What On Earth Is Theo Possible?
A featherless biped, for a start. A time-travelling DJ. A snappy dresser. Perhaps more pointedly, “Blair Bidmead’s answer to Iris Wildthyme, whose Tardis Wiki page you will find here”.
But that’s not the real question. Is he a Time Lord, or what? With a name like that, I always assumed he was some kind of posthuman; but Ryan Fogarty’s Wringing Off implies otherwise, with second-generation Outsider Pyke Xi-Rauth having the following mental reflection:
Pyke lived in the slums of paradise; a relopod ward in the drylands. He was not one of the privileged lickspittles of his planet’s aristocracy. With the exception of a few artists and revolutionaries like Theo Possible his kind never got the chance to break out from where they ‘belonged’.
Wait, what?
Obviously, I had to investigate. Here’s what Ryan told me:
Meeting the First Doctor [in The Rise and Fall of Señor 105], he expresses a great and active animosity towards the aristocracy. It's never spelled out, but I tend to think that he is a Shabogan who ended up adventuring off-planet and was never anywhere near a Time Lord Academy.
[But] even talking to Blair he hemmed and hawed on that question. I don't commit one way or the other [in the quoted Wringing Off passage] — internal to Pyke's own timeline, he knows him because he deejayed a couple of concerts on the Sixth Homeworld and on the Space Wrestling circuit.
(The Sixth Homeworld is by far the most permissive one to sneak into, you see, because it was shoddily put together.)
Intriguing! Frustratingly inconclusive, but intriguing!