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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 = [[Human]] hosts, [[Scarecrow]]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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| |individuals = [[Father of Mine]]<br>[[Mother of Mine]]<br>[[Son of Mine]]<br>[[Daughter of Mine]]
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| The '''Family of Blood''' was a group of hunters who followed [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] in order to take his near-immortality. | | *[[The Family of Blood|The Family of Blood (Episode)]] |
| | *[[Family of Blood (species)|The Family of Blood]] -the creatures |
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| ==Biology==
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| The Family of Blood were green, gaseous entities that could inhabit and control [[Human]] bodies. Before taking human form, the members of the Family of Blood were kept in small, spherical receptacles. They had very short-lifespans, lasting only 3 months. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'')
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| The members that were chasing the Doctor were made of a mother, father, son and daughter. While in Human form the Family could [[telepathic]]ally communicate together from a distance. They also had access to the Host's memory, though they had some difficultly pretending to be Humans. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| They also have a sensitive nose which they used to sniff out [[Tenth Doctor |The Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'')
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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. They used technology to render their craft invisible to Humans.
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| The Family also had [[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. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| :''The scarecrows could have some relation to the [[Slab]]s.''
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| They also have curved, green energy guns which when fired would disintegrate the target. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story) |Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| ==History==
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| The Family encountered [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] in [[2007]] and chased them throughout [[time]] and [[space]] with a stolen [[Time Agency|Time Agent]] [[vortex manipulator]] in order to steal from the Doctor some means of ensuring that they would live longer lifespan. The Doctor was forced to turn himself into a [[Human]] using the [[Chameleon Arch]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in order to escape them. The Doctor changed himself into [[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 (TV story)|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 from [[dwarf star alloy]].
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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).
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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. It was also learnt why the Doctor decided to flee rather then fight the Family of Blood - he had shown mercy upon them. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| [[Category:Hive minds]]
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| [[Category:Tenth Doctor enemies]]
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| [[Category:Families]]
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