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the fuckface who holds time itself in his hands ([personal profile] collector) wrote in [community profile] luministi_ooc2010-05-29 04:00 pm

'Ahoy' Has Yet To Be Used

So I shall use it. Ahoy, I'm Farrah! I run on EST, but generally cannot be found in the later hours of the evening. The best way to find me is through email, one of my contact posts, or LJ PM. Feel free to contact me at any time! I am rarer than a really rare Pokemon when it comes to AIM, but I'm pretty accessible by the other methods.

To the start of things, I am bringing Irving Braxiatel, Entirely Trustworthy Collector. He has a soothingly hypnotic voice. No, literally. As he has only ever appeared in books and audioplays, it is hellish to find pictures of him, hence the copious amounts of icons of people in suits. Excessively long application + permissions meme.

In brief, Brax is the owner of the Braxiatel Collection, the Collection of Everything. And they do mean everything, from the original manuscript for Love's Labour's Wonne to the Ark of the Covenant itself. I'm not entirely sure how he managed to acquire that one; presumably he handed someone a fedora and a whip and sent them to the 1930s.

Braxiatel is a time-travelling, double-hearted alien from a planet with red grass and twin suns, not that we're naming any names*, though he currently lives in the Vega system in the early 27th century. He is almost pathologically incapable of being honest and direct, probably because he's a former Ambassador Cardinal Chancellor Cardinal again politician from a planet that constantly hides secrets from itself. His moral alignment is rather vague accordingly. Most people know him as a True Neutral with Good-leanings, but he's really more like a GM who has gotten sick of people destroying his world(s) and has accordingly begun to consider Railroading the entire universe. He has just spent over a year locked up by Space Nazis with only torture and interior design to keep him occupied, so he's really not happy about it. This holiday will probably be good for him.

I think I've suffocated you with enough links to audio clips and tropes, so I'll stop.

For now.

*Gallifrey
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-29 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my gosh, torture and interior design XD.

I am totally going to wind up relistening to the Gallifrey audios because of you. Just thought you should know!
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-29 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Very true! Time Lords are rather hard to resist in general...probably for obvious reasons.
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-29 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly. They are so very...eye-catching.
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-29 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, they catch my eye all right!
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-29 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
We are XD. And I love your Brax icons so much! They're so creative and fitting.

It's a great book. But the fact that you know Sosban Fach is in it without having read it is awesome!
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-30 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
o.o;

You should! I'm currently rereading it...again (fourth time!)...to try to really get Sophie's voice in my head before things kick off.
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-30 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
I should probably be surprised, but somehow I am not...

Ah yes! I've read Dark Lord, too. And I love her style very much~
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-30 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Brax ♥.

Yay! Oi, that book sounds terribly complex. I would totally recommend the stalling >.>
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[personal profile] fortune_sought 2010-05-30 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
♥!
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-05-29 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I had really, really hoped you'd use that scene between him and Jason for that and you did! ♥♥♥ I relistened to The Mirror Effect the other day just to hear that scene~

And I am so looking forward to playing with Brax here.
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-05-29 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I could listen to his voice all day, really... *le sigh*

Nope, not yet! Haven't been in a situation where we would have, but I'm excited~
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-05-29 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I need to get there! I'm in the middle of The Bellotron Incident~ (Though I need to bake a cake for my parent's wedding anniversary in like...a few minutes, so maybe I'll have moved onto The Draconian Rage by then.)

Ah--hmmm. Yyyeah, we probably should. I've read up on what you've written about Brax and such in your journal, but I need to read up on their shared appearances in the novels. I'm a bit rusty there, and I really don't want to make glaringly obvious mistake :|
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-05-29 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhh, that is lovely spam~ I appreciate that! ♥

I will say that I definitely subscribe to Brax as the older brother to the Doctor. The Doctor as the little brother just makes more sense, especially if he got all pouty about being out-manipulated. (Besides, as the oldest sibling, I'd so do that to my little brother >.> If, you know, put in a situation where such a thing would be necessary.)
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-04 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I just realised that I never poked your brain about this! In your head canon, what happens to the asteroid the Collection was on? Has it been left barren or are those who called it their home still there living out their lives? I'd ask about people, but as the Benny storylines are still being played out, I only know that Jason isn't alive (and damn it, I really like him too.) Do you think that, later on, someone else who worked in the Collection would have tried to retrieve the things Brax had sold off to Arkadian?

And what do you think happened to Brax in the Time War? Would the Doctor have heard details about his death, would he have been there? Or would Romana (or someone similar) have kept those details from him? Or...any other option I'm just not thinking of?
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-04 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yyyyeah, the Cliffhanger of Doom is rather annoying when trying to do continuity things. I still think I've screwed myself somewhere along the line with Straxus, but...we'll not think about that. But oiii that's not happy at all ;_; What the hell, books?!

That. I can believe. (Though if they want to sweep up continuity errors, they have over 45 years of things to clean up... In my opinion.)

*pets* I had to ask. Better to ask than assume and marry you to things that make you flail like, um, well that actually! And him? Attached to Romana? Why, wherever would anyone get that idea? *whistles*

All right. My thoughts on Romana and the Time War... The short version is: As the Time War wore on and stuff was being destroyed left and right and the Eternals fled the universe (sadly without a musical montage thanking them for the fish), the Time Lords decided that bringing back Rassilon was a Good Thing and Romana was deposed or forced to step down, never minding the good things she did in the past greatly outweighed the bad. Some of the Time Lords who hadn't gone over to Team Batshit with Rassilon in the lead had continued to fight in the same way as they had been while Rassilon unleashed all those awful horrors of horrors mentioned in EoT that I'm completely forgetting the names of right at the moment. And meanwhile, speaking of, someone or a group of sane Time Lords found The Moment and it was ultimately Romana who gave the order to the Doctor, knowing he was the only one able to do it. Now whether she was one of the people in shame who had to hide their faces (ala The Woman in White) or she'd managed to escape being held captive on Gallifrey in the final days of the war, she was still able to issue that command somehow.

I don't subscribe to the Woman in White being the Doctor's mother because that idea, frankly, is just a bunch of crap and doesn't make a lick of sense. (And I'd argue that if he got on with his mother like that, then why not bring her along with him when he first left Gallifrey? Or are Time Lords too cool to travel with their moms? And now I'm picturing a woman cleaning a bit schmutz off of the First Doctor's face and thoroughly embarrassing him in front of the early Daleks or Marco Polo and yeah that's probably why he never brought his mom.) In all the important women Time Lords they could have used, why not Romana? Or Susan? Or Thalia or Flavia? Hell, I'd be more willing to buy Ace-as-a-regenerated-Time Lady than I would his mother. Plus I just don't like getting into things of the Doctor's past like that. I like how Brax has been treated as plausible and alluded to and he makes far more sense. Of the possible people, I like to think the Woman in White really was Romana. She seems the most likely to interfere with things during EoT than anyone else. And, most likely, by the time she was caught, anyone who had been helping her was caught and punished with the Silly Overly-Powered Glove of Rassilon, but the Doctor was too slippery to have been caught. Romana might have even allowed herself to be caught on purpose to give the others time to get away, but perhaps the Doctor was the only one to succeed. That or it didn't matter who else escaped; the Moment was with the Doctor and that was the only thing that mattered.

So, um...yeah, that's my thoughts on it. ^^; I probably forgot things, but...that's basically it. What do you think happened to her?
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-04 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor Brax. Always blame the time traveler in the group. Fourth wall breaking leading to insanity seems to fit, though...

I really wouldn't be surprised if he was able to orchestrate things from beyond the grave like that. I actually rather expect it from him at this point! I am really glad to hear we agree about Romana in charge/getting deposed. It makes life so much easier ^^;

But was that really what he was going to do for Romana and Narvin? O.o For real? Though, I'd really love that there was some way they managed to fake their deaths and escape.

Sounds good! But it really is sad to think of the Collection like that...
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-04 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, I don't know much about Deadpool other than what I've seen in this Youtube video...

...I'm hrm. I'm unsure what to make of that other than wow, nice to know Gary Russell was so on the ball that he predicted the sort of technology that would later become canon. Thumbs up to him!

I wouldn't expect him to ask for their consent, especially not Narvin's.

Well it makes me wonder why sell everything. I doubt even Arkadian was that expensive considering the sort of things in the Collection. *sighs at him*
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-04 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I appreciate what he does~ And no doubt there are many! Not to mention other fobwatch'd Time Lords...

Yeah, exactly! Though awww, him doing that to atone...

I have a feeling when I get to Jason's death, I will cry. I just started season 5 the other day and he's being ridiculously cute with Peter. Damn him for having those moments ;_;
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-05 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
;___; Oh man... Damnit, I'm so going to cry when I get there...

And damn the set up of these audios! I really wanted to hear Brax's reaction to what happened to Benny during The Draconian Rage! *flails at it* That was so awful ;_; Ohmygod.
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[personal profile] bit_impossible 2010-06-05 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
I love the cyclical nature of that, but man... I'd say "a bad year" is a severe understatement!

[identity profile] tearfulyandere.livejournal.com 2010-05-30 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hia Farrah! Figured I'd add my voice to the tens of other posts on this entry! *laughs*