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)
Ashildr was a young Viking girl living in a small, remote ninth-century village that became targeted for destruction by an alien warrior race known as the Mire. Possessing a vivid imagination and a talent for storytelling, she boldly declared war on the galactic conquerors to protect her community after they captured her village's warriors. Alongside the time-traveling Doctor and Clara Oswald, she helped formulate a defensive strategy that used local technology and illusions to trick and humiliate the Mire into fleeing. However, the immense physical and mental strain of operating the alien tech caused her heart to fail, resulting in her death. Moved by her bravery and his own grief, the Doctor used a modified Mire medical repair kit to jumpstart her cellular structure, inadvertently granting her absolute immortality and leaving her to live forever.
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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