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The word has an innocent meaning, but especially given that Oliver is in fact gay in-universe, the blunt phrasing could have been… misleading to say the least. I'm changing it to something less distractingly-worded, though keeping the "outdated term" in the sentence.
Tag: 2017 source edit |
(The word has an innocent meaning, but especially given that Oliver is in fact gay in-universe, the blunt phrasing could have been… misleading to say the least. I'm changing it to something less distractingly-worded, though keeping the "outdated term" in the sentence.) Tag: 2017 source edit |
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Oliver was a [[twitcher]] when he was young. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]'') | Oliver was a [[twitcher]] when he was young. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]'') At school, Oliver held the status then known as "[[fagging|fag]]", meaning he performed menial tasks for older students. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]'') Whilst he studied [[mathematics]], he did not consider himself especially good at it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]'') | ||
Oliver became a city trader in [[London]], a job that he enjoyed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]'') By [[1966]], he had fallen in love with [[Georgie (The Cold Equations)|Georgie]]. In that year, the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] questioned Georgie, who admitted the relationship ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]'') and thus left Oliver facing arrest himself. This panic meant that he was able to perceive the true form of the [[Fulgurite]]s, whom he helped the [[First Doctor]] and [[Steven Taylor]] defeat before asking to join them in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], seeking to escape the police as he felt his life was over. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]'') | Oliver became a city trader in [[London]], a job that he enjoyed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]'') By [[1966]], he had fallen in love with [[Georgie (The Cold Equations)|Georgie]]. In that year, the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] questioned Georgie, who admitted the relationship ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]'') and thus left Oliver facing arrest himself. This panic meant that he was able to perceive the true form of the [[Fulgurite]]s, whom he helped the [[First Doctor]] and [[Steven Taylor]] defeat before asking to join them in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], seeking to escape the police as he felt his life was over. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]'') | ||