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{{Infobox Individual | {{retitle|"Mrs Flood"}}{{Infobox Individual | ||
|image = Mrs Flood (TCORR).jpg | |image = Mrs Flood (TCORR).jpg | ||
|species = | |species = | ||
|origin = | |origin = | ||
|mother = Flood's mother | |mother = Flood's mother | ||
|first cs = The Church on Ruby Road (TV story) | |first cs = The Church on Ruby Road (TV story) | ||
|actor = Anita Dobson | |actor = Anita Dobson | ||
|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|73 Yards (TV story)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}}}} | |appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|73 Yards (TV story)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}}|[[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Untitled 2 (Doctor Who at the Proms 2024 audio story)}}}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
"'''Mrs Flood'''" was the alias used by a woman whose "true name" was a secret, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}}) although she once maintained that "Mrs Flood", no more and no less, was her "true and proper" name. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Untitled 2 (Doctor Who at the Proms 2024 audio story)}}) | |||
Although clearly more than she appeared, notably displaying knowledge of [[TARDIS]]es, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) she "hid herself away" as the inconspicuous neighbour of [[Ruby Sunday|Ruby]], [[Carla Sunday|Carla]] and [[Cherry Sunday]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) While she got along with the [[Sunday family]], Mrs Flood had a somewhat antagonistic relationship with her neighbour [[Abdul (The Church on Ruby Road)|Abdul]], who she believed was spying on her. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Early life === | === Origins === | ||
Mrs Flood once conspicuously dismissed the possibility that she was "some [[outer space]] [[villain]] in [[disguise]]", to a largely sceptical audience. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Untitled 2 (Doctor Who at the Proms 2024 audio story)}}) However, she herself once mused on the fact that she was "always hiding herself away", pointedly echoing the [[Fifteenth Doctor]]'s claim that [[Time Lord]]s might use [[regeneration]] to "hide [them]selves away". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) | |||
Indeed, when about to die to [[Sutekh]]'s [[Dust of Death]], she seemed to drop her dotty façade in front of [[Cherry Sunday]], calling her a "tiny little woman" and alluding to the fact that she had "such plans". When she heard that Cherry was [[Religion|religious]], she imperiously told the woman: "Then tell [[God (mythology)|your Maker]] I will come to storm down His gates of gold and seize His kingdom in my ''true'' name". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}}) | |||
She claimed that she could sometimes "hear stories on the breeze". ([[AUDO]]: {{cs|Untitled 2 (Doctor Who at the Proms 2024 audio story)}}) | |||
=== Early life as Mrs Flood === | |||
During the [[1970s]], Mrs Flood saw [[police box]]es on the streets of [[London]] for the final time. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) | During the [[1970s]], Mrs Flood saw [[police box]]es on the streets of [[London]] for the final time. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) | ||
She nursed [[Flood's mother|her mother]] through [[diabetes]] and a [[hip]] [[operation]]. She ultimately died of an [[ulcer]] when Mrs Flood "wasn't [[looking]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) | She once claimed that she had "nursed [[Flood's mother|[her] mother]] through [[diabetes]] and a [[hip]] [[operation]]. She ultimately died of an [[ulcer]] when Mrs Flood "wasn't [[looking]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) She also claimed to have gone to a concert in [[1986]], seeing [[Queen (band)|Queen]] live; they thought they were "not bad", but a "bit nosy". | ||
On [[Easter]] [[2023]], Flood did a [[fun run]] in [[25 (number)|twenty-five]] [[minute]]s flat, despite having [[blister]]s the size of [[apple]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) | On [[Easter]] [[2023]], Mrs Flood did a [[fun run]] in [[25 (number)|twenty-five]] [[minute]]s flat, despite having [[blister]]s the size of [[apple]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) | ||
=== Meeting the Doctor === | === Meeting the Doctor === | ||
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Later, after Ruby had located her birth mother, [[Louise Miller]], and brought her to meet Carla and Cherry, Mrs Flood narrated to her audience that Ruby's story had a happy ending, while standing on the roof of Ruby's building at night in a furry white hooded coat, carrying a white parasol in her left hand and a suitcase with "[[Penzance|PENZANCE]]" written on it in her right. Flood concluded that the Doctor's story conversely ended in "absolute terror", before declaring "night night" to whomever she was narrating too. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}}) | Later, after Ruby had located her birth mother, [[Louise Miller]], and brought her to meet Carla and Cherry, Mrs Flood narrated to her audience that Ruby's story had a happy ending, while standing on the roof of Ruby's building at night in a furry white hooded coat, carrying a white parasol in her left hand and a suitcase with "[[Penzance|PENZANCE]]" written on it in her right. Flood concluded that the Doctor's story conversely ended in "absolute terror", before declaring "night night" to whomever she was narrating too. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}}) | ||
=== | === Other realities === | ||
In a [[ | In a [[Timeline (73 Yards)|timeline]] caused by the Doctor stepping on a [[fairy circle]] in [[2024]] and vanishing, Mrs Flood talked to Ruby while she and Carla were conducting an experiment to try and speak to the [[The Woman (73 Yards)|mysterious woman]] who had been following Ruby around ever since. Mrs Flood noted that Ruby was standing in the middle of the street, talking to her mother on her [[mobile phone]] at strangely close quarters. When Ruby reacted, Flood stated it had nothing to do with her before descending the stairs into her basement. ([[TV]]: {{cs|73 Yards (TV story)}}) | ||
==Personality and traits== | ==Personality and traits== | ||
