Ryan

**Ryan Sinclair** was a companion of the Thirteenth Doctor. He worked as a warehouse worker, earning money while studying for his NVQ so that he could become a mechanic.

As part of Team TARDIS, Ryan often acted similarly to a pupil to the Doctor due to his impulsive behaviour and willingness to learn; he obeyed her rules and followed her antics if they seemed fun. He grew to understand the Doctor well enough to explain her thoughts and actions to people outside Team TARDIS.

## Biography edit

### Early life edit

Ryan was born in 1999 or late 1998. As a child, he attended Redlands Primary alongside Yasmin Khan (TV: *The Woman Who Fell to Earth*) and was placed in a class named after Rosa Parks. (TV: *Rosa*)

In 2012, when he was thirteen, his mother died from a heart attack, with Ryan being the one to find her body. After his mother's death, Ryan's relationship with his father soured to the point of parental abandonment. (TV: *The Tsuranga Conundrum*) He began to feel that he wasn't deserving of his father's love. (TV: *Resolution*)

Ryan was then raised by his paternal grandmother, Grace. (TV: *The Woman Who Fell to Earth*) She told him the fable of *The Lion and the Mouse*. (PROSE: *The Good Doctor*)

### Young adult life edit

Ryan suffered the effects of racism and noted that he was stopped more often by the police than his white peers. (TV: *Rosa*) Ryan once went on a messy holiday to Crete with his mates. (PROSE: *The Good Doctor*)

Ryan worked in a warehouse (TV: *Arachnids in the UK*) for SportStack, with one of his main jobs being packing trainers for delivery. Due to his dyspraxia, Ryan's first month on the job was a "total nightmare" for him, as he struggled to do things physically. Fortunately, he found friends who helped him, and he was able to master his way around the packing area. At one point while on the job, Ryan rode the warehouse conveyor belt, leading to him getting a sprained ankle, and a "final warning" from his superiors. (TV: *Kerblam!*)

In 2015, Grace married Graham O'Brien. Despite her wishes that Ryan consider Graham his granddad, he did not accept Grace's husband as family. (TV: *The Woman Who Fell to Earth*)

Ryan once borrowed Graham's car without asking in order to impress Alison Mayer. (PROSE: *The Secret in Vault 13*)

In 2017, Ryan was visited by his father, but the encounter ended poorly after Ryan "got mad" at his father for constantly missing out on his life. (TV: *The Tsuranga Conundrum*)

### Meeting the Doctor edit

In September 2018, whilst trying to learn to cycle with Grace and Graham, Ryan fell off and threw the bicycleaway into the nearby woods out of anger. After his grandmother and Graham left him to calm down, Ryan went to retrieve it.

Whilst retrieving it from a tree, he discovered a glowing symbol and, upon touching it, summoned a strange blue pod. He touched the pod only to find it freezing, burning his hand. Calling the police to investigate, Ryan was reunited with Yasmin Khan, a classmate from school who now worked as a police officer, when she arrived to investigate the scene. Ryan confessed it wasn't a prank, making Yasmin confirm such by touching the pod. Walking away, Ryan received a call from his grandmother asking for help on a nearby train.

The pair raced to the train, where they met the recently regenerated Thirteenth Doctor and were subsequently electrocuted by a coil creature. Ryan helped the Doctor track down the pod's occupant, Tim Shaw and prevented him from claiming Karl Wright as a trophy. However, Grace died via electrocution when disabling the gathering coil. Devastated, her death motivated Ryan to battle his dyspraxia in her honour. He later helped the Doctor make a teleport so she could reach her TARDIS only to be teleported with her into space. (TV: *The Woman Who Fell to Earth*)

Believing the pair to be bonuses in the Rally of the Twelve Galaxies, Angstrom scooped Ryan and Graham out of deep space and transported them aboard her ship.

On Desolation, he found Yasmin and the Doctor, who had been similarly saved by Epzo, Angstrom's rival in what would become the final stage of the rally. The rivals, with the Doctor and her friends in tow, were tasked by Ilin, master of the rally, to race across the planet; the first to reach the finish line at the Ghost Monumentwould win 3.2 million krin and salvation from planet's hostile surface. The Doctor discovered that the Ghost Monument was, in fact, her TARDIS, phasing in and out of reality. After the Doctor stabilised the TARDIS, Ryan entered it for the first time and the Doctor attempted to take them home. (TV: *The Ghost Monument*)p