It's funny to see the Timeless Child idea placing as well as it is. While I think its revelation was (pretty) flawed, I also like how many potential future stories it opens up (who are the Doctor's real people? What is their home? Why were they abandoned? What else did they do for Division? What else did Division do? How many other Doctors are out there? What else is beyond the wormhole?), compared to the other lore stories, which seem comparitively more self-contained.
1 year ago | 9
I haven’t TECHNICALLY seen a the entirety of these origins but I feel like they could all be thrown together in a way. Just to make an attempt: (remember this is just an idea) The Doctor WAS the timeless child,the timeless child became the other,one of gallifreys founding members,(from what I recall) the other took themselves out(I think they jumped into the untempered schism,like I said I don’t remember very well) and his essence(or something) was mixed with the doctors father,who was loomed,the doctor would then be born to a human mother,and was raised on gallifrey.
1 year ago | 2
I like certain aspects of all 3, can't say I love one over the others
1 year ago | 3
I mostly agree with the TV Movie Lore. No "curse that makes him special" no "other", just him being a time lord. This also explains The Master, and why they hate eachother (average sibling rivaly) I do somewhat agree with "doctor being the last of the timelords", and the fact that him jumping through time, makes the whole "him not being the last of the timelords, then he was the last of the timelords, then he isnt the last of the timelords, then he is, blah blah blah" make a little more sense than different writers having different opinions. He was just an average timelord, who just stole a type-40 tardis. then the whole TIME WAR happened, wiping out the time lords, except the Doctor, Master, and probably Ulysses. Maybe Ulysses was killed, and thats why the fight is so personal between the 2 races.
1 year ago (edited) | 0
I had to go Timeless child as you can't really argue against anything shown on screen. I still think it's possible that Leela is the Doctor's mother regardless though.
1 year ago | 1
Web of Time
Pick your Doctor Who origin lore poison 😨
If you don't know a particular option, here are some bullet point synopses (spoilers for all, naturally):
[👶Timeless Children ]
- The Doctor is the Timeless Child, a being found under a wormhole from another dimension
- The Doctor was the origin of regeneration
- Regeneration was harnessed by Tecteun, one of the 3 founders of Gallifreyan society alongside Omega and Rassilon
- The Doctor has lived an unknown number of previous lives before having their mind wiped by the secret Time Lord organisation "Division"
[ 🌍TV Movie Lore ]
- The Doctor's father, Ulysses, met a woman from Earth and had a child, the Doctor
- Ulysses had another child on Gallifrey, the Master. Making the Doctor and the Master half-siblings
- After an accident that caused the Doctor to have their first regeneration, the Doctor was returned to Gallifrey and went to the Time Lord academy
- Ulysses, being an adventurer, went missing as he decided to explore time and space
- The Doctor and the Master are brought up by their grandfather Barusa
- The Doctor had occasional adventures off-world, but only truly left Gallifrey until his 7th/8th incarnation to search for his father
[ 🧵Lungbarrow Lore ]
- Gallifreyans were cursed by the Priestess Pythia, making them unable to have children
- Time Lord society was established by the 3 founders: Omega, Rassilon and the Other
- Due to Pythia's curse, new Time Lords had to be "loomed"
- Growing tired of their great power and disagreeing with Rassilon and Time Lord society, the Other had themself distributed in the looms, torn apart into DNA
- After millions of years, the Other's DNA came together again and loomed a new incarnation known as the Doctor
- At some point, Pythia's curse is finally lifted. Leela and the Time Lord Andred have a son, the first birth after the lifting of the curse
- The 7th Doctor requests that Leela name their son after him. Making the Doctor half-human
- At some point in the far future, the Doctor becomes the Other and travels back to the early universe
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