Seventeenth Doctor

## Canon

Washing up on a beach on Tosan following the Time Lords' assassination plot regarding his previous incarnation, the **Seventeenth Doctor** became a much more withdawn and closed off character, as he struggled with combatting his feelings that no one was trustworthy anymore.

Further exacerbating his issues was the loss of his TARDIS and thus, **the Doctor** reluctantly accepted young Teddy's request to follow him in his journey to find the TARDIS once more in an attempt to leave his planet. With Tosan/Ice Warrior hybrid Aklur - later known as Amy-Mae - soon joining the two, the Doctor eventually grew to become more trusting just as he was able to uncover the TARDIS which had been stranded on Earth after the Time Lords had disposed of it following his assassination - with the help of fellow Time Lord Jayanna VIII, who revealed himself to be the reason that the Time Lords' assassination plan had failed.

With Xavier later joining the team, the Doctor began to settle back into his normal routine of space-time travel, whilst all the time, trying to avoid any visits to his typically favourite planet, Earth, in fears of the Time Lords discovering that he was still alive. After Teddy and Amy-Mae's departures from the TARDIS, the Doctor was forced to confront a figure from his past for the first time since his regeneration, before Xavier was made to do the same.

Later finding himself alone with Xavier going back to Esubeen, the Doctor travelled with Taylor Bennett and Luna Feng, where they took on Tosan time travel fanatics Revir Ctharcourt and Mera Rakhal, siding themselves alongside the Temporal Intelligence Agency and its leader Kylita Strali to fight them. When Taylor and Luna returned home, the Doctor eventually met a regenerated Jayanna and began travels with her. Finally having a travelling partner on the same level as himself in terms of energy and intellect, the Doctor gained a more relaxed side to his nature and over the centuries of travels with Jayanna, growing dangerously compliant which ultimately led to his end after a final encounter with the Raja. Fully expecting to die, the Doctor flew into the Raja's supernova in a desperate attempt to destroy it once and for all, consequently leading Jayanna to believe that he was dead - as he regenerated into his next incarnation.

## Personality

The Seventeenth Doctor was originally cold and distant to everyone he didn't trust, as a result of the Time Lords' betrayal, even finding it hard with himself to believe that people he should be trusting wouldn't abandon him in the end without a goodbye or for personal gain. In an attempt to prevent this from happening again, he bumbled around his friends, always cautious of messing everything up again. After almost reluctantly taking on Teddy and Amy-Mae as companions, this side of his personality would begin to die out after they saved him from Spartan's Jupiter prisons, causing him to realise that people were fundamentally good and worthy of trust. (TV: *The Spartan Solution*) Despite not actually having an issue with the usual Doctor spiel of saving people and worlds, he still came across as tired of it all.

Following the Adnosina crisis, (TV: *Lies of Heaven*) he grew more willing to be more friendly with strangers than he used to be, but he was still quite a bit snappy and slightly short tempered. With the help of his companions, he came to terms that he would be safe from messing things up with his friends as he had not done so for so long, therefore he was less cautious around them and knew he didn't need to be so uptight. With this new-found trusting side of his personality, he became highly protective, especially over Xavier who was frequently targeted by the Nikta.

In light of all the events that happened to him over the course of his life, such as the Nikta invasions of St Eden, the Doctor actively tried to avoid major situations and cases in some hopes that he could finally gain some long lasting peace and happiness. This did not mean he avoided trouble and people in need, but he tended to try and leave big stake situations to other incarnations, unless his hand was absolutely forced and he had to get stuck in. Travelling with Taylor and Luna led the Doctor to have a personal revelation; he grew to feel like he needed more than one companion, so he had someone to tell him if he were doing wrong with the other. These fears were alleviated by travelling with Jayanna IX; due to her status as a Time Lord, he believed her equal standing with him took on the same role. The Doctor took it upon himself to help Taylor with overcoming her own trust issues, able to relate to her and her personality. Meanwhile, Luna reminded him of how he used to be and over time, hoped that maybe parts of her personality could rub off on him - growing to almost mourn the past in a way, whilst also recognising that he must also move on.

By the time of his travels with Jayanna, he had become significantly lighter in tone, with his trust issues having almost evaporated which left behind a man who who was always dedicated to the task on hand with a slight melancholy view. As he later admitted to her on Arkha following their confrontation with Blockto Korn-Mar Thatch-Bo Jonseen, despite his various companions' attempts at helping him resolve his trust issues, he never truly conquerered his demons and that he wore a mask, trying to hide this slight weakness from the others as to not disappoint them. However, as he asserted, this did not mean that their efforts had been wasted because he had made progress that he couldn't have made without them. With Jayanna's admittance of her severe loneliness, the Doctor put it to himself to help resolve her own issues as she would help him. Indeed, by the time of his regeneration in the Eighteenth Doctor, he acknowledged that they had both come full circle and there was nothing left for them to help each other with.

## Appearance

The Seventeenth Doctor resembled a tall man in his thirties possessing dark skin, deep brown eyes, black hair that barely reached the back of his neck and medium length beard (TV: *On Foreign Shores*) which he eventually started to grow out even thicker. (TV: *From Out The Ashes*)

Teddy noted his similar appearance to the eighth incarnation of Jayanna, leading the Doctor to speculate that he must've subconsciously chosen a likeness after Jayanna saved him from certain death. (TV: *Lies of Heaven*)

### Clothing

In stark comparison to his predecessor's dramatic taste in clothing, the Seventeenth Doctor chose a purposely quieter wardrobe given to him by the Tosan rebels, choosing to wear dark coloured boots, black trousers with a thick brown belt, a untucked long sleeved dress shirt that was buttoned up to the top being either light lilac or blue in colour and a black leather jacket which was slightly shorter than the shirt. He typically left it unzipped up.

After getting his TARDIS back, the Doctor would sometimes opt for a slightly more different wardrobe - either an outfit consisting blue trousers, a black jacket and and a shirt with squares patterns or one made up of a light woolly jumper in green-grey, black, grey or dark blue over a plain white t-shirt.

However, at all times, he wore a watch with a thin black band that automatically set the time to whatever time zone the Doctor was currently in.

At one time, he wore sunglasses much like his twelfth incarnation used to which had a memory drive built inside to help him remember the Silence whilst fighting them in Judea. (TV: *Silence on the Mount*)

 **Series 19** | Regular Episodes | *The Skithra Entitlement* • *Work Hard, Die Hard* • *Doctor Who and the Dalek Paradigm* / *Escape of the Paradigm* • *Out of Sight, Out of Mind* • *Whatever Happened to the Crew of the SS Dahlia?* • *Meeting at Zaggit Zagoo* • *Planet TARDIS* • *Glittering Spheres* • *Submerged* • *Mechanical Heart* • *Oh Hell, It's Tari* • *I Predict a Riot* • *Doctor Who and the Moonmen* / *I Am The Doctor* • *Cryptomnesia* • *Final Destination*