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The Rani is a fictional character in the Realm of the Muse prompt community, among others. She is a renegade Time Lord and convicted criminal, exiled by her own people, who in a twist of fate, wound up being one of the few survivors of her planet's destruction.

The Rani is written by Violet. The PB is Lisa Snowdon. The Rani as written in her journal is a post-canon version of a canon character, and is Violet's creation; however, the Rani is the intellectual property of the BBC and the producers and writers of Doctor Who.

Contents 1 Basic Character Information 1.1 Physical Description 1.2 Personality 1.3 Friends and Lovers, Colleagues and Irritants 2 History 3 Additional Information 3.1 Random Facts 3.2 OOC-only Character Information

Basic Character Information

Physical Description

The Rani stands five feet, eleven inches in her bare feet, and is occasionally given to wearing three-inch heels in order to appear even more intimidating. In this incarnation she was blessed with the most ridiculously long pair of legs ever. She has blue eyes and long, straight dark brown hair that she generally wears loose. She is slender without being painfully so--fit and full-breasted rather than skinny.

Personality

The Rani's only concern is herself and her own goals. She can be rather Machiavellian about life at times, but by the same token, she hates to expend effort or dispose of something that could prove useful later, so basically, unless you pose a direct threat to her or her plans, she's likely to ignore you completely. She's completely amoral, and has no time for rules, particularly those meant to regulate behaviour.

She is capable of great charm, and can be manipulative. She frequently seeks to place people in her debt, or make them reliant upon her; she also works to cultivate loyalty, and rewards it handsomely. She is generally rather disdainful and remote, irritable and impatient, and suffers neither fools or obstructions gladly. However, with those few to whom she has formed attachments, and given her own loyalty, she can be surprisingly indulgent, and even affectionate.

Friends and Lovers, Colleagues and Irritants

The Rani's prompting and roleplay timelines do not follow strict community divisions; the major timeline in which she plays includes most of the muses she has met through Realm of the Muse, but also some muses with no community affiliation.

While she has collected quite a complement of friends and assistants, no one travels with her full-time, she merely visits them or picks them up as needed.

• Lord Byron: ...That's just some complicated stuff right there. We'll get back to you on that.
• Ianto Jones: The Rani broke into Torchwood's Cardiff headquarters on something of a dare (that's how she took it, anyway), and met Ianto. She recognised a piece of alien technology they'd confiscated as something she badly needed to improve the performance of her TARDIS; in order to take it away she had to take Ianto away as well. A malfunction after the installation of that technology made it impossible for the Rani to return Ianto to his rightful place and time immediately, and so a series of adventures has ensued.
• Dylan Hartnell: The Rani met Dylan in Washington, DC, after crash-landing in Rock Creek Park when a timing mechanism in her TARDIS gave out. Dylan helped her steal a new one from the university where he was studying. It turned out he was financing his master's degree studies and nice apartment through sophisticated credit card fraud and identity theft. He and the Rani formed an alliance whereby he kept her funded and she gave him new arenas in which to carry out his frauds. He is the most trusted of her assistants; he has the second Stattenheim remote control for her TARDIS.
• Michael Norton: The Rani met Michael in San Francisco, after winding up in his emergency room after being shot twice during a business transaction that went wrong. She kidnapped him to keep from being sent to surgery; he treated her injuries anyway, and a mutual trust sprung up between them.
• Hsu Danmei: The Rani knows him as Robert Grayson. He proposed a business venture whereby he hired her to take him back in time to prevent the deaths of his children. That venture is currently in progress.
• Eden clan Indigo: The Rani went to one of the leisure planets of the Elysian Marbles system to purchase some serotonin reuptake stimulators, and landed in jail for an illegal purchase. Her cellmate was a young chemist named Eden, who had been jailed for treason for wanting to use his abilities to further himself rather than to just cook more drugs for the populace. The Rani was impressed by that, and took him along when she broke out of jail.
• Tea: The Rani showed up at his apartment one morning for breakfast.
• The Doctor and the Master: The Rani went to school with them. They were all friends at one time, but their lives took wildly divergent paths after graduation, though they all three wound up exiles. To her knowledge, her two old school friends are the only other survivors of Gallifrey's destruction.

History

The Rani was another recurring Time Lord foe for the Doctor to face down, in the same vein as the Master. She differed from both the Doctor and the Master, however, in her motivations and underlying values. The Doctor was the hero, and stood for goodness and light and saving the day. The Master was the villain, and stood for evil and darkness and destruction. The Rani was completely amoral, meaning her only motivation was to discover if a situation served her needs and ends or not. She was a brilliant biochemist, and not above carrying out experiments on unwilling subjects to further her goals. Her work, her progress, her knowledge, that all was paramount to her, and she was willing to further those goals by any means necessary, and form any temporary alignments needed to get her way.

This is a post-canon version of the Rani. In her storyline, she kept on travelling through time and space, carrying out her single-minded vision, exploiting people and situations to her will, always working under the High Council's radar.

Her life's work was meant to culminate in a program implemented on the seventh planet in the Dantaginen system. She began a trial of gene resequencing on the planet's inhabitants that was meant to restructure their brains, their minds, and their consciousness. At the end of the genetic therapy, the subjects would have a decreased need for sleep, a more ordered mental state and brain processing, and increased capability for learning and psychic potential.

At first the experiment seemed to be a resounding success, and the Rani was lauded for her work. A hundred years later, however, she was reviled. The descendants of the original experimental subjects suffered intolerable physical and emotional pain, and profound, incurable insanity.

At this point the High Council could neither ignore nor excuse the Rani. She was arrested and put on trial, which led to convictions on the charges of crimes against lesser species, homicide by gross negligence, reckless disregard for lesser forms of life, inhumane experimentation and medical practices, and illegal interference in another culture. She was sentenced to solitary exile for an indeterminate term, potentially up to and including the remainder of her lifespan. Her TARDIS was to be destroyed, after it was used to drop her off on the remote planet where she was to serve out her exile, but she hijacked it and fled instead. Her flight precluded her from taking up permanent residence on any one planet, for fear that she might be discovered by the Time Lords and returned to exile.

When the Time War broke out, however, the Time Lords activated the recall circuit in her TARDIS and she was secretly summoned back to Gallifrey. The High Council offered her a full and clear pardon for her crimes in return for her help. They told no one of this bargain and had her work in secret, hoping someone else would find a different solution in the meantime.

She was working on a biological weapon to use against the Daleks, but while she scrambled to synthesise enough of the compound in her TARDIS' laboratory, the Doctor set the events in motion that would destroy Gallifrey, the Time Lords, and the Daleks. Her TARDIS was orbiting a moon in a nearby system and was caught in the shockwave; she regenerated as a result of her injuries.

Assuming herself to be the sole survivor, she went back on the run, fearing whatever destroyed Gallifrey might come for her next. She assumes it was the Daleks though she's confused as to why they would destroy themselves in the process, as even that level of ruthlessness seemed excessive to her. She has no idea who was really behind it.

Though they had exiled her several times, and sought to rein her in and make her conform to what she thought were outdated morals and belief systems, the Rani is bitter at the loss of the entirety of her people and her home planet.

Additional Information

Random Facts

• The Rani, like other Time Lords, is virulently allergic to aspirin and related compounds.
• She does not like dinosaurs due to an unfortunate incident involving a tyrannosaurus rex and her console room.
• She has no patience or pity whatsoever for women who allow themselves to be subservient in any way.
• She believes all races, creeds, genders, and species were created equally... and all are inferior to her.
• Hires her scientific skills out to help fund her work.
• Will ensure her own success and survival by any means necessary.
• Cannot have children, and is not particularly interested in doing so.
• Was married once, in her second incarnation. It ended in assassination. His, by her.
• Likes Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, the Doors, and Chopin.
• Killed the Sixth Doctor. She says you all owe her your thanks for that.
• Has a male TARDIS. The bond is so strong between them that they can actually communicate in complete thoughts. The following is a photo of his console room; the decor seen here carries through to the rest of the interior:

OOC-only Character Information

• The Rani was actually deeply affected by the destruction of her planet. In this timeline, it's barely been a year or two, and she's still gutted over it. She hated them, to be sure, but she feels completely lost and rootless with her planet gone. She also feels as if she failed, by not being able to act fast enough to end the War. She has nightmares about it, and avoids sleeping until she absolutely must.
• She hasn't the tolerance for alcohol she leads people to believe.
• Will go out of her way to avoid showing any sign of vulnerability. Her deepest, basest fear is that someone will figure out a way to capitalise on any such showing, whether it be a weakness, an emotional attachment, or an injury, and turn it against her. Her sharp tongue is a manifestation of this; she tends to lash out and hurt before the other party can hurt her.