Sylvia Noble

Sylvia Noble was the mother of Donna Noble and the daughter of Wilfred Mott.

Biography
Sylvia Noble (née Mott) was the daughter of Eileen and Wilfred Mott, the wife of Geoff Noble, and the mother of Donna Noble. At Christmas 2007, she attended her daughter's unsuccessful wedding to Lance Bennett. She did not believe Donna when she returned for the reception, but the reception was soon attacked by Robot Santas and killer Christmas trees. According to her daughter, she cooked enough for twenty every Christmas. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

In 2008, Sylvia lost her husband. Subsequently, Donna moved back at home with her mother and grandfather. Sylvia was shown to be trying to persuade Donna to get a job and find a place of their own. During a night out with her friends, one of them, Suzette Chambers, started producing Adipose infants. Along with other passers-by, Sylvia was witness to the nursery ship picking up the infant creatures. (DW: Partners in Crime)

Encounters with the Doctor
When Donna briefly returned to her family, she chose not to tell Sylvia that she was travelling with the Doctor. However, Sylvia met the Tenth Doctor again just before she saved her father from suffocating in her car. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky.)

Medusa Cascade Incident
When the Earth was moved to the Medusa Cascade, her father told her to stay inside as it was 'the women' the aliens always wanted. She later went out and along with Wilf, witnessed the Daleks killing an entire family in their own house using total extermination. In a bid to escape, Wilf, armed with a paint gun, fled from the Daleks with a hesitant Sylvia, but they were stopped by a Dalek scout. Wilf tried to disarm its eyestalk with a paint gun, but the Dalek wiped the paint away. Sylvia told her dad to leave it, and when the Dalek was about to exterminate them, Rose Tyler saved them by blowing the Dalek in half. Rose had been trying to find them so she could locate Donna. Sylvia and Wilf took Rose to their house and Sylvia was shocked when Wilf said "Donna phoned last time from the planet Midnight". Sylvia had not figured out that Donna was travelling with the Doctor across the stars and it took her father to open her eyes. When the subwave network broadcast came from Harriet Jones, Rose was unable to participate because of lack of a webcam, which Wilf said was because Sylvia thought they were naughty.

Harriet Jones, Torchwood 3, Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones were able to send a signal out to the Doctor using the subwave signal and a telephone muber as the signal. Sylvia and Wilf contributed to sending the signal out with their own mobile phones and when contact was made with the TARDIS, asking for good luck, Rose Tyler vanished from Sylvia's living room in a bright flash. She later feared for Donna's life, but was relieved when the Earth was returned to the Solar System. Sadly, Donna's memory was wiped, as she was now part human, part Time Lord in a Time Lord-human Metacrisis. Sylvia was resentful of the Tenth Doctor, asking him to leave their home. But after these events, she would have a much healthier relationship with her daughter, as in her eyes, Donna was still the most important woman in the universe. (DW: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End)

Later life
Sylvia and Wilf never mentioned the Doctor to Donna. It was not till Christmas Day 2009 that she saw the Doctor again, when he was chasing the Master, his old enemy. Later that day, when the Master took control of the Immortality Gate, she became part of the Master race along with Donna's fiancé Shaun Temple. Donna did not change into the Master, but did remember everything about the Doctor. When she returned to normal, she watched as Gallifrey returned and was then sent back by the Doctor. Sylvia finally accepted the Doctor as a friend, even praying for his help when Gallifrey appeared. When the Doctor returned Wilf at the end of the adventure, she actually smiled at him, something she'd never done before.

Sylvia later attended Donna's wedding to Shaun and said farewell to the Doctor along with Wilf. The Doctor gave them a winning lottery ticket as a wedding gift for Donna, securing their financial future. When Sylvia learned he had got the money for the ticket from her husband Geoff, she was clearly shocked and touched by his actions. (DW: The End of Time)

Alternate timeline
In an alternate timeline, Sylvia's hectoring Donna to work for Jival Chowdry succeeded. Donna never went to work at H.C. Clements and never got engaged to Lance Bennett. She was never transported into the TARDIS on her wedding day to meet the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor subsequently died defeating the Racnoss. Sylvia despaired when her husband Geoff Noble, became ill and died. While at a hotel for a Christmas country holiday, Sylvia told her daughter how her (Donna's) father would have loved the place they were staying in. But then the Titanic crashed down on London. The Nobles were forced to move into Leeds, where a huge relocation scheme was running. The South of England wasflooded with radiation and conditions became much harsher as Donna and her family shared a house with Rocco Colastanto's family. Sylvia slipped deeper and deeper into depression, thinking each day of someone she knew in London who was now dead, although she managed to occasionally do things like joining in group singing of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. As Sylvia's depression worsened, Donna asked if she had always been a disappointment in her mother's eyes, Sylvia just answered "yeah".

Donna joined Rose Tyler with UNIT to remove the Time Beetle from her back, but to do so she had to travel back in time to the vital moment at the T-Junction and turn left, not right as her mother wanted her to. This alternate Donna threw herself in front of a delivery van which caused a traffic jam to the right of the junction, encouraging the past Donna to turn left. The original reality returned and the Time Beetle was killed as the Tenth Doctor entered the room but a looming message of Bad Wolf entity warned that the end of the universe was near and the Doctor and Donna rushed to Earth.

Family

 * Wilfred Mott - father
 * Geoff Noble - husband, deceased
 * Donna Temple-Noble - daughter
 * Shaun Temple - son-in-law

Personality
Sylvia was bossy, and likes things her way. She was rarely tactful, was often insulting or condescending when speaking to her father or daughter. She seemed to be a bit depressed after her husband's death and didn't act as if she valued the rest of her family very much. She tended to be very practical, and had a hard time believing in aliens, even when presented with very obvious encounters.

Sylvia deeply mistrusted and disliked the Doctor due to his actions at Donna's wedding to Lance. Later, after the Doctor returned Donna to her for the final time, she was quite rude to him and basicaly kicked him out of the house. However, in The End of Time, her attitude changed, with her even praying for his help when Gallifrey appeared in the sky. His saving the world again apparently changed her attitude towards him as she gave him a smile when he returned Wilfred home and was very nice to him at Donna's second wedding, even being deeply touched by his actions to help them out.