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The Doctor's Timeline (v14)
v1-v13 were somewhere else
Not Authorial Confirmation of Anything done as speculation only
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Heritage Falls
Robert Banks Stewart Doctor fanart by Kevin for my Forgotten Lives x Gravity Falls crossover story Heritage Falls.
Description below
The Second Morbius Doctor is called away from his post in 1941 England due to a mysterious German incursion in a remote town in the Pacific Northwest known as Gravity Falls. When Patricia Ramirez overhears a man from a foreign government talking about the town. She steps in to help when no one else will. For a demon is coming back to Gravity Falls, and if it manages to return, it could mean the end of the world. Crossover between the Forgotten Lives Charity Anthologies (Doctor Who) and Gravity Falls, set a good thirty or so years before Stanford arrives in Gravity Falls and over a full half century prior to the series.
My own for fun fleshing out of the idea posited by Jonathan Morris that the other voices Xoanon adopts in the Face of Evil are forgotten incarnations plucked from the Doctor's subconscious.
Specifically played by Pamela Salem, Rob Edwards, Anthony Frieze and Roy Herrick.
The First Xoanon Doctor (Pamela Salem)
This incarnation was posted on Earth by her request, as part of the Time Lords solidifying of the Web of Time as history, arriving in the era of the First World War. Upbeat and playful, she had a knack for outmanoeuvring her opponents even in spite of the cultural pushback against the form this incarnation took. She also often came across as anachronistic due to a lack of understanding of the culture of the era of this planet that she was assigned to. She, however, was occasionally prone to seeing humans more as interesting specimens than individuals in their own right.
The Second Xoanon Doctor (Rob Edwards)
Coming across as an eccentric but kindly Professor-like figure, wearing a scruffier version of a formal outfit. This incarnation took up teaching on Earth. He was heavily interested in the idea of luck as an external force and wore a clover on his lapel to represent that. He was prone to meddling in events outside his purview, but only subtly, within his remit as an agent of the Time Lords and thus often employed luck or what appeared to be luck as a ‘weapon’ of sorts in said situations, despite his pleasant exterior he was capable of doing almost anything if he thought it would benefit the ‘greater good’. He was the first incarnation to meet the Abbot.
The Third Xoanon Doctor (Anthony Frieze)
This incarnation lived for a long time, aging up from a child to an adult. He spent a lot of his time on Gallifrey, getting involved in the internal politics of the planet as an advocate for the Non-Intervention policy. He regretted the meddling his immediate predecessor was prone to, though he still returned to Earth to observe the planet and would occasionally intervene if he found a situation significant enough to warrant it. He was brash and abrasive, and had a superiority complex, but still was a kind-hearted person when the chips were down. He met his end in service to Gallifrey in the midst of a Time War.
The Fourth Xoanon Doctor (Roy Herrick)
A calmer, younger, mellower incarnation. This Doctor prided himself on his moral compass, whilst he still acted as an agent for the Time Lords, he treated the role as secondary to his interest in the planet Earth and its people. He was granted an official remit to travel across the Universe, rather than just the history of the planet he was observing, as a result of a great service to Gallifrey during his early life. He was also one of few early incarnations of the Doctor who contemplated any form of relationship with a human, though he ultimately never went through with it. Despite this, he still maintained a wide social network in the era to which he was assigned.
(Did an amateur artwork, also including headcanons for the 'eras' under the assumption of them directly preceding the Morbius Doctors from Forgotten Lives)
DW Niche Writing/Recommendation Roundup
Did one of these last year, about six months ago now (more as an ad for my Amended Lives series back then) but figured I should do one again, this time more general.
First of all, my own stuff. No more Amended Lives so far (I'm working on it but I had other ideas). This time we have.
Robert Banks Stewart Doctor meets Gravity Falls
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Douglas Camfield Doctor meets Terraria Calamity Mod
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Both from a vague DW crossover series idea I had, one that I don't necessarily intend to fully develop but still one I wanted to explore a little.
Then thirdly there's Skyfall
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
My first full Herrick Doctor story, featuring the return of regenerative dissonance Time Lord Yanis, an attempt to create a character with the condition that isn't just a bunch of cliche 'evil split personality' tropes.
Previously in their fourth incarnation in Conspiracy of Censeron, now returning for their regeneration into their sixth incarnation. Featuring copious EDA references, Raptors, Eldritch Time Lords, lesbians and Tecteun and Rassilon both being awful. (TW: Ableism and predatory animal hunting typical violence).
Speaking of Eldritch Time Lords I also contributed to @eldritchdimensionality with a Holmes Doctor story 'Broken'. Also check the whole thing out, as the other stories in the first issue are fantastic.
Then lastly we have Architects of a Failed World, at the Cheshire House, a part of the Castaways of Ishiok series.
In addition to my own work I also have some recommendations, starting with the Cheshire House (@thecheshirehouse) which has had a lot of stories since I last recommended them. Particularly the start of @theangelshavethephonebox's Zadellin series with 0rigins and the continuation of Plum Pudding's Disparate Minds series. Highly recommend.
Next up, Forgotten Lives Fanfiction. First up with @the-last-teabender, creator of the Hinchcliffe Doctor's contribution to Doctor Who day.
The blog of author and journalist Kara Dennison. Books, critical essays, observations, and more.
And following up on this is Chris Wing, writer of Hope Springs's Christmas Special.
Merry Christmas everybody! I really fancied revisiting the Camfield Doctor, with Carol, and also add a little more to the characters of Lee
In addition to this there's the start of the Salem Doctor series, based on my original concept, which itself was based off Jonathan Morris's suggestion, and conceptualized collectively on the Forgotten Lives server as a community characterbuilding project. @thesalemdoctor's incarnation
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
And that's all for the moment. If you choose to read, or even if you don't read mine but choose to check out one of the recommendations. Thank you.
Till next time. Thien Valdram.
The Unified Intelligence Taskforce Official Catalogue – Detailing the Known Incarnations of the Renegade Time Lord Known as the Doctor.
(My attempt to explain the In Universe origin for the Doctor Numbering that makes sense)
General interaction protocol: Unless a specific placement in the life of a particular incarnation is evident, protocol is to assume the incarnation only has the knowledge of their predecessors life, not any encounters they themselves may have had with UNIT, unless they make specific reference to prior encounters without prompting. Encounters referenced that do not correlate to the known set of UNIT encounters with the Doctor are to be catalogued in the ‘Future Encounters’ database, subject to internal review.
The Numbered Roster, Incarnations Who Work Alongside UNIT
The First Doctor
First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 6 (Subject to Dating Protocol), Omega Incident
Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation is described as the First based on the Omega Incident and Death Zone incident, wherein this life is the earliest one present in both locations. The direct predecessor of the incarnation who first encountered UNIT, interactions with this version of the Doctor should be kept to a minimum as per the temporal protocols.
The Second Doctor
First Official Encounter: UNIT Year -4 (Subject to Dating Protocol), London Incident
Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation is the first to interact with UNIT, doing so during UNIT Year 1, The First Cyberman Incursion. As such it is to be assumed that this incarnation is unaware of UNIT or its operations unless they make specific reference to it themselves. The exception to this is encounters with a grey haired, older looking iteration, which are to be catalogued separately and not to be mentioned to future incarnations either.
The Third Doctor
First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 1, First Auton Invasion
Important Interaction Notes: As this incarnation was stranded working for UNIT until the Omega Incident, it is reasonable the majority of the time to assume any further encounters with this incarnation involve a version who is already aware of these events.
The Fourth Doctor
First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 8, K1 Incident
Important Interaction Notes: As this incarnation was born within UNIT and travelled with Sarah Jane Smith for his early life, it is reasonable to assume they are familiar with the events of the K1 Incident, First Zygon Invasion and the Krynoid Incident.
The Fifth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 1980, Discovery of the TARDIS in Pompeii
Important Interaction Notes: None to report
The Sixth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 1983, Derbyshire
Important Interaction Notes: None to report
The Seventh Doctor
First Official Encounter: 1997, Camelot Incident
Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation has been heavily involved in UNITs past prior to his first official encounter, specifically in UNIT Year 8, The Vardan Incident, among others.
The Eighth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2003, Malebolgia Incident
Important Interaction Notes: There is a large period in which this incarnation lived on Earth (first reported in the late 19th Century until the early 21st), during this period they possessed amnesia and are to be treated as a named incarnation. (Specifically “The Amnesiac Doctor”)
The War Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2013, Operation Double
Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation, despite being chronologically between the Eighth and Ninth, was not catalogued until years later and is specially numbered as they are not to be mentioned to the subsequent three incarnations due to repressed trauma from an event known as the ‘Last Great Time War’.
The Ninth Doctor (Previously “Northern Doctor” before identification)
First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 8, Albion Defence Investigation
Important Interaction Notes: Avoid bringing up the events of the ‘Last Great Time War’.
The Tenth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2006, Sycorax Incident
Important Interaction Notes: Do not confuse this incarnation with the ‘Fourteenth Doctor’ (First encountered 2023, The Giggle). Take extra care determining the incarnation in question and categorise as appropriate in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.
The Eleventh Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2011, Goruda Investigation
Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’. Also avoid alluding to future incarnations outright as this one believes himself to be the final one.
The Twelfth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2014, Fracture Incident
Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.
The Thirteenth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2021, Three Minute Eclipse
Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’. First official encounter was during the 2017-2021 UNIT Shutdown caused by the infiltration of the organisation by an alien agent. As a result, care is to be taken regarding future encounters with this incarnation to avoid revealing the nature of said shutdown.
The Fourteenth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2023, November 2023 UFO Incident
Important Interaction Notes: This incarnations entire life up to the events of ‘The Giggle’ is known and catalogued by testimony. Post-“Giggle Events” should be catalogued separately under the “Bigenerated Doctor” after being first placed into the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.
The Fifteenth Doctor
First Official Encounter: 2023, The Giggle
Important Interaction Notes: Do not assume this incarnation is familiar with events that happen to the post-‘The Giggle’ Fourteenth Doctor until such a theory has been adequately tested.
Non-Numbered Incarnations of Unknown Placement
The “Bearded Doctor”
First Official Encounter: Prior to 1991 (Incident Report Lost)
Important Interaction Notes: Placement unknown, presumed to postdate the First through Eighth Doctors but that cannot be assumed.
The “Flaming Sword Doctor”
First Official Encounter: Prior to 1991 (Incident Report Lost)
Also known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor.
Documented but not Encountered
The “Fugitive Doctor” (Active periods: 1962, 1999-2020)
The “Bearded Scholar Doctor” (Active periods: 1740-1804)
The “Detective Doctor” (Active periods: 1938-1944 – Worked with British Government)
The “Inventor Doctor” (Active periods: 1918-1955, 1975)
The “Adventurer Doctor” (Active periods: 1788-1792)
The “Ambassador Doctor” (Active periods: Pre-2005, only known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor)
The “Enigma Doctor” (Active periods: 2472, via testimony from Jo Grant)
The “Agent Doctor”
The “Showman Doctor” (Active periods: 1960-1963, 1970)
“Dr Who” (Active periods: 18XX-Post 1963)
The “Ginger Doctor” (Active periods: 2010)
The “Wheelchair Doctor” (Active periods: Pre-2005, only known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor)
Amended Lives
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Began a thirteen part loosely connected fanfic anthology series based around the Morbius Doctors, my own versions of the Xoanon Doctors and the dual homeworlds Censeron and Alkydron, first mentioned in 'Island on the Edge of Eternity' at the Cheshire House.
Currently four stories exist, a prologue starring the Fugitive Doctor and stories starring Anthony Frieze (Third Xoanon), Graeme Harper and Robert Holmes.
There's no consistent release schedule it'll just be whenever I feel like writing a part.
Other Forgotten Lives fanfics I also recommend
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
More Than Anything written by @mintyimperiatrix and starring the Douglas Camfield Doctor
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
An Unexpected Double Act by @heresmyfiddlestick and starring the Robert Banks Stewart Doctor in a MultiDoctor story with the Season 6B Second Doctor.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The Bank of Kartopolis written by @mintyimperiatrix and starring the Phillip Hinchcliffe Doctor
I also recommend checking out the various series on the Cheshire House. (@thecheshirehouse) There's some very fun ideas there and I'm incredibly impressed by what everyone has managed so far.
Forgotten Lives Digital Release
Limited Digital Release has just been put up for Forgotten Lives 1, 2 and 3 (@forgottenlivesobverse) at Obverse Books @obversebooks.
This is a limited release so don't miss out. (I really sound like an ad but I swear these books are worth it)
Forgotten Lives Doctor Lifespans Speculation
A mostly unsuccessful attempt to establish some kind of bounds on the lifespans of the Morbius Doctors based off of the Forgotten Lives charity anthologies.
Update: Added Forgotten Lives 3
The First Morbius Doctor
The First Morbius Doctor lives through ‘less than a year’ in an aberrant timeline and 24 years between ‘The Knocking in the Mineshaft’ and ‘The Hand of Light and Shadow’ (As Daveth meets the Doctor in 1780 and dies in the latter story with his death date being given as 1804). The latter story is also this Doctor’s rejuvenation story and thus the ending bound on his age, though the beginning is unclear.
Stated: >24 years
Calculated: >25 years
The Second Morbius Doctor
Very little is actually said about the lifespan of the Second Morbius Doctor, we know he established a base on Earth in and around the outbreak of World War II (1936 at the earliest) and was still there as of 1944. His rejuvenation occurs later in his life, during free travels with Joan Weston, plus we know he travels in the TARDIS whilst based on Earth, so the actual time passed for him is more than the linear time he was present on Earth.
Stated: >8 years
Calculated: >8 years
The Third Morbius Doctor
The Third Morbius Doctor has two children, Cedric and Jilly, who are implied to age from 0-15 between 1939/1940 and 1955, this is implied to be linear as Cedric and Jilly age at the same rate as their friends. In addition, he states that he spent 20 years on Earth during World War I, which is implied to be in this incarnation, similarly he first crash landed on Earth in 1918 and lived through to 1955. However, in addition to this, this Doctor claims he can ‘barely remember how many centuries’ it had been since he last saw musician Fred Bailey, who recognises this specific incarnation, indicating he lived for more than one century at a bare minimum, he says in FL3 he doesn’t always travel with Cedric and Jilly and his visits have been getting less and less numerous.
Stated: >57 years
Calculated: >200 years
The Fourth Morbius Doctor
This incarnation is claimed to have ‘met a premature end’ implying that he is the shortest lived of the Morbius incarnations. In addition to this, interviews with the author implied he actively travelled with only one major companion. ‘Rue’, whom he met on the first adventure after his renewal. The only statement we have is that he lived for four years on Earth between Rue’s departure and Swan’s first travels.
Stated: >4 years
Calculated: >4 years
The Fifth Morbius Doctor
The Fifth Morbius Doctor implies he lived a similar amount of time to the linear amount of time passed between the outbreak and aftermath of Space War II. Totalling to 16 years, in that story he meets his companion, Dattany, who resembled Patience 16 years prior but had greyed between then and when she starts travelling with him. She was stated to be 147 and look 60 by his rejuvenation/execution and no longer resembles Patience at all. Scaling her lifespan based off the average human lifespan and whatnot gives a total of approximately 61 years of travel with the Doctor. However, we do know that this incarnation did drop Dattany off in the aftermath of his family’s deaths, long enough to travel with at least one other companion.
Stated: >16 years
Calculated: >77 years
The Sixth Morbius Doctor
‘The Captain’ claims that the Sixth Morbius Doctor has lived for at least 120 years, this is still early in their lifespan but no other counts are ever given so that’s all we can go off.
Stated: >120 years
Calculated: >120 years
The Seventh Morbius Doctor
The Seventh Morbius Doctor has a total of 50 handlers, which all seem to last enough time for him to remember them. One mission alone lasted 49 days and assuming each handler lasted at least one mission would put an absolute lower bound on this incarnations lifespan of 7 years. Though he likely has lived for much longer as, in addition to that lower bound being really low, this incarnation explicitly had a travelling era before being given a handler, plus months of rehabilitation after the events on Ortmeir and an unknown amount of time having escaped from Gallifrey travelling with Bretor Ohm.
Stated: N/A
Calculated: >7 years
The Eighth Morbius Doctor
The Eighth Morbius Doctor has pretty much no indication of his lifespan other than the implication he’s had a large number of companions and that he lived longer than the Fourth Morbius Doctor who ‘met a premature end, which implies he lives for at least four years. Jack and Varne seem to age roughly in sync between FL1 and FL3’s stories, implying if Varne’s aging matches human aging that Varne travelled with this Doctor for roughly two years.
Stated: N/A
Calculated: >4 years