'Ahoy' Has Yet To Be Used

[collector]

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

Comments

[collector]

You have "...Be Forgot," though it is worth saying that in the notes for that story in The Inside Story, it's suggested that the Doctor does occasionally drop in to say hello and hang out. The Doctor missed Peter's birth/Christening, but he did send a card, and it's my opinion that the doctor mentioned in The Masquerade of Death is the Doctor. Because I say so.

As a side note, these have all been warm, sibling-y quotes of love and affection and bickering. There are a handful of indications of much more bitterness on Braxiatel's part. When he is talking to Benny about how he programmed attacking robots to play techno music, he says, "Well, they needed something. And I recalled that charming night on the Hacienda on the night of the Martian invasion. Oh, but you were in London, weren't you, running after the---"

He's referring to the events of The Dying Days. And he sounds very bitter about it. He also sounds really jealous in this one of the adventures the Doctor had with Benny.

He also sounds really bitter and angry about Gallifrey in this one, which is weird, given that he would sell his entire beloved Collection for it. In "Midrash," Ash talks about how Braxiatel wanted to have adventures and be a legend. I tend to assume that Braxiatel has always envied the Doctor for his adventures, and that after the Axis Occupation, he let his bitterness at being abandoned by the Doctor and Gallifrey get the bitter of him without realizing it. + Pandora feeding off of that bitterness, no doubt. So goes my headcanon.