Alec O'Conor

**Alec O'Conor** was a human from Pasadena and a companion of the Sixteenth Doctor.

## Biography

### Early Life

Alec was born in Pasadena to Nadine and Hank O'Conor, and was the younger brother to Constance O'Conor. (TV: *A Masterful Reckoning*) When he was a toddler, his father ran off with a work colleague. (TV: *The Girl with the Porcelain Skin*)

When he was 12, Alec was caught shoplifting after undergoing a deal for a friend. Embarrassed and anxious, he threw a stone through the shop door and did a runner. (TV: *Spiders and Fireworks*)

He attended South Lakeview High, claiming that the only subject he cared for was chemistry and biology, both of which he subsequently failed. (TV: *Master of Worlds*)

During his time at South Lakeview, he developed feelings for a girl in his classes who ultimately rejected him a few days before the prom. Instead, he took his best friend after he too had been rejected. (TV: *The Unearthly Dramatics of the Theatre*)

### First encounter with the Doctor

When he was around 23 years old, Alec first encountered the Sixteenth Doctor upon entering the Pasadena Observatory after she'd requested the directions to the nearest restrooms. Noticing her in a dazed state due to her very recent regeneration, he offered to take her, to which she politely declined.

After eventually leaving her alone, he then came across the TARDIS in one of the janitor's closets, wondering if it could belong to Connie and her "dumb secret projects". Upon trying to open it, he was met with disgruntled noises from the TARDIS who had been, later according to the Doctor, still undergoing a desktop change. (TV: *A Masterful Reckoning*)

### Encountering the Doctor again

Deciding to ignore the TARDIS, Alec met the Doctor once more when he was on his way into the main laboratory to find his sister, Constance. He found the Doctor experimenting on several pieces of equipment, altering some of it with her sonic screwdriver in order to create a better tracking device which could home in more accurately on Professor Dominus who had been the source of her suspicion since she'd regained her composure following the regeneration. She later admitted that she had no real reason to find Professor Dominus remotely suspicious, and was basing her investigation purely off "half-baked instinct", which Alec found vaguely amusing.

With the help of his sister, Alec kept a close eye on Dominus until the Doctor was able to sufficiently figure out a plan. A plan which, despite being extremely effective in disarming a bomb rigged to detonate the entire building, was not able to stop her completely. She revealed her true identity to be that of the Master and that the radio signal which had been emanating from the establishment was in fact a call for help, before abruptly fleeing Earth onboard an unidentified mothership with her own TARDIS in tow. Reluctantly, the Doctor accepted her defeat in the hopes that she would encounter this "new" face again and right everything that had occurred; including the death of Alec and Constance's mother. (TV: *A Masterful Reckoning*)

### Travels with the Doctor

On their first adventure, the TARDIS brought the time-travelling trio to the Starwork Dramatic Theatre after the Doctor had decided a trip of lighthearted fun would potentially lift the siblings' spirits following the untimely demise of their mother. However, things soon turned sour after Constance had been mistaken for an absent contestant and was forced into putting on a performance for the guests of the Theatre, with deadly repercussions if she failed to create an outstanding performance for the audience.

Alec had initially blamed the Doctor for getting his sister into such a lethal situation, before eventually discovering the real reason behind everything that had happened.

When everything had been resolved and when Theatre owner Roman Murphy had been murdered at the hands of one of his vengeful performers, Alec sided with the performer and claimed that killing him was the right option; his mind still slightly clouded by the thought of having lost his mother, and now almost his sister. (TV: *The Unearthly Dramatics of the Theatre*) He later brought up that this was one of many times he'd felt unsafe aboard the TARDIS. (TV: *Disappearing Act*)

Their next trip in the TARDIS was at the request of Alec himself, who had insisted they visited the City of Truro; a historic train originating from Truro, Cornwall in the 1910s. Ideally, it would've been a proper break from the unusual trouble that the Doctor had landed them in previously, except this hope had been swiftly extinguished at the discovery of a 52nd century Time Agent, Alistair Carson, onboard the locomotive.

Alec was initially tasked with distracting Carson so that the Doctor could slip in and snatch his suspiciously confidential documents, but Carson soon caught on and eventually ended up taking an entire carriage of innocent passengers as hostage until all three of his "rivals" revealed themselves. The Doctor, Alec and Constance ended up doing so, which then resulted in a chase across the train as it neared its final destination. Realising he couldn't make it, Carson used his vortex manipulator in order to flee the scene, leaving behind the documents which Alec found was intel on a war that, chronologically, hadn't occurred yet. (TV: *The Timeless Train*) When trapped alone in the company of the Master in Iriemond, a city on the planet Catalist, she revealed to Alec that she was pulling the strings behind what occurred on the City of Truro. (TV: *Spiders and Fireworks*)

## Personality

Alec, while maintaining an attitude similar to his sister, was sometimes too easily led. He was quite gullible and would believe almost everything he was told, be it a lie or not. Following from this, he often showed sympathy towards nearly everybody.

## Appearance

Alec resembled a man of average height in his early-thirties with lightly coloured skin, blue eyes and short, blond hair. (TV: *A Masterful Reckoning*)