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Owen Harper; is better than you.
Topic Started: May 31 2008, 06:51 PM (170 Views)
Owen Harper	May 31 2008, 06:51 PM Post #1
Time Lord Posts: 2,725 Group: Members Member #4 Joined: April 11, 2008	Placeholder for mission posts The Rift Gives and it Takes Away (some time after Owen joins TW) Roadtrip (Owen and Tosh on a mission, 6 months after Owen joins TW) Further to Fly (while Jack is gone) Checkup (Owen and Tosh) (part 2) Night Work: Andy joins the team. Owen's not too impressed, but then, he's not too impressed with anything, including himself. Blood (small scene, Ianto & Owen in the Medbay) Boys' Night Out (Andy, Owen, & Ianto at Tiger Tiger) Friday Night Drinks (everyone out for drinks) Refugees: Owen gets stuck being the 'good guy' when Torchwood finds an alien child, and as the situation escalates, he's got more than one patient to treat. Hostages and misunderstandings on all sides. Also, Tosh starts to have trouble, and starts something with Owen. The Areas of Their Expertise (Owen has Andy lend a hand with a project) Andy's Brain (Andy's gotten himself in trouble with Jack, Owen gets dragged into it) Office Hours (Owen/Tosh) Night Travelers: Time Travel leads to mental trauma between Owen and Andy. Lightbox: Tosh's problems come to a head, and the fallout is massive. The Valiant: Torchwood is investigating suspicious activity, but nobody knows all the secrets. Other tidbits: -tissue regenerator. Can fix soft tissue damage only -- heal skin and muscle. Not bone, nerve damage, fluid loss, etc. -osteo-grow pills: Closest TW has to healing bone. Speeds up the growth of new cells, so healing can take days instead of weeks, but that's the closest there is. -Studied at University College London, specializing in immunology, before transferring up to Cardiff. Edited by Owen Harper, Feb 22 2009, 04:58 PM.



Owen Harper	Feb 23 2009, 10:06 AM Post #2
Time Lord Posts: 2,725 Group: Members Member #4 Joined: April 11, 2008	Backstory: -Owen was raised by his mother, and has no idea who his father is. This accounted for several arguments with his mother, and he left home as soon as he was eligible for university, at 16. -He went to University College London, specializing in immunology, before transferring to Cardiff at 19 for his practicals. -He was pretty quiet during college, spending most of his time studying or working, barely scraping by on his bills some quarters. -He’ll eat anything (and anything is edible with enough brown sauce), but if he doesn’t like it, it’s probably something he had to eat a lot of during this time, like grapes, or walnuts, which he never wants to see again in his life. -For a while he worked at a nursing home, because it was at least tangentially related to what he was studying, it paid decently, and he could sleep on the couch if he couldn’t deal with his roommate. He slept on the couch a lot (he can sleep anywhere if he’s tired enough). -Owen had several relationships as a student, including several long-term ones, but he thought of all of them as casual (though his partners might disagree). He’s not very emotionally aware of himself. He’s aware of others, but only when he makes the effort to analyze them. -Owen was ‘recruited’ to Torchwood when his fiancée died of an alien parasite in her brain. Jack tried retconning him, but it didn’t take, so instead he made it look like Owen had had a mental break and disappeared back to London. -Jack is the only one who knows about Katie, though Owen didn’t realize this for a while, and it was part of the reason he was so snappish with everyone, and not just Jack. After a while, though, defense mechanism became habit. -Owen spent several days in the psych ward after Katie’s death, and because of this experience he hates being a patient in-hospital. He’s afraid he won’t get out again. -This is also why retcon falls under Jack's responsibility and not Owen's (also, it's doubtful Jack would share the formula, but Owen avoids it as much as he can). In-Game History: -After Jack left, Owen turned control of Torchwood over to Gwen, mostly out of self-doubt, fearing that he would get the team hurt, and also from an awareness that they probably wouldn’t follow his orders. He offered to help Gwen, though, and in general during the time that Jack was gone the two of them managed to get over any remaining awkwardness caused by their ill-advised affair. -Surprised by Jack’s apparent willingness to do right by the team, it is Owen who brings up (again, after having long given up) the need for more help, and for proper mental care. He wasn’t expecting to get one, let alone both. -Owen’s initial reaction to Andy is suspicion, because he’s just so damn normal. After that, he basically dismisses him, assuming Andy will be taking on more of the heavy lifting. He’s certainly not aware of the attention Andy’s paying him, negative or positive. He also fails to impress upon Andy the awkward tangles of the relationships among everyone, because he’s too used to keeping secrets. -Owen isn’t really xenophobic, but of the current team, Ianto might be the only one with stronger misgivings towards aliens. The events of ‘Refugees’ start to ease him towards changing his mind, but there’s a slight detour along the way as the disguise Jack chooses to give one of the aliens is Suzie, which brings up a lot of bad memories for Owen. -Tosh, under the influence of the Lightbox, finally makes a move on Owen, and Owen goes along with it enthusiastically. He likes Tosh, and thinks he’s helping her out after a bad experience. He doesn’t know what’s really going on. -Owen and Andy manage to get along as long as they’re not thinking about it, and when they have something in common to band against, like aliens, or Jack. So Owen has no problem displaying his lock-picking skills to Andy, or taking free liquor from him. -Trapped back in time, Owen initially steps up to lead the others, but he’s quite happy to let things devolve to a messy democracy. The sight of Jack as he is in the 20’s has knocked his perspective for a bit of a loop, and then he gets thrown another one when The Pearl messes with his head, and Andy and he swap brains. -Owen’s head is knocked for a serious mess here, between The Pearl dredging up all his memories of loneliness, and then Andy stirring up his whole life, and the transition back to the present time messes the whole thing up. Owen manages to forcefully bury a lot of it again, but he’s left quite unsettled. -Immediately upon returning from the past, Tosh’s issues with Lightbox come to a head, and the whole mess is revealed. So Owen’s beating himself up for not noticing, and also coming to realize what their relationship was really about. He’s able to push the latter aside for the moment, except that Andy doesn’t want to, and the two of them trade verbal and physical blows about it, leading to a near breakdown on Owen’s part. -Owen is well aware of his own issues. He’s just not able to deal with them on his own — he’s tried, after the Ghost Machine, after Diane and the Weevils, but he’s failed, and it’s just digging him deeper. He’s forced by circumstance to ask Jack for an out, but Jack can’t give him one. -Currently Owen is on retreat from everyone, trying to sort out what in his head is him, what’s someone else, and what’s his, but put on as a defense mechanism. He’s not getting very far.


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