The '''Seventh Corsair''' was a female incarnation of the [[Renegade Time Lord]] known as [[the Corsair]], who travelled with a [[Parrot (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)|parrot]] as her [[companion]]. On at least two occasions, she opposed the [[Dalek]]s, something the Corsair did rarely, although on neither occasion did she face them directly.
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'''The Corsair''' was a [[Renegade Time Lord|Renegade]] [[Time Lord]], described by the the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as "one of the good ones". Despite this, many Time Lords disapproved of him/her. S/he took on different genders throughout his/her many [[regeneration]]s. S/he was known for his/her manipulative smile. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
This incarnation of the Corsair was "spotted" on [[Clarkor Nine]] on the night a [[Dalek scout ship]] landed there. Sneaking aboard, she detached the nine Dalek occupants' [[manipulator arm]]s and [[gunstick]]s and then welded them together into "a shape that meant something very rude in [[Dalek (language)|Skarosian]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair (short story)|Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair]]'')
Amongst her/his missions for the Time Lords, s/he stole the [[Callisto Pulse]] from the [[Callistan Kleptocracy]].
As a favour for the [[First Doctor]], the Corsair travelled to the [[City Obsidian]] in the [[Imperial Edifice of Infinite Steps]] to steal the [[Hand of Omega]]. Although pursued by troop ships belonging to the [[Supreme Leader (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)|Supreme Leader]], she escaped with the Hand of Omega and managed to deliver it to the [[First Doctor]] prior to him [[The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey|leaving]] [[Gallifrey]] as instructed. However, her Parrot companion did leave a single blue feather behind, which was discovered by the Supreme Leader. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'') The Doctor subsequently buried the Hand of Omega on [[1963]] [[Earth]], setting in motion a centuries-long plan to destroy the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al)
:''Though it is not specified, this implies s/he was an agent of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]].''
== Appearance ==
This Corsair was a dark-skinned woman with [[scarlet]] hair. She wore a [[Viridian (colour)|viridian]] [[coat]], with [[Tan (colour)|tan]] [[leather]] and dark [[Cherry (colour)|cherry]] coloured clothes which were patched and bartered. She also wore a [[Tricorn|tricorn hat]] with hyacinth blue plumes that were donated by her Parrot companion after a moult. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'')
Although s/he denied ever having fought the [[Dalek]]s, she was spotted in her seventh incarnation on [[Clarkor Nine]] when the Dalek scout ship arrived. It is highly likely that she was involved in those Daleks having their suction-cups and manipulator arms removed in the night and fused into a shape resembling a [[Skaro]]sian profanity.
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S/he had visited [[Earth]] several times. He was worshipped as a [[god]] by the [[Assyrian]]s until he became bored and departed with the sacred temple [[cat]].
The Doctor and Corsair had multiple adventures together, getting drunk in the Corsair's fourth, fifth and eighth incarnations. Each time, the Doctor swore never to do it again. Twice, they woke up in jail and the other time they woke up in the [[Bank of England]] vaults.
S/he was formally censured by the Time Lords after s/he may have been linked to the theft of the [[Portrait of Rassilon]]. This was overturned by [[Lord President|Lady President]] [[Flavia]], perhaps due to the Corsair's smile.
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The Corsair's final adventure was when he was working on the Time Lords' [[Fourth Universal Survey]]. The Corsair was presumably killed by the entity known only as [[House]], a disembodied being which fed on [[artron energy]] it harvested from captured [[TARDIS]]es. He was in his ninth incarnation. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'') This incarnation of the Corsair was described by [[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]] as "a strapping big bloke." The Corsair's left arm had been stitched onto the composite humanoid being known as "Auntie" that served as House's slave. The other composite humanoid slave, "[[Uncle (The Doctor's Wife)|Uncle]]" received "the spine and the kidneys." The loss of these organs was presumably lethal and the Corsair went the way of House's numerous other Time Lord victims. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
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The Doctor discovered the Corsair's fate after being contacted by his [[hypercube]] and following its psychically encoded distress message to House. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
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== Personality ==
His/her signature emblem was a depiction of the mythological [[Ouroborus]], a snake devouring its tail. According to the Doctor, he had the emblem tattooed on his body after each [[regeneration]], even when he regenerated as a female. Without it, the Corsair didn't feel like him/herself. In his ninth and last regeneration, the tattoo appeared on the inside of his left forearm. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') At its largest size, the tattoo was multi-coloured and covered his/her back during her third incarnation. It was at its smallest during his/her fifth incarnation, at the size of a ten-pence piece, on his/her upper thigh. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
Despite his/her renegade status, the Time Lords used the Corsair for various tasks which they did not want to be connected to, much like the [[Second Doctor]]. It was thought that this was why s/he adopted the name 'Corsair', as it was a word used for legitimate pirates. {{Fact}}
The Corsair owned a [[TARDIS]] that usually took on the form of a sailing ship, even when it was not practical, because s/he thought it was cool. S/he never had [[companion]]s, although s/he kept pets such as cats and [[parrot]]s. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
On his blog, [[Neil Gaiman]] stated that before he began writing the first draft, he wanted to make sure the idea of the Corsair was okay with [[Steven Moffat]] before he became fixed in the story, so he sent him an email with a piece of dialogue between the Doctor and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] in which the Doctor talks about the Corsair. The Doctor explained that the Corsair did not have a name and used to travel, exploring the limits of [[time]] and [[space]]. The Doctor said that when he was twelve he asked the Corsair if he could travel with him and act as his "[[companion|assistant]]", but the Corsair just laughed. Steven Moffat replied that he wanted the Corsair to be less like the Doctor because the Doctor "does what he does for reasons too vast and terrible to relate".<ref>http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/06/fairly-humongous-doctor-who-q-mostly.html</ref>
Gaiman expanded on the history of the Corsair in the ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012|The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012]]'', in which he indicates that the Corsair had a total of nine regenerations, several of which were female.
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Latest revision as of 04:23, 10 October 2024
The Seventh Corsair was a female incarnation of the Renegade Time Lord known as the Corsair, who travelled with a parrot as her companion. On at least two occasions, she opposed the Daleks, something the Corsair did rarely, although on neither occasion did she face them directly.
