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History: A rebellious Time Lord, the Doctor escaped from his home planet of Gallifrey in a stolen timeship (TARDIS) during the latter part of his first life, along with his granddaughter Susan. They eventually ended up on Earth in the year 1963. Two of Susan's schoolteachers stumbled upon their secret, and the Doctor kidnapped them and left that part of space-time to preserve his incognito. However, they eventually became friends and the Doctor agreed to take them back home. The Doctor parted company with his granddaughter when Susan fell in love, leaving her on the young man's home planet. He took on a few additional human "companions" later on, and would continue to do so throughout the rest of his lives.

The Time Lords caught up with the Doctor at the end of his second life. They took away his two companions at the time, Jamie and Zoey, erased their memories and sent them back to their respective timelines. The Doctor, though allowed to keep his memories of their time together, was marooned on Earth as punishment for disarranging the timestreams. He remained there for most of his third life, serving as Scientific Advisor to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) under the name of Dr. John Smith, until the Time Lords decided to end his exile and allow him to leave the planet. His third body was destroyed by radiation while saving the planet, and he regenerated into his fourth incarnation.

The Doctor's relationship with the Time Lords shifted significantly over the course of his fourth life. Four often found himself a reluctant agent of the Time Lords rather than a fugitive from them, sent to deal with unauthorized alterations of Time--whether he liked it or not. (Rather than punish the Doctor for his habit of interfering with events, the High Council of Gallifrey eventually decided to use it to fix problems that the letter of their law prevented them from correcting.) He even served as president of the High Council during a Sontaran invasion, though his term was relatively short and he eventually returned to his travels. For a brief period, he travelled with Romanadvoratralundar, another Time Lord, until she began her own campaign of intervention and they parted company.

Four was killed in a confrontation with his "Moriarty," a one-time childhood friend known as the Master. Through a unique set of circumstances, his fifth life began before his fourth had ended. Five's consciousness watched over his companions for some hours before regeneration; in effect, he watched his previous self die. The experience seems to have changed him. Five was cautious, quiet, and reserved, in contrast to his previous personalities. His relationships with his companions slowly grew more distant, and though he made attempts to reconnect, never quite managed the rapport he once had with them. Things would go better with Peri, a new arrival.

In his sixth life the Doctor went back to his old self, with a vengeance. A loud talker and a louder dresser, Six was adamantly individualistic and self-assured--useful qualities when one is being framed for genocide by one's psychotic future alter-ego. The Doctor's second trial like the first ended in separation from his companions (this time Peri), but he was joined immediately by Mel, who traveled with him until shortly after his next regeneration.

As Mel left, Seven acquired a new companion, a teenage girl named Ace. Ace, over the course of their relationship, became a sort of surrogate daughter. Their partnership saw the destruction and rebirth of the Dalek Empire, and another run-in with the Master. Many years after Ace had gone, the Master set another trap for the Doctor... it didn't go exactly to plan, though. Seven died in a gang shooting prior to his final showdown with the Master, and nearly didn't regenerate when e.r. doctors attempted to operate without realizing he wasn't human. Having no idea who he was at first, he followed Grace, the surgeon, home because she was the only thing he could remember from before his regeneration. The Master came after both of them, intent on switching bodies with the Doctor and getting his remaining lives for himself. To that end, the Master opened the Eye of Harmony (now in the TARDIS for some odd reason...). But he's the Master, so monologuing ensued, giving the Doctor time and opportunity to fight back. The struggle ended with the Master getting sucked into the Eye itself (it's a compressed black hole, after all). The Doctor later asked Grace to travel with him, but she declined.

Then came Lucie... I'm listening as fast as I can! @_@

After his final clash with the Master, Eight travelled alone for some time before picking up Charlotte "Charley" Pollard, whom he rescued from a 1930s zeppelin crash.

Unfortunately, Charley's survival created a temporal paradox that enabled a force known as Anti-Time to be released. The paradox was eventually resolved, but the problem of Anti-Time would come up again when the consequences of Rassilon's experiments manifested in Eight's time. Zagreus, a consciousness/virus with the powers of Anti-Time at its disposal, took over the Doctor's mind for a time. Unable to rid himself of Zagreus, the Doctor "exiled himself" to an alter universe. Charley, unknown to him, followed him in...

In this separate universe, linear time did not exist; the whole thing was set on a several million year time loop. As a consequence, the Doctor lost his sixth sense. (Though he didn't realize it, he also lost Zagreus, which separated itself from him soon after he entered and took its own form.) The Doctor and Charley (later joined by C'rizz, a chameleon-like alien with a mysterious past) had quite a few run-ins with a race known as the Divergents, tied (as Zagreus had been) to Rassilon's determination to lord over Time as completely as possible. Rassilon himself would appear to confront the Doctor, turning C'rizz against him by promising to restore C'rizz's dead fiancee. Rassilon planned to use the TARDIS to escape the Divergents' universe and return to theirs. The Doctor and Charley became separated as they raced to find their own way out before the universe reset itself and started the whole thing over again... and that's where the Doctor enters Payatt.

Character Notes: (because lotsa people are more familiar with Nine and Ten, and that's still a long way off XD;;) Zagreus might not be with Eight anymore, but it's left its mark. Rassilon was revered as a sort of "law-giver" by Time Lords (prior incarnations of the Doctor included), and has a near-godlike status on Gallifrey. The originator of the Time Lords' policy of non-interference, he's generally seen as an advocate of ethics, responsibility and restraint in a time when the society was misusing temporal power. But history is only what gets written down... and in contrast to legend, the real Rassilon was a xenophobic control freak who wanted to shape the evolution of the universe to his own, very specific plan. Coming face-to-face with this so-called "hero" has very much soured Eight on the entire concept of heroes. He wants no part of it, neither the mythological model nor being called a "hero" himself. Now more than ever, he's determined to distance himself as much as possible from his Time Lord heritage...

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