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The Doctor | Doctor Who | 2 of As Few As Possible But This Is Really Long

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Character Notes:
History: In the 927 years of his life, the Doctor has racked up a whole lot of history, and then lost it, rewritten it, left it in the back of a drawer for three years, and generally not taken very good care of it. Needless to say, when this one dies, he will not be getting another one. Due to the general nature in which he disregards the laws of temporal causality, paradox runs rampant throughout his past (and his future). You have been warned.

The Doctor is one of the Time Lords, an ancient race of nigh-immortal aliens from the planet Gallifrey, who happen to look very human indeed, by virtue of it being a really big universe and it was bound to happen sooner or later. At the age of eight, all Time Lords look into the Time Vortex. Some are inspired, some run away and some go mad. The Doctor ran. Through a series of events he got his hands on a Type IV TARDIS and ran away from Gallifrey completely, returning only briefly to mop up whatever trouble was being caused.

In the course of his travels, he has picked up many and various human companions to, well, mostly keep him company, but they also help save the world sometimes. Sometimes. Mostly they get in trouble and the Doctor has to save them, but he doesn't mind it so much. He likes humans, though they can be exasperating, otherwise he wouldn't save them from destruction so often. Whether he loves them, however, is a matter of some debate. They certainly seem to love him, but only recently has he started overtly exploring the more romantic side of the companion relationship, and that was only after the event that would redefine everything: the Time War.

Nothing like the Time War has ever been seen before or since. Or at all, according to most of the universe. The two most powerful races in the galaxy clashed, and the effects resonated throughout the rest of the universe. On one side, the Time Lords: twisted by their own ambition and arrogance, self-appointed administrators of existance, but ultimately well-meaning, and certainly not evil. Well, mostly, anyway. On the other, the Daleks: twisted by their own malice and paranoia, self-appointed master race, genocidal and irredeemable. The war ravaged time, relative dimension and even space; entire worlds were destroyed in the collateral. Eventually, one of the Time Lords found a solution, but it required great sacrifice. The Daleks were destroyed, but so were the Time Lords, leaving only one, the Doctor, to carry the memory of both great races, and the burden of their destruction.

Of course, ultimately both species survived, but the Time Lords are locked out of Time, and the Doctor is doing his damnedest to stop the Daleks, new and multicoloured though they be. Which brings us neatly around to the subject of his many adventures. They are too numerous to describe in much detail here (and have in fact been chronicled in many volumes), but an outline of those with his most recent face should suffice.