maskormenace

[soldierman]

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Hannah
AGE: 26
JOURNAL: entwistling
IM / EMAIL: tinurix [at] gmail [dot] com
PLURK: muttonchops
RETURNING: Theon Greyjoy (reek)


〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Danny Pink
CHARACTER AGE: ~30
SERIES: Doctor Who
CHRONOLOGY: Post-his second death in s8e12, "Death in Heaven"
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: You can randomize him, please

BACKGROUND: There's a wiki entry for that!

PERSONALITY:

The first thing you should know about Danny Pink is something that he doesn’t speak about freely: he was a soldier. It’s not a secret. In fact, those colors show themselves in most aspects of his personality. He even established the Coal Hill Cadets during his time as a secondary school teacher, just for "a bit of fun". All the same, he doesn’t like to discuss his time in the army because of the questions and generalizations that come along with it: "Have you ever killed anyone?" and "soldiers only care about shooting people" being the most prevalent and the most uncomfortable. When he does have to answer such questions, he lashes out and gets angry or defensive:

"Whole villages saved. Actual towns, full of people. People I didn’t shoot. People I kept safe…So why doesn’t that ever get mentioned?"

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"There’s a bit more to modern soldiering than just shooting people. I like to think there’s a moral dimension."

It’s a sensitive subject for Danny because he has killed someone: an innocent child by mistake. He harbors a great deal of grief and regret, and while it isn’t explicitly stated, it’s easy to argue that he’s suffering from PTSD from the trauma he’s still dealing with. He’ll sometime lash out with an unexpected amount of anger, gets frustrated or anxious, and will even occasionally disconnect entirely from a situation. He gets especially upset by the Doctor and the Doctor's assumptions of his character, who he angrily compares to an officer:

"One thing, Clara, I'm a soldier. Guilty as charged. You see him? He's an officer! I'm the one who carries you out of the fire, he's the one who lights it."

But those are just moments—understandable ones, too. Danny is, in truth, a very down to earth, mild-mannered sort of man. He seems content to lead an average, quiet life, spending his weekends reading and staying in. This puts him in stark contrast to his then-girlfriend Clara Oswald. When Clara tries to get him to come along on an adventure in the TARDIS, he refuses, saying, "I don’t want to see more things. I want to see the things that are in front of me more clearly". He holds true to this, never once joining Clara and the Doctor on a trip. He even straight up tells Clara that he "doesn't do weird".

He likes his quiet life, but he still wears the colors of a soldier, of course: he’s stern with his students, but always fair and never cruel. He can hold his own in a fight, but doesn’t care to pick them without reason. He’s fairly bright (I’d argue one has to be in order to be a good math teacher), and his time in the military left him with a variety of skills, from "electrical stuff" to survival situations--including knowing how to frighten off a tiger. What a guy. He’s a bit of a leader, and he’s quick on his feet in dangerous situations. On the opposite side of the coin, he's also a bit shy, a little awkward and especially incapable of smooth flirting despite coworkers being convinced that he's a ladies' man, and prone to slamming his head against tables when he doesn't say the right things.

So you've got all those great traits, but one thing is the most important of them all: Danny is compassionate. He cares deeply for others, almost to a fault. He’s selfless, and he would do anything to protect someone else before he even thinks about himself. In the episode “Forest of the Night”, Danny is patient and protective of the children who he’s been put in charge of. When the Doctor attempts to get answers out of one of the students, Danny steps in immediately, saying that he shouldn’t be “experimenting on her”. He makes certain that Clara realizes that he is “not the priority…the kids are”, and he’s concerned only with doing his job:

C: The question is...can a forest grow overnight, or have we been asleep for years, like Sleeping Beauty?
D: No, the question is, how are we going to get these kids home?

Danny's extreme compassion shows itself again later on, after he's hit by a car. He dies the most ordinary death in Doctor Who history, but through some nonsense, his conscience (along with the consciences of the rest of the dead) is transferred to the body of a Cyberman. Cybermen aren’t meant to have emotions, but Danny retains his because the emotional inhibitor that Cybermen have was never activated. The emotional pain he feels in this state is incredibly strong, and he needs to beg Clara to fix it by turning the inhibitor on. Even when it's turned on, his compassion and his love for Clara allow him to remain in control of his actions. Through this, he's able to take control of all the Cybermen, saving the world by leading them all to self destruct and sacrificing himself in the process.

You'd think that would be the end, right? Wrong. Cyberman Danny burned while wearing a special teleportation bracelet, allowing him to be able to open a portal from the world of the dead to the world of the living. Clara begs him to come back, but in one last act of selflessness, Danny sends the child he killed through the portal instead, asking Clara to find his parents. It’s never really resolved but the kid isn't in the next season so that’s okay. It’s Doctor Who.



POWER:

Metal manipulation - Just what it sounds like. Magneto powers. He can move and manipulate objects made of metal with his mind. This is limited to relatively small objects. Nothing bigger than an oven door or a nice four-slice toaster. Just don’t let him make toast in the morning.

Cyber Communication - He can intercept, generate, and interpret electronic, digital and radio transmissions within three miles of where he's standing. Step out onto the street, accidentally intercept the sext from that old woman a few houses down, go back inside for the rest of the day because it's way too much to deal with.

Built-in Calculator - For all your maths teacher needs. It's built into his arm and can be hidden by a flesh-colored panel so things don't get weird. It's one of the good graphing calculators that no one could figure out in school and may or may not have a couple of games on it.