Full Name: Axander Fermot ix Anterrris
Alias(es): Xander, the Librarian
Gender: Male
Age: 128
Species: Gallifreyan (Time Lord in training)
Home planet: Gallifrey (planet of origin); Earth (planet of residence)
Allegiance: Knowledge, Truth
Occupation: University student, knowledge seeker
Any skills: Observation, Trivia and history knowledge, Tardis piloting and temporal navigation, regeneration (with no control), compassion, empathy.



Face Claim: Gaspard Ulliel
Eye color: Green
Hair color/style: Light brown/kept somewhat short, swept out of his face, parted just left of the middle
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 132 lbs
Distinguishing features: N/A
General appearance: Xander looks like the kind of handsome young man that doesn't really know it. Appearing in his early 20s, his sand-brown hair is kept rather short, well out of the way of his wide, soft green eyes. Xander's skin lacks the tan associated with outdoor types, and it can generally be assumed that just isn't him. His overall build can be considered more or less "average", not exactly thin but slim. He stands at around 5'7" or 5'8", and if one were to weigh him, he'd probably fall around the 130 lb mark.

Xander generally wears black slacks, black walking shoes and a plain white button-down shirt when he isn't at work or at school, and has a brown jacket he wears over that. The idea of being fashionable was something he never really understood, so he's decided to keep his clothing simple so as not to bring attention to himself.



Likes: ((min. 5))

-Books and other keepers of knowledge
-Sweetened tea
-Quiet time with friends
-Soft music
-Adventure and heroics (shh, this one's secret)

Dislikes:((min. 5))

-Deliberate ignorance
-Violence
-Heights
-Daleks
-Sad poetry

Strengths:

-Knowledge of literature (fiction and non-fiction)
-Understanding of humans
-Determination and dedication
-Sense of ethics
-Harmless appearance

Weaknesses: ((min. 5))

-Harmless nature
-Hesitation and self-doubt
-Discrepancies between historical fiction and reality
-Overprotection of books
-Being hunted by Rassilon's Hound

Dreams: ((min. 3))

-Become a proper Time Lord
-Finish his collection of rare books
-Learn to accept the nature of the universe

Fears: ((min. 3))

-Daleks, the most destructive sentient creatures in the universe
-The Hound, Rassilon's renegade Time Lord hunter
-Loss - Losing the people closest to him again

Personality: Axander is a quietly eccentric young man, fond of physical media for information rather than computers. While most would regard his personality and skills as leaning towards the profession of scholar, he would prefer to keep both reality and fiction in his records, as both are vital to a proper understanding of the psyche, or so he says. Although the advanced perceptions of a Gallifreyan allow Axander the capability of reading a novel in a few seconds, he much prefers to savor them like a fine meal, reading at the speed of less time-oriented beings, such as humans. That lets him really enjoy them to their fullest, rather than simply absorbing their information.

After the war, Axander's main desire was to find a way to earn the right to his Time Lord title and name. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem likely without access to the Academy or officials who can decide that he's proven himself worthy of being counted among their number. Coupled with the death of his mother, this has left Axander a depressed and lonely individual, without even a Tardis for company. Still, he buries the sadness behind a smile and gentle curiosity about others, mostly about the stories they like or the stories they'd write if given the chance. The whole time, he hides his own story for fear of losing those he'd endanger with the knowledge of his identity.



Birth planet: Gallifrey
Parents: Miran Elona ix Anterrris (mother); Farax Siliro ix Anterrris
Siblings: None
Love(s): None
Children: None

History: Axander was born and raised in the Citadel on Gallifrey, a student at the Academy and one of the potential new Time Lords of his generation. From the time he was eight years old, he followed in his parents' footsteps, studying sociology and history, specializing in how sentients interact rather than the more physical sciences. During his time, Axander made close friendships that lasted for decades. Life was good, and he had only a few short years left before his graduation to a full Time Lord. That came to an end when the Daleks came.

They'd come to wipe out Gallifrey, the Time Lords, and any hope of stopping their genetic cleansing of the universe. All Time Lords and Time Capsules were summoned back to Gallifrey to fight in the war, Type 100 warships and Type 70 exploration vessels used side by side against their enemies. Time Lords were dying and killing, eons of peace broken for the second time in recent history. And what happened after the war against the Enemy? Axander's mother knew.

Miran Elona ix Anterrris was an archeologist, her skills set on understanding the past and how it shaped the future. More than that, she was a Time Lady. She was no soldier, and the casualties were mounting. Miran did the unthinkable. During the height of the fighting, she snuck Axander aboard her Time Capsule, a vessel that had been bonded with her for four hundred years, and fled Gallifrey. It took some work to defy the will of the Council, but Miran and Axander were clever.

Shocked as he was, the boy didn't have time to consider the consequences of the treason they were committing. He didn't consider how difficult it was to hide their trail through the Vortex, especially as neither of them had the training to perform such stealthy tasks. They arrived on Earth, a planet with so many temporal nexus points they thought no one would ever find them. How wrong they were.

Two years of life in London, 1963, and the pair thought they had eluded the Time War entirely. They'd gone under the names Xander F. Santerri and Mary Elena Santerri, sending "Xander" to a small college while "Mary" took up work as a high school teacher. It was to their great surprise (greater for Miran, as she hadn't expected the Time Lords to cover up such an important event), two factions of Daleks from long before the Time War were having a civil war through the streets, and they could detect the Time Lords. Caught in the crossfire between the Imperial and Renegade Dalek forces, Miran and Axander tried to escape to the Time Capsule. It was a clean escape, until they ran into the Hound.

The Hound was another Time Lord, a special agent who answered directly to the mad Lord President Rassilon himself. His duty was simple; find renegade Time Lords and bring them to justice. The proper punishment for treason was execution. His weapon was a staser pistol. Escape was almost impossible, but the Daleks' intervention gave the pair a chance to slip away from their hunter. Axander managed to escape unscathed, as his mother threw herself into the line of fire. Miran survived long enough to reach the Time Capsule, and it dematerialized to another time of its own accord, sensing the occupants' fear and panic.

They appeared in Wales, in the city of Cardiff. The Time Capsule disguised itself as an old mansion, even going so far as to reconfigure its insides to match. The Control Room became a basement, and went dark as Miran's life drained from her. There would be no regeneration from a staser pistol.

Axander was devastated. He was light years from anyone he really knew, with a war through time itself going on at every moment in history at once, with his friends and loved ones probably dying. And he was hiding from it all, now trapped. Nothing was right at all. It took days before he was willing to step outside, and he introduced himself to the local community under the same name he'd used in London. It turned out that was over fourty years earlier. Still, no records existed of the people they had been, so the vague explanations were all easily accepted, including the story of his mother's death. She'd been sick, and had left him the house.

So Xander lived in Cardiff, attending the city's magnificent university and keeping mostly to himself. He did his best to socialize without giving away his alien nature. It was too dangerous to reveal himself as a Time Lord. No, in truth he wasn't even that. He was a Gallifreyan, and that was bad enough. He wouldn't have the respect a Time Lord had earned, and he didn't feel he deserved any for allowing all this to happen. So he buried his heritage and hid away, knowing full well he could revive his mother's Time Capsule at the cost of one of his regenerations, but unable to convince himself of there being any value in leaving. He was one of them now.



Weapon(s): None, unless you count his Gallifreyan tool, below
Important Tech: Gravitic Spanner (uses gravity waves to manipulate mass)
Other items: Type 76 Time Travel Capsule, currently dead and no longer dimensionally transcendental, potentially revivable.



Sample RP: The university astronomy lab was completely deserted, for once. None of the students had any upcoming tests or projects that needed working on in the middle of the night. There was a party, where many of them were attending in one of the local dormitories. The only thing in the room was Axander, having gotten permission to use the facility for his research. With that boy's skill, the university hoped to gain a few more government grants. What his research actually was didn't seem to matter to them, which suited Axander just fine.

He knew about the rift. It was important, it was the only thing keeping the Hound from discovering his presence. What he didn't know was why his Time Capsule had died along with his mother. It should have weakened, until a new Time Lord imprinted on its briode nebulizer, but the Eye of Harmony should have kept it safe. Axander was sure the rift had something to do with it, or at least could provide some answers. The lab's incredible machinery and gadgets were fantastic, by human standards. They'd be more than enough to get information from the rift, if properly tuned.

That was it. He had the perfect synchronization, the perfect alignment, and the perfect readout system. Everything was as it should have been, except...

"Where is it? What happened?" The growing smile on Axander's face dropped as he looked over the information being displayed. The rift was a hole leading directly into the Vortex, and as such it should have carried with it waves of energy from the Eye of Harmony, the greatest source of energy across two and a half realities. There was no trace of its energy signal, though. There was no evidence that it had ever even existed.

"No...That's completely impossible. I've done it wrong, that's all. I've just picked up more space noise." With a sigh, he shut off the readout and quickly put all the system settings back the way he'd found them. There was nothing he could see to do about the problem other than sit and sulk. The moment after he slumped his face into his hands, Axander heard a voice behind him say his false name, and he turned with a start to face the last person he'd expected to see following him...



Alias: Nintaku or Trick (short for Patrick)
Member Title: Part-time Tin Dog
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Good profile, few problems though

Gallifreyans cannot regenerate - as evidenced in the series (see the episodes Deadly Assassin, Invasion of Time and the novel Lungbarrow etc for examples of Gallifreyans dying) and EU several times. The regenerative process was created by Rassilon to restore the second-heart - lost to the Time Lords - when their species was rendered sterile by the curse of pythia. What they got - when the process was introduced - was Gallifreyan 2.0; a species capable of regenerating and boosting natural Gallifreyan abilities (telepathy, telekinesis etc) light-years ahead of evolution.

Rassilon and the Other realized the chaos this could cause and created the time lords - limiting the spread of 'Gallifreyan 2.0' to prevent the collapse of their society. Ironically - during his last regeneration - Rassilon went mad, convinced the Time Lords would fall without him, and tried to circumvent the limit imposed on Time Lords of 13 lives. Imprisoning their leader within the death zone on Gallifrey, Rassilon passed into myth, until he was revived (using the same process as used for the Master) during the Time War.

Naturally-born Gallifreyans posses two hearts and much stronger powers, the transition (for them) to Time Lords being much easier as it is a more stable process. That said, the ability to regenerate, is the LAST thing that happens to a Gallifreyan at the academy before they become a senior student and are given their TADIS - they cannot regenerate unless they graduate and become a Junior Time Lord, and by that time they ARE a Time Lord. If they fail, they are cast out onto the surface of Gallifrey, their names stricken from their house and left to fend for themselves. This was one of the sources for the Outsiders (Gallifreyans that have rejected modern technology) and has led to a large feeling of bad blood between the High Council and the Outsiders (now led by Leela) to this day.

Sorry for the history lesson, but I'm trying to illustrate how it would be impossible for your character to regenerate if he wasn't a full Time Lord. Once the process to Time Lord is begun it doesn't just stop - the genetic structure, everything a Gallifreyan is, isn't, could be, couldn't be is grafted onto the surface of the Time Vortex itself using pure mathematics. They become a 'part' of time - this, known as the Rassilon Imprimatur, is what grows the second heart and turns a Gallifreyan into a Time Lord. Your character wouldn't be a Gallifreyan or even a half-Gallifreyan. If you want him to regenerate he would have to at least be a Junior in the academy - the last title before graduation - and he would be fully Time Lord.

The worst this would do to him, if he was a Junior instead of a graduate, would be that he is incapable of operating a TARDIS as he has no symbiotic nuclei. The nuclei is granted to a Time Lord upon full graduation, without it a Time Lord cannot pilot a TARDIS or even control a Vortex Manipulator. If you've ever watched the Third Doctor trying to repair his TARDIS then you get the idea - the information simply isn't there.

Other than that I see no specific problem with your profile... it seems rather unlikely that your character and his mother could escape the Moment (the weapon that sealed the Time War inside a bubble) just by flying to Earth (nothing can escape the Time War unless its something that was already there) but if the mother was shot - and the TARDIS in flight at the EXACT second that the Moment was used, then they MIGHT have survived... but the TARDIS would have been all but destroyed during the trip (as the Moment reverberated through all time) and it would take EXTENSIVE work to restore it to working order.

If you can work that in, and decide if your character is Gallifreyan or Time Lord, then I would say you're ready to be accepted

*readreadread*

Hm, I see...

Most of my understanding comes from the show itself or tardis.wikia, and I've missed the episodes involving Gallifreyans. It helps having information from people who've seen it. Also, I tend to avoid the EU as best I can (fighting my curiosity), since so much of it seems to contradict, not make any sense, or be various retellings of things that were happening at the same time. If they're part of canon here, though, I can look into more of it.

I can easily see him being a Junior Time Lord. My own understanding of the Academy structure is a bit limited, so I didn't know there was a Junior status, and I wasn't sure what the physical differences were between Gallifreyans and Time Lords. Also, I thought just anyone with the knowledge could pilot and navigate a Tardis, as shown in Journey's End and Castrovalva, but it took special training and physical properties to make in depth changes to the ship, such as repairs.

Plus, the problem with Xander's ship, the reason it died, was a combination of the loss of the Eye of Harmony (primary power source, "first heart") and the loss of the Archaeologist (Miran Elona who'd imprinted on it, "second heart"). My thought on how to fix that would be to have a new imprint (like Axander himself) and a new power source (a Time Lord's life energy). The Doctor did it when they landed in Pete's World by giving up ten years of his life,which feels really insignificant. For Xander I upped it to a full regeneration, to give it that dramatic flair and sense that it means something. It's that narrative sort of thing that happens in shows, but doesn't necessarily fit with the more detailed pseudoscience from specific other incidents that make it more complicated for dramatic necessity. If Axander had become a Junior Time Lord, though, he would have the Rassilon Imprimatur (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Lord_Academy).

As for Axander and his mother's escape from the Time War, the basic idea is that the call to war was made, but the real conflict hadn't yet begun, any more than it had at the end of Remembrance of the Daleks. There was no time lock as yet, and so anyone who chose to flee could run, so long as they weren't caught. After all, the Master ran and hid using his Chameleon Arch, proving the point that running itself was possible, even after the fighting had begun. The difference was that Axander and his mother didn't stop being Time Lords, an so could be tracked by someone who knew how, so their Tardis took them to the Cardiff rift to mask their presence.

So, summing up:

Species: Time Lord (Junior, doesn't consider it to be a proper Time Lord, regardless of physical properties).
Tardis: Needs living imprint to operate and power jump to start feeding on rift energy (plot device to keep him from gallivanting off on his own, and to explain why he doesn't know there's no Eye of Harmony anymore).
The Moment: Didn't stop the Master from running away and hiding, and he left well into the war, long after Miran and Axander had fled.

Does that all make sense? I was a bit wordy, I think, but it seems important to get these things worked out to everyone's satisfaction.

A TARDIS needs a Time Lord to function - a Time Lord with a fully functional symbiotic nuclei. The EU may 'contradict itself' but it is a great source (a lot of it used by the new series) for information. There are also MANY EU enemies, companions and races in Doctor Who.... are we just supposed to ignore these characters? Even if someone may want to play Charlie or fight the Forge?

As for other people piloting the TARDIS, other people may have been able to 'fly' the TARDIS, but the Doctor or another Time Lord is required for the TARDIS to function. Without someone like that within or near the TARDIS it will eventually shut down and become dormant. You need a Time Lord to make a Time Capsule fully functional...

Either that or a being capable of bypassing the nuclei such as House or the Weeping Angels.

The Master escaped because he went to the end of the universe itself - outside of the conflict. He made himself LESS than Time Lord so that he couldn't be locked within the moment, he knew what kind of weapons the Time Lords were building (as he mentioned in The Sound of Drums he at least knew about the Moment) and escaped. That wouldn't work with modern day Earth - it isn't even SLIGHTLY temporally shielded, the fact that neither the Time Lords nor the Daleks ever went that far in the future is the reason the end of the universe is safe from the Time War. It was there before the Time War and it was there afterwards, and neither sides fought there. What I suggested is that the second the Moment began - as the Doctor fed the energy of the Demat gun through the Medusa Cascade - they activated their TARDIS. Caught mid-demat they would have been safe, trapped between the dimensional and inter-dimensional state that a TARDIS goes through when it moves. The energy release, though, would have nearly destroyed that TARDIS. It would have saved them, but it would have cost quite a lot. You can have your TARDIS lacking an imprint - that plays into your character lacking a symbiotic nuclei. He could use a vortex manipulator but it would be as inaccurate as Jack's because he couldn't control it as the Doctor can. The TARDIS would - however - have taken SERIOUS damage escaping the moment. Which you will need to mention.

The Rassilon Imprimatur is NOT what makes it possible to make a TARDIS operational, the Imprimatur - in conjunction with the symbiotic nuclei - does that. The Imprimatur is the process through which a gallifreyan's genetic code is burnt into the vortex using mathmatics. It is what MAKES a Time Lord, a Time Lord.

Yes, Junior is alright - Juniors aren't usually accepted as Time Lords because they can't pilot a TARDIS by themselves.

Ah, I understand about the Master's escape now. So if Miran and Axander left 1963 London, fleeing from the Hound, at the same time as the Moment, then Axander would survive and escape, but the Tardis itself, being caught in that level of space/time fire, would have been fatally wounded. I imagine normally it may have survived, having escaped the full brunt of the weapon, but coupled with the losses of the Eye of Harmony and its Time Lady at the same time...well, that wouldn't go well at all, certainly. But this means the Hound would have been destroyed in the Moment, which sort of removes him as a plot device for Axander to keep moving and a moral precipice when Axander eventually gets the better of him. My main disagreement on this point is for the sake of good storytelling in the style of Doctor Who, rather than arguing the malleable physics of the world. I think in this case the physics win over the plot.

When I look up Rassilon Imprimatur, Tardis.wikia (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rassilon_Imprimatur) tells me that it is potentially part of the symbiotic nuclei, which is received by Junior Time Lords upon gaining that title. This implies that Junior Time Lords can indeed operate a Tardis without a full Time Lord, as they can still imprint on it. The information presented indicates that it should work with no problems other than a Junior Time Lord not really having the experience to know when and where are safe places to go traveling, or how to blend in and keep things from getting out of hand. This argument is both for the sake of the story and for the sake of keeping consistent with the show's physics. There isn't anything here that contradicts, even a Junior Time Lord can imprint on a Tardis.

My avoidance of the EU stuff isn't to completely disregard perfectly good characters and stories, but simply avoiding problems like why the Eighth Doctor is three hundred years older than the Ninth, or whether Susan Foreman didn't have any children (because Time Lords and humans can't procreate) or had two who ran into the Doctor. In general, I take the events of the show to outweigh the novels, comics, and audiobooks, but I can accept ideas, characters and events from other sources if they fit here. I just try to follow the feel of the show more, where the plot outweighs the science, which is more or less a plot device to begin with.

So unless Xander really really needs to leave in a hurry, his mother's Time Capsule is dead anyway, no more than a normal house (that just happened to not have been there before) with a strange console in the basement. I think discussion of whether he could use it is more or less academic at this point, especially since the primary push for Xander to leave Cardiff (the Hound) has no way to have survived (which of course means he must have, as surviving certain death is the sworn duty of all villains, just ask Davros and the Master). Any Tardis he hops into will have its own Time Lord already, and all the data I've collected says that even as a Junior Time Lord he's fully capable of traveling with Vortex manipulators of all kinds so long as he can figure out their interfaces. That's more a matter of technical understanding than biological.

So his concern over his Time Lord status is more or less entirely in his head, as he's already physically one of them. Like you said, there is no "half-Time Lord", so being Junior Time Lord means they receive the Rassilon Imprimatur and the symbiotic nuclei needed to operate time/space vessels. Which means to me that the step up to full Time Lord means they've worked with proper Time Lords long enough to have gained the knowledge and experience necessary to step up to the next level, either becoming a full crew member aboard a Tardis or captaining their own. I'm still not sure at what point in the process they're allowed to start using their chosen name, but I think it may be once they become Full Time Lords. I'm under the impression Romana was a Junior, as she could operate time/space vessels but went by her given name instead of a chosen name.

EDIT: I'd like to note that I realize I might come off as argumentative, but I'm merely explaining the case for what I've written and am trying to learn and adapt as best I can to the information and setting available. I am in no way not enjoying this discussion, to be honest. It's not every day someone knows enough about Doctor Who to do more than ask if we can watch something else when I start talking. Hoping you don't mind the conversation, even if it is more a debate and less an immediate compliance. I can tell we'll be telling great stories together.

Romana was a full graduate - she was the youngest Time Lord to graduate from the academy as she stated several times. I've told you what you need to change - change it, or don't join. I'm not trying to be rude but I have ALSO stated my reasons several times - even cited episodes, books and an audio play in my case, and it DOES come off rude - on your part - to continue debating the subject

I've also cited sources for my own case. Your arguments aren't irrefutable, and I still don't understand the reasoning for them. Still, it doesn't seem like either of us plan on accepting the other's information as accurate or fun, so I'm afraid it may be best if I stick to my own community. This one may not like me or my style much. I'm sorry for having taken up your time.

Centauri is the co-admin that keeps the canon on this board consistent. We do use some of the EU to add to the Whoniverse, as far as explanations of things and different characters/plots.

While I don't exactly approve of the direction of the argument, I must say that the canon that this site follows is mostly determined by Centauri. There are just a few changes that he has asked you to make, so if you just simply fixed those few things, we could go on from here. We're both perfectly willing to work with you, but unfortunately, we do have to insist that you follow our guidelines and suggestions, as far as things like this go. It's not exactly like we aren't catering to having a bunch of Time Lords and Gallifreyans or almost-Time Lords that had their learning interrupted by the Time War (we have had another character or two like that here already), since we did create a plot that directly involves such.

Anyway, I digress. I'm sorry things have gone downhill, and I promise, our community actually is quite fun. We just have to stick to the guidelines that we've had and followed for almost four years now. ^_^