Not having done the audios yet, I went with Curse of Fatal Death, Fugitive, and Shalka (love Grant). Would The Valeyard count?
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Yes, he is the lead Doctor in He Jests at Scars, so he falls within my very arbitrary conditions above - what do you like about him in particular?
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Oh, I didn’t say I would choose The Valeyard as a favorite, although, come to think of it, I might, since he represents possibilities, fate v. freewill, self-fulfilling prophecies, the conflict of person v. self, and things of that nature. As for Shalka, I just love how REG brings his REGiness to the role, and there’s a part of me that wishes I could travel the multiverse so I could experience a universe wherein he became the official Ninth Doctor in a TV revival.
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Rowan Atkinson’s Doctor.
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I like to think that Atkinson is who 8 would have regenerated into if the Movie had succeeded, Shalka is who he would have ended up as if the series had never been revived, and Fred is who he would have become if the BBC dropped Doctor Who forever.
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Also, I’ve seen no one mention Fred, the Audio Visuals Doctor played by Nick Briggs! He’s great!
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Ohhh, that’s a great Theory, I will personally accept it as my Canon 
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Interesting theory, i have a bit of a similar one (but from a more in-universe perspective) - the Atkinson Doctor (and subsequent) are from a timeline where the Time War never happens. Nine, War and Shalka are all from timelines where the Time War does happen, but resolves in different ways - Nine arises as described in Doctor Who and the Time War, War as shown in The Night of the Doctor and Shalka in, err, Scream of the Shalka. Obviously, Nine and War are both now part of the main sequence of Doctors on screen, but I like to think of TV Nine and Doctor Who and the Time War Nine being distinct versions, given the war ends very differently between that and Day of the Doctor (and I much prefer the latter) - “our” Nine just happens to have the same face as the one there.
Given we know now that the Shalka Doctor somehow exists in the main universe of the show (thanks to Rogue), this is what makes sense to me as an explanation - although the Shalka timeline didn’t make it out of the Time War (and Time Lock) as the main one, it still exists as part of the ever-shifting complex jumble that is the events and aftermath of the war.
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I do like this, but I think it a little different. To me, it makes sense that Shalka would come about from result of The War in Heaven, and once the Time War becomes the canon timeline, we get War then 9. (It’s my belief that Rose is VERY early in 9’s life as he still hasn’t seen his new face or even noticed his ears.) I like to think that both TWIH and the time war were catastrophic enough to the timeline that they would shift it from Atkinson to Shalka to Hurt/Eccleston.
But I do like your interpretation as well, I hadn’t really considered Doctor Who and the Time War to be the current timeline but I like that as an alternative.
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Ooh, I might nick that part about the War in Heaven for my own theory 
I like the idea that Shalka comes from the War in Heaven timeline and Nine and War from the Time War, because that feels much more “wilderness years” - great thoughts!
Just to clarify, I consider the Day of the Doctor timeline as the main one, and Doctor Who and the Time War as the alternative - sorry, that sentence got away from me a bit in my last comment
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