(rank) Gofather Auteur was a skeletal Homeworlder who had cheated death with the help of Paradox Faction Paradox and become a high-ranking member thereof. Although disgraced and locked away by the Faction, being too grandiose and (perhaps) too insane even for them, Auteur ultimately survived the War Time War mostly unharmed.
Biography[]
Joining the Faction[]
Rumours suggested that Auteur was the final incarnation of an early Mapper of the Great Houses, Astrolabus, who stole secret star charts and was hunted down by a powerful entity. As Astrolabus had tattooed the tabooed knowledge on his own skin in an effort to make it impossible for it to be taken from him, the entity proceeded to flay him alive. (COMIC: Voyager, PROSE: Once, Going Twice (short story) Going Once, Going Twice)
In her female second-to-last incarnation, Auteur attempted to end the in Heaven War in Heaven with a ritual to turn reality into fiction, but was foiled. At any rate, Auteur was found, dying and skinless in his final regeneration, by Graelyn Scythes and F.I.D.O., two individual Auteur had crossed paths with during the aforementioned scheme. Wanting to save his life, they summoned Faction Paradox. (PROSE: Canva (short story) White Canvas) Auteur's cousin (A Bloody And Public Domaine) Gideon, already a member of the Faction, pleaded on his behalf to the leaders of the cult, who agreed to help Auteur cheat death if he became a member. (PROSE: Once, Going Twice (short story) Going Once, Going Twice)
In Faction Paradox[]
Reduced to little more than an ambulatory skeleton, Auteur kept his coherence thanks to "shadow-skin" he used to replace his true skin; he let it peel away around his face, his skull-like visage standing in for a Faction mask. Although he attained the rank of Godfather within the Faction, they eventually got annoyed with him and locked him away in his own timeship, Spire the Shadow Spire, where he continued to write contradictory histories which he believed came true by virtue of him writing them and believing in them. (PROSE: Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story) A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)
After the destruction of the Empire Eleven-Day Empire, Auteur's prison became a haven for surviving members of Faction Paradox, (PROSE: The Herald Angels Sing (short story) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) but he remained imprisoned there. He attempted to free himself by bonding his biodata to that of the monstrous serpentine Apep, only to be eaten (and thus, seemingly destroyed) by him. (PROSE: Once, Going Twice (short story) Going Once, Going Twice)
After the Time War[]
Auteur ultimately survived the destruction of his original race in one piece, as he no longer considered himself one of the Lords of Time by that point. He hid out in the crowded streets of Shan Shen, considering them to be "a land of opportunity" for a practitioner of Paradox. Noticing a woman, Donna, who seemed to have time itself converge around her, he sensed an opportunity to create a world without the last surviving Time Lord in it. He told a fortune teller to feed Donna to the Beetle.
His plan was successful, and a new timeline was created; Auteur followed Donna into it, at the cost of some personal injury. In this world, the surviving Renegade quickly died. Although Auteur wanted to tell Donna what he did, believing she should thank him for making a world which revolved around her rather than "that Doctor," a "Wolf-girl" stopped him when he tried to make contact with her.
Ultimately, learning that a certain Taskforce were planning to use the surviving timeship to reverse his changes to the timeline, Auteur managed to sabotage the machine slightly, making sure Donna would not end up where she was meant to go when she used the machine. He hoped this would give her enough time to reconsider fixing her past at all. (PROSE: A Better World) However, while she did materialise off-course, Donna Noble did indeed choose to sacrifice herself to fix History and resurrect the Doctor. After she told the Doctor what had happened, he concluded that her world was "gone", thus leaving the fate of any individuals trapped within it unclear. (TV: Turn Left)