+1 Doctor

[not_the_question]

The Doctor arrives in the Nexus.  And he's not sure how he got here.  Not that it matters.  He has no TARDIS and no memories of Clara.  All he has are the clothes on his back, his sonic specks, and his trusty guitar.  Okay, he has a little rucksack filled with a change of clothes and other odds and ends that he's collected on his quest.

He looks around and this place looks... rather American, considering.  Of course, everything looked American to him these days, he's spent far too long in the States looking first for the TARDIS and then for Clara.  He so far has been unsuccessful at both.

"Excuse me, has anyone seen someone called Clara?"




{{OOC: The Doctor's Canonpoint will be in flux until I figure out which one is best for this setting.  I'll make it clear in his threads.}}

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[paininthebat]

Oh if he knew that they were pop culture elsewhere his mind might break a little.

Only a little.

"Billions died and it's a 'small mercy'?"

[not_the_question]

"I'm four and a half billion years old. Do you know the one thing that is constant that I've learned in all that time? Everything dies. Everything. It's a small mercy, because that time, billions died and it wasn't connected to war. War is usually how billions die at once."

He sounds... ancient and tired.

[paininthebat]

And that long speech, actually keeps Damian from mouthing off.

"I'm sorry." The words are low, he can tell he's talking to someone who's lost people close to him. Damian's lost people too, probably not as close, but they were blood. And because of the sides his parents are on, he can't be with his mother anymore, so she may as well be gone too.

He looks at the floor, not sure what else to say.

[not_the_question]

"It's... fine."

Well, not really fine, but it's nothing to apologise for."

"Unless you've killed billions."

Then the Doctor might have to do something about that.

[paininthebat]

"... I've killed a few, but My brothers and Father are working with me on that. Mother's... Way of raising me was very unconventional it seems." Hey he was raised an assassin, though he's pretty sure his Grandfather's bodycount might be thousands... who knows.

[not_the_question]

"You can't help how you were raised until someone teaches you differently. When I said 'billions', I wasn't speaking metaphorically."

Like he said, the kid is fine.

[paininthebat]

"True," Wait... "You killed billions?"

Okay maybe he should reassess the threat level of this old guy.

[not_the_question]

"I rebooted the entire universe once."

At least his universe, well his universe prime. The life of a time traveller is a difficult thing.

[paininthebat]

"Okay... I don't think I even want to know the mechanics of doing that." Because rebooting, all too technical, more Tim's thing less his. He just does the tiny scary bat bit.

[not_the_question]

The Doctor shrugs.

"It needed to be done. Things were going very wrong. It was either reboot it or let it be destroyed. I think I made the right choice."

Though, sometimes he does wonder.

[paininthebat]

"What's your version of wrong?" Because he wants to know what kind of person he really is.

[not_the_question]

"Well, there were these cracks in space and time. And the cracks were absorbing things and people and such. And when that happened, those people and things were completely erased from time and space - their loved ones didn't even know they had ever existed. But sometimes, when there was a very strong bond, those people knew something was missing."

He would say he's not a good man, nor a hero. He just sees trouble happening and has to do something about it.

"The only way to get rid of the cracks at that point was to reboot the entire thing."

He'll just not talk about the part where he sacrificed himself to do it and he's only a live now because Amy Pond remembered him.