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| |image = [[Image:Family of Blood.jpg|250px]]<br /><small>The natural form of one of the Family (foreground), two [[Human]]s possessed by the Family (background).</small>
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| |Species name = The Family of Blood
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| |aka = The Family
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| |type = Incorporeal [[hive mind|group mind]]
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| |affiliation = Themselves, [[Human]] hosts, [[Jack Straw]]s
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| |origin = Unknown
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| |appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]''
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| The '''Family of Blood''' was an incorporeal, green [[hive mind|group mind]]. Because of their lack of form, they required a physical body to inhabit. They only had short lifespans, and perhaps because of this at the time of their destruction there were only four members - a mother (who was apparently the leader), a father, a son and a daughter. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'') | | *[[The Family of Blood|The Family of Blood (Episode)]] |
| | *[[Family of Blood (Species)|The Family of Blood]] -the creatures |
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| ==Technology==
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| The Family had a spaceship, with various features and switches as green as the beings themselves.
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| The Family also had [[Jack Straw|scarecrow-like soldiers]] created by the son and placed into various fields. They were composed of straw, their molecules animated via a scientific process. Even after being shot down, they could still reanimate by the command of the Family. They could have some relation to the [[Slab]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| ==History==
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| At some point in their their history they encountered [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] and chased them throughout [[time]] and [[space]] with a stolen [[Time Agency|Time Agent]] [[vortex manipulator]] for the [[Time Lord]]'s near-immortality, as they only had short lifespans. The Doctor was forced to turn himself [[Human]] using the [[Chameleon Arch]] to escape them, and was disguised as [[John Smith|a teacher]] at a boy's school in [[England]] in [[1913]]. The Family, landing nearby, activated animated scarecrows to round up humans to use as bodies. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'')
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| The Family's quests for immortality ended when the Doctor was returned to his [[Time Lord]] state with the help of Martha, school nurse [[Joan Redfern]] and the telepathic [[Timothy Latimer]]. He fooled the Family with an [[olfactory misdirection]] and destroyed their spaceship by moving several switches in an act devised to look like an accident, destroyed the ship. The Doctor then punished the family by:
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| * Trapping the father in an unbreakable chain forged in a [[White dwarf star|white dwarf star]].
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| * Sending the mother into the [[Event horizon|event horizon]] of a collapsing [[galaxy]].
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| * Trapping the daughter within every mirror (the Doctor would still visit her once a year for some reason.)
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| * Trapping the son in the body of a scarecrow to watch over the fields as their protector for all eternity.
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| In a way, their quest for immortality was won, although not in the way they would have liked.
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| It was also learnt why the Doctor decided to flee rather then fight the Family of Blood - it was an act of mercy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| [[Category:Incorporeal species]]
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