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luministi_ooc2010-05-29 04:00 pm
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'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 formerAmbassador 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
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
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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(It's a very busy crack.)
That makes sense. Also I snorted about his mother. Oh Doctor. But! I do subscribe to the theory that Romana was in charge and then ended up deposed. Braxiatel would support Romana until the bitter end, so either he was eliminated before she was deposed (since people seem to like to wait around until he's gone before they get rid of her) or he'd have been scheming and manipulating to get Romana into the position she needed to be in to 1) give the Doctor the Blow Up Stuff Device and 2) tell the Doctor to be a not!idiot and shoot the diamond.
Knowing Brax, he could actually manipulate events into getting Romana where she wanted to be from beyond the grave. He certainly manages to do it while off-planet and in exile.
FUN FACT: Braxiatel's original plan for Gallifrey was apparently to make Romana and Narvin think they were humans and hide them off elsewhere for safekeeping or something. And then obviously this had to be nixed given the fobwatch thing. So there is even the possibility that Brax would fake death and fake Romana's death (and, yes, fake Narvin's death but only if he has to) so he could go hide them somewhere else to survive. Because Brax is a big fat cheater and you know he'd do it.
IN CONCLUSION:
-Brax would have supported Romana through the whole Time War
-he probably was killed before the end
-there is a high probability that his death was Just As Planned
As for the Collection, I guesss that after the end of Gallifrey it's basically done for. But I don't want to think about it. Because I'll start to cry.
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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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On Outpost Gallifrey, Gary Russel said, My plan was a one-off, two disc release where Braxiatel sent Romana and Narvin off to the far corners of the galaxy, using Gallifreyan technology to ensure they had no memory of who or what they were until the Time War was over. Then he'd dispatch Leela and K9 to bring 'em back and look into trying to rebuild everything.
Kind of been scuppered on that whole idea now...
So, yes. It would be totally Brax's style to hide them away for their own safety. Possibly without their consent.
Why did he sell it, oh woe. He should have sold... anything else. Like the rest of the Vega system.
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...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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I'm very proud of Gary Russell and feel this vaguely vindicates all the fobwatch!Romana stories, of which there are of course many.
He owns the Ark of the Covenant, for, er, God's sake, I guess would be the appropriate oath. That alone should have bought him anything he wanted. Maybe he feels terribly guilty about what happens to Jason (sob!) and, er, all those counts of genocide, so he sells it as penitence.
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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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now I quietly weep
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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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"Benny! You're ba---... ... ..."
"'They want you, Benny. They want your expertise, Benny. It had nothing to do with Tranagus, Benny. What could go wrong, Benny?'"
"Ahh, no, I'd never say 'what could go wrong.' You know how I feel about clichés."
"Get me a goddamned brandy right this second, Irving Braxiatel, or I'll put a hole in your head!"
And then, knowing Brax, he coddled her for a week until she got sick of him and ran off to hang out with Sea Devils. And then the Collection was invaded. What a bad year!
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