Ulysses (Barusa's universe)

In one of the infinite parallel universes of "possible space", (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone) Ulysses was the only son of the Time Lord Cardinal Barusa, and the father to both the Doctor and the Master by different women.

Ulysses was an early Time Explorer. After begetting a legitimate, Time Lord son on Gallifrey, who would go on to become the Master, he fell in love with a "simple peasant girl" from the Blue Planet, called Annalisse. After a "tragic" early regeneration, their hybrid son, the Doctor, was sent back to Gallifrey and raised as an orphan, unaware of his true parentage. Ulysses eventually lost all contact with Gallifrey after a final transmission of some coordinates. Hundreds of years later, the Doctor, forced to leave Gallifrey by force after Barusa told him of his true parentage, decided to look for him, visiting the coordinates, which turned out to be for the Cairo Museum on Earth on 23 November 1994. There, he and Barusa found a sarcophagus painted with Ulysses' likeness (though it was attributed to the pharaoh Cheops), which turned out to be empty except for a note in Gallifreyan addressed to Ulysses's son, who he knew would eventually go looking for him.

The Doctor continued searching for his father across time and space. He once found evidence that the pirate Blackbeard was one of Ulysses' aliases. After sharing an adventure with the pirate, however, when he turned to ask Blackbeard if he really was his father, he found the captain gone and Ulysses, disguise off, riding off in the distance, out of earshot.

After this near-miss, however, father and son were eventually reunited "with great joy". Barusa, Ulysses and the Doctor returned to Gallifrey together, with Ulysses formally recognising the Doctor as his son and heir, allowing the Doctor to take up the mantle of Lord President of the Time Lord Council in place of the tyrannical Master. (PROSE: The Chronicles of Doctor Who?)