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| “ | Awsok: It's over, Doctor. It has been ever since we let a virus into the experiment. The Doctor: What sort of virus...? Awsok:You. You got out from Division, and you couldn't leave the universe alone. (chuckles) Yeah, I blame myself a little, but mostly, I blame you. I thought you were manageable. But I had to admit what I always knew deep down—you'd never stop if you rediscovered what Division had done. Morality was always your flaw. The Doctor: Morality is astrength. Awsok: And when you knew the truth, you'd never stop hounding us. The Doctor: So the universe has to end to protect the existence of Division? Awsok: Precisely, which is why we engineered the Flux, shut the universe down, and you within it. Except eventhen, you interfere, disrupting the Flux, just as it came into existence—throwing yourself and a TARDIS in front of it! | „ |
| ~ Awsok berates the Doctor and tells her why Division created the Flux. |
| “ | I'm the one who found you. I brought you to Gallifrey and raised you. I'm Tecteun: the woman you used to call "mother". | „ |
| ~ Awsok reveals her true identity to the Doctor. |
Tecteun, also known asAwsok in their third incarnation, is one of the overarching antagonists of theWhoniverse.
They were portrayed by Seylan Baxter as a Shobogan, Jake Nwogu as their first Time Lord incarnation, andBarbara Flynn as Awsok.
Biography[]
A Shobogan scientist from the planet Gallifrey, Tecteun discovered a being known later as "the Timeless Child", who went on to become the Doctor. Tecteun began experimenting on the child after realising that it was immortal, constantly regenerating into different forms instead of dying. She eventually recreated the formula of the child's genes which allowed it to regenerate, thus laying the foundation for the Time Lord civilization. However, Tecteun secretly went against the Time Lords by becoming a willing agent ofDivision, a massive underground Time Lord organization which betrayed their policies by intervening in events all across the universe. The Doctor also joined Division, but their mind was ultimately wiped by Tecteun when she realised the Doctor was too moral to support Division's actions.
By the start of Season 13, Tecteun has become the Division's leader, and has devised a plan to cover up the organisation's existence. Using a wave of antimatter known asthe Flux, Tecteun attempts to destroy the entire universe in order to kill the Doctor and allow Division to move its operations into a parallel universe. She also releases the Ravagers known asSwarm andAzure from Division custody in case the Flux is not enough to destroy the universe.
During a confrontation with Swarm in episode 3, the Doctor encounters Tecteun in a vision. Tecteun refuses to identify herself, instead telling the Doctor that the Flux was created because of her and cannot be stopped.
Eventually, the Doctor is handed over to Division by theRogue Angel and comes face-to-face with Tecteun, who admits her many crimes and offers the Doctor a chance to either remain in her universe and be killed by the Flux, or rejoin Division. Tecteun also reveals that she betrayed the Rogue Angel and had it imprisoned. The Doctor refuses to go along with Tecteun, even when she offers to spare the Earth, and swears to destroy Division.
At this exact moment, Swarm and Azure arrive at Division Control to take revenge for their imprisonment. Swarm reveals that he knows Tecteun released him before grabbing her by the face and disintegrating her.
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- During her confrontation with the Doctor in "Once, Upon Time", Tecteun was credited as "Awsok" to prevent audiences from finding out her identity.
- Tecteun believes her eyes stay the same with each incarnation she's in. Similar to how the Corsair kept a tattoo.
- While the founders of Time Lord society were Rassilon, Omega, and the Other, her introduction retconned away that half a century of lore.
- The Doctor was originally considered a regular Time Lord, although born in the generation known as the Deca, which included him, the Master, the Rani, the Meddling Monk, among other rogue Time Lords. However, the revelations with Tecteun claimed that the Doctor was actually a progenitor being that fell from a crack in space-time, from whom Tecteun reverse engineered the Time Lord race.
