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|alias      = Aspect Black
|race= Construct
|species = Time Sentinel
|home planet= [[Gallifrey]]
|species2 = Cast
|home era= [[Dark Times]]
|origin      = [[The Matrix]]
|appearances=<ul><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[The Tides of Time]]''</li><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Horror]]''</li><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[The Final Chapter]]''</li><li>[[BFA]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]''</li></ul>
|affiliation = Matrix Lord{{!}}Matrix Lords
|actor=[[Mark Donovan]]
|first      = The Tides of Time (comic story)
|appearances = {{appears}}
|voice actor = Mark Donovan
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'''Shayde''', a sinister-seeming but ultimately noble constructed being, aided [[the Doctor]] in a number of his adventures.
'''Shayde''' was an instrument of the [[Matrix Lord]]s that was placed on [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] without [[the Doctor]]'s knowledge to represent [[Gallifreyan]] interests. In time, the Doctor's [[fifth Doctor|fifth]] and [[Eighth Doctor|eighth]] incarnations found a way to work with Shayde.


==Biography==
As a construct rather than a fully organic being, Shayde was able to both emulate and merge with other beings. During his adventures with the Doctor, Shayde joined with [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] to become "[[Feyde]]".
Shayde had his origins in [[the Matrix]], where the minds of the physically dead [[Time Lord]]s who resided there created him. He was a servant of [[Rassilon]]. [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] first met Shayde as he appeared in order to help him defeat [[Melanicus]], at first covertly but then, as the Time Lords increased his power levels and he was able to manifest himself, directly. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Tides of Time]]'') An earlier, female construct, [[the Pariah]] preceded Shayde. The Pariah was another construct of Rassilon, but he had tried to destroy her when she developed free will and rebelled against her, so that she left [[Gallifrey]] for the wider [[universe]]. Landing on [[1945]] [[Arkansas]], the Pariah merged with a [[Human]] and crated the first of [[the Threshold]] ([[DWM]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic strip)|Wormwood]]'')


He aided the Fifth Doctor against another force, a mutated [[Gallifrey]]an creature called a [[rovie]] that had infiltrated [[the TARDIS]] and was trying to kill the Doctor and his companions [[Peri]] and [[Erimem]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'')
== Biography ==
=== Origins ===
By most accounts, Shayde was a [[mental construct]] made of [[shadow]], created by the minds of the [[Matrix Lord]]s and connected to the willpower of the [[Matrix Rassilon]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Tides of Time (comic story)}}) Shayde was created as the successor to [[the Pariah]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'') ''[[The Book of the War]]'' described [[cast]]s as operating in a similar manner, with advanced casts known as [[babel]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') sometimes having black humanoid forms with globes for heads. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Newtons Sleep (novel)}})


Shayde encountered the Doctor again when he was in his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] and was dying due to the events of a recent adventure. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (comic strip)|Tooth and Claw]]'') His [[companion]]s at the time, [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] and [[Fey Truscott-Sade|Fey]], had taken him back to Gallifrey, where he was cured and his mind placed within the Matrix to recover. While in the Matrix, an attempt was made on the Doctor's life by a secret Time Lord sect known as the [[Elysian]]s, which Shayde prevented. The assassination attempt was part of a plot by Overseer [[Luther]], an insane Time Lord who wanted to rewrite Gallifrey's history and set himself up as a god. The Doctor thwarted Luther by short-circuiting his watchtower (a gigantic [[TARDIS]]), but apparently at the cost of his life. As Izzy and Fey watched, the Doctor [[regenerate]]d into a new incarnation. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Final Chapter]]'')
By another account, Shayde was originally known as "Aspect Black" of the [[Time Sentinel]]s, being a lone agent who eventually rebelled against the Sentinels. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Companion (comic story)|The Good Companion]]'')


This was a ruse. The Doctor had realised that Fey was under external control when she had managed to pilot the TARDIS even though the [[TARDIS manual]] was in [[Gallifreyan script]], which she did not understand. Just before the Doctor prepared to sacrifice himself, Shayde offered to take his place and fake a regeneration. This way, the group that was controlling Fey - the Threshold, now a mercenary organisation that the Doctor had tangled with before - would seize the opportunity to bring a newly regenerated and thus weaker Doctor to them. Both disguised with personal [[chameleon circuit]]s, Shayde would hold their attention while the Doctor sabotaged the Threshold's operations.
Shayde may have been connected to the [[Time Shade]]s of [[Time Lord mythology]], with the [[Shade of Portent]] having an identical appearance to Shayde's baseline form. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Damned If You Do (audio story)}})


The TARDIS landed in, [[Wormwood]], a Threshold stronghold which resembled a [[Wikipedia:Wild West|Wild West]] town on [[the Moon]]. When Shayde and the Doctor revealed themselves to the Threshold, Shayde had to contend with the Pariah, who wanted to take revenge, not just on Gallifrey but the whole universe. Shayde was unable to defeat the Pariah on his own and so crushed the globe forming his head. Fey merged with the dying Shayde and together killed the Pariah and defeated the Threshold. The shared being, dubbed "Feyde" by the Doctor, although both of them retained their own consciousness, decided to leave and deal with what had just happened to them. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Wormwood]]'')
=== As an agent of Rassilon ===
[[File:DWM_64_Five_and_Shayde.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Fifth Doctor]] with Shayde. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time]]'')]]
Shayde first met [[the Doctor]] when he helped the [[Fifth Doctor]] defeat [[Melanicus]]. At first he only acted covertly, but he physically manifested himself after the Time Lords increased his power levels. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time]]'')


Fey returned to her own time period, the [[1940s]], where as an agent of the [[British government]], she spent two years fighting the [[Nazi]]s. Shayde would not allow her to use their powers to kill [[Adolf Hitler]], as this would change history. In [[1941]], she received a sub-ether summons from the Doctor - Izzy had been kidnapped, and the Doctor needed Shayde's abilities to track her whereabouts. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Me and My Shadow]]'') Together, they succeeded in recovering Izzy. "Feyde" returned to [[World War II]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Oblivion (comics story)|Oblivion]]'')
He aided the the [[Fifth Doctor]] against another force, a mutated [[Gallifrey]]an creature called a [[rovie]] that had infiltrated [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and was trying to kill the Doctor and his [[companion]]s [[Peri Brown|Peri]] and [[Erimem]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'')


==Powers==
[[File:BriggsDoctor.jpg|thumb|right|Shayde, posing as a [[Fred|future incarnation]] of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'')]]
Among Shayde's powers were the abilities to travel through space and time and, via a sleek pistol that he carried, fire deadly self-generated [[psychic bullet]]s. He could also make himself invisible to security systems, phase through solid objects, and, given enough data, accurately track people through time and space.
Shayde then saved the [[Eighth Doctor]] from an [[assassination]] attempt in [[the Matrix]] by the [[Elysian]]s. This was part of a plot by Overseer [[Luther (The Final Chapter)|Luther]]. Before the Doctor sacrificed himself to defeat Luther, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Final Chapter (comic story)|The Final Chapter]]'') Shayde took his place and faked a [[regeneration]] as bait for the [[Threshold]], who would eagerly take the opportunity to attack a weaker, newly regenerated Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'')


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In the appearance of [[Fred|a new incarnation of the Doctor]], he took the Doctor's [[companion]]s [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] and [[Fey Truscott-Sade|Fey]] to the [[Threshold]] stronghold of [[Wormwood (town)|Wormwood]]. Shayde and the Doctor, who was disguised with a personal [[chameleon circuit]], eventually revealed themselves to the Threshold, and Shayde tried to defeat [[the Pariah]]. However, he failed, and she crushed the globe that formed his head. However, Fey merged with the dying Shayde.
 
=== As Feyde ===
United into one, [[Fey Truscott-Sade|Fey]] and Shayde successfully killed the Pariah and defeated the Threshold. Though they were a single being, which the Doctor dubbed "Feyde", they each retained their own [[consciousness]]es, and they decided to leave the Doctor to deal with what had just happened to them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'')
 
[[File:Me and My Shadow.jpg|thumb|left|Shayde and Fey argue. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Me and My Shadow (comic story)|Me and My Shadow]]'')]]They returned to Fey's original time period, the [[1940s]], where as an agent of the [[British government]] they spent two years fighting the [[Nazi]]s. Shayde refused to allow Fey to use their powers to kill [[Adolf Hitler]] and change [[history]], causing the two to develop a complex relationship. In [[1941]], they received a sub-ether summons from the Eighth Doctor, saying that [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] had been kidnapped and the Doctor needed Shayde's abilities to track her whereabouts. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Me and My Shadow (comic story)|Me and My Shadow]]'') Feyde succeeded in recovering Izzy, and they returned to [[World War II]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Oblivion (comic story)|Oblivion]]'')
 
[[File:War_Doctor_Fey.jpg|thumb|Fey and the young [[War Doctor]] during the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Clockwise War (comic story)|The Clockwise War]]'')]]
Feyde would later become an important ally of the young [[War Doctor]] during the [[Last Great Time War]]. Fey was seriously injured during a battle against the [[Morlontoa]], but they teleported to the college dormitory of her future nephew [[Alexander Truscott]]. As Fey healed, she subconsciously separated Shayde's mind from hers, hiding his essence in the form of all CCTV cameras in London. However, she believed she was working under Truscott, who manipulated her into turning against the Time Lords and then used Shayde's powers to create the [[Clockwise Man|Clockwise Men]]. Shayde finally reconstituted himself in the form of a giant black sphere around Fey as Truscott's plan started. This sphere allowed the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and his allies to travel to the Dreamspace where they were finally able to teach Fey the truth of her being the cause behind the battling.
 
With Fey's illusion broken, the black sphere shattered as well, and in the real world, Shayde reappeared in his normal form, dying. However, he transferred the last of his essence to Fey to keep her alive, while also wiping her memories of her time bonded with him. Relieved that he had finally put Fey's mind at rest, Shayde disintegrated, much to the Doctor's sadness. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Clockwise War (comic story)|The Clockwise War]]'')
 
== Other realities ==
In the early days of the [[Time Lord]]s, when they would use [[time travel]] to see the futures of their enemies, one [[prophet (Timewyrm: Revelation)|prophet]] journeyed too far into an uncertain future timeline and saw a [[final conflict (Timewyrm: Revelation)|final conflict]] at the time of the [[Blue Shift]] involving many forces of [[evil]]. Both Rassilon and "his shade" were involved in this conflict, with the prophet seeing one of them being devoured by the [[Timewyrm]]. However, this future did not come to pass. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}})
 
== Legacy ==
[[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]]'s ''[[A Journal of Impossible Things (Human Nature)|A Journal of Impossible Things]]'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''/''[[The Family of Blood (TV story)|The Family of Blood]]'') featured a drawing of Shayde. Within the text, he wrote "I see a woman with a goldfish bowl for a head". ([[PROSE]]: "''[[The Doctor: His Lives and Times|Extract from 'A Journal of Impossible Things']]''")
 
== Powers ==
Shayde had many powers, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time]]'', et. al.) including the abilities available to all [[cast]]s: ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') He could also track individuals through time and space. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Oblivion (comic story)|Oblivion]]'')
 
In his original form, he could also remove his spherical "head" and store things in his "body" via the resulting dimensionally-transcendental gap. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Time Sentinel.jpg|thumb|Two [[Time Sentinel]]s, villains during the [[Titan Publishing Group|Titan]] comic series ''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor]]''.]]
* Shayde's origin was given contradictory descriptions in the stories ''[[The Good Companion (comic story)|The Good Companion]]'' and ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'': in the former, he is a [[Time Sentinel]]; in the latter, he is a [[cast]].
* Shayde was to appear in a deleted scene in [[Paul Cornell]]'s novel {{cs|No Future (novel)}}, in which it would be described as an "[[interventionist]] [[assassin]]-construct".<ref>https://rassilon-imprimatur.tumblr.com/post/643610595129704448/amongst-this-album-of-various-doctor-who-fanzine</ref>
 
== Footnotes ==
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Latest revision as of 19:58, 1 December 2024

Shayde was an instrument of the Matrix Lords that was placed on the TARDIS without the Doctor's knowledge to represent Gallifreyan interests. In time, the Doctor's fifth and eighth incarnations found a way to work with Shayde.

As a construct rather than a fully organic being, Shayde was able to both emulate and merge with other beings. During his adventures with the Doctor, Shayde joined with Fey Truscott-Sade to become "Feyde".

Biography[[edit]]

Origins[[edit]]

By most accounts, Shayde was a mental construct made of shadow, created by the minds of the Matrix Lords and connected to the willpower of the Matrix Rassilon. (COMIC: The Tides of Time [+]Loading...["The Tides of Time (comic story)"]) Shayde was created as the successor to the Pariah. (COMIC: Wormwood) The Book of the War described casts as operating in a similar manner, with advanced casts known as babels (PROSE: The Book of the War) sometimes having black humanoid forms with globes for heads. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Loading...["Newtons Sleep (novel)"])

By another account, Shayde was originally known as "Aspect Black" of the Time Sentinels, being a lone agent who eventually rebelled against the Sentinels. (COMIC: The Good Companion)

Shayde may have been connected to the Time Shades of Time Lord mythology, with the Shade of Portent having an identical appearance to Shayde's baseline form. (AUDIO: Damned If You Do [+]Loading...["Damned If You Do (audio story)"])

As an agent of Rassilon[[edit]]

The Fifth Doctor with Shayde. (COMIC: The Tides of Time)

Shayde first met the Doctor when he helped the Fifth Doctor defeat Melanicus. At first he only acted covertly, but he physically manifested himself after the Time Lords increased his power levels. (COMIC: The Tides of Time)

He aided the the Fifth Doctor against another force, a mutated Gallifreyan creature called a rovie that had infiltrated the Doctor's TARDIS and was trying to kill the Doctor and his companions Peri and Erimem. (AUDIO: No Place Like Home)

Shayde, posing as a future incarnation of the Eighth Doctor. (COMIC: Wormwood)

Shayde then saved the Eighth Doctor from an assassination attempt in the Matrix by the Elysians. This was part of a plot by Overseer Luther. Before the Doctor sacrificed himself to defeat Luther, (COMIC: The Final Chapter) Shayde took his place and faked a regeneration as bait for the Threshold, who would eagerly take the opportunity to attack a weaker, newly regenerated Doctor. (COMIC: Wormwood)

In the appearance of a new incarnation of the Doctor, he took the Doctor's companions Izzy and Fey to the Threshold stronghold of Wormwood. Shayde and the Doctor, who was disguised with a personal chameleon circuit, eventually revealed themselves to the Threshold, and Shayde tried to defeat the Pariah. However, he failed, and she crushed the globe that formed his head. However, Fey merged with the dying Shayde.

As Feyde[[edit]]

United into one, Fey and Shayde successfully killed the Pariah and defeated the Threshold. Though they were a single being, which the Doctor dubbed "Feyde", they each retained their own consciousnesses, and they decided to leave the Doctor to deal with what had just happened to them. (COMIC: Wormwood)

Shayde and Fey argue. (COMIC: Me and My Shadow)

They returned to Fey's original time period, the 1940s, where as an agent of the British government they spent two years fighting the Nazis. Shayde refused to allow Fey to use their powers to kill Adolf Hitler and change history, causing the two to develop a complex relationship. In 1941, they received a sub-ether summons from the Eighth Doctor, saying that Izzy had been kidnapped and the Doctor needed Shayde's abilities to track her whereabouts. (COMIC: Me and My Shadow) Feyde succeeded in recovering Izzy, and they returned to World War II. (COMIC: Oblivion)

Fey and the young War Doctor during the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: The Clockwise War)

Feyde would later become an important ally of the young War Doctor during the Last Great Time War. Fey was seriously injured during a battle against the Morlontoa, but they teleported to the college dormitory of her future nephew Alexander Truscott. As Fey healed, she subconsciously separated Shayde's mind from hers, hiding his essence in the form of all CCTV cameras in London. However, she believed she was working under Truscott, who manipulated her into turning against the Time Lords and then used Shayde's powers to create the Clockwise Men. Shayde finally reconstituted himself in the form of a giant black sphere around Fey as Truscott's plan started. This sphere allowed the Twelfth Doctor and his allies to travel to the Dreamspace where they were finally able to teach Fey the truth of her being the cause behind the battling.

With Fey's illusion broken, the black sphere shattered as well, and in the real world, Shayde reappeared in his normal form, dying. However, he transferred the last of his essence to Fey to keep her alive, while also wiping her memories of her time bonded with him. Relieved that he had finally put Fey's mind at rest, Shayde disintegrated, much to the Doctor's sadness. (COMIC: The Clockwise War)

Other realities[[edit]]

In the early days of the Time Lords, when they would use time travel to see the futures of their enemies, one prophet journeyed too far into an uncertain future timeline and saw a final conflict at the time of the Blue Shift involving many forces of evil. Both Rassilon and "his shade" were involved in this conflict, with the prophet seeing one of them being devoured by the Timewyrm. However, this future did not come to pass. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"])

Legacy[[edit]]

John Smith's A Journal of Impossible Things (TV: Human Nature/The Family of Blood) featured a drawing of Shayde. Within the text, he wrote "I see a woman with a goldfish bowl for a head". (PROSE: "Extract from 'A Journal of Impossible Things'")

Powers[[edit]]

Shayde had many powers, (COMIC: The Tides of Time, et. al.) including the abilities available to all casts: (PROSE: The Book of the War) He could also track individuals through time and space. (COMIC: Oblivion)

In his original form, he could also remove his spherical "head" and store things in his "body" via the resulting dimensionally-transcendental gap. (AUDIO: No Place Like Home)

Behind the scenes[[edit]]

Two Time Sentinels, villains during the Titan comic series Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor.

Footnotes[[edit]]

  1. ↑ https://rassilon-imprimatur.tumblr.com/post/643610595129704448/amongst-this-album-of-various-doctor-who-fanzine

External links[[edit]]

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