Fitz Kreiner

Fitzgerald Michael Kreiner, also known as Fitz or his stagename Fitz Fortune (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"], EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"], The Crooked World ^[+]Loading...["The Crooked World (novel)","The Crooked World"] et al.) was a 1963 Londoner who became a long serving Companion of the Eighth Doctor when an arrest warrant was put out for him following their first meeting. After travelling with the Doctor and Sam Jones for years, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)","The Gallifrey Chronicles"]) Fitz was separated from them in the 26th century and eventually joined Faction Paradox under the name Father Kreiner. A distorted copy of Fitz named Kode, created through generations of remembrance with the Remote, eventually allowed himself to be remembered into another Fitz, who rejoined the Eighth Doctor (PROSE: Interference ^[+]Loading...["Interference (novel)","Interference"]) and stayed with him, despite the Doctor's later prolonged amnesia, for many more years into the Post-War universe, while they travelled with Compassion, Anji Kapoor, and Trix MacMillan.

Over their time together, Fitz grew to love the Doctor (PROSE: Eater of Wasps ^[+]Loading...["Eater of Wasps (novel)","Eater of Wasps"], The Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)","The Book of the Still"]) and in turn the Doctor felt he needed him, knowing that no matter what separated them, (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)","Revolution Man"], Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)","Parallel 59"], The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"] et al.) his "lucky penny" would turn up. (PROSE: History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)","History 101"]) After heavily considering settling down with Trix on Earth, 2005, Fitz informed the Doctor while they faced the Vore that he was moving forward with her. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) A later account showed older versions of the Doctor and Fitz, along with Trix, sharing an adventure. (PROSE: We Can't Stop What's Coming ^[+]Loading...["We Can't Stop What's Coming (short story)","We Can't Stop What's Coming"])

Biography

Original Fitz Kreiner

Childhood

Fitz Kreiner was born to Otto Kreiner, a liberal German who emigrated to England when the Nazis took power, and his English wife Muriel Kreiner on 7 March 1936 in the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, North London. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"], Interference - Book One ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)","Interference - Book One"], The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"]) According to another account, immediately after landing in the Post-War universe, the birth certificate Fitz kept on him listed his year of birth as 1935. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)","Escape Velocity"]) Fitz's earliest memory was of a visit to the zoo with his dad, where he fed peanuts to the monkeys.

Another early memory he had was of a man with a monkey on the beach, where the monkey would sit on someone's shoulder and have a picture taken with them. Fitz's photo was black and white, showing the small Fitz in his school blazer, the monkey in its red hat gripping his collar. His mum had kept the photo by her bed, right until she went into care.

For his fifth birthday, Fitz had spam sandwiches, and his mother insisted Adolf Hitler would not ruin his day. Him and his mother were spat on in an air-raid shelter when their German surname was discovered. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"]) He learnt to try and hide it. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)","Reckless Engineering"])

During the war, he kept a little, well-thumbed pamphlet in with his gas-mask, that featured every plane in the British and German air forces detailed and outlined. He memorised these shapes but rarely saw them. He had been five, six, or seven, but his mother had refused to send him away to the countryside in the evacuations, too afraid of what might happen to a German child. Heinkels had bombed out their neighbours, the Lipmans, up the street. (PROSE: History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)","History 101"])

When Fitz was six, he lost his mum in a Woolworths. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"]) He had a childhood phobia of examinations. (PROSE: To the Slaughter ^[+]Loading...["To the Slaughter (novel)","To the Slaughter"])

At the age of eight, Fitz visited the seaside with his mother and fell off a wall, spraining his ankle. (PROSE: Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)","Vanishing Point"])

He remembered sitting around a radiogram the size of a small trunk, listening to the antics of the Glums in 'Take it From Here', and the adventures of Dick Barton, Special Agent, every evening. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)","Escape Velocity"]) He spent days on end pretending to be Barton. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"]) Fitz saw dozens of war newsreels, featuring convoys of vans. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

When his father was in a melancholic mood, he told Fitz that he almost wished he'd never left Germany, and that if he hadn't, he would've named Fitz after his friend, Franz-Joachim. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)","Frontier Worlds"])

He often faced bullying by other children due to his father's German origin. On VE Day in 1945, other children on his street beat him in celebration. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"]) When he was growing up, if he came home with a black eye or a split lip, his mother would fight for him regardless of her own illnesses, going off to swear at his headmaster. This usually led to more beatings, where he would ask them to hit him where the marks wouldn't show, in the stomach and ribs. (PROSE: Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)","Vanishing Point"])

He had an old maths teacher with scraped back grey hair, one of several who cast aspersions about his ignorance of English customs, despite knowing Fitz had never been further than Southend pier in his life. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"])

As a child, Fitz visited Brighton and Weymouth on several occasions. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)","The Fall of Yquatine"])

Fitz recalled seeing abuse levelled at Asian and Caribbean families when they first arrived in London during his childhood. (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)","The Domino Effect"]) He saw a lot of sidecars when he was growing up. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"])

The Kreiners kept rabbits in the back garden, and one of them tirelessly searched for a way out all day long, sensing that Otto planned to eat it if it put on weight. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"]) Fitz's mother had a bird table in the garden, where she put out bits of suet for the winter birds. She attached great importance to it, always making Fitz watch, and gazed up into the autumn sky. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)","Reckless Engineering"]) His bedroom had thick burgundy curtains. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)","Anachrophobia"])

His mother had once seen him pick up a H. P. Lovecraft book in a second-hand shop and hit him, having mistaken the author's name in the large type for the book's subject – he'd never got around to reading any of his work. She once dragged him to the coldest church he could remember. He studied William Blake's poetry at school, reflecting that he didn't spend all his time running away from bullies. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])

At age fourteen, Fitz kicked a football into George Cullen's dad's greenhouse. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)","Frontier Worlds"])

As a teenager, Fitz dreaded the thought of becoming like his father, who wouldn't argue with the Bennetts down the road when they mocked his accent, or comment when the Krapper family refused to acknowledge him in the street, Otto was shocked when Fitz mocked their surname and their attitude in front of him, and mortified when he did it to their faces. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

His father died when he was a schoolboy after being ill, and other kids celebrated the death of a German. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"], EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"]

Fitz looked after his mother following the death of his father. He went with her to see an amateur play of Oscar Wilde's, with the rationale of supporting the local community so they might begin to like them. There was a large amount of keeping secrets for the good of others in the narrative, and the young Fitz had been rather dissatisfied with the ending, because all the secrets were kept and the characters went on, he assumed, to live happily ever after. Fitz wanted to see big, dramatic scenes where all the secrets were discovered, and his mum had said he was missing the point. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"])

Fitz was put into care when his mother got sick for the third time. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"])

He had his first girlfriend and lost his virginity during these years. He spent lengthy periods getting over teenage unrequited loves. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"])

Adulthood

As he took up the guitar, Kreiner performed under the name Fitz Fortune to avoid calling attention to his heritage. He often played at local nightclub Molly's, and dreamed of becoming a rockstar, with a host of teenage fans. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"], EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"]) His mum dreamed of going on holiday abroad. He promised her he would take her one day, when he became rich and successful. She had to settle for the comfort of alcohol, and to keep dreaming. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"]) Fitz dodged National Service. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

When he took a black cab across town with his girlfriend Mary, Fitz would stretch his left arm around her in the rear of the back seat. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"])

In the 1960s, Fitz spent a few weeks working behind the bar at the Mother Black Cap in Camden Town. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)","The Fall of Yquatine"])

Before meeting the Doctor and Sam Jones, he worked in a garden centre owned by Charles Roley, head of his mother's care, as a shop assistant, and lived in a small third floor flat in Archway. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"]) He later disputed Anji Kapoor's assertion he had been a florist. (PROSE: Camera Obscura ^[+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)","Camera Obscura"])

He thought about going to see the Tower of London, but never did. (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"])

While living in Archway, Fitz, frequented several pie-and-mash shops there, and sometimes read old, Norse sagas on bleak winter days. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)","The Fall of Yquatine"]) He recalled on Mechta that he had little success with women during this period. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)","Parallel 59"]) He owned a Baby Belling cooker (PROSE: The Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"]) and kept nine boxes of knickknacks at the back of his flat, waiting for his mum to get better. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])

Joining the TARDIS

In the summer of 1963, the Doctor and Sam arrived in London, and the duo met Fitz at the garden centre, the Doctor seeing through his faux French accent. After the crazed mental patient Oscar Austen entered the shop, Fitz acidentally helped fight him off. Afterwards, he asked Sam out on a date, and she agreed.

Fitz took Sam to Molly's, where she watched him perform. When she left after both the drunken bystander Chubby Withers and Fitz made passes at her, they saw Withers killed by Azoth and Neville Fitzwilliam Tarr outside, who had come hunting Sam.

Once he used his impression skills to trick the two into thinking a crowd was coming, he took the injured Sam back to his flat. There he tried to seduce her by lying in the bed next to her nude. This backfired when she woke up in the morning, and stormed out.

Later that day, Fitz was approached by the police about Withers' murder, and he fled in panic. Ending up at the hospital in which his mother was being experimented upon, he was pulled into the Doctor's investigation of Charles Roley.

Fitz recognised Tarr from an old family photograph as one of his great-grandfathers, revealing his own link to Roley's genetic experiments. The Doctor discovered that Fitz carried the hereditary mark of the implanted Benelisan Programme, and removed it to help cure Sam of her own new infection. Fitz helped carry her back to the TARDIS, and later bluffed Azoth into believing he could see and destroy the Beasts himself, tricking the android into shutting down.

The Doctor sent Fitz to stop one of the infected patients, Peter Taylor, from reaching Roley's mansion, but he failed, and the patients' powers grew out of control. Fitz took shelter with the Doctor in the wine cellar as the Doctor activated Azoth's 'Final Solution.' Fitz physically fought with the Doctor when he realised this would also result in the death of his possessed mother, but failed to prevent it.

In the aftermath, with Fitz's mother dead and himself a fugitive, the Doctor invited him aboard the TARDIS, much to Sam's chagrin. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"])

Early trips

While visiting Vega Station with the Doctor and Sam, Fitz made a bet with the Doctor to see who could win the most at the casino in a week, only to lose his entire stake on his first spin at roulette. He accidentally insulted the Canvine tour guide Bigdog Caruso. He was mistaken for the professional assassin Hazard Solarin and was unknowingly hired for the contract killing of the Fourth Doctor.

After both him and Sam were shot at by the real Solarin, Fitz hid out in the Doctor's hotel room until the situation could be resolved, but when one of Toulour Martinique's painted demons escaped into reality, the creature attacked Fitz instead of the Doctor. Fitz wounded it with a knife, revealing that it was made of paint and canvas, and he trapped it inside a lift before escaping. Bigdog confronted him soon after, demanding to know what happened to Vermilion Kenyan, and dismissed Fitz's story that she was trapped in Murdering Art Martinque's painting.

When the Doctor arranged to meet Solarin, Fitz realised who actually hired him, casino manager Harris Stabilo, and he rushed to the exhibition to warn the Doctor, discovering that Sam had been trapped in another painting. During the chaos of the Presidential reception on the station, Solarin died saving Fitz's life. Trapped by the creatures of the demonic painting, Fitz found an incendiary remote on a dead guard and activated it, destroying the painting. Later, he bought Bigdog a drink to make up for his earlier insults. (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)","Demontage"])

When he claimed that he could have been as big as Elvis in his own time, Sam reacted with amusement, and showed him a film demonstrating his fall from grace in the TARDIS cinema. Fitz decided not to think about it, feeling heroes should remain heroic. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]) They also watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"]) Sam and the Doctor filled him in briefly on the history of the Earth prior to the end of the twentieth century. He was rejected by Sam a few times in these initial weeks. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"])

Early in his travels, Fitz was sent by the Doctor to look something up in the TARDIS library. Deep within, he found an extremely old woman named Emily lying face down, sleeping at a table. She was surrounded by hundreds of volumes on British birds, in what looked to Fitz like 1960s teenage clothes, and was draped with cobwebs. She eventually woke up and talked about things Fitz could not understand, and he helped her out of the library and back to the console room. The Doctor was alarmed and embarrassed at seeing her, but she did not recognise him. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

The Doctor and Fitz visited Bernadette Franklin on a colony on the Moon in 2094, posing as United Nations officials. Franklin noted that Kreiner appeared to be new to space travel and being the Doctor's partner. (PROSE: Growing Higher ^[+]Loading...["Growing Higher (short story)"])

Fitz stayed with the Doctor and Sam in their apartment in Paris, at the end of the 1960s, over a period of months. Sam got involved in various student uprisings, and she came back one day to tell them that she'd been throwing bricks into the barricades alongside Michel Foucault. The Doctor reacted with a hard stare. (PROSE: Femme Fatale ^[+]Loading...["Femme Fatale (short story)"])

Back in the Sixties

In June 1967, feeling out of place in the TARDIS, Fitz met a waitress named Madeline Burton, who told him about her boyfriend Ed Hill and Om-Tsor, the drug that he had shared with her that granted gigantic telekinetic visions. Hoping to impress her, Fitz investigated and broke into Ed's house to take a sample, but during the theft a Chinese intruder burst in and Maddie was accidentally shot.

After the Doctor saved Maddie's life, Fitz visited Ed's concert to tell him what had happened, but the roof collapsed and Ed was apparently killed by an invisible force. The Doctor identified Om-Tsor as an alien telekinetic compound, but Fitz, shaken by the chaos and feeling that Sam and the Doctor worked fine without him, decided to stay behind and live with Maddie. The Doctor and Sam left to trace the drug's origins, but the former gave him a card that, if he desired it, would recall the TARDIS to his location. He financially survived off bonds provided by the Doctor. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"])

The same year, he and Maddie listened to the B-side of the new single from the Beatles, I am the Walrus, over and over again, all night, wondering where its depth of feeling came from. He also watched their movie Help! - Fitz saw Jimi Hendrix only a few times, but they were great seats. (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers ^[+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"]) He visited the UFO Club during this time, which he felt put coffee bars and drugs to shame. While there, he heard Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd. He read the underground paper The International Times. (PROSE: The Slow Empire ^[+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"])

In June 1968, Fitz and Maddie travelled to Nepal to trace the source of Om-Tsor. Guided by a monk calling himself King George, they learned it originated from a hidden Himalayan valley where the monks once cultivated it. Before Fitz could use his card to summon the Doctor, Chinese soldiers captured him and took him to Tibet. During an escape attempt, Fitz crashed in the mountains, found traces of the drug, and was captured by the ruthless officer Jin-Ming. When Fitz took Om-Tsor to survive, Jin-Ming followed suit, and their telekinetic battle devastated Southeast Asia. Fitz was left imprisoned and brainwashed in a Maoist re-education camp. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) Fitz later flippantly recalled that he mostly banged a tambourine and sang songs in praise of Chairman Mao, but he nevertheless became extremely knowledgeable about the art of propaganda, to the point of scaring Sam. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

In February 1969, still under conditioning, Fitz was sent to England carrying a bomb, as part of a deal between the Chinese and Ed Hill — who had survived, crippled, and become the new Revolution Man. Ed's agents, including Maddie, used Fitz to lure in the Doctor. When Fitz saw the Doctor again, it drove him to panic and flee, but the Doctor saved him from Ed's telekinetic attack. Upon re-entering the TARDIS, Fitz realised it was where he wanted to be, and he broke out of his brainwashing.

After all four had jumped forward to May, Fitz and Sam tracked down Maddie and the kidnapped Doctor to a stadium where Ed planned to ascend as a god using the TARDIS. When Maddie held them at gunpoint, a panicked Fitz managed to disarm her and shoot Ed in the head, unintentionally setting off a chain reaction that forced the Doctor to finish Ed off to prevent global catastrophe. Hastily dematerialising, Sam blamed Fitz for forcing the Doctor to take a life, and Fitz was left haunted by guilt. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)","Revolution Man"])

Fitz later came to strongly associate the Beatles song Revolution 9 with his life with Maddie. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

Crossroads in Sweden

Attempting to apologise to her, Fitz witnessed Sam being sucked out of the TARDIS by a powerful spacial distortion, before he and the Doctor landed in a forest in Sweden, 1999. Anxious about both his own direction in life and Sam's whereabouts, Fitz followed the Doctor into the village of Strängnäs, where they learned that strange creatures had been sighted and several people had disappeared. While the Doctor investigated, Fitz was sent with Inspector Nordenstam to examine one of the alien carcasses discovered in the forest. Before he could learn anything, government officials from C19 seized the body, and shut down the site.

Fitz later accompanied the Doctor to a local hospital, where Johann Svensson, one of the missing locals, suddenly convulsed and died as worm-like aliens erupted from his body. Fitz helped evacuate the horrified Kerstin Bergmann, Johann's girlfriend, and the three fled together as the authorities arrived to cover up the incident. When Björn Andersson's farm came under attack from reptilian creatures, Fitz fought to defend the survivors and escaped with Kerstin into the woods after Björn's death. Pursued by C19, Fitz and Kerstin tracked them to a hidden underground base and infiltrated it, with Fitz determined to rescue the captured Doctor.

Inside, Fitz reunited with the Doctor, who expressed his joy at the latter's survival with a kiss. When a wormhole into the collapsing universe of the Dominion was activated, Fitz went through and encountered the native T'hiili. He was captured by the T'hiili Queen, who telepathically shared visions of her dying world; Fitz realised the T'hiili lacked fire, and used his lighter to arm them with a new weapon against their enemies, the reptillian Ruin, helping the T'hiili defend their last survivors until the Doctor arrived.

Discovering Sam was still alive, the two travellers reconciled. Fitz was devastated to learn that there was nothing they could have done to save the Dominion, which was a pocket universe being steadily and naturally drained by theirs. They evacuated the remaining T'hiili to the TARDIS, finally reconsituted after the distortion. When the Doctor refused to allow Kerstin to stay aboard, citing the dangerous readings in San Francisco they were about to investigate, Fitz decided to stay with him, instead of leaving for a relationship once again. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)","Dominion"])

Orbiting San Fransisco

While the Doctor spent weeks delaying the trip, dropping the T'hiili off in one of the yellow dimensions and tracking down items lost in the TARDIS's collapse, Fitz began to teach Sam how to play the guitar, to have someone to play with. After a while, they never got back to it. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) He wrote her a simple, plaintive melody to practise; the Doctor heard her play. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"])

In San Francisco, 2002, Fitz worked as paranormal investigator Fitzwilliam Fort on the Doctor's orders, investigating oddities caused by his friend's biodata scar left over from New Year's Eve, 1999, by way of a network of contacts aware of the strangeness around the city; despite being hesistant around her initially, as the trio investigated he warmed to the dark-haired version of Sam, restored to history by her blonde self's contact with the scar in time. During these events, he encountered Faction Paradox for the first time.

While visiting the biodata-sensitive Wiccan Kyra Skye, Fitz became bitter about her nostalgic view of sixties radicalism, still recovering from his brainwashing in China, and was comforted by the less heavy-handed Sam. When Kyra was murdered by Griffin the Unnaturalist, both were shaken, and had sex at a hotel. Growing closer, he helped her deal with her constantly shifting past, including attempting to pacify a version of Sam that was addicted to drugs. When Griffin's henchmen arrived at their location, he bought time for Sam to escape.

The Doctor and the dark Sam rescued him from Griffin, who had locked him in a cabinet that would mutilate him if he moved. At the site of the scar, he watched Sam change back to her blonde self, and afterwards went back to London with her to say goodbye to the dark Sam's friends. He brushed off her attempts to console him about his loss. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)","Unnatural History"])

Final travels with Sam

Still pondering how much the Blonde and Dark Sam shared, Fitz joined the Doctor and Sam to check out the disturbance when the TARDIS forced another landing on Earth, unaware that the ship had brought them to Belgium, 1944 and World War II. After the TARDIS fell into a bombed river crossing, Fitz and the Doctor were separated from Sam while attempting to find another bridge downstream. During a firefight between American troops and German fifth columnists, Fitz was thrown into the river and swept away.

He emerged miles away in a Nazi-occupied town, and posed as a soldier, embedding himself in a unit investigating temporal anomalies under Jurgen Leitz. Discovering a 'special' prisoner in the camp, Fitz released what the Doctor later revealed to him was an elf. His cover blown, Fitz reunited with the Doctor and Sam, and unhappily accepted closing the dimensional rift the Sidhe were coming through would one day facilitate the Beasts' killing of his mother.

Back in the recovered TARDIS, Sam assured Fitz that her decision to leave and return to the 1990s was not motivated by the fact they slept together. He evenly accepted her decision, and called for the Doctor to head to 1997. (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)","Autumn Mist"])

For a few months, the trio continued to travel together, Sam having resolved to depart when they landed in her native timezone, and in the final weeks came nowhere close to the planet. (PROSE: Interference - Book One ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)"]) As Fitz predicted to her counterpart, Sam stepped up her efforts to get him interested in psychology, persistently saying that he was a prime candidate for counselling, and that it could help him find himself. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"])

The day before they were recalled to Earth, 1996 by the United Nations, the Doctor discovered a switch on the console that he hadn't recognised, and may have only just grown there. Fitz watched him as he prodded at it to discover its function; when he finally figured it out, the Doctor took a marker pen out of his pocket, and scrawled the switch's name on the console in scribbly black. (PROSE: Interference - Book One ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)"])

Becoming Father Kreiner

Main article: Father Kreiner

When the Doctor, Sam and Fitz landed on Earth in 1996, several distinct iterations of Fitz Kreiner were brought into existence. Fitz was placed in the Cold by the United Nations in 1996 in Geneva and removed from it in 2593 on Ordifica. Fitz decided since he was so far from the Doctor and his own time, he would allow himself to be initiated into Faction Paradox, believing he could resist their loa. Instead, he was tormented by a vision of himself, old, one armed, and dying on a distant world.

On joining the organisation, Fitz and the other survivors of Ordifica were taken back in time and placed on Anathema by Faction Paradox to become their troops, the Remote. Rendered sterile and listless after five years seperated from the Doctor, he contemplated suicide so that he would be remembered as something aproaching the man who travelled in the TARDIS, rather than changed totally by Remote culture. Instead, he left Anathema for the Eleven Day Empire, rising through their ranks.

Now two thousand years old, cut off from the Faction and relying on his bio-armour to survive, Kreiner led his Remote troops onto the planet Dust in an attempt to kill the Third Doctor for the things his future self had done to Fitz. Despite his arm withering in the struggle, he tried to take what he believed was his last chance to reunite with the Eighth Doctor by grabbing onto I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show, which was disguised as the Doctor's TARDIS; as a result, he was flung into the Time Vortex, where his Faction armour kept him alive and in one piece. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)","Interference - Book Two"]) When Christine Summerfield encountered the Horror, a gestalt intelligence formed by all the sentient entities who had ever been cast into the Vortex, it spoke through the body of Father Kreiner.

Christine speculated that the universe of Chris Cwej, the Horror and the Sphinxes was a bottle universe, created by the Great Houses of a higher reality. (PROSE: Dead Romance ^[+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)","Dead Romance"]) Indeed, I.M. Foreman suggested that these events occurred in the bottle universe she'd created, but still involved the "prime" Father Kreiner: when creating the bottle, she'd tapped into the energy of the Time Vortex, sucking up Father Kreiner and placing him within the bottle Vortex. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)","Interference - Book Two"]) According to other accounts, however, the reality of the Horror and the Sphinxes was one and the same as I.M. Foreman's. (PROSE: Vampire Science ^[+]Loading...["Vampire Science (novel)","Vampire Science"], The Book of the War ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"])

Father Kreiner was later retrieved from the Vortex by the Faction, re-encountering the Eighth Doctor and the "new" Fitz when he was summoned back into the real universe on Gallifrey. After the Doctor convinced Father Kreiner that he had only abandoned him because he was convinced he was dead, Kreiner tried to help him during the final stand-off in the Edifice, but Grandfather Paradox choked and killed him for his betrayal. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"])

Remembered Fitz Kreiner

Kode

Before leaving Anathema, the original Fitz placed his memories in a Remembrance Tank. It moulded a replica of him out of biomass so his memories and personality would live on in the Anathema.

Generations of Fitzes lived on Anathema for one hundred and ninety-seven years on their journey towards Earth. By 1996, the memory of Fitz had degenerated into "Kode", named after the nickname "Code-Boy" that Fitz earned for his knack for the computer programming required to maintain Anathema.

After Kode arrived on Earth to sell the Cold with Compassion and Guest, the Doctor recognised elements of Fitz's personality in Kode and offered to use the TARDIS's telepathic circuits to re-remember Kode as the Fitz who had joined the Doctor in 1963 and as the man he had been when the TARDIS had lost contact with him, recreating Fitz based on the TARDIS's perceptions of who he had been. This new Fitz still remembered both his original life with the Faction and Kode's most recent memories as he was reborn in the tank, and believed that pieces of Kode's personality would remain part of him. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)","Interference - Book Two"])

The remembered Fitz suffered from nightmares about his mother on Foreman's World, with the TARDIS, in the body of Compassion, soothing him back to a quiet sleep. (PROSE: Toy Story ^[+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)","Toy Story"])

Encountering the Obverse

When the TARDIS brought the new trio to the Federation starship Nepotist, Fitz, deeply shaken by his status as a remembered version of the original, found himself left aboard with Compassion while the Doctor investigated below. After the Doctor vanished, the two met Iris Wildthyme, with Fitz briefly trying his hand at an impersonation of the Doctor.

Fitz and Iris were soon paired off while Compassion went to retrieve the Doctor. As they rode over mountains together, Fitz, wrapped up in confusion over his attraction to both Time Lords, considered asking Iris to take him with her. Ultimately, their asssociation went as far as a kiss before he returned to the Doctor's side. As Fitz followed the Doctor back into the TARDIS, his friend livid at Iris having prevented him from intervening any further into the affairs of the Obverse for cryptic reasons, he rhetorically asked the Doctor and Compassion if they ever wished they had normal lives.

At another point in time and space, he lived as the Doctor's lodger in a normal life on Earth, his and Compassion's memories hazy, spending his time reading the Doctor's collection of books. The talking dog Canine suggested they were inside the Obverse when Fitz discussed the nature of their reality, and warned him not to probe too hard, as theirs may be the less 'real' one. (PROSE: The Blue Angel ^[+]Loading...["The Blue Angel (novel)","The Blue Angel"])

Getting to know Compassion

Alongside Compassion, Fitz visited the Wallachian Exhibition and followed the Doctor to the jungles of prehistoric Antarctica. After entering into the "city of the Elder Things" controlled by a platoon of Time Lords fighting in The War, the Doctor described his companions as "temporal canaries". The Doctor and his companions split up after Xenaria wised up to their identity - with Fitz being captured by a young soldier named Holsred. Fitz was brought before "Allopta" - actually Investigator Two, an agent of the Celestis - who shifted into the form of a beautiful woman before being forced out of this form by the psychotic breakdown of Investigator One.

After escaping from the clutches of Investigator Two, Fitz met back up with the Doctor and helped him in his attempt to sabotage the Celestis' Ur-box. The Doctor and Fitz arrived at the TARDIS Cradles just in time to watch as Compassion was swallowed by a TARDIS and sent to the far future year of 1999. As the Doctor entered into the Time Vortex using the pieces of the same TARDIS, Fitz and Holsred used the Doctor's TARDIS to follow the track of the other TARDIS. This led them to materialise in 1999 as Investigator Two attacked Compassion and "Nathaniel Hume". Though Holsred was slain while fighting Investigator Two, Fitz was able to convert Two into fiction with the help of Hume. Fitz then jumped from the TARDIS in a spacesuit to save the Doctor from dying in the Asteroid Belt. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)","The Taking of Planet 5"])

Fitz went undercover with Compassion to investigate the company Frontier Worlds for the Doctor, imitating Frank Sinatra and getting wrapped up in a romance with local Alura. When the two had to go on the run, Fitz was too late to save Alura from being killed by head of security Kupteyn at his home. Struggling with his feelings on being a remembered version of the original Fitz, he attempted to connect with Compassion, who told him both her and the Doctor needed his human perspective. He killed Kupteyn by throwing him into a harvester. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)","Frontier Worlds"])

Mechta and Skale

Fitz became separated from the Doctor and Compassion when the TARDIS materialised on a Bastion station, and he was redirected onto the peaceful planet Mechta. There, he settled into the society for months, having an affair with Anya and later falling in love with Filippa Cian, while also reluctantly supporting Anya's husband Nikol in his political campaign. Fitz gradually became aware that Mechta was not what it seemed, as 'Notifications' that removed people from the city steadily increased.

As the world collapsed, Fitz tried to escape alongside Filippa, only for the city to dissolve into a void. He was eventually rescued by Compassion and the Doctor, who had uncovered the truth about the Bastion network and its exploitation of hundreds of thousands of suspended citizens in the virtual reality of Mechta. Although only a handful of inhabitants survived, Fitz learned that Filippa was among them. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)","Parallel 59"])

Fitz lived with Filippa on Skale for a period before the Doctor returned for him, and both promised to return to visit, Fitz certain one day him and Flippa would be together. On their way back to Compassion, the duo visited strange dimensions and worlds at an angle to reality, in shorter and shorter stops.

Upon landing at Compassion's coordinates on Earth, 2012, Fitz saw the TARDIS being destroyed in a dimensional rift and was stranded in Avalon with her. After Compassion was mutated into a Type-102 TARDIS, due to her receiver translating the signals she had been receiving from the TARDIS into block transfer computations, Fitz continued travelling with her and the Doctor, on the run from the Time Lords who wanted her as a slave. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon ^[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)","The Shadows of Avalon"])

Fugitives from Gallifrey

After the Doctor's unwanted installation of a Randomiser resulted in Compassion frantically dematerialising while they were on Yquatine on the day of the planet's destruction, Fitz was stranded a month in the past unable to inform anyone of the future. Working at a local bar, he developed feelings for Arielle Markhof, and was about to run away with her when her former lover President Stefan Vargeld discovered them just as Arielle was infected by the Omnethoth. Fitz was then imprisoned until he reached the day of destruction again, doing labour on a local moon. He was rescued from being killed by the possessed Arielle by Compassion, who had finally returned after decades of attempting to randomly land there. Fitz watched the hollowed out Arielle die aboard her. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)","The Fall of Yquatine"])

Fitz was badly injured by Knivors while accompanying the Doctor and Compassion into the ice mines on the planet Eskon, and during his recovery he developed a bond with a mute slave girl whom he named Florence. When the Doctor grew suspicious of local leader Tor Grymna, Fitz was sent to investigate and discovered that the priest was secretly hiding his mutated son Ckeho, who he then freed. Fitz later returned Ckeho to the city, only to be disgusted by Grymna's hatred and unwillingness to listen. He watched helplessly as the city burned and mourned the death of Florence during their escape. (PROSE: Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)","Coldheart"])

Fitz was diverted from the Doctor and an unresponsive Compassion after their arrival in a futuristic city, where he was captured by both ruling factions, the rockers and the mods. To survive, he improvised a cover story as a stranded saucer pilot, drawing on his past experiences on Mechta to flesh out his lies. Compassion shared with him fragments of the Maker's extra-dimensional perceptions, nearly overwhelming his mind, but he survived thanks to her acting as a mediator. (PROSE: The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)","The Space Age"])

In 1898, while the trio engaged in a standoff with Cuthbert Simpson at Banquo Manor, Fitz assumed the identity of Herr Kreiner. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy ^[+]Loading...["The Banquo Legacy (novel)","The Banquo Legacy"])

After their coordinates were finally tracked down and Compassion heavily damaged, Fitz was 'summoned' by a group of youths on Gallifrey being manipulated by Faction Paradox. This led to Father Kreiner being summoned himself to confront Fitz and the Doctor, revealing to his copy that he was the original, still living, and that the new Fitz had been created from his donated biomass. Fitz then tried to help Romana III during the Faction's invasion of Gallifrey, but was just on the point of death when Compassion, restored and free of the Randomiser, was able to rescue him and the Doctor as Gallifrey and the Faction fleet were destoyed. She left the Doctor on Earth in 1888 so that he and the now miniature TARDIS could recover and regrow after the traumatic events, subsequently leaving Fitz in 2001 to reunite with the Doctor once he was ready. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"])

Post-War

Appointment in 2001

Dropped off on Feburary 6th, 2001, Fitz was cryptically instructed by Compassion to meet the Doctor in a pub called St. Louis in two days time. While waiting, he saw reports of a dead man in Brussels, Belgium, who according to witness Dave Young had two hearts; concerned this was a regenerated Doctor, Fitz travelled there to investigate with Dave and his girlfriend Anji Kapoor. Though it was quickly revealed not to be him, Dave was kidnapped by the Kulan, and Fitz and Anji returned to England to meet the unregenerated Eighth Doctor, at the St. Louis pub he owned.

Reuniting with his friend, Fitz discovered that the Doctor had no memory of him or any of his previous adventures, but also that his own memories of events were hazy, struggling to recall the names of Gallifrey or Compassion. The trio defeated the Kulan invasion, but Dave was killed, and with the Doctor's control over the new TARDIS initially non-existent, Anji joined the duo as an unwilling travelling companion, and they landed on a new, seemingly pre-historic world. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)","Escape Velocity"])

Identity crisis

On the planet that revealed itself to be New Jupiter, Fitz was seperated from the Doctor and Anji when he leapt through a force barrier, finding himself in the EarthWorld park's Ancient Egypt zone. Obtained by the young princesses Asia, Africa and Antarctica, he was soon forced to maintain his old fantasic identity of Fitz Fortune, 20th century pop star, the princesses demanding he give a private concert for them.

To his own shock, Fitz delivered a dazzling performance, only to spiral into an identity crisis over whether his musical skills were merely how the TARDIS remembered him, and if he was the 'real' Fitz at all. Matters worsened when the princesses used his memories to build an android duplicate obsessed with proving it was not the genuine Fitz. After surviving a forced death match with an Elvis impersonator, Fitz resisted the triplets' attempt to exploit his memories of Filippa, and through a conversation with a mental construct of her came to terms with the idea he was still fundamentally Fitz. Freed by the Doctor and Anji, he frantically asked the TARDIS to prevent the Doctor getting his memories back with local technology, believing his friend was better off without the trauma of Gallifrey's destruction, and that he needed to protect him. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"])

Getting to know the Doctor again

After Anji was attacked and hospitalised on 22nd century Mars, Fitz accompanied the Doctor to Farside Station, posing as auditor and assistant, while he worried about his relationship with him now that they lacked their shared history. He integrated himself with the maintenance crews, forming friendships with Robertson and Caroline Arquette. Fitz risked suffocation to keep the Doctor alive long enough to reach safety when they were blown out into the vacuum of space, and had to be resuscitated.

After witnessing the Doctor burn alive, he was frozen for four years in a locked off room of the station, until the Doctor finally released him. Together again, he helped him save the survivors of the station by incapacitating the possessed Anji. He was now ready to tell the Doctor about his past after what they had gone through, while fighting his own fading memories, but after living four years he would rather forget, the Doctor decided that he wasn't ready. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)","Fear Itself"])

Early travels with Anji Kapoor

Fitz injured his ankle after he fell off a cliff when the TARDIS arrived at its next destination, and was 'captured' by Cauchemar's forces when he accidentally killed one of Cauchemar's men and the others' mental programming caused them to perceive Fitz as their colleague simply because he was wearing the dead man's coat. Fitz was subjected to the mental conditioning used on Cauchemar's men, but was immune to it, from either his Terran origins or the amount of times his head had already been re-wired. While staying at Etty's farmhouse, he had a brief sexual relationship with Vettul before he had to return to town to help stop Cauchemar's plan, and may have impregnated her. (PROSE: Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)","Vanishing Point"])

In the town of Marpling, England, 1933, Fitz helped the Doctor break into the house of Charles Rigby while investigating the man's strange behaviour, and argued against Anji when she told him she believed their fights against injustice were only a game to the Doctor. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps ^[+]Loading...["Eater of Wasps (novel)","Eater of Wasps"])

While the trio lived on Hitchemus for two months, Fitz made a living busking, and formed the band Jam Tomorrow. When the Doctor had a falling out with Karl Sadeghi, Fitz attempted to coax his friend out with music, just as the intelligent tigers of Hitchemus rose up against the human colonists. When the Doctor left the humans to try and work with the tigers, Fitz remained and worked against leader Ajamu Quick to try and save lives, pushing for a morale building concert instead, where Fitz played succesfully with his band. He acted as a sounding board for Anji during the crisis, her having completely lost faith in the Doctor for his shift in allegiances while he remained confident in him. Fitz contemplated staying on Hitchemus as the tigers and humans worked out an equilibrium, but decided his life on the TARDIS was what he desired more. While sitting with Karl and Anji, he played a song he had once written for the Doctor, long before - the same song the Doctor had stuck in his head, without being able to name, for a century on Earth. (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers ^[+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)","The Year of Intelligent Tigers"])

Almost immediately after leaving Hitchemus, Fitz and Anji were chased through the Stellarium, an observation chamber in the TARDIS, when a horde of Vortisaurs smashed through it. When the duo were locked in a prison cell away from the Doctor and encountered Jamon de la Rocas, Fitz feared the man was so exuberant he could only be a regenerated Doctor; meeting back up with him, Fitz protested when the Emperor of the Slow Empire announced he would add Anji to his harem, and was nearly made the court eunuch in response. Inside the virtual reality of the Cyberdyne, he lived out a dystopic parody of his dreams of being a rock star, headlining counter-cultural band The Groke. He eventually became passive to the point of being controlled by his 'Master', until one day he simply walked out, never to be seen again in their historical record. When he woke up, the Doctor refused to tell him the exact length of time he had been inside, Fitz speculating that it was long enough to drive somebody mad. (PROSE: The Slow Empire ^[+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)","The Slow Empire"])

When Anji was hit by a psychic blast aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz searched for assistance on Ceres Alpha, but Fitz was cut off from the others in the midst of a dust storm and active terraforming machines, and was soon assumed dead by the Doctor. He rescued by Ayla Damsk from both the environment and hostile security services, and at the close of the crisis reunited with the Doctor. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)","Dark Progeny"])

Fitz and Anji explored 21st century New Orleans together while the Doctor pursued the mystery of a bone charm found in the TARDIS. Their search brought them into contact with Jack Dupre, a self-styled magician who Fitz instantly distrusted. Later, the two uncovered the story of Alain Delesormes, a boy whose family was destroyed in a botched summoning. Sent by the Doctor to Vermont, they investigated Delesormes' foster family, discovering their abuse of the boy and the ambiguous circumstances of his supposed death. Acting on instinct, Fitz dug up Alan's grave and confirmed it contained only a block of wood.

Returning to New Orleans, Fitz and Ajji attempted to track the Doctor after his disappearance. They grew increasingly suspicious of Detective Jonas Rust, despite Anji's feelings for him, noticing inconsistencies in him that eventually revealed him as the adult Alain Delesormes. After Rust was stopped, the Doctor took Fitz and Anji forward to the Christmas Eve bonfire, marking the end of one year and the beginning of another. (PROSE: The City of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["The City of the Dead (novel)","The City of the Dead"])

Fairy-tale times

On the fairy-tale planet Albert, Fitz was given a wolfskin cloak after saving an old man, and when he returned to the Doctor's local shop to find he had been dragged away by authorities, joined the duplictious princes Ansel and Gilfred on their journey to the Castle of Sighs. When they betrayed him, he survived the enchanted, man-eating hut they had left him to by tricking it into choking on his wolfskin, then used it to bargain with a pack of wolves to spare the princes' lives. When Ansel killed a wolf regardless, Fitz was forced to give up his donkey as recompense, leaving him to continue the journey on foot.

When Fitz, finally reached the Castle, he was imprisoned for sorcery and fought with Gilfred, who realised that the cloak carried the spirit of their abandoned younger brother, Offram. Coming across the Doctor and Anji there, he rode with them to Princess Ebonyblack's castle to rid the world of it's collective madness, and helped the Doctor dig Inex out of rubble.

In the forests around the castle, he encountered the Princes once again, who threw the wolfskin on a fire to Fitz's sorrow. However, this only restored the young Prince Offram, the sole surviving prince after Gilfred killed himself and Ansel was eaten by wolves. When the Doctor saw into potential realities offered by the powerful wishing boxes, Fitz was killed by both a dragon and human bandits; the Doctor crashed three seperate realtiies together to save him and the rest of his friends. After peace was restored to the planet, Fitz drank with him and attempted to seduce one of Rozered's daughters at the wedding reception of Offram and Ebonyblack. (PROSE: Grimm Reality ^[+]Loading...["Grimm Reality (novel)","Grimm Reality"])

Living on Henrietta Street

After the Doctor summoned Fitz and Anji from the TARDIS into his laboratory within the Henrietta Street bordello of 1782, the duo was brought into the culture of the house for nearly seven months from May to December. The Doctor sent Fitz and Juliette, his fiancèe for an upcoming ritual to bind himself to Earth, to Cambridge (in the guise of agents of The Service) to gain information on the mysterious Sabbath Dei. While there, Fitz discovered traces of a ritual to summon a Babewyn and Sabbath's journals, and also saw a professor meeting with Sabbath's companion, the Mayakai Tula Lui.

Before Fitz could learn more, real Service agents exposed him as an impostor, and he and Juliette were expelled from Cambridge. However, he had learned enough to come to a conclusion as a time traveller; Juliette's dreams of a metal war machine, and Sabbath being an engineer who was initiated into an occult society in a river, where he claimed to have seen a Leviathan, meant he was building a giant ship as his headquarters, and with this as a starting point the Doctor traced the necessary materials and Sabbath to Manchester.

While in Manchester, Fitz and Juliette were attacked by local prostitutes paid by the Service while looking for Sabbath's ship in the dockyards. Fitz was severly beaten in this attack, but recovered. In the period after Juliette absconded from the house, Fitz slept with Lisa-Beth Lachlan at least once.

While the Doctor was bedridden due to his illness in the final months of the year, Fitz, as one of the Doctor's closest friends, helped him to recover enough to go through with his wedding. During this time, he pursued further rumours from those who had found themselves in the realm of the babewyns, and realised there had been fewer reports of attacks because there was now a King of Beasts, the babewyns having fallen back into a hierarchical structure. The night before the Doctor's wedding to Scarlette, Fitz took his wheelchair-bound friend to to the harbour, and shared a bottle of champagne alone with him.

Fitz shared the role of the best man with Nie Who, the Doctor refusing his attempts to physically support him as he walked to the altar. He was sucked into the Kingdom of the Beasts at the end of the ceremony and watched Sabbath remove the Doctor's second heart. At Scarlette's funeral on February 9th, 1783, he walked at the rear alongside a representative of the Service. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

Troubles with Time

Fitz was sent by the Doctor to obtain a copy of The True History of Planets while the Doctor and Anji investigated Mida Slike. He was imprisoned with the others in the hotel freezer at the academic conference, and soon stripped naked as a pet to the Dogworld's Princess Margaret, but after their escape he was paired with Flossie and travelled in the TARDIS to Las Vegas in 1960. There, Fitz gambled away the Doctor's money and attended Brenda Soobie's show, falling in love with the enigmatic singer; he was held at gunpoint by a trenchoated MIAOW agent, but the situation was defused when Flossie pointed out their assailant wouldn't risk pulling the trigger in the crowded theatre. Fitz noticed as the performance progressed Brenda was singing songs that had yet to be written in 1960, but was knocked unconscious by the stage curtain.

Upon waking up, he fled from MIAOW with Brenda, Flossie, and Noël Coward, discovering to his shock that Brenda was in fact a regenerated Iris Wildthyme when they entered her double-decker bus. Unlike the Doctor, he shared a moment of catching up with Iris before they departed again (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

After the TARDIS crash-landed on the toxic world of Endpoint, Fitz was caught up in an evening hostage crisis from the Brotherhood of the Silver Fist in the city of Hope. Along with the Doctor and Anji, he was saved by the leader of the city, Silver, and pressured into investigating a series of local decapitations in exchange for a retrieval of the TARDIS. Fitz explored Hope's underworld and learned more about the Brotherhood. Pretending he wished to join, he attended one of their rituals, and his questioning of their rigid beliefs caused a schism, from which he narrowly escaped execution thanks to Silver's lieutenant, Miraso. Fitz later uncovered the truth that Silver was imprisoning mutated Endpointers beneath his palace, in the course of his experiments to create his soldiers, the Silverati. Captured alongside his friends, Fitz worked with Miraso to secure their means of escape from Silver's bunker. (PROSE: Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"])

On their next voyage, just after Fitz played a chess match against the Doctor, the TARDIS was thrown off course by turbulence in the Time Vortex. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji took shelter on Isolation Station 40, only to become caught up in their time travel experiments. Fitz demanded that the Doctor not go alone on a time-dive test, an experience that nearly killed them both when it went out of control. When the volunteers began transforming into the paradoxical Clock People and died off, Fitz, along with the Doctor, Anji and Plutocrat auditor Mistletoe rushed to Station One, now infested with the Clock People. When the Doctor, drained and having wiped out the Clock People's population, fell unconscious, Mistletoe unmasked himself as a victorious Sabbath, who had manipulated events to this end from the start, and left the Doctor in the care of Fitz and Anji. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

When the TARDIS stopped off at the beach in the 2010s, Fitz encountered Malady Chang and Jonah Cosgrove before the Onihr mistook him for the Doctor, took him prisoner and lightly interrogated him for information about time travel. Fitz hotwired the Onihr ship's weaponry with the aid of one of their handheld computers, and escaped just as it exploded. Upon arrival at the warehouse where the Doctor and Anji were currently hiding from another enemy altogether, he casually informed them that he had just saved the world. (PROSE: Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])

Fitz with the Eighth Doctor on Entusso. (AUDIO: Fitz's Story ^[+]Loading...["Fitz's Story (audio story)","Fitz's Story"])

After Anji drank some Bactrian cocktails, she remained in the TARDIS whilst Fitz and the Doctor shared an adventure on Entusso. In order to collapse the corrupt Alien Defence Incorporated, who were using the Doctor's image to advertise their company, Fitz claimed that between the Doctor and him, Fitz was the real hero. This removed any validation for the company. Shortly after, Entusso came under attack by Skarpok and his species. Believing that Fitz was a hero, Skarpok attacked him. Fitz used a Bactrian cocktail to defeat the creature, and subsequently became the avatar of ADI's advertisement campaign. (AUDIO: Fitz's Story ^[+]Loading...["Fitz's Story (audio story)","Fitz's Story"])

Mission to Guernica

After the Doctor (with Fitz's help) discovered that something was interfering with the perception of human history during the Spanish Civil War through careful observation of Picasso's Guernica, the Doctor sent Fitz into Guernica, 1937 to find out the cause of the interference.

While in Spain, Fitz was essentially kidnapped by a mysterious man (whom Fitz originally assumed was a Soviet agent but whom was actually an agent of Sabbath) named Sasha and brought to Guernica. The two witnessed various different versions of the same event (a consequence of both men being time travellers).

Fitz then returned back to Barcelona (where the Doctor and Anji were staying) to discover that the TARDIS had been disabled (by the cause of the interference, the Absolute) and that the Doctor and Anji had been stranded in Barcelona for six months. Fitz was soon embroiled in Civil War fighting and was arrested after a pub brawl. He was rescued by Sasha, who brought him to the TARDIS to ensure that Guernica was firebombed by fascist forces on orders from the Doctor. Right before the weakened Fitz could carry out the directive, Sasha elected to do it himself, reasoning the other man wasn't strong enough to make contact with the Absolute. After this, Fitz soon found Anji (who had been in the same prison as him) and the two left Barcelona after being reunited with the Doctor. (PROSE: History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"]) When he was in Guernica, he turned 33. (PROSE: Camera Obscura ^[+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"])

Towards Siberia

Fitz left the Doctor for a time on Earth in 1894, wanting to strike out on his own rather than being the perpetual sidekick. He went on an expedition to Siberia with George Williamson. Several months later in the expedition, Fitz once again encountered the Doctor, and became part of Sabbath's plot to erase every parallel universe. (PROSE: Time Zero ^[+]Loading...["Time Zero (novel)","Time Zero"])

Final travels with the Doctor

Fitz soon regained his full set of memories but never told the Doctor; the Doctor wanted to move on from his previous life. (PROSE: Halflife ^[+]Loading...["Halflife (novel)","Halflife"])

Fitz and the Eighth Doctor encounter a Ceccec (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows DWM 344 preview)

Fitz helped the Doctor to uncover the truth behind Old Man Crawley. (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial ^[+]Loading...["The Deadstone Memorial (novel)","The Deadstone Memorial"])

Fitz developed a relationship with fellow companion Trix and planned to leave the Doctor after the Vore were defeated. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)","The Gallifrey Chronicles"])

Older versions of the Eighth Doctor and Fitz beset by Neanderthals (PROSE: We Can't Stop What's Coming)

However, Fitz, the Doctor and Trix continued travelling together for a time. On one trip, they discovered a planet where temporally-anomanous Neanderthals were being herded as temporal weapons in preparation for a time war. (PROSE: We Can't Stop What's Coming ^[+]Loading...["We Can't Stop What's Coming (short story)","We Can't Stop What's Coming"])

Undated events

• Fitz was familiar with Smithwood Manor by the time he reunited with the Doctor in 2001. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])

• Fitz once got accidentally trapped in the classical section of the TARDIS library for two days, and formed an appreciation of Greek and Roman plays upon discovering that they contained a large amount of sex and violence. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"])

• Prior to meeting Anji, Fitz and the Doctor had an adventure at Roswell (PROSE: The Slow Empire ^[+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"]) and another on Bathesda, where Fitz slept through the entire revolution. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"])

• The Doctor, Fitz and Anji once visited the planets Galspar and Falkus during the era of the Needle, and encountered the Klade. (PROSE: Father Time ^[+]Loading...["Father Time (novel)"])

• At some point, Fitz was recruited by Iris Wildthyme to help negate a timeline created by Spiritus Mundi, having ended up there while investigating a party. He possessed a sports car, and she returned him to "his friends" when the timeline was corrected. (PROSE: Only Living Girls ^[+]Loading...["Only Living Girls (short story)","Only Living Girls"])

Legacy

Looking into a Tomorrow Window in 2004, Fitz saw a bald man with a toothless mouth, who shared his tired eyes. Just as he reacted in panic, another appeared of a man in an evening jacket, together with a beautiful, olive-skinned young woman in a wedding dress. Soon after, Fitz looked forward to the prospect of one day living it. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows ^[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"]

When the Eighth Doctor was about to regenerate, he remembered Fitz last among his former companions. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)","The Day of the Doctor"])

During her time with the Tenth Doctor, Gabby Gonzalez learned of Fitz as one of his past companions. She mentioned him during an emotional confrontation with the Doctor over her feeling that he was pushing her away from him. (COMIC: Vortex Butterflies ^[+]Loading...["Vortex Butterflies (comic story)","Vortex Butterflies"])

Appearance

Fitz had a thin, narrow face, with large, wide, pale and soft gray-blue eyes and a long, pointed nose. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"], The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"] The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)"]) His dark brown hair was long, thick, straggly, and unkempt or untidy. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"], The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) He was twice observed to have a fringe. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"], Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"]) His hair was shorter and less curly than the Doctor's. (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"])

His hair reached close to his eyes when he met the Doctor, (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"]) but was short when they landed for his first trip to Vega Station. (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"])

After being brainwashed by Chinese Communists in the late 1960s, in Sam's eyes his face was left hard, weathered and with etched in outlines, showing no trace of it's former humour or interest in the world. He seemed to age five years rather than two, and his hair was cut neat and short. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) In the opinion of Karl Hansson, on his next trip Fitz had a sullen and distrustful face. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"]) His hair regrew into a squiggly mess while in San Francisco, 2002. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) Anji Kapoor later corroborated Sam's impression of ostensibe aging, with the twenty-seven year old guessing Fitz was about five years older than her. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])

He had scruffy locks just after meeting Anji Kapoor. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]) After being recently cut, it was still seen as straggly by Nathaniel Chiltern. (PROSE: Camera Obscura ^[+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"])

On a later occasion, materialising on a post-apocalyptic Earth in 2003, both Fitz and the Doctor had shoulder-length hair. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)"])

He had variously a jobsworth (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"]) and a Sean Connery smile. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"])

Fitz often had several days stubble (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"], Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"], The Sleep of Reason ^[+]Loading...["The Sleep of Reason (novel)"], et al.) although disliked having a full beard. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry ^[+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"]) He missed spots when he shaved. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

He was described by Sam (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) and Hilary Pink as shifty-eyed, and by the latter that he had the look of having experienced several lifetimes. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps ^[+]Loading...["Eater of Wasps (novel)"])

He was often described as skinny or gangly, and his fingers were bony. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"], Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"], The Sleep of Reason ^[+]Loading...["The Sleep of Reason (novel)"]) He felt he was never stocky. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"]) Fitz described himself as unfit or out of shape at several times, (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"], Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"]) although he had some muscle. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"]) His stomach was flabby (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"]) but Trix thought he could easily make it flat if he did a few push-ups. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) While fighting, Anji noted he looked "rather fetching, in an adolescent-schoolgirl sort of way." (PROSE: The Infinity Race ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Race (novel)"])

Fitz physically aged in several ways as he continued on with the Doctor. His face was lined when the TARDIS crew landed on Endpoint (PROSE: Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"]) and by the time they encountered various alternate Earths, he had developed jowls. (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"]) As Anji Kapoor departed from the TARDIS, his temples were shot through with grey. (PROSE: Timeless ^[+]Loading...["Timeless (novel)"])

Described as lanky by Christina Morgenstern, (PROSE: Grimm Reality ^[+]Loading...["Grimm Reality (novel)","Grimm Reality"]) he was just about six feet in height, taller than Sam Jones, (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) Anji Kapoor (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]) and the Doctor. (PROSE: History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"])

He favoured his right foot. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

At various times Fitz was seen as having a slouching posture. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"], Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"], History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"] et al.) Anji christened it The Slouch – traipsing, head down, with hands thrust deep into the pockets of his jeans. However, she described it as an affectation, with Fitz becoming more animated as the Doctor read that they had landed on a party planet. (PROSE: the Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["the Book of the Still (novel)"]) In Fitz's own words, he felt he had to keep an eye out when trying to fit into a new time and place, in terms of deciding how to walk, talk and dress - whether to use a swaggering, slouching or a sidling gait. He believed if he got the context right, no one would notice he was just visiting the planet. Sam observed that he slouched to seem uncaring when she consoled him over her dark-haired self's end. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

Clothing

Fitz's most common outfit was a leather jacket with a shirt and jeans, the jacket either black, (PROSE: The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"], Halflife ^[+]Loading...["Halflife (novel)"]) or brown (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"], The Crooked World ^[+]Loading...["The Crooked World (novel)"]) On one occasion, he swapped between them. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)"]) His clothes were usually shabby. Anji sardonically thought of him as a man that could crumple any clothing just by looking at it. (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"])

To replace his light brown coat, Fitz purchased a simple black overcoat with lapels from a shop in 2001. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"]) While it was quickly damaged he came to think of it as lucky, (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]) later leaving it in the TARDIS to protect it. (PROSE: Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"])

Fitz wore a trilby on several occasions before the TARDIS's final encounter with the War in Heaven. Along with his brown coat, he gave it to the Doctor. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"], Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"], The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

When he first met the Doctor and Sam, Fitz wore a grey raincoat that went down to his knees, and on a date with the latter his trilby and pair of maroon slacks with raised seams and scuffed old suede loafers. Underneath, he wore red, blue and black striped shirt. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

While gambling on his first trip to Vega Station, he attempted to evoke James Bond with a dark dinner jacket and tuxedo, a red carnation in his buttonhole, and a black silk bow tie at the neck of his wing-collared white shirt. (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"])

Fitz wore a silk shirt, white jacket, and white trousers with leather shoes borrowed from the Doctor to London, 1967. He bought new shoes and a brand-name shirt, as well as blue jeans, witn the Doctor's money on Oxford Street. He was equipped with a business suit while brainwashed. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"])

Fitz took off his long, heavy coat to wear just a loose, white silk shirt and jeans in Sweden, 1999, He was later forced to wear a blue and black checked lumberjack shirt; he didn't care for it, and changed back into black trousers, boots and another silk shirt back on the TARDIS, even shaving. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"])

Fitz occasionally wore a black trenchcoat. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"], Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"], Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

Fitz wore a trenchcoat with black jeans and a black yin-yang t-shirt, as well as a fedora while he investigated strange phenomena in San Francisco. While there, he later changed into a blue and yellow Hawaiian shirt with John Lennon style sunglasses, before returning to a knee length leather coat. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

Landing in Belgium, 1944, Fitz pulled on a brown leather jacket and a pair of thick woollen gloves. When his clothes were soaked, he dried his jacket and changed into slacks and a shirt from a nearby tailor's. (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"])

For a time after being remembered, Fitz took to wearing clothes from the TARDIS wardrobe, using dress sense as a way to make sense of his crisis. After leaving the Enclave, Fitz reverted to old sixties clothing for comfort, but quickly wished he could change into something else. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])

Upon materialising in the year 3012, he was wearing a blue denim jacket and jeans. (PROSE: The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)"])

After being summoned naked to Henrietta Street, 1782, Fitz was dressed in ill-fitting knee-length socks and a waistcoat that was ten years out of fashion. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

Fitz donned a leopardskin suit with snakeskin shoes whilst in Las Vegas. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

Fitz was given a knee-length overcoat to wear by the Doctor when they landed in cold temperatures near Isolation Station Forty. He found it cumbersome, and like wearing a rug two sizes too big. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

He once wore a wide-brimmed hat like the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: Camera Obscura ^[+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"])

He wore a leather jacket and boots on Selonart, the former ruined by water. (PROSE: The Infinity Race ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Race (novel)"])

Psychological profile

Personality

The original Fitz

Before meeting the Doctor, Fitz was prone to intense bouts of cynicism, and near-total despair that sometimes dragged him under. In the opinion of Sam Jones, he wasn't truly as cynical as he made himself out to be, and was funny, intelligent, and not especially sexist, relative to the 1960s. Fitz considered himself quick on the uptake, (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) and got a floating feeling in his stomach when people were trying to deceive him. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"]) He had a dry sense of humour. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"])

Fitz loved his dreams, and wishes he could remember them after waking, lying in bed for hours trying to piece them together. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"]) He often forgot what he came into a room to get, which greatly frustrated him. (PROSE: To the Slaughter ^[+]Loading...["To the Slaughter (novel)"]) He had never been scared of the dark. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

He considered himself a coward (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) stemming partially from his lack of resistance to childhood bullying. (PROSE: The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)"]) Under interrogation, he frantically declared himself shallow and inconsequential, and was often embarrassed (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"]) or flustered, though he always loved an appreciative audience. (PROSE: Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"]) He was not familiar or comfortable with his own emotions and feelings. (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"])

Fitz thought most people stupid, and would tell tall tales like J. R. R. Tolkien having been born between "R.J Tolkien" and a prostitute called Frodo. When Sam had been attacked and was unconscious, Fitz brought her safely back to his home. He also stole her money, intending to claim her attackers had stolen it. He often daydreamed about an exciting life, and adopted personae to alleviate his boredom. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"]) For a while after his mother's death, humour seemed meaningless, and people, with their quirks and mannerisms that he could usually feel so superior to, were simply annoying, and a noise to be shut out. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"])

He played the part of James Bond on Vega Station, wishing to imitate his status as a cool, wealthy, mysterious gambler. Fitz claimed not to believe in luck, despite being in a casino at the time. (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)","Demontage"])

During the Revolution Man incidents, Fitz found himself feeling like a novelty that the Doctor and Sam had quickly got bored of. However, upon leaving, he dwelled on his time with the Doctor, feeling as if it had lasted years rather than weeks, and as he returned to the TARDIS, he thought that he had been bored with ordinary life in comparison. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) He later missed the messiness of TARDIS life. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"])

In the opinion of Sam, his brainwashing into a committed Communist only worked because he had never had much will to begin with. She saw him as always having been indecisive, unsure, and almost neurotic, with cheap showing off, his addictions, and his attempts to avoid a crisis rather than face up to it. Sam felt he'd needed a centre to his life, and one had been offered to him. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) He became deeply disillusioned with student activism after his eight months in China. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

Fitz accepted the Doctor's capacity for pragmatism from the beginning of their relationship, refusing to blame him for the death of his mother. However, Fitz had still not fully came to terms with her demise after two years away from the TARDIS. Kreiner also envied the Doctor's ability to get along with anyone, thinking that it took longer for Kerstin to see him as a real person. He believed, despite having shot Ed Hill in panic, that he lacked the capacity to kill in cold blood. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"])

He grew to care deeply for Sam, believing there was more to her than just a 'vestal virgin', and called both her and the Doctor his best friends. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"], Interference - Book Two ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"]) He was desperate for her to believe he was remorseful over the death of Hill, and struggled with his anger when Sam was missing, presumed dead, feeling more alone than he ever had before. Even still, he accepted the Doctor's warning his anger wasn't useful. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"])

Calm made his anger turn inwards, and he had to find ways to defocus it. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"])

Fitz thought of his cynicism as a shell; when the blonde Sam was erased from time, he first attempted to clean up his act, feeling the Doctor needed someone who really believed in the things he did. He slept with a dark haired Sam, and mourned losing her, brushing off her blonde counterpart's attempts to comfort him, (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)","Unnatural History"]) but also dwelling on how much she may or may not have remembered.

The Doctor felt Fitz could take care of himself as well as Sam could, but Fitz was skeptical, sarcastically saying he laughed at danger and wasn't fazed by anything; The Doctor saw him as possessing the typical human quality of both selling himself short and being overconfident. After being split up, the younger man thought the Doctor's curiosity, as well as his tactful attitude to others, was beginning to rub off on him. He could not yet tell when the Doctor was lying. (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"])

Upon returning to the TARDIS, Fitz believed he would always be an outsider, in the same way as the Doctor. He felt the Time Lord was a force of nature (PROSE: Interference - Book One ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)"]) and that he wasn't cut out to be a hero in the same way as his inhuman friend, but tried to measure up by rescuing him and later the T'vorha. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"]) The near wipe-out of the race in the course of his actions put him off once more; Fitz felt the Doctor's friends tried to replicate his impossible actions, and it blew up in their faces because they weren't him. He likened it to trying to be Frodo Baggins, when he was really Samwise Gamgee, or even the Robin to the Doctor's Batman; the hero's best friend, who never got the girl. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

From an early stage, Fitz had a close relationship with the TARDIS itself. The Doctor believed it maintained a liking for him even immediately after his departure and brainwashing, and it gently modulated his thoughts as it had done before. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) As Sam departed, the Doctor believed the TARDIS did not fully trust him yet, and that Fitz could sense it, with none of them fully sure of his reliability in a crisis after the stresses he had gone through. (PROSE: Interference - Book One ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)"])

Father Kreiner felt the Ship pull at his mind even after two millennia apart, having had it periodically appear in his nightmares over the intervening years. Despite becoming bitter and withdrawn as he was steadily computerised, he never stopped waiting to reunite with the Doctor - even when he told himself he had. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"])

The remembered Fitz

After re-remembering by the TARDIS's telepathic circuits, Fitz experienced a protracted identity crisis. He pondered how reliable his current set of memories really were, wondering if he had been remembered wrong - for some months afterwards, thoughts of what he did and did not remember swirled around his dreams, making Fitz afraid to sleep. He compared the thought processes to water vanishing down a plughole, or entering into a room and forgetting why he'd gone in. He also dreamed of the remembrance tanks. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

He felt his dreams broadly made too much sense, like the TARDIS tried too hard to imagine what dreaming was like, having never had any itself. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"]) He later called them a stately progress of sorted information, and always found it strange to wake up into the relative chaos of waking life. Every time he woke, he still felt as if he'd been put through a mixer, jumbled up and poured back into the shape of himself again. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon ^[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"])

His mind worked in different ways, and on some points technically improved; he could fill in a crossword much faster than he ever used to, and became skilled at anagrams. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"]) Later, Fitz also came to the conclusion the TARDIS had remembered him as an eternally good guitar player. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"])

Ironically, he now almost never forgot what he'd come into a room to fetch, and unbeknown to him for several years, his thoughts now had a deeper structural underpinning, almost a computer standing in for his brain, which machines like a PadPad mental sketchbook could recognise and appreciate. This allowed him to excel in the equations of its imaginary design. (PROSE: To the Slaughter ^[+]Loading...["To the Slaughter (novel)"])

Following his remembrance, Fitz initially made a self determined show of qualities such as sarcasm that he considered an essential part of Fitzness. He felt like a spare in the Doctor and Compassion's power games, and considered the latter far from an ideal companion, unable to even wind her up. Nevertheless, he deferred to her, knowing his own limitations.

Wile travelling with Sam, Fitz had learned of her infatuation and confused romantic feelings for the Doctor, but only understood it after her departure and his re-remembering. When briefly travelling with Iris Wildthyme in the Enclave, he found himself considering his chances of "getting laid by Iris... and even of getting laid by the Doctor." He briefly considered asking Iris to take him with her. When she kissed him, he told her not to tell the Doctor. (PROSE: The Blue Angel ^[+]Loading...["The Blue Angel (novel)","The Blue Angel"])

He worried extensively about whether he would inherit his mother's madness, and if he was prone to it on a basic level. He felt he lived his life with background radiation of Kreiner guilt. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"], The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine"]) When the Doctor was at the point of death from his infected heart, Fitz muttered about his mother. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

Fitz missed Sam as he struggled to come to terms with how human he really was, and it came as a shock to him to realise how much he was coming to depend on the Doctor. When he spacewalked to save his friend from dying in the vaccum, it was the first thing he had done just because he wanted to, rather than due to obligation, biological need, or duty, that he could remember. He felt alive, and acting rather than acted on, as he had following his remembrance. Though he was scared, it seemed right, as if his past had been sculpted into that moment, and he could even laugh at his old motivations. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])

Retreating into the persona of Frank Sinatra to avoid questioning his own humanity, Fitz's relationships with his fellow travellers were highly complicated as he operated on Drebnar. Despite wanting to hold the Doctor upon seeing him injured, he felt the Time Lord had never wanted him around at all, and that he was only there on suffererance; Compassion told him her and the Doctor needed his human perspective. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

He retained a streak that was widely interpreted as cowardice, (PROSE: The Crooked World ^[+]Loading...["The Crooked World (novel)"]) to the point of calling himself craven, (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) and he saw himself as a superficial person. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) Nevertheless, he was seen as possessing an unshakeable loyalty to the Doctor, even reaching a religious faith. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry ^[+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"]) Romana and Anji both believed he was somebody who would see things through to the bitter end, whether fighting alongside the Doctor, or against him in chess. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"], Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"]) In the opinion of Trix MacMillan, he wasn't usually cowardly, but simply had a strong sense of self-preservation. (PROSE: Halflife ^[+]Loading...["Halflife (novel)"])

Gandar considered him too laid back for his own good. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon ^[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]) Nevertheless, he could be blunt in conversation. (PROSE: The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)"], Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"], Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

Fitz found himself able to cope with hysterical provocations, but his resolve was cracked by an inability to do anything to help his friends. He saw pain as going with the territory of travelling with the Doctor, understanding plainly that to have big adventures and a rich, fulfilling life, he was going to get hurt. He found it far less frightening than remaining at home selling plants to the elderly, with only unrealised dreams of musical stardom for comfort. In his opinion, getting locked into that pattern of life would age him just as quickly as running around the universe. He'd reached the conclusion long before arriving on Ceres Alpha that, given the choice, he'd rather die than grow old in that way. Nevertheless, he detested the moments when he thought he might die anticlimactically, with no sense of heroism. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"]) He had an adventurer's spirit, (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"]) preferring movement to planning and thinking (PROSE: The Infinity Race ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Race (novel)"])

He jokingly told Compassion he loved when she was domineering (PROSE: Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)"]) but though he found her physically attractive, he thought she'd need a brain transplant, and that he would need to be extremely drunk, to actually sleep with her. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])

Compassion saw changes in Fitz over time, beyond the Remote and the TARDIS's effect on him when she first joined. These changes were more insidious and personal, in her eyes caused by the Doctor rubbing off on him; although they were slight, and likely to crumble at the first sign of difficulty, he was no longer completely self-obsessed, as he'd been when she first met him. He was prepared to at least admit to what he believed in, if not stand up for it, and would try to save somebody without thinking about it. (PROSE: Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)"]) By this time, he rarely thought about how far he was from home. Doing so produced a thrill in his stomach that was one part fear and three parts excitement. (PROSE: The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)"]

He described the Doctor as being a pain, but admitted missing him when he wasn't there. While still considering him his best friend, Fitz recognised the Doctor had a capacity for manipulation, believing that he could have stolen the body of Richard Harries from Banquo Manor. Even still, he grieved extensively when he appeared dead. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy ^[+]Loading...["The Banquo Legacy (novel)","The Banquo Legacy"])

For some time, Fitz retained his casual fantasy of a career as an internationally famous guitar legend, with a rock band who played their instruments with their teeth. However, he saw it as having been overtaken by a reluctant vocation as the Doctor's roadie, universally ignored while he saved worlds with string and sealing wax. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

By the time he was dropped off in 2001 to reunite with the Doctor, Fitz had come to the point of feeling that although he often had bad luck, he nevertheless liked to be optimistic. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"]) What Anji Kapoor called cynicism, he called experience from a long time travelling with the Doctor, (PROSE: Eater of Wasps ^[+]Loading...["Eater of Wasps (novel)"]) He retained a capacity for morbidity (PROSE: The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"]) but Fitz could sustain despondency for less than an hour - hope always found a way back into his thoughts. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

Following the Doctor's hundred years trapped on Earth, Fitz knew more about the TARDIS and the Doctor's life than the Doctor himself. He demonstrated an affinity with the TARDIS in keeping things (such as the Doctor's memories) from the Doctor. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)","Escape Velocity"], EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"], Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)","Trading Futures"]) He broadly believed there were some things it was better not to know. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows ^[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"])

In this time after Gallifrey's destruction, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) any final hesitances Fitz had about the Doctor vanished. He trusted the Doctor implicitly, and considered the Time Lord his best friend, (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"], The Year of Intelligent Tigers ^[+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"]) and similarly described Anji as his best mate. (PROSE: The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"])

Fitz began to consider the Doctor his purpose, putting it on himself to ensure the Doctor never remembered Gallifrey and the trauma he had suffered. He felt he had to protect the Doctor at all costs, even if it meant he could never return to Filippa, Anji could not get home, and the Doctor could not comfort him. Giving things up for the Doctor felt good to him; the older, more mature Fitz believed that if keeping secrets would lead to a happy ending, it was preferable to a soap-opera sense of closure from revealing them, and that he could now return the favour of the Doctor looking after Fitz for years. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"])

Fitz came to know the Doctor well enough to claim an observational power bordering on the psychic where the Doctor was concerned, believing he needed to protect his friend's larger than life goodness, to the point of seeming like his older brother. (PROSE: The City of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["The City of the Dead (novel)"]) He could recognise the difference between sincere confidence and blustering determination, (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"]) and could tell when he was distracted. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry ^[+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"]) Seeing the Doctor rattled made Fitz more scared than what he himself felt. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

Even beyond the matter of his memories, Fitz saw the Doctor as his number one responsibility. He would walk on broken glass to the end of the world for him, and considered his love for the Doctor "the real thing." (PROSE: The Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"])

In Anji's opinion, The Doctor and Fitz had a lot in common, such as shared history and a tendency towards being anti-authoritarian and obstinate, but were also far apart; Fitz, despite his attempts to be a man of mystery, was one of the most human people Anji had ever met. His scruffy and unshaven demeanour seemed perpetually down to earth, and Anji felt she could rely on Fitz's good nature, (PROSE: Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"]) even as she thought of him as a starry-eyed child. (PROSE: The Infinity Race ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Race (novel)"])

Compassion told him he was akin to the Doctor's trained dog. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"]) Fitz later echoed the sentiment, saying that if he was an animal, he would be one, in particular a golden retriever. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"]) In contrast, several years later in an encounter with Sabbath Dei, Jack Kowaczski likened Fitz to a wily little cat, with slitty eyes, an arched back, and a waving tail. (PROSE: The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"])

Fitz considered himself not that smart, but good with people. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"]) Lisa-Beth Lachlan described him as likeable, though not alert. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

Over time he developed a number of Doctorish traits, such as taking the lead in investigations into the unknown and taking great pride in providing expert commentary, as well as a love of travel.

George Williamson bid farewell to Fitz by saying that he was a decent, honest person, who would do anything to help if he thought it was for the best, and would never hurt anyone; that he was a man who would go to Siberia on a whim just because someone he respected asked him - and that he was dependable, brave and the best friend a man could have. (PROSE: Time Zero ^[+]Loading...["Time Zero (novel)"])

Habits and quirks

Fitz smoked a lot of cigarettes; by his own account, thirty a day. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"]) He found the habit relaxing, and liked the taste. (PROSE: Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"]) He often smoked the Camels brand, and initially carried Swan Viestas matches, (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"]) but had a silver lighter upon leaving 1969, (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"]) and used specifically a Zippo make on Eskon. (PROSE: Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)"])

He attempted to stop on several occasions. Sam lectured him on the health risks of smoking, and at some point after running out of his last packet from 1963 (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"]) she succesfully convinced him to try and give them up. Maddie, however, persuaded him to start taking them again - Fitz didn't agree with her that it was fun, but it still made him feel better. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) When this version of Sam was erased, he made another attempt to quit while fulfilling her role as a more idealistic companion. The Doctor had a cure for smoking in his medical kit, but Fitz didn't want him to tamper with his biology. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) Fitz felt more comfortable making scrambled eggs on toast himself than using the TARDIS food machine, due to the fact it gave his hands something to do other than smoke. (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"])

He was given nicotine oil capsules that killed his craving in the 2010s, but didn't find them much fun. He used the act of offering a cigarette as a substitute for difficult conversation with both Malady Chang (PROSE: Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"]) and Anji. In an angry outburst by the latter, she accused Fitz of secretly believing the Doctor could solve any cancer caused by his smoking. (PROSE: the City of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["the City of the Dead (novel)"])

The Doctor disliked his smoking, commenting, without foreknowledge, it would be the death of him, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) but the majority of the time let it pass without reproach. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"], Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"], Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"] et al.) Fitz "almost never" smoked in the TARDIS, jokingly calling it Doctor's orders. (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial ^[+]Loading...["The Deadstone Memorial (novel)"])

He drank just as much. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) He was noted as a fan of beer at many intervals. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"], Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)"], The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"]) When intoxicated by fumes, he became glassy-eyed and philosophical. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"]) Wine made him morose. (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial ^[+]Loading...["The Deadstone Memorial (novel)"]) Fitz sometimes got drunk in order to alleviate his anger (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"]) or escape the reality of situations, (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) and had long experience with bad hangovers. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"]) On Gallifrey, along with wishing he could smoke or drink, Fitz twiddled his thumbs, played with his hands, practised throwing his trilby on to a hatstand, and paced up and down to relieve his boredom. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

On several occasions, he demonstrated a fondness for gambling. (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)","Demontage"], Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)","Mad Dogs and Englishmen"], Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)","Hope"]) For all the years he'd spent with the Doctor, who mostly used the metric system, his mind still insisted on working in imperial units. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"])

Fitz had never been accused of being a subtle person before his time in Zanytown, (PROSE: The Crooked World ^[+]Loading...["The Crooked World (novel)"]) and the Doctor later sniped at him for a percieved habit of stating the obvious. (PROSE: Sometime Never... ^[+]Loading...["Sometime Never... (novel)"])

He was never shy of high melodrama (PROSE: Vanishing Point ^[+]Loading...["Vanishing Point (novel)"]) and thought of his love of dress-up as a toddler habit he had never grown out of. (PROSE: The Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"]) The Doctor casually described him as someone who lied under pressure. (PROSE: The Space Age ^[+]Loading...["The Space Age (novel)"])

Though he did not believe in love at first sight, (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) Fitz routinely fell for unsuitable women (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"]) and had a fetish for nurses. (PROSE: The Sleep of Reason ^[+]Loading...["The Sleep of Reason (novel)"]) Around the prostitutes of the Henrietta Street House, Kreiner had a habit of grinning inanely, seemingly unsure what he was supposed to do, and looked away nervously as they undressed. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"]) He often smirked. (PROSE: Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"], History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"], Halflife ^[+]Loading...["Halflife (novel)"] et al.)

Fitz usually cocked his head to the side when listening (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"]) and didn't sound too sure of himself. (PROSE: The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"]) Despite the opinion of others, he did not think he was eloquent. (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"]) His own jokes could drive him to hysterics in tense situations. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry ^[+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"]) He only took injections orally. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

On Ceres Alpha, he felt he was developing a habit of looking perpetually stunned. (PROSE: Dark Progeny ^[+]Loading...["Dark Progeny (novel)"])

Fitz sardonically considered that he made something of a habit of being held at gunpoint. The reason it had become a habit, rather than a one-off, was because he had also made a habit of doing whatever the person with the gun told him to do. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"]) A need for the toilet accompanied threats of physical violence. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps ^[+]Loading...["Eater of Wasps (novel)"]) He became so used to being sent off on missions for the Doctor that his friend would say goodbye with a wordless nod. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"]) The Doctor responded to Trix's concern as to his whereabouts by saying that Fitz had a habit of surviving - then added the qualifier 'usually.' (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows ^[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"]) He wanted his tombstone to say 'Beware. Contents are toxic.' (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

Fitz was a man with few beliefs, and found most religious people hard to deal with. (PROSE: Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"]) As a child, he went to church on Sundays with his mother, but once he started going out on Saturday nights, he preferred to sleep in. (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"]) Despite this, he referred to God while stressed on numerous occasions. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"], The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"], History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"] et al.)

He professed to hate insects, especially wasps, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) as well as cellars, (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) caves, (PROSE: Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)"]) deadlines, (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"]) the glitzy show-business of Las Vegas, (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"]) job interviews, (PROSE: The Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"]) marzipan, ironing, (PROSE: Timeless ^[+]Loading...["Timeless (novel)"]) confident, masculine men, (PROSE: Halflife ^[+]Loading...["Halflife (novel)"]) hospitals, heights (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) and rapidly came to dislike climbing. He had never had much time for roller coasters, and the dawn chorus of birds annoyed him. (PROSE: Escape Velocity ^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"]) He didn't enjoy opera, and initially had no knowledge at all of quantum physics, (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"]) though he gained a rudimentary understanding through exposure. (PROSE: Time Zero ^[+]Loading...["Time Zero (novel)"])

On New Jupiter, Fitz admitted to Anji Kapoor he had never learned to swim or perform CPR. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)","EarthWorld"]) She gave him two swimming lessons some time prior to their arrival in the alternate timeline of Bristol, 2003. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)","Reckless Engineering"])

In fights, he often opted for rugby tackles, though he never won them. (PROSE: The Infinity Race ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Race (novel)"])

He enjoyed crisps, (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"]) chocolate, doughnuts (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) and tea, sorely missing the TARDIS's supply of tea when it was thought to be destroyed in the dimensional barriers between Avalon and Earth. He had a television in his room aboard the original TARDIS; Mab broke the remote during an early altercation with the Doctor in her realm. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon ^[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"], The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)","The Fall of Yquatine"])

On many occasions, Fitz referenced or quoted films he had seen, usually for their ironic applicability to his life as a time traveller, including comedies, (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"]) war movies (PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"]) and horror. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) He had seen Metropolis before arriving on Drebnar. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

He was also, in more sedate settings, a voracious reader, going through old Norse sagas while living in Archway (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) and making his way through the Doctor's book collection while they lived on Earth, being a fan of the fairytale collection the Aja'ib especially. (PROSE: The Blue Angel ^[+]Loading...["The Blue Angel (novel)"]) He was a noted fan of The Lord of the Rings. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"], Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) Kreiner never read Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but was more familiar with Murder on the Orient Express. (PROSE: EarthWorld ^[+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"])

While listing favourite things about Earth with the Doctor in 2004, he agreed with his assertion of bacon, eggs, sausage and black pudding, along with fried bread and brown sauce; in addition, he extolled the virtues of pure malt Scotch, the sound of a rotary mower on a summer afternoon, a winter evening in front of a real fire, and beautiful women. (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial ^[+]Loading...["The Deadstone Memorial (novel)","The Deadstone Memorial"])

He was known to grit (PROSE: Demontage ^[+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"],Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)"]) and grind his teeth. (PROSE: Dominion ^[+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"]) The word 'surgery' set them on edge. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) He could whistle, and move quietly when he wanted to. (PROSE: The Infinity Race ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Race (novel)"])

Complicated financial jargon gave him a headache. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"]) He could be seasick. (PROSE: Anachrophobia ^[+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"])

He never learned to properly speak French. (PROSE: The Sleep of Reason ^[+]Loading...["The Sleep of Reason (novel)"])

Skills

Fitz was a talented guitarist, and could do passable impersonations, voices and accents. He could play pool. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

He learnt to pickpocket from the Doctor, on the false promise it was strictly theoretical. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"]) and felt he was skilled at evading authorities. (PROSE: Coldheart ^[+]Loading...["Coldheart (novel)"]) Jennifer Valletti assessed both him and the Doctor as highly proficient in infiltration techniques. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"])

Although he never learnt to properly read Chinese during his time in the Collective, (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) Fitz could sing and speak it fluently. (PROSE: Hope ^[+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"], Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])

At some point prior to arriving in Marpling, Fitz learnt to play the Beatles' Let It Be on the piano. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps ^[+]Loading...["Eater of Wasps (novel)"])

He became skilled at horse riding following his period traversing the planet Albert. (PROSE: Grimm Reality ^[+]Loading...["Grimm Reality (novel)","Grimm Reality"])

He could read pages upside down, having honed the talent on many schoolboy visits to the headmaster's office. (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"])

Fitz could drive extremely fast under pressure. (PROSE: Timeless ^[+]Loading...["Timeless (novel)"])

Discography

Song	Artists	Source	Notes
"Groovy Weekend (da da da da da da dum)"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed on Earth, 1950s-1960s
"You Broke My Heart, Bikini Girl"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed on Earth, 1950s-1960s
"Upside Down in Venice"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed on Earth, 1950s-1960s
"Shakin' All Over"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed on Earth, 1950s-1960s
"Chantilly Lace"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed on Earth, 1950s-1960s
"I Wanna Be (Bobby's Girl)"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed on Earth, 1950s-1960s
"Twist and Shout"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Cover. Composed on Earth, 1962-1963
"Song for Sam"	Fitz Fortune	EarthWorld [+]Loading...["EarthWorld (novel)"]	Composed aboard the TARDIS, while travelling with, and for, Sam Jones. In her opinion, the title sounded like something from a serial killer.
"Desert Surfin' in the USA"	Fitz Fortune, Jam Tomorrow	The Year of Intelligent Tigers [+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"]	Originally written aboard the TARDIS, once again in collaboration with Sam Jones, based off a misunderstanding of her attempts to explain global warming and the ozone layer to Kreiner. The song later became a centerpiece of the 'Fortunes of War' concert on Hitchemus in the 22nd century. It was performed by Kreiner's first foray into band work, Jam Tomorrow, a group he spearheaded during his months on the planet.
Untitled	Fitz Kreiner	The Year of Intelligent Tigers [+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"]	A song Kreiner wrote for the Doctor at some point prior to their separation in 1888 and reunion in 2001, describing his nomadic lifestyle. Fitz considered it unfinished as of their time on Hitchemus.

Age and chronology

Fitz's age became a deeply complex subject as he continued to travel in time. When he met the Doctor and Sam in 1963, he was twenty-seven. (PROSE: The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"]) He initially travelled in the TARDIS for only a period of weeks or months before leaving to live in 1967, and was twenty-nine upon rejoining in 1969. (PROSE: Revolution Man ^[+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]) At Sam's grave in 2005, he angrily told the Doctor the three of them had travelled together for years. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])

Fitz spent five hundred and ninety-seven years in the Cold, although he did not physically age. Following his removal from it, he went through another five years living in the twenty-sixth and nineteenth centuries with Faction Paradox. These years, and Kode's memories, seemed to be the only portion of his one hundred and ninety-seven years on Anathema to be coherently retained by the Fitz remembered by the TARDIS. (PROSE: Interference ^[+]Loading...["Interference (novel)"])

Fitz's body, however, was restored to how it had been before he was seperated at all, at the age of twenty-nine; Fitz returned to calling himself the younger age on later occasions, including after his two months undercover at Frontier Worlds. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])

Despite this, when thinking back to events during his period travelling with Sam, such as their time in San Fransisco, he felt an overpowering sense of distance and nostalgia that seemed to indicate to him he was hundreds of years old. On multiple occasions, he suggested he had known the Doctor for several centuries or lifetimes. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy ^[+]Loading...["The Banquo Legacy (novel)"], the City of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["the City of the Dead (novel)"]) A good deal of time later, Fitz observed he had no grounds to criticise the Doctor for an unstable and shifting mental state, when he himself had the memories of someone anywhere between several hundred and one year old. (PROSE: The Slow Empire ^[+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"])

He spent many months on the virtual planet of Mechta, though in real time, it was only a few days. (PROSE: Parallel 59 ^[+]Loading...["Parallel 59 (novel)"])

After the collapse of Mechta, Fitz lived with Filippa Cian on Skale for a period of at least several weeks. When the Doctor collected him, they spent some days travelling alone together, on the way to reaching Compassion's location on Earth. All three were stuck in Avalon for a month after the TARDIS's destruction. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon ^[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"])

After Compassion dematerialised without him, Fitz was stranded on the planet Yquatine a (fifty-two day long) month before the planet's destruction. He had turned thirty at an unknown point prior to the end of this crisis. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"])

The three of them spent months on the run from the Time Lords. He described his remembered self as not even a year old on Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

About a month passed for Fitz between Gallifrey's fall and his and the amnesiac Doctor's visit to Farside Station, including two weeks of travelling with Anji Kapoor. (PROSE: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"])

The trio lived on Hitchemus for two months in peace. (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers ^[+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"])

Fitz was still thirty when they landed on the planet Shakrath, during their next adventure. He spent a lengthy period in the dystopic simulation of the Cyberdyne, but the Doctor did not want to tell him exactly how long; Fitz surmised it was long enough to drive someone mad. (PROSE: The Slow Empire ^[+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"])

He experienced weeks on the planet Albert. (PROSE: Grimm Reality ^[+]Loading...["Grimm Reality (novel)"])

He was in his early thirties during the seven months he lived on Henrietta Street. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

Fitz turned thirty-three during his mission in Guernica. (PROSE: History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"], Camera Obscura ^[+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"]) He spent months in 1893 and 1894 travelling conventionally with George Williamson, first to St. Petersburg and on an expedition to Siberia. He met Trix when he was rescued by the Doctor. (PROSE: Time Zero ^[+]Loading...["Time Zero (novel)"])

He had lost track of his age some time after returning to TARDIS life, (PROSE: The Domino Effect ^[+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"] but when his biodata was rewritten so that he had always lived on an alternate Earth, his body was thirty-four years old. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering ^[+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)"])

He spent six weeks as an office worker with Anji in a temporally unstable 2003, (PROSE: The Last Resort ^[+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"]) and another six weeks in a fake marriage with Trix in the restored timeline. (PROSE: Timeless ^[+]Loading...["Timeless (novel)"]) On the next voyage, he was stuck in the occupied Moscow of 1812 for two months. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry ^[+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"])

Months passed between the following fight with the Council of Eight and the TARDIS's trip to Tate Modern in 2004. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows ^[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"]) The trio lived for five months on the grounds of The Retreat in the same year. (PROSE: The Sleep of Reason ^[+]Loading...["The Sleep of Reason (novel)"]) Both Fitz and Trix guessed their travels following the encounter with the Council to span a period of months. Fitz had no real idea, but thought it was less than two years since he had met her. Overall, he was physically roughly thirty-five years old when he contemplated leaving the Doctor. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]

Behind the scenes

Overview

An illustration of Fitz with Sam Jones from the article "With a little help from my friends" in DWM 272.

• Fitz was a "current" companion from 1999 to 2005, and many published fanfictions or charity anthology contributions published in that interim actually contained significant character development intended to work in conjunction with the official continuity (especially those written by BBC Books authors). Some notable examples include:
  • Fitz Kreiner and the Onion of Doom by Steve Cole, creator of Fitz and range editor of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, published in Missing Pieces ^[+]Loading...["Missing Pieces"] in 2001, where Fitz is an unwitting pawn in one of the Master's plots very shortly before the events of The Taint ^[+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)","The Taint"].
  • Recursion by Dale Smith, published in Myth Makers Presents: Essentials ^[+]Loading...["Myth Makers (fanzine)","Myth Makers Presents: Essentials"] in 2003, where it is revealed Fitz's father Otto Kreiner actually died in an alien invasion. Fitz and the Doctor create many paradoxes after many failed attempts to prevent the death.
• Cole conceived the relationship between the Doctor and Fitz as rooted in the farmer's capacity to fulfill the latter's fantasies. He compared the evolved character to Jamie McCrimmon, and believed one of his defining traits was that he would always stick by the Doctor.
• Jonathan Blum, co-author of Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...[" Unnatural History (novel)"] and The Year of Intelligent Tigers ^[+]Loading...[" The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"], developed a detailed background on Fitz's musical talents prior to leaving 1963.
• According to Lance Parkin, Fitz's continuation as a companion following The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"] was initially undecided, and in an early version of Father Time ^[+]Loading...["Father Time (novel)"], prior to formal commissioning, Fitz would have been killed by Sallak just as he reunited with the Doctor, and before he could tell him about his past.
• Before Matt di Angelo was cast as Fitz in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Fitz's Story ^[+]Loading...["Fitz's Story (audio story)"], several authors from the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series shared their own ideas of what the character might look like:
  • Steve Cole envisioned Fitz as resembling actor Robert Carlyle.
  • David A. McIntee, author of Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"], imagined Fitz looking like Jason Carter, best known for playing Marcus Cole in Babylon 5.
  • Jonathan Blum stated that Rupert Booth would have been his choice for the role of Fitz.
  • Lance Parkin, while writing The Gallifrey Chronicles ^[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"], posted that he pictured Fitz as Christopher Eccleston.
• Nick Wallace, author of Fitz's final full length novel appearance Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (novel)"], outlined his thoughts on the character's psychology extensively in an earlier forum post.
• In 2022, Stephen Cole confirmed in an interview that Fitz Kreiner was bisexual and in love with the Doctor. Novels such as The Year of Intelligent Tigers ^[+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"], The Book of the Still ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"], History 101 ^[+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"], Time Zero ^[+]Loading...["Time Zero (novel)"], and Halflife ^[+]Loading...["Halflife (novel)"] make strong implications regarding his relationship with the Doctor, as well as other male characters like Sasha and George Williamson.

In non-valid sources

Main article: Fitz Kreiner/Non-valid sources

Fitz has appeared in numerous sources that this wiki deems "invalid."

External links

• Writer's Guide to Fitz Kreiner (circa 1998)
• Fitz Kreiner at the Faction Paradox wiki

Footnotes