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{{Infobox Individual | {{Infobox Individual | ||
|image = Oliver.jpg | |||
| image = Oliver.jpg | |species = Human | ||
|origin = [[Earth]] | |||
| species = Human | |mother = Oliver Harper's mother{{!}}Mother | ||
| origin = [[Earth]] | |partner = Georgie (The Cold Equations) | ||
|first= The Perpetual Bond (audio story) | |first = The Perpetual Bond (audio story) | ||
| appearances = {{il|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]''}} | |appearances = {{il|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]''}} | ||
| actor = Tom Allen | |voice actor = Tom Allen | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Oliver Harper''' was a city [[trader]] in [[London]] in [[1966]]. He travelled with the [[First Doctor]] and [[Steven Taylor]] for a brief period. | '''Oliver Harper''' was a city [[trader]] in [[London]] in [[1966]]. He travelled with the [[First Doctor]] and [[Steven Taylor]] for a brief period. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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]]'') | |||
He was | 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]]'') | ||
He initially kept his sexuality from the Doctor and Steven, as he believed that they would disapprove and force him to leave the TARDIS if they were to find out. After he had confessed his secret, though, Steven assured Oliver that the Doctor would do nothing of the sort. Furthermore, Steven told him that by his time, there was no longer any [[homophobia|stigma attached to homosexuality]] and that same-sex relationships were common. Upon learning of Oliver's sexuality the Doctor said the crime was society's, not Oliver's. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]'') | |||
He travelled to the [[planetoid]] [[Grace Alone]] as the Doctor saw in a [[database]] that they had been there. He was killed by the [[Vardan]]s but remained as a [[ghost]] in the TARDIS. As a ghost, he witnessed the Doctor's [[regeneration]] into his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]] in [[Antarctica]] in [[December]] [[1986]]. ([[AUDIO]]:'' [[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]'') | |||
===Legacy=== | |||
Whilst contemplating actions to save his past self that he believed might lead to his death, Steven recalled Oliver and his stand against history on Grace Alone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Rocket Men (audio story)|Return of the Rocket Men]]'') | |||
[[The Lost (The Lost)|The Lost]] mentioned Oliver to the [[Tenth Doctor]] as one of the many losses the Doctor had endured during his life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lost (audio story)|The Lost]]'') | |||
== Personality == | |||
Oliver was polite and had a strict moral code resulting from his upper-class upbringing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]'') He kept his [[sexuality]] a secret and feared that Steven and the Doctor would reject him once he divulged it. He blamed himself and his running from his problems on Earth for his death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
From an in-universe point of view, Oliver {{as of|2021|alt=is}}, chronologically, the earliest known non-heterosexual human companion of the Doctor. | |||
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