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Aug. 5th, 2013
I knew that RTD believed the shopkeeper who hangs out with the time-manipulating entity that appears to be a parrot on The Sarah Jane Adventures to be another surviving Time Lord. What I didn't know is that both he and Neil Gaiman thought he was the Corsair!
This is obviously an idea so cool it has to be true. So perhaps it went like this: the Ninth Corsair is snagged by House, who takes his arm, his spine and kidneys. His TARDIS is consumed and he's left to die. Only then the Captain shows up, rescues him and manages to trigger a regeneration, and he turns into Cyril Nri. (Or, I guess, into another person or persons and then into Cyril Nri.) He becomes the Captain's companion and they re-enter the universe at a point after the Time War, but the Captain conceals the Corsair's existence from the Doctor to avoid messing up the timeline. (The Doctor would naturally behave differently if he didn't believe himself to be the last of the Time Lords.)
As for the Captain, well, he's obviously an entity of great temporal power. The White Guardian? (Although then you'd expect him to be a white parrot, but perhaps he's just messing with our expectations.) A rogue Eternal that's taken an interest in ephemeral life? One of the Grace? Some opposite number to the Trickster? And that's always assuming he isn't actually the Trickster in disguise. The Whoniverse is certainly full of strange, powerful beings who could look like parrots if they wanted.
This is obviously an idea so cool it has to be true. So perhaps it went like this: the Ninth Corsair is snagged by House, who takes his arm, his spine and kidneys. His TARDIS is consumed and he's left to die. Only then the Captain shows up, rescues him and manages to trigger a regeneration, and he turns into Cyril Nri. (Or, I guess, into another person or persons and then into Cyril Nri.) He becomes the Captain's companion and they re-enter the universe at a point after the Time War, but the Captain conceals the Corsair's existence from the Doctor to avoid messing up the timeline. (The Doctor would naturally behave differently if he didn't believe himself to be the last of the Time Lords.)
As for the Captain, well, he's obviously an entity of great temporal power. The White Guardian? (Although then you'd expect him to be a white parrot, but perhaps he's just messing with our expectations.) A rogue Eternal that's taken an interest in ephemeral life? One of the Grace? Some opposite number to the Trickster? And that's always assuming he isn't actually the Trickster in disguise. The Whoniverse is certainly full of strange, powerful beings who could look like parrots if they wanted.