Biography

Journal

marthaj

The writer

• don't kill off my characters.  Really, don't even try it.
• if you write my character's reaction for me, my next reply will contradict you out of spite.
• if you poke me to continue a thread for any reason, it had better begin and end with "it's been at least a week..." And even then, I will be very annoyed with you.  And express this annoyance with lots of obscenities. I almost never die off in threads, so you don't really have a reason to poke me.  Ever.  Never.
• if you, oh, happen to notice that my character is involved in two or three threads already, hold off before starting another one for them, because it'll probably be overlooked.
• don't be annoying.

In-Character

Schedule

Day:          8am - 6pm

Night:        6pm - 1am

Game History

Martha has been working at Torchwood for several months. In that time she's:

• nearly been killed by a random piece of alien tech
• nearly been killed by a Weevil
• gotten into several fights with Owen
• figured out that fighting with Owen was some very strange form of foreplay
• done her first alien autopsy
• lost at least a dozen pens due to throwing them at people
• developed a fondness for Ianto-in-suits.

Random Bits Of Personal Canon

(these are things about Martha which may or may not be true canon-wise; but are true in-game)

• tends to throw pens at people (mostly Owen) to get their attention
• loves Chinese food
• is pretty good with a gun (according to her), but never carries one with her
• loves jazz, but never tells anyone because she thinks it sounds pretentious
• has a mild "Ianto + suits" fetish.
• common office in-joke is that all the guys there want to sleep with Tish (Martha's sister).  Martha is planning ways to hurt them all. 

Relationships

• Toshiko avoids Martha because I'm playing them both she's a little uncomfortable around her, with all her history. (That, and she might be a little jealous.)

• Owen and Martha have a sort of love/hate relationship right now, where they poke fun at each other and argue a lot, and flirt when they're not trying to kill each other. They're fairly seriously about each other, but each one would deny it vehemently if anyone asked them.

• Ianto is unfailingly polite to Martha, who's trying to get him to call her Martha and not "Miss Jones".

• adores Jack (who doesn't?).

Soundtrack

(all songs just for, you know.  Whatever that thing is where you just listen to them for a day and then delete them so I don't get sued.)

1. stevie ray vaughn - voodoo chile, slight return

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time

Give it right back to you one of these days

 

2. mara carlyle - baby bloodheart

 

Her cheeks glowed red with tears she shed, and her lips shake with the love they make. She could explode, she feels him so.

And he knows...and he knows he's Baby Bloodheart's beau.

 

3. susana baca - maria lando

 

But for Maria, there is no dawn

But for Maria, there is no noon

But for Maria, there is no moon

She lifts her red goblet over the seas

 

4. louis jordan - pistol packin' mama

 

Pistol packin mama

Lay that pistol down.

 

5. storyville - a good day for the blues

 

Whatever it takes, I do what I can do

To bridge this river that flows from me to you

 

 

6. led zepplin - hey, hey, what can i do

 

I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do

So I pack my bags and move on my way

Cause I got a worried mind

Sharin' what I thought was mine

 

7. peter salett - heart of mine

 

And do you want to find

Something worth saving

The change would do me right

Cause I've been just waiting

And hesitating

With this heart of mine

 

8. radiohead - high and dry

 

All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love

 

9. travis - how many hearts

 

How many roads

Must there need to be

Hoping inside

You could mean to me

Open your mouth

Build your sermon there

Give me more time

Do the best I can

 

10. erin mckeown - queen of quiet

 

in my plastic heart, forever for art

what kind of lover am i?

 

11. amy winehouse - tears dry on my own

 

I wish I could say no regrets,

And no emotional debts,

Cause as we kiss goodbye the sun sets

 

12. talking heads - and she was

 

The world was moving and she was right there with it

(and she was)