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:''For other individuals named Nancy, see [[Nancy (disambiguation)]].''
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|individual name = Nancy
|image      = Nancy (TDD).jpg
|race            = [[Human]]
|species    = Human
|home planet    = [[Earth]]
|origin      = [[London]]
|home era        = [[1940s]]
|child      = Jamie (The Empty Child)
|appearances     = [[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' /''[[The Doctor Dances]]''
|first      = The Empty Child (TV story)
|actor           = [[Florence Hoath]]
|appearances = [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]''
|actor       = Florence Hoath
|clip        = The Doctor's Victory Speech (HD) The Doctor Dances Doctor Who
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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.
== Biography ==
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]]'')
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]].
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]]'')
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'''Nancy''' was a teenage girl around the age of 19 or 21 , who took it upon herself to look after various children who had been evacuated during the [[London Blitz]] but had returned as strays, such as Alf and Jim. She told [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] this was because her younger brother [[Jamie (The Empty Child)|Jamie]] had died during an air raid. She also explained about the strange 'empty' child walking the streets, wearing a gas mask and asking everyone "Are you my mummy?" She suggested the Doctor should talk to a doctor at [[Albion Hospital]], the nearest hospital to [[Limehouse Green Station]] where an unexploded bomb had fallen shortly before the child began walking the streets. Nancy later went to the site of the bombing and revealed to the Doctor that the child was Jamie - not her brother but her son. The [[Chula]] [[nanogenes]] that had brought the dead Jamie back to life then conjoined Nancy and her son's [[DNA]], returning Jamie to normal. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' / ''[[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)

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