John in flannel with a be--? Do you mean the lumberjack playing John Watson? That's the only thing that would make sense...

Although, mind you, I'm seeing the cap being more Bobby's than John's...

(However, when I first saw it, I went, 'CANADA!' rather happily. And then it turned out to be the Roots beaver rather than a maple leaf. Oh well. There's still a lot of red and white.)

Ok!

Yeah? Alright. I won't be giving you all of her backstory, though, in the interest of not giving away my own plot points. Also, her PPC involvement is still developing, so it's quite likely that what I tell you now will cease to be true.

Also, if you're curious, the story she comes from was my Script Frenzy script two years ago. It quickly spawned a little spin-off AU, and now it's spawned a PPC AU as well. Plotbunnies these days.

With that said: time to meet the Reader. (We'll go with that for her name, in order to avoid spoilers. In her story, she eventually adopts that name because 'The Wanderer' sounds rather stupid as a title/name. Reader is an academic position, mostly in the UK, and denotes a senior researcher or scholar. This was chosen in the story because she likes universities and knowledge, and is a sort of researcher of space and time--or at least, that's how I put it in my notes. 'Reader' also works as a play on words, since, of course, a reader is someone who reads, and as a PPC agent she reads and then protects the continua she reads about. While the Reader is technically a different regeneration, I can't see her choosing 'the Wanderer' as a title in this PPC AU thing.)

So. The Reader's current regeneration (oh, bother, if my PPC canon for her changes even a tiny bit, this entire thing is inaccurate. Oh well. For the moment, we'll assume she's not on the regeneration that would have been the Reader, but instead is on the one that was supposed to be the Wanderer, but isn't, because she never chose that name--ok, I'm going to stop now, this is getting somewhat confusing.) The Reader's current regeneration is that of a 21-year-old woman with brown hair and dark blue-grey eyes. Technically, she's closer to 100 or 150 years old but, well, Time Lords. What can you do. She normally wears a dark plum shirt (not button-up), a jean-jacket, black pants, and hiking shoes. Her hair reaches to approximately mid-back. She has a slight Irish accent. She likes purple quite a lot: she uses a sonic penlight that glows purple, she usually wears at least one purple article of clothing, and the interior of her TARDIS is mainly purple, although it does have indigo highlights. Rather gloomy, now that I think of it. Maybe there's some lavender or white in there too.

Speaking of the Reader's TARDIS, the interior looks rather neglected, since the Reader only found it again recently and has been very, very busy with missions. The TARDIS also had a near-death experience, which didn't exactly improve matters. The TARDIS looks like a hexagonal garden shed, because she decided that she liked it, and sort of guilted the Reader into letting it stay like that. The TARDIS' near-death experience came from...oh dear, spoilers. Look, let's just say that the Reader fell through a plothole into HQ before the TARDIS did, and, well, that wasn't very good, since it meant the Reader registered as almost definitely dead, so the TARDIS started dying. Then, it fell through a plothole as well, and started to recover. It still took the Reader several months after that to find the TARDIS, though.

The Reader's personality...ok. She's still rather traumatized from not only realizing that Gallifrey was gone but from being told that she was fictional and oh, by the way, you're not completely alone--there's the Doctor, and the Master, only you can't actually interact with them, because this isn't your story, it's canon, and yes, there are other Time Lord/Lady agents in the PPC, but they're kind of busy with missions right now, and half of them weren't even born on Gallifrey. Welcome to the PPC! She has a tendency to be mischievous, doesn't have a perfect understanding of human culture (although she does know better than to go around staring at the blue sky with one sun). In the PPC, she's been partnered with a male Klingon agent, who currently lacks a name, which is why I won't be providing it here. Hopefully he'll gain one soon. They...get along reasonably well, with the occasional culture clash. They're in the DMS, for now, although it may end up being DIC by the time they're actually written. The Klingon agent used to be Agent Dawn's partner, although that was some time ago by now, and is the same Klingon we meet in the AU exploration thread (the one where you write your agents as originating in a different continuum/being a different species)--or at least, he will be once I finish writing that post and, well, post it. He's not a bad sort. He's also a TOS Klingon, mainly because I know them better (and because it sounded like something interesting to explore).

Uh, what else...the Reader has a habit of talking aloud whether there's someone there to talk to or not, a habit she developed through years of talking to her TARDIS. She may have been some sort of galactic researcher(-in-training) before Gallifrey was destroyed, but that hinges on whether or not that's possible in canon (I'm afraid my knowledge of Gallifrey is rather limited). She's rather somber for the most part, seeing as she's in mourning (her planet was destroyed, as was nearly her entire species. She's not exactly Little Miss Happy-Bouncy right now.) How she'd react upon meeting the Doctor is up to you, really--she'd probably be rather startled, and happy/emotional that she can actually talk to him without being constrained by the fact that she's on a mission, but other than that, she can react in whatever way works best for the story. I mean, if you don't mind, I'll let you know if she seems ridiculously OOC to me, but other than that, do what you like :) She's technically still developing, anyway (or at least, the PPC version is.)

Apologies for the length of this (*winces*), but it was inevitable, seeing as I'm essentially reinventing a character I wrote about almost exactly two years ago. Hopefully it's readable. (On the plus side, I'm now getting quite excited about writing this story-line. Not such a good thing, considering I haven't even finished my real first mission, but...at least I know it'll work out!)

~DawnFire