Thread:AngryLance/@comment-37028137-20200128044919/@comment-37028137-20200424174846

Greetings Lance,

I had a thought or two about your suggestion to do a sort of "portrait hall" as you put it. I put together a few prototype ideas, based on your suggestion.

Doctor Nicholas Hawthorn’s Regenerations.

1.      First Incarnation: Birth-7,006 years old.

The first Incarnation of the Time Lord who would eventually become a hero to the Omniverse. Little is known about his childhood as he does not often speak of it. What is known is that he grew up in poverty, living in the Low Town under the Citadel. And that he suffers from a physical disability which impairs his movement. He fled Gallifrey at the young age of 7,000 in a Type 53 Mark III TARDIS with the help of the sentient ship’s onboard visual avatar. The pair made their new home on an insignificant planet known as Earth in the 1980s.

Blending in with the local species of Humans this nameless and broken child would use a perception filter to make himself appear older so as to travel about the world freely. He would dress rather conspicuously in Victorian suits to highlight his good standing and shirk his poverty stricken roots after having seen the film adaptation of Jane Eyre. Believing it to be a historical documentary. A fact he touted, to many confused people.

On one of his first adventures the still nameless youngster would travel hundreds of years into the future to a new quadrant of space. Wherein he would encounter hostile forces and be saved by a ship called USS Voyager. Having been wounded in the skirmish he would be revived by the onboard Emergency Medical Hologram or EMH known as the ‘Doctor’. While onboard Voyager for several months he would gain a new respect for Humanity and their kind nature, as well as the holographic physician who saved him. The boy would soon return to Earth, after pushing Voyager several light-years towards their home.

His return to Earth, was not an empty one however having gained the Holograms’ permission, he would take up the Nom De Guerre of ‘The Doctor’. He would also heed the EMH’s advice that: “Your ship’s exterior is, well, plain you need to add a little je ne sais quoi to its appearance.” Because of this the Doctor transitioned his TARDIS chameleon circuit to resemble a 1960s Police Telephone Box to give it in his words a “Unparalleled Retro Style!” From there he would work in aiding Humanity towards their path to the stars; while protecting his new home from all manner of threats.

Cause of Regeneration: Exhaustion of the physical form due to too many years of poor living conditions on Gallifrey.

1.      Second Incarnation: 7,006-8,953 years old.



This second Incarnation began to travel not only in space and time but also throughout the Omniverse after accidentally activating the Multiplexer Phasic Reality Drive. While travelling across the new Universes opened to him he stumbled across an organization known as Stargate Command. This organization was busy defending their version of Earth from a hostile contingent of extraterrestrials known as the Goa'uld System Lords who wished to subjugate the planet. Offering his assistance the Doctor would partner with the SGC under the command of General George Hammond, and the premier team SG-1 to thwart the attack.

Having been welcomed by this eclectic group and made several close friendships with Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel  Jackson, Teal’c, Jack O’Neill, and Dr. Janet Fraser the Doctor would stay on for several years in an advisory capacity and gaining the honorary rank of Major. Which O’Neill claimed stood for “Major pain in the backside.” The Doctor would eventually be asked to pick a Human name by General Hammond to differentiate himself from the on base medical staff. “Frankly your use of a title is confusing to our boys in records. Look I can’t order you to have a name but at this point I don’t care if we have to call you Mr. Spock just figure something out.” After much debate and mental gymnastics Colonel O’Neill would give the young Time Lord a simple choice stating “We’ve been through so many names. Look at this point we’ll either call you Nicholas or Frank!” Graciously taking the name Nicholas and amending his title to Doctor Nicholas, or Nick for his friends.

Being part of the SGC and a Major, Nicholas was trained in weapons combat, though he would make his disdain for firearms well known. Teal’c also took it upon himself to teach the Gallifreyan, an adapted form of Lok’nel a Jaffa hand to hand combat style for armed and unarmed attacks to balance with his disability. Making it quite clear that: “Even a healer must know how to defend himself and others when facing the threat of the false gods’ armies.” The Time Traveler would eventually settle in Ireland’s past somewhere in County Kildare, in between his missions with the SGC. While there he would encounter the Wee Folk and be introduced to Magic.

Cause of Regeneration: Electrocuted by the Mainframe Computer which led to brain death; in an attempt to stop a Rutan Starship from invading an Earth in the 1930s.

1.      Third Incarnation: 8,953-9,712 years old.

This third persona was far more a scholar and mentor than his predecessors’ ‘heroic explorer’ attitude. He possessed a kindly demeanor and soft spoken voice with a flair for eccentric trimmings. Nicholas continued to stay on Earth and kept in close contact with his fellows at the SGC, though he preferred to advise from the sidelines than engage in ‘pugilistic activities’ and as such he was less involved with off world activities.



He also spent far more time in Earth’s past as a physician moving between the towns and villages in order to attend to the community there, which he had grown fond of from his previous life. It was a point of pride for him that he was far more often found studying journals and artifacts or attending to the care of others than gallivanting across the cosmos. During this more peaceful period Nicholas would use the sum of the scientific knowledge he’d accrued over the many ages of his life begin work on a serum to remove his disability, only succeeding in the endeavor by the last third of his life.

Eventually he would take advantage of his more sedate schedule and the many friendships he’d formed in Ireland to study under the tutelage of the Seelie to learn the Mystical Arts. Gaining a far greater appreciation for different paths to travel and the opportunities for knowledge, Nicholas would begin to traverse magic laden realms in brief spurts to broaden his horizons near the half point of his ninth millennia.

One such realm would be that of Middle Earth, where he would make long lasting friendships with the inhabitants during the Third Age after Valacar ascended to the throne of Gondor. Though he was not a ‘fighter’ by normal standards preferring mind over muscle he was taught the art of sword fighting, by the Elves. Nicholas claimed to only study it so that ‘I may have a well-rounded appreciation for the elegant precision of its art.’ However he was hard pressed to use the skills he acquired. Indeed there are only four recorded instances of this incarnation ever drawing his sword in combat against another. More often he would use his unassuming scholastic appearance to weasel his way to a threat and go undetected. He would then turn a person’s own tactics against them, causing them to fail in their plots.

Cause of Regeneration: Suffered a broken neck after falling from the roof of St Columb's Cathedral while fighting an Abhartach.

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Well that is as far as I got, I just started this little idea last night of putting things together so it's still a bit rough.

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.