Gock

> *"I get to travel? With you? Yey! Fun!"*
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> —Gockalatiryzan to The Machinist
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**Gockalatiryzan**, commonly known as **Gock** is a small rock creature from the planet Tradus-5F9Z. Gock was an ally of Rebirth, helping them on many missions while also travelling with The Machinist before leaving them both to work for Torchwood under Captain Jack Harkness.

Although Gock seems small and childish at times, he is in fact the 66th generation of his kind, currently being 81 years of age. The average life cycle of a Tradusness is usually cut short due to needing to rebuild their planet using themselves.

## Biography

### Early life

#### Childhood

Gockalatiryzan - also known as Gock - was created on the planet of Tradus-5F9Z on September 12th 629153. Gock wasn't born in a traditional sense due to the nature of his planet and their traditions. The Tradusness worship a God like creature which goes by many names such as "The Lord", "The God", and many more - however the being is commonly known as "The Narrator".

The Narrator is a creature who eats away at the entirely Rock planet of Tradus-5F9Z to feed himself every month, however leaving rouble who become the Tradusness. When the planet begins to crumble and becomes on the verge of being nothing, the Traduss merge with the planet to build it up, and are reborn as new beings when the planet is eaten away at next by The Narrator. This cycle is repeated over and over again and has been repeated for over 600,000 years.

The Tradussness all lived in a massive village that spread across the planet in a large ring. They lived in houses of stone where they would help each other live well. Gock lived in a fairly small one of these, as did most of the race due to the fact that the species were small and there were many of them.

#### Growing up

Gock was in the 6652nd generation of Tradusness when he was born, being one of the older beings on the planet, however his is still very childish like most of his race.

Him, along with the rest of his generation would care after the smaller Tradusness, educating them or how important The Narrator is to their species and how the being keeps their species in a constant cycle of life.

#### Worship

Gock was a major worshipper of The Narrator, constantly thanking him for the gift of life, as without the being none of the Tradusness would exist at all. He even became the Planet's primary educator for the species, being the one to gain access to The Narrators wisdom via a psychic link he gained with The Narrator.

Gock would ask many questions to the being, but never get anything back other than specific messages to give to his people. One message that was given to Gock constantly was *"You will travel with beings of heroism and courage" -* A message Gock never truly understood until one specific visitor came to their planet

### The Visitor

Tradusness were a very peaceful species, never harming other creatures if they can help it. However Tradus 5F9Z rarely got visitors, but when the planet did, they were treated with the upmost respect - being fed and given a place to stay.

One random day of the year, They got a visitor. The visitor appeared in a small red looking vessel. The man walked out, wearing a grey suit with an oddly bright shirt beneath. The man ventured around the planet's surface before coming across the large number of houses the species lived in. Entering Gock's house, Gock quickly got to work settling the traveller.

Gock questioned the Traveller on where he came from and how he got to the planet, merely out of curiosity, but the traveller said nothing. He insisted on the fact he was just *"passing through".*

On that day, The Narrator was to feast on a section of the planet, and so it did. BOOM. The Planet rumbled as the Traveller ran outside and looked to see a large gaping hole within the planet. The Traveller then turned around, asking why the people were so calm. Gock then explained The Narrator to the man.

This strange man then grabbed Gock and took him into his vessel - it blew Gock's small little mind - It was bigger on the inside! But what he heard next frightened him, he heard that they were going to speak to The Narrator, face to face.

#### Visiting a God

The Traveller and Gock travelled to The Narrator, Gock being scarred out of his mind to finally see up close the being he had worshipped for so long. The Traveller then opened the door of his vessel, a vessel with the man refereed to as a TARDIS. The two were face to face with the large cloud like being. It spoke in a booming voice.

The Narrator spoke of prophecy's, somehow knowing this event would take place. He told The Traveller that he knew he was a Time Lord, revealing his name to be "The Machinist". He told him that if this event took place, Gock would have to stay with the Time Lord and travel with him throughout the Universe.

After a lot of explaining, The Machinist understood the life cycle of the strange little world they were above, and The Machinist welcomed Gock into his TARDIS as a new companion of sorts.

### Travel

Gock travelled with The Machinist, joining him on missions he did with a group known as Rebirth. This group was full of other beings that were fascinating to Gock, due to the fact he rarely saw beings from other planets.

Gock helped the group a lot when he could, trusting in them completely as his race would commonly do to many other beings. He eventually stayed with the group, becoming a major ally to the group.

### Under New Management

After a few years of travelling and soon after The Machinist's first regeneration, the two travellers visited Torchwood to help them after finding some a destroyed Dalek Saucer was discovered by the group in the River Thames through London.

Gock and The Machinist, along side Captain Jack Harkness eventually found a living Dalek in the wreckage. After stopping the Dalek from destroying everything it could and finishing the mission, Gock decided to join Torchwood, leaving Rebirth behind along with The Machinist, saying that the Time Lord would "Come back to travel with him once again."

After this, Gock became a full fledged member of Torchwood, getting personal training from Captain Jack himself and since has been going through many missions with the group in order to enhance his intellect and his outlook on the universe as a whole.

## Personality

Although Gock is 81 years of age, he is quite child-like. He is in awe of most things he sees, merely due to the fact his Planet was very secluded and rarely saw much other life other than on a few select occasions. Gock also is quite easily manipulated, putting trust into nearly everyone he meets due to the fact his species are very passive and don't suspect anyone is a bed person, however when evil is pointed out to him, he can become quite aggressive towards them, normally needing someone to stop him before he goes to far with attacking them.

## Physical Appearance

Gock is a small rock creature, 3ft 1 in height and quite heavy, weighing in at 250 pounds. He has small little blue eyes which glow through a small gap in the rock work making up his face. Gock has small bits of "hair" on the top of his head, made up of grass and dirt that has sunk into his head. The rock Gock is made of is Indestructible to everyone except beings with God like strength.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Rock Extensions:** Gock has the ability to create more rocks as extensions to his body. This gives him the ability to create rock weapons such as clubs, swords, etc.

## Weaknesses

* **Trust issues:** Gock tends to have the same problem the rest of the Tradussness have, which is putting his trust in people to easily. If someone is even the slightest bit kind and warm to them, Gock will possibly trust them too much. The only way to avoid this is for someone Gock already trusts more to point out that they are untrustworthy.
* **Separable:** Although the rock Gock is made of is near indestructible, the rocks under enough force can indeed be separated. If the rocks he is built up of are locked away from each other, Gock will remain "dead" until reassembled. If the pieces are still within a specific radius to the "Brain Rock" then he will automatically reassemble.

## Equipment

* **Tracker:** Gock has a small tracker fixed into his body that allows The Machinist, Jack Harkness and other trusted people to locate him when he goes wandering off on certain adventures.

## Relationships

### Family

* Tradusness- All being from one same rock planet (Tradus-5F9Z), The entire race of the Tradusness are family

### Allies

* Rebirth
	+ The Machinist - Close friend

* Torchwood
	+ Captain Jack Harkness - Leader of Torchwood

### Frenemies

* UNIT - Occasional Ally
* S.H.I.E.L.D. - Occasional Ally
	+ Nick Fury - Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

## Trivia

* Gock is the first person to consistently travel with The Machinist after the death of Lana Thuarra
* Gock does not eat
* Gock can survive without air
* Gock's rocks are indestructible
* Gock can be separated into separate rocks given enough force is applied
* Gock's favourite place to go is Rome
* Gock's favourite word is "Antidisestablishmentarianism"
* Gock's favourite TV show is "Thomas the Tank Engine" but specifically only during the first few series where the real model trains are used. He says, quote: "Those CGI trains they use now are rubbish!"