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Character Name: The TARDIS
Fandom: Doctor Who
Gender: female
Age: 1,200+
Sexuality (if applicable): Doctor-sexual
Original or Anomaly?: anomaly


*It should be noted that the majority of the TARDIS canon comes from audios, particularly Zagreus, but also pulls from the Short Trips books, various novels (like the Eighth Doctor Adventures series) and, of course, canon. If anything needs further clarification, I would be happy to provide.

Appearance: If this were any other time, the TARDIS would look like a big, blue police box with an infinite interior. Something like this (exterior) and this (interior). This would also happen to be her incarnation during the Eighth Doctor’s time, so.

But this isn’t any other time, no! This happens to be a special time, under special circumstances, and so the TARDIS is, in fact, sporting around a humanish appearance. Because you see, there was this whole incident with anti-time and a being called Zagreus that infected both the TARDIS and the Doctor. And when it infected the TARDIS, it projected itself (or, as the case may be, her psyche) using agitated protoplasm. During this time, the TARDIS appeared as the Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, an old friend of the Doctor’s. After the infection, however, the TARDIS retained the ability to create physical projections using agitated protoplasm.

Why is this important? Well, it’s been said that a Grey Lady wanders the halls of the TARDIS, spending her time in the engine room, the library, or tending to rooms. Her hair is long and dark and twisted, eyes wide and black, and her form ethereal and fluid and never quite discernible, as though she does not, in fact, have a body (which would be true!). Her ‘skin’ appears ashen in colour – hence the name Grey Lady – and her general appearance remains female, but the specifics change – she never seems to have a solid facial structure, height, weight or body type.

Besides her hair and eyes, the only other constant of her shape is a thin silver band on her left ring finger, inscribed with Gallifreyan symbols -- a wedding band, with the words 'The Only Constant' scrawled delicately along its surface. It is to be noted that this form is Gallifreyan and therefore does have two heart beats, because this is the TARDIS' manifestation of her psyche, and she's too vain to have anything other than a Time Lady's body.


Personality: Part ship, part home, part companion, part friend. The TARDIS is a rather lot of things, both to the Doctor, his companions, and herself, and she's far from simple to understand, especially considering she's a transportation device. She's been called the Doctor's only constant by the Doctor himself, as she is the only travelling companion who has remained with him indefinitely. That's the problem with humans -- their lives are short, and the Doctor's lifestyle is not something with which they can keep up. But the TARDIS, well...she's been with him since he first stole her, and loyally so.

Speaking of those human companions, however, the TARDIS has developed quite the jealous streak toward the Doctor's various female friends, particularly Charley, who has romantic feelings for her Eighth Doctor. Though she's suffered the Doctor's companions for centuries (or maybe that should be millenia, considering how far in time they've travelled, and do you take that into account?), their "dirty underwear all over [her] floors, tears and soggy in [her] bedrooms" and their spending "hour after hour in [her] bathrooms," she remained silent about her feelings toward them until recently, when an incident involving Charley painted the TARDIS' jealousy and pain in a stark light.

After all, she's been with the Doctor for as long as he's been travelling the universe, far longer than the little twits who join him for brief moments of his life, only to disappear as quickly. Even his Sixth form said as much, calling her his one constant, and to see the Doctor -- her Doctor -- fawn over the insipid bipeds angers her to no end. Especially when he will sacrifice her well-being to protect the weak and insufferable gits.

She is, however, fiercely loyal to the Doctor, almost to a fault. She loves him beyond measure and is, quite frankly, somewhat obsessed, which at times can cloud her judgment. She isn't afraid to argue with him, however, when she feels he's being particularly stupid and one of his schemes will hurt either himself or both of them. At times such as these, she'll balk at commands and has been know to, on occasion, do exactly the opposite of what the Doctor wants. 'Temperamental' is perhaps the kindest thing she's been called during one of these stunts.

When she isn't fawning over the Doctor, arguing with him or seething with jealousy of his companions, the TARDIS can be quite mischievous, as well, adding rooms and corridors where there weren't any before, trapping companions in a looped hallway or, every now and again, turning their showers freezing cold. It's all in good fun, of course. Really. She swears.

In her human body, for lack of a better term, the TARDIS is infinitely curious as to what the world is like, trying every sight and touch and taste possible. She’s condescending and overbearing toward mortals, acting as though she is their better, but she also strives to understand them and do what they do – she just tries to do it when they aren’t looking, because she doesn’t want to appear weak and stupid or otherwise anything less than a powerful and intelligent ship.

Because she is a ship, however, she is also very frustrated with being stuck in a small body, unable to access Time. She still thinks like a ship, addressing her ‘functions’ and ‘databanks’ as the equivalent of biology and memory. She doesn’t understand the need for food and sleep – and doesn’t actually need it, either – and she will belittle anyone she can for being weaker and smaller than she.

(And if you want a really, really indepth look at her psychology, particularly in regards to the Doctor and other companions, well then, here you go!.)


History: Born on Gallifrey, the TARDIS actually began life as a small plant in a large 'garden' with others of her species. Cultivated from the beginning to eventually be a spaceship for the Time Lords, the TARDIS was eventually fitted with bits and pieces of Time Lord technology around which she grew, developing a black hole core from which she obtains her time travelling powers. When she was big enough, more Gallifreyan technology, such as the coordinate console, was added to her core column. Eventually, all the systems integrated with her biology and the TARDIS came fully into her powers.

And so she waited for a Time Lord to bond with her, which happened eventually. She doesn't care to remember much of that time, as it was long ago and so very short-lived, because not long after, her generation was recalled for repairs, as newer models were beginning to be harvested. She was stored within the confines of the Oakdown House, from which her original pilot came, and waited there, dormant and alone, for about a decade, before two little boys snuck in through her front doors, as little boys are wont to do. One of them called her beautiful and he visited often, for years and years after that fateful first encounter; he saved her life, asking his friend, a son of Oakdown and pride of his House, to keep her from being decommissioned.

Eventually, he came to her again, this time running from the very world that had created them both, and she went with him happily, stopping off to pick up his granddaughter before travelling to the stars and knowing freedom once again for the first time in centuries.

So began her relationship with the Doctor.

In the years -- centuries -- she's been with him, the TARDIS has watched the Doctor's companions come and go, including Susan, the young girl with whom he originally left with her. She always watched the Doctor change, changing his form a total of seven times while with her, each regeneration different, but always with that same love and care he'd shown her that first night when they disappeared into the darkness.

They had adventures the likes of which no other TARDIS could believe, as well. They faced down the Daleks (multiple times, as the blasted things won't stay dead, apparently), were almost blown up by Cybermen; more than once, the Master manipulated her entire being to get to the Doctor, always without succeeding. They took on Omega, Death and the Gallifreyans, themselves.

There were times when she fought with the Doctor, as well, like when he lost his ring in her central column, sending searing pain through her interior until she got fed up with it all and changed the console room into a jungle out of sheer frustration. He apologised and retrieved the offending article of jewellery, but she didn't speak to him for a few days afterward, just to teach him a lesson.

During his Sixth regeneration, she bore a child with Kamelion, which the Doctor raised and allowed to spend time on Earth as a substitute for his companion, Peri. The child has since disappeared and the TARDIS wonders, on occasion, where she went, but puts little more thought to it than that, content to travel as she is. If they cross paths sometime in the future, she'll worry about the child then.

In that time they travelled, in all the situations they found themselves in and the skirmishes they fought, it wasn't only the Doctor who took damage. The TARDIS suffered injury after injury in service to her Doctor, brutal beatings to her exterior, being shot, torn asunder. The Time Lady Romana drilled holes in her console and she was dismantled and blown apart. She suffered as near to death as possible and ripped apart the fabric of time and space to protect her Doctor, tearing herself apart until she was naught but a broken, skeletal shell looming over Gallifrey, ready to destroy the planet to save him.

But the final test, the agony of all agonies, was when the Time Station exploded within her, poisoning herself and the Doctor with anti-time, rending her personality in two. Which was perhaps the greatest injury of all, moreso than having her exterior melted down, moreso than having the negative personification destroyed (by Romana again, mind). No, having the Doctor use her, sacrificing her to save Charley -- and then watching her own negative self torture the Doctor within her, unable to save him from herself -- those were injuries that have scarred her, and deeply.

It was after the anti-time infection that she and the Doctor, along with Charley, travelled to the divergent universe -- the universe Rassilon sealed away to keep his own people as the mightiest force in the universe. And it is so, so different, living in a universe where time does not exist. It hurts and aches and she's disoriented half the time, but there are positives, as well. There are no Daleks, no Cybermen, no Omega or Rassilon or Time Lords and, for the first time in decades, the TARDIS and the Doctor and his companions, after picking up the Eutermesan C'rizz, can travel freely and explore, as they had always wished to do.

Eventually, the group freed themselves of the divergent universe and returned to our universe – complete with a welcome wagon of Daleks! Oh, what fun times. They also had a run-in with a brain worm that exploded people’s heads aaaaand a world in which robots would rip people out of Time. Good stuff, yup. Through it all, the TARDIS was quietly perfecting her ability to use the agitated protoplasm Zagreus had harnessed during her anti-time infection, learning to solidify the particles to the point she could touch and feel and taste and all the other senses corporeal beings experience.

And then, of course, there was a sudden jarring, she could hear the Doctor yelling that something was wrong, there was a terrible tearing sensation, and the next thing she knew, the TARDIS was aboard some strange vessel, trapped in a body she does not want and unable to return to herself or her Doctor.


Strengths: he's a time travelling space craft that makes the whole of the universe her bitch. She can translate any language, she can warp space and time, she can make up rooms to her delight, she can project humanoid forms. She can also, you know, destroy reality if she opens the Eye of Harmony (but she won't, she promises. Destroying realities is far too messy and the Doctor would grow angry with her.) Oh yeah, she also has vast, and I do mean vast, stores of knowledge. She is definitely smarter than a fifth grader.

Weaknesses: Well...she's a ship, even with all her super awesome godmode powers, so she's limited to travelling where the Doctor wants to go (for the most part) and she's not actually mobile. Well, not in her ‘real’ form. She can project her psyche, sure, but that doesn't mean she's accustomed to the whole idea and is, quite frankly, a bit beside herself when it comes to being anything other than a ship. When it comes to human interaction, she also has ... absolutely not idea what she's doing. Living with the Doctor for centuries has instilled in her the belief that there is no such thing as personal space, everyone should be hyper intelligent and if they aren't, they're idiots, and anything beyond a scientific knowledge of things is beyond her. She can learn it, sure, but she's often too proud to admit she doesn't know.