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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, the Doctor had always been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', et al.) and had not [[regeneration|regenerated]] before leaving in [[the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', et al.) | 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, the Doctor had always been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', et al.) and had not [[regeneration|regenerated]] before leaving in [[the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', et al.) | ||
However, the Doctor's own memories were unclear regarding their | However, the Doctor's own memories were unclear regarding their early life, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', et al.) and several accounts suggested that they had non-[[Gallifreyan]] origins ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') or incarnations before the one called First. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | ||
The many contradictory accounts of the Doctor's early life 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]]'') | The many contradictory accounts of the Doctor's early life 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]]'') | ||
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== Birth == | == Birth == | ||
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According to most accounts, the Doctor was born on [[Gallifrey]], home [[planet]] of the [[Time Lord]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') "the oldest and most mighty race in the universe", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') on the Holiday of [[Otherstide]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'') 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]]'') | |||
According to other accounts, however, the Doctor was a [[human]] named [[Dr. Who]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'') originating from either the [[49th century]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') [[Victorian era]] [[Britain]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') or another planet entirely. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') | |||
The Doctor mentioned family members several times, including [[The Doctor's mother|a mother]], [[The Doctor's father|a father]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[the Doctor's uncle|an 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]]'') However, the [[Eighth Doctor]] expressed uncertainty as to whether this [[family]] was real or a [[dream]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') | |||
By some accounts, [[Time Lord]]s were sterile as a result of the [[Curse of Pythia]], and as a result they reproduced through mechanical [[Loom]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] remembered that he was loomed into the [[House of Lungbarrow]] on the holiday of [[Otherstide]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | |||
=== Memories of | By other accounts, the Doctor did have parents, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', et al.) either because he was born before [[Rassilon]]'s invention of Looms ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') or because all Time Lords had parents. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') | ||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] claimed that his mother was human. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Although the [[Tenth Doctor]] said that this was a ruse to trick {{Roberts}}, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') the Eighth Doctor repeated the claim many times ([[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]]'', ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'') and personally struggled with whether he was half-human or Loomed; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]'', ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') he could not remember which was true and which was a dream. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') | |||
The Eighth Doctor's memory of his mother's appearance resembled [[Penelope Gate]], a human [[time traveller]] who had a child with the Time Lord [[Ulysses]] in the generation before the Doctor's; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') by one account, [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]] remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') | |||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] later insisted that his mother was a Time Lord, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Comfort of the Good (comic story)|The Comfort of the Good]]'') and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] neither confirmed nor denied [[Ashildr]]'s speculation that he was a half-human half-Gallifreyan [[The Hybrid|hybrid]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') {{Roberts}} 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]]'') | |||
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]]'') He had at least one brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') | |||
=== Memories of other lives === | |||
{{main|The Other}} | {{main|The Other}} | ||
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 | According to one account, when 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 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 | 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 a planet called Gallifrey, and taught the natives to raise their society into a mighty civilisation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') | ||
== Youth and upbringing == | == Youth and upbringing == | ||
According to | The Doctor was given a name which they would come to "conceal in despair". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'') It was engraved on the side of [[the Doctor's cot|their cot]] in [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') | ||
The [[Sixth Doctor]] said that he was considered a "[[plebeian]]" on Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cortex Fire (audio story)|Cortex Fire]]'') According to [[Clara Oswald]], however, the Doctor was born "into [[wealth]] and [[privilege]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') [[Ashildr]] similarly described the Doctor as "a high-born [[Gallifreyan]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | |||
The [[Third Doctor]] remembered lived in a "[[chapterhouse|house]] that was perched halfway up the top of [[Mount Lung|a mountain]]" in [[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]]'') The Doctor grew up in Lungbarrow with his family, whether his parents ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') or his [[cousin]]s, who would call him cruel names to reflect the fact that he was loomed with a [[belly button]]. As a result, the Doctor grew up a lonely and depressed youth. ([[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 42 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 [[ | 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]]'') 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 [[the Doctor's father|his father]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | ||
Among 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]]'') [[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]]'') The Doctor also heard stories about the [[Solver]]s and drew [[crayon]] sketches of them. The Eighth Doctor later suggested that the stories did not do the [[Risolva|real thing]] justice. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)|The Doomsday Chronometer]]'') | |||
When he was just a "small child", [[the Doctor's mother]] told him the story of [[Grandfather Paradox]] | When he was just a "small child", [[the Doctor's mother]] told him the story of [[Grandfather Paradox]]. It 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]]'') He was also frightened by the "mythological horror" stories about the [[Fendahl]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') Other legends he learned included the [[Pantheon of Discord]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') and the [[Shakri]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'') | ||
He 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]]'') | |||
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 | 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 often caused distractions and tried to escape his lessons. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') He looked up to [[Omega]] as his people's greatest hero. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') | ||
[[File:First Doctor Listen 3.jpg|left|thumb|Comforted by a [[Clara Oswald|kind stranger]], the young Doctor weeps. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')]] | [[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]]'') | 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]]'') | 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]]'') and the [[Ninth Doctor]] identified 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 == | == Education == | ||
