Bona fide loss time for the Doctor!

[toobravehearted]

I've been threatening to do this for a while and because January seems to be the month for it, I'm hitting Five with a loss thing.

For the next 7-9 days (I've not made my mind up how long completely yet, great start, yay!) Five will be possessed by the Mara from Doctor Who.

Skinny version: evil demon and the embodiment of temptation, all terribad, he'll be mean to chars, try to tempt them into doing bad things and he'll pretty much be a manipulative sod. All while carrying out pranks that vary from plain stupid and mean to the outright dangerous; there is at least one (small) castle surprise in store that I checked was ok to go ahead with first.

I'll look to get a post up tonight and I'll also link in some more information on what to expect from him. Like this link here with all the TL;DR you can shake a stick at. For the curious, Five will be aware of what's going on but he'll be 'locked in' (because where's the fun in him not knowing what's going on?) Technically I'm calling this a loss but there is room for Five to be fixed (haha, oops) if anyone wants to play with that. :)

ETA: Permissions might need to be a thing if you want to fill 'em.

<b>Do you prefer Mara!five NOT to tag your character at all?</b> I won't be offended! Just let me know. :) If I've tagged you with him anyway and you want no part of it, just ignore the tag. <b>Is Mara!five allowed to try and tempt your char from the straight & narrow?</b> It will use underhand attempts, goading, logic(!) name-calling, taunting, etc, and could be down right nasty/scary. It will use Five's memories of what he knows about chars, so think carefully on this permission. <b>If your char tries to corner/confront Mara!five, he may fight back. In extreme circumstances Mara!five may attempt to give your char a nasty vision, is this allowed?</b> Chars that are known to be strong telepaths may be able to thwart this; chars without a psychic/telepathic defence, not so much (i.e. not at all).

Questions?
Ask 'em here. :)

Comments

[toobravehearted]

/pets Will. If he is able to that might well be interesting - From the serials, where Five would be right now (his consciousness) is not in a very nice or good place. In the audio serial, the companions were able to reach him but that was from outside influence.

Definitely something interesting to play with methinks if it goes down that way. As an aside, Felix has a post up, would Will report his findings to him? I know tho that's a grey area as the comments have only just got going all over (I hate my timezone!)

[lightbranded]

We can give it a try, depending on how this thread works out.

Hmm, you know I honestly have no idea. Will's definitely going to try and do something by himself first. But I can't really see him willingly leaving Five in his condition to go get help. Hes too used to taking care of everything on his own. Theres a strong possibility that we might need to find a way to take Will out of the rest of the plot in some way to keep him from interfering.

SO I guess it all depends on what happens in this thread.

[toobravehearted]

Hmmm. OK. What are you suggesting there? XD /peers at you, missy.

Still not all that familiar with Will's canon but I'm learning. Going off what I've picked up, my guess is that Will could probably do a lot of damage to Mara!Five? If so and the Mara figures that out, of course its going to want to make sure it stays around. Hmmm. Does Will sleep or is he capable of being made to sleep? As a way perhaps of taking Will down but with leeway on if you change your mind for him to pop up later? Or if you have another suggestion? Willing to work with what you're thinking here. :)

[lightbranded]

XD, still just brainstorming.

But yeah, Will knows at least one spell of destruction powerful enough that he was afraid to use it in the same room as his family. He also has the belt of signs with him, which is a mystical artifact created specifically to drive the dark away. I don't know if it would work on the Mara, but it would probably hurt.

Will does sleep, and he can be trapped in a kind of waking dream. Since Will's canon is so vague on his powers and weaknesses theres really a lot of leeway on what could be done. And we can always blame it on Will's inexperience. He has the power and knowledge, but hardly any practice at this kind of battle.

[toobravehearted]

/nodsnods. While it may not drive out the Mara (the mirror thing does that, it can't stand it's own reflection) but yeah, I'd say it would hurt him, without a doubt. With what's happening in the thread so far, I hope I'm writing his reactions OK to what Will can do! (Tell me if I'm not! That's an order. :P )

Is that a way you'd like to take it? I have an idea for a next tag but wanted to check with you first. Trapping him in a dream (or nightmare) could be a possibility (as a point to work towards)?

[deductiongeek]

Sounds like a plan! (I'm awful, but definitely voting for nightmare). I'll make a post after the Doctor's plot finishes for someone to come wake him up. And if Will loses, that is giving me all kinds of ideas for where to take him later on.

Yes, I'm loving all the reactions! Make sure to let me know if Will is overstepping at any point too.

[toobravehearted]

LOL, yes you are! Whoever would be mean to their characters, eh? XD Very cool then, I'm pleased it's giving you ideas for later! :D

No worries here, you're golden, and a tag is coming back shortly. :)