The Doctor was a dad once? What?

[Wind-Whisper]

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Gotta say that clears up quite a bit about the Doc origins for me. xd It's to bad his son has never made an appearance it would be interesting to see him. 3nodding

Why does everyone always assume he had a son? It's a 50/50 chance he had a girl, you know.

Also, why does everyone assume he married a human? I think he probably married a Gallifreyan because whenever he's talking about human females in his earlier incarnations he says they're beautiful "probably." Indicating that he's not that attracted to them. Rose, of course, is the exception. He must be less picky in his old age. xd

Mmm, I always assumed he married a Gallifreyan because he says his family and everything are dead (and everyone else) because of the time war...
Yeah I guess he can/does love humans but tries not to really, because of the whole... being a Time Lord thing.
Good question about the son thing though, might be because I'm half asleep but I can't think where the son thing came from.

These are some of the mysteries that still hang over the Doctor's past, and the original reason why we asked the question, "Doctor who?" We have only snatches of information about his past.

Here is what we know for a fact: he was an agent for the Celestial Intervention Agency (the CIA - haha...), sent to secretly break the Prime Directive of non-intervention with other cultures on other planets, in other times. Not to randomly break it, but only when outside forces threatened to disrupt the natural flow of history. He pretended to steal a TARDIS to accomplish the mission, and made himself a criminal, for all practical purposes. Yet in a pinch, the CIA offered some clandestine help, even while still sending him on secret missions, which he came to resent. We know that attended the Time Lord Academy when he was young, and was of the Prydonian School, which sounds slightly like the Slytherins in Harry Potter. He was called theta Sigma by his school chums, for reasons that have only been speculated on.

We also know that as a young boy he sneaked away from his father's estates to visit a hermit in the hills who told him ghost stories and other such yarns. This same hermit was in fact the Time Lord, K’anpo Rinpoche, who spent a great deal of time living in Tibet as a monk, and whom we actually met in the final story of the 3rd Doctor's life. The young Doctor also learned martial arts on Venus, billions of years ago, when it was habited by multi-legged beings.

As for his personal life, he has mentioned his father and family, and "Susan" (if that is her true name) was his granddaughter. One of the later producers of the original show was uncomfortable with that and tried to explain it away, but the original producer said emphatically that he was wrong. Susan was indeed the Doctor's granddaughter, which meant there was a wife and at least one child. Beyond that, we know nothing. Susan was clearly not born on Earth, though she was fascinated by mid-to late 20th century Earth.

My personal feeling is that the Doctor once married a human girl and had a half-human child (or children), which would account for his almost tearful descriptions of loving humans who only grow old and die while he continues.

This brings to mind the discussion on the Doctor being "half human". This plot device appeared in the single 8th Doctor adventure, which was produced in Canada. The original writers in England scoffed loudly at the notion. It has never been brought up since. However, it has crossed my mind that he may have had to have human DNA injected into his system in order to marry and have children with a human wife. This could have confused the Master, who is not really as brilliant as he thinks he is.

The Time Lords are a curious species who can regenerate themselves in whole or in part when age, illness, or injury make it necessary. They have an internal anatomy quite different from humans, and years ago it was tossed about that perhaps they were mollusks in humanoid form, as they have two hearts like mollusks, and can regenerate body parts as well as entire bodies. This was easy to laugh off until the 8th Doctor story where the Master was plainly showed to be a mollusk, slithering into the body of a human victim to kill him and assume his outward appearance (why am I being reminded of Edgar the cockroach in "Men in Black"?) So then, this may be one of the secrets of the Time Lords that the 7th Doctor did not want revealed - that the Time Lords are in fact slugs who have chosen to exist in human form for reasons of their own. But this is getting into some real speculation, and we are left with unanswered questions, only guesses.