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OOC Information;
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IC Information;
Character Name; Theta Sigma. This is the name he usually goes by, an old name of the Doctor's from Academy days. His official ID for Torchwood reads 'Theta Sigma' but his identification card/passport (fake) have the name 'John Sigma'. John Smith was too widely known as an alias of the Doctor's to be used. One of the Doctor's enemies finding a person on Earth with the Doctor's face and name might lead to a kidnapping or killing.


Canon; His personal information is here - http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Meta-Crisis_Tenth_Doctor

Theta has been living for the past two months in Pete's World - http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Pete's_World which is somewhat different from the standard Doctor Who universe.


Canon Point; Two months after the episode 'Journey's End'. There are IC and OOC reasons for this. It does keep him from throwing his arms around the nearest Rose and does give him a little time to expand on who he is.



Age; Theta looks to be the Tenth Doctor's age which would have been about mid to late thirties. Depending on how one looks at it, Theta has only strictly been 'alive' for two months, but he will claim his age is “nine hundred to a thousand” given he has the memories and thought processes of the Doctor up to 'The Stolen Earth' when he was hit with the Doctor's excess regenerative energies


"So cold and dark and hot, fire is coming, the endless flames... I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor!" - Dalek Caan

House; Loki. There is a duality to Theta himself in being comprised of the Doctor and Donna Noble. He clearly prefers one over the other, expressing disgust the moment he learns that he is half human. He knew that being half of one and the other would leave him lacking in the eyes of a 'true' Gallifreyan while above humans. Like the Tenth Doctor, Theta lives for having fun. This does often include stirring up things to see what happens. Being an alien is often a handy excuse, even if untrue to a degree, about why he did something. If things get too dull, one can be sure that Theta will be there to set something on fire or cause an outrage.


Power; Telepathy. When coming into being, he lost that ability that he had when part of the Doctor.

Personality;

"I look like him. I think like him. Same memories, same thoughts, same everything. Except I've only got one heart." - Metacrisis Doctor

It's an oddity of Doctor Who itself where the human Doctor's memories of being the Doctor end. While the Doctor loses his hand in the swordfight with the Sycorax leader, the human Doctor is able to answer Rose's question to the pair of them at Bad Wolf Bay about an event that happened afterwards. Evidently the Doctor's memories were still being gained by the lost limb or were given when the Doctor hit the hand with the excess regenerative energy. He does have memories of Jack keeping him, but they're cloudy and more impressions than clear visual/auditory memories.

It's easy to say that Theta should have lived happily ever after with Rose, but he (again from his point of view) was a Time Lord. His thoughts, memories, actions and way of life for hundreds of years had been as a Time Lord. Now all that's gone. He's an inferior creature that Gallifreyans would look down on as little more than a bug or an object of pity. All the greatness and glory he could see in the universe, in the turn of Time, is gone. Donna had the advantage on him in that she had always been a human, thought as a human and lived as one. For her, being part Time Lord was coming up in the world. In Theta's eyes, he lost everything to become a lesser being.

In Journey's End, the Metacrisis Doctor is shown with having changes to his personality or ways of doing things (hello, genocide) from the Doctor's standard. In many ways, Theta is like the ninth regeneration. He can be quick to anger, slow to cool, although one could blame that on the infusion of Donna Noble with him. With the introduction of Donna Noble to the DNA of a Time Lord, the metacrisis' personality changed from being only a copy of the Doctor's. While the maniac energy is still there, it is tempered with a strain of ruthlessness like a wolf among domesticated dogs. There is that air about him as if he is waiting for the chance to sink his teeth in should the situation call for it. Thankfully, there are few that do.

Being around him is a lot like being sucked into a tornado. He will drag along and rush about anyone dumb enough to get close enough should an idea seize him. When caught up in a line of thinking, Theta tends to talk at versus to a person. Most of their replies will be dismissed because they are only human after all, but the inventive can get him to listen.

When he calms down or needs quiet, Theta doesn't want to be around people. If he must be, then he'll watch them with a scientist's gaze or stare out a window to ignore them. There are galaxies of knowledge in his mind, and he can keep himself busy in thinking alone. Beyond Rose, Theta doesn't believe others are capable of comprehending him or why he does the things he does. Being stuck on the slow path among humans has always had that common theme of being an outsider. These aren't sad or angsty moments, only time where he wants to be by himself to de-charge in a way. Theta really doesn't do sadness or angst even as he sees Rose slipping away from him. It's happened too many times before in too many ways.

Hand in hand with that constant sugar rush go is arrogance. Theta has had long practice at being the most intelligent person in the room, and he doesn't hesitate to let someone know it if they challenge him on it. Part of this is because he usually is. The rest of it is overcompensating due to his half-breed nature. Because of what he does know, Theta is on-guard against others delving too deeply into who he is. There are a million enemies of the Doctor over space and Time, and wouldn't they love to lay hands on a creature that knows all the Doctor's secrets?

Theta has about all the empathy of a brick carried by an African swallow. Unless someone is obviously pissed off at him, he's probably going to carry on like all is well and proceed to drag them along with him (welcome to being shanghai'd as a Companion) or tell them all about his adventures in learning to drive ("You would think that being able to pilot a TARDIS single-handedly would have been enough, but oh no, they insisted I pass this thing called a 'driving test'"). Driving is the current topic because he doesn't get why Jack wouldn't trust him with a heavily armoured and weaponized vehicle when he has anger issues that occasionally extend to Cardiff's traffic situation. Not that he's stolen it or anything and that's why he has the keys. The point is, whatever comes into his head is likely to be said without much thought being given to the subject or if the listener is interested in the least.

The Doctor: He destroyed the Daleks, he committed genocide, he's too dangerous to be left on his own.
Metacrisis Doctor: You made me.
The Doctor: Exactly. You were born in battle, full of blood and anger and revenge.

Having Donna Noble merged with him wasn't the best thing on that front. Almost immediately, Theta shows personality changes from the Doctor in speech patterns and reactions. The first action he takes after saving the TARDIS is to create a weapon that will unmake the Daleks. It's a clear red flag. When given the chance, Theta destroys the entire Dalek race, something the Doctor wouldn't have done. Theta can and does lose his temper faster than the Doctor, reacting in a more human way to frustration and things that stand in his way. It can be something large such as a slur about his half-breed status or something small such as being cut off in traffic that makes him need to stop and get control. He is capable of and does hold grudges, waiting out for better circumstances for revenge to come about with the patience of a Time Lord. It's an ugly combination on that front that he needs to get a leash on.

On a lighter note, Theta loves human pop culture. Movies are something he particularly enjoys although he's convinced that 'Aliens' and 'War of the Worlds' were supposed to be comedies. Pretty much all sci-fi and horror are amusing or right out hilarious to Theta. Never go see a film with him unless you like having someone tell you all the things wrong with the alien battle cruisers. He does read, but that's more the Doctor's arena than his. Theta could discuss 'The Art of War', but he'd probably rather go on about how he wants leather pants like the vampire hunter in the 'Fright Night' remake had and that real vampires are nothing like that. He's also a very big fan of chocolate covered popcorn and considers its inventor one of the greatest human geniuses ever. His attempts to replicate it has resulted in the deaths of four pans, one skillet and a completely innocent microwave.

Theta is half of a biological metacrisis, the other being Donna Noble. While Theta is unaware of it (but suspects it) Donna had a mental breakdown. A human-Time Lord biological metacrisis cannot be as is explained. A human mind is incapable of holding all the knowledge and experiences of a Time Lord, of being what they are. Theta came out better because he thinks like one already, was used to processing that much information without it blowing his circuits so to speak. Whether or not this will have bearing on Theta in the future is to be seen. It's a mathematical fact that both sides of an equation must balance, that x must equal y. The only sign Theta has shown so far is that when angry/upset/stressed, he will begin to repeat words such as 'stop-stop-stop' or start grouping words such as 'drop-stop-clock' as Donna did. It can be disconcerting for those who aren't aware of what is going on.

In the end, Theta is an unknown quantity in the universe, a singularity in a system that hates them.

For the two months of time that he spent in Pete's World, learning to be a human when everything he knew (“I am the Doctor!” as he states in Journey's End) said he wasn't put considerable strain on him and his Rose. Life in a human house wasn't the same as with a TARDIS. What Time Lord ever considered putting their dirty clothes into a basket? Took out the garbage or thought about putting it back in the bin after digging through it for something? Wiped down a counter after splattering gunk while making a fabulous new invention? Then there was his constant tinkering with appliances. Rose took the microwave criticising her food choices well enough, but when the dishwasher went on strike because it couldn't watch 'Dancing With the Stars' from where it was in the kitchen and the toaster developed a sense of survival after making a peace treaty with the bread, she grew frustrated. This friction between them seemed to compound daily from big things ("How did you blow every electrical circuit in the house fooling with the washing machine? Why would a washing machine need to scan your pockets? Can't you check them yourself?") to small ones ("Wires do not go in the sugar bowl just because that's where they crystallize best").

At present, he and Rose are still very good friends, and he would do most anything for her except watch her studying the stars for a sign of the Doctor. As the Doctor had wanted and Theta knew he needed, Rose did help him as much as she could in their short time together. Sometimes a good friend is better than a lover. The fits and starts of anger that had accompanied the transition were worked through but are by no means gone. There's something frightening about a creature that has the thousand years old knowledge of warfare from across the universe coupled with the ability to destroy humanity that has a minor meltdown over someone eating his chocolate.

Had Theta stayed in Pete's World, he and Rose might still make it as a couple, but Theta himself is unsure. People leave. It's what they do. It's what being the Doctor taught him.

He did work for Torchwood, acting more as the 'I really wouldn't touch that if I were you' advisor and translator, freeing up Ianto some to go into field work. Since Theta can understand and read most languages, it is a valuable skill when dealing with aliens. He sticks mostly with English when speaking/writing. Jack Harkness refused to put him in the field until he willingly picked up a gun without being pushed to the breaking point. There have been times when Theta had removed things from Torchwood either to use growing his TARDIS from the coral the Doctor gave him or because they were too dangerous to be in human/Torchwood hands.

The telepathy he had when part of the Doctor is gone. He can detect when someone is tampering with or moving about his thoughts, but there's very little Theta can do about it. He no longer sees with the same clarity the twist and turn of Time, but he can pick up on major events about to happen. Pathways that could change that event sit in his blind spot. It's like seeing an oncoming car but not being able to swerve out of its way. Waking up to that the first time had been like waking up blind. Imagine believing you should be able to see that, be that and not. Then the crash of remembering you are not who your memories tell you that you are.

Physically, Theta is a normal human, one heart and all. There are times he misses having a respiratory bypass, especially when Ianto makes his bean stews. That's when he has to side-eye humans in general or at least their digestive tracts. Medically, he is considered to be hypotensive due to benign bradycardia. What human doctors don't realize is that his single heart beats slower because it's forever waiting for a second to answer it. The condition isn't severe enough to cause noticeable symptoms, leaving it a small side note on his medical chart. Like a human, he needs to sleep. Getting less than five to six hours a night will result in one crabby metacrisis.

Theta is allergic to aspirin (fatal due to massive hemorrhaging of blood vessels if consumed) and strawberries (generally this is midrange - hives, swelling, tingling). The latter was found out while attempting to be romantic with chocolate covered strawberries and Rose. A good time was not had by all when date-night ended up in the ER.