The Dark Doctor

The Dark Doctor is an incarnation of the Time Lord portrayed by Reuben Roper in the series of fan films from Imagine Productions.

He made his debut in *The Gates Of Justicia (2014)* and was last seen on screen in *Power Of The Shalka (2019).*

## The Dark Doctor

### Aliases

The Valeyard, The Devil's Angel, Arsehole

## Character

### Personality

This Doctor is fairly spiky, irratable at times, quite an intense person to be around, often very dramatic. He is sometimes rather unforgiving but has a large emotional streak within him. Trauma such as The Battle Of Justicia and the death of his best friend Jessica Young causes him to often try to mask his true feelings with anger.

### Appearance

When we first see him, The Dark Doctor wears a long brown leather trench coat with a red scarf thrown around his shoulders together with a panama hat. In Whispers, he has cut his hair to be short and spiky, and has added a wing-collar and cravat with a grey tweed waistcoat to his brown leather ensemble, together with black converse trainers and leather gaiters. By the time of The Ultimate Adventure, The Doctor has a new look, wearing a black military trench coat with a red and white 'Where's Wally' shirt, which later evolves into a black and white striped shirt with red tartan trousers and motorcycle boots.

## Biography

It is unknown how exactly he came to being, but The Dark Doctor regenerated from the form of 'The Valeyard', an incarnation of all the evil in The Doctor which fought in the front lines of the Battle Of Justicia. On Justicia, he met Jessica Young, a young med-tech, who nursed him to health when he regenerated after the war. Assuming the mantle of 'The Doctor' once again, he and Jess started to travel together.

In *The Gates Of Justicia (2014)*, Jess spent a day visiting family when The TARDIS was hijacked by Brigadier Kate Stewart, and The Doctor was forced to confront his past in more ways than one. He was shown a photograph of his former self, and even managed to catch up with his ex-wife, Queen Victoria, on a mission in some woods. He even spent time consoling his past self after a time eddy knocked him towards his future, showing him that it was worth fighting in the end.

In *Whispers (2014)*, The Doctor returned from an adventure with a Dalek to find Jess waiting in the TARDIS. Crash landing in New York, 2020, after a huge amount of riots had destroyed the city, The Doctor and Jess went to The South Hill Hotel to retrieve a phone in order to phone his previous self in an effort to fix the TARDIS's circuits. The pair soon found themselves trapped by a possesed Receptionist, and joined forced with Brigadier Stewart to find out the truth of what was going on. Thousands of lost spirits had inhabited the hotel, and The Doctor had to convince a ghoulish outside influence to release them, therefore releasing the temporal schism surrounding the hotel. The Reception retaliated by killing Jessica, who died in The Doctor's arms.

However, this was in fact a faked death. Whilst The Doctor cried over Jess's dying body, time had frozen, and Jessica Young made her escape. Of course, The Doctor didn't know this, and soon left in the TARDIS, and was overcome by a huge depression. Little did he know that Jess was out there, waiting for the right time to return.

In *The Ultimate Adventure (2016),* The Master returned, shutting down Earth's defences and bringing a huge amount of alien spaceships to surround the planet. Several of The Doctor's incarnations were trapped, and The Doctor inlisted the help of his old friend Romana. The multiple Doctors managed to trap The Master in a void, however, unbeknownst to The Doctor(s), he escaped by killing himself, splitting himself into three timelines. One of the three went back to Justicia to take control of a dictatorship, whilst Romana returned to Gallifrey.

## You Can't Run Forever (2016-2019)

In *Blood To Be Paid (2016)* The Doctor met Lauren Pevency when she was transported via a time storm into the TARDIS. Lauren was an awkward teenager from Soho with a knack for blowing things up. She seemed to have impeccable knowledge and understanding of concepts of alien life and the way the TARDIS worked. When they faced off with the last of the Great Vampires who had been using a church to lure in students to murder and feed from, Lauren followed The Doctor against his wishes back to the TARDIS where he interrogated her on her impossbible knowledge of his life and his world.

In *Friendship Of Davros (2017),* The TARDIS responded to a distress call to a space station acting as a hospice for the elderly Davros. Davros had been abandoned by The Daleks, who had ripped the little he had left of his body from his wheelchair and wired him into a hospital bed to let him die. This was when Lauren first truly saw the darkness in The Doctor's soul, his hatred for Davros and the long list of casualties he was responsible for. She challenged him on this, and they left him alone. The Doctor realised he had been overcome with grief and torment after the Battle of Justicia and the death of Jess, and realised how much he needed Lauren by his side, someone that would question him and stop him from going too far.

In *Power Of The Shalka (2019),* a hand-to-hand fight with a Cyberman was interrupted by a message from Romana. The Doctor and Lauren were brought to the planet Sandelia, the final resting place of the Shalka Prime. This mission was led by (and also sabotagued) by Romana under the order of a new leader of the High Council of Gallifrey. The Shalka were in fact refugees whom the Time Lords felt threatened by, and Romana and her sidekick Benjamin had used The Doctor and Lauren in order to blow up their caves. The Doctor deposed Romana, furious at her actions and her callous disregard for the lives of the Shalka. However, things were about to change for the Time Lord.