#Chris Cwej

[melbush]

if there’s one thing about me, i love an alignment chart

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 6

The Fourth Doctor once almost drowned in a lake while following giant cat footprints.

While "pimping up" Bessie, the Eleventh Doctor turned her into a monster truck.

The Seventh Doctor takes five to six sugars in his tea.

The Seventh Doctor once admitted that he enjoyed destroying worlds.

The Second Doctor once found parts of the Sixth Doctor's outfit in his TARDIS wardrobe. He decided that he would never wear such a thing.

Khavûl, the main enemy in the "Chronomancer" audio starring the Sixth Doctor, Mel Bush, and Hebe Harrison, is a Drornidian and a Paradox Mage. The planet Drornid would play an important role during the War in Heaven.

In the far future where it is not meaningful to measure time, Evelyn Smythe became a CyberController.

While training to be an astronaut, Steven Taylor played the titular character in a stage production of Hamlet.

The Eighth Doctor has kept kittens in his pockets before.

Chris Cwej has used body bepples, a form of genetic alteration that can change one's physical appearance. He has taken the forms of a person-sized teddy bear and a catboy with tufted ears.

The Doctor was given an avatroid named Badger when he was very young because he needed a tutor, friend, and protector. Badger gives literally almost rib-cracking hugs.

When Rose Tyler and the Tenth Doctor considered getting a pet for the TARDIS, they found a pet store that was run by peaceful Cybermen. Only when Rose protested against the conversion of mice to Cybermice did the Doctor defeat the Cybermen.

The Second Doctor was once seen offering a prayer to "the gods of his own people."

The Eighth Doctor also took Charley Pollard back in time to kill the would-be dictator as a baby but was foiled as well.

The Second Doctor can play the recorder hanging upside down.

Through his forced regenerations, the Doctor lost the ability to make a good soufflé.

The Master once set Jo Grant up on a date with Mike Yates.

Dalek casings are made of polycarbide and dalekanium.

Rose Tyler was once infected with a lagnon grub, so the Tenth Doctor put her into a dream where he was dating Jackie and Mickey had an Amazonian girlfriend. The resulting jealousy drove the grub from her body.

While most future incarnations looked at the First Doctor with deep respect, the Eleventh Doctor did not, calling him a selfish idiot and a coward.

Glitterguns are effective weapons against the Cybermen.

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[the-frosty-mac]

okay so. Doctor Who spinoff rabbithole

Introducing “The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass,” a mystery visual novel with a moderate fanbase (it has almost 200 reviews on Steam, largely positive).

I’ve never played it myself, but it seems interesting enough. Now you might be wondering what it has to do with Doctor Who. It’s an anime art style visual novel, what could the relevance possibly be?

Well, “The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass” features a character named Larles. But Larles did not originate in this game. Larles originated from a little anthology book titled “Cwej: Down the Middle.”

Cwej, as in Chris Cwej. Seventh Doctor companion Chris Cwej. Who originates from the 1995 Doctor Who novel “Original Sin,” who travelled with the Doctor for a while (still occasionally getting appearances at Big Finish) before getting a whole new layer of complication thanks to Faction Paradox (which plays into Down the Middle).

In other words, The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass crosses over with a spinoff of a spinoff of a semi-obscure licensed Doctor Who novel series from the 90s

God, I love Doctor Who

[doctornolonger]

7 years later: Coloth has arrived.

The Book of the Snowstorm, brilliantly crafted and compiled by @aristidetwain, is AVAILABLE NOW in print, epub, and Kindle!

It includes a new story from me, “The First Noël”, as well as literally dozens of other stories. Welcome to the Library – just be sure to wear something cozy. Winter has arrived!

[queer-dw-tourney]

CANONICALLY QUEER DOCTOR WHO CHARACTERS TOURNAMENT: ROUND ONE GROUP THREE POLL TWO.

Christian Purcell is gay. He is in a relationship with his roommate, Luke Pendrell.

Chris Cwej is bisexual. This is explored in the novels Bad Therapy and The Room With No Doors.

[wanderingmadscientist]

A Faction Paradox film was discussed by Lawrence Miles and a representative of a Warner Brothers subsidiarity in 2003. The representative had obtained an early copy of Political Animals from Image Comics and expressed interest in obtaining the rights to consider a film adaptation of the story. However, Miles had learned just earlier that day that the comic's third issue had been cancelled, and the representative lost interest after Miles described the story as "Amadeus with monsters".

Never forget that we almost got a Faction Paradox movie. It would have probably sucked, true, but then we could have said that the reason it sucked was that the Great Houses had sent Chris Cwej to sabotage the movie.

[verloonati]

Reading original sin for the first time And

1. Chris cwej is like the guy ever

2. The mysterious asshole better be Josiah w dogbolter or I'm gonna loose my shit

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Would one of the mass produced Cwejen be proof on concept off Human looming. Or due to the fact the original Cwej was granted the ability to regenerate so he could act as a Regen-inf (a fate he luckily escaped) mean that his respective Biodata duplicates are not human enough to count as a human born of loom?

Or is the creation of a Cwej closer to using a remembrance tank, or the Tanks they use in the City to make Remakes?

How were the Army of One/the Cwejens created?

The Cwejen are a result of an advanced biotechnological process known as the "Army of One," distinct from both Looming and creation via remembrance tanks. This method involves diffracting an individual's timeline—originally Chris Cwej's—into multiple copies, effectively creating an army from a single biodata source.

🧬Differences from Looming

Here’s why the creation of the Cwejen isn't related to Looming:

Biodata Diffracting vs. Weaving: Looming traditionally involves weaving new life from base matter and biodata, creating a Gallifreyan from genetic material stored and manipulated within the Loom. Meanwhile, the Army of One technique used to create Cwejen involves splitting an existing timeline into multiple independent trajectories, effectively cloning one individual into many through timey-wimey stuff.

Purpose and Function: The function of Looms in Gallifreyan culture is to perpetuate their race, typically producing individuals who start life complete in terms of Gallifreyan physiological traits. The Cwejen, however, are cloned soldiers with variations in their forms and functions designed for specific military purposes and not to continue the lineage of a House or maintain the cultural heritage of Gallifrey.

Genetic Integrity: While Looms are designed to maintain the genetic integrity and continuity of the Gallifreyan race, ensuring each new individual is a fully functional Gallifreyan, the Cwejen are designed as derivatives of a single individual, with varying degrees of fidelity to the original’s characteristics.

🏫So ...

While the creation of the Cwejen is impressive, it doesn't align with the traditional concept of Looming as it lacks the element of genetic weaving from a broad biodata base. The Cwejen are more like copies of a single source, whereas Looms produce new beings from a collective genetic repository. So, the Cwejen don't represent a case of human looming or any form of traditional looming; they're a unique product of technological innovation highly specific to the conditions of the War in Heaven.

Related:

What is looming and how does it exist alongside natural reproduction?: Overview of looming and its place alongside natural reproduction in Gallifreyan society.

Could you loom a human?: Realities of looming a human.

Can a human and a Time Lord loom a child?: Overview of the looming process for hybrids.

Hope that helped! 😃

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I'm currently at a point where because I've got into Gallifrey, I follow or have at least browsed people's blogs who love other dweu stuff. And I thought it might be fun to say what I currently think and know about eu characters/companions so when I have in the future delved deeper into the eu I can look back and compare and laugh and see how much is accurate! There's gonna be a "read more" here because this gonna get Long.

Also please let me know what I've got right and not and also tell me more about these characters if you are fans of them!

Benny: starting off strong i know some stuff about her! she's an archeologist from the future (wonder if she ever met River) and she travelled with... one of the doctor(s)? Possibly Seven? She is besties with Brax and sometimes works for him and his collection. Probably must be able to put up with bullshit because of those last two points. Has a husband called Jason and at least one kid, which, iconic, female adventure and action protagonists should get to be mums more often its always the childfree so big up Benny for that. made a cameo at the end of Gallifrey IV.

Evelyn: I have heard her. A little. I basically skipped through the apocalypse element because I wanted to understand some of the reasons that Romana is the way she is in Gallifrey, but didn't listen properly because I got bored. Is an old lady, which is great - its great to see ages mixing it up a bit, instead of the 19-25 year old girl primary companions we consistently get in nu-who. Travelled with Six and is/was a professor at a university. Not sure for which subject though.

Fitz: Canonically bisexual and wears a leather jacket. I've seen A Lot of shipping him and Eight, and these shippers seem to have a similar vibe to Two/Jamie shippers. I don't know much else, except that his time with the doctor is probably fucked up because from what I have gleaned, Eight's companions Go Through It like big time.

Compassion: Faction Paradox which I believe is in an alternate universe (also the faction paradox timelines seem to have have a different vibe of names to the main universe ones, every time I'm on the "Individual Time Lords" category on the wiki and see a name that seems out of place it turns out to be a character from Faction Paradox.) Is a person (human i think?) but is also a TARDIS? Like you can go into her and travel? Where tf is the door this is very cursed. Also used as a breeding machine to make more TARDISes as well? By Romana? Idk but this seems pretty fucked up in an icky way. And fucked up in a non-icky way too. I'm just confused tbh. Not sure which doctor is involved in this one.

C'rizz - Possibly people can't say his name right? Is that him? Alien boy, travelled with Eight and Charley. That's about all I know.

Chris Cwej: I know even less about him, hes the other possibility for people mixing up his name or something. Think he travelled with Seven. Idk why but he gives me dick vibes.

Hex Schofield: Travelled with Ace and Seven. Is from 2021 or something and says "sus." Which yh that was a thing but he was made before among us existed that's a cool coincidence that it turned out like that.

Liv and Helen: They exist. That's it I know nothing more.

Molly O'Sullivan: Also exists. Travelled with eight?

Charley Pollard: Has a Nazi for a sister - Blind Eye my beloved. Calls herself Edwardian even though she's from the 1930s, idk if its like a character point or an accidental fuck up by the writers. Has a romance with the doctor in some form. And also a pretty messed up relationship with him i think. Actually just a pretty messed up time. Especially because I think she was in Scherzo which I hear Wild Blue Yonder was inspired by. So good luck girl you're gonna need it.

[wgough42]

Discuss

[legok9]

Doctor Who cover art by Jon Sullivan

The Death of Art

So Vile a Sin cover

The Room With No Doors

Oh No It Isn't!

Ship of Fools

Deadfall

Oblivion

Dry Pilgrimage

Where Angels Fear

via Jon Sullivan's ArtStation

[familyparadox]

What the Bad Wolf did to Jack vs What the time lords did to Chris Cwej parallels

Ohhh new who Faction Paradox parallels Cwej like Jack did not want to have more than one life but that’s what he got. If you add it Clara who got duplicated loads but not clones but Biodata duplicated and became immortal as well you have the messed up relationship to time and life trio. Nerve consider Jack and Cwej parallels thank you for this. Might do something with this at some point point in my very large fic I have been writing for a while.

While we at it we could also talk about River and compare her being uploaded to the Libary to Chris become the V-Cwej in Cwej: the series in which he gets uploaded in to every other Cwej.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Your EU analysis of Doccy Who is peak and I will bow down to you when Jan Grinky Chris Cwej ends up in the finale of this season

CHRIS CWEJ!!!!

Chris Cwej as the One Who Waits?

Maybe that woman the Doctor saw at the church is one of the Cwejen.

Maybe maybe maybe...

[theangelshavethephonebox]

Is this anything

Image description: a screenshot of a poorly edited meme. It's Captain Holt from Brooklyn 99 with the subtitles "they think I made Kevin gay with my magic genitalia", except an image of a drawing of Chris Cwej's head has been pasted over Holt's, and the words have been crossed out and written over to read "I cured AIDS with my magic genitalia". End ID.

[dalesramblingsblog]

On the subject of Chris and Roz ('cause I didn't want to hijack the other post more than was strictly necessary), I will say @st4rshiptr00per that it definitely takes them a little while for the writers to get to grips with them. Having gone back and re-read Sky Pirates! only recently, actually, what struck me is that, for all that Dave Stone's comparatively sidelining the duo in their own subplot stood out to me when I first read it back in 2021 (God I've been doing this thing for so long), he... kinda nails the dynamic and banter between the two of them.

I would say that the first truly great book with Roz and Chris in it that's great *because* of Roz and Chris (I like Head Games but it's a very broad and archetypal book; not that it misrepresents the characters, Steve Lyons captures them pretty well, but it's a book about the nature of storytelling so the characters don't really drive the plot as much as they would in a traditional Doctor Who story) is... well, predictably for Mr. Also People Stan, it's The Also People. Cannot stress enough how much I love that book, and Ben Aaronovitch is the first to *really* get Roz on a fundamental level, his portrait of her is sketched so damn vividly that it hurts and she gets a climactic monologue that is just utter perfection.

Past that, Shakedown is... well, it's Terrance Dicks, but throughout all of 1996 you generally have a pretty solid run of writers knowing how to write for Chris and Roz. Books like GodEngine or The Death of Art stand out a lot more for their poor handling of the duo - though admittedly part of that is that they don't even have Benny to fall back on at that point - than they would have a year earlier.

But yeah I love those two, they're definitely not always perfectly handled but the best books featuring them are very much engaged with the question of what it means to be a cop travelling in the TARDIS. I wrote a whole other post on the subject of the NAs, policing and Chris/Roz vs. Yaz back when I was finishing up the series (or at least the Doctorful instalments) with The Room With No Doors about a year ago when I first joined Tumblr, I think it was a pretty decent encapsulation of my thoughts (tho there's a mild spoiler for The Also People I suppose but eh it's a good enough book that it can withstand it.)

[vikingschism]

Continuing my readthrough of the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures, I finished reading Damaged Goods the other day. This book was Russel T Davies' first published foray into Who and it was an absolute banger. Many of these novels don't really hold up to much scrutiny as a reader, but this is one of the few that I think really stands out - not just as a Doctor Who novel, but a novel that is worth reading.

The Doctor and companions find themselves on earth, trying to ingratiate themselves with the residents of a working class housing estate - given what RTD would go on to write in the main show, this sort of setting should sound instantly familiar. However, we cannot forget that these are the VNAs and thus there is a level of grit and grime that feel more like they come from Torchwood. This book gets dark. I can handle that, but it's definitely something to be wary of if you're interested in reading the book.

The main enemy of the book was a really fun concept, definitely one that special effects would struggle to keep up with but in prose can really shine. And speaking of the prose the novel is written well - there's some great lines in here. I particularly love The Doctor describing the challenge of ingratiating themselves with the different households on the estate as having to "breach 76 fortresses". That's a wonderfully evocative bit of dialogue.

And I really have to give RTD praise for the characters - they're well drawn and compelling. One of them is a gay man who is roiling in self-loathing, there's a mother desperate to give her children a better life than her, and a teenage girl who saw something many years ago (as well as The Doctor) but wants nothing more than to have nothing to do with it. And that's only naming a few - all of the characters have their internal struggles and these are all well done.

In all, I highly recommend the novel. I will caveat that it is dark and not for the faint of heart - expect a similar level of grimness as Torchwood: Children of Earth had. The book was a great time though, and I will look forward to seeing how So Vile A Sin continues this little arc that's developed over the past few books.