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 Name: House
Format:
Television show
Time of Origin: Technically nowhere;
House existed outside of the Universe as we know it.
Appearances: "The Doctor's Wife"
Doctors: Eleventh Doctor
Companions: Amy Pond and Rory
Williams
History: Of all of The Doctor’s enemies,
House was interesting for several reasons, most obviously because
he was the only enemy who was ever directly defeated by the TARDIS herself.
The
exact nature of House’s origins are unknown, but it is known
that he is a sentient planetoid/asteroid existing outside the universe
itself, apparently generating a spatial -temporal rift within himself
like the one that existed in Cardiff ("Boom
Town"). Having
lured a small ‘family’ to him through fake distress signals
and the rift energy that powered him, House was able to use this ‘family’ as
his servants by providing them with new body parts from his other
victims to maintain their own.
At some point, House learned that he could
feed most strongly on the arton energy found in TARDISes, luring Time Lords to him through various means - the method depicted showed him using
the telepathic distress messages his prior Time Lord victims recorded
before their demise to lure others in, but he may have used another method
to lure the first Time Lord in - and then using his servant ‘Nephew’,
an Ood ("Planet
of the Ood"), to transfer the soul of the TARDIS
into another member of his ‘family’ so that he could consume
the TARDIS’s body without its soul detonating and destroying him.
This
method was successful until House’s latest attempt to search
for food, using the last message of a Time Lord known as the Corsair,
lured in the Eleventh Doctor and his companions Amy and Rory, The
Doctor revealing that he was the last Time Lord. Refusing to accept
the loss of his food source, House transferred his essence into the
now-dormant TARDIS and departed his body, Amy and Rory trapped inside
him as he began to travel back to the universe, accompanied only
by Nephew while leaving The Doctor and the rest of his ‘family’ to
die.
Although House contemplated killing Amy and Rory instantly,
Rory was able to buy them time by convincing House that killing them
instantly would be boring. Inspired by this suggestion, House allowed
them to run through the TARDIS’s corridors, twisting the artificial
gravity and generating illusions to make Amy think that she was separated
from Rory for so long that he died of old age while only a few minutes
had passed for her.
Fortunately, House had underestimated the close bond
between The Doctor and his TARDIS, allowing the TARDIS - although
shaken and confused at being transferred into such a limited body
compared to her usual one - to reveal her true identity to The Doctor.
Using the remains of the TARDISes that House had previously killed,
The Doctor was able to assemble a makeshift TARDIS console that the
TARDIS itself activated, allowing them to follow the ship.
Despite the basic nature of their craft, The Doctor and
the TARDIS were able to send a psychic message to Rory - although
The Doctor had intended to send it to Amy - that directed him to
one of the old control consoles that the TARDIS kept ‘in storage’.
Although they were being pursued by Nephew, Amy and Rory were able
to access the old console room using a telepathic password, allowing
them to lower the TARDIS shields so that The Doctor could get back
into his ship (The Doctor’s arrival disintegrating Nephew when
the new console materialised right where he was).
Exploiting the TARDIS’s lack of power, The Doctor
was able to trick House by convincing him that he could only gain
the necessary power to reach their universe by deleting parts of
the TARDIS interior. Although House attempted to kill them by deleting
the console room that they were in, an automatic safety feature transferred
the TARDIS passengers directly into the console room when the room
they were in was deleted, the companions arriving back in the console
room just as the TARDIS’s human body expired. With its human
form dead, the TARDIS returned to its rightful body, House’s
power proving utterly inadequate in the face of a TARDIS that knew
what to expect and how to use its power, the TARDIS’s soul
banishing House from its body and destroying him once and for all. |
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