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Character Name: Donna Noble
Age: mid-30s
Canon: Doctor Who
Canon point: After the events of the episode Midnight
History: Link
Personality:
(-) Catty
Donna is an outspoken woman who brooks no sass from anyone. Her tongue and wit are both sharp, and she uses them often to unseat those she thinks are condescending to her. She also has a fiery and hair-trigger temper. Her first encounter with the Doctor had her snarling at him for kidnapping her. This, after she'd just being transported millions of miles from her wedding into an alien spaceship. She will verbally lay into those who anger her or who offer her a perceived slight. As a result, she can come off as extremely brash, stubborn, air-headed, and downright catty.
(-) Insecure
Donna has a massive inferiority complex fueled by her mother's constant verbal abuse through the years. She pretends to be (and even feels sometimes) self-assured in her skills and self, but a solid jab at one of the cracks in her catty armor will send her reeling. Donna has a base need to be accepted and deep concerns that she is not and never will be good enough. All of her life, she has been told she is unremarkable, dull, and useless. Even the Doctor takes swipes at her during their acquaintance. Whenever situations arise where she is acknowledged as being 'important' in some way, she tells people that she's 'just a temp,' and doesn't matter, not like the Doctor. Donna has long held the belief that she doesn't really matter, which is part of the reason she screams and yowls to be heard with her initially-abrasive demeanor. She doesn't think she's anything worth noting, but if she makes enough noise, maybe that can hide how badly it hurts.
(+) Practical
This initial poor impression belies a level-headed disposition when the stakes are really high. While she is as prone to panic as anyone else, she is self-aware enough not to let that stop her from moving forward, and when there are those around her flailing, she will lock down into a more serious mode, as seen when she helped the Doctor make the impossible choice to destroy the City of Pompeii to eliminate an alien threat to the planet. Donna knew there was moral ambiguity in the decision and that asking him to end 20,000 lives to end the planet was utterly cruel. So, she took that decision on herself, as well, sharing that burden with him and making the choice for them both. She's also the one who ultimately saves Agatha Christie from being murdered. While the Doctor tries to talk down an enemy, Donna just grabs the thing it wants and chucks it away. She also has a tendency to smack the Doctor or otherwise verbally kick him to get him to stop technobabbling and just get on with an actual solution to an imminent danger, rather than chattering about his thoughts on it.
(+) Empathetic
Tying into this, Donna is empathetic to an extreme degree and reads people well. She acts as the Doctor's conscious, telling him in their first encounter that he needs someone to stop him from going too far in his merciless behavior. She is especially empathetic toward those who feel they aren't good enough. She comforts Jenny, the Doctor's cloned offspring, and demands the Doctor take notice of her when he initially rejects her as a fellow Time Lord and his child due to her soldier profession and the nature of her creation. Donna eventually shows the Doctor that Jenny really is his daughter through her persistence. It's also shown in her interactions elsewhere. She is the first person to question what the Ood (a race of enslaved aliens) think about the fact that they're being bred and flown off around the galaxy. This isn't something the Doctor had considered in his first encounter with the race. At Pompeii, as the mountain is erupting, she is the one that begs and pleads with the Doctor to rescue someone, anyone when they can, rather than letting every single person die. She convinces him to save one family. It's not much of a balm for the guilt, but it's something for both of them to have.
(+) Resourceful/Clever
While it might not be immediately obvious given she's set next to the Doctor constantly, Donna is actually fairly resourceful and clever. In her second encounter ever with the Doctor, she manages to infiltrate a company being run by an alien, posing as a Health and Safety worker, and gaining access by mundane means to the place where the Doctor has to use high-tech and psychic objects to make his way in. She also manages to just find the Doctor after turning down an initial offer to travel with him, looking into all manner of supernatural events and ruling them out as real/solving their source before moving on. She's also the first to note a numbers pattern and connect the dots to figure out that a war that had been going on 'for generations' had only started a week before.
Suitability: Doctor Who edges into straight on horror content on the regular. From her first appearance, Donna has been faced with horrific deaths, body horror, and all manner of traumatic and unpleasant events. She is extremely resilient (or just repressing a lot) in the face of that. She's taken on the Doctor's keen sense of adventure and curiosity and has developed an interest in investigation into unusual things. While she's not likely to trust ADI, she'll recognize that her best chance of getting home is by hanging around with them long enough to find the Doctor. And once she sees the terrible things happening... she's just going to want to help.
Powers/Abilities:
Donna has no extraordinary abilities. In terms of the mundane...
Data Hound - Donna has a skill for memorization and identifying patterns, particularly where numbers are concerned. She claims to have mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days and is repeatedly shown to take note of numerical patterns that others (including the Doctor) might miss.
Entity Affinity:
The Buried - Donna has been smothered all her life by her extremely overbearing mother. She has the weight of expectations that she's not living up to placed on her. She can also have exceptionally (and hypocritically) high moral standards and isn't afraid to snarl and snap at people, berating them to try to put them in their place. She can be catty and unkind, embodying the same abuse her mother inflicted on her. She has a big heart underneath it all and is trying to stop the cycle of abuse in her family, but it's conceivable she could give into something that gives her powers and finally makes her special.
The Corruption - In a similar vein, Donna has spent a lot of time not being loved by people she cares deeply for. Her mother belittles her and doesn't understand her daughter, just thinks she's lazy and stupid a lot of the time. Her fiancé was only marrying her to feed her to a spider alien monster and spent a solid minute tearing her down when he was unmasked as a villain. He took shots at everything from her intelligence to her interests to her physical appearance. The Corruption could be something Donna's drawn to in the hopes of finding something/someone that fills the void where the love she hasn't had is.
Inventory:
- The clothes on her back
- A key to the TARDIS
Samples:
Link 1, Link 2
Another Sample
This is... nice? The walk is nice, certainly. The fact she's sans Doctor, sans TARDIS, and can't seem to get in touch with Granddad has her concerned, certainly, but a little trot about in the woods. It's not something she's ever been in the habit of. The looking for scary things, though? That's more up her alley. These people keep calling all of this 'supernatural,' but based on what's been described it seems far more akin to the alien lifeforms and phenomenon she's seen since joining the Doctor on the TARDIS.
She'd tried to explain to the person explaining to her of course, asked them if they'd seen the Doctor's blue police box, but she'd been met with blank stares and confusion. At least they hadn't dismissed her as a raving lunatic. Just... had a different interpretation of what was going on. And while she's not sure she really trusts these people, they seem exactly like the sort that might attract a wandering Time Lord. If she can stay with them, it's the best chance she has of getting picked up again. Once the Doctor notices she's gone missing.
"D'you see that?" Donna's brow furrows upon spotting the little bag off to one side of the path she's meandering down. It seems to have been tucked in between two branches, and she steps away from her companion to grab the thing and have a look. It doesn't seem especially unusual, just the sort of thing a little kid might lose while playing in the wood. "I wonder if there's a lost and fou- oh, my god!"
The bag drops from her hand, scattering teeth across the ground, as she backs up quickly. "What-what in the hell?! Who leaves teeth just lying about? That's disgusting!"
