Navel

The navel, also known as the belly button (TV: The Lost Boy (part one) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"One","1":"The Lost Boy (TV story)"}) and bellybutton, (PROSE: "Birth of the Time Lords" ^[+]Part of Doctor, Doctor! 232, Loading...{"page":"28","namedpart":"Birth of the Time Lords","1":"Doctor, Doctor! (DWA 232 short story)","2":"''Doctor, Doctor!'' 232"}) was an anatomical feature of different species; it was where the umbilical cord was once attached. (PROSE: Bay of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["Bay of the Dead (novel)"]) Bellybutton fluff could accumulate in a person's bellybutton. (PROSE: "Birth of the Time Lords" ^[+]Part of Doctor, Doctor! 232, Loading...{"page":"28","namedpart":"Birth of the Time Lords","1":"Doctor, Doctor! (DWA 232 short story)","2":"''Doctor, Doctor!'' 232"})

History

According to one account, in his early life, the Doctor's cousins from the House of Lungbarrow would call him cruel names referring to the fact that he was loomed with a belly button. (PROSE: Lungbarrow ^[+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"])

Having been artifically created by the Bane, Luke Smith had no belly button. (TV: Invasion of the Bane ^[+]Loading...["Invasion of the Bane (TV story)"]) As part of a fiction that Luke Smith was infact born to human parents, Mr Smith claimed that Bane society, being egg born, found the navel crude and offensive; as such, they would have surgically removed it at the time he was programmed as the Archetype. (TV: The Lost Boy ^[+]Loading...["The Lost Boy (TV story)"])

When addressing the possibility that Time Lords descended from knitwear, the Eleventh Doctor claimed to Doctor Who Adventures reader Jack that his "bellybutton [wa]s full of bellybutton fluff, so believe what you will." (PROSE: "Birth of the Time Lords" ^[+]Part of Doctor, Doctor! 232, Loading...{"page":"28","namedpart":"Birth of the Time Lords","1":"Doctor, Doctor! (DWA 232 short story)","2":"''Doctor, Doctor!'' 232"})