a group created by the UN when it discovered alien life with secret probe projects into deep space. UNIT investigates possible extraterrestrial appearances on Earth and defends against any possible threats. They became aware of the Doctor's actions in defending Earth in the 70's/80's and so enlisted him to help on occasional missions. Though the Doctor disliked the occasional use of guns, he greatly respected many members of UNIT. .
The Doctor is often at the heart of these invasions, though he's definitely no ordinary man. He's a Time Lord, one of the oldest alien species in the universe and the first to invent time travel. However, they were also very uptight and refused to interact with other races or use their abilites in time travel. When the Doctor was young, he escaped the oppressive Time Lord society, by stealing a time machine called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space).
The TARDIS is both a time machine and a spaceship and it's interior is larger than it's exterior (which always takes the form of a blue police box from 1963). It allows the Doctor to travel anywhere at anytime in the entire universe and so visit and get to know the many planets and people that he is famous with. Though sometimes, the Doctor has trouble controlling her because she's an old ship, ancient when he first stole her and they have been traveling for nearly a thousand years. This unreliability often means the Doctor winds up right in the middle of danger. The TARDIS has been said to take him where he "needs to go" rather than where he wants to go. The track of the TARDIS can also be intercepted to summon the Doctor if he is needed. Because of the TARDIS the Doctor has been involved in many famous events in history, which have often involved aliens, such as Mt. Vesuvius, World War II, and the Moon Landing. He has also met and befriended many famous people such as Winston Churchill, Vincent van Gogh, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens and many more.
Time Lords have the ability to regenerate which is to completely change their appearance and personality to avoid death. However, the main cores of his personality such as his tendency towards heroism and intelligence is core in every incarnation. This ability allows the Doctor to continually risk himself for the sake of others. Currently he is in his eleventh regeneration.
However, the Doctor, and Time Lord society, has created many enemies including one alien race called, the Daleks. The Daleks have no emotion other than hate and their only desire is to destroy all non-Dalek life in the universe. At some point, the Time Lords saw a possible time line outcome in which the Daleks successfully conquered the universe and commanded the Doctor to interfere earlier in the timeline of the Daleks to prevent their creation. The Doctor was unable to succeed and the Daleks took this interference as an act of war. This was the start of The Last Great Time War, which became so great that it threatened to destroy the universe, with fighters on both sides traveling through time and dying endless deaths. The Time Lords had a plan to kill all beings in the universe and evolve "beyond time". The Doctor, horrified by actions on both sides, killed all of the other Time Lords (and to his original belief all of the Daleks) and time locked the war, preventing anyone from ever traveling back to the war and leaving the Doctor the last of the Time Lords.
However, the Daleks survived the war to continue to engage the Doctor in combat and schemes to kill him many more times. The Doctor has gained a reputation in the universe as being a hero. He saves planets, frees enslaved races, and mediates problems between arguing parties for the sake of peace. He is a pacifist and lover of all wonders of the universe. However, this heroic behavior has also gained him a reputation as a meddler amongst his detractors and Daleks are only one enemy on a long list. There are also Cybermen, walking metal men who assimilate others into their network. The Silence, a cult devoted to ending the Doctor’s power in the universe. The Great Intelligence, a being from another universe that absorbs information to grow stronger and steals bodies. Sontarans, a race of genetically created warriors and many more. The Doctor is constantly attacked by and drawn into issues that his enemies create and generally comes out victorious.
The Doctor is particularly fond of the earth and humanity, and so is focused on defending the Earth from any dangerous invasions and threats from other lifeforms. Though, sometimes he is the one who attracts the said threats to Earth. Because of his close relationship with humanity, the Doctor is known by and involved with many governments on Earth, especially the British government and Royal Family. The Doctor likes to bring human companions along with him on his many adventures around universe.
Clara Oswald is one of the human companions that accompany the Doctor on his journeys through space though her story is an odd one. Usually, the Doctor and his companions meet by chance when thrust together in a dangerous situation. However, for Clara, it is the Doctor that reaches out to her when he shows up on her door step and already knows her name. From his perspective, he already met her twice before. Once as a girl in the future who called herself Oswin Oswald and another in Victorian London also called Clara Oswald. Both girls helped the Doctor fight an enemy but expired in the process. Having shocked he met the same girl twice, he finds this Clara Oswald in the modern era acting as a nanny for two young children.
Because of this bizarre turn of events that the Doctor cannot explain, he dubs her the"the impossible girl" and mystery vexes the Doctor throughout their travels while Clara is unaware of these other incarnations of herself and is seemingly an ordinary girl. This causes conflict between her and the Doctor because she can tell he is keeping something from her but does not know what. She is often frustrated with him but also finds herself somewhat attracted to him and his lifestyle. Her mystery is revealed in the season finale when the Great Intelligence enters a portal into the Doctor's time stream with a plan to turn all of the Doctor's victories into defeats. In order to save the Doctor, Clara jumps into the portal after him and is torn apart by the time vortex into millions of echoes of herself throughout the Doctor's history, trying to save him. However, when these echoes manage to save the Doctor, the die and only two (Oswin and Victorian Clara) succeed in truly meeting the Doctor. The original Clara is nearly lost but the Doctor enters his own time stream and saves her.
One of Clara's biggest impacts on canon happens during an episode called Day of the Doctor. In this episode the Doctor that Clara is most familiar with (the 11th) meets up with his previous incarnation and a hidden incarnation, the War Doctor, who committed the atrocity of killing all of the other Time Lords. Clara is able to connect with this war Doctor and tell him how much she knows "her Doctor" regrets his actions. At first, it seems like history is going to proceed as normal with the destruction of Gallifrey, but Clara is able to remind the Doctor of how his name is a promise to always do good and to always try to find away to save people and not to forget the terrible things he's done. Inspired by her words, the Doctors rally together and construct a plan to save Gallifrey by putting it in a pocket universe and preventing it from being destroyed by the Daleks.
personality:
“I blew into this world on a leaf and I’m still blowing. Don’t know if I’ll ever land”.
Clara Oswald is a girl is not quite content with where she's at in her life. All her young life she dreamed of traveling to all the places her mother told her about and when she finally graduated university and made her travel plans, a family friend’s mother died and Clara stepped up to nanny for their children. She isn’t quite suited to the job but stays out of a sense of loyalty and compassion and waiting for the chance to finally be able to step out and travel like she wanted. That is until she meets the Doctor.
The best word to describe Clara at first glance is "realist". She is naturally skeptical and openly questions people about their choices and ideas. When a strange man claiming to know her comes to bother her she just rolls her eyes and slams the door in his face. She refuses to "sing to save the world" because that idea is far too ridiculous to deal work. She also tends to stand back and observe a situation before just jumping into chaos. Real life is also taken very seriously and so unlike most companions, Clara travels with the Doctor on an intermittent basis because she doesn't want to abandon her duties.
However, once she understands something, she is quick to accept it and work with it. When he later claims to be an alien she willingly accepts in the face of just having traveled through time in a blue police box. Even when at first she is shocked at the interior of the TARDIS, she quickly accepts it and begins working with the Doctor.
“You’re not getting me to talk to your ship. That’s properly bonkers.”
Though at times her realism gets the better of her such as when she struggles to understand the TARDIS is alive and dismisses an old Doctor about singing to improve the mood in a terrifying situation and prevents her from being open-minded. However, she usually relents in the end and allows herself to be a little dreamy or silly. Her realism gives her little time for tricks and nonsense, which sometimes puts her at odds with people like the Doctor. She yells at him when she finds out that he has monsters trapped in the centre of the TARDIS telling him that’s not what “good guys” do. She respects people and does not take being disrespected or lied to lying down.
Clara constantly questions her surroundings despite accepting them initially with relative ease. When the Doctor tries to convince her he has a job, she rolls her eyes and tells him that he simply does not have a job. She is also naturally very curious and is always trying to learn as much about everything as she can. She picks things up, looks them over, looks into locked rooms et cetera. She asks what space is made out of and how the TARDIS flies through it.
One of Clara's defining traits is that she is very independent. Because she sees things for how they are, she tends to know what must be done and therefore, she will do it. She isn't afraid to go off on her own and she willingly involves herself in situations if she feels that someone is in need of help or she has something to offer. Clara is also assertive and determined, expecting the Doctor to work his travels around her schedule instead of abandoning her entire life for him.
Clara also is a bit of a self-admitted control freak. She hates when things are out of her ability to control or influence and is most at ease when she has the ability to change outcomes. However, she recognizes that fact and one of the reasons she went with the Doctor was to have a chance to break free. To be content, she needs a balance of control and freedom, which can be a difficult balance to achieve.
“The trick is don’t fall in love. I do that trick twice a day."
Clara isn’t a girl who wears her heart on her sleeve. She keeps it tucked away and protected by her direct and questioning personality. Trusting people, especially the Doctor who keeps so many secrets, doesn’t come easily to her and it takes awhile for her to really begin to consider him a friend. The adventure and travel are so appealing but she fears being completely sucked in and so keeps her distance to protect herself. Clara also strongly dislikes being perceived as afraid or weak and so she bottles up her fears and puts on a solid outer shell to hide what she is really feeling. But once she gets to know a person, her walls break down and she becomes more open and will go extremely far for her friends.
“Remember what you said before, we just don’t walk away?”
Despite an air of distance, the realism in Clara does not come at the expense of kindness or compassion. She is quick to understand the feelings of others and to empathize and can hone in on what others are feeling quite easily. She understands her young ward’s bitter feelings towards her as a “replacement” and respectfully keeps her distance and she instantly goes to help a young child that she finds lost in an alien marketplace. She is eager and willing to help those in need. Loyalty and keeping promises is especially important to Clara. It’s why she remains a nanny for her family friends despite her own desires to travel. She refuses to walk out on my people she cares about and will stay even in tough situations. Clara also seems to have an affection for romance as she jumps at the idea to participate in a ridiculous wedding.
In an ultimate expression of loyalty, Clara is also willing to sacrifice herself to save the Doctor, a person she truly cares about. She accepts that she will endure great pain, ripped apart by the time stream, lose her sense of self, and ultimately die. All for the sake of her close friend. She doesn’t fret, she doesn’t cry, she just urges the Doctor to run and save himself. Clara is content with the knowledge that her sacrifice will save him and by extension, the universe and accepts this task as her destiny.
“Is that a snogging booth? Is that what you do? Bring a booth? There is such thing as too keen.”
Wit and teasing are some of her default choices for dealing with situations that she is unsure about or needs a bit of time to get a handle on. Clara is fond of making light jokes at the expense of others and making commentary about things she finds ridiculous. She especially likes to rile up the Doctor and pretend to take what he’s saying the completely wrong way just to get him flustered. Though sometimes she uses sarcasm to bite back at people whom she thinks are behaving inappropriately in a situation.
”That was pretty good, wasn’t it? Admit it, that was good.”
Despite her generally settled nature and calm presented personality, Clara has a desire to prove herself. She wants to be the one to find out who attacked her and so takes the laptop from the Doctor and hacks an evil company’s files to find out their location. And later, she offers herself as the one to go into danger and speak to a warrior alien and after nearly getting killed she asks the Doctor if he thought she did well. She wants to be helpful and involved and get the recognition she thinks she deserves and that she doesn’t get working at her nanny job.
Clara is also no stranger to giving orders, due to her nanny job, and seems to flourish in positions of authority. She has been criticized in the past for being rather bossy and she does seem to be perfectly fine with bossing people about. When the Doctor leads her in charge of a squad of soldiers, Clara quickly jumps into the leader role without any hesitation or self-doubt. In fact, she also is able to win over all of the soldiers with her strong personality and confidence as well as clever battle plans and cheerful demeanor. However too much authority and responsibility isn’t what Clara likes either, as she rejects an offer from a prince to marry him and rule a thousand galaxies because she still wants to maintain her freedom.
However, beneath all of her feisty courage, is a vulnerable girl. A girl who still mourns the loss of her mother and struggles to let go of all of the things that her mother used to own. A girl who still is terrified of being lost after being separated from her mother as a child. A girl who is disturbed by the prospect of seeing the earth burn out and die billions of years after she dies and her friend not blinking an eye at the idea. A girl, finding herself lost in a dark world after expecting to die, breaks down and cries that she doesn’t know where she is and doesn’t know where to go.
As much as she wants to do it alone, Clara can’t always force herself to get up and endure. She can’t always let things just roll off her back. But a few reassuring words from a friend helps her get back up on her feet and move forward again, regaining her courage, and bravado. And this vulnerability deep within allows her to be the Doctor's moral compass. When he is prepared to once again destroy Gallifrey, Clara reminds him of who he is and asks if this is what he truly wants and if there is no other way to fix it. Her concern for him and for the weight of his actions spur the Doctor into making a better choice.
Relationships
One of the most important relationships in Clara's life was her mum. She and Clara were obviously very close and Clara appeared to have been doted on as a child. Once when Clara was young and ended up lost, her mum promised that she would always be there to find her. So when Ellie Oswald died, Clara was deeply wounded by her death. It seemed to have fueled a fear of loss in her and caused her to be distant from other people. It also was possible a huge factor in inspiring Clara's care and kindness in others, especially children. Clara also appeared to be close to her father, who comforted her when she lost her mum, however he's recently remarried to a woman (or at least she appears to be Clara's stepmother) that Clara doesn't get on with very well.
The second major relationship Clara has is with Artie and Angie, the children that she looks after as a nanny. She clearly became their nanny out of sympathy for their plight, having also lost her mother at a young age, which also expertly allows her to navigate her relationship with them. She doesn't try to replace their mother, she's friendly but strict and doesn't smother them, although it's clear she cares about them deeply. When Angie constantly tests the boundaries with her, Clara understands the struggle that she is going through without her mother and lets Angie try to assert herself and counters that she knows "she's not their mum". With Artie, who is younger, Clara is a little more gentle. She encourages him and tries to foster his intelligence and kindness. Her relationships with the children illuminate her ability to be both wry and strict but also extremely caring and selfless.
Finally, Clara's biggest relationship is with the Doctor. At first, she doesn't trust him. She thinks he's keeping secrets from her and has an agenda that she can't quite put her finger on. However, at the same time, she fancies him. She's impressed by his credentials and what he offers her, but she does her best not to show it. She doesn't want to get in too deep with him and does her best to keep herself from "falling in love". She gets extremely angry when the Doctor lies to her and keeps secrets from her and yet she can't quite get herself to stop trusting him and walk away. There's something about him that draws her too him.
Eventually, Clara saves the Doctor in his time stream and because she sees him at so many points in history, is able to understand him extremely well. She no longer mistrusts him, in fact, she trusts him more than anyone else. But she still likes to keep him at her beck and call. They work around her schedule and her plans. As mentioned previously, this trust and understanding also allows her to understand and empathize with the Doctor better than most. So she understand his turmoil but isn't bogged down in them like he is, so she can direct him to a better path. She can make him the best he is.
And this trust Clara ends up having in the Doctor, also ends up hurting her. Even when he tricks her and tries to send her away against her will, she's unable to stay angry at him despite the turmoil it caused her. When he says things that wound her, she stays quiet and lets him make his points. When he commits the ultimate betrayal and leaves her behind once again, Clara forgives him and puts aside her pain to try and save him from dying. The relationship with her and the Eleventh Doctor ends with her being very selfless despite his trespasses against her. She just doesn't want to lose him and is afraid for the future.
powers and abilities: Clara’s introductory episode, The Bells of Saint John, centers around a living alien wifi (eventually revealed to be the Great Intelligence whom Victorian Clara and the Doctor faced in The Snowmen), hacking people’s brains and uploading them into its cloud and absorbing their knowledge. Like a computer can hack another computer, a living computer could hack another living thing.
Most people who are taken by the wifi have their minds stolen and their bodies go comatose and the eventually die. The exception is the people that the Great Intelligence has captured to do his bidding. They act as his employees, setting up the wifi and finding new victims. Ms. Kizlet, the woman in charge of the employees, can “upgrade” her hacked employees and those absorbed by the wifi as she sees fit. She increases his obedience,which makes him no longer question her plans and also increases the speed at which he works. Beyond this and what Clara does, we aren't really given much idea as to the scope of the upgrades of the hacking.
Clara is one such victim of the Great Intelligence. When the company scopes her, they note she is “borderline” being “very intelligent, but no computer skills”. So Ms. Kizlet tells them to splice Clara a computer skills package when the upload her. However, this process is interrupted by the Doctor, who pulls Clara’s mind out of the cloud and back into her body.
When she awakens, she realizes she knows “stuff about computers” and is even to make a joke about Twitter when she didn’t even know how to connect to the Internet just hours ago. So she and the Doctor end up on the run from the Great Intelligence and decide they need to fight back but the Doctor laments they don’t know their location. Clara declares that she has “insane hacking skills” and will find them in five minutes.
Instead of trying to break through their security programs, Clara cleverly decides that the weakness in the system isn’t the programs but the people and hacks the webcams on the company’s computers and gets the pictures of everyone employed by the Great Intelligence. Then she writes a program to match those images to images on social media sites. Most of the people at the company, as modern people tend to do, mentioned their work place on Facebook, twitter, and flickr. This allows Clara to conclude they are located at the Shard.
Unfortunately, the never really go into detail about the extent of her abilities and what is in and out of her range of gained abilities. I would argue she has perfect understanding of modern programming and so she would be able to quickly get the hang of new technology after playing around with it but not understand instantly any computer she picked up. I personally feel it is better to understate than overstate her abilities because she still has at least one entire season of Doctor Who to appear and if the issue came up again it would be easier to retcon her having better abilities shown than worse. Though ultimately, I will try to keep these abilities on the down low because they are simply so unclear about them after the first episode.
( GAME INFORMATION )
infinity gem: The Space Gem. While Clara fits in a few other categories I believe Space is the best fit for her because it highlights the love of travel and the need to be free that is deep within her and how she cannot be happy being stuck even if she likes stability. She is also a fiercely independent person which makes her a good candidate for the gem.
power: Teleportation.
housing: 11 and 12
inventory: -One set of undergarments
-One dress
-One jacket
-One pair of tights
-One pair of boots
-A bag containing a smart phone, a wallet, her keys, and a copy of Pride and Prejudice.
thread sample: Test Drive meme!
log sample: Pubs weren't really Clara's ideal place to spend her time. For her it was a nice chair in a large window with a good book. Pubs were loud and full of people who enjoyed trying to bother people who didn't want to bothered. But this was the place that people like her, people who weren't from around here quite literally, seemed to gather. So there she went. Go where people go, gather information, learn about everyone that you can. It was only logical. And her experiences with the Doctor had only reaffirmed such.
So she sits at the edge of the bar, staring curiously out at the hustle and bustle of the crowd trying to decide who's a normal patron and who's like her. Then she notices that a crowd has gathered towards the opposite side of the bar in a large circle with a few at the center. She leans forward to try to get a better look at what's going on when suddenly a bottle from that direction comes hurtling towards her face. She barely manages to duck so it collides with the wall instead of her head, spraying glass and liquor everywhere.
Anger bubbles up inside of her and she jumps from her seat and crosses the room over to the opposite side of the bar in a single swift motion. "Alright. Who did it? Who threw the bottle?" No one responded. In fact, it seemed like maybe even they didn't know because in a split second everything had become chaos. Everyone was shoving each other, punching, yelling, cursing. Clara leapt back from the crowd, roughly shoving off the hand of a man who tried to grab her before roughly pinching the skin on his hand. Satisfied when he howled with pain, she turned and returned to her drink at the bar. No point in getting herself involved in any of that mess.
name: Ru
age: 24
contact: bowtie at plurk
other characters: No one!
( IC INFORMATION )
name: Clara Oswald
canon: Doctor Who
reference: At the TARDIS wiki
canon point: After the episode Day of the Doctor.
background: The Doctor Who universe is like our own, large and expansive, but also filled with life. Millions of different alien species populate the stars in the sky. Some of them are as primitive as the human race in the 21st century or worse, others are filled with amazing technological wonders, some of these races are kind and welcoming, others are dangerous and looking to conquer the universe. Humanity itself is shown to evolve in the future, moving from earth to giant space convoys to settling new planets and mixing with other species.
Earth itself has often been visited by many of these alien races, both the good and the bad. Though it is unclear as to what the general perception of aliens is by the general public (despite the many episodes depicting Earth invasions it is unclear if in the universe the public is definitely aware of aliens, generally it seems they do not), there are certain groups such as UNIT and Torchwood that interact with aliens and defend the Earth against attacks. UNIT is a group created by the UN when it discovered alien life with secret probe projects into deep space. UNIT investigates possible extraterrestrial appearances on Earth and defends against any possible threats. They became aware of the Doctor's actions in defending Earth in the 70's/80's and so enlisted him to help on occasional missions. Though the Doctor disliked the occasional use of guns, he greatly respected many members of UNIT. .
The Doctor is often at the heart of these invasions, though he's definitely no ordinary man. He's a Time Lord, one of the oldest alien species in the universe and the first to invent time travel. However, they were also very uptight and refused to interact with other races or use their abilites in time travel. When the Doctor was young, he escaped the oppressive Time Lord society, by stealing a time machine called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space).
The TARDIS is both a time machine and a spaceship and it's interior is larger than it's exterior (which always takes the form of a blue police box from 1963). It allows the Doctor to travel anywhere at anytime in the entire universe and so visit and get to know the many planets and people that he is famous with. Though sometimes, the Doctor has trouble controlling her because she's an old ship, ancient when he first stole her and they have been traveling for nearly a thousand years. This unreliability often means the Doctor winds up right in the middle of danger. The TARDIS has been said to take him where he "needs to go" rather than where he wants to go. The track of the TARDIS can also be intercepted to summon the Doctor if he is needed. Because of the TARDIS the Doctor has been involved in many famous events in history, which have often involved aliens, such as Mt. Vesuvius, World War II, and the Moon Landing. He has also met and befriended many famous people such as Winston Churchill, Vincent van Gogh, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens and many more.
Time Lords have the ability to regenerate which is to completely change their appearance and personality to avoid death. However, the main cores of his personality such as his tendency towards heroism and intelligence is core in every incarnation. This ability allows the Doctor to continually risk himself for the sake of others. Currently he is in his eleventh regeneration.
However, the Doctor, and Time Lord society, has created many enemies including one alien race called, the Daleks. The Daleks have no emotion other than hate and their only desire is to destroy all non-Dalek life in the universe. At some point, the Time Lords saw a possible time line outcome in which the Daleks successfully conquered the universe and commanded the Doctor to interfere earlier in the timeline of the Daleks to prevent their creation. The Doctor was unable to succeed and the Daleks took this interference as an act of war. This was the start of The Last Great Time War, which became so great that it threatened to destroy the universe, with fighters on both sides traveling through time and dying endless deaths. The Time Lords had a plan to kill all beings in the universe and evolve "beyond time". The Doctor, horrified by actions on both sides, killed all of the other Time Lords (and to his original belief all of the Daleks) and time locked the war, preventing anyone from ever traveling back to the war and leaving the Doctor the last of the Time Lords.
However, the Daleks survived the war to continue to engage the Doctor in combat and schemes to kill him many more times. The Doctor has gained a reputation in the universe as being a hero. He saves planets, frees enslaved races, and mediates problems between arguing parties for the sake of peace. He is a pacifist and lover of all wonders of the universe. However, this heroic behavior has also gained him a reputation as a meddler amongst his detractors and Daleks are only one enemy on a long list. There are also Cybermen, walking metal men who assimilate others into their network. The Silence, a cult devoted to ending the Doctor’s power in the universe. The Great Intelligence, a being from another universe that absorbs information to grow stronger and steals bodies. Sontarans, a race of genetically created warriors and many more. The Doctor is constantly attacked by and drawn into issues that his enemies create and generally comes out victorious.
The Doctor is particularly fond of the earth and humanity, and so is focused on defending the Earth from any dangerous invasions and threats from other lifeforms. Though, sometimes he is the one who attracts the said threats to Earth. Because of his close relationship with humanity, the Doctor is known by and involved with many governments on Earth, especially the British government and Royal Family. The Doctor likes to bring human companions along with him on his many adventures around universe.
Clara Oswald is one of the human companions that accompany the Doctor on his journeys through space though her story is an odd one. Usually, the Doctor and his companions meet by chance when thrust together in a dangerous situation. However, for Clara, it is the Doctor that reaches out to her when he shows up on her door step and already knows her name. From his perspective, he already met her twice before. Once as a girl in the future who called herself Oswin Oswald and another in Victorian London also called Clara Oswald. Both girls helped the Doctor fight an enemy but expired in the process. Having shocked he met the same girl twice, he finds this Clara Oswald in the modern era acting as a nanny for two young children.
Because of this bizarre turn of events that the Doctor cannot explain, he dubs her the"the impossible girl" and mystery vexes the Doctor throughout their travels while Clara is unaware of these other incarnations of herself and is seemingly an ordinary girl. This causes conflict between her and the Doctor because she can tell he is keeping something from her but does not know what. She is often frustrated with him but also finds herself somewhat attracted to him and his lifestyle. Her mystery is revealed in the season finale when the Great Intelligence enters a portal into the Doctor's time stream with a plan to turn all of the Doctor's victories into defeats. In order to save the Doctor, Clara jumps into the portal after him and is torn apart by the time vortex into millions of echoes of herself throughout the Doctor's history, trying to save him. However, when these echoes manage to save the Doctor, the die and only two (Oswin and Victorian Clara) succeed in truly meeting the Doctor. The original Clara is nearly lost but the Doctor enters his own time stream and saves her.
One of Clara's biggest impacts on canon happens during an episode called Day of the Doctor. In this episode the Doctor that Clara is most familiar with (the 11th) meets up with his previous incarnation and a hidden incarnation, the War Doctor, who committed the atrocity of killing all of the other Time Lords. Clara is able to connect with this war Doctor and tell him how much she knows "her Doctor" regrets his actions. At first, it seems like history is going to proceed as normal with the destruction of Gallifrey, but Clara is able to remind the Doctor of how his name is a promise to always do good and to always try to find away to save people and not to forget the terrible things he's done. Inspired by her words, the Doctors rally together and construct a plan to save Gallifrey by putting it in a pocket universe and preventing it from being destroyed by the Daleks.
personality:
Clara Oswald is a girl is not quite content with where she's at in her life. All her young life she dreamed of traveling to all the places her mother told her about and when she finally graduated university and made her travel plans, a family friend’s mother died and Clara stepped up to nanny for their children. She isn’t quite suited to the job but stays out of a sense of loyalty and compassion and waiting for the chance to finally be able to step out and travel like she wanted. That is until she meets the Doctor.
The best word to describe Clara at first glance is "realist". She is naturally skeptical and openly questions people about their choices and ideas. When a strange man claiming to know her comes to bother her she just rolls her eyes and slams the door in his face. She refuses to "sing to save the world" because that idea is far too ridiculous to deal work. She also tends to stand back and observe a situation before just jumping into chaos. Real life is also taken very seriously and so unlike most companions, Clara travels with the Doctor on an intermittent basis because she doesn't want to abandon her duties.
However, once she understands something, she is quick to accept it and work with it. When he later claims to be an alien she willingly accepts in the face of just having traveled through time in a blue police box. Even when at first she is shocked at the interior of the TARDIS, she quickly accepts it and begins working with the Doctor.
Though at times her realism gets the better of her such as when she struggles to understand the TARDIS is alive and dismisses an old Doctor about singing to improve the mood in a terrifying situation and prevents her from being open-minded. However, she usually relents in the end and allows herself to be a little dreamy or silly. Her realism gives her little time for tricks and nonsense, which sometimes puts her at odds with people like the Doctor. She yells at him when she finds out that he has monsters trapped in the centre of the TARDIS telling him that’s not what “good guys” do. She respects people and does not take being disrespected or lied to lying down.
Clara constantly questions her surroundings despite accepting them initially with relative ease. When the Doctor tries to convince her he has a job, she rolls her eyes and tells him that he simply does not have a job. She is also naturally very curious and is always trying to learn as much about everything as she can. She picks things up, looks them over, looks into locked rooms et cetera. She asks what space is made out of and how the TARDIS flies through it.
One of Clara's defining traits is that she is very independent. Because she sees things for how they are, she tends to know what must be done and therefore, she will do it. She isn't afraid to go off on her own and she willingly involves herself in situations if she feels that someone is in need of help or she has something to offer. Clara is also assertive and determined, expecting the Doctor to work his travels around her schedule instead of abandoning her entire life for him.
Clara also is a bit of a self-admitted control freak. She hates when things are out of her ability to control or influence and is most at ease when she has the ability to change outcomes. However, she recognizes that fact and one of the reasons she went with the Doctor was to have a chance to break free. To be content, she needs a balance of control and freedom, which can be a difficult balance to achieve.
Clara isn’t a girl who wears her heart on her sleeve. She keeps it tucked away and protected by her direct and questioning personality. Trusting people, especially the Doctor who keeps so many secrets, doesn’t come easily to her and it takes awhile for her to really begin to consider him a friend. The adventure and travel are so appealing but she fears being completely sucked in and so keeps her distance to protect herself. Clara also strongly dislikes being perceived as afraid or weak and so she bottles up her fears and puts on a solid outer shell to hide what she is really feeling. But once she gets to know a person, her walls break down and she becomes more open and will go extremely far for her friends.
Despite an air of distance, the realism in Clara does not come at the expense of kindness or compassion. She is quick to understand the feelings of others and to empathize and can hone in on what others are feeling quite easily. She understands her young ward’s bitter feelings towards her as a “replacement” and respectfully keeps her distance and she instantly goes to help a young child that she finds lost in an alien marketplace. She is eager and willing to help those in need. Loyalty and keeping promises is especially important to Clara. It’s why she remains a nanny for her family friends despite her own desires to travel. She refuses to walk out on my people she cares about and will stay even in tough situations. Clara also seems to have an affection for romance as she jumps at the idea to participate in a ridiculous wedding.
In an ultimate expression of loyalty, Clara is also willing to sacrifice herself to save the Doctor, a person she truly cares about. She accepts that she will endure great pain, ripped apart by the time stream, lose her sense of self, and ultimately die. All for the sake of her close friend. She doesn’t fret, she doesn’t cry, she just urges the Doctor to run and save himself. Clara is content with the knowledge that her sacrifice will save him and by extension, the universe and accepts this task as her destiny.
Wit and teasing are some of her default choices for dealing with situations that she is unsure about or needs a bit of time to get a handle on. Clara is fond of making light jokes at the expense of others and making commentary about things she finds ridiculous. She especially likes to rile up the Doctor and pretend to take what he’s saying the completely wrong way just to get him flustered. Though sometimes she uses sarcasm to bite back at people whom she thinks are behaving inappropriately in a situation.
Despite her generally settled nature and calm presented personality, Clara has a desire to prove herself. She wants to be the one to find out who attacked her and so takes the laptop from the Doctor and hacks an evil company’s files to find out their location. And later, she offers herself as the one to go into danger and speak to a warrior alien and after nearly getting killed she asks the Doctor if he thought she did well. She wants to be helpful and involved and get the recognition she thinks she deserves and that she doesn’t get working at her nanny job.
Clara is also no stranger to giving orders, due to her nanny job, and seems to flourish in positions of authority. She has been criticized in the past for being rather bossy and she does seem to be perfectly fine with bossing people about. When the Doctor leads her in charge of a squad of soldiers, Clara quickly jumps into the leader role without any hesitation or self-doubt. In fact, she also is able to win over all of the soldiers with her strong personality and confidence as well as clever battle plans and cheerful demeanor. However too much authority and responsibility isn’t what Clara likes either, as she rejects an offer from a prince to marry him and rule a thousand galaxies because she still wants to maintain her freedom.
However, beneath all of her feisty courage, is a vulnerable girl. A girl who still mourns the loss of her mother and struggles to let go of all of the things that her mother used to own. A girl who still is terrified of being lost after being separated from her mother as a child. A girl who is disturbed by the prospect of seeing the earth burn out and die billions of years after she dies and her friend not blinking an eye at the idea. A girl, finding herself lost in a dark world after expecting to die, breaks down and cries that she doesn’t know where she is and doesn’t know where to go.
As much as she wants to do it alone, Clara can’t always force herself to get up and endure. She can’t always let things just roll off her back. But a few reassuring words from a friend helps her get back up on her feet and move forward again, regaining her courage, and bravado. And this vulnerability deep within allows her to be the Doctor's moral compass. When he is prepared to once again destroy Gallifrey, Clara reminds him of who he is and asks if this is what he truly wants and if there is no other way to fix it. Her concern for him and for the weight of his actions spur the Doctor into making a better choice.
One of the most important relationships in Clara's life was her mum. She and Clara were obviously very close and Clara appeared to have been doted on as a child. Once when Clara was young and ended up lost, her mum promised that she would always be there to find her. So when Ellie Oswald died, Clara was deeply wounded by her death. It seemed to have fueled a fear of loss in her and caused her to be distant from other people. It also was possible a huge factor in inspiring Clara's care and kindness in others, especially children. Clara also appeared to be close to her father, who comforted her when she lost her mum, however he's recently remarried to a woman (or at least she appears to be Clara's stepmother) that Clara doesn't get on with very well.
The second major relationship Clara has is with Artie and Angie, the children that she looks after as a nanny. She clearly became their nanny out of sympathy for their plight, having also lost her mother at a young age, which also expertly allows her to navigate her relationship with them. She doesn't try to replace their mother, she's friendly but strict and doesn't smother them, although it's clear she cares about them deeply. When Angie constantly tests the boundaries with her, Clara understands the struggle that she is going through without her mother and lets Angie try to assert herself and counters that she knows "she's not their mum". With Artie, who is younger, Clara is a little more gentle. She encourages him and tries to foster his intelligence and kindness. Her relationships with the children illuminate her ability to be both wry and strict but also extremely caring and selfless.
Finally, Clara's biggest relationship is with the Doctor. At first, she doesn't trust him. She thinks he's keeping secrets from her and has an agenda that she can't quite put her finger on. However, at the same time, she fancies him. She's impressed by his credentials and what he offers her, but she does her best not to show it. She doesn't want to get in too deep with him and does her best to keep herself from "falling in love". She gets extremely angry when the Doctor lies to her and keeps secrets from her and yet she can't quite get herself to stop trusting him and walk away. There's something about him that draws her too him.
Eventually, Clara saves the Doctor in his time stream and because she sees him at so many points in history, is able to understand him extremely well. She no longer mistrusts him, in fact, she trusts him more than anyone else. But she still likes to keep him at her beck and call. They work around her schedule and her plans. As mentioned previously, this trust and understanding also allows her to understand and empathize with the Doctor better than most. So she understand his turmoil but isn't bogged down in them like he is, so she can direct him to a better path. She can make him the best he is.
And this trust Clara ends up having in the Doctor, also ends up hurting her. Even when he tricks her and tries to send her away against her will, she's unable to stay angry at him despite the turmoil it caused her. When he says things that wound her, she stays quiet and lets him make his points. When he commits the ultimate betrayal and leaves her behind once again, Clara forgives him and puts aside her pain to try and save him from dying. The relationship with her and the Eleventh Doctor ends with her being very selfless despite his trespasses against her. She just doesn't want to lose him and is afraid for the future.
powers and abilities: Clara’s introductory episode, The Bells of Saint John, centers around a living alien wifi (eventually revealed to be the Great Intelligence whom Victorian Clara and the Doctor faced in The Snowmen), hacking people’s brains and uploading them into its cloud and absorbing their knowledge. Like a computer can hack another computer, a living computer could hack another living thing.
Most people who are taken by the wifi have their minds stolen and their bodies go comatose and the eventually die. The exception is the people that the Great Intelligence has captured to do his bidding. They act as his employees, setting up the wifi and finding new victims. Ms. Kizlet, the woman in charge of the employees, can “upgrade” her hacked employees and those absorbed by the wifi as she sees fit. She increases his obedience,which makes him no longer question her plans and also increases the speed at which he works. Beyond this and what Clara does, we aren't really given much idea as to the scope of the upgrades of the hacking.
Clara is one such victim of the Great Intelligence. When the company scopes her, they note she is “borderline” being “very intelligent, but no computer skills”. So Ms. Kizlet tells them to splice Clara a computer skills package when the upload her. However, this process is interrupted by the Doctor, who pulls Clara’s mind out of the cloud and back into her body.
When she awakens, she realizes she knows “stuff about computers” and is even to make a joke about Twitter when she didn’t even know how to connect to the Internet just hours ago. So she and the Doctor end up on the run from the Great Intelligence and decide they need to fight back but the Doctor laments they don’t know their location. Clara declares that she has “insane hacking skills” and will find them in five minutes.
Instead of trying to break through their security programs, Clara cleverly decides that the weakness in the system isn’t the programs but the people and hacks the webcams on the company’s computers and gets the pictures of everyone employed by the Great Intelligence. Then she writes a program to match those images to images on social media sites. Most of the people at the company, as modern people tend to do, mentioned their work place on Facebook, twitter, and flickr. This allows Clara to conclude they are located at the Shard.
Unfortunately, the never really go into detail about the extent of her abilities and what is in and out of her range of gained abilities. I would argue she has perfect understanding of modern programming and so she would be able to quickly get the hang of new technology after playing around with it but not understand instantly any computer she picked up. I personally feel it is better to understate than overstate her abilities because she still has at least one entire season of Doctor Who to appear and if the issue came up again it would be easier to retcon her having better abilities shown than worse. Though ultimately, I will try to keep these abilities on the down low because they are simply so unclear about them after the first episode.
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infinity gem: The Space Gem. While Clara fits in a few other categories I believe Space is the best fit for her because it highlights the love of travel and the need to be free that is deep within her and how she cannot be happy being stuck even if she likes stability. She is also a fiercely independent person which makes her a good candidate for the gem.
power: Teleportation.
housing: 11 and 12
inventory: -One set of undergarments
-One dress
-One jacket
-One pair of tights
-One pair of boots
-A bag containing a smart phone, a wallet, her keys, and a copy of Pride and Prejudice.
thread sample: Test Drive meme!
log sample: Pubs weren't really Clara's ideal place to spend her time. For her it was a nice chair in a large window with a good book. Pubs were loud and full of people who enjoyed trying to bother people who didn't want to bothered. But this was the place that people like her, people who weren't from around here quite literally, seemed to gather. So there she went. Go where people go, gather information, learn about everyone that you can. It was only logical. And her experiences with the Doctor had only reaffirmed such.
So she sits at the edge of the bar, staring curiously out at the hustle and bustle of the crowd trying to decide who's a normal patron and who's like her. Then she notices that a crowd has gathered towards the opposite side of the bar in a large circle with a few at the center. She leans forward to try to get a better look at what's going on when suddenly a bottle from that direction comes hurtling towards her face. She barely manages to duck so it collides with the wall instead of her head, spraying glass and liquor everywhere.
Anger bubbles up inside of her and she jumps from her seat and crosses the room over to the opposite side of the bar in a single swift motion. "Alright. Who did it? Who threw the bottle?" No one responded. In fact, it seemed like maybe even they didn't know because in a split second everything had become chaos. Everyone was shoving each other, punching, yelling, cursing. Clara leapt back from the crowd, roughly shoving off the hand of a man who tried to grab her before roughly pinching the skin on his hand. Satisfied when he howled with pain, she turned and returned to her drink at the bar. No point in getting herself involved in any of that mess.