Badger (Lungbarrow)

Badger was an avatroid which Quences gave the Doctor when he was a child. It acted as his tutor, protector and friend.

Badger looked nothing like its namesake. It was bulky, standing about seven feet tall and was covered in serrated black stripes over a cream-coloured pelt. Its body was bear-like and tusks sprouted from its mouth. On either side of its head were massive, curling horns “big enough to hang a coat from.”

Despite a realistic exterior, there were things which marked Badger as obviously mechanical. It had a wide variety of emotions programmed into it, but most of them were too robotically precise to be convincing. Its speakers were apparently hidden in its chest, because its voice never sounded as to be coming from its mouth.

Because Badger was meant to protect the Doctor, it had incredible strength, enough to fight and kill a monster who’d taken up residence in the flooded northern annex of the House of Lungbarrow. Badger would even attack other Time Lords if it thought they threatened the Doctor.

When the Doctor was disowned by his family and left Gallifrey in his stolen Tardis, Badger was stored away in the House of Lungbarrow. He remained in stand-by mode, reactivating only when the Doctor returned to Lungbarrow in his seventh incarnation. (NA: Lungbarrow)