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'''Nancy''' was the single mother of the "[[Empty Child]]", [[Jamie (The Empty Child)|Jamie]]. She lived in [[London]] during the [[London Blitz]] and she helped the Doctor restore normality to war-time London.
'''Nancy''' was the single mother of the "[[Empty Child]]", [[Jamie (The Empty Child)|Jamie]]. She lived in [[London]] during the [[London Blitz]] and she helped the Doctor restore normality to war-time London.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
When Nancy was around sixteen years old, she became pregnant. Due to the stigma surrounding unwed teenage mothers in the [[1930s]], she told her son, Jamie, that she was his sister. In [[January]] [[1941]], Jamie was killed in an air raid near [[Limehouse Green station]], but [[Chula]] [[nanogene]]s partially revived him, however because they had never been in contact with a human before they thought the gas mask he was wearing was part of his body and they revived him as the [[Empty Child]]. The virus spread to other [[human]]s at [[Albion Hospital]] and began "correcting" and "fixing" them to look like what they thought a human looked like.
When Nancy was around sixteen years old, she became pregnant. Due to the stigma surrounding unwed teenage mothers in the [[1930s]], she told everyone that her son, Jamie, was her brother. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'') In [[January]] [[1941]], Jamie was killed in an air raid near [[Limehouse Green station]], but [[Chula]] [[nanogene]]s partially revived him, however because they had never been in contact with a human before they thought the gas mask he was wearing was part of his body and they revived him as the [[Empty Child]]. The virus spread to other [[human]]s at [[Albion Hospital]] and began "correcting" and "fixing" them to look like what they thought a human looked like.


Because of her son's death, Nancy took it upon herself to look after children who had been evacuated during the [[London Blitz]], but had returned as strays. She stole food from families as they hid in air-raid shelters. Nancy met the [[Ninth Doctor]] during one of these meals and warned him about Jamie. She suggested he ask [[Constantine (The Empty Child)|Dr Constantine]] at Albion Hospital for information. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'')
Because of her son's death, Nancy took it upon herself to look after children who had been evacuated during the [[London Blitz]], but had returned as strays. She stole food from families as they hid in air-raid shelters. Nancy met the [[Ninth Doctor]] during one of these meals and warned him about Jamie. She suggested he ask [[Constantine (The Empty Child)|Dr Constantine]] at Albion Hospital for information. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'')


When Nancy told the Child, who kept asking for his mummy that she was his mummy, the nanogenes reprogrammed themselves, restoring Jamie and the other infected humans to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'')
Nancy didn't believe that the [[Allies (World War II)|Allied Forces]] would win [[World War II|the war]], unable to imagine that there was any kind of future after seeing the carnage brought on by the blitz. When [[Rose Tyler]] told her that she was born in London, "in like, fifty years time," Nancy was hesitant to believe her because she wasn't [[Germany|German]].


== Personality ==
When Nancy told the Child, who kept asking for his mummy, that she was his mummy, the nanogenes reprogrammed themselves, restoring Jamie and the other infected humans to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'')
Nancy is brave, resourceful and clever, providing food and shelter for the group of orphan children, and the doctor calling her use of empty houses during air raids "genius". She is shown to be collected in precarious situations, shown when the doctor turns up to dinner and she coolly answers his questions and asks him to leave, also when Jamie finds them, ushering all the children out calmly despite her own fear. She is also witty, demostrated as she makes fun of the doctors nose and ears after he follows her. Her motherly side is demonstrated throughout, with her caring for the orphans, making sure they "eat their greens" and "chew their food" finally also seen when she is with Jamie and she is revealed to be his mother. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'')


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Latest revision as of 10:43, 27 January 2023

Nancy was the single mother of the "Empty Child", Jamie. She lived in London during the London Blitz and she helped the Doctor restore normality to war-time London.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Nancy was around sixteen years old, she became pregnant. Due to the stigma surrounding unwed teenage mothers in the 1930s, she told everyone that her son, Jamie, was her brother. (TV: The Doctor Dances) In January 1941, Jamie was killed in an air raid near Limehouse Green station, but Chula nanogenes partially revived him, however because they had never been in contact with a human before they thought the gas mask he was wearing was part of his body and they revived him as the Empty Child. The virus spread to other humans at Albion Hospital and began "correcting" and "fixing" them to look like what they thought a human looked like.

Because of her son's death, Nancy took it upon herself to look after children who had been evacuated during the London Blitz, but had returned as strays. She stole food from families as they hid in air-raid shelters. Nancy met the Ninth Doctor during one of these meals and warned him about Jamie. She suggested he ask Dr Constantine at Albion Hospital for information. (TV: The Empty Child)

Nancy didn't believe that the Allied Forces would win the war, unable to imagine that there was any kind of future after seeing the carnage brought on by the blitz. When Rose Tyler told her that she was born in London, "in like, fifty years time," Nancy was hesitant to believe her because she wasn't German.

When Nancy told the Child, who kept asking for his mummy, that she was his mummy, the nanogenes reprogrammed themselves, restoring Jamie and the other infected humans to normal. (TV: The Doctor Dances)