The Doctor's early life: Difference between revisions

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]]'', ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'') and had not [[regeneration|regenerated]] before leaving in [[the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')

However, the Doctor's own memories were unclear regarding their early life and origins, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Who is Dr Who? (short story)|Who is Dr Who?]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') and several accounts suggested that they had non-[[Gallifreyan]] origins ([[human]] or [[Timeless Child's species|otherwise]]) ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') or incarnations before the one who fled Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'', [[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 by a number of factors, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') such as; [[Omega]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') [[Faction Paradox]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'') subconscious [[regeneration]] influences, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') [[the Toymaker]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) and, above all, the impact of the Doctor's own adventures through [[time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Previously, Next Time (audio story)|Previously, Next Time]]'')

According to most accounts, the Doctor was born on the home [[planet]] of the [[Time Lord]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') [[Gallifrey]], ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'') When asked by [[Organon]] what star sign he was born under, he said that he was born under the sign of [[Crossed Computers]], the symbol of the Gallifreyan 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 (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Dr. Who]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'') originating from [[Victorian era]] [[Britain]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') or [[planet (An Unearthly Child)|another planet]] entirely ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') in the [[49th century]]. A [[Boy (Unnatural History)|young member of Faction Paradox]] claimed to the [[Eighth Doctor]] that his "original" home was indeed a colony in the 49th century, until it was invaded by [[the Enemy]], causing him to flee; the Enemy subsequently began rewriting the Doctor's history bit by bit "while [he] wasn't looking". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'')

The Doctor recalled having a [[family]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') 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]]'') He had at least one brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') but [[Maris]] could find no Gallifreyan documentation on him despite hearing that he existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')

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]]'') After [[scream]]ing as he was dragged out from the Loom, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') the Doctor's first word was "Again?" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') Maris found a birth notice claiming the Doctor had been loomed but also found various other, disagreeing, origins for the renegade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')

By other accounts, the Doctor did have parents, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') 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 to [[Wagg|Professor Wagg]] that his mother was human, which {{Roberts}} also determined through analysis of the Doctor's [[retina|retinal structure]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Although he would indicate to [[Chantir]] that this was a ruse to trick the Master, ([[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]]'') as 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]]'') the [[Infinity Doctor]] remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') One of the many contradictory origins for the Doctor that Maris found was that the Doctor had been born to "a human mother" and a "Time Lord father" on Otherstide. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')

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|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]]'')

Some accounts said that the Doctor's [[biodata]] included memories from a [[Founder of Gallifrey|founder]] of Time Lord society called "[[the Other]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al.)

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 [[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]]'')

Information about the Timeless Child's life after they were briefed about the Time Lord agency called [[the Division]] was redacted from the Matrix's databanks altogether, save in the highly allegorical form of the life of fictitious Irishman [[Brendan (Ascension of the Cybermen)|Brendan]], which ended with Brendan's memories being forcibly and painfully erased as he retired from police duties. The Master believed that the Child, with their memory erased and their body regressed back into a child, had become [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] with whom he had attended [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') The image of the Timeless Child beneath the gateway was unearthed from the Doctor's most hidden memories by the [[Remnant]]s on [[Desolation]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'') the Master later claimed that the history of the Child was buried "deep in all [Time Lords'] memories". ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')

[[Post-War universe|After the end]] of the [[War in Heaven]], following the erasure of the Time Lords from [[history]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') the Doctor was originally [[Soul (Sometime Never...)|Soul]], a member of the [[Council of Eight]], who suffered [[amnesia]] and, after the two landed the ''[[Jonah (ship)|Jonah]]'' in a [[junkyard]] in [[London]], [[1963]], believed that [[Zezanne]] was his [[granddaughter]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'')

The Doctor was born with a name which they would come to "conceal in despair". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')

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 [[Eighth Doctor]] himself remembered growing up with all the privilege that came with belonging to an "important", political family on Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Must-See TV (audio story)|Must-See TV]]'')

The [[Third Doctor]] remembered living 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, either with 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]]'')

The Doctor grew up in a large city. When he asked his mother where babies came from, she told him that they were delivered by [[stork]]s, a claim that he was suspicious of given how few storks he saw before going to a [[zoo]] at the age of ten. He heard that a baby was due next door and watched the house, seeing the [[midwife]] come and go and making him think that the new baby had been brought by her in her [[bag]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] would later blame his "idiot parents" for not telling him about [[sex]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'')

As a child, the Doctor would play in the tunnels under the [[Panopticon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Order of the Daleks (audio story)|Order of the Daleks]]'') 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 also watched a [[meteor storm]] on Gallifrey with [[the Doctor's father|his father]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and read a book about the [[von Neumann seeding probe]]'s landing on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spore (short story)|Spore]]'') When the [[Second Doctor]] met children in the [[Land of Fiction]] who seemed to be from an [[E. Nesbit]] or [[Kenneth Grahame]] story, he found they reminded him of "golden summer days and childhoods long ago". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (novelisation)|The Mind Robber]]'')

Among his favourite bedtime stories were ''[[The Three Little Sontarans]]'', ''[[The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes]]'', ''[[Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday]]'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'') and ''[[Maximelos and the Three Ogrons]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'') [[Granny Five]], the Doctor's favourite among his 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. ([[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]]. 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]]'') the [[Kin (Nothing O'Clock)|Kin]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'') the [[Shakri]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'') and the [[Kar-yn]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tulpa (comic story)|Tulpa]]'')

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 lingering, whispering to him from the waves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'')

During his formative years, the Doctor was "brain-buffed" at [[House of Lungbarrow|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 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]]'')

According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], "as a boy" he always wanted to drive a steam train - as soon as he knew what a steam train was as they didn't have them on Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'')

[[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]]'') and the [[Ninth Doctor]] identified himself as the "only child left out in the cold". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') His [[imaginary friend]]s included [[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]]'') According to the Eighth Doctor, he had no [[friend]]s as a child "for a long time", and spent much of his time [[crying]] alone in the [[dark]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Must-See TV (audio story)|Must-See TV]]'')

[[File:Untempered schism.jpg|thumb|right|Like all his peers, the Doctor gazed into the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]

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]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') in the [[Class of 92]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'') He received tutelage from [[Borusa]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') [[Azmael]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') and [[Gostak]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the Beginning (audio story)|The End of the Beginning]]'') 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 had a room at the Academy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time in Office (audio story)|Time in Office]]'') and 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, the Doctor formed a strong attachment with [[the Master]]. 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]]'') The Master suspected that he had a crush on him from the start. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'') According to an account which portrayed [[the War Chief]] as a different Time Lord from the Master, the Doctor also befriended him on his first day. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') According to [[River Song]], the Doctor also had a crush on [[the Rani]] while they were at the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'')

While they were "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]]'') The Doctor, the Master, and the Rani formed a trio. Borusa realised none of them would have a future on their homeworld. The Doctor was also happy to be a scientist, and spent his time preforming "silly" [[chemistry]] experiments with his other friend [[Drax]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') The Doctor also had a friendly relationship with [[Vansell]], whom he called "Nosebung". They also both knew a student with the nickname "[[Toast rack]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'')

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 [[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]]'')

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," the Doctor went to visit [[the Hermit]] 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, the Hermit 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 were some of the finest hours of his life with the Hermit, 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 the Hermit the name of the mountain on which he dwelled. He had been told by Old Lady [[Nine Teeth]] that it was called [[Plutarch]], while 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]]'') Later, [[Ansillon]] claimed that as the Hermit he had guarded the caves of [[Mount Perdition|Perdition]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'')

The Doctor left the Gallifreyan equivalent of primary school at the age of forty-five. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')

The Doctor was originally a [[medicine|medical]] student and took the [[Hippocratic Oath]]. Although he gave it up after two years to instead specialise in [[science]], he still stood by his oath to help the sick long after he left [[Gallifrey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)|Farewell, Great Macedon]]'')

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]]'') where he sealed the rift. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Report on Term's Work (short story)|Report on Term's Work]]'') 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]]'') The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] remembered [[hot-wiring]] [[warp drive]]s as a [[teenager]] on [[weekend]]s, though she quickly noted that Gallifrey had neither "teenagers" nor "weekends". ([[TV]]: ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'')

[[File:Vortex Butterflies Borusa.jpg|thumb|[[Borusa]] lectures the young [[Time Lord]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'')]]

When the Doctor was a young boy, Borusa scolded him 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]]. He told the Doctor, about the process: "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 his friend [[Padrac]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]'') At some point in his youth, the Doctor became addicted to using [[vortex manipulator]]s, with his [[eleventh incarnation]] recalling himself as a "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]]'') and to preform forbidden science experiments. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]'') The Doctor, the Master, the Rani and at least seven other young Gallifreyans were part of a group called "[[the Deca]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')

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." Despite this, the First Doctor believed 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]]'') played games with the principle of [[transmigration]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]'') and learnt of the species that had risen to prominence in the [[Dark Times]] known as the "[[Old One]]s". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'')

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 and rejected an offer to retake it, making him unqualified to operate a [[TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Festival of Death (novel)|Festival of Death]]'') His [[tenth incarnation]] would later state he had failed the test all together. ([[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 in the same tech course as the [[First 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 (mythology)|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 [[Gallifreyan history|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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') By some accounts, the Doctor remembered being a pioneer amongst his people. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (episode)|The Rescue]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') By another account, because the Time Lords had already explored every time and place, he didn't believe there was any point to him fulfilling this dream, and he sought another reason to have hope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') The Doctor did once visit the world of [[Machasma]] with the Master at one point. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Darkness and Light (audio story)|Darkness and Light]]'')

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]]'')

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]]'') 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]]'')

According to a nightmare the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the [[Celestial Toymaker]]'s influence, the First Doctor 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]]'') According to other accounts, the Doctor continued his education and graduated. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') et. al)

The Doctor earned a [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] degree at [[Time Lord Academy|"Time Lord University"]] and 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]]'') He passed 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]]'') A low mark on an essay about [[temporal mechanics]] that he wrote contributed to his low passing grade. Even years later, however, he insisted the paper deserved a higher mark. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') By one account, his low grades were 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]]'') while other accounts indicated they were the grades he truthfully deserved. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'', et. al)

He graduated with "only" a double gamma. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') The Doctor graduated with the Master in the [[Panopticon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') The Doctor's time at the Academy, like the rest of their early life, was in flux due to their travels through time, as [[Maris]] found while investigated this point in the Doctor's life; she found one document that claimed he attended the school for twenty years, while another claimed his education was centuries long, while other evidence claimed he was expelled, possibly for his political ideals. When she visited the Academy, it seemed as if everyone remembered the Doctor, but there was no agreement on what his schooling was like; she both heard that he graduated with high grades and that he barely graduated with his 51 percent mark. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')

The [[Fourth Doctor]] once claimed to have received an [[O-level]] in Starship Weaponry from [[Gallifrey Comprehensive|Gallifrey Comp]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Star Beast (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Star Beast]]'')

While the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] once claimed to have received a doctorate at the "[[University of Gallifrey]]", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Herald of Madness (comic story)|Herald of Madness]]'') Maris found evidence that the Doctor never obtained a doctorate, only to also find evidence that the Doctor had. She also found evidence that he had a degree in cheesemaking. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') Indeed, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] once stated he had a doctorate in both cheesemaking and medicine. ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'') Maris also found evidence that there was a warrant for the Doctor's arrest, only for there to be no record for such a warrant in her notes. Maris also believed "Time Lord University" did not exist but found evidence that the Doctor studied [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] there and that the Doctor trapped one of the school's lecturers in a [[time loop]], only to be sanctioned by the [[chancellor]] of the university. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')

[[File:Young First Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor held high power on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'')]]

Though in one account, the Doctor worked as a lowly [[Scrutationary Archivist]] in the [[Bureau of Possible Events]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') and one even claimed that he was never properly inducted as a [[Time Lord]], having been "blackballed" due to his interventionist views, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)|Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?]]'') others held that he 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 in the incarnation later known as the [[First Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'')

According to the [[Scrolls of Gallifrey]], the Doctor soon became a [[Councillor]], much like [[the War Chief]], and enjoyed a long but unfulfilling career which he saw as little more than that of an "intergalactic policeman"; he made no secret of wanting more out of life than this. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') The [[Second Doctor]] later claimed 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]]'')

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]]'')

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]]'') According to one account, this ban occurred during the Presidency of [[Rassilon]] and some time before the [[Eternal War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')

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]]'')

According to one account, because he had not successfully attained the rank of Time Lord, the Doctor initially had only one lifetime, which he spent as a [[commercial time traveller]] before retiring. In his retirement, he studied for a [[doctor]]ate in [[Botany]] and then decided to move to [[Earth]]. He would only later "crack the secret" of how to regenerate, giving himself a new lease of life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)|Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?]]'')

On one instance, the First Doctor saved a glowing life form from being killed by his old friend [[Magnus (Flashback)|Magnus]], resulting in a falling out between the two. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'')

Prior to his departure from Gallifrey, the First Doctor was in contact with [[the Corsair]]. On the instructions of a future Doctor, the Corsair stole the [[Hand of Omega]] to bring it to him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue and a Thousand Crimes]]'')

One account referred to the Doctor as the greatest [[human]] [[mathematician]], whose [[equation]]s had at long last united [[Space]] and [[Time]] fully into the inextricable concept of the [[Idea of the Living Matter]]. This had allowed him to construct [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], a machine which could withstand and travel through [[Eternity]] and [[Infinity]] in a [[microsecond]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Equations of Dr Who (short story)|The Equations of Dr Who]]'')

A similar account identified Dr Who as being to [[Albert Einstein]] what Einstein had been to [[Isaac Newton]], a master-[[mind]] who had at last fully understood [[spacetime]] and would come to use the knowledge to set out on a mysterious [[odyssey]] across all of Time and Space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who is Dr Who? (short story)|Who is Dr Who?]]'')

Dr Who was well-known to [[Earth]]'s government in the space age and resided there, notably being called by them as a matter of course to interrogate a [[Dalek]] who had been found adrift in space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'')

According to one account, [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|one early incarnation of the Doctor]] married [[Patience]], and they had thirteen children together. Eventually, the First Doctor travelled back in time, rescued [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] and [[Susan Foreman|her granddaughter]] from danger on Ancient Gallifrey. Patience was unsure of who the First Doctor was but then observed that he wore her husband's ring. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The First Doctor later stated that he "supposed you could put it that way" when asked if he had sons, daughters, or both. ([[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 Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|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 stated that Susan was 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 origins, 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 who had stowed away on the Doctor's TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'') Other accounts had her being rescued from the time period of [[the Other]] by the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') who later adopted her as his granddaughter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World (short story)|The Longest Story in the World]]'')

However, [[the Curator]] maintained that Susan was the Doctor's biological granddaughter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') According to one account, 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]]'')

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, who had come to know the Master ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') but feared him, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') to watch him and a group of Prydonians perform a ritual in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]]. During the occasion, the Master gave Susan a toy that was secretly a communication device he would use to track the Doctor if he ever left their homeworld. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')

According to most accounts, the Doctor's trip with his [[granddaughter]] [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] to a [[junkyard]] in [[London]], [[1963]], occurred before his first [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') However, by some accounts, the Doctor had already [[regeneration|regenerated]] several times before he went with Susan to the junkyard, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'', ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') though the [[Eleventh Doctor]] told [[Clara Oswald]] that he had regenerated only twelve times after that body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')

[[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] reminded the Doctor of several lifetimes he spent as [[Patience's husband|her husband]]. A renowned explorer, the Doctor was a [[pioneer]] and lived in the [[House of Blyledge]]. The Doctor had thirteen children across several incarnations and multiple grandchildren, although most of his family was killed in a government culling of the [[womb]]-born. The First Doctor travelled back to this period, rescued his past-self's newborn granddaughter [[Susan]], and met with Patience in order to rescue her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')

While the First Doctor was able to remember being a pioneer amongst his people, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') the Fifth Doctor and the [[Sixth Doctor]] had only vague memories of their life from before what they remembered to be their second regeneration, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') with great chunks were missing further back. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') According to one account, these memories of the Doctor's earliest lives were wiped by [[the Divison]], explaining why the Doctor had assumed they only regenerated thirteen times because they were made into a child once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')

During 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]]'') The Fourth Doctor later told Romana that "Time Lords have ninety lives", and that he himself had already gone through "about a hundred and thirty". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') [[Xoanon]], a computer copy of the Doctor's brain, spoke with not just the Fourth Doctor's voice ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'') but also voices resembling [[Chub]]'s, [[Toos]]', ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'') and [[Parsons (The Invisible Enemy)|Parsons]]'. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'')

According to reports found by [[Maris]], the [[First Doctor]], two days before he left Gallifrey, was involved in a riot and become wanted by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] for "interfering in non-time-travel-capable species' development". Maris then found documentation that disagreed with this story, leaving her confused as to the Doctor's past. She later realised the Doctor's past was constantly changing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')

According to {{Ainley}} the Doctor had fled Gallifrey during reprisals after a failed student revolution, accompanied by Lady Larna who had been hiding in the TARDIS which he stole. He knew Larn as “Susan” and she affectionately called him “grandfather”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')

One account depicted the Doctor and Susan leaving Gallifrey to take the [[Hand of Omega]] away from the current chaos on the planet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')

An Astral Projection of the Doctor's life depicted him fleeing Gallifrey alone with the Hand of Omega after his Cousin [[Glospin]] claimed to have evidence that didn’t originally come from the [[House of Lungbarrow]]’s [[loom]]. The Hand of Omega guided his TARDIS back to the [[Dark Time]] where he encountered [[the Other]]’s granddaughter, who recognised him as her grandfather. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')

The [[Eighth Doctor]] recalled leaving Gallifrey accompanied by Susan after she caught up with him as he was about to close the TARDIS door. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')

The Doctor's brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]], who held the position of [[Lord Burner]] to President [[Pandad VII]], allowed "an old man" and "his granddaughter" to flee Gallifrey, even though Braxiatel had been given the order to [[temporal dissolution|erase them from history]]. The very same day, President Pandad died when a power relay in his office overloaded; an inquiry headed by Braxiatel found that this was an "accident". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'')

One account depicted the Doctor and Susan together being chased by armed guards into a [[repair shop]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') where the Doctor was guided to steal one particular TARDIS by an echo of [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')

Some accounts held ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') or implied that Susan was the daughter of the [[President of the High Council]] at that time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') Susan later recalled the Doctor had not explained why they needed to flee Gallifrey. According to her memories of the event, he simply told her they needed to get away, and she explained the recollection by saying that Gallifrey "just wasn't our home anymore." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')

The Master and the Rani were desperate to know where the Doctor had gone, while [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|the Doctor's original TARDIS]] hired [[Maris]] to find her owner. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') According to some dissenting accounts, Dr. Who himself built the ''Tardis'' he escaped him. ([[TV]]: "[[The Executioners]]", [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Equations of Dr Who (short story)|The Equations of Dr Who]]'', ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')