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There were a variety of different and contradictory accounts of '''[[the Doctor]]'s early life''' before their travels with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') Most often, they had always been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', et al.) but the Doctor's own memories were unclear regarding their origins. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', et al.) | |||
All of the accounts were equally and [[paradox]]ically true due to the Doctor's [[biodata]] being retroactively manipulated ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') by a number of factors: subconscious [[regeneration]] influences; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') powerful beings such as [[Omega]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') the [[Great Intelligence]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') and [[Faction Paradox]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'' et al.) and their adventures through [[time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') | |||
== Earlier lives == | |||
Most accounts agreed that the [[First Doctor]] was the Doctor's first [[incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', et al.) However, several accounts suggested otherwise. | |||
By the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s lifetime, the Doctor had begun to forget great chunks of his life from before [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|his trial]] and [[Third Doctor|forced regeneration]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') In the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[mindbending]] contest with [[Morbius]], as many as [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|eight previous faces]] were shown before the First Doctor's. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'') Explanations of this differed. | |||
=== Previous regenerations === | |||
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By some accounts, the First Doctor had already regenerated once or multiple times. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | |||
[[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]] reminded the Doctor of several lifetimes he spent as [[Patience's husband|her husband]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | |||
=== Memories from another time === | |||
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According to one account, the Doctor was a genetic [[reincarnation]] of [[the Other]], and was [[loom]]ed into the [[House of Lungbarrow]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') in the form of a small child. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] recounted his birth to [[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]], telling her that he was "born at Otherstide through the Loom of the [[House of Lungbarrow]] in Southern Gallifrey." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'') As the [[Eleventh Doctor]] told [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]], he slept in [[The Doctor's cot|a cot]] as an infant. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') | |||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] sometimes believed they had been woven from a [[loom]], and sometimes they believed they had a [[The Doctor's mother|mother]] and [[The Doctor's father|father]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') The Doctor could not remember which was true and which was a dream. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') | |||
=== Origins outside of Gallifrey === | |||
By some accounts, the Doctor was not fully [[Gallifreyan]]. {{Roberts|c}} theorised that the Doctor's biology could not open [[Artron]]'s [[Artron's tomb|tomb]], which could only be opened by a Time Lord. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of Dust (audio story)|Planet of Dust]]'') | |||
According to some accounts, the First Doctor was a [[human]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'', et al.) from the [[49th century]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') named [[Dr. Who]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lair of Zarbi Supremo (short story)|The Lair of Zarbi Supremo]]'') who built ''[[the TARDIS|Tardis]]'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') and had adventures with his grandchildren, [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[John and Gillian|John, and Gillian]]. ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]", [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Klepton Parasites (comic story)|The Klepton Parasites]]'') | |||
The origins of the Other were shrouded in mystery. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') When the [[Seventh Doctor]] became [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]], he dreamt the story of [[The Old Man and the Police Box|"The Old Man and the Police Box"]], about an old man from [[Victorian era]] [[England]] who built a [[timeship]], travelled to another planet called Gallifrey, and taught the natives so they could raise their society into a mighty civilisation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') | |||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] claimed many times that he was half-[[human]] on his mother's side, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'') though he also questioned the accuracy of these statements, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]'') once claiming his statement to be a ruse to trick {{Roberts}}, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') with his eleventh incarnation identifying his mother as a Time Lord. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Comfort of the Good (comic story)|The Comfort of the Good]]'') [[Ashildr]] would also speculate the Doctor was a half-human half-Time Lord hybrid, something the [[Twelfth Doctor]] neither confirmed nor denied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | |||
== Childhood == | |||
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The Doctor had many memories of growing up on [[Gallifrey]] and attending the [[Time Lord Academy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', et al.) | |||
He was born on the Holiday of [[Otherstide]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'') under a name that he concealed in despair. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'') He was born under the sign of Crossed Computers, the symbol of the maternity service. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') Whilst [[Ashildr]] claimed that he was "a high born [[Gallifreyan]]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') and [[Clara Oswald]] said that he was born "into [[wealth]] and [[privilege]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') the [[Sixth Doctor]] said that he would be considered a "[[plebeian]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cortex Fire (audio story)|Cortex Fire]]'') | |||
According to his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]], the Doctor lived in a "[[chapterhouse|house]] that was perched halfway up the top of [[Mount Lung|a mountain]]" in the mountains of [[South Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') Known as the [[House of Lungbarrow]], this house was one of the Ancient [[Oldblood]] Houses and overlooked the [[Cadonflood River]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') He grew up in Lungbarrow with his family. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') A lonely and depressed youth, the Doctor did not get along with his family, being bullied by many of his cousins, who would call him cruel names to reflect the fact that the Doctor had been loomed with a belly button. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | |||
As a [[Time Tot]], the Doctor played [[hide and seek]] with {{O'Mara}}, with his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]] recalling that his skill at finding her "drove [her] nuts". He held the Time-Tot hide and seek championship for forty-two years in a row. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'') He also believed [[human]]s to be a myth as a Time Tot. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shining Man (novel)|The Shining Man]]'') | |||
As a child, the Doctor would play [[conker]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'') He also toyed with [[train]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'') and had a dream to one day drive one. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') Amongst his favourite bedtime stories were ''[[The Three Little Sontarans]]'', ''[[The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes]]'' and ''[[Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'') He played in the tunnels under the [[Panopticon]] as a child. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Order of the Daleks (audio story)|Order of the Daleks]]'') He also watched a [[meteor storm]] on Gallifrey with his father. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | |||
When he was just a "small child", [[the Doctor's mother]] told him the story of [[Grandfather Paradox]], a story which scared the Doctor so much that he worried that Grandfather Paradox was hiding in his wardrobe or under his bed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') [[Granny Five]], the Doctor's favourite among his [[The Doctor's grandmothers|seven grandmothers]], told him bedtime stories about the [[Solitract]] when he couldn't sleep. ([[TV]]: ''[[It Takes You Away (TV story)|It Takes You Away]]'') | |||
As a child, the Doctor was frightened by the "mythological horror" stories about the [[Fendahl]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') looked to [[Omega]] as his people's greatest hero, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') and was told stories of the [[Pantheon of Discord]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') The Doctor also had nightmares for years about an elderly lady who had been covered in veils after she died on a hot day, with the heat causing [[flies]] to swarm around her corpse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') As a boy, he spent a lot of time by the [[sea]], where he believed the [[death|dead]] were out there, whispering to him from the waves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'') He also drew [[crayon]] sketches of the [[Solver]]s, based on the stories, which the Eighth Doctor later suggested did not do the [[Risolva|real thing]] justice. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)|The Doomsday Chronometer]]'') | |||
During his formative years, the Doctor was "brain-buffed" at his home by his [[Avatroid]] Tutor, [[Badger (Lungbarrow)|Badger]]. During this time, the Doctor was forced to learn by rote and was taught about the Legacy of Rassilon and the story of Otherstide. The young Doctor disliked this form of learning and would often cause distractions and try to escape his lessons. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | |||
[[File:First Doctor Listen 3.jpg|left|thumb|Comforted by a [[Clara Oswald|kind stranger]], the young Doctor weeps. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')]] | |||
According to research done by [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|a Gallifreyan author]], the Doctor lived in the [[Drylands]] for a time in his childhood. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') During this time, before joining the Academy, the Doctor would leave his house at night, going to sleep in a [[barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]], despite attempts by his guardians to invite him back in to join "the other boys". During one of these nights, a hand grabbed his leg from under the bed and he was told he was dreaming and to return to the bed, where [[Clara Oswald|a female voice]] told him that "fear [was] a superpower", and that it could "make [him] kind". Afterwards, the Doctor heard [[Vwoorpy|a noise]] and sat up to find [[Dan (toy soldier)|a toy soldier]] at the foot of the bed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') | |||
When [[Madame de Pompadour]] read the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s mind, she said he had been "such a lonely little boy", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') with the [[Ninth Doctor]] identifying himself as the "only child left out in the cold". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') He had at least two imaginary friends, named [[Binker]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Abandoned (audio story)|The Abandoned]]'') and [[Mandrake (The Widow's Assassin)|Mandrake]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Widow's Assassin (audio story)|The Widow's Assassin]]'') | |||
== Education == | |||
Like all [[Time Lord]]s, the Doctor was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') Staring into the [[Untempered Schism]] as part of a Time Lord initiation rite, he reacted by running away. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') | |||
The Doctor attended the [[Time Lord Academy]] as a member of the [[Prydonian Chapter]], and received tutelage from [[Borusa]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') and [[Azmael]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') While the [[Tenth Doctor]] claimed that he spent "centuries" at the Academy, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Mortal Beloved (comic story)|Mortal Beloved]]'') [[Maris]] also found evidence that his time at the Academy had only been twenty years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') The Doctor would worry that he would be the first student at the Academy to fail after he failed at [[exam]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Song For Running (audio story)|A Song For Running]]'') | |||
On his first day at the Academy, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') the Doctor formed strong friendships with both [[the Master]] and the [[War Chief]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Master soon became the Doctor's "man [[crush]]", and the two friends formed a pact to see every [[star]] in the [[universe]] together. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') While he was "little", the Doctor and the Master, ran together ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') across the fields of the Master's estates by [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The Master would often hypnotise others, and the Doctor would un-hypnotise them, having learnt hypnotism from the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') Alongside other friends, the Doctor would ride a [[skimmer]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death (audio story)|The Paradise of Death]]'') | |||
While at the Time Lord Academy, the Doctor spent four days in the [[Cloisters]], where he talked to the [[Cloister Wraith]]s, who told him of the prophecy of "[[the Hybrid]]", and showed him a secret passage out. According to his [[twelfth incarnation]], the experience drove him "completely mad," and he was "never right in the head again" afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | |||
{{Gomez}} claimed that while growing up, the Doctor started calling himself "Doctor Who" to "sound mysterious", but "dropped the 'Who' when he realised it was a tiny bit on the nose." ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') In choosing the name of "the Doctor", he also made a promise to himself to "never [be] cruel or cowardly" and to "never give up, [and] never give in." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') He also received the nickname "Theta Sigma", or "Thete" for short, from his friends at the Academy, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'', ''[[The Happiness Patrol (TV story)|The Happiness Patrol]]'') using it to identify him uniquely amongst other Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Falls the Shadow (novel)|Falls the Shadow]]'') | |||
During his first year at the Academy, the Doctor gained a troublesome reputation by trapping his teacher in a time-loop for a day, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]'') and "mucking about" with space-time portals, something the [[Tenth Doctor]] indicated were easy to create. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Made of Steel (novel)|Made of Steel]]'') He also frequently played "truant" to drink with the [[Shobogan]]s, visit the hermit on his mountain, and venture into [[Low Town]] with [[the Master]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | |||
At the age of ten, the Doctor was "caught skinny-dipping with a pretty female cousin of [an] acquaintance". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') | |||
On "the blackest day of his life," he went to visit [[K'anpo Rimpoche]] on the side of the mountain his family's house rested on in [[South Gallifrey]]. While climbing the mountain, the young Doctor saw only dull coloured rocks and weeds. However, Rimpoche gave no words of advice when he heard the Doctor tell him all his troubles, but instead pointed at a flower, which the Doctor had dismissed as a weed. As he descended the mountain, the world no longer seemed so grim to him and the Doctor noticed the colours of the rocks and the vibrancy of life in the flowers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') The Doctor spent what he felt where some of the finest hours of his life with Rimpoche, being taught how to look into his own mind and being told ghost stories about the [[King Vampire]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') | |||
At the age of thirty, the Doctor asked K'anpo Rimpoche the name of the mountain on which he dwelled. He had been told by Old Lady [[Nine Teeth]] that it was called [[Plutarch]], where his cousins called it [[Lung]], and his friends at the Academy called it [[Mount Cadon]]. His mentor told him that the mountain had all three names, and told him that whatever he called it would determine the way in which it was climbed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]'') The Doctor left the Gallifreyan equivalent of primary school aged forty-five. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'') | |||
Still a "small boy", the Doctor wrote a [[treatise]] on the [[chromosome|chromosomal]] origins of [[love]]. His tutor said that he missed the point entirely and gave him a "rubbish" grade. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wormery (audio story)|The Wormery]]'') When he was "just a kid" of ninety, he visited the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] stated that he was a terror until the age of one-hundred-and-twenty, claiming that he was a late developer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') As his [[fourth incarnation]] recalled, the Doctor was a "spotty teenager" for fifty years. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time Witch (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Time Witch]]'') | |||
[[File:Vortex Butterflies Borusa.jpg|thumb|left|[[Borusa]] lectures the young [[Time Lord]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'')]] | |||
When the Doctor was a young boy, Borusa told him off for his attitude, and that he would be lucky to receive a Class Three Doctorate. Borusa taught him to be seen to respect tradition, even though he did not, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'') and also gave him a lecture on [[regeneration]], telling the Doctor; ''"You will walk into a storm and a stranger will walk back out. And that stranger will be you."'' Borusa also told him to "never break eye contact with a [[shapeshifter|shape-shifter]]", as he would "see it everywhere [he] look[ed], and [would] never be able to trust anyone again". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | |||
At the Academy, the Doctor and the Master joined the "[[Gallifrey Academy Hot Five]]" band, with the Doctor playing the lead [[perigosto]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') He once attended a party on the [[Moon of Korpal]], and met fellow academy student, [[Rummas]], but was too [[drunk]] to remember. Soon after, he and Rummas began sharing [[Borusa]] as a tutor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch (novel)|Spiral Scratch]]'') He was also part of the same [[zero-grav hyperball]] team as [[Padrac]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]'') At some point in his youth, the Doctor became addicted to using [[vortex manipulator]]s. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once described his past self as "40-a-day man". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Space in Dimension Relative and Time (comic story)|Space in Dimension Relative and Time]]'') | |||
He and the Master also enjoyed building "time flow analogues" to disrupt each other's experiments. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') At the Academy, the Doctor would often skip classes to practice [[yo-yo]]s and [[juggling]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Match of the Day (novel)|Match of the Day]]'') | |||
The Doctor was taught at the Academy that "the universe [was] nothing but a functional chain of causality at every level, governed by the oldest and simplest laws," by a tutor the [[Eighth Doctor]] would later describe as "the most attractive person [he'd] ever seen", but the First Doctor retorted that, however much people tried to take the mystery out of things, they could not "diminish wonder, beauty and discovery." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'') He also rode [[Vortisaurs]] bareback at the Academy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') and played games with the principle of [[transmigration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') | |||
At the Academy, the Doctor conducted an experiment in which he created a [[bacteria]] known as [[the Ablative]], with the ensuing scandal nearly getting him expelled until it was covered up by the Academy, who believed that all of the samples had been destroyed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]'') [[Genniploritreludar]] taught the Doctor [[stellar engineering]] at the Academy, once asking him to recite the fifteen stages in the life cycle of the main sequence sun. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'') In his fiftieth year at the Academy, the Doctor made an enemy of his fellow student, [[Valyes]], after he fed a [[snapping wart fowl]] to Valyes' summer project. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') | |||
The Doctor didn't attend his time-travel proficiency lesson, which made him unqualified to operate a [[TARDIS]], and rejected an offer to retake the lesson. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Festival of Death (novel)|Festival of Death]]'') Though his tenth incarnation would later state he had failed the test instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'') The Doctor also failed practical [[theology]], but was highly commended for [[Garden|landscape gardening]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') and received a poor grade in Time Lord philosophy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Infinite Requiem (novel)|Infinite Requiem]]'') He received training in emotional detachment, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') and was on the tech course with [[Drax]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'') | |||
The Doctor and the Master were bullied as children by [[Torvic]] and the Doctor was forced to kill Torvic to save the Master's life. He was later confronted by [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], who insisted he become her disciple. The Doctor refused and asked for Death to take away his guilt, causing her to transfer the memory of committing the crime to the Master instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'') | |||
The Doctor was also bullied by [[Anzor]], who used a torture device called "the galvaniser" on his classmates to ensure that they did as he said. He particularly bullied the Doctor, forcing him to do his navigational homework as he was "too stupid to do it himself". He used the galvaniser on the Doctor at least once, as he later threatened to "revive [his] memory of [the] galvaniser" to terrify the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (audio story)|Mission to Magnus]]'') | |||
On one occasion, the Doctor and the Master travelled into Gallifrey's history in search of [[Valdemar]], a dark mass of life created by the Old Ones in the [[higher dimensions]], which swept across creation and wiped out the Old Ones. They met a surviving Old One, who warned them of Valdermar's powers. The Doctor was shaken, and also horrified that the Master seemed fascinated by its power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') | |||
The Doctor wanted to be an explorer when he was young, but because the Time Lords had already explored every time and place, he didn't believe there was any point to him becoming an explorer too. He then found a reason and whenever he felt hopeless, he remembered that reason. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') Despite this, the Doctor would later claim to have been a pioneer amongst his people, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (episode)|The Rescue]]'') due to the subconscious memory of his life as [[the Other]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | |||
When the Time Lords created the ''[[Consolidator]]'' to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers failed. The Master had the idea of using a black hole to tear a rift in time and send the ''Consolidator'' into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the ''Consolidator'' was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') | |||
As the Doctor grew up, he came to understand that he and the Master were not the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Following an incident at the Academy in which the Master did not keep his word, he and the Doctor had a falling out, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'') eventually leading the Doctor to realise that the Master stood against everything he believed in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') | |||
The Doctor was also known to have attended the [[Prydonian Academy]] with [[the Master]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and [[the Rani]]. [[Thermodynamics]] was his special subject. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') | |||
According to a nightmare the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the [[Celestial Toymaker]]'s influence, the Doctor first learned of the Toymaker when he was a youth at the [[Prydonian Academy]]. The Time Lords' data banks described him only as a vague legend. The Doctor and his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] investigated the legend, travelling to the Toyroom in [[TARDIS (Divided Loyalties)|a stolen TARDIS]]. The Toymaker was in a dormant, disembodied state, but on their arrival, he possessed Rallon and made Millennia one of his living toys. The Doctor defeated him, and the Toymaker allowed him to leave, knowing that he would become an even more worthy opponent given time to mature. As punishment for his part in the apparent deaths of Rallon and Millennia, the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | |||
The Doctor earned a [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] degree at "Time Lord University". He was required to learn how to envision a superimposed array of 208 different 43-dimensional supersolids, taking eight years to master the skill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'') | |||
Ultimately, the Doctor did not have an impressive career at school, passing his qualifying exams to become a Time Lord with only 51% — the lowest possible pass mark — on his second attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') However, this was a deliberate ploy to not to draw undue attention to himself, so he could eventually leave Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') | |||
== Career == | |||
[[File:Young First Doctor.jpg|thumb|The Doctor held high power on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'')]] | |||
The Doctor worked as a [[Scrutationary Archivist]] in the [[Bureau of Possible Events]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') and rose high in the ranks of the Time Lords, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') until he was considered a "superior" on Gallifrey by some, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'') with his [[second incarnation]] claiming to have held a seat on the [[High Council]] during the "latter years of [his] first incarnation". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') He also made powerful enemies due to his controversial views on the [[Time Lord]]s' [[non-interference policy]], even being accused of being a meddler. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') He also lost popularity when he voiced his opinions on [[evil]] being a genuine force to his contemporaries, who found "such black and white notions of morality" to be "archaic". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strange England (novel)|Strange England]]'') He possessed [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|a Type 50 TARDIS]], which he abandoned when he left and became a renegade. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prisoners of Fate (audio story)|Prisoners of Fate]]'') | |||
The Doctor learned of the existence of the [[miniscope]]s and was outraged by their cruelty to the specimens within. He campaigned to have them banned and, despite the [[non-interference policy]] of the [[Time Lord]]s, was successful. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'') His role in banning the use of miniscopes was known throughout nine galaxies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') He also successfully campaigned on Gallifrey to ban a chemical of Time Lord invention which converted vertebrae [[blood]] into [[acid]], the formula for which he was never able to forget. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Age of Ambition (short story)|The Age of Ambition]]'') | |||
On one instance, he saved a glowing life form from being killed by his old friend [[Magnus (Flashback)|Magnus]], resulting in a fallout between the two. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'') At some point, the Doctor fought in a war, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontarans (audio story)|The Sontarans]]'') and also served as an ambassador for the Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles (short story)|The Exiles]]'') | |||
== Family life == | |||
The Doctor stated he had [[The Doctor's mother|a mother]] and [[The Doctor's father|father]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') as well as a [[family]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') and [[childhood]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') but also confessed his uncertainty on whether his family was real or a [[dream]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') He had at least one brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') an [[The Doctor's uncle|uncle]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') [[the Doctor's sisters|sisters]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|Arachnids in the UK]]'') and [[The Doctor's grandmothers|seven grandmothers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[It Takes You Away (TV story)|It Takes You Away]]'') | |||
Travelling back in time, the Doctor rescued [[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]] and [[Susan Foreman|her granddaughter]] from a danger on Ancient Gallifrey. Eventually, the Doctor married Patience, and they had thirteen children together, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') both "sons and daughters". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eleventh Tiger (novel)|The Eleventh Tiger]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]] recalled being "terrible" at his wedding. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'') The Doctor also had three known grandchildren: [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') [[John and Gillian]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Klepton Parasites (comic story)|The Klepton Parasites]]'') [[Clara Oswald]] also referred to the Doctor's "children and grandchildren", who were "missing" by the time of the Doctor's [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') | |||
While Susan specifically identified the Doctor as her grandfather, ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]", "[[The Escape]]") and the Doctor likewise considered Susan to be his grandchild, ([[TV]]: "[[The Rescue (episode)|The Rescue]]", ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'', ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'', "[[Flashpoint (episode)|Flashpoint]]") documents on [[Gallifrey]] were deliberately obscure about Susan's real family, some theorising that she was a direct descendant of [[The Other|a founding father]] of Gallifrey alongside a claim one of her parents was the [[Lord President|President of the Time Lords]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') According to {{Ainley}}, Susan was a young Time Lady from the Doctor's own time whom had stowed away on the Doctor's TARDIS, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'') while other accounts had her being rescued from the time period of [[the Other]] by the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') who later adopted her as his granddaughter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World (short story)|The Longest Story in the World]]'') | |||
Still maintaining a "friend[ship] of sorts", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') the Doctor gave the Master a [[dark star alloy brooch|cameo brooch]] made of [[Dark star alloy]] after an incident involving [[the Master's daughter]] . ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') The Doctor also brought Susan to watch him and a group of Prydonians perform a ritual in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') | |||
Eventually, the Doctor came to live in a small house on a mountain with his "adopted granddaughter", [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], who was described as coming from a distant and primitive time. Susan would tell the Doctor tales of him "building" the TARDIS and leaving their planet, becoming younger again and fighting monsters. Susan's tales became known by the guards of the [[High Council]], and, after an incident outside the Capitol, the Doctor found that armed guards had infiltrated his house. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World (short story)|The Longest Story in the World]]'') | |||
According to reports found by [[Maris]], the Doctor was involved in a riot, and become wanted by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] for "interfering in non-time-travel-capable species' development". He left Gallifrey two days afterwards. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') | |||
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