Teddy

**Tedruck "Teddy" Nazek** was the first companion of the Seventeenth Doctor.

Although initially sharing an initially cold relationship with the Doctor after he had just started work as a factory worker, it developed over time into a firm friendship after helping the Doctor to overthrow the government and exposing its secrets to the world.

Having been preparing to live a mundane life of putting things together and taking them apart or stoking fires, Teddy managed to convince the Doctor to let him come with him and though he was resistant, the Doctor agreed, with the two of them taking off into space and time using a vortex manipulator. Over the course of his travels with the Doctor, Teddy would share the TARDIS with Amy-Mae (TV: *Lies of Heaven*) and later, Xavier. (TV: *Chaos Theory*)

## Biography

### Early life

Born on the planet Tosan in the later years of the civil war, Teddy would grow up under the oppression of the government, who had moved Tosan away from being a time travelling society, beginning to crack down on time travel and banning all usage. (TV: *On Foreign Shores*) At three years old, Teddy's grandfather was killed by the Red Cult as he attempted to flee the planet. (TV: *Memorial Flashbacks*) He disliked his birth name, so chose to go by simply "Teddy".

By the time he was an adult, his mother had passed away, mysteriously killed by the Bailu created by the government and with no other family, Teddy lived alone as he started work as a factory worker. A month since he started work, Teddy noticed the newly-regenerated Seventeenth Doctor stumbling around the streets at night from his apartment and after realising the danger he was in, invited him inside - where he rested temporarily.

However, the Doctor was woken up by the footsteps of a walking Bailu and despite Teddy's protests, opened the curtains to come face to face with it. The Doctor asked him what they were all about and why no one seemed to care about their presence - and upon further discussion with him, Teddy discovered that this man was an alien and the subject of the recent news broadcasts of "the Doctor" being dead.

The Doctor left in order to uncover where the Bailu came from and against his better judgement, Teddy followed the Doctor as he confronted ministers at the Government Main Hall and later joined the Tosan Resistance after they noticed his strong-willed confrontation. With the Doctor's intelligence and Teddy's help, they were able to fight back against the Bailu and stormed the Main Hall, overthrowing the government - with Teddy finding the recall signal for the Bailu, leading them into the ocean and permanently away from civilisation.

Finding a vortex manipulator in the government building, the Doctor planned to leave but with Teddy desperately wanting to leave Tosan, he convinced the Doctor to let him come as to help him find his TARDIS. The Doctor activated the manipulator and they left the planet. (TV: *On Foreign Shores*)

### Travels with the Doctor and Amy-Mae

The Doctor and Teddy arrived on Osekron, a distant Martian colony at least half a galaxy away from Mars. Discovering a small group of Ice Warriors who were constantly under attack by creatures known as Osekri, the duo found that one of them, Aklur, was dying and that her father had been experimenting with growing new Ice Warriors to transplant Aklur's mind into, but each new body continued to fail and Aklur edged closer to death.

Desperate, her father requested a DNA sample from Teddy, hoping to build a hybrid body from his Tosan DNA to build the base body, Aklur's Ice Warrior DNA and a mixture of other DNA which constructed her overall appearance. It worked and her mind was transplanted into the new body. However, the procedure had been lengthy and captured the attention of everyone in the colony, meaning the Osekri were able to sneak in, eventually killing her father. By daytime, the Doctor and Teddy decided to leave, having realised they would get no more answers here, but now wanting to leave the colony, Aklur asked to join them, which the Doctor accepted. (TV: *Frozen Whimpers*)

Their first stop was at Mahova Galaxy Film and Studio, where Aklur decided to adopt the name Amy-Mae, taking the name from a movie poster to better fit her new identity, (TV: *Cut!*) before doing battle with the Toymaker (TV: *The Box of Many Tricks*). After they left the Studio, the Doctor, Teddy and Amy-Mae would set up camp at the Grand Scarlet Hotel.

They would then travel across Unnuna to find the First, Second and Third Wizards (TV: *The Wizards Three* / *How to Live Forever*) and face foes such as the Judoon, (TV: *Delusions of Reality*) the Corale and Mlerki (TV: *Extinction Planet* / *Reckoning of the Mlerki*) and Spartan (TV: *The Gaseous Expansion* / *The Spartan Solution*) before facing the Red Cult (TV: *Memorial Flashbacks*) and succeeding in driving the Adnosina off Earth with the help of Jayanna VIII. After the Adnosina were gone, the Doctor was finally reunited with his TARDIS and formally invited both Teddy and Amy-Mae on his travels, which they both accepted. (TV: *Lies of Heaven*)

### Xavier joins the team

Sometime after the Adnosina crisis, Teddy, alongside the Doctor and Amy-Mae found themselves at the planet of St Eden, which was under attack by the Nikta, who were in search of "the object". Leaving the planet, the Doctor found a high amount of energy coming from the other end of the galaxy. On further inspection, they discovered that it was located from the planet Esubeen. (TV: *From Out The Ashes*)

Deciding to take a break, the trio took an extended holiday on the planet, spending at least two months there before the planet came under attack by the Daleks and Cybermen, in pursuit of Xavier, a native of the planet. After the Daleks and Cybermen were destroyed, Xavier was invited onboard the TARDIS - which he accepted. (TV: *Chaos Theory*)

After Xavier joined the TARDIS team, Teddy and co would face the Sontarans (TV: *The Patchwork Planet*), Seretes (TV: *World Shaping for Beginners*), space pirates (TV: *All Hail the Sky Demon* / *The Sky Demon Can Wait*), a Weeping Angel (TV: *Fear the Dark*), and the Silence. (TV: *Silence on the Mount*)

### Departure

Eventually, Teddy's time to leave the TARDIS would come after arriving on Star Station Five where the TARDIS team encountered the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons. After Amy-Mae and Xavier discovered the dying Consciousness alongside Xavier, it would eventually send out Autons to massacre the Star Station. Teddy was soon kidnapped by the Autons and almost converted into one before the Doctor managed to stop the Nestene.

He then decided to stay at the Star Station because he didn't really feel content, having seen a lot of death and chaos - however, he never wanted to return to Tosan so decides to make his own way about, taking the plunge into the unknown - believing he may never otherwise move on. (TV: *The Polymos Invaders*)

## Personality

Teddy was originally attention seeking and in your face, but truly pure at heart and had good intentions. (TV: *On Foreign Shores*, *All Hail the Sky Demon*, *The Polymos Invaders*) Over the course of his travels with the Doctor, he grew aware of how close he got to annoying people and so, actively chose to calm down - however, he found it hard to fully shake the energetic side off. (TV: *From Out The Ashes*), Once Xavier joined the TARDIS team, he noticed his attempts at confidence building and helped to bring him out of his shell. (TV: *Chaos Theory*)

He also attempted to bring the Doctor out of his shell and prove that he was ultimately right to take him on as a companion - having been itching to escape Tosan and its suffocating atmosphere - but found that was a bit more challenging than he originally assumed it would be. (TV: *Frozen Whimpers*, *The Spartan Solution*) Teddy was intelligent but had been conditioned to hide it with government policy of watering down intellect potential, so it took him time to realise he was allowed to show actually how smart he was. (TV: *Cut!*, *Delusions of Reality*, *The Gaseous Expansion*, *Lies of Heaven*)

However, memories of the civil war - even though he never fought in it, having been too young - gave him a certain edge when it came to his planet's history, preferring not to talk about where he came from. (TV: *Frozen Whimpers*, *Memorial Flashbacks*, *Chaos Theory*) Over time, he grew less ashamed of his planet's history and was now more willing to discuss it, but that did not mean that he was ever proud of it, rather, he claimed that he was an outlier amongst his people and tried to warn people to avoid the path his planet took. (TV: *From Out The Ashes*, *Silence on the Mount*)

Due to the dystopian reality that the Tosan homeworld existed within; in his spare time, Teddy enjoyed reading due to the lacking night life. (TV: *On Foreign Shores*)

## Appearance

Teddy resembled a tall man of average height in his late twenties, with dark skin, brown eyes and curly black hair. He also typically had a short black beard, although he sometimes shaved and kept merely stubble. (TV: *On Foreign Shores*)