Irving Braxiatel: Difference between revisions

Wanting to find like-minded people, Braxiatel helped found the [[Collector's Guild]], though rarely played a part in the way it was governed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cost for a Collection (short story)|The Cost for a Collection]]'')

Braxiatel later became a [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]], a member of the [[High Council]] of Time Lords, and a confidante of President [[Romana]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')

Braxiatel took Romana, Leela, K9 and Narvin to the [[Axis]]. They explored numerous alternate Gallifreys to find one on which they could live. The first [[Gallifrey (Reborn)|Gallifrey]] they explored, was one where Romana didn't travel with the Doctor. He became intrigued when one of the Time Lords tried to sell his future incarnations to Brax and Romana. He flirted with the alternative version of Romana. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Reborn (audio story)|Reborn]]'') He stayed behind on the Axis so that no-one from an alternate timeline could take over it. On one of these Gallifreys, they encountered an alternate version of [[Burner Doctor|the Doctor]], who returned to the Axis. It turned out the Doctor meant to assassinate Braxiatel, and during a fight, they fell into one of the Axis's portals. Romana said it likely that they would be falling through time for eternity, but it was possible that one or both of them would end up in one of the timelines. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'')

As it turned out, he arrived in what appeared to be his original universe, despite the presence of "another" Braxiatel. There, he met [[Bernice Summerfield]] for the first time from his perspective, though she already knew his future self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'') Braxiatel travelled to [[Dexter Prime]], where he encountered [[Avril Fenman]], who removed the Pandora fragments within his head and sent them back into the head of the other Braxiatel. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'') He quickly learnt that the other Braxiatel had become an infamous figure, with many enemies. As a result, he set about protecting himself by hiding in the most distant and remote part of the universe, [[Legion (planet)|Legion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Paradise Frost (audio story)|Paradise Frost]]'')

He was actually kidnapped by [[the Epoch]]. The Epoch took Braxiatel to a point beyond time, where his memory was altered to make him think that he was an actor, called Miles Richardson, portraying Braxiatel. Bernice awoke the dormant personalities in her companions and defeated the Epoch by burying it under paradoxes of its own creation. Using the Epoch's technology, Braxiatel then sought out a way to find Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Living Memory (audio story)|In Living Memory]]'')

Another version of Braxiatel became the head of the [[Department of Theatrology]] at [[St Oscar's University]] on the planet [[Dellah]], where he met Bernice Summerfield after her meeting with his other self. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dragons' Wrath (novel)|Dragons' Wrath]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'') They became friends, and he supported her in several adventures. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'', ''[[The Medusa Effect (novel)|The Medusa Effect]]'', ''[[Deadfall (novel)|Deadfall]]'') After Bernice obtained a post at the archaeology department in [[2593]], the pair of them became entangled in many adventures. Braxiatel was on Dellah during the rise of the [[All-High God]]s and helped to evacuate a group of survivors. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Where Angels Fear (novel)|Where Angels Fear]]'')

Braxiatel was captured and tortured by the Deindum, before being rescued from the Deindum mothership by Bernice Summerfield. She finally confronted him with the death of Jason, and he explained that Jason was about to be used against him by the Deindum. He expressed no guilt for his actions, except that he had failed in his mission and brought about the Deindum's creation. When Bernice offered him an alternative solution he expressed interest, and finally (begrudgingly) apologised for Jason's death. He and Bernice began to engage in a personal time war against the Deindum, engineering a plan to prevent them from ever having existed. The plan worked, although just before its conclusion Braxiatel was shot by a Deindum soldier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escaping the Future (audio story)|Escaping the Future]]'')

[[File:Happy Endings Brax.jpg|thumb|right|Braxiatel at Bernice Summerfield's wedding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')]]

Another incarnation of Braxiatel attended Bernice Summerfield's [[Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding|wedding]] to [[Jason Kane]] in [[Cheldon Bonniface]] on [[24 April]] [[2010]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Many Happy Returns (audio story)|Many Happy Returns]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') and was still running his Collection thousands of years in the future, where Bernice Summerfield met him for the first time. The Doctor had sent her to find out more information about [[Manaxus]]. Braxiatel helped her in her work. He later provided a ship for her to get to [[Heletia]] and get the information to the Doctor. He had a handwritten version of ''[[The Good Soldiers]]'' written by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Theatre of War (novel)|Theatre of War]]'')

Long after Braxiatel employed anyone at the Collection, Bernice found him in the wine cellars of a monastery on Old Earth. Braxiatel told her that he never had a brother so that everyone would believe that the Doctor was dead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shape of the Hole (short story)|The Shape of the Hole]]'')

In the aftermath of [[Omega]]'s escape back into the prime universe, Braxiatel rescued [[Romana III|Romana]] from her dead [[Type 160]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]'')

After Romana succeeded in changing Gallifrey's destiny, Braxiatel was confronted by [[the Watchmaker]], who told him that his life could no longer continue as the paradox that it was. Braxiatel submitted to his fate and gave himself to the Watchmaker, who intended to find him his "true path". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')

[[File:Ace and Brax.jpg|thumb|right|Braxiatel and [[Ace]] during the Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]'')]]

The long standing tensions between the Time Lords and [[Dalek Empire]] finally broke out into the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Doctor (short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'') After the declaration of war, Braxiatel asked Romana for her permission to go on a field mission with [[Ace]] to gain vital intelligence for the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention (audio story)|Celestial Intervention]]'')