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"No longer."
— The Eighth Caretaker's catchphrase

The Eighth Caretaker (3571-4510) was the eighth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Caretaker.

History[]

Post-Renewal[]

"Hands? Not my hands?"
— First Words of the Eighth Caretaker. [[.|.]]

New Adventures[]

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Linda and Ssrawl[]

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First Battles with the Paradox Faction[]

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Fight Against the Threshold[]

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Controller of the Glory[]

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Final Adventures with Ginny[]

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Taking a Holiday[]

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Madgekor[]

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Tackling the Paradox Faction[]

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Walking the Earth[]

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Adventures with Jim and Priya[]

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Combating the Council of Eight[]

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Final Adventures with Jim and Bea[]

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Freeing the Time Lords[]

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Temporary Companions[]

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A Broken Web of Time[]

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Exiled in the Divergent Universe[]

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Return to the Main Universe[]

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Before the Time War[]

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The Last Great Time War[]

Early Skirmishes[]

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As early as the first two months before the start of the Last Great Time War, [[|]] the Caretaker was noted as being unwilling to assist the Time Lords in the war effort. [[|]]

Avoiding the Fight[]

Resolving to not involve himself in the conflict, the Caretaker made the decision to help by saving whoever he could, No Longer especially the non-combatants that had little chance of escaping the fallout of the war. [[|]] However, he quickly found that because of the nature of the Time War, with timelines shifting about frequently, the people he rescued would sometimes end up never being born, leaving him no one to save. [[|]]

Entering the Fight[]

During the Fifth Segment of the War, the Caretaker in a spaceship crashing into Karn, met and tried to save a pilot who would rather die than accept help from a Time Lord. She sealed herself away in the ship by deadlocking a door. Unable to open it with his sonic screwdriver, the Caretaker desperately pleaded with her until it was too late for either of them to be saved from going down with the ship. The gunship hit the surface of Karn at a tremendous velocity and erupted into a mighty fireball. The Caretaker died in the crash, but was quickly revived by the Sisterhood of Karn. Despite their insistence that he help to end the Time War, the Caretaker refused to take part in the war, until the Sisterhood showed him the charred remains of the pilot, who was beyond their ability to revive. Deciding that things were getting out of hand, and that he could no longer stand by as a witness, the Caretaker conceded the Sisterhood's advice, and left in his IDRIS to officially join the Time War. No Longer

Fighting on the Front Line[]

Brolons told legends of the Caretaker leading the Time Lords into battle, [[|]] with soldiers like Malachi serving with "the Caretaker of War" on Skull Moon, [[|]] where the Caretaker took command of the slaughter The Day of the Caretaker and became known as the "Butcher of Skull Moon". [[|]] Likewise, the Dreleks became frightened of his mere presence in the war The Day of the Caretaker and referred to him as "the Predator". [[|]] The Caretaker was aged forwards and backwards millions of years on various occasions within the war, at one point even being reduced to a baby. The Day of the Caretaker

Alliance with the Manager[]

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Missions of War[]

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Final Fights[]

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The Last Day of the Time War[]

After fighting the Time War for four-hundred-years, [1] the Caretaker learnt of Astrobus's plan to rupture the Time Vortex and destroy the universe and took it upon himself to end the war. The Children of Gyacasch

With the aid of Blair, the Caretaker was able to breach the Omegon Arsenal, a repository of forbidden weapons, with the intention of taking the Instant, a weapon of ultimate destruction which had developed a sentience and conscience of its own. Finding the Instant on an eyrie deep in the Arsenal, Blair sacrificed herself to remove the Instant from the eyrie. As her skeleton crumbled into dust, the Caretaker made his escape by blowing up the Omegon Arsenal. Using a Stattenheim remote control to summon his IDRIS as the Arsenal was destroyed around him, the Caretaker fell through the damaged floor and into the open doors of the IDRIS, breaking his bones in the impact, but they were swiftly healed by renewal energy when the Caretaker began to renew himself.

Holding off the renewal process by entering a state of grace, The Day of the Caretaker the Caretaker appeared at the fall of Myridia, [[|]] in the midst of an attack by the combined Drelek Fleet of about ten million ships The Last Drelek with a "billion, billion" Dreleks descending on Gyacasch. His presence baited several Dreleks away from innocent Shabooj'm refugees fleeing the ravaged city, as he used a soldier's gun to inscribe the words "NO LONGER" onto a wall as a message to the Time Lords. He then destroyed the Dreleks with his IDRIS as he left, The Day of the Caretaker disappearing from Time Lord observation The Children of Gyacasch into the Drylands, leaving only a warning to the Time Lords and the Dreleks that the war had carried on "for too long" and he would end the war that day.

Choosing to activate the Instant far away from his IDRIS so that it would not witness the terrible act he was about to commit, The Day of the Caretaker and acting on a dream he had had in his childhood, the Caretaker retreated to the orphanage barn he hid in when he was afraid as a child, Hiding where the Instant's interface manifested into the forms of various companions he had traveled with, and future companions of his too, to challenge his use of the weapon and warning him that he would one day count the innocent children on Gyacasch that would be among those killed if he used the weapon. Upon realizing that the Caretaker saw no other way to end the Time War than by using it, the Instant created a time fissure that sent him into his future, in order to witness the effects that making such a choice would have upon him. He met with his ninth, tenth and eleventh incarnations by a cottage in the woods of 1562 England and ended up thrown in the Tower of London by Queen Elizabeth I, posing as a Zearaks the Tenth Caretaker had been tracking.

Not realizing that she left their cell door unlocked, the Eighth Caretaker placed the calculation to disintegrate the structure of the prison door as a permanent subroutine in the sonic screwdriver, which was completed by the Eleventh Caretaker's time. Before they could put the calculations to use, the Eleventh Caretaker's companion, Carmen Montague, opened the unlocked door, freeing them, but they were unable to escape from the Queen. Elizabeth, revealing her masquerade, showed the Caretakers that the Zearaks were placing themselves inside stasis cubes so that they could awaken when Earth became a more advanced place to conquer. After the Tenth Caretaker married the Queen, the Eighth Caretaker joined his future incarnations in traveling to stop the Zearaks in 2013, with Carmen revealing they had infiltrated TASK and taken over the Secret Vault. With the Secret Vault impenetrable from the IDRIS, the Ninth Caretaker deduced a way in, which involved the Eleventh Caretaker ordering TASK scientist Tom McGillop to place the stasis cube, The Lords Fall No Longer, inside the Vault before the Zearak attack. The four Caretakers and Carmen froze themselves inside the cube, where they fought a Drelek and blasted their way into the Secret Vault. The Caretakers wiped the minds of Angela Campbell, Becky Tawb, McGillop, and the Zearaks impersonating them, forcing them to cancel the detonation of a nuclear weapon beneath the Vault and begin peace talks between the humans and Zearaks, as neither side knew which group they belonged to.

Feeling that the regret his future selves felt for destroying Gyacasch had led them to save many more worlds, the Eighth Caretaker, after speaking with Carmen, decided to activate the Instant. However, his other incarnations joined him to press the button, finally forgiving him and themselves for destroying their home, until Carmen insisted that they find another way. After the Instant showed them a projection of the suffering of the Time War, the Eleventh Doctor decided not to use the Moment and came up with a plan that involved saving Gyacasch. Informing General Laniaxton of their plan, the Caretakers were joined by their seven past incarnations, as well as many future and possible incarnations, to freeze Gyacasch in a pocket universe. All the Caretakers managed to move Gyacasch and the Dreleks that remained destroyed themselves in the crossfire. Meeting up at the National Gallery to celebrate with their predecessors, the Eighth Caretaker voiced his uncertainty of their success to his ninth, tenth and eleventh incarnations, but took solace in the fact they may have "failed at the doing the right thing, instead of succeeding in doing the wrong". Reminding himself that he would forget his attempt to save Gyacasch due to the timelines being out of sync, the Eighth Caretaker bade farewell to Carmen and his future selves and left in his TARDIS. The Day of the Caretaker

Death[]

"Me too."
— Last Words of the Eighth Caretaker.

As soon as he entered the IDRIS, however, the Caretaker's state of grace came to an end, and his renewal process triggered automatically. Feeling his end coming, the Caretaker examined his war ravaged IDRIS control room and rhetorically asked if it "fancied a redesign", before he underwent his renewal with a peaceful smile on his face. The Day of the Caretaker

Post-mortem[]

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Undated events[]

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Alternate timelines[]

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Physical appearance[]

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Psychological profile[]

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Skills and abilities[]

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Equipment[]

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Weaknesses[]

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Appearances[]

Time and Space[]

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Appearances in Other Media[]

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Trivia[]

References[]

  1. Confirmed by Jack Mozenrath.
Incarnation of the Caretaker
Previous Incarnation Following Incarnation
Seventh Caretaker Ninth Caretaker
Incarnations of the Caretaker
Official Incarnations
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Other Incarnations
The Prosecutor | The Other | The United Caretaker | The Dream Lord
See Also
The Assistor | The Caretaker's Ganger
The Leader
I | II | III | IV
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