Donna Noble (
prattlingvoice) wrote2010-12-31 03:03 pm
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While not a genius like the Doctor, Donna is intelligent and highly perceptive. Her work as a temp means that she's highly adaptable, and she is able to pick up new skills in a short period of time (such as when she learned the Dewey Decimal System in two days). She also has general office, admin, and secretarial skills, and knows her way around an organisation. While the Doctor's off looking for alien residue and other strange things, Donna will check the paper trail and look for more mundane signs that something is odd. She can also type at 100 words per minute, and is in her own words, 'the best temp in Chiswick'.
As the result of a rather bizarre situation involving her touching the Doctor's severed hand when it was imbued with regeneration energy that caused a human-Time Lord Metacrisis, Donna became the 'DoctorDonna', a human with a Time Lord mind. This gave her all of the intelligence and knowledge of the Doctor (Which is a lot of intelligence and knowledge, considering that the Doctor is over 900 years old and 'genius' is a word that doesn't really do him justice). However, humans aren't built to have Time Lord minds, and this knowledge and intelligence was causing Donna to burn up. In order to save her life, the Doctor wiped Donna's memory - all of her memories of the Doctor, the TARDIS, and her adventures with him.
Now, if Donna is to remember the Doctor or her time traveling with him, her mind would burn up and kill her. Not much is known about what would happen, but events in The End of Time suggest that the memories would cause her extreme headaches before killing her. Possibly as a counter against this (as well as against anyone who would attack Donna), the Doctor gave Donna a defense mechanism - when in mortal peril or in danger of remembering the Doctor, Donna will let out a wave of energy that attacks anyone nearby, knocking them out. Donna herself also collapses, presumably from the strain of this. Donna has no conscious control over this.
In addition to her defence mechanism, Donna's Time Lord mind is still able to subconsciously influence her actions on occasion. She might unconciously tap into her Time Lord knowledge or intelligence, and then unknowingly try to signal what she's found to someone else (such as when she bought a book about Naismith for her grandfather, as a clue).
As the result of a rather bizarre situation involving her touching the Doctor's severed hand when it was imbued with regeneration energy that caused a human-Time Lord Metacrisis, Donna became the 'DoctorDonna', a human with a Time Lord mind. This gave her all of the intelligence and knowledge of the Doctor (Which is a lot of intelligence and knowledge, considering that the Doctor is over 900 years old and 'genius' is a word that doesn't really do him justice). However, humans aren't built to have Time Lord minds, and this knowledge and intelligence was causing Donna to burn up. In order to save her life, the Doctor wiped Donna's memory - all of her memories of the Doctor, the TARDIS, and her adventures with him.
Now, if Donna is to remember the Doctor or her time traveling with him, her mind would burn up and kill her. Not much is known about what would happen, but events in The End of Time suggest that the memories would cause her extreme headaches before killing her. Possibly as a counter against this (as well as against anyone who would attack Donna), the Doctor gave Donna a defense mechanism - when in mortal peril or in danger of remembering the Doctor, Donna will let out a wave of energy that attacks anyone nearby, knocking them out. Donna herself also collapses, presumably from the strain of this. Donna has no conscious control over this.
In addition to her defence mechanism, Donna's Time Lord mind is still able to subconsciously influence her actions on occasion. She might unconciously tap into her Time Lord knowledge or intelligence, and then unknowingly try to signal what she's found to someone else (such as when she bought a book about Naismith for her grandfather, as a clue).