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{{Infobox Individual
|image        = The Star Beast Rose Noble Just Different.jpg
|species      = Human
|species2     = Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis
|origin       = [[Earth]]
|mother       = Donna Noble
|father       = Shaun Temple
|grandparent  = Wilfred Mott
|grandparent2 = Eileen Mott
|grandparent3 = Geoff Noble
|grandparent4 = Sylvia Noble
|first        = We Are Family (short story)
|appearances  = {{Il|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}}|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (novelisation)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}}}
|actor        = Yasmin Finney
|clip         = Donna Meets the Meep! - PREVIEW - The Star Beast - Doctor Who-2
|job          = Student
}}
{{dab page|Rose (disambiguation)}}
'''Rose Noble''' was the [[daughter]] of [[Donna Noble]] and [[Shaun Temple]]. She was [[transgender]], specifically [[non-binary person|non-binary]] and female-presenting, and often felt like an outsider, leading her to easily sympathise with [[the Meep]], an alien fleeing from another world. 

In fact, however, her lifelong feeling that she was "from a different planet" was actually explained in part by the [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis]] which she had inherited from her mother's suppressed [[the DoctorDonna|DoctorDonna]] persona. Though it shaped her personality as she grew up, notably influencing her choice of name, she was ultimately glad to let this "power" go when she had to give it up to save her own life, grateful to get to be her true, unadulterated self at last.

== Biography ==
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Following [[Donna Noble]] and [[Shaun Temple]]'s [[Donna Noble and Shaun Temple's wedding|wedding]] in [[Spring]] [[2010]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)|part=Two}}) Rose was assigned male at birth and given the name of Jason, as well as her mother's surname, as Donna didn't like that "Noble-Temple" sounded like an "old ruin". Eventually, she came out as transgender and non-binary, choosing the name of "Rose" for herself. There were school bullies who would harass her by continuing to use her deadname, which tended to annoy Donna, who was highly supportive of her daughter. Rose's transitioning involved years of [[therapist]]s, [[surgery|doctor]]s, [[voice lessons]], [[hormone treatment]]s and, for her loved ones, learning [[pronoun]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (novelisation)}})

Rose inherited part of the "[[the DoctorDonna|DoctorDonna]]" [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis]] from her mother, including some of Donna's memories of her adventures with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. This subconsciously influenced her [[Rose Tyler|choice in name]], her building the shed as a replica of the TARDIS and toys that she created based on creatures that her mother had encountered, including [[Bronze Dalek|Daleks]], [[Weapons-grade Cyberman|Cybermen]], [[Judoon]], [[Lupari]], [[Ood]], and [[Adipose]]. She sold these through an online business, with [[Woman (The Star Beast)|one customer]] as far away as [[Abu Dhabi]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}})

=== Meeting the Doctor ===
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[[File:Rose Noble and Donna Noble.jpg|thumb|Rose Noble and her mother, [[Donna Noble|Donna]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}})]]
In [[2023]], Rose's life changed ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|We Are Family (short story)|page=35}}) when she and her mother met the Doctor in his [[fourteenth incarnation]], just before a spaceship came crashing through the sky. Shortly after returning home, Rose stumbled across [[Beep the Meep|the Meep]], who asked for her to save it from [[Wrarth Warrior|monsters]]. Rose attempted to hide the Meep at home, but it was found by Donna. Shortly afterwards, the Doctor helped Rose and her family escape with the Meep. However, it transpired that the Meep was in reality a galactic war criminal, and it took them prisoner, declaring its intention to destroy London in order to help its ship take-off. When the Doctor was forced to restore Donna's memories in order to defeat the Meep, the meta-crisis that Rose inherited also awakened, giving her the knowledge to free the brainwashed [[UNIT]] soldiers from the Meep's control. After the crisis was averted, Rose and her mother were able to safely expel the meta-crisis from their bodies by "letting it go".  ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}})

=== Living with the Doctor ===
Following the Doctor's [[bi-generation]], a retired Fourteenth Doctor returned to the [[Noble family|Noble]] household to live out an ordinary life with them. Without telling Donna, he secretly took Rose on a trip in the TARDIS, to [[Mars]]. Rose happily regarded the Doctor as her [[uncle]] during a family [[dinner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'') According to one account, Rose was around sixteen years old at this point. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Giggle (novelisation)|The Giggle]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
On [[16 May (production)|16 May]] [[2022 (production)|2022]], [[Yasmin Finney]] teased her involvement in the [[2023 specials]] with an [[Instagram]] post containing a [[rose]] and a blue diamond.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CdoGPj6IILH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= @yazdemand on instagram.com]</ref> It was officially announced on [[doctorwho.tv]] by the [[BBC]] shortly after that Finney would be playing a character by the name of Rose.<ref name="Finney">[https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/yasmin-finney-joins-doctor-who-cast ''Yasmin Finney joins Doctor Who cast'' on doctorwho.tv]</ref> Finney — a transgender actor herself — confirmed that her character would also be trans,<ref>[https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/yasmin-finney-confirms-her-doctor-who-character-rose-is-trans ''Yasmin Finney confirms her Doctor Who character Rose is trans'' on cultbox.co.uk]</ref> saying that Rose was a 15-year-old transgender girl with "a great supportive family".<ref>[https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-60th-anniversary-new-information-about-rose ''Doctor Who 60th Anniversary: new information about Rose'' on cultbox.co.uk]</ref> On [[30 August (releases)|30 August]], the ''Doctor Who'' social medias revealed in a post on Finney's birthday the full name of her character, Rose Noble, confirming that the character is the daughter of [[Donna Noble]] and [[Shaun Temple]].<ref>[https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-character-gets-a-noble-surname ''Doctor Who character gets a Noble surname'' on cultbox.co.uk]</ref>

=== Age ===
In interviews, Rose was stated to be fifteen years old during the events of the [[2023]]-set ''[[The Star Beast (TV story)|The Star Beast]]'', a revelation that creates contradictions for the show's timeline, not the least because ''The Star Beast'' is also stated in dialogue to be fifteen years after ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', before her parents could have actually met.{{note|Other sources, including the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] novel ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' also place ''Journey's End'' in approximately late [[June]] [[2009]], six weeks after much of the story's supposed mid-[[May]] 2009 setting.}}

[[Russell T Davies]] has directly acknowledged this discrepancy, explaining that he chose to "fudge the years" with Donna to accommodate for the casting of the then-eighteen-year-old Finney in the role, before going on to jokingly give an in-universe explanation;
{{quote|But you mustn’t forget, uh, that time cloud that descended on Camden in 2017 and dislocated everyone by exactly eight months and three days. We’ll tell that story one day. I will come to that in Series Seven.|''Tête-à-Tate'', [[DWM 597]]}}

Neither ''The Star Beast'' nor ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]''{{'}}s broadcast versions give Rose a specific age, although she is unambiguously school-aged. However, [[The Giggle (novelisation)|the novelisation of ''The Giggle'']] states her age to be 16.

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