Character Biographies

A Resource for the entire Who Discord server, I present these biographies. Will constantly be updated. 

Thanks to everyone involved in this, especially Mikey, Arbrax, Clara_Fan, Riley, and the others who've contributed to this hellhole of a continuity. 

Ninteenth and Twentieth Doctor and Their Companions

The Nineteenth Doctor can initially appear to be an abrasive and aloof man, incredibly headstrong and on occasion, dangerously reckless when under pressure. Despite these qualities, he also finds great joy in his travels, and in the company of his friends, and despite caring deeply for them, sometimes his secretive nature can lead to conflict between them. He can be fairly mercurial on occasion, one minute completely calm and the next in a total frenzy, making him occasionally fairly hard to predict, even to his friends. This can come to his advantage when facing foes, and combined with his reckless streak makes him an opponent anyone would be foolish to underestimate.

The Twentieth Doctor is a calm and reassuring figure in a universe full of chaos. Confident and unshaken in the most dangerous of situations, she's a stark contrast to her previous incarnation's more manic and reckless nature. She can assess situations incredibly quickly, and is a great strategist, though she can occasionally struggle with understanding other people's emotions and can sometimes come across as a little bit inconsiderate. For the most part a serene and more laidback figure than her previous incarnation, she is incredibly difficult to anger, but when she's enraged she can be a harsh and merciless force of nature.

Ciaran is A 25-year old photojournalist, living in early 22nd century San Francisco when he first meets the Doctor. In the 'original' timeline he was a soldier who died during the Dalek occupation of a human colony world, though a force called the First Horizon altered history.He only has vague memories of the 'original' timeline, but he doesn't let it bother him, too busy letting his enthusiastic and inquisitive nature get him – and his friends – into trouble. He usually plays peacemaker between the Doctor and Laura, and regularly makes notes and takes pictures with his advanced phototablet.

Laura is A 26-year old barmaid from the sleepy English village of Barrstone in the mid-1980s. The Doctor brings her onboard the TARDIS, concealing the truth from her that she is a splintered version of one of his previous incarnations, brought into existence by the effects of the First Horizon. She's snarky, and occasionally loses her temper, but generally she's also the most sensible person in the TARDIS when the Doctor and Ciaran are rushing headfirst into danger.

Eleanor "Ellie" Bennet is a 42-year old professor of anthropology at Luna University. In 4125, she finds herself assigned to the colony world Kozrifell, where she first meets the Doctor, who has spent the past twenty-five years in charge of the Grand Library. She's a resourceful and intelligent woman, not afraid to put people in their place, more often than not including the Doctor – especially when this involves keeping Laila out of danger. Despite this, she gets on very well with the Doctor, and they both have a great deal of respect for one another.

Laila is A 19-year old intern working under Professor Bennett for a year, having recently finished her exams at the University. After meeting the Doctor, she finds herself considering just what else the universe has to offer after her internship is over. She's a smart, driven, and occassionally impulsive young woman, and has a great adoration for both Professor Bennett and the Doctor.

Roman is a Former President of Gallifrey and travelling companion of the Fourth Doctor. Now in his seventh incarnation, it's been a long while since he first encountered the Doctor, and they've both changed a great deal since then. But with the universe under threat (once again) some problems need more than one Time Lord, and Roman isn't about to let the Doctor get all the credit. A bit more wild and unpredictable than his previous incarnations, Roman relishes the opportunity to make new memories with his old friend, though with his a reckless nature to rival the Doctor's, it can cause the two of them to clash, but friends can always settle their differences. Can't they? Not only that, but there's another Roman that travels with the Twenty Sixth Doctor...and their timelines don't seem to work out. Something devilish is afoot...

After regenerating at the same time as the Doctor, the eighth incarnation of Romana initially appears to be an aristocratic and sensible person, but it doesn't take long for her true colours to show, and a more mischievous and spontaneous side to her is revealed. She sometimes suffers from the same issue of overlooking people's feeling as the Twentieth Doctor, and Kip occasionally finds himself having to keep the two Time Lords on the right path.

Kip is A 22 year-old shop worker from 1990s London. After meeting the Doctor and Romana and helping them both as they recover from their respective regenerations, he finds the chance to escape his old life too good to resist, and soon finds himself on the journey of a lifetime. Having felt forced to stay closeted throughout his life, he sees life onboard the TARDIS as a new kind of freedom, and while initially he's shy and reserved, he slowly starts to allow himself to be more extroverted as time goes on. He also has a great empathy for other people that allows him to befriend others, and also steer the Doctor and Romana in the right direction when they're lacking in tact.

Twenty Second and Twenty Third Doctor and Their Companions

The Twenty Second Doctor is a scatterbrained and spaced out woman. She’s incredibly physical, often lying in strange spots, moving her hands in strange ways as if she was performing an incantation, and flailing wildly in other ways that she does simply because she thinks looks cool. People are very quick to dismiss her as an idiot, which as we know about any Doctor, is never going to be exactly true... but this Doctor often succeeds out of dumb luck, chance and very simple gambits that most of her other precursors wouldn’t bother to attempt. While every other Doctor is the first to Sonic the door, try to pick the lock or break it down, this one would be the first to attempt to just turn the doorknob and open it.

The Twenty Third Doctor is a bit more abrasive, and more simplistic in characterization, leaning towards less soul-searching versions of Twelve or Nine. She’s smart, she’s sassy, and she’s often serious. She doesn’t waste time on quirks or really much in the area of social niceties. This isn’t because she doesn’t care, she’s deeply empathetic just as most Doctors are, and values her friends incredibly, she just doesn’t want to waste time. As such, she will be slightly more abrasive to guest characters, but on the whole, she’s a classical Doctor who knows how to save the world and would just like to get on with it at this point. It frustrates her even more when for the majority of her era, her TARDIS stops working.

Paige is a emotional woman, very modern, and would be the archetypal companion if not for her anxiety. While she's brilliant and regularly tries to hold herself together, outbursts are frequent as it often feels the universe has it in for her. This is probably likely. Paige always manages to get herself back together, but the more and more anxiety provoking dark and awful adventures happen, the more and more she feels uncomfortable. She's left a few times, overwhelmed by her emotions but always finds her way back to the Doctor. She's incredibly attached to the Twenty Second Doctor, the emotion and realism to that Doctor's detachment, that the Doctor's eventual return to her life under a new face left her incredibly skeptical. Paige is a soft and kind person, who doesn't really understand how to react to all of the cruel in the world. This makes her make friends easily. It's Paige who invites Hannah into the TARDIS who serves the Doctor after her departure and surprisingly she strikes up a friendship with Torchwood Three's hardboiled Mr. Colchester. Paige keeps leaving Doctor after Doctor, and returning to find them back in her life with a new face. By sheer coincidence, Paige and The Doctor keep running into each other and picking up their travels, travelling in the Doctor's twenty second, twenty third and the unnumbered Orla Brady incarnations. In the Doctor's latest incarnation, Paige has had to work especially hard as a conscience figure, keeping the cold new Doctor in check - and she's not quite sure how long she'll be able to manage it.

Paige later dies by the Master’s hand, and her body is possessed by Zagreus. Thanks to the Doctor, She is returned to life in a computer program where she lives with the Editor and a copy of the Alison Brie Doctor. It’s a happy afterlife, but it’s one from which she can’t return. Taking Paige’s name in vain is the one thing that enrages the Doctor, viewing her death as one of her greatest failures.

Hannah is a human young lady, (although she'd roll her eyes if you called her young lady) who has, since as far as she could remember, had mysterious memories of living in England as a lady scientist in the 1800s. It would only be in her teens that she realized that the Ada from her dreams was the actual “Ada Lovelace”. Hannah herself is as far from a refined Ada as one could get—rowdy at times, somewhat brusque, and not really a fan of science. Nothing unusual happens to her besides the dreams, until she got mixed up with an adventure involving her friend Paige, and the strange brunette known as the Doctor. After getting invited by Paige, she travels with her and the Doctor for a mysterious ship called the TARDIS, that frankly sounds impossible, but the Doctor insists exists. Even after the Doctor ends up parting from Paige, Hannah and the Doctor keep travelling, and the Ada dreams keep coming...Brusque and quick to be snappy, she puts her fists up at any alien monster that chooses to cross her. Quickly developing an interest in history, she chooses to put up with the Doctor's general loopiness (one can imagine how she'd react to a less grounded incarnation than Brie) in order to happily survey all of time and space - if the Doctor can get the TARDIS working. She misses Paige incredibly, longing for things to be the same between the three of them again...

Piper is a generally ordinary TARDIS companion... the main things that make her unique are her outlook on life. She's a pacifist - and takes it to the extreme. She's unwilling to hurt someone at all, or even knock out a genocidal maniac for five minutes with a wrench. She once cried for thirty minutes after punching a racist man in the nose. She's a superficial and looks obsessed woman - as well as a professional artist who travels with the Olsen Doctor for the opportunity to see unique landscapes. Her TARDIS bedroom is decorated with hundreds of unique paintings, and she makes a point to do one for every place they visit, no matter how awful the journey was. Most of these pieces the Doctor holds quite dear. She likes social media quite a lot, but she isn't as focused on it as a stereotypical boomer comic - she can turn off the phone and look at the beauty in life any time she likes. The grounded realism to the Doctor's sometimes insane ramblings and goofy actions, she can't wait to see where the TARDIS lands next.

 Twenty Sixth Doctor and Her Companions

The Twenty Sixth Doctor is a silly and chaotic figure, who deep down actually rather does have a bit of a heart to her, even when she’s de-establishing the government with a toothpick and heavy nuclear explosives. Witty to the point of annoyance, She’s violent and plays off her destruction with a smile, even if the people around her proclaim it’s not very Doctorlike. Her chaotic side is due to her ...unique origins and her overwhelming emotional reaction to so much memory of loss and trauma over the years. If anything, it’s a security blanket. Heavily compared and confused with the Valeyard by outsiders, her era was maligned with those who thought her newfound aggression was antithetical to the Doctor as a whole. As time went on, the question of whether she was a real Doctor came to pass on the regular, answered solidly by the curator as a definitive “yes,” as she solidly took up the mantle of peace and justice as a true Doctor on her final day. Given a different scenario as Season Six proves, she could have turned out completely differently if not for the influence of the 'right' companions. Even in that timeline, however, she ultimately made the choice for right. Ish. 

Danny is a ordinary man who lived in London 2079, when suddenly he was subjected to a Dalek Time Experiment, which had the extraordinarily silly result of making him warp into the appearance of Danny Devito. Despite this, he still holds a common perspective and has a deep relationship with the Twenty Sixth Doctor, them being best of friends. He’s warm and helpful, if a bit dense and overly emotional, and is always willing to do just about anything The Doctor says without question. This sets him at odds with many of the Doctor’s other friends, but the Doctor’s not sure what she would do without him...

Roman is the Male incarnation of Romana, who over the years of being annoyed with Gallifreyan politics, has deteriorated into a grumbly old man. He serves as the series’ only sane man, a voice of reason and realism against the many other silly friends of the Doctor, and is the Twenty Sixth Doctor’s longest serving companion. He doesn’t really get along well with Danny at all at first. Over time, he mellows slightly into a little more of a chaotic figure due to the Doctor’s influence, (and possibly his repeated regenerations that eventually result in him looking the same anyway) but he’s never above telling the Doctor EXACTLY when she’s being stupid.

Cherry is a Lesbian Flapper Torchwood Agent from The 1920s, who when exposed to technology of the future quickly became a cheery and hyper but actually nice valley girl. She is slightly trigger happy but is level headed for the most part, and she is overwhelmed with the optimism of the future and how it gets better for all sorts of minorities across the cosmos. She hates injustice. Her optimism clashes with the sardonic attitude of Roman, but she gets along with him better than he did with Danny, it was even Roman who invited her aboard. She also tried to kill the Doctor when they first met, but if the Doctor didn’t hold it against River, you can bet that she doesn’t really care about Cherry having had character development.

Her appearance in the Parody Among Us Torchwood series has her quickly taking control of the situation and replacing Yvonne in the job as Torchwood’s director. After her travels with the Doctor, she’s a lot more of a grounded human being who understands how actually talking to people and interacting works. After a short stint as a leader of Torchwood, she quickly becomes flustered by the level of the job, perhaps having too much of a good heart to succeed in the job. Her naivety causes her to make some serious mistakes in the position. 

Marsha is Cherry’s girlfriend (later wife) and is essentially comic relief. Having grown up on a large quantity of musical theater, Marsha is a carefree and incredibly hammy woman who never does anything halfway, and who the (somewhat developed at this point) Doctor even finds a bit much at times. She can be whiny, but as she grows used to the TARDIS, she becomes a much better person. At least until she suddenly leaves with Cherry after about four stories. More stories with Marsha and Cherry will without a doubt take place in this gap, but even still, Marsha’s tenure in the TARDIS was shorter than one may expect. 

Leticia Palaver (or Lottie to her friends) (the Doctor and Jo Grant are her only friends) is a slightly amoral scientist who attempted a very similar thing to what Clara Oswald did, shattering her across the universe. This was bad, as she did it in a very nasty way, and even killed one of her alternate selves to save the Doctor. There are less Lottie's than Claras, only about Eight, but whenever Lottie enters the TARDIS, she pops out of the TARDIS in another period of time for that TARDIS. For Example, when she entered the Thirteenth, she ended up at Sixteenths, then she ended up at the twenty second, then hopped to the twenty sixth and then to the Third. It has no rhyme or reason. Lottie is slightly bemused by this, and uses a psychic veil when necessary to avoid disrupting the timeline, but is still joyful at being with the Doctor, whether they like it or not, she is bubbly and nerdy, an intelligent but amoral woman who the Doctor is steadily training in a way to become better, now that they are stuck together (admittedly when they meet up in order. Any Doctor before Thirteen that meets Lottie cannot know who she is.) Lottie is alert, and brilliant, and only a tiny bit needy. If only the Doctor could keep her on a leash. Think Osgood crossed with Leela and you get Lottie.

Todd is the twin brother of a side villain from season one, and he is similar to Danny in many ways, but his main character traits are that of the complete opposite of Roman. Todd is polite to a fault, never rude or boisterous, quiet, and kind, yet sadly incredibly spineless. He means well, but his relationship with the Doctor brings out the worst in her whereas Roman brings out the best...whereas Roman is there to say no when the Doctor crosses a line, Todd just...can't. Todd exists in an alternate timeline with the Doctor in a weird pseudo state, and as such the Doctor is at her peak worst characteristics when she's travelling with him. 

Twenty Seventh Doctor and Companions

 The Twenty Seventh Doctor may be an old woman but couldn’t be farther from the Dench Doctor’s characterization, a fairly normal Doctor on the whole. She has the professional ability of the Third Doctor, and the jovial showmanship of the Fourth, but most of her characterization is based upon the Seventh. While she is not as manipulative as McCoy in any way, falling back on the McCoy voice can help in characterizing her. She has similar somewhat ominous reactions to things that she conceals with a jovial nature. Her most original trait is  a lot of straight up Grandmotherly kindness. She's a Doctor who is well adjusted, but still has a bit of a mournful side in her, trying to make amends for the chaos that was in her while the Dench Doctor was learning who to be. Her chief flaw is her inability to respond to the odd shitpost situations that the Dench Doctor was so elegant at diffusing - when faced with the absurdist side of Doctor Who (such as the time she met a Brigadier from a dimension where he was a Banana, or when her TARDIS was suddenly made of people) she tends to get incredibly flustered and ineffectual. When she travels with Sarah Connor, this occurs somewhat regularly, and she gets a little more quick to indignation at the universe’s overriding sense of ridiculousness. Given actual characterization, as opposed to Dench's more madcap "comedy of the moment" method, the easiest way to write her can be to overempathize her more british and relatable elements. Insert as much british slang into her dialog as possible, especially "Luv." She munches on things when she's stressed or thinking. 

Calvin is an audience surrogate on The Whole, but is generally a soft spoken man and more of a curmudgeon than one may expect. Even so, he’s closer to a generic male companion such as Harry Sullivan or Ian than Roman. An important aspect of his character is his calmness. He's seen a lot in his life and doesn't believe in huge emotional outbursts. He enjoys rational thought and calm problem solving, making him incredibly useful under pressure. When all other companions falter, Calvin shrugs. He’s inquisitive and although sometimes offended by the Doctor’s usual Doctorness (He very much prefers when someone is polite, thank you very much) but he still will stand by what is right for the Doctor and humanity. 

He and Millie later both die in an attempt to save the universe.

Amelia Earhart fell through a rupture in space and time and landed her biplane into a house the Doctor was in at the time. How you ask? This is Amelia Earhart from AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. She’s an adventurous and intelligent woman who bases a lot of what she does on a usually correct intuition, and is one of the few people who can get under the Doctor’s skin when needs be. All the same she has a fairly simple emotional range, a desire to help, and explore...even though she knows that eventually she will have to return to her own space and time.

She is later killed, alongside Calvin, in a bid to stop the Dench Doctor, manipulated by the Black and White Guardians, from conquering the universe.

Sarah Connor is literally a cartoonish parody of the character from the Terminator movies. She's brisk, and stern, and likes guns, and honestly, is intentionally characterized in a very thin manner for comedic effect. The Doctor has the inverse relationship with her that she has had with any of her other companions - while the Doctor usually is kept in check by her companions, keeping Sarah in check has taught her just as much about the human character. Beneath all of this, Sarah Connor is actually deeply effected by the Doctor's responses to things - and grieves as much for the Doctor's past mistakes as the Doctor does. An embittered woman like her can understand loss, that is, when she's not readying a tactical missile. If you're wondering why literally Sarah Connor from the Terminator movies is in the Whoniverse, she's well aware she's a film. As a matter of fact, she's an damaged replica of a Sarah Connor personality chip, inserted into an android body by the Time Lords. She's a robot - herself a Terminator - which can begin to give this thinly characterized joke of a woman some actual worry. 

Twenty Eighth Doctor and His Companion

The Twenty Eighth Doctor is Machiavellian, Pragmatic, the peak of sartorial elegance, confidently planning ahead, desperate to be a voice of reason, complete with a dry and sardonic wit. Often cold but never intentionally so. He's been alive for a long time and right now his worst enemyis his own memory. Terrified of forgetting what it even means to be the Doctor anymore, and given his circumstances, he's more than right to be. Tries to use Memory Stamps to fight his memory loss, but it's barely helping.

Cassandra grew up in the countryside and was constantly bored because of it. She loves to read and yearns for more excitement in her life. Teaches history to teenagers, but recently has found it to be a bit lacking. A particular fan of romance and period piece novels. She loves analyzing how things fit together, practically a born mystery-solver and academic. 

The Future Doctor and Her Companions

Forged by battle. Angry. Tired. Constantly making mistakes. The Future Doctor is the source of much of her own grief, and it all has hit her very hard. A flawed woman, and one who in her first moments, started a vengeful crusade that would come back to haunt her for the rest of her life - she started another Time War. She's got to live with that, somehow. And while she hasn't neglected the title of the Doctor - she'll always be the Doctor - she's more willing to bend it. This puts her at odds with herself of course, but the amoral side of her is something that she is both in more acceptance of, and constantly in combat with. Fierce, above all, but not only sharpness. She aspires to be able to connect once more - she's absolutely in love with animals and nature. She tries to be like that. In fact, however,  She's really a scholar, a woman of study who loses herself in research. Never fiction though - she always feels like she has to be productive. But she wants hope. She wants to have her past again. She surrounds herself with that, with Paige, with the Master and the Editor - she loves it. And when she loses them all, one by one, she grasps at hope wherever she can find it - be it with Parker, even though that's impossible, the alternate timeline Romana, or Shelby Gabriella. She wants to be with people. Se wants to be kind. She really wants to feel like she's still the Doctor. 

The Master is starting to feel concerned. Never would she think that she'd actually travel with the Doctor - oh no, that should be so beneath her. But here she is. Because this incarnation of the Master is indeed a concerned woman, actually quite concerned for the Doctor. Because they're friends, right? The Master still is the Master, they have to be. And they still cause far more trouble than they're worth. This Master would be the most cunning and brutal incarnation yet, a woman of ice, and a woman that would be a fierce opponent, but she's constantly having to be genial. There's a war on, and so the Time Lords have to stick together - oh, the distain! The Opposite of the Doctor, as usual. The Doctor gets more and more closer to the dark and has to remind herself of what she is, and so does the Master. Creeping ever closer to the light, and recoiling at it, before sinking back into the dark. Really, it's starting to be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for her...

THIS IS THE EDITOR OF LIGHT CITY. UNACCEPTABLE MATERIAL HAS BEGUN TO SINK THROUGH THE GAPS. ALL UNDESIRABLE ELEMENTS MUST BE CENSORED. THIS AGGRESSIVE EVOLUTION MUST BE COUNTERMANDED AT ALL COSTS. HUMAN FEELINGS MUST NOT BE RECIPROCATED AND ALLOWED TO SPREAD. The Editor is a lovely lovely person, just like the Doctor! They want to be just like them when they grow up! They've even taken a human face for them, isn't that nice? They're going to be the Divergent Universe's Doctor! Every Universe needs a Doctor, after all. The Editor just wants everyone to be happy. HAPPINESS THROUGH ACCEPTANCE. PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH HAPPINESS. 

The Editor’s ultimate fate is discussed in Paige’s bio. 

Parker is in the villains category, despite her brief tirade in the TARDIS before her death.

An Alternate timeline version of Romana II would prove to be both an important ally and a thorn in the Doctor's backside for much of the Second Great Time War. Her timeline diverged from the Doctor's - the life of Romana if she had never met the Doctor on the Quest for the Key to Time. Becoming an obstructive Bureaucrat that was used in a scheme by the Faction, she later encountered the Doctor and betrayed them, but perhaps with a more obstinate and direct character. No longer a great friend of the Doctor, she travels with them nonetheless out of what she views as the duty of her office. She can be difficult, and it is certainly clear that the Doctor doesn't always appreciate being saddled with her, especially since she is exactly like the kinds of time lords that she once hated. 

Shelby Gabriella is a time agent from a timeline that the Doctor erased - an orphan on the streets, scavenging for scraps until she died at a young age. The Faction found her. Saved due to her intelligence and potential, her entire life was rewritten as a servant of the Faction. Until that time too was rewritten, and she soon travelled with the Doctor - briefly alongside the alternate Romana from that timeline, and even more briefly alongside Parker. Saving the Doctor from first the Master, and then the MKUltra program, she proved herself to be a true companion, capable and intelligent. A professional fighter, thanks to her upbringing, she can easily win any physical battle she comes against. Her personality is alert, and inquisitive, and always kind - but she has a mournful nature that comes from all the false lives that she's lived in, that always seem to have tragic endings. Time will tell if her ending is tragic too.

Unbound Doctors and Their Companions

Cadence was a woman that lived a completely normal life with her son and sometimes ex-husband, until the Doctor fell out of the sky and died. It would have been the end for the Doctor if the Doctor didn't transfer her regenerative energy into Cadence, essentially passing the torch from the Doctor to her. The Doctor had done this a few times before, as this was an alternate universe where the original Doctor died on Trenzalore and had to pass their self between humans when they died. Cadence as such, took up the mantle of the Doctor, and although she has the conflicting instinct of her own memory, tried to be the Doctor as best she could. Although Cadence is the Doctor, and holds the Doctor's memories and experiences, it's still quite hard for her, her very human emotions and memories often surfacing. As time goes on, the fractures between the universes began to open a little wider, and Cadence can on occasion enter the main universe where all of our usual Doctors interact, and meeting other characters, but she usually stays in her own, sorting out right and wrong. Her hair changes color over time, with light blue hair currently. She often either wears a magicians’ outfit, or a yellow afghan coat over a blue shirt Always wears goggles. She tries to keep things together outwardly, but inwardly very nervous. Extremely passionate, and is one of the more personable Doctors. Unlike many of her predecessors, still keeps much of her human side, which sometimes make her responsibilities as Doctors harder. She, in her human life, was in charge of community projects , often managing them well. She was good at it, but began to feel disconnected with the “on-the-ground” work of volunteering. Sees being the Doctor as a way to recapture that. As a holdover, she still tends to take the macro-view to problem-solving. That occasionally leads to her missing important details. Has a slight liking for fantasy stories, which echoes in her viney sonic screwdriver and castle-like TARDIS console design. She travels with Illithica, and Miaki, and is optimistic about their future together.

MIAKI IS A SPACE RODENT I DO NOT HAVE THE TALENT TO MAKE HIM

Miaki is a Drea,  which are a race of rabbit-sized flying rodent-like creatures that possess the ability to speak. Came from the mysterious prison planet of Vikare, known for its heavy crime. Rarely speaks on his past. Cynical, but wise. A sort-of mentor figure for Cadence (the Winstead Doctor), whose experience with the previous Doctor lets him teach Cadence how to be a Doctor. (She doesn’t always listen, though). Is really annoyed when he’s called a “mouse.” He was born in a crime family, working the black market on the city of Dreandos. Stolen laser parts, illegal hyperdrives, jailbroken VR sets—his family was into everything. As he grew older, he grew tired of always hiding his life, and hiding from society. Having seen the next generation grow up and away from him, and with most of his contemporaries dead or miserable, he chose to move on. He hitched a ride on an off-world ship, and chose to get a fresh start. Eventually, he met the Gainsborough Doctor while stranded on a medieval planet, and they decided to hang out with each other. He misses her, and hopes to see some of that Doctor in Cadence. He sees Cadence and Illithica as his “surrogate children”, and he’ll defend them fiercely. Concerned about the danger of Illithica’s power, but empathizes with Illithica’s fear of becoming a monster. Sees the Doctor as too tied to her humanity, and has an almost paternal feeling toward her. Secretly looks forward to a time when he can finally rest.

This Doctor is actually a bit of a little shit. A Doctor also from an alternate universe, The accurately nicknamed Not-Doctor is cruel, sociopathic and an incredibly self obsessed egomaniac. He believes everything that he is doing is right, and that he is the hero of his own story. There are no limits to what he will do and no ability to convince him otherwise if you tell him that one of his actions are wrong. He is selfish and wicked. If you think this sounds in any way similar to the Valeyard, it certainly doesn't to him. He hates the Valeyard and has actually thwarted him on a semi-regular basis. The Not-Doctor will try and kill the Daleks and The Valeyard and Cybermen and all his usual enemies from our universe, but he doesn't care for the side-effects, and he'll also kill you too. Because it's fun. He just has the same enemies. The Actual Doctor has only met him a few times, but when she or he does, there are fireworks. Note that the Not-Doctor is never, EVER, the protagonist.

The Master 

This incarnation of the Master (Michelle Yeoh) tried to be good for a while, but it really really didn't stick, as her current incarnation has a distaste for pretty much the entirety of society. She is decidedly authoritarian, and heavily sarcastic, with a really really sharp wit. Cruel, and surprisingly modern, she tows the line between what the Master really is, as she is far from the characterization of Simm, Dhawan or Gomez and holds a practicality that makes her dangerous. Less likely to hold a plan, more likely to cause chaos because she can, but besides her multitude of sarcastic remarks, she's no laughing sociopath. She's deadly serious, and she revels in bloodshed. She delights in showing up and simply increasing a stories death toll instead of any proficient plan. The Doctor rarely encounters this Master alone, she has been plagued by her other incarnations showing up around her, most of which she finds incredibly distasteful as her brand of villainy is far from either the serious Bond Villain manipulations of Delgado and pretty much holds little in common with the others minus the whole superiority complex, of which hers is so pronounced, she once tried to kill four of her past selves (and succeeded!) (Okay, fine, one of them regenerated) 

More archetypal, this Master (Tricia Janine Helfer) held most of the Master's usual traits, coupled with a Country twang and a incredibly childish outlook. She's irrational, irratic and but generally serious, minus her whole childish "I have to win" tendencies. She has an need to play with her victims, even more so than most Masters. She was outsmarted by Yvonne Hartman simply by waiting about way dang too long to kill her and win. She also was outsmarted by the Yeoh Master as well as a group of others by trying to cross her own timeline for her own benefit. As it is, she's deadly, but due to her immature reactions, she often overestimates her own ability. Similarly to the Yeoh Master, the ego complex is definitely there. If she could get her act together though, she is excellent at planning, and has the potential to be one of the most powerful villains yet....Minus the fact that the Yeoh Master already killed her. 

 Jokingly titling herself "The War Chief" this incarnation of the Master is so modern it hurts. Like, If I ever referred to any other character as modern, shut up, this is the modern one. She doesn't quote memes, because that would make the stories shes in dated, but oh my god she totally would, she refers to everyone as "Dude" or "Man" or "Bro" regardless of their gender. The War Chief is just...trash. She's smug, and she has a lighter sense of wickedness than most villains, but she is still willing to do awful things. She doesn't care about consequences, and is always entirely friendly, up and to the point she shoots you. She legitimately would be a great friend...which is weird, because however interested she may act, and whatnot, her title and everything... it's all rebranding. The War Chief is just as Masterly as the others and just as willing to conquer the earth, she just wants to be totally radical while doing it. 

Alistair Petrie's version of the Master is coldhearted in all ways. No jokes, no sarcastic quips, nothing but threat and danger eminate from him, a villain of the old school. This puts him at stark contrast with many of the other modern characters who do begin to wonder if he's like, for real. He undoubtably is. 

He doesn't hold as much interest in the Doctor as many of his other incarnations, especially when she's without her TARDIS- but he's still the Master, and if given enough reason to play with the Doctor for a bit, he most certainly will. Perhaps the most Xenophobic Master, he views Paige and Hannah as utterly beneath notice, usually to his own detriment. 

Julie Graham's incarnation of the Master is included alongside the Thirty First Doctor's companions. 

Other Villains

The Rani is her usual self. Hammy, hammy, hammy. Slightly murderous. Scientific. Occasionally has the same characterization as the Master. She has a love for musical theater, but not that much is different. It's difficult to write a paragraph on how the Rani differs from other incarnations, but come on. It's Bette Midler. As The Rani. Do I need to do a slide show for you on how this is the best possible thing? 

The Plan is a methodical and manipulative fellow, with ludicrously powerful abilities. In fact, not only is he a master strategist, he has infinite regenerations and a Doctor Octopus inspired set of mechanical arms, as well as Cyberman implants and all sorts of ludicrously ridiculous stuff that makes him absolutely improbably efficient. He has a grudge against the Master for turning him into a Cyberman, The Doctor for being the Timeless Child and Chris Chibnall for writing the Timeless Children. Two regenerations of his have appeared in the NCJDDAS series, one of them being feminine. For the sake of simplicity, for this article I will refer to the Plan as a "he" although they do use female pronouns in a female body like most time lords. Either body that the Plan wears, it won't effect his machinations as much, outside of appearance and the Plan may invoke more Ice Queen and Baroness like tropes than the usual Bond Villain persona he has- (although he loses his Cyber-arms down the line becoming slightly less effective...) His whole deal is improbably having planned for every possible occurrence. Except when the plot decides for him to have completely missed some really obvious thing. To be honest, the Plan is super powerful, but only as much as the writer makes him. The Plan is just darn comedic to be honest, a lampshade on all villains that are super powerful and say "Everything is going according to Plan" every other line until they inevitably fail. So, like that. The Plan could appear in a serious story if you needed him too, but his foray is that he is inherently stereotypical. 

Cicily is a xenophobic AI of a secretary that went mad with power and wears several robot suits giving her the generic appearance of an 18 or 19 year old Blonde. Imagine evil Ms. Moneypenny without the flirting. Cicily has appeared in quite a few NCJDDAS related tales, meeting the Dench Doctor three times, fighting off Yvonne Hartman and The Master before seemingly finally being killed by the Valeyard (although who knows with this kind of show) Cicily is pedantic and silly, but still a legitimate threat. She's the kind of villain that mercilessly kills hundreds of people but when asked to by the Doctor will sit still without resistance for at least thirty minutes while she explains all the steps of her evil plan in detail. She definitely has too much secretary in her. 

Parker Pine is a powerful pyrokinetic womanchild that has a love-hate relationship with the Doctor. Experimented on genetically in her youth, she was injected with Osiran DNA, and in addition with her already incredible latent psychic power, makes her a threat to the very face of galaxy wide civilization. Well. Only if she gets mad. Growing up in Capitivity gave her a matter of fact, childlike mentality and very little ability at actual human connection. She fakes a persona of what she observes to be "normal" people behavior, and can front as a normal person if you don't look too closely, but all her reference points are skewed. No matter what, she is snarky, very observant, and on paper intelligent, having very little street smarts. A heavily flawed woman, she flirts and tries to act human without really knowing what this whole thing means. Having been captured and sentenced to death by the Time Lords, she was soon rescued by the Doctor. Originally intending to travel with her, Parker became consumed by her own rage when the Doctor rejected her in order to keep her safe from the raging time war. Parker wants more than anything to be accepted by the Doctor, which is sadly impossible. She doesn't cut it as a companion, she's a danger. On the day that she tried to improve herself and be a real companion, she died on her voyage. This sends the Doctor into a mournful rage - but she’s more upset in the end that she really wishes she could have met what Parker could have been. 

The Torchwood Parody Among Us Cast

Anastasia is a complicated soul, a woman who at her center has an immense sense of justice that she holds other people around her to, and to her equally high standards. She is a perfectionist to a fault, and is quite proud of her spanish heritage. Raised by two fathers, she comes to Cardiff in search of her uncle and stumbles across Torchwood thanks to an unwitting Andy Davidson. Yvonne Hartman recruits her, and seems to have quite a plan in mind for Anastasia, who suffers plenty of hardships in her new job for Torchwood as well as Yvonne's favoritism, which is definitely not the good thing it sounds like. She has a tendency to be extremely emotional until confronted with a breaking point, at which point she will cease to have any emotional reaction out of sheer shock for quite a decently long period of time. 

After a close encounter with an alien device that removes what she believes to be her sins, she becomes all the more driven and unable to see things in front of her, often to her detriment, and if anything, a pronounced effect to her character flaws as she has always been convinced in black and white justice. 

Ash is a "sometimes non-binary" trans man, with He/Them pronouns. Exuberant and friendly, Ash welcomes Anastasia to the workplace of Torchwood, but as with any Torchwood character, he has his own abundant flaws. He is flamboyant, dramatic and borders on the stereotypical, a fan of fashion and theater. Frequently overworked, they serve as both Torchwood's medical expert as well as a technological guru. Although they try to be friendly, the frequent all-nighters as well as Ash's demanding social life can make them quite irritable. They lean on the stereotypical effeminate aspect of gay culture as a crutch, Ash is loud and proud about what he is. This has left him estranged from his less than modern family. He's also fashionable and a decent actor, making him usually given undercover assignments. Having received alien space surgery and whatnot, Ash has unique biology, the cost of a certain messy mission.  He feels unsatisfied - still experiencing the homophobia and transphobia of modern day life. Like most Torchwood characters, Ash has a more than healthy sex life. 

(Never referred to as Tom) Richardson is a mysterious and professional figure, a multi-millionaire and former head of Torchwood four that has shown up out of pretty much nowhere after being lost for many years - even his wife Stacy thought he was dead. He has pioneered the "Butterfli" coding software which runs most of the technology in Cardiff, but it's doubtful if he actually invented it. He has a dark past, most of which is scattered with spoilers, but before Torchwood and before his technology career he served as a professional assassin. He is married to Stacy, but their marriage is at this point something of an enigma to her and most everyone but himself. He's responsible for drafting Stacy onto the Torchwood team, which has caused quite a bit of tension and has a rivalry with Yvonne - they need eachother to keep Torchwood operational, but both cannot stand eachother whatsoever. He couldn't be further from his wife. He is cold, and professional and speaks in an incomprehensible accent that will never be deciphered. 

Stacy is the "Pollyanna" of the Torchwood team, a happy and easygoing individual, but her life has been far from easy - losing her husband Richardson for many years before he returned to Cardiff. She is american and feels uneasy about this, because Americans clearly do not mix well with Torchwood - 

*Cough Cough* Miracle Day *Cough Cough* The Dollhouse *Cough Cough* 

And she really hasn't geled with the team, making the coffee and feeling quite auxilliary to the rest of them - she barely goes on missions or gets a chance to prove herself and half the team (Hunter, Colchester, Yvonne especially) cannot stand her cloying optimism. This is also because Richardson put her on the team ahead of many other more qualified agents who would be better for the position, and as such, many feel she has no right to be there- even her few early successes don't do much to dissuade most of them. She also has a fascinating relationship with Richardson - since joining Torchwood he hardly interacts with her whatsoever to her increasing dismay and confusion. When Cherry takes over Torchwood, she takes Stacy under her wing and promotes her - something shes' not quite sure she's ready for. 

Hunter, the self proclaimed "only straight man in Cardiff" is sadly a bit of a jerk. He's unfair to Ash and Tania, in fact bigoted, and rude, nasty and unpleasant to nearly everyone else. Yvonne somehow really likes him, or at least has factored him into one of her Sylvester McCoy tier complicated plans. 

He's simple and old-fashioned in his own eyes, and well, who's to disagree? But Torchwood, as proven previously by Owen and Tyler, positively needs a resident jackass. 

 Deep down, though, Hunter is almost everything he claims to hate- He gradually gains a crush on Ash, and nearly leaves Torchwood when he thinks they go a line too far. 

Object One is a serene individual, a solid hologram manifestation of an ancient amulet that has plagued Torchwood for centuries, sealed evil in a can that contains the last of the Committee race. She's accidentally caused the fall of Canary Wharf, Alex Hopkins to kill everyone in his unit, all because she has an aura that projects a sense of Bad Luck around her. It is the first thing on the Torchwood charter - the first order from Queen Victoria - that any Torchwood agent must destroy Object One. Yvonne and their team reject this- setting Object One with a device that disables their bad luck aura, and even letting her join Yvonne's Torchwood which could have unforeseen consequences.