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A drawing of the Fugitive Doctor and Tecteun! I really should draw the Fugitive Doctor more, she's great!

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Why the Fugitive Doctor isn’t 6B

As the Fugitive Doctor’s TARDIS is in the shape of a Police Box, uses the title Doctor, and works for the Time Lords, some people think that she’s an incarnation between the Second and Third Doctor because of the Season 6B theory. Which is that the Second Doctor had adventures after The War Games working for the Time Lords as we saw in The Five Doctors and The Two Doctors, and that Fugitive fits as a hidden incarnation after the Second Doctor and before the Third Doctor.

But there’s an issue with this idea that means the Fugitive Doctor isn’t 6B.

In Fugitive of the Judoon, Time Lord and Division-operative Commander Gat confronts Lee who’d gone on the run with the Fugitive Doctor and hid on Earth, and says to Lee that she couldn’t find him and the Fugitive Doctor because they hid on Earth, a backwater planet in a random part of a random galaxy…

But if the Fugitive Doctor was after the Second Doctor, then the Time Lords would know of the Doctor’s interest and history with the Earth because of his trial in The War Games. Yet Commander Gat, tasked with finding and returning the Fugitive Doctor to Division, did not speak of the Earth as if the Doctor or the Time Lords had history with it, she says that she couldn’t find them because they hid on Earth. Gat saying “good place to hide mind, the far backside of a tiny galaxy” is another way of saying that they hid on a completely unknown random planet and actually compliments them for hiding there because it meant she couldn’t find them.

The fact that the Fugitive Doctor’s TARDIS was in the shape of a Police Box when she met the 13th Doctor says it all, that the TARDIS took on her future Police Box shape from An Unearthly Child for the 13th Doctor, as that shape is how she would identify her TARDIS. Meaning the TARDIS the First Doctor stole from the repair shop was actually his TARDIS from before his mind-wipe, which makes a lot of sense because the Fugitive Doctor’s non-stop running across time and space to escape Division, would’ve worn the TARDIS out.

The Fugitive Doctor using the title Doctor isn’t an issue as it doesn’t just mean a healer or physician, it can also mean a scientist or a doctorate of a subject. And so when the First Doctor chose the title Doctor as his Time Lord title, it meant healer and physician, but when the Fugitive Doctor and possibly her previous selves were using the title Doctor, it meant scientist or doctorate of science and/or engineering.

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Tecteun in Fugitive of the Judoon

The Fugitive Doctor was on the run from the Time Lord black ops organisation she used to work for, Division. But that also means she was on the run from her adoptive parent Tecteun as well, and I believe while we don’t see her, she is present in other ways.

I think this is an allegory of the Doctor and Tecteun, with how the Doctor rebelled against her and ran away. And having Ruth’s parents live in a lighthouse in the middle of nowhere who weren’t good with people, a metaphor of Tecteun’s cold and distant nature. In universe, I think the TARDIS created an identity when the Fugitive Doctor used the chameleon arch, in order to reflect her true identity, to make her rebellious in case Division found her.

As shown in this scene, the Time Lord and Division Operative called Gat wasn’t the person who had hired the Judoon. The contractee was a Time Lord much higher in authority who put on the contract that the Judoon bring the Fugitive Doctor to them at Division, who Gat said she was there on behalf of, so a person not multiple people. That being Tecteun makes perfect sense.

This was an earlier scene, but I put it after the other two examples as this isn’t as obvious. But I think that this moment of Ruth’s true identity breaking through, and her talking about bullies, was talking about Tecteun, because she liked to pick on the Doctor’s vulnerabilities.

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TYING TOGETHER THE DETAILS OF THE FIRST DOCTOR’S EARLY CHILDHOOD

(I recommend clicking the GIFS if you want to watch them from the start as even off screen they continue)

While Chibnall was the first to explicitly confirm that the Doctor is care experienced (an umbrella term for foster care, adoption, kinship, residential care, special guardianship) he wasn’t the first to introduce that idea.

In the Series 8 episode Listen written by Steven Moffat, the TARDIS went to the early part of the First Doctor’s life, when he was a young boy sleeping in a barn he’d ran to outside of the Capitol, and was visited by two unseen people.

With how the Woman calls the place that the Doctor had run away from a house and refers to the children living there not as the Doctor’s brothers but as the boys, this implies that the Doctor was living in a children’s care home, and those two people who came to him were likely the care workers of the house.

With what this care worker says, it might’ve been a military orphanage he was living in. That could be what all orphanages on Gallifrey are like which wouldn’t be surprising, or that care worker was just forcing his own interest onto the Doctor and the other children.

Either way, the glimpse we saw of the First Doctor’s childhood was paralleling what we saw earlier in the episode of Danny Pink, who lived in a children’s care home as a boy with an interest of the army.

The Doctor having been in a children’s home fits perfectly with what Reinette said after glimpsing the Doctor’s childhood, because feelings of loneliness are common for those who grow up in care homes.

How the First Doctor ended up in the home, I think that could be answered by what the Ninth Doctor said in The Empty Child.

I think after Tecteun mind-wiped and force regenerated the Doctor into a baby boy, she dumped him at the doorstep of the children’s home. And whether Time Lords are natural or machine born, she fabricated a birth record so he believed he had been born like everyone else. To add, I doubt the Doctor is the only Time Lord and Division Operative to have been reset because of no longer aligning with Division.

We know from multiple references that the First Doctor had a family and a family home.

“Well, when I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain” - 3rd Doctor, The Time Monster

“I was with my father, it was a warm Gallifreyan night” - 8th Doctor, TV Movie

“Have you got a brother” - Martha
“No, not anymore. Just me” - 10th Doctor, Smith and Jones

“But of course it’s meant to be the Doctor’s mother. That’s certainly what I’ll tell the production team. Euros knows it already. David, too” - RTD in The Writer’s Tale about the Woman in The End of Time

“Sisters. I used to have sisters” - 13th Doctor, Arachnids in the UK

“I had seven, but grannie five, my favourite, used to tell me about the Solitract” - 13th Doctor, It Takes You Away

This means that the Doctor wouldn’t have been in the children’s home for his entire childhood. Some time before he went to the Academy, he was either fostered or adopted by a family who lived in the house perched halfway up a mountain.

Some fans say that the Doctor not being from Gallifrey means that the Woman in The End of Time can’t be the Doctor’s mother. But I think what they mean by that is that she can’t be his birth mother, but there’s no issue with that. Whether the Woman was the Doctor’s adoptive or foster mother, that doesn’t make them less of a mother, a mother is mother no matter what kind, the scene and the intent still has the exact same impact as it had before, a mother helping their child in their time of need. My mother (adoptive) would go to the ends of the Earth for me, and I her. And I think it’s better that she wasn’t his birth mother because it means we haven’t seen one of two people who are the reason for the Doctor’s existence, adding to the mystery of their identity and origins.

And some time after being adopted or fostered, the Doctor goes to the Academy, graduates, has a family of his own as a father and grandfather, then for multiple reasons decides to run away from Gallifrey with his granddaughter Susan and the rest as they say is history.

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Hey, if you’ve followed me, thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

A little bit about me, I’m James, 22 years old, from Wales. I’m an ex-foster kid and have been adopted for 20 years. I’m obviously a massive Whovian and have loved the show since I was 4 years old.

I’m a big defender of the Timeless Child arc, less the source of regeneration aspect, but all of the other aspects are brilliant. My favourite Doctors are Fugitive, 1, 2, 3, 7, 12, 13, & 15.