Doran

Personal History
Doran was orphaned at the age of five and sent to live with his only living relatives, childless distant cousins. He went from a nurturing loving home to being with people who no interest in him, and despite their religious fervour the only thing they wanted was access to Doran's trust fund.

One of the many things that his fosterers didn't realise was that they had taken on a child prodigy, in particular him being a mathematical genius. They were ill-equipped to deal with a child with an enquiring mind, and complicated matters further by pocketing his school fees and sending him to the local state school.

Life achieved a state of what felt like a heavily armed neutrality for Doran, this was rudely interrupted when Doran developed the condition known as 'Precocious Puberty'. Of course adolescence wasn't something that his surrogate parents could have coped with under normal circumstances but having it thrust on them, so to speak, in a ten year old could not have been a worse set of circumstances. Repeatedly punished and beaten for his 'evil libidinous behaviour' Doran was more miserable than ever.

When he was eleven Doran ran away from home, taking a huge sum in blackmail money with him. This he had extorted from a child molesting tutor at his parents' mission school, where they had sent him as punishment for some transgression Doran couldn't be bothered even remembering. Once he was clear Doran had sent his evidence to the police, telling them he had run away because of the abuse he had suffered, it caused quite a scandal locally.

Doran's fine mind had not prepared him to survive on his own, his savings had quickly vanished, and he had been left to exploit his only other marketable skill, and that is what he had learned at the mission school. He was working the streets around Kings Cross when he was abducted, instead of ending up as some sicko's sex slave Doran became the subject of a series of medical experiments. He was in the hands of Yvonne Hartman's Torchwood.

He was fed the line that this was for his own good and that he had contracted something that was causing a genetic collapse. With the aid of Lysander Kingdom Brunel, a fellow detainee from another dimension, the Institute's medics were able to stabilise Doran's condition.

It was shortly after this that the first of the ghosts had appeared, and the country went nuts with ghost fever. When the first of the Cybermen had turned up Lysander had recognised them for what they were, having encountered them on a number of occasions in other realities. Naturally he knew that this world was in no position to offer any real opposition these invaders, so he escaped from the Tower of London, taking Doran with him. But London had been an angry violent chaos and they had become separated, but Lysander had been prepared for that eventuality. They had set a meeting place for them to rendezvous.

Sometime later Jack Harkness found Brunel in the hands of UNIT, which is why he had never made his rendezvous with Doran. As luck would have it the Rift in Cardiff gave Lysander the chance to go home, before he left he asked Jack to go and see that Doran was all right.

Doran had been living in Annecy in south-eastern France for some time, he was plying his old trade but for a more select clientele, which gave him time and money to pursue his true love, mathematics. Jack convinced Doran to return back to Britain with him but Doran had conditions; he wanted his trust fund, and to work with Torchwood. Jack agreed to arrange limited access to his money, and that Doran could work for Torchwood once he had completed his education. As it turned out this was not the wisest agreement Jack Harkness had ever made as he thought this whim would pass. Entered into the best private school for exceptionally gifted children Doran surpassed all scholastic expectations of him. In the intervening eighteen months Doran has completed the maths PHD he had started back in Annecy. Whilst he is now studying for his doctorate he is holding Jack to their agreement.

When Derowen was shown the File on Doran, she was appalled by the actions of Torchwood One. She accepted him into Torchwood Ten on the understanding that he had to earn the right to be a member of the Team.

Additional
After a short time with Torchwood Ten, Doran decided that his talents were better utilised elsewhere, and chose to leave the Team.