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trickstersintime · 4 months ago

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TIMELINE OF XI’S KEY EVENTS

(These are some events that drastically affected XI’s life but by no means are his adventures with others less important to him or are they everything he's done because we'd be here forever)

Being the Doctor has never looked so complicated.

Pre-Time War: Identical to usual considered for the Doctor of Doctor Who canon.

Central/End of the Time War: Gallifrey was presumed destroyed with a weapon known as the Moment. The Doctor discovered this weapon aboard his TARDIS in later years and realised his planet had not been destroyed at that point in time. He still became the War Doctor as per canon universe.

(Following in approximate Earth years and/or the Doctor’s age depending on event)

2005 – Facing off against the Daleks aboard the Game Station, the Doctor absorbed the energies from the heart of his TARDIS and became the Bad Wolf. He destroyed the Dalek race reaching back to the end of the Time War itself. Unable to control the power, he killed his companion, Rose Tyler, and failed to resurrect neither her nor Jack Harkness who had already fallen. In rage and grief, he sealed himself inside the TARDIS and poured the energy back before regenerating. His biodata severely damaged by his mistake, the Doctor regenerated wild, aggrieved and somewhat insane.

2006 – While tearing around the universe in a frenzied blur, the Doctor drew the attention of Dr Martha Jones. He took her on as his companion of sorts though he behaved in a debauched and irresponsible manner. Instead of giving up on him, she fell into corruption and put up with his sexual and flippant attitudes. The Doctor’s weakness at this time allowed him to be the perfect instrument for Rassilon’s escape from the Time War. Instead of choosing the Master to be his vessel, Rassilon retrospectively planted the signal of drums within the Doctor’s head, waiting to surface at the opportune moment. It drove the Doctor wilder still and the universe began to dread his name.

2008 – The signal grew worse in the Doctor’s mind. Martha abandoned him but he no longer cared. Instead, he went in search of the only companion he had truly loved – Sarah Jane. The Doctor abducted her at an age not long after he had left her so many years before and tried to convince her to stay with him. Realising him to be mad and dangerous, she refused and demanded to be returned home. Eventually he relented but the loss of her pushed his apathy further. He discovered his old nemesis, the Master, had been living as a human in Leadworth having crash-landed in the garden belonging to Amelia Pond. The Master’s latest incarnation had reverted to being known as Koschei and had settled down with Amy as his wife, together having a half-Time Lord child, Melody Pond (River Song). The Doctor and Koschei fought. Koschei lost. The Doctor buried his nemesis alive and kidnapped his daughter.

2010 (aged 907) – When the signal reached its height and the Final Sanction came, the Doctor helped Rassilon up until the realisation that everything was to turn to dust. He balked and attempted to flee the damage, managing to fall through a rift in space and time though not before the Sanction damaged several layers of his TARDIS, including the control room with him inside. Barely alive, he smashed through into a new reality and regenerated. His prisoner, River Song, was safely contained deeper inside the ship.

(907-1098) – The Doctor spent much of this period of time sealed away aboard the TARDIS, barely able to function after the assumed collapse of his own universe. Without the drums he was lost and broken, his only social contact with River whom he eventually unfroze from stasis but kept restrained. He tested experimental gadgets on her, though not with intent to harm, and managed to refrain from sexual assault though his actions were still amoral. Eventually he began to explore his new universe and became a nuisance to its resident Doctor. He began to find pleasure in life again in all of its forms.

(1098) – Met another Doctor with his previous face whilst testing out a prototype mech on a habited planet. Coincidentally, this Doctor had also fallen into this reality after escaping his own. The two continued to run into one another over the years, causing mischief, getting into fights. They chose to give themselves the signatures ‘X’ and ‘XI’. Fighting evolved into flirting and their time spent together increased. Toward the latter end of this time, XI probably aged 1107, they were sexually intimate. The first incident ended badly, with XI offending X and winding up with a deep scar running from hip to just beneath his left heart. River was also eventually discovered by X and accidentally released.

2011-2012 (aged 1108/1109) – Teething troubles overcome, the two Doctors grew amiable toward one another and chose to partner up, sharing their TARDISes. Around this time X’s abusive ex-lover, an alternate Jack Harkness, arrived on the scene and attacked XI. They spent time running from Harkness and battling the hiccups in their relationship. XI’s growing affection was admitted as love and eventually X expressed a similar sentiment.

2013 – In partially an attempt to escape Harkness, X and XI hid upon a planet amusingly named ‘Hellifyno’, a place teeming with a variety of impossible species. Their TARDIS grounded and unable to leave the orbit of the planet, they remained there for a year. The two nurtured relationships and XI’s compassionate ’Doctorish’ nature began to return in small amounts. Unfortunately, Harkness found them and he blackmailed X into an on-off relationship to preserve XI’s safety.

April 2013 – In a bitter argument, Harkness stabbed X. The wound was mortal and X found his way back to XI, too shocked and vain to regenerate. The nature of the world on which his lover died gave XI the unique opportunity to retrieve X’s essence from a hell dimension. He rescued X, but he was different. A demonic mark appeared beneath X’s left eye and strange incidents plagued them for years to come.

May 2013 – XI was hijacked by a Cyber Planner. X managed to defeat the entity by smacking XI in the face with a gold ring, with which he had intended to propose. The two got engaged. Soon afterward, they found a way to bind their TARDISes together into a hybrid not only able to get them off the planet but allowing them to travel the Void without damaging universes. They became free to meet people across the multi-verse.

23rd November 2013 – X and XI were married.

December 2013 – XI met a man who would become one of his arch nemeses: Kyrian.

April-May 2014 – X became possessed by his first demon. Fortunately the creature burnt itself out and X was restored.

Early June 2014 – Met an alternate version of River Song, but one so very close to his own. She had been abducted by a crueller Doctor who referred to himself as ‘the Predator’ or ‘Notchy’. XI resolved to help her to atone for what he had done to his own River.

Mid-June 2014 – A vengeful spirit deity whom XI had angered back on Hellifyno made her move. Teaming up with Kyrian, the kitsune known as K’treya captured XI and stole a century of his memories. She gave him to Kyrian who pretended to be his lover and kept him for several months. X eventually saved him but not before Kyrian had managed to sabotage XI’s contraception and caused him to impregnate a female slave.

1st July 2014 – XI’s daughter, Gwenllian (Gwen) was born, after he accidentally got their occasional companion, Amelia, pregnant the previous October.

September 2014 – Kyrian revealed that XI was a father again and attempted to blackmail him into staying with him for the sake of baby Killian. When XI refused, Kyrian returned at intervals with the child having aged and weaned with golden time energy. When Killian was 10 years old, Kyrian allowed XI to take him home. Over the next month, XI decided to find Killian a good home that could care for a child with his abilities and needs.

October/November 2014 – An entity referring to itself as Hyde took over another Doctor with whom the pair had made friends. Hyde abducted several of their companions and tortured them. XI locked up his still pregnant (time travel is wibbly) friend, Amy, to keep her safe and arranged a plan with X to save the others. X gave himself up in exchange for the kidnapped women while XI prepared for confrontation. Clad in an Iron Man-like suit designed to draw Hyde from its host, XI succeeded in destroying Hyde. Amid the chaos, X was stabbed by Hyde and XI rushed him back to the TARDIS. X regenerated, keeping the same face, for both of them had undergone a procedure allowing them to do so. With residual regeneration energy, X healed the scar he had inflicted upon XI years ago. The two made love and, oddly, this jolted X’s voice into permanently sounding Scottish.

25th December 2014 – An alien device disguised as a Christmas tree bauble flew into X and XI’s room and took samples of their DNA. They chased it to the architectural reconfiguration system only to find the bauble merging with the system. Between the TARDIS and the strange device, a baby was born out of the emerged sac, perfectly created from their DNA. X and XI named their son Felix.

January 2015 – Cursed by K’treya, XI temporarily became a woman. One night he forgot his Vortex Manipulator while visiting a friend and bumped into Kyrian. Believing himself to be protecting his friend from harm, XI lured Kyrian to a hotel and slept with him. It was the last time he ever intended to do so but the fallout with X over the matter took time to get past. Following this, Kyrian’s obsession with XI took a new turn. Making a deal with K’treya, he fused an imprint of XI’s personality into the captured Doctor, Notchy, and made the creature who would call itself Caliban.

February 2015 (aged 1112-1128) – In order to protect Felix, X and XI agreed to timelock themselves away while he grew up. They allowed Amy and Gwen to visit occasionally but to the outside world it seemed very little time passed. They were timelocked for 16 years, with interspersed trips outside to stave off boredom as well as to prevent Felix from being quite as sheltered.

April 2015 – Once again X was possessed by a demon, and this one stayed for a long time. Despairing at the loss of his love, XI did everything he could both to remove the demon and at the same time prevent it from leaving. The creature chose to name itself Cake and developed a strange attachment to XI and the convenience of his life.

May 2015 – With the help of K’treya, the Cyber Planner made another return, taking advantage of XI’s weakened state. This time the Planner did very little but gloat and upset XI’s family and friends, awaiting further orders from K’treya. Felix destroyed the Planner though the entity chose to leave information in XI’s mind that would help him defeat the kitsune. XI discovered that K’treya had abducted Killian and intended to make him a powerful acolyte for her cause.

June 2015 – Armed with the knowledge from the Cyber Planner of K’treya’s location and using armour harnessing the power of accumulated psychic belief in XI’s abilities, XI and Cake faced the kitsune goddess and rescued Killian.

Early July 2015 – Harkness returned and kidnapped Felix, the specific damage caused unclear as to whether it was experienced or simply planted. As with facing K’treya, Cake also assisted XI in retrieving his son though it barely felt a victory at the time. XI shot Harkness in the head, but since his enemy is immortal, the punishment was short-lived.

Late July 2015 – Having gained a level of affection for XI sufficient to become painful as well as discovering that its hold upon X was going to slip, the demon Cake gave up its possession and slipped back into darkness, allowing X to claw his way back to control.

Early August 2015 – On an idiotic whim, XI used the psychic circuits of their TARDIS in an attempt to pay a cheeky visit to a younger version of X. He accidentally wound up on Gallifrey when X (known as Theta then) was barely more than a teenager. Worse still, the ne’er-do-well young Theta proceeded to lure XI home and drug his drink. Though he did not know it, XI took X’s virginity. Panicked, XI encouraged Theta to fall asleep with a psychic nudge and then fled back to his proper time.

August 2015-October 2015 – The Time Lords returned. With the means to locate XI across the multi-verse, the High Council hijacked the TARDIS and dragged XI back to Gallifrey, the planet having survived the Final Sanction, along with his universe. Rassilon was locked in the Dark Tower and Earth had been destroyed with Gallifrey in its place. The Doctor (XI) was put on trial for his crimes and friends, family and enemies alike were brought to the stand. During this time, XI made a deal with Kyrian that he would allow him to take Killian away for a while in exchange for retracting his damaging statements against him and if he would fix his son without harming him. An older version of Theta also visited XI in custody, furious that he had been abandoned. Using an attack from a lone Dalek to his advantage, XI convinced the Council to change his sentence from a thousand years of time-locked imprisonment to a thousand years ruling Gallifrey as Lord President with the intent to fix what he had broken. His friends convinced the High Council that he was sound of mind and remorseful. XI learned that it had been with the help of Sarah Jane Smith and the remnants of Torchwood that the universe had survived.

31st October 2015 (aged 1128) – On the verge of XI being crowned 425th Lord President of Gallifrey, the Master (Missy) made a surprise appearance and shot him in revenge. She also claimed to be saving the Doctor from an excruciating forced regeneration, something the Council intended to do to XI in order for him to receive a full set of lives, by taking away the one he had remaining. XI channelled his excess energy into the Sash of Rassilon and regenerated in X’s arms. He was then appointed Lord President of Gallifrey.

November 2015-January 2016 – In between the many tasks of his position, XI took it upon himself to modify the TARDIS into a special gateway that would pinch the fabric of all reality together and allow all universes to connect at one point. This was doable only with the knowledge granted to him by the updated Matrix Circlet. Part of his agreement with the Time Lords was that the TARDIS would only be able to make one trip at a time before bouncing back to Gallifrey and logging a destination, for the safety of himself and the planet. Amid receiving visitors and venturing out, XI travelled back to see X’s younger self again in order to make amends for the pain he had caused. This of course, made his relationship all the more complicated. In the meantime, X had stern words with both Missy and Sarah Jane in their attempts to communicate with the Doctor. He became XI’s personal advisor and consort following being his defense during the trial.

January 2016 - March 2016 – After a long absence, Kyrian resurfaced, more powerful than ever. He revealed that he had consumed the life force of XI’s son, Killian, along with a child of his own. In fury and grief, XI enacted an ambush he had long since planned in the event of his enemy’s return. He imprisoned Kyrian in the most secure cell ever built. XI sought the means to destroy Kyrian once and for all, appalled with his view of the universe. Aside from a few mishaps involving genetic manipulation tricks via Missy and the curious new Clara who had been popping up on Gallifrey, XI’s attention became focused on the balance of affection given to both Theta and X.

March 2016 – During his search for a weapon powerful enough to solve his problems - the Gauntlet of Rassilon - XI ventured into the Dark Tower and accidentally fell into a trap set by a manifestation of ancient Time Lord consciousnesses known as the Dark Matrix. It infected his mind and pushed him into megalomania. XI planned his great ‘Practice’, an effort to rid the multi-verse of ‘evil’, allowing him to fix things as the ‘ultimate Doctor’. Failing to find Rassilon’s Gauntlet, he fashioned himself a gauntlet of his own that he could use in conjunction with the staff he used to defeat K'treya.

June 2016 - August 2016 – Discovering that Kyrian had vanished, Caliban responded to XI’s challenge. He faced off against the Lord President on the wastes outside the Citadel but was not powerful enough to win. Unbeknownst to XI, his husband and Missy had formed an alliance to stop him. X distracted XI with the announcement that he was leaving him, giving Missy the opportunity she needed to rip the Dark Matrix from XI’s mind, using the very Gauntlet of Rassilon he had been seeking. That done, Missy released a swarm of kitsune spirits upon Caliban, trapping his essence in the box that had assisted in his creation, and restored the Time Lord known as the Predator (Notchy) to his body. XI fell into a coma. With the power of the Gauntlet and the Dark Matrix combined, Missy took the opportunity to free Kyrian from his prison on the condition not to harm the Doctor. Though Kyrian temporarily kept his word, he kidnapped River Song and discovered she was pregnant with Caliban’s child. Furthermore, he lured Notchy out of prison. All the while, friends and enemies alike contacted XI in his dream state in an attempt to wake him.

August 2016 - After months of healing and resolving his fears, XI woke with the help of a joint visit from Theta and X. As yet unaware that two of his best friends were pregnant and one of them kidnapped by his enemy, XI began to catch up on what his husband had held together while he slept.

November 2016 - After discovering that River had been taken by Kyrian, X and XI exchanged the box containing Caliban’s essence for her return.

December 2016 - Missy emerged from her hiding place in the Rani’s empire to plunge Gallifrey into a persistent winter. Determined to make the most of this ‘gift’, XI allowed a month-long festival to take place in and around the Citadel and kept the snow in check. He threw a winter ball in honour of his daughter, only to find that he was to gain another daughter as the mysterious Gallifreyan, Laila, revealed herself to be his and X’s child from the future. To add to the surprises, the Doctors received an announcement from Amy and Koschei that they were to have a baby.

During the winter fair, Notchy made a return. Barely clothed and no longer immortal, he sent a secret message to River to meet him. With him being the last remnant of her home universe and the closest thing to the father of her child she agreed to meet him. River made the mistake of offering him her vortex manipulator forcing an arrest by the Chancellery. They were brought before XI who scolded them but he eventually agreed that Notchy could remain in River’s custody on pain of castration or death were he to harm her or anyone else on Gallifrey.

Strange happenings including talks of ghosts in the outer city limits began on Gallifrey. Rumours started circulating about something called the Grandfather.

March 2017 - August 2017 The Arcadian Tear. From the ruins of Arcadia sprang a rift in time and space, a double helix of gold light that marked the passing of something powerful, at the very least the death of Caliban. It opened up a path to another universe, one ravaged by a Time War. This event, combined with the active Gateway, caused XI’s universe to become susceptible to small bursts of rift activity, paving the way for trouble to come.

In response, XI called for a full lock-down on Gallifrey. The Gateway was sealed but for authorised travel and all off-worlders encouraged to return home. This included Theta, who was forcibly removed by his older incarnation, X. A heartbroken XI made to get the situation under control in order to make Gallifrey safe once more.

At present the High Council of Gallifrey are at a loss for being able to close the Tear and the only person capable of doing so has vanished, if she would even bother to help. Reports of blocked communications and attacks from strange creatures have been pouring in. Close friends are being affected by anomalous and dangerous influences. Two of his best friends are on the verge of giving birth.

August 2017 - A brief and happy time ensued where the Doctors enjoyed peace and spent time with family and friends where they could. The happiness was not to last, however. Whilst X went on a quest to hunt down Missy in order to seal the Tear, XI was captured by the Cyber Planner, this time in the body of Theta. Tragedy was not done with Gallifrey either. A hair-line fracture of the Tear opened up in the workshop of Amy Pond’s home, swallowing the existence and memory of the joyful life she had found. Whilst it is a small, painful blessing that Amy and Gwen do not remember, with Time Lords it’s not so certain.

In more bizarre news, it seems the Doctors’ combined TARDIS, tired of staying put as a Gateway instead of the travelling she desired, has manifested into a body (see Chaya).

January 2020 - The Cyber PA was defeated and Theta rescued. Leading up to this time, the Tear continued to ravage realities. X and XI made a pact to fix it, along with adding a few extra resolutions to the mix. They performed Big Bang 2, the 2020 patch update. With XI’s Earth restored and Gallifrey moved, he relinquished the mantle of Lord President and resumed travelling with his husband. He visits his friends and family whenever he can, but spends a lot of time now in clusters of universes strangely filled with superheroes and villains. Whatever they get up to, the Doctors’ adventures continue!

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