I want to elaborate on the ideas I talked about. They’re a project I want to make come true in the future, so getting some opinions would be nice. I may write them in prose, but honestly I originally thought them as comic books and they’d work better as such. I just have to learn how to draw first. I’m terrible at it.
I have a story arc planned for both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors. I’m going to elaborate on Sixie’s first.
Three seasons of six stories each. He travels with originals companions - a young woman from Ancient China, Mingxia; and they are later joined by a Greek soldier, Nestor.
S01E001 - The Warring States
Life takes a sinister turn in the State of Qin when amidst the armed conflicts in the later days of the unification of China a spectral army joins the fight. A young lady trying to keep her family afloat in hard times, Mingxia’s life changes forever when she welcomes a mysterious doctor into her home.
S01E002 - The Crimson Tears
Excited to show Mingxia the universe, the Doctor takes them to see the Crimson Tears, a tourist destination in the planet Ophion in which a woman’s face is carved into a mountain and a huge red watterfall comes through one of its eyes. It all goes well until one of the guest in the excursion they joined falls dead - and now they’re stuck in a whoddunit.
S01E003 - The Endless Days
The Doctor and Mingxia arrive in ____ [name to be decided], an alien city. Unknowngly, they wander through the city just as time is about to dissynchronise. Time starts to flow fast for Mingxia - or is it going slower for the Doctor?
S01E004 - The Seventh Child
Brazil, 1953. An entire countryside town in Minas Gerais hides in fear as vicious animal attacks start to happen. The Doctor and Mingxia are just in time to start investigating, as they’re found with the body of one of the victims. It’s a werewolf story inspired by how the myth is told in Latin America.
S01E005 - Written History in a Glimpse of Time
Mingxia and the Doctor attends a temporal conference promoted by President Romana, but things get weird as the Doctor’s past and future catches up with him. Amidst that, Romana worries there is a intruder among them. A soft sequel to The Apocalypse Element, but there is no Daleks here.
S01E006 - The Waters of Nile
Twenty years after Pharaoh Erimem’s sudden departure, the current Pharaoh faces another crisis - mysterious attacks are happening in the Nile and a strange disease is spreading through the water. Egypt will not survive long without relying in its most important river, but fourtunately a weirdly familiar man arrives in court.
S02E001 - Hades
A hound from hell was sighted in the Eurotas Valley, outside the city of Sparta. A group of soldiers gather to find and slain the beast, amongst them young Nestor. The task turns bloodier than expected, and soon they have no choice other than accept help from two strangers who are also hunting the Cerberus.
S02E002 - Memoirs of a Dead Land
Adventure story set in the Cretaceous period with the TARDIS team - including new companion Nestor - helping a kid Silurian reunite with his family. Lots and lots of dinosaurs.
S02E003 - Cromo
The TARDIS lands in distant planet in the far future that is on the verge of dying - a disease have spread through the population, as all life forms are losing slowly becoming paler and paler until there is no colour anymore. The survivors rush to build a ship so they can escape.
S02E004 - The Catacombs of Skaro
Dravos sends out a SOS to whoever may listen - something sinister is happening in Skaro, something that scares even the Daleks. In other words, zombie Dalek story.
S02E005 - The Persian Wars
Still affected by the events of the previous stories, Nestor tells the Doctor to take him home. They arrive in Greece during the Persian Wars, set in the future from Nestor’s life in Sparta - and the Doctor refuses to let him interfere. A character piece about Nestor and his life as a soldier, and how so much death have deeply traumatised him.
S02E006 - Dancing Days
With both Mingxia and Nestor having chosen to keep travelling with the Doctor, he takes them to New York, 1980s, to visit some friends who are producing a independent musical. Pure historical with a strong focus on community and the Aids crisis in the eighties.
S03E001 - The Labyrinth of Crete
The Doctor, Mingxia and Nestor are back in Greece, but this time much earlier in its history. Myth and history confounds as the city of Crete prepares its sacrifice to the Minotaur - and Nestor is one of the chosen.
S03E002 - Were the Words Mine
This is a weird one. The Doctor and company lives through a samurai drama - but there is something wrong with their behavior. For a less vague description, read the “expanding on recurring elements” section.
S03E003 - Avalon
Just having escaped from the Land of Fiction, the Doctor, Mingxia and Nestor heads to Gallifrey to prevent the Cromo attack on the Matrix.
S03E004 -
I do know I want to write a story that happens not long after the events of Avalon that let the characters cooldown, but I don’t have any ideas yet.
S03E005 - The Story So Far
Also a weird one. It’s written a little bit different and closes two story arcs, so check out "expanding on recurring elements** section for an actual description. Let’s just say it’s a character drama set in a refugee ship that is linked to the events of Avalon.
S03E006 - An Ordinary Life
The grand finale. Mingxia, the Doctor and a few survivors crashed in an unknown location, with no acess whatsover to the TARDIS. Mostly focuses in the relationshio between the Doctor and Mingxia as they try to find a way to escape.
Expanding on recurring elements
Ok, so there is a lot I left out of the descriptions of the stories. For a start, both Mingxia and Nestor have personal story arcs that span through their adventures. Mingxia loses her husband and son in The Warring States, and that’s what makes her choose to start travelling with the Doctor. Nestor is extremely unhappy in his life as a soldier, but struggles to find any other purpose. It’s that lack of perspective that makes him accept the Doctor invite to travel with them.
But mainly there is also two recurring story arcs that ties a lot of the stories together. Beginning with Written History in a Glimpse of Time, the TARDIS team have many encounters with Elwood, a man who is curating the Doctor history as a biography. He is currently writring about the Sixth Doctor travels with Mingxia. His presence often causes problems and their meeting is also out of order - for Elwood, his appareance in Written History in a Glimpse of Time happens after every single other event in the three seasons. That’s also what is weird about The Story So Far - the narrative format is completely different as it’s told as if written by Elwood.
And then there is the Cromo Infection. It officially starts with Cromo, but there is previous stories that also ties into the arc. As described Doctor, Mingxia and Nestor go to a planet that is dealing with a strange that deseases that is draining colour from life forms - and killing them in the process. What the TARDIS team finds out, however, is that the whatever is causing the disease - which they name Cromo - is alive. It’s not particularly smart in the benning, but as it takes more lives it also start to gain more sentience - and slowly starts to spread through time and space.
The Waters of the Nile have an appareance from the Cromo, as alien survivors - whom also happen to look like enormous bipedal crocodiles - from a planet devastated by the Cromo disease have seek refuge in the Nile. However, one of them is still infected. The Doctor and Mingxia are able to stop the disease spreading any more in Egypt, but that catches the Doctor attention as something to investigate in the future.
Were the Words Mine is the start of the climax of this storyline, as the Doctor have already been researching a “cure” for the Cromo for some time. This story however starts very differently - if I do write this in a comic format as I intended, the pages are all black and white. It starts as a pastiche of a samurai drama, but the TARDIS team is behaving weirdly - as if they’re really part of this time period.
It all takes a weirder turn when Mingxia comes out of it and points out - apparently breaking the fourth wall - to the Doctor and Nestor that they’re black and white. What truly is happening here is that the TARDIS team is stuck in the Land of Fiction - have been since The Labyrinth of Crete - that is also under attack from the Cromo. As a defense mechanism, it turned all its stories in pastiches of black and white comics - mainly manga. So the rest of the story is also a meta adventure through many tropes as the TARDIS team tries to escape the Land of Fiction and head to Gallifrey, and they discover is the soon to be attacked by an envolved Cromo - and its aiming to the Matrix, so it can spread truly through all of time and space.
And that’s what Avalon is all about. It also features Romana. And probably Leela. The Cromo at this point can control the bodies that died from the infection, and so now it leads a army of the dead against Gallifrey. This particular story tread connects to The Warring States, as Mingxia and Sixie recognize these corpses as “the spectral army” they defeated way back when - and so now they know what they have to do. The knowlodge she is indirectely responsible for the events that killed her family deeply traumatises Mingxia.
I mentioned Nestor personal arc earlier - he decides to become a doctor (of medicine) after The Persian Wars, and he decides to leave in Avalon and stay in Gallifrey so he can help the victims of Cromo.
The refugee ship the Doctor and Mingxia also have to do with this, but is more of an epilogue - a group of characters in Avalon have chosen to leap out of time to try and escape the Cromo, but get stuck there. They do manage to escape, but crash land in another dimension. The Story So Far ends with Elwood saying nobody knows what happened with Mingxia after this, as there was no sighting of her travelling with the Doctor after this.
Which leads to An Ordinary Life. It ends with only one of them being able to go back to their dimension, and Mingxia “betrays” the Doctor so it’s he that goes back - as he was working towards sending her back.