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Full Name: unknown, most commonly called 'The Doctor'. It's been theorized that the Doctor's true name is a string of Greek and mathematical symbols
Nicknames: the Doctor, Theta Sigma (apparently an Academy nickname or perhaps an achieved grade); to the Daleks, the Doctor is known as the Ka Faraq Gatri, the "Bringer of Darkness", "Destroyer of Worlds" and "The Oncoming Storm"; as part of the prophecy of the Face of Boe, the Doctor is referred to as "The Lonely God". The Doctor has also been knighted by Queen Victoria as "Sir Doctor of TARDIS".
Age/Birthday: 1,136, though years of time travel make the exact calculation of his age hard to determine. Not to mention the fact that he lies.
Loyalty: Time and Space
Marital Status: Time Lord?
Sexuality: Time Lord! Most likely not sexual, despite light-hearted gestures otherwise. This doesn't mean he can't love.

Occupation:
So, what exactly *is* a Time Lord, anyway? Long ago, the planet Gallfrey contained what is theorized to be the first sentient life forms in the known galaxies. They developed further and faster than any other species and expanded their consciousness to understanding all of time and space as a whole. While not all Gallfreyans were Time Lords, all Time Lords were Gallfreyan as they are the epicenter of all Time Lord affairs. Time Lords who had grown sedentary, stagnant and mildly corrupt, just a bunch of historians living in tall ivory towers with pomp and circumstances and none of the connection to what they devoted their lives to. The Doctor was indeed banished by the Time Lords for his more hands-on approach, deemed unethical by the hierarchy and so the Doctor became rogue. So, technically, he's not a very good Time Lord.

But all that changed when a mission was handed down to him by the Time Lords, one none of them could think of taking on. Now, he's the best of them.

Noteworthy:

The Doctor is a Time Lord, an extraterrestrial from the planet Gallifrey and while his abilities are not powers per se, they do count as extraordinary abilities that really aren't 'skills'.

REGENERATION
It has been stated and shown quiet clearly that Time Lords could live forever, "barring accidents." When accidents do occur, they can regenerate and heal themselves, even into completely new bodies, giving them extremely long life-spans. A Time Lord can regenerate up to twelve times before permanently dying (a total of thirteen lives), though as with most such "rules" there were the occasional rare exceptions. Things such as possession of a body through the "Rassilon Imprimatur", the symbiotic nuclei of a Time Lord that bonds him or her to a TARDIS, and allows his or her body to withstand the molecular stresses of time travel. Regenerations need a large amount of energy that suffuses the Time Lord's body. As demonstrated by the Tenth Doctor for the first time in that story, in the first fifteen hours of regeneration this energy is enough to even rapidly regrow a severed hand.

PHYSIOLOGY
Although he physically resembles a human, as a Time Lord his physiology is different. Like other members of his race, he has two hearts, a respiratory bypass system that allows him to go without breathing for periods of time, and on occasion exhibits greater strength and stamina than humans. He has also exhibited a resistance to temporal distortions and a sensitivity to changes in time as well as limited telepathic abilities, though this is rarely addressed.

TELEPATHIC
The Doctor is mildly telepathic, not so much as digging through minds and altering them such as reading them as a natural tool for communication. It's how he can traverse time and space and still speak with aliens and extradimentional creatures and really isn't all that useful outside of mutual understanding or mental communication between other incarnations should more than one be present at the same time.

TIME SENSE

Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world's turning, and you just can't quite believe it cuz everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67000 miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.
- The 9th Doctor

Being bonded with the TARDIS and doing this all as long as he has, the Doctor has an intimate sense of both time and space. A natural direction sense, this can coordinate him with space travel and spacial movement. The same way people remember their general education classes in college, the Doctor remembers what was, what is and what will be. Neither of these is an exact science, more or less guessing from time to time as he does, but it will give him a leg up on most any situations he comes across, just a tiny bit more information and a whole lot more headache and woe.

TOOLS - PSYCHIC PAPER
This latest incarnation keeps on him a form of 'psychic paper', a blank piece of ordinary paper that had the ability to show the viewer anything that the user wanted them to see. The Doctor used this to fake various means of identification, though it could be used for a variety of documentation.

TOOLS - SONIC SCREWDRIVER
Being of an advanced intelligence and and having a particular knack for mechanics and electronics, the Doctor carries with him a most advanced and amazing tool, referred to by him as the 'Sonic Screwdriver'. Its most common function is to operate virtually any lock, mechanical or electronic, and thus open doors for escape or exploration. It has also been used for repairing equipment, as an offensive weapon, and occasionally even to drive screws. Recently, it's become a little more versatile, with functions ranging from its usual door opening abilities to conducting medical scans, repairing barbed wire and acting as a remote control for the TARDIS. Like the TARDIS, it has become one of the icons of the Doctor, most likely designed by him a millennial or so ago.

TOOLS - TARDIS
The TARDIS, a living machine for Time & Relative Dimensions in Space, is specifically imprinted to the Time Lord who uses it. This imprint comes from the Rassilon Imprimatur, part of the biological makeup of Time Lords, which gives them both a symbiotic link to their TARDISes and the ability to withstand the physical stresses of time travel. In The Doctor's case, his is an obsolete Type 40 TT capsule that he unofficially "borrowed" when he departed his home planet of Gallifrey. It has been with him for years and is rather a extension of himself by this point as far as his connection goes.

With a transdimentionally engineered interior and a chameleon circuit liked exterior, the TARDIS is a wonder of the known universe. Its insides are exponentially larger than the exterior suggests, giving the Doctor all the room he needs to travel about the multiverse, with the controls, equipment and resources he needs to sustain himself ... and about one or two other people of modest means. Once through the doors of the police box, the TARDIS interior has a vast number of rooms and corridors. The exact dimensions of the interior have not been specified, but apart from living quarters, the interior includes an art gallery (which is actually an ancillary power station), a bathroom with a swimming pool, a medical bay and several brick-walled storage areas. Portions of the TARDIS can also be isolated or reconfigured.

While the chameleon circuit should camouflage the outside of the TARDIS to blend in with its surroundings, it's been broken for quite some time. On occasion he can get it to work, but since his last regeneration, he's grown rather fond of the Earth anachronism and just leaves it be.

The TARDIS locks itself in an elaborate fashion and can only be opened by those who have the key or just so happen to be the Doctor. He has wired things such so that he can remotely control it via the Sonic Screwdriver and can call it to him or send it into hiding. It also contains within it a vortex of Time itself, called the Heart of the TARDIS, that is a literal aperture of Time and Space, infinite in its creation and unknowable by mankind. It's under a small plate in the control systems and is almost a road map for the TARDIS's direction sense. It's also mildly telepathic and utterly maddening.

The interior of the TARDIS is said to be in a state of "multidimensional temporal grace". The Fourth Doctor explained this meant that, "in a sense," things do not exist while inside the TARDIS.

Appearance:
In a general way, the Doctor looks like anyone else. Whoever he's been, whereever he is, he tends to have a basic appearance that fits with his surroundings. Never too tall or too fat, whether old or young he looks like someone you know, or someone you've met before, maybe even passed on the street at one time.

It's the rest of him that doesn't fit in.

One thing or another just doesn't match the body type or, even worse, tries to fit in a little too hard. His personality is a living thing around him, always interested, always looking, a little birdlike. His clothing rarely matches the scene or time, maybe a little too eccentric with scarfs and hats, maybe a little too casual or too serious, almost costuming or the way a little kid might dress himself in order to be an adventurer.

Since the war, a lot of whimsy has been lost for the sake of function with his latest incarnation, but not all of it. Suits make the man, worn tailored on a skinny build with a dress shirt worn in a less than serious fashion. The colors are muted browns and blues, maybe a shiny red from time to time but all of it is covered but a very useful longcoat in brown. He almost might be taken seriously if it wasn't for the trainers. Or the fact his boyish brown hair has a life of its own and can track his moods. Or how outlandish an expression he can twist his face into, how lively and animated his actions are.

The Doctor is simply a mystery.

Desired played-by: David Tennant (also William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul Gann and Christopher Eccleston)

Personality:
This is going to be long.

The Doctor, despite his youthful appearance, has been around a long time. And it's starting to show again.

Free of his more edgy demeanor, at peace with the destruction of the Daleks, the Doctor becomes entirely more light-hearted and easy-going personality. He is much more forgiving of the humans around him, quicker to make friends and certainly a lot more... whimsical for lack of a better word.

But the Doctor, at heart, has a job to do. As the last Time Lord, he takes his own personal sense of justice and honor very very personally and will take extreme measures to ensure it remains intact. His more serious side can come at anytime, a little bit of his old self leaking through and earning the nickname of 'The Oncoming Storm'. Just like previous incarnations before him, he can get ruthless and judge harshly, and cover it all up with a wink and a grin.

Wordier than he's been in a long time, he's taken a tendency to babble, keeping people on their toes when they listen to him as sort of one half keeping people off guard and making sure that the really intelligent ones are getting the right information. He may throw a bit of random pop trivia in with a plan of attack or use a barrage of complicated techno-babble only to explain it in a couple sentences after, but he is most certainly aware he's doing it all.

But he wasn't always like this. To see the man that the Doctor is and is becoming, we have to understand who he has been.

1 - The Doctor started out, and will always be, a man of mystery. He'd lived a long time by the time he'd come to Earth and found his first Companions, Ian and Barbara, he was nothing short of a cantankerous, mistrustful, vicious old man. Through his travels with them, he evened out, so to speak, growing close to those he'd take on his journeys and becoming more of a fatherly sort, enjoying his jaunts through time and space. Despite his age, the Doctor was no pushover or doddering old man (despite a tendency to stumble over his speech), possessing an iron will and determination as well as an incredibly sharp mind towards matters scientific and historical. He was never a good pilot for the TARDIS, but it was a means to an ends to fight the system and bring justice to the universe.

2 - His second incarnation was younger, a little more cowardly and foolish but no less sharp or dangerous. With the same set of morals, he played up his weaknesses to catch others off guard and had a certain sense of wonder about everything, as if the new lease on life had brought back a child-like attitude towards the universe.

3 - Consider the Doctor's third incarnation more of his wild teenage years. He was suave, in charge and flung himself towards adventure. He was also far more handy physically, a master of Venusian aikido, technology and vehicles. He blended in better with the humans of Earth and with a cocky and arrogant air, learned to adapt to their ways instead of pulling them into his wild adventures.

He was more even-tempered, a reluctant mediator instead of the pushy man he'd been before. The paternal steak he'd had in the beginning returned as he thought all of Earth's inhabitants were under his care.

4 - If we continue the analogy, this is the Doctor's crazy freshman year at college. Or perhaps the year he took off to tour Europe on a Vespa. Staying on Earth was no longer an option, the serious job of protecting its inhabitants less of a concern in the fact of intergalactic threats and a fatherly demeanor was replaced with far more Joie de Vie. Immediately recognizable by his rather bohemian attitude and a rather quirky sense of humor, he started to take his position as a Time Lord more seriously, quite authoritarian at times, than he had before, settling himself into who he was without telling a single soul.

5 - But from the difficulties of his fifth regeneration came a more sullen Doctor than had been before. He stopped creating danger, he stopped bossing those around him and created a team out of his Companions, he even cowed to other's leadership when the time was right. He was young again, slightly boyish in a way and even charming in a more subdued ways, but the fifth incarnation was showing signs of wear. Of being tired of his responsibility and starting to regret bringing others into a lifestyle of danger and violence. He lost a child, Adric, the first of his companions to sacrifice themselves to a greater good, and it hurt him harder than he thought he could feel. He lost his fifth incarnation with that name on his lips.

6 - Hiding the hurt of his last incarnation, his Sixth self was loud, abrasive and seemingly self-centered. He as volatile, abusive to some extent with his Companions, he was as loud as his attire and it all served to just slap a coat over a wounded soul. A soul that eventually healed under all that melodrama and sharp words to set him back on the right track of doing what's right.

He wasn't very likable, but it was a time of transition between transitions. Not a time he's proud of, but one he doesn't mind listening to from time to time.

7 - His seventh incarnation brought him almost back in time, trying out the idea of playing the clown again in order to achieve his ends. He tried to divorce himself from getting too close to his Companions and worked on a highly manipulative level, working towards using people, even planets, against one another to set things right.

It didn't do any good. It was, in the end, what made him a lousy Time Lord. He just didn't have it in him to see people as objects and bullet points in a timeline anymore, no matter how much he threw himself into his work under the Gallifreyans Time Lords.

8 - His Eighth incarnation was somewhat of a shadier time for him. He simply started to stop caring, things hurt too much and he threw himself not into adventure or responsibility this time, but life itself.

This was a very short lived incarnation. He used everything he had done before as a template to run away from, becoming surprisingly more human in the long run. He pushed away from all his boundaries, spilling info on the future and himself. Not to mention breaking a rather unspoken rule about how close he could get to his Companions. His kiss with Grace was something he'd never tried before and rather showed how far he'd come since Adric's death. It was a time of growth, gone quickly as this was the incarnation that was sent by the Time Lords to start a chain of events that would lead to the last, great Time War.

9 - Taller, more shorn than he'd been used to, this was the Doctor from the War. With a nearly frenetic pace about him, just at that edge of panic or frantic stress where everything is still really funny, he was a broken man from what he'd seen, still unable to cope with the loss of the Time War. That edge of his sanity approach to things was certainly charismatic in a way, drawing people in or pushing them away at first glance and he most certainly preferred an audience; it gives him a chance to pull on that more light-hearted, witty exterior for other's sake. There's no show when he's alone, and a lot of the pent-up anger and seriousness of who he is and what he does can get to him.

And while he could be openly abrasive to humans when encountered, muttered curses of 'stupid apes' aside, he had finally gotten familiar enough with them all to really cherish the Companionship, especially with Rose. Where he had been ready to kill with impunity, she had had shown him life, rebirth, something new and the Doctor didn't even think that was possible anymore.

He's lost that sort of standoffish nature he had at last incarnation, but can still be rude from time to time, forgetting how to act around people even with the mask of an upbeat attitude. He is lonely, even around other which would explain his longing for an audience, someone to listen to him and that drive to take Companions with him on his travels. It is a loneliness that doesn't go unnoticed.

Positive personality traits:
Unpredictable, determined, hopeful and just.

Negative personality traits:
Temper, lonely, judging and hopeful.

What motivates him/her:
Part biological, part psychological, the Doctor keeps going. Because all of Space and Time does, too. The Doctor has seen the whole of the universe from a very young age and hasn't flinched from it since. He is as constant as the stars and the measurement of time, as one moment passes into the next. He may vacation, he may take a break, but he will always be a Time Lord, on call every moment of our lives and beyond.

Immediate Family:

Last Time Lord
The Doctor is the Last Time Lord. The entire planet of Gallifrey is destroyed in the Time War and he is the sole survivor of his kind.

Companions
While he may not have family or a home, the Doctor does seem to collect people. 33 people from all walks of life across the galaxy have followed the Doctor at one time or another. Time Lords aren't supposed to form attachments to anyone, considering they exist at times at all times at once, but that hasn't stopped the Doctor before.

The Doctor's Granddaughter, Susan Foreman
... considering he has a granddaughter. Susan Foreman isn't her name, having taken it from the infamous 'I.M. Foreman' sign the Doctor took his from and traveled with him in a more familial relationship because of her young age. This set a precedent of how he would come to see a lot of his companions.

Exactly what happened to her is unknown, but since the Time War eliminated all Gallfreyians and the Doctor now considers himself truly alone in the universe, she assumed lost as well.

History:
The short, short version:

His name is a question that remains a quintessential fact of the lord of Time; calling himself 'Doctor Foreman' from the sign he was discovered by, it only confused the two who'd discovered the strange phone box as they asked in turn, "Doctor who? What's he talking about?" When they realized Foreman wasn't his name, they asked Barbara, "Who is he? Doctor who?"

The name stuck.

The extraterrestrial being that has come to be known throughout time and space as 'The Doctor', there is still so much unknown about him that the moniker of 'Doctor Who' is rather appropriate. He's Gallifreyan, from the planet Gallifrey, located in the constellation of Kasterborous, at Galactic Coordinates 10-0-11-0-0 by 0-2 from Galactic Zero Centre, some 250 million light years away from Earth. His fascination with the planet is legendary, as well... everyone has to have a hobby.

He's a Time Lord, set to watch and observe history with a non-interference policy. The Doctor isn't very good at this. Known as a rebel by his people, he enjoyed his 'rebel' status and he explored and communed with the universe.

Then there was the Time War. The last great Time War to be exact, the cause of his last regeneration and the result of the long standing aggressions against the Daleks, a mutated race of robot-like creations that seek only to destroy and exterminate. The Doctor has practically made it his personal mission to stop them; some say it the first volley of the War was made by the Doctor himself when the Time Lords sent the Doctor's fourth incarnation back in time to see the Dalek Army destroyed. The Daleks in turn brought the war to the doorstep of Gallifrey, the Time Lords exterminated down to one. They thought they had died to take the Dalek Army with them thus eliminating their enemy once and for all, but their Emperor survived. Through a purge and involved regeneration, he created a new, more powerful army and drove every single one of the Daleks mad by naming himself a living god.

200, 000 years from now, the Daleks come to Earth. With forces unseen in the entire galaxy, they wipe out the planet Earth and the orbiting Space Station above, down, once again, to the Doctor himself. Time itself breaks down as the Doctor's Companion, an Earth woman named Rose returns in the TARDIS. Things get... funny. Having looked into the vortex of Time itself and absorbed the energies within in order to send herself into the future to find the Doctor, she took down the Dalek Emperor and his forces, wiping them out molecule by molecule and wielding life and death itself. This wasn't meant to be. No living thing could hold that much energy and Rose Tyler would die.

The Doctor took the energy from her and returned it to the heart of the TARDIS. Rose woke up, no memory of what had happened and how she'd saved the world. The Doctor remembered, and the energies he'd taken from her were killing him, cell by cell.

He did his best to explain, Rose being a bright thing still didn't find the answers very comforting, but stood back as his body died.

The Time Lord regenerate into new bodies as the old one breaks down, this should have been the same. On Christmas eve, Rose patiently and not so patiently sat through a difficult regeneration, spurred on by a possible alien invasion and returned to an all new self, a new start, and was not in fact, ginger. They traveled again, the Doctor having shed some years and seeming a much brighter and light-hearted fellow, candy coating a darker, troubled past. He lost Rose and some of that candy coating chipped off. He said as much as he could to her before he faded off from her reality, leaving behind some of what saved him in another dimension.

He met Martha and his sense of direction was retuned. She gave him focus, some clear sense of what he was out here for. At the end of the Universe, he found Jack Harkness again, as well as someone he thought he left behind lifetimes ago. His guard was down and a strange sort of hope was renewed when the Master stole his TARDIS and left him at the end of everything. He, Jack and Martha chased him back to Earth where the Master set himself up as Prime Minister and for three years, the Master won. The Doctor was beaten, his friends scattered and chained and the Master slowly playing with the human populace like a kid with a magnifying glass, looking at line of ants on a hot day.

The Doctor did save the day, thanks to hope and Martha. And for awhile, there were two Time Lord in the universe and there was some hope for that lost civilization. But the Master couldn't let that happen; shot by his own 'companion', the Master willed himself not to regenerate and won for the last and final time. The Master left and Martha left and the Doctor supposed he was better for it.