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Cʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ Nᴀᴍᴇ; Rose Tyler
Cᴀɴᴏɴ; Doctor Who

Cᴀɴᴏɴ Pᴏɪɴᴛ;
4x13, having just landed on Bad Wolf Bay again, though she has yet to realize she's being left behind.
Aɢᴇ;
23-24
(Unspecified amount of time traveling/searching for the Doctor could leave her a year or so older than guesstimated, so 23-24 is the closest.)

Hᴏᴜsᴇ; Freya
Pᴏᴡᴇʀ; Charm

Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ;
To be a companion of the Doctor’s, you need to have a certain spark in you that sets you apart, that draws him in. Someone he can befriend, but also someone who isn’t afraid to stand up and talk straight to him. To tell him no when he needs to hear it. Rose is all of these things, and so much more. But like any companion, she is rather possessive of him, perhaps more so than others because of her having fallen in love with him. It’s not uncommon to love the Doctor, a fantastical man who can make it seem like he can do just about anything you could ever dream of. But for Rose, she truly did love him, through and through.

When we first meet Rose, she isn’t a timid girl, by any means, but she is rather ‘under developed’ shall we say. It’s her meeting and traveling with the Doctor that help her grow into a better person, show her how to live a better life, to stand up for things, to say no, to do the right thing when no one else will. She’s rather naive in the beginning, and is for a while coming, even in the last few adventures she has with the Doctor (before the events of Doomsday), but that doesn’t stop her from being a quick thinker. She picks up on things fast, can follow, generally speaking, a slightly dumbed-down version of whatever the Doctor is thinking. And really, he doesn’t mind explaining things for her either; all to the better of her expanding knowledge.

But she provides a crucial side that the Doctor often needs, and doesn’t have on his own. Her humanity, her emotions and empathy to things. She feels where he doesn’t, often leading to saving themselves, and others around them when she acts upon them (with or without his permission sometimes). But it doesn’t always turn out so well; no one is perfect. Sometimes Rose’s impulses can turn a situation sour, or even dangerous. She has a bit of a mouth on her, and this has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion as well. She doesn’t always know the smartest thing to do, but Rose knows to trust her own gut instinct better than anything the Doctor could do (more specifically the Ninth Doctor), and it has saved his life on a number of occasions. She has her mother’s temper, and her father’s understanding. She’ll know if she buggers things, but it won’t stop her from trying, in the end.

Rose has a great deal of empathy to all kinds of living things, human and alien alike- even if she doesn’t always warm up to them right away. There are exceptions of course, with more dangerous aliens; Daleks, Cybermen, Sycorax, but it has never stopped her from going forth and braving the unknown. The Pink and Yellow girl, curious, maybe a bit brash with her words from time to time, but she is a sweet girl over all.

But like most girls, she does tend to have a jealous streak a mile-wide. Especially for the Doctor. It’s evident on a number of occasions how much dislike she holds for having to share him, specifically his Tenth incarnation, with even her friend and now ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith. Despite this slightly hypocritical behaviour, she carries on. It doesn’t normally last, but it does come in spurts. Take meeting Sarah Jane for instance. A previous companion who know just as much about the Doctor as she did, someone who seemed to have just as much of a friendship with him- someone so important, despite him having never mentioned her. Of course, it was over their heated competition of who was better (or who knew more) that evolved them from enemies to friends. It isn’t the first, nor the last time that Rose’s jealousy rears it’s head of course, and it does tend to be one of her strongest flaws. Or at least, the most glaringly obvious.

Another might be the same sort of instinct that gets the Doctor into trouble. Her adventurous side, curiosity and need to explore and investigate-- all of which have gotten herself into trouble time and time again. Usually with her ending up needing rescued- especially in the earlier days. But over time, she’s learned to fight for herself, to think on her feet much more than she did before- even if there were times we saw glimpses. Even in the first episode, Rose, we saw her take initiative, hit the fire alarm and clear everyone out at the first sign of danger.

For someone who lived such a boring life, Rose is rather skilled at adapting to each new environment. It might take a while, on occasion, but she has long since learned to dive into any new territory or culture head first.

When Rose first met the Doctor, she was only 19 years of age. He swept her off her feet and left the biggest impression anyone could ever leave on a girl. She effectively broke it off with her boyfriend the night of meeting him, and never really looked back. This is where the possessiveness, the clingyness comes from, her occasion to whine at things from time to time- to not want to do everything. It’s something she grows out of over time, of course. When we finally see her again in Turn Left, Rose is quite obviously a much more grown up woman. There’s no nonsense to her, and while the sympathy is there, she’s turned much colder than she had ever been while she was the main companion. She knew what needed to be done, and was willing to do it whatever the cost. She had effectively become a humanized version of the Doctor; something we see much of the beginnings of near the end of her travels, specifically within Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.

She had helped develop and build a Dimension Cannon, knowing full well that trying to force her way through the void and into another universe would fracture and collapse both worlds. She’s stubborn to a fault, and there are very few who can talk her out of doing something once her mind is set to it. She would readily put her life on the line to save those who matter to her, and none matter more than the Doctor himself. And she has, put her life on the line, given up huge parts of her life to be with him. She was willing to never see her mother again, just to stay with the Doctor. The things we do for love.