Ninth Corsair

Ninth Corsair
Species:	Time Lord
Place of origin:	Gallifrey
First mentioned in:	The Doctor's Wife
Appearance:	One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes

Incarnations of the Corsair

The final incarnation of the Corsair was often described as a being "strapping big fellow".

Biography

The final incarnation of the Corsair visited the Supreme Leader to collect the feather left behind by his Parrot companion. He also collected a reward for supplying information on the mysterious woman and bird whom had escaped the Supreme Leader. He disappeared, and was never heard from again. (PROSE: One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)

The Eleventh Doctor sees Auntie has the Corsair's arm. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

Auntie, a composite humanoid servant of House, described the Corsair as "a strapping big bloke". She was a good authority on the matter; after all, she had the Corsair's left arm stitched onto her torso in place of her own, while the other composite humanoid slave, "Uncle", received "the spine and the kidneys". The Corsair went the way of House's numerous other Time Lord victims who had fallen into House's bubble universe and was marooned when his TARDIS was drained of energy. The Corsair had only just enough time to get a message together before he was finally killed.

The Eleventh Doctor discovered the Corsair's fate after being contacted by a hypercube with their peculiar Ouroboros symbol and following its psychically encoded distress message to House. He eventually discovered the Corsair's remains in Auntie and Uncle; this and the stockpile of hypercubes House used as bait cemented his fury in confronting and defeating House with Idris. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

Legacy

During one adventure, while pushing a heavy crate, the Eleventh Doctor said that if he kept up this habit, he would develop big arms like the Corsair. (GAME: The Eternity Clock)

Appearance

In one of their previous incarnations, the Corsair stated that she wanted one of her next incarnations to have "a body with muscles [...] with one of those faces people just trust". Indeed, when the Supreme Leader later encountered the final Corsair, he immediately trusted him upon seeing his face. The Corsair was also described as a "strapping big fellow" who also had a tattoo of "a snake-swallowing-its-tail" on his inner left wrist. (PROSE: One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes) Auntie also thought that the Corsair was a "strapping big bloke", and had the Corsair's left arm with the Ouroboros tattoo grafted onto her body comprised of limbs and organs taken from many individuals. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

Behind the scenes

According to The Brilliant Book 2012 the Corsair died in their ninth incarnation. He was trapped by House during the Fourth Universal Survey Expedition, and was a "strapping big bloke" with his Oroborus tattoo on his inner left wrist.