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CHARACTER
Character Name: Bianca
Character Age: unknown but at least a millennium, possibly several
Canon: Doctor Who extended universe (specifically the Big Finish audio The Wormery)
Canon Point: Post canon CRAU
History: The only part of Bianca's history that's covered in canon are the events of the Big Finish audio The Wormery.
The audio opens with the Sixth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme (both renegade time lords: Iris was originally written as a sort of metafictional parody/parallel to the Doctor) arriving at Bianca's cabaret in 1930s Berlin. The Doctor has arrives at random, Iris claims to have done the same. (Iris is lying.)
Bianca herself is a bit of a mystery at the beginning of the audio, but it quickly becomes apparent she knows far more about both the Doctor and Iris than either expected. She's also immediately all over the Doctor, and actually manages to influence him to the point of turning him against Iris. He recovers himself, but not before almost shooting her with Bianca's pistol.
It's after this that Iris and the Doctor corner her into a meeting on neutral territory, and they work out who Bianca is: she's a rogue future incarnation of Iris herself, and the attempted shooting was intended to harvest Iris' future incarnations for her own use.
In this way she parallels Classic Who's Valeyard, who did something similar in Trial of a Time Lord.
The Wormery ends with the Doctor crashing his TARDIS into Bianca's, effectively wiping her from history. (Her CRAU history picks up smoothly after this.)
The Wormery at the Doctor Who Reference Guide. Iris Tardis Wikia entry.
Personality: Bianca is, above all else, a performance artist. When we first meet her, she's singing at a (somewhat multidimensional) cabaret in 1930s Berlin, and she's very much shaped herself to that time: dark, elegant, decadent, refined and seductive. She is always graceful, always apparently in control - at times when this isn't the case she'll work hard to make sure she at least gives that impression.
She's narcissistic, arrogant, impatient and massively entitled, but not (in contrast with Iris) inclined to be confrontational or direct - Bianca relies on seduction, manipulation and sometimes outright hypnosis to get the attention, admiration and respect she craves. She would prefer everyone to think such attention is no more than her due, but Bianca is exponentially more insecure than she seems. She turns to manipulation and coercion because she's terrified of being ignored or rejected.
Bianca's a highly dramatic individual: every passing passion is the love of her life, every little setback a disaster not to be borne. Most of this is purely, coldly stage dressing on her part: she plays every part to the hilt in order to camouflage how much things actually can hurt her. She is really never entirely truthful, never not playing a role as an exaggerated, idealised version of herself, but at the same time she becomes so entrenched in whatever role she's playing that a lot of the time, she manages to convince herself.
She has a cruel streak, but Bianca's not really an out-and-out sadist, though she's callous and she does love to make people squirm. Her worst cruelties aren't motivated by sadism, but by her desperate need to be loved and admired.
She likes to think of herself as terribly refined and ~above it all~, which isn't as true as she'd like to think. Iris was always aggressively working-class and Bianca can't always successfuly hide her guttersnipe roots. She'll say she can only drink champagne, but if boxed wine and chips is what's on offer, she'll guzzle that quite happily, complaining loudly and dramatically the entire time.
Bianca's a liar. She's constructed her self-image as a refined, ice-cool person who's always in control of herself and her circumstances, and she's very skilled and determined at reinforcing and confirming that self-image. But she's still Iris at her core: she's still the reckless thrill seeker, still more emotionally susceptible than she lets on, still terrified of being ignored, left or unloved. She moved away from her Iris identity because she was alone, ancient, tired and afraid: the wear and tear of Iris throwing herself headlong into every experience on offer for centuries has made Bianca a coward, and she justifies that to herself by calling it respectable caution.
She remains viciously jealous and resentful of her former self. If she runs into someone who knows Iris, she won't rest until either she's proved to herself that she matters more to that person, or has convinced herself that they're not worth her time and trouble. Deep down, she's perfectly aware that she was a better, more worthwhile person in her Iris incarnations; and she'll go to just about any lengths to protect herself from having to admit that, even privately.
Her time at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
lastvoyages has given her a start on constructively dealing with her own character flaws, a moment of self-awareness in which she resolved to do better by the people around her, but she remains a long way from fully rehabilitated even if she does have the beginnings of a conscience. Whether she'll be able to build on that growth in a new environment - especially one not specifically dedicated to growth and change in the way the Barge is - remains to be seen.
Inventory: A small staser pistol and (from her old game CR) a pair of pet hyenas.
Abilities: This Wikipedia entry gives a good summary of Time Lord physiology and powers. Bianca, particularly, is practised and adept at hypnosis and mind control - in The Wormery she was able to influence the Sixth Doctor enough to attempt murder for her, and he's no pushover.
Flaws: Probably Bianca's biggest flaw is the extent to which she's allowed her own insecurities and fear to influence her behaviour. Her narcissistic behaviour springs from those roots: it isn't because she has a high opinion of herself that she manipulates others into revolving around her - it's because she's terrified she'll be left alone and unloved if she doesn't. She is extremely selfish, but not self-absorbed; she is callous, but not insensitive. She pays very close attention to those around her and their feelings - she's in no way oblivious. The flaw is that she generally uses that observation and sensitivity to bend others to serve her own needs.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time: Bianca has been played atlastvoyages, but not as a regular character: her status as Iris Wildthyme's canonical evil alter ego made her an obvious choice for TLV game events.
Her first appearance was for a flood in April 2013. The second time was in October 2013 for the first Mirror Barge event, where Bianca again replaced Iris for the duration of the flood - there isn't a journal entry for this time, I just tagged in to other people. The third time was October 2014, when she and Iris swapped places for a full month: here and here.
Previous Development: At some point after the events of The Wormery, Bianca was retrieved by the Mirror Admiral from whatever well of non-existence she'd faded to. She became a warden on TLV's Mirror Barge, where she worked for two years until a freak Barge event caused her to spend a month marooned as an inmate on the regular barge.
This month changed her outlook dramatically, for two reasons: the first is that she was infected with nanites programmed by Iris with a copy of her own brain signature in them. This had the effect of bringing her memories of being Iris into sharper focus, of making the subconscious voice in her head closer to Iris' than to her own. Bianca hasn't lost any autonomy, but she's gained a conscience boost; she has consequently become less predictable, less conservative, less afraid and somewhat kinder.
The second reason was that she fell in love.
On the Mirror Barge Bianca had been keeping company with the Joker: she certainly didn't love him, but he was a good match for her. Perversely, he may actually have been one of her healthier relationships: he was too comics-insane to be mindcontrolled or hypnotised, and his obvious inability to love anyone shortcircuited her vicious insecurity. She could feel safe with him, because she wasn't ever required to expose any vulnerabilities. They flattered each other, entertained each other, and she was more than capable of giving as good as she got when he turned vicious.
On the regular Barge she met his double: Earth-23's Red Hood. At first she pursued him out of pure perversity: over the month she became deeply, genuinely attached to him and by the time the two barges parted company Bianca had already decided to leave the Mirror Barge for good. this was partly because she had come to a genuine realisation about how not okay her work there was, but also in part to evade any breakup dramatics from the Joker.
It's possible that the Mirror Barge didn't survive the final separation: Bianca only stayed long enough to shoot the Joker,steal rescue his pet hyenas and escape in her TARDIS.
She will not be bringing a TARDIS to Hadriel, but I hope she may be allowed to retain the hyenas.
Previous Development IIElectric Boogaloo Hadriel Edition:
Bianca originally landed in Hadriel at a time when she had just burned every social bridge she had and taken off alone into the void. It gave her an opportunity to reinvent herself over again, it forced her to form new connections, and at the same time it was similar enough to her life on the Barge - another inescapable jamjar where death didn't need to matter, another nexus of people from many universes - it felt just familiar enough that she could start to think of it as home. Bianca likes to feel she has a place where she belongs, and her life has been so weird and wide that only a nexus of different worlds can fill that void.
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Bianca
Character Age: unknown but at least a millennium, possibly several
Canon: Doctor Who extended universe (specifically the Big Finish audio The Wormery)
Canon Point: Post canon CRAU
History: The only part of Bianca's history that's covered in canon are the events of the Big Finish audio The Wormery.
The audio opens with the Sixth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme (both renegade time lords: Iris was originally written as a sort of metafictional parody/parallel to the Doctor) arriving at Bianca's cabaret in 1930s Berlin. The Doctor has arrives at random, Iris claims to have done the same. (Iris is lying.)
Bianca herself is a bit of a mystery at the beginning of the audio, but it quickly becomes apparent she knows far more about both the Doctor and Iris than either expected. She's also immediately all over the Doctor, and actually manages to influence him to the point of turning him against Iris. He recovers himself, but not before almost shooting her with Bianca's pistol.
It's after this that Iris and the Doctor corner her into a meeting on neutral territory, and they work out who Bianca is: she's a rogue future incarnation of Iris herself, and the attempted shooting was intended to harvest Iris' future incarnations for her own use.
In this way she parallels Classic Who's Valeyard, who did something similar in Trial of a Time Lord.
The Wormery ends with the Doctor crashing his TARDIS into Bianca's, effectively wiping her from history. (Her CRAU history picks up smoothly after this.)
The Wormery at the Doctor Who Reference Guide. Iris Tardis Wikia entry.
Personality: Bianca is, above all else, a performance artist. When we first meet her, she's singing at a (somewhat multidimensional) cabaret in 1930s Berlin, and she's very much shaped herself to that time: dark, elegant, decadent, refined and seductive. She is always graceful, always apparently in control - at times when this isn't the case she'll work hard to make sure she at least gives that impression.
She's narcissistic, arrogant, impatient and massively entitled, but not (in contrast with Iris) inclined to be confrontational or direct - Bianca relies on seduction, manipulation and sometimes outright hypnosis to get the attention, admiration and respect she craves. She would prefer everyone to think such attention is no more than her due, but Bianca is exponentially more insecure than she seems. She turns to manipulation and coercion because she's terrified of being ignored or rejected.
Bianca's a highly dramatic individual: every passing passion is the love of her life, every little setback a disaster not to be borne. Most of this is purely, coldly stage dressing on her part: she plays every part to the hilt in order to camouflage how much things actually can hurt her. She is really never entirely truthful, never not playing a role as an exaggerated, idealised version of herself, but at the same time she becomes so entrenched in whatever role she's playing that a lot of the time, she manages to convince herself.
She has a cruel streak, but Bianca's not really an out-and-out sadist, though she's callous and she does love to make people squirm. Her worst cruelties aren't motivated by sadism, but by her desperate need to be loved and admired.
She likes to think of herself as terribly refined and ~above it all~, which isn't as true as she'd like to think. Iris was always aggressively working-class and Bianca can't always successfuly hide her guttersnipe roots. She'll say she can only drink champagne, but if boxed wine and chips is what's on offer, she'll guzzle that quite happily, complaining loudly and dramatically the entire time.
Bianca's a liar. She's constructed her self-image as a refined, ice-cool person who's always in control of herself and her circumstances, and she's very skilled and determined at reinforcing and confirming that self-image. But she's still Iris at her core: she's still the reckless thrill seeker, still more emotionally susceptible than she lets on, still terrified of being ignored, left or unloved. She moved away from her Iris identity because she was alone, ancient, tired and afraid: the wear and tear of Iris throwing herself headlong into every experience on offer for centuries has made Bianca a coward, and she justifies that to herself by calling it respectable caution.
She remains viciously jealous and resentful of her former self. If she runs into someone who knows Iris, she won't rest until either she's proved to herself that she matters more to that person, or has convinced herself that they're not worth her time and trouble. Deep down, she's perfectly aware that she was a better, more worthwhile person in her Iris incarnations; and she'll go to just about any lengths to protect herself from having to admit that, even privately.
Her time at
lastvoyages has given her a start on constructively dealing with her own character flaws, a moment of self-awareness in which she resolved to do better by the people around her, but she remains a long way from fully rehabilitated even if she does have the beginnings of a conscience. Whether she'll be able to build on that growth in a new environment - especially one not specifically dedicated to growth and change in the way the Barge is - remains to be seen.Inventory: A small staser pistol and (from her old game CR) a pair of pet hyenas.
Abilities: This Wikipedia entry gives a good summary of Time Lord physiology and powers. Bianca, particularly, is practised and adept at hypnosis and mind control - in The Wormery she was able to influence the Sixth Doctor enough to attempt murder for her, and he's no pushover.
Flaws: Probably Bianca's biggest flaw is the extent to which she's allowed her own insecurities and fear to influence her behaviour. Her narcissistic behaviour springs from those roots: it isn't because she has a high opinion of herself that she manipulates others into revolving around her - it's because she's terrified she'll be left alone and unloved if she doesn't. She is extremely selfish, but not self-absorbed; she is callous, but not insensitive. She pays very close attention to those around her and their feelings - she's in no way oblivious. The flaw is that she generally uses that observation and sensitivity to bend others to serve her own needs.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time: Bianca has been played at
lastvoyages, but not as a regular character: her status as Iris Wildthyme's canonical evil alter ego made her an obvious choice for TLV game events.Her first appearance was for a flood in April 2013. The second time was in October 2013 for the first Mirror Barge event, where Bianca again replaced Iris for the duration of the flood - there isn't a journal entry for this time, I just tagged in to other people. The third time was October 2014, when she and Iris swapped places for a full month: here and here.
Previous Development: At some point after the events of The Wormery, Bianca was retrieved by the Mirror Admiral from whatever well of non-existence she'd faded to. She became a warden on TLV's Mirror Barge, where she worked for two years until a freak Barge event caused her to spend a month marooned as an inmate on the regular barge.
This month changed her outlook dramatically, for two reasons: the first is that she was infected with nanites programmed by Iris with a copy of her own brain signature in them. This had the effect of bringing her memories of being Iris into sharper focus, of making the subconscious voice in her head closer to Iris' than to her own. Bianca hasn't lost any autonomy, but she's gained a conscience boost; she has consequently become less predictable, less conservative, less afraid and somewhat kinder.
The second reason was that she fell in love.
On the Mirror Barge Bianca had been keeping company with the Joker: she certainly didn't love him, but he was a good match for her. Perversely, he may actually have been one of her healthier relationships: he was too comics-insane to be mindcontrolled or hypnotised, and his obvious inability to love anyone shortcircuited her vicious insecurity. She could feel safe with him, because she wasn't ever required to expose any vulnerabilities. They flattered each other, entertained each other, and she was more than capable of giving as good as she got when he turned vicious.
On the regular Barge she met his double: Earth-23's Red Hood. At first she pursued him out of pure perversity: over the month she became deeply, genuinely attached to him and by the time the two barges parted company Bianca had already decided to leave the Mirror Barge for good. this was partly because she had come to a genuine realisation about how not okay her work there was, but also in part to evade any breakup dramatics from the Joker.
It's possible that the Mirror Barge didn't survive the final separation: Bianca only stayed long enough to shoot the Joker,
She will not be bringing a TARDIS to Hadriel, but I hope she may be allowed to retain the hyenas.
Previous Development II
Bianca originally landed in Hadriel at a time when she had just burned every social bridge she had and taken off alone into the void. It gave her an opportunity to reinvent herself over again, it forced her to form new connections, and at the same time it was similar enough to her life on the Barge - another inescapable jamjar where death didn't need to matter, another nexus of people from many universes - it felt just familiar enough that she could start to think of it as home. Bianca likes to feel she has a place where she belongs, and her life has been so weird and wide that only a nexus of different worlds can fill that void.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
Bianca on the Test Drive Meme