The Archivist

The Archivist

'Spoiler Warning, reveals a lot about the character (who I plan on using if I ever write Doctor Who)'

The Archivist

The Time Lord known as The Archivist is a short male with dark brown curly hair which he often cuts because he hates the way it looks when long, he looks like he is in his early twenties was born after the Time War and became an archivist where his job is to write down information about different planets, time periods, species and people of important note, he usually wears comfy Gallifreyan clothing that look similar too Pyjamas which often gets him in trouble on Earth when people thing he is wearing just pyjamas and boots and sometimes also wears a hooded cloak.

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Knowledge of The Doctor

He is a big fan of The Doctor seeing him/her as a hero due to their constant saving of others and without letting the Time Lord Council find out keeps a log of The Doctor’s adventures in his private archive, the horrible things the Time Lords did to The Doctor caused The Archivist to want to leave so he fled in his TARDIS from Gallifrey.

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His TARDIS

He has a strong bond with his TARDIS treating it like a living thing, he and his TARDIS spent their first travel together floating in the time vortex just getting to know each other and deciding the interior’s design together, he also allows The TARDIS to pick destinations as well enjoying the ride, in honour of The Doctor he often keeps his TARDIS in the form of a green filing cabinet to make sure people don’t mistake him for The Doctor while also just enjoying the design…he is also forgetful and would probably forget what The TARDIS looked like, he himself spends most time inside the TARDIS only going adventuring on rare occasions.

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The First Archivist

His first incarnation is overly friendly and caring to others to the point that he is often treated like a door mat and sometimes when he encounters deadly threats such as Daleks he will usually try to be friendly to them in hopes that they will turn good, he once tried to talk the Daleks into giving themselves more personality and to not kill using their love of science as the reason, he has also tried to modify his TARDIS to allow Weeping Angels to feed off The TARDIS which would feed them without having negative consequences as they wouldn’t have to feed on sending people back in time and his TARDIS could just start time travelling he still tries to figure this out, he can sometimes be too friendly causing awkward moments to happen, his chosen colour is green.

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Pets “Companions”

He unlike The Doctor usually takes on Earth Animals or Animal Aliens as companions, they usually stay in his TARDIS so they have only died from old age and he always becomes sad when it happens but loves them too much to not adopt them if he finds strays.

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First Regeneration

This friendliness is what lead to his first regeneration where he was shot by the Dalek he was trying to be friends with but unknown to him he had a rare thought to be gone Gallifreyan illness, so it’s as if he has split-personality disorder where his incarnation changes randomly, swapping between them each time without warning or control.

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The Second Archivist

His second incarnation is another young twenties male with short black hair who usually wears due to his previous form being a “door-mat” is an emotionally darker person that wants to take revenge on all the people that treated him badly in the past, due to his incarnation-shifting illness however The First Archivist often takes over to stop his second incarnation from killing, he has swapped the colour green to red for his clothing and TARDIS cabinet and he often manipulates people into revealing the truth’s they hide causing fallouts between friends and allies.

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The Third Archivist

It is revealed that The Archivist didn’t have a very positive relationship with his family, that coupled with the harshness of the Time Lord exams caused The Archivist to suffer from depression however his first incarnation had ignored and pushed the emptiness down to try and be positive for others, because of this his Third incarnation is a representation of the depression lacking the ability to feel emotions for long periods of time, this version is pale with messy black hair and due to not taking care of himself this version of The Archivist looks more undead than alive and chose the colour white.

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The Fourth Archivist

Due to the previous two incarnations being so negative, after not having any emotions for seven years he is forcefully regenerated by his own failing body, The Fourth Archivist came out with a wacky personality, sometimes accused of being crazy he chose pink just to show how much he doesn’t care about judgement, he likes causing chaos and landing in completely random situations also sometimes dangerously not thinking before he acts, he has become a ginger male in his twenties.

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All Archivist’s Have In Common

Some things all of his incarnations have in common are that they all care about plants and animals, although some of them don’t like sapient beings and some of them pretend not to like animals but they secretly do, all of them usually wear pyjama-like Gallifreyan clothing often with a hooded cloak but all have chosen different colours along with colour changing their TARDIS’ file cabinet shell, all of his forms prefer being male and try as hard as they can to make sure they are male due to personal preference of their appearance, he is also gay although some of his forms don’t care at all about love and some don’t think it’s real and finally they all prefer to be young at least in the twenties, since all of his incarnations have been in there twenties and male people theorize he found a way to choose his appearance, if they meet themselves from different time points or in their own mind he constantly has arguments with themselves.

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The Fifth Archivist

His Forth incarnation regenerates from a stress attack after being forced to kill plant life’s for a none justified reason by The Time Lords causing his fifth regeneration to come out cold hearted no longer phased by death, he chose the colour black and likes to use freezing weapons on enemies as a reference to his cold-hearted ways.

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Sonic Weapon

The Archivist heard about The Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver but always liked the way Ray Guns looked, not actually liking weapons however he built a “ray gun” that acts as a Sonic Screwdriver, TARDIS Magnet for locating his TARDIS from a distance and other none-lethal things for self-defence or defending others such as a freezing ray setting, scanner setting or stun-shocker.

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The Sixth Archivist

In his sixth incarnation after being attacked by Cybermen the Archivist becomes more focussed on The Archives more than anything else focusing more on his intelligence so much so that people think his other incarnations aren’t as smart because of the different acting, he chose yellow as his colour this time and has become a black haired Japanese male in his early twenties, his intelligence has made The Cybermen start hunting him down while Daleks want to exterminate him for being “a rival” of their intelligence.

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Cyber-Conversion

Part way through his Sixth incarnation he willingly takes on Cyber-Conversion because his “emotions keep getting in the way” although he is a Cyber-Lord when he shifts into his other selves they are not however because he over-rid the control of the Cybermen becoming a renegade Cyberman they eventually hunted him down and shot him causing his next regeneration.

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The Seventh Archivist

The Seventh Archivist was a young black male in his twenties with very short black hair, after spending a long time with only animals he has become very lonely wanting to have sapient friends like everyone else as despite enjoying being different has also at times felt like alone, he is also very shy often unable to talk to people causing awkward silence, he has chosen purple as his colour.

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The Eighth Archivist

In his eight self he is a wavy brown haired male in his twenties, after being killed by Time Lords who don’t like The Doctor, The Archivist chose grey and is filled with anger, he shouts often and for some reason enjoys looking at fire, theorised by people who meet this Archivist to be slightly pyromaniac, he later dies fighting the Time Lords again.

The Ninth Archivist

During a stay on Earth he finally makes a friend causing his new incarnation to entirely focus on fun even if he feels down, he often tells bad jokes and puns even if the timing is inappropriate, he is a short brown haired young twenties French male who chose the colour orange.

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Susan Foreman-Campbell

The new friend The Ninth Archivist made was the older Susan Foreman, he hopes to travel with her as a companion as if she was a teacher of sorts, sort off like a Grandparent/Grandchild connection mirroring The First Doctor’s adventures with Susan.

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The Tenth Archivist

He is again killed by a Time Lord this time his own mother, he regenerates into a male with blonde hair in his early twenties, he chose the colour blue and is the most serious of his incarnations, he is the most heroic of The Archivists as well becoming almost as heroic as The Doctor.

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The Eleventh Archivist

He is again killed by his Time Lord mother and regenerates into a young male Latino with fluffy black hair, his chosen clothing colour is cream/beige, he is now more focused on his more creative side constantly writing his life’s story although his bad memory makes him forget and become annoyed at himself and he sometimes also writes fiction.

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The Twelfth Archivist

After constantly failing and being sabotaged in his archiving and creative writing The Archivist forces a regeneration and gives up on everything, he is now an Arabic male with wavy black hair in his young twenties and his new colour is brown, he focuses more on his natural impulses laying around in a sadness only doing what keeps himself alive and nothing else, he also tried dating for a while but gave up due to his mother’s sabotaging, each of his dates are sabotaged and he ends up giving up on that as well, this is the current number he has reached although with that illness he sometimes swaps to past selves.

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Final Info

His constant shifting makes his life difficult and most people who meet him for the first time have no idea how to deal with the shifts or know which is which, they themselves sometimes forget which of them is which, he hopes and theorizes that in his Thirteenth incarnation that he might become a normal Time Lord again with one personality and no more shifting but he thinks it’s unlikely.

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