Miranda Dawkins Miranda Dawkins was the Eighth Doctor ' s adopted daughter and the supreme ruler of the universe in the far future . Many of her friends said that she looked like Jodie Foster . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) Biography . Miranda ' s father , the Emperor , was a Time Lord , the last survivor of a catastrophe that ravaged Gallifrey . On the night Miranda was born , he was assassinated . Two members of the Imperial staff spirited the infant to the village of Greyfrith on Earth in the late 1970s to keep her safe . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) The rebels travelled to the early 1980s while Miranda was young and killed her adoptive parents . The Eighth Doctor quickly stepped in to adopt her . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) The Doctor used to sing a song about windmills to Miranda . ( PROSE : " Grimm Reality " ) Miranda shared several adventures with the Doctor during this time . One such adventure involved fighting the Network , which had taken over Miranda ' s school . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) The Doctor raised Miranda . When she was sixteen , the rebels returned to kill her as well . Miranda killed the leader of the rebels and fled . Three years later she was discovered again , but reached an understanding with the rebels after she rejected her would - be captor ' s assertion that strength would always prevail . She returned to the future to inherit her title as " supreme ruler of the universe " . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) She first spent a night in 1989 , the night of the fall of the Berlin Wall , where she lost her virginity to a boy whose name she didn ' t know . A UFO then took her to the future for her rule to begin . ( COMIC : " Miranda " ) Miranda was taken to the Supremacy and declared empress of the universe , commander in chief of the Imperial fleets , custodian of the artefacts , mistress of the four keys , head of the galactic bank , and absolute ruler of the known and unknown planets . However , a servant warned her that the commander of her forces , Prefect Ferran , planned to marry her , use her bloodline to open the Librarinth , and kill her , so Miranda escaped with the help of Mack Gideon . ( COMIC : " Miranda " ) Many years later , Miranda had united the factions and houses on the Needle , and ruled her empire peacefully . Miranda saw the threat of the Council of Eight to the universe , and travelled back in time to help the Doctor defeat them with her daughter , Zezanne . She sacrificed herself to avoid being used as a hostage , saving the Doctor from sacrificing himself instead . ( PROSE : " Sometime Never . . . " ) Legacy . The Doctor kept a photo of Miranda in his wallet . While on Hitchemus , Fitz Kreiner found the photo and noticed that " there was something about [ Miranda ' s ] eyes that made him think of the Doctor " . ( PROSE : " The Year of Intelligent Tigers " ) The Doctor relived the scene of Miranda ' s death during a conversation with Madame Xing . ( PROSE : " Halflife " ) When the Eighth Doctor and Marnal had a vision of the four surviving elementals , they saw a new - born baby girl in the Doctor ' s arms as he sat on an ornate throne . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Personality . Miranda was incredibly gifted compared to the human s on Earth she grew up with . She often had mood swings in her teenage years that caught the Doctor off guard . ( PROSE : " Father Time " )