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The melancholic and aristocratic '''ninth incarnation''' of [[the Doctor]] was one of the [[Last of the Time Lords|few surviving]] [[Time Lord]]s after the destruction of [[Gallifrey]] by [[Alien (Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor)|an alien race]]. After the Time Lords retreated into [[the Matrix]], they sent the Ninth Doctor and [[the Master (Scream of the Shalka)|the Master]], now in an android form, on dangerous missions, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)}}) first sending them to [[Lannet]], a small [[Lancashire]] town where the Doctor met barmaid [[Alison Cheney]]. Together, they fought to save the world, and defeated the [[silicon]]-based [[Shalka]]. Afterwards, Alison left with the Doctor in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Scream of the Shalka (webcast)}}) The Doctor, | The melancholic and aristocratic '''ninth incarnation''' of [[the Doctor]] was one of the [[Last of the Time Lords|few surviving]] [[Time Lord]]s after the destruction of [[Gallifrey]] by [[Alien (Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor)|an alien race]]. After the Time Lords retreated into [[the Matrix]], they sent the Ninth Doctor and [[the Master (Scream of the Shalka)|the Master]], now in an android form, on dangerous missions, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)}}) first sending them to [[Lannet]], a small [[Lancashire]] town where the Doctor met barmaid [[Alison Cheney]]. Together, they fought to save the world, and defeated the [[silicon]]-based [[Shalka]]. Afterwards, Alison left with the Doctor in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Scream of the Shalka (webcast)}}) The Doctor, the Master, and Alison shared at least one more adventure together, involving [[Vampire entity (The Feast of the Stone)|vampires]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Feast of the Stone (short story)}}) | ||
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A possible [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|ninth incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]] that sucked on an [[asthma]] inhaler and resembled an [[aristocrat]] with a high forehead and shallow-sunken eyes was seen by the [[Eighth Doctor]] in the [[Tomorrow Window]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Tomorrow Windows (novel)}}) | A possible [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|ninth incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]] that sucked on an [[asthma]] inhaler and resembled an [[aristocrat]] with a high forehead and shallow-sunken eyes was seen by the [[Eighth Doctor]] in the [[Tomorrow Window]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Tomorrow Windows (novel)}}) | ||
=== | === Origins === | ||
By one account, the Doctor retired to [[Gallifrey]], he fell in love with the [[Lord President (Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor)|Lord President]]'s [[Lord President's daughter|daughter]]. However, an [[Alien (Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor)|alien race]] came to Gallifrey and killed nearly every [[Time Lord]], including the Doctor's love, who alone was "truly dead". The Doctor and the Master were able to overcome and defeat the alien race, though the Master lost his physical body in the process. In return for his aid, the Doctor built the Master a new [[robot]] body for the Master while the Time Lords retreated into [[the Matrix]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)}}) The Doctor, being punished for the death of his lost companion, was sent to work by his [[Time Lord|unseen superiors]]. With his old foe now bound within the TARDIS, the Doctor and the Master were sent to solve the dangerous problems that plagued the universe. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)}}) | |||
However, other accounts suggested that a version of this Doctor's lifetime might have originated in consequence to the Eighth Doctor's experience with the [[War in Heaven]], without an intervening return of the Doctor and Master to an intact Gallifrey. One depicted an echo of the Master's mind which had remained within the Doctor's TARDIS ever since [[Regeneration OperationLthe events in 1999 San Francisco]] taking an appearance ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sometime Never... (novel)}}) identical to that which the android would later be granted; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)}}) [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|one Time Lord historian]] was aware of "rumours" that being extracted from the TARDIS and given an android body by the Doctor was one of the purported fates of the Master following the San Francisco affair. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)}}) This incarnation of the Doctor remained a possibility in the Eighth Doctor's future at a point in time when he had become the last of the Time Lords, with Gallifrey already destroyed; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Tomorrow Windows (novel)}}) he would eventually discover that a Matrix backup of the dead Time Lords' minds had been downloaded into his own brain before the planet was lost, leading to a similar outcome ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}}) to that of the standalone account of this Doctor's origins. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)}}) | |||
One source depicted the post-War Eighth Doctor, now travelling alone and still feeling guilty about his decision to destroy the planet, eventually becoming locked in battle with [[Alcestis]], a [[Minoan]] priestess to whom he had become a mentor, friend, and nearly a lover, only for her to turn against the Doctor after he nearly killed her to stop her from taking revenge on [[Deucalion]], the corrupt king's son. [[The Fallen]] saved her from death and transformed her into a maddened [[harpy]]-lke creature, locking her and the Doctor in a [[Prometheus]]-like [[time loop]] with the last of their power in revenge, hoping Alcestis would spend an eternity killing the Doctor over and over again. After untold hundreds of loops, however, the Doctor managed to get through to Alcestis. With him still bleeding from an open wound in his stomach, the two of them worked together to use the crystals' power to fly out of the looped pocket reality, which collapsed behind them. After landing on the beach, Alcestis only saw the wounded Doctor's discarded flight-harness; he himself had already vanished, leaving behind only a [[The Doctor's TARDIS|strange, wheezing, groaning sound]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Fallen Gods (novel)}}) | |||
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* The Shalka Doctor's backstory was [[Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)|released officially]] in an article in [[DWM 464]]. The backstory had been only released as part of a document titled ''[[Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor]]'' for any potential writers of stories featuring the Shalka Doctor, but with the added caveat that the backstory not be referenced or expanded upon. | * The Shalka Doctor's backstory was [[Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)|released officially]] in an article in [[DWM 464]]. The backstory had been only released as part of a document titled ''[[Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor]]'' for any potential writers of stories featuring the Shalka Doctor, but with the added caveat that the backstory not be referenced or expanded upon. | ||
* A webcast sequel to ''Scream of the Shalka'' titled by ''[[Blood of the Robots (webcast)|Blood of the Robots]]'' was written by [[Simon Clark (writer)|Simon Clark]], but it was ultimately cancelled. | * A webcast sequel to ''Scream of the Shalka'' titled by ''[[Blood of the Robots (webcast)|Blood of the Robots]]'' was written by [[Simon Clark (writer)|Simon Clark]], but it was ultimately cancelled. | ||
* There is a similarity between the Shalka Doctor and the [[The Doctor (The Cabinet of Light)|incarnation of the Doctor]] seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cabinet of Light (novel)|The Cabinet of Light]]''. However such a similarity is entirely coincidental, as author [[Daniel O'Mahony]] worked on ''The Cabinet of Light'' with no information that a new incarnation of the Doctor would be introduced just months after the publication of his novella.<ref>https://millenniumeffect.co.uk/index.php/doctor-9a-guide/</ref> | * There is a similarity between the Shalka Doctor and the [[The Doctor (The Cabinet of Light)|incarnation of the Doctor]] seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cabinet of Light (novel)|The Cabinet of Light]]''. However such a similarity is entirely coincidental, as author [[Daniel O'Mahony]] worked on ''The Cabinet of Light'' with no information that a new incarnation of the Doctor would be introduced just months after the publication of his novella.<ref>https://millenniumeffect.co.uk/index.php/doctor-9a-guide/</ref> Another [[Telos novella]], however, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Fallen Gods (novel)}}, starring the [[Eighth Doctor]], was written by [[Kate Orman]] and [[Jonathan Blum]] with an awareness "that the ending could work as a lead-up to the Doctor regenerating — both in plot and thematic terms", at a point when they "thought the new Doctor would be Richard E Grant". Blum noted that it was "very much a post-Time-War story at heart, even if the Time War we were responding to was [[War in Heaven|the books' version]] rather than [[Last Great Time War|the TV series']]". In the same post, which predated the release of ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'' or ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'', Blum further noted that despite this original intent, the story ''could'' be interpreted as leading up to [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s [[Ninth Doctor]] rather than Grant's, given the open nature of the ending.<ref>[https://gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/do-any-novels-wrap-up-the-eighth-doctors-story.138062/#post-5642846 Jonathan Blum on GallifreyBase]</ref> In Jon Blum's ''False Gods'', an unofficial epilogue to ''Fallen Gods'', published in an issue of ''[[Myth Makers (fanzine)|Myth Makers]]'', [[Bernice Summerfield]] finds an inscription recording that [[Alcestis]] had indeed killed the Eighth Doctor. | ||
* In [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', there is a passing reference to the Doctor having "[[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|three ninth incarnations]]", which was intended to refer to the [[Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Christopher Eccleston]] in the [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series, the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Rowan Atkinson]] in ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' and the Ninth Doctor played by [[Richard E Grant]] in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast. | * In [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', there is a passing reference to the Doctor having "[[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|three ninth incarnations]]", which was intended to refer to the [[Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Christopher Eccleston]] in the [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series, the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Rowan Atkinson]] in ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' and the Ninth Doctor played by [[Richard E Grant]] in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast. | ||
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