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{{Infobox_Individual|species = Time Lord|origin = [[Gallifrey]]|spouse = Omega|only = The Infinity Doctors|spouse2 = The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)}}"'''Patience'''" was a [[Time Lord-People Treaty|Time Lady]] and wife of [[Omega]], and [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]].
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|origin     = [[Gallifrey]]
|spouse     = Patience's husband
|spouse2    = Omega
|spouse3    = the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)
|first      = Cold Fusion (novel)
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]''
|voice actor = Christine Kavanagh
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"'''Patience'''" was the name given by [[Tegan Jovanka]] to the [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] wife of [[Omega]], [[the Other]], and [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors universe)|the Doctor]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
=== Early life ===
Patience was born in the [[House of Blyledge]] on [[Gallifrey]], one of the last Womb-born [[Gallifreyan]]s. She was apparently "immortal, barring accidents" and lived to be [[2000000 (number)|two million]] years old. She was a young woman when the [[Pythia]] cursed Gallifrey with sterility. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
In an alternate universe, she was widowed when [[Omega]] disappeared after causing [[Qqaba]] to go [[supernova]], she became [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]]'s nurse and tutor, as she had been his father's and grandfather's. The Doctor also had a picture of her on the wall of his rooms on Gallifrey. The caption read "Death is but a door." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
 
=== Life on Gallifrey ===
In an alternate universe, she was widowed when [[Omega]] disappeared after causing [[Qqaba]] to go [[supernova]], she became [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]]'s nurse and tutor, as she had been his father's and grandfather's. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
 
[[Patience's husband|Her husband]], one of the first to explore the [[Time Vortex]], married her upon his return to Gallifrey and they had thirteen children. When the [[Lord President]] at that time targeted her family because they were not Loom-borned, despite her eldest son complaints, she was taken to [[the Machine]] of her husband for safety. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')


=== Exile ===
=== Exile ===
The Machine crashed on an ice planet, where it was eventually found by [[human]] colonists in the [[26th century]].
Patience, meanwhile, had her first [[regeneration]] shortly after the [[Fifth Doctor]] discovered her. Provost-General [[Tertullian Medford]], believing Patience to be a threat, shot her in the head, and her body vanished. The [[Ferutu]] told the Doctor that "it's not the first time you've met her, nor will it be the last." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
In an alternate universe, [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|The Doctor]] had a picture of her on the wall of his rooms on Gallifrey. The caption read "Death is but a door." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
Moments before Patience's death, Omega, who had control of history, took her to the anti-matter universe. In this universe, Omega was able to give her the ability to regenerate. The Doctor was reunited with her there, but once in a "paradise", he began to doubt whether his memories with Patience were real. He began to consider that his memories, life, and love with Patience were fabricated by Omega to convince the Doctor to take his place within anti-matter. When the Doctor thought this, the anti-matter universe shifted into a broiling thunderstorm, and Patience's character suddenly and inexplicably shifted, implying the assumption was correct. With the Doctor faced with the choice of eternal happiness with her in a fictional world or returning to stop Omega, Patience spurred his decision to leave and help others. His departure from Omega's universe apparently caused the world to collapse, taking Patience with it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
Moments before Patience's death, Omega, who had control of history, took her to the anti-matter universe. In this universe, Omega was able to give her the ability to regenerate. The Doctor was reunited with her there, but once in a "paradise", he began to doubt whether his memories with Patience were real. He began to consider that his memories, life, and love with Patience were fabricated by Omega to convince the Doctor to take his place within anti-matter. When the Doctor thought this, the anti-matter universe shifted into a broiling thunderstorm, and Patience's character suddenly and inexplicably shifted, implying the assumption was correct. With the Doctor faced with the choice of eternal happiness with her in a fictional world or returning to stop Omega, Patience spurred his decision to leave and help others. His departure from Omega's universe apparently caused the world to collapse, taking Patience with it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')


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In one incarnation, Patience was slender with black hair cut in a bob and vivid green eyes. She had freckled shoulders and a birthmark on her ankle, and in the Doctor's picture of her wore an archaic Gallifreyan dress of a gold material. After regenerating in [[Omega]]'s world, she had long blonde hair and blue eyes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
In one incarnation, Patience was slender with black hair cut in a bob and vivid green eyes. She had freckled shoulders and a birthmark on her ankle, and in the Doctor's picture of her wore an archaic Gallifreyan dress of a gold material. After regenerating in [[Omega]]'s world, she had long blonde hair and blue eyes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:TidesOfTimeZoeIDW.jpg|thumb|The mysterious woman ([[REF]]: ''[[The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time]])'']]
* "Patience" being the name of the Doctor's wife is a pun based on the word "patient".
* In [[REF]]: ''[[AHistory]]''{{'}}s entry on [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time]]'', Lance Parkin acknowledges the common assumption that the woman seen by the [[Fifth Doctor]] within the [[Maelstrom]] is [[Zoe Heriot]], but he also asserts that she resembles Patience's first incarnation from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''{{'}}s flashback.
* An illustrtion of her was made in [[DWM illustrated previews]] of [[DWM 509]].
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Revision as of 10:50, 16 March 2020

"Patience" was a Time Lady and wife of Omega, and the Doctor.

Biography

Early life

In an alternate universe, she was widowed when Omega disappeared after causing Qqaba to go supernova, she became the Doctor's nurse and tutor, as she had been his father's and grandfather's. The Doctor also had a picture of her on the wall of his rooms on Gallifrey. The caption read "Death is but a door." (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)

Exile

Moments before Patience's death, Omega, who had control of history, took her to the anti-matter universe. In this universe, Omega was able to give her the ability to regenerate. The Doctor was reunited with her there, but once in a "paradise", he began to doubt whether his memories with Patience were real. He began to consider that his memories, life, and love with Patience were fabricated by Omega to convince the Doctor to take his place within anti-matter. When the Doctor thought this, the anti-matter universe shifted into a broiling thunderstorm, and Patience's character suddenly and inexplicably shifted, implying the assumption was correct. With the Doctor faced with the choice of eternal happiness with her in a fictional world or returning to stop Omega, Patience spurred his decision to leave and help others. His departure from Omega's universe apparently caused the world to collapse, taking Patience with it. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)

Physical appearance

In one incarnation, Patience was slender with black hair cut in a bob and vivid green eyes. She had freckled shoulders and a birthmark on her ankle, and in the Doctor's picture of her wore an archaic Gallifreyan dress of a gold material. After regenerating in Omega's world, she had long blonde hair and blue eyes. (PROSE: Cold Fusion, The Infinity Doctors)

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