Ashildr
Ashildr is a female character who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
Ashildr was a female human born in the 9th century as the daughter of Einarr who was a farmer in a Viking village. (Episode: The Girl Who Died)
In 1415, she took part in the Battle of Agincourt where her skills in a fight had greatly improved over the centuries. (Episode: The Woman Who Lived)
The imaginative young storyteller Ashildr was a simple 9th-century Viking puppet maker whose peaceful village life shattered when the ruthless alien warriors known as the Mire invaded her Norwegian home. Standing defiantly alongside the Twelfth Doctor and his time-traveling companion Clara Oswald, she bravely helped execute a high-stakes, deceptive trap by weaponising electric eels, magnets, and a complex holographic dragon illusion to completely humiliate and drive away the extra-terrestrial invaders. This dramatic victory came at a horrific cost, as the intense psychological and physical strain of wearing a hijacked Mire battle helmet caused her fragile human physiology to instantly fail, leading to her sudden death from absolute heart failure. Blaming his own hubris and driven by a desperate compulsion to save at least one life, the grief-stricken Time Lord heavily modified an alien medical chip and injected it into her body to fully trigger her cellular resurrection. This reckless act of medical intervention saved her life but unwittingly made her a functional human-alien hybrid, permanently locking her body in a state of eternal, un-aging immortality. Left behind on Earth as the Doctor departed in his TARDIS, the newly reborn immortal was forced to face the heavy, agonizing burden of outliving everyone she ever loved while knowing her normal human mind would eventually forget them all. (Episode: The Girl Who Died)
Eight hundred years later, the detached immortal survived into 1651 England as a cold, aristocratic recluse who entirely abandoned her birth name to simply call herself Me. Masking her deep existential boredom, she moonlighted as a notorious, masked highwayman known as The Knightmare to intercept a legendary alien artefact known as the Eyes of Hades. Reunited with the Twelfth Doctor during a botched midnight carriage robbery, she cynically confronted her former savior over the absolute agony of her endless existence, revealing that her restricted human brain had ruthlessly erased the memories of the Viking village and her own deceased children. Driven by a desperate yearning to escape the slow crawl of Earth's history, she formed a reckless, secret alliance with a leonine alien warrior named Leandro, executing a heartless plan to use the death of a rival thief to unlock a fiery, interdimensional portal. Her desperate bid for freedom backfired catastrophically when the extraterrestrial warlord immediately betrayed her, using the spatial rift to launch an apocalyptic armada of battleships against a defenseless London. Horrified by the mass casualties and finding her lost capacity for human empathy rekindled, she instantly reversed her treasonous plot by using her second Mire medical kit to save the dying thief, singlehandedly collapsing the portal and vaporising the invading fleet. Embracing her distinct destiny as the ultimate protector of the Earth, she parted ways with the Time Lord with a chilling vow to permanently watch over all his abandoned companions across the vast span of human history. (Episode: The Woman Who Lived)
Centuries later in 21st-century London, the ancient hybrid established absolute authority over a hidden, cloaked sanctuary for extraterrestrial refugees, ruling the secret trap street under the stern moniker of Mayor Me. Tasked with maintaining strict diplomatic neutrality to protect her vulnerable, multi-species citizens, she engineered a high-stakes, covert conspiracy with the shadowy Time Lords to permanently capture her unpredictable former savior. To lure the Time Lord directly into her web, she falsely accused a young human graffiti artist named Rigsy of a capital crime, branding his neck with a lethal, countdown-based Chronolock tattoo that guaranteed absolute execution by a spectral Quantum Shade. Her highly calculated trap backfired with horrific finality when the Doctor's companion, Clara Oswald, recklessly intercepted the death sentence, entirely unaware that the binding contract with the alien assassin could never be revoked by its creator once transferred to a new host. Forced to watch in absolute horror as her absolute vow of personal protection was shattered, the guilt-ridden mayor could only look on as Clara bravely stepped into the cobblestone street to face the ravenous entity and suffer a permanent, agonizing demise. Facing the unbridled fury of a profoundly broken, vengeful Time Lord, the somber immortal coolly fulfilled her original bargain by activating a hidden teleportation bracelet on his arm, casting him away into a torturous confession dial prison while leaving her behind to guard the dark legacy of her betrayal. (Episode: Face the Raven)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ashildr was a young human female of Nordic descent who possessed a petite, youthful build and expressive, round facial features. She had long, light-brown hair styled in practical, traditional Viking braids pulled back from her face, and her eyes reflected an intense curiosity and determination. She dressed in authentic, rugged medieval attire suitable for a village artisan, consisting of a heavy, long-sleeved blue kirtle worn under a brown woollen apron dress. Her outfit was secured with simple leather straps, a metal brooch, and functional leather boots, giving her the distinct silhouette of a historical peasant girl right up until her resurrection by alien nanotechnology.
Powers and abilities
Originally, she was an ordinary human being but she was changed as a result of exposure to Mire technology that was embedded within her. This mad her functionally immortal and did not age nor did she suffer from any illnesses. It was shown hat any injuries would heal and that her lifespan was potentially infinite. However, there were some limitations as she was not completely indestructible as she could was capable of being killed if she suffered sufficient number of injuries. Ashildr also came to suffer from memory losses over time with her human brain incapable of storing the millennia worth of experiences. She attempted to compensate for this by writing diaries to remind herself of her past with her keeping volumes of such material. (Episode: The Woman Who Lived)
Ashildr possessed ordinary human physical limitations and a highly creative, strategic mind prior to her death and subsequent technological resurrection. She demonstrated an exceptional aptitude for complex weaving, rapid problem-solving, and theatrical storytelling, which allowed her to outsmart advanced extraterrestrial military commanders. Following her revival by the Doctor, her biology was fundamentally rewritten by a Mire battlefield medical chip. This cybernetic device granted her a flawless, self-repairing cellular structure that made her completely immortal, immune to all known forms of physical decay, and impervious to mortal injuries or sickness, guaranteeing she would never age or die.
By the Battle of Agincourt, she claimed that she could fire six arrows in under a minute. (Episode: The Woman Who Lived)
Notes
- Ashildr was portrayed by actor Maisie Williams where she featured in the setting of the Doctor Who universe.
Appearances
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