[Personality]
Dec. 31st, 2010 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prattlingvoiceDonna's personality is hard to miss - for one thing, you can usually hear it from some distance away. She's abrasive with a sharp tongue, and quite often her typical reaction to something that annoys, vexes, or angers her is to shout at it. In fact, Donna shutting up is a rare and unusual event that is not often witnessed.
But while her brash personality and quick temper can make her appear to be simple and unintelligent (along with the fact that she's also known to gossip about trivial and unimportant things), Donna is in fact highly intelligent, with a level head and perceptive observational skills. Even as she's ranting away, Donna pays attention to what's going on around her. Her quick wit can also lead to plenty of playful banter, and when she's not angry at someone Donna can be friendly and sociable.
She's also highly compassionate, and has been known to act as the Doctor's conscience - forcefully, at times. If she believes that someone is doing something that is morally wrong, she will push at the issue, and keep pushing. This doesn't mean that she won't change her viewpoint - if a situation changes, or new information comes to light, she is capable of realising that what she originally thought was the right option isn't actually so right. She also won't stand back from taking responsibility from difficult moral choices by leaving it all to someone else - she could have just let the Doctor decide on his own to destroy Pompeii to save the world, but she instead choose to share in that choice and make it with him. She's also able to emphasise very quickly with other people, even ones who are of a different species and completely alien to her, like the Ood.
Donna also suffers from low self esteem issues, although she covers them up well. She often describes herself as 'just a temp', and believes herself to be unimportant and not special. In fact, the Doctor once says that she reason that she shouts at the universe is because she thinks that no one is listening. But, while she no longer remembers it, her time with the Doctor did start to help her realise that she is in fact special, and not unimportant at all.
But while her brash personality and quick temper can make her appear to be simple and unintelligent (along with the fact that she's also known to gossip about trivial and unimportant things), Donna is in fact highly intelligent, with a level head and perceptive observational skills. Even as she's ranting away, Donna pays attention to what's going on around her. Her quick wit can also lead to plenty of playful banter, and when she's not angry at someone Donna can be friendly and sociable.
She's also highly compassionate, and has been known to act as the Doctor's conscience - forcefully, at times. If she believes that someone is doing something that is morally wrong, she will push at the issue, and keep pushing. This doesn't mean that she won't change her viewpoint - if a situation changes, or new information comes to light, she is capable of realising that what she originally thought was the right option isn't actually so right. She also won't stand back from taking responsibility from difficult moral choices by leaving it all to someone else - she could have just let the Doctor decide on his own to destroy Pompeii to save the world, but she instead choose to share in that choice and make it with him. She's also able to emphasise very quickly with other people, even ones who are of a different species and completely alien to her, like the Ood.
Donna also suffers from low self esteem issues, although she covers them up well. She often describes herself as 'just a temp', and believes herself to be unimportant and not special. In fact, the Doctor once says that she reason that she shouts at the universe is because she thinks that no one is listening. But, while she no longer remembers it, her time with the Doctor did start to help her realise that she is in fact special, and not unimportant at all.
