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According to one account, these memories indicated that the Other was an old man from [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[England]] who invented the TARDIS to help the [[police]], then left Earth to introduce [[civilisation]] to a [[jungle planet]] called Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') | According to one account, these memories indicated that the Other was an old man from [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[England]] who invented the TARDIS to help the [[police]], then left Earth to introduce [[civilisation]] to a [[jungle planet]] called Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') | ||
By one account, the Doctor had these memories because, after the Other committed [[suicide]] by throwing himself into the [[Prime Distributor]] for the Looms, he was [[reincarnation|reincarnated]] as the Doctor. The [[First Doctor]] eventually travelled back in time to early Gallifreyan history to pick up the Other's granddaughter, who instinctively recognised him as her grandfather. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') According to other accounts, the Other was instead an [[ | By one account, the Doctor had these memories because, after the Other committed [[suicide]] by throwing himself into the [[Prime Distributor]] for the Looms, he was [[reincarnation|reincarnated]] as the Doctor. The [[First Doctor]] eventually travelled back in time to early Gallifreyan history to pick up the Other's granddaughter, who instinctively recognised him as her grandfather. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') According to other accounts, the Other was instead an [[Aliases of the Doctor|alias]] used by the Doctor when he travelled back in time to influence [[Rassilon]] in early [[Gallifreyan history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scrolls of Rassilon (short story)|The Scrolls of Rassilon]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | ||
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During his time at the Time Lord Academy, the Doctor's personal hero was [[Omega]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Omega (audio story)|Omega]]'') whose [[Statue of Omega|statue]] in the [[Capitol]] was ancient by the time the Doctor was attending the academy. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') While at the 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 the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the experience drove him "completely mad," and he was "never right in the head again" afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | During his time at the Time Lord Academy, the Doctor's personal hero was [[Omega]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Omega (audio story)|Omega]]'') whose [[Statue of Omega|statue]] in the [[Capitol]] was ancient by the time the Doctor was attending the academy. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') While at the 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 the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the experience drove him "completely mad," and he was "never right in the head again" afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | ||
[[Missy]] claimed that while growing up, the Doctor started calling himself [[ | [[Missy]] claimed that while growing up, the Doctor started calling himself [[Aliases of the Doctor#Doctor Who|"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]]'') When skipping classes, the Doctor and the Master would hide from Borusa in the alleys of the Capitol. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] retained traumatic memories of once being chided by one of his teachers, [[Professor]] [[Findle]], for being "a nasty piece of work" whose only concern was to "meddle". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') | 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]]'') When skipping classes, the Doctor and the Master would hide from Borusa in the alleys of the Capitol. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] retained traumatic memories of once being chided by one of his teachers, [[Professor]] [[Findle]], for being "a nasty piece of work" whose only concern was to "meddle". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') | ||
