The Doctor
The Doctor was a time-traveller, best-known for travelling in the TARDIS. They existed in several universes, and indeed, could change bodies even within a single universe through a process of mental and physical “regeneration” that granted them a form of immortality. As a perpetual traveller who had lived in many different physical forms and often took human companions, the Shifter viewed several versions of the Doctor as kindred souls and vice versa.
They were also known, in various contexts and incarnations, as Theta, Fred or Dr. Who.
Biography
In the Third Universe
Jenny Everywhere once noted that "some people" got into even more trouble than she did. For proof, she pointed to the Doctor’s TARDIS which, with supreme bad luck, was materialising in the middle of the very firing squad Jenny had just escaped in one universe. (COMIC: The Late Shift)
When one Jenny first took her boyfriend to the Restaurant, one of the only patrons who did not appear to be incarnations of Jenny herself was a “bushy-haired European guy playing with a yoyo”. (PROSE: Second Date)
Pythagoras-858 and another incarnation of Jenny later identified “a time-traveller with a bowtie” as one of the potential points of origin for the Rifts Crisis which threatened the Multiverse, but observed that he had used some of the Rifts he'd created to reboot his universe so that the Rifts had never existed in the first place. They later observed him accidentally reopening the Rifts, however, by "attempting to kill Death". (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) By December 2021, an individual whose name was redacted, from the Third Universe, was classified in the Cupid Archives as a “potential Hyper-class threat” should they cease to be neutral to the Crew. They were listed alongside the likes of Century Smith, the Multi-Coloured Medic, the Infinite Buccaneer and Jenny Anywhere. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
The sorcerer Doctor Know-It-All, who was noted by the Man in Grey to resemble “the time-traveller guy” himself, possessed photograph of a balding man in a floral shirt talking with a man similar to the Man in Grey himself. The Man in Grey also reacted oddly to mentions of the name “Fred”. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
Reunited with Rose
In another universe, after having been separated from Rose Tyler when she was trapped in Pete's World (at some point later than the “Bad Wolf” incident), the Doctor was reunited with her in a later incarnation.
This Thirteenth Doctor was a woman with “bright hazel eyes” who wore “eclectic clothing”. Jenny Everywhere collected Rose from Pete's World and shifted her directly into the control room of the TARDIS, cryptically stating by way of explanation that it would be “better for everyone” if Rose and the Doctor resumed their adventures forthwith. The Doctor recognised Jenny, though she told Rose that she didn't really know what Jenny was beyond being an “interdimensional hitchhiker”. After Jenny left, the Doctor and Rose went to the TARDIS library to catch up. (PROSE: Shifting)
Fun with Clara and Jenny
In one reality, the Doctor was familiar with Jenny Everywhere of old, with her familiarly calling him “Theta”. At some point, the Doctor regenerated into a male incarnation whose costume prominently included a bowtie, and started travelling with Clara Oswald, a woman who ended up “splintered” throughout time so that she had a great number of alternative selves in other time periods, somewhat similar to Jenny's interdimensional incarnations.
On one occasion, the Jenny he knew arrived in the control room of the Doctor's TARDIS, intending to speak with him about something. However, he was out at the time, and she instead met Clara. When the Doctor returned, he was shocked to see that, once the two women realised they both had a bevy of identical counterparts, Jenny had summoned matching numbers of her other selves and Clara's into the control room, and they were all engaging in various adult activities. After the prime Clara explained the situation to the Doctor, the prime Jenny saucily asked him if he wanted to join the fun. (PROSE: Shippy Shifter Snippets)
Behind the scenes
The Doctor, or "Dr. Who", whose many, usually-unnamed cameos in Jenny Everywhere have thus far only ever been unlicensed easter eggs, is the main protagonist of the Doctor Who series, which was debuted in 1963 and spans a variety of media.
The “bushy-haired” playing with a yoyo who makes an unnamed cameo in Second Date is implicitly the Fourth Doctor, as portrayed by Tom Baker, while the version described in The Grand Multiverse Hotel and Shippy Shifter Snippets as wearing a bow tie is Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor. The Thirteenth Doctor who appears in the fanfiction crossover Shifting is an alternate-universe variant of the version portrayed by Jodie Whittaker. The “balding man in a floral print jacket” seen in a photograph with the Man in Black in Open Sourcing is that the alternative Ninth Doctor portrayed by Nick Briggs in the unlicensed Audio Visuals audio drama, who was later established to have severed himself from the mainline Doctor's timeline and adopted the name of "Fred" as part of a deal with the Man in Black, hence why the Man in Grey reacts oddly to the name of "Fred" when it is mentioned elsewhere in Open Sourcing (which gestures at an ambiguous but meaningful relationship existing between the Man in Grey and the Man in Black).
The character was cited in 2002 as an inspiration for Jenny by Steven Wintle in one of the original Barbelith forum-threads where Jenny was created — specifically for the notion that like the Doctor's, Jenny's birth name should remain a mystery, with it being assumed that "Jenny Everywhere" was an alias.[2]
Notes & References
- ↑ First appearance in directly Jenny-related media; actual debut was in 1963's An Unearthly Child.
- ↑ Post by “Moriarty” on Barbelith (Archived)
