WHO is the Doctor? | Arknights Theory

2 weeks more like 2 months am i right
sources are in game cutscenes and operator files, some screenshots from the 3rd pv and one fanart from pixiv id 6532823 / chyt

[@CrowFeatherQuill]

I have the theory that the Doctors abilities are related to super high speed thought and information processing. Going through multiple scenerios and choosimg an outcome. Which explains why sanity is a resource only he needs and why we can actually fail missions and replay endlessly without it actually killing the operators that go down.

[@sprinpe3]

That pretty good actually

[@baltofarlander2618]

Kinda like Ender Wiggin from Ender's Game, or Paul's Kwisatz Haderach powers from Dune.

[@thanhnamnguyen5280]

Imagine having that ability and still unable to save your race. He must have been a broken man even before Babel, held together only by the Priestess. My head canon is that he was born with that great ability, and regarded as a holy man by his race, having a Priestess besides him (who prolly gave up her name to serve). But the doom of his race couldn't be prevented. Kal'tsit were probably the finest among the creations of Doctor's ancient race to combat the threat (like the Eldars/ Kroks/ etc. to The Old Ones in 40k). After the failed war, the creations devolved (or evolved, it depends) into the current races of Terra. The "Singer" form of Mephisto was arguably among the creations of Doctor's race, or the underlings of the ancient threat that doomed the Doctor's race, as Doctor seem to recognize the beast (as stated in the Archive)

[@CrowFeatherQuill]

Holly shit it makes so much sence. You need a job in Hypergryph bro

[@metalforge6915]

@@CrowFeatherQuill plottwist: he is working there and he just revealed vital info from when they were designing the game

[@MrSaintRai]

My theory regarding Doc's Race is that he is a Phoenix, and that machine is what they use to be reborn after death. This unironically would explain the healing properties of his blood, why he can chug boiling water, and how he eluded death many times with us only knowing about the most recent death. His amnesia isn't permanent, Kal has mentioned that the moment he remembers she will kill us, so it's only a matter of time before we get the whole picture. I don't think Doc is human, however I do think he is part of those old Races like the Nian sister etc, and why they are even fond or partake in RI, even if Doc doesn't himself know why.

[@DragonKnight90001]

Hmm how would sanity fit in then?

[@CRRNCRW]

Hmm.. there’s an npc in the game who literally is a pheonix. Personally, I’d like to imagine he’s the same race as whisperain. Frail body, being able to rejuvenate after death, which I guess explains for the reason why he wears the coat. But, this doesn’t explain why the sarcophagus didn’t turn him into a jellyfish or why sanity/the fact he’s much more talkative than whisperain exist. So.. I like the video’s theory.

[@jdeverest7600]

Oh kal is going to kill us if we remembered eh? i laugh at that thought. We'll probaly end up killing her first becuz the dockutah never trusted kal in the past. Didnt the smartest guy in terra have backup plan in case that happend?(yes we have plot armor)

[@confusion7858]

doc is what the wiki calls an ancestor/precursor

[@trinity5502]

My theory for a newcomer to Arknights and not having all the pieces may invalidate my idea. I feel as if the doctor was a normal human, but due to the advanced nature of his people them having a deep understanding of biology would make sense as seen with the coffin in chapter 0 also how his body is very abnormal with his blood seemingly having healing abilities and his high resistance to heat. So I would like to think that the doctor is ancient like Kaltsit but is always meant to be a tacication at heart. I'm gonna use Lostbelt 3 from FGO as an example, the doctor is only awaken whenever someone or something needs his tactics and that would be the core of his person, how he achieves the goal will be different.

[@witherstorm3101]

Somewhat having the same thoughts here. I personally think the doctor is a human like us just genetically modified so that they aren’t “pure” human like the Spartans from halo or space marine from warhammer40k

[@APsupportsTerrorism]

There's also other characters that are long-lived. We just saw the High Priest, who seems to have a similar lifeline as Kal'tsit. I don't really get the AUS-Aegir-Abyssal-Seaborne story going on, but some of them are apparently immortal as well.

[@APsupportsTerrorism]

I also hope we get Vigilo soon. My impression of PRTS was that scene happened before Kal'tsit. As in, the Doctor has been in the sarcophagus numerous times. The story dialogue seemed to suggest that scene was a separate incident from when Kal'tsit put Doctor in there. But maybe that was just my interpretation of it.

[@arknarch3298]

My theory that dokutah is an artificial and advanced human but the creators that was making him weren't able to modify his life span hence why they use the sarcophagus and they were prob made to reduce the loss of soldiers in some war (sanity system and also explains why his race/not really is nowhere to be seen due to some extreme war or sorts) so his original form is the same thing, he cannot revert to his original state(primal) cause he is made artificially (might also explain why warfarin isnt allowed to extract our blood),and he was prob made to be a commander/strategist due to his blood's healing properties and abilities (this is also prob the same for priestess) Also please dont mind my crap english

[@prontgamer2294]

Let’s wait for Vigilo mini event caz it’s all about the Doctor it’s gonna be really interesting to read

[@kenkaneki3873]

I still consider the possibility that Dokutah could be a human but due to the nature of Terra itself "normal" human properties become abnormal and enhanced on Terra. It would also explain why he constantly wears his protective suit and rarely takes it off, because while some aspects of his biology changed, humans are fundamentally not able to adapt to Terra fully, hence him having to wear the suit while exposed to the outside world.

[@ginadihutama7109]

but then how about team rainbow that are human as well

[@yulwu6758]

@@ginadihutama7109 they are from another world, isekaied here

[@wyveriusblackfire3834]

Actually, I think Priestess wasn't actually from the Rhodes Island of today. I forget which event, but Theresa actually pulled the name Rhodes Island from PRTS' older files, so that image could be from a long time ago.

[@wyveriusblackfire3834]

It's not the strongest evidence, but there's also a couple dialogue lines from Saria implying the Doctor is from a bygone era as well.

[@inciacci549]

@@wyveriusblackfire3834 I think Saria was just commenting how Doc's strategies can appear simple yet somehow effective. Maybe it's a remnant from old Doc's way of just haphazardly throwing the lives of operators at problems.

[@wyveriusblackfire3834]

@@inciacci549 1st: Saria literally asks: What era do you stem from? 2nd: The Doctor never haphazardly threw away the lives of their Operators. The only support for this idea is reading way too much into a line from Scout and a line from an unreliable narrator like W. It is nonsensical that the Doctor would be trusted by anyone should they have such a past and Vigilo condemns the idea even more when Doctor commends Scout when he fails an objective but retreats without casualties. He also tries to convince Theresa to spare the man who attacked him. These are not the actions of a man who "Haphazardly throws the lives of Operators at problems."

[@bernkastelfrederica5952]

@@inciacci549 People still believe that random ass pre-amnesia edgy doctor? The doctor is probably like Aizen/Otto or basically anyone that is slimy and sly, but is well aware of how important comradery and relationship are. They'd betray you in a heartbeat if needed, but they won't go out of their way to kill you for no reason. The doctor is probably that, he has no qualms about using his minion's lives for victory, but he wouldn't do it if he didn't need to. Which makes him still trustworthy and yet also ruthless enough to be able to gain the reputation he used to have. *Ahem*Or, really. Just like any other famous tactician of that past.*Ahem*

[@rafaelmartinez9259]

4:11 Actually... The Vigilo event shows that the doctor was always a good person...and from in-game evidence and game preview trailers, Theresa sacrificed herself through the doctors hands for some kind of plan, so the doctor doesn't actually have any past transgressions to answer for, from the looks of things.

[@rafaelmartinez9259]

Nvm, I was only 50 percent correct, the doctor did... do a certain thing, kinda, but he didn't want to.

[@tonycallme3667]

I'm like 90% sure Arknights as a whole is a simulation, a world created by a certain godly individual...

[@salhb737tm2]

Fucking azathoth again

[@m_imran7957]

What if doctor is something biologically artificial and sarcophagus was created for him. Back in chap 8 doctor remember the scenery before he went into sarcophagus, it sound like people in panic and they choose him to go in instead of other state that he someone important. In mudrock side story( the mini event) she said to her comrades the strongest caster is still human so theoretically before terra there are 3 race: human, sankta(angel) and sarkaz(demon). About the evolution of other race from their primal state could be cause by human mistake ,we don't know so far the oldest people in terra we know who might know the truth are high priest, emperor and kaltsit. In originium dust event, ranger say Blitz( fix if im wrong) said that he speak using victorian old language. So there's a possibility that human exist in past

[@Draizer_Azarus]

Terra: No hooman has ever exist and never will R6: AMERICAAA FUK YEAA 🤣🤣🤣

[@adelleinne]

probably Amiya might have the genetic makeup of that humanoid girl which make them look a bit similar, could explain why she can be healed by doktah's blood.

[@wattozzchimera1956]

Nice video. I hope KZbin bless you for your KZbin career and i think you should get a better mic or practice a better voice because your voice sounds a bit idk rusty? Overall , good luck

[@Amnicistaken]

thanks! I have a little bit of a problem with my voice tones but I'll try to improve however much I can on it in future videos

[@shirohanabusa2775]

Okay now that begs the question. If the sarcophagus somehow turns normal terrans back to a more primal state. What would happen to a sankta if were to be affected by the sarcophagus? Would it be just an angel?

[@paperbag7137]

looking forward to you making shit like this very fun to watch

[@maniacmohawk5513]

Personally I like to think that the doctor it’s like noble 6 from halo reach, we know nothing about them and yet they’re one of the most influential persons in their respective story, I hope doc doesn’t commit a “lone wolf” Btw the doctor actually changed to “worst” physically speaking after the sarcophagus, if we compare doc hand waking up with priestess and Amiya, we can see he isn’t in the best condition

[@DragonKnight90001]

Final mission: last stand, objective; …….. survive and take as many of them with you

[@charlzleeramos3308]

I have a theory that doctor is somehow the literal key for oripathy cure. In vigilo Kal'tsit used some blood of doctor to Mend amiya's art usage because amiya took one of her rings and overused her arts. And wafarin also qouted "Doctor's blood is different" thus hungering for doc's blood. Maybe in the final end of arknights doc will have an unique ability.

[@insanebruh9678]

He can breed every operators, that's definitely his very useful power😳

[@charlzleeramos3308]

@@insanebruh9678 No he cannot. He is a "Mother type character" which means he's unfuckable. If he isn't, he can't with his physical condition, one plap one crack.

[@myonwontstfu]

Honestly think them making doktah the "normal human" as we know it would be pretty boring and hope it won't be the case. I'm already hooman irl at least let my self insert be something else lel. I liked the vid, just to add. Weird there's so little attention to it Also I think some artworks there are clearly trying to make us think of Priestess and Amiya as somewhat similar role characters, as they get interchanged.

[@Amnicistaken]

true that, personally hope the dokutah is secretly nyarlathotep or something and just forgot about it due to his amnesia lol. and I can see why they put them together. Not only because if you remove Amiya's bunny ears and age her a little, she kinda resembles Priestess, but also because both of them have huge lore significance and aren't shy about their close connection to the dokutah. (ok well maybe amiya is). Still think it's way too early to tell what's her actual role but headcanon "Priestess is the real wife" is full sails ahead. but glad you liked the vid and thanks for watching, the algo decided to let me win the gacha and recommended it to everyone for the past few weeks so it's definitely getting more attention. and thanks to everyone else who watched as well

[@yulwu6758]

i always think its pretty cool, considering doctor would be the only human being in a furry world. Not bad for self-insert

[@skysound3928]

I like the little jokes in the video makes it refreshing amd not just straight facts and all that

[@shireii8764]

Spoiler dokutah is actually gudao from fgo, dancho from gbf , sensei from blue archive , ceo from counterside , shikikan from azur lane and more

[@user-vd7pd4lc5f]

A from Lobotomy corporation (this is not gacha, but they are very similar)

[@imsleepy6114]

And Gaeul’s teach in Counterside xD

[@leanTheDumb]

Captain from Honkai impact

[@hiramzen]

the protagnist multiverse thickens

[@Nyx_9C43]

then he gets bored playing as the mysterious character, splits into 2 and goes to genshin universe

[@alexanderwang540]

Personal theory, Doctor might be doppelganger. This could explain why the bloke has no gender as the race would be able to shapeshift. Their blood could be unique due to being genetically versatile to the point of really healing anybody, and could also be the reason why the Doctor is the only individual that can use the Sarcophagus without any brutal side effects because shapeshifters could just turn back. Their title: Evil Spirit of Babel, can loosely link to traditions and stories which refer doppelgangers as as spiritually evil twins that bring misfortune.

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@arcmoon2567]

And what if Kal pog was actually not a feline ? She's extremely old, she knows you and the sarcophagus (and Priestess too i think) , And we know that it's possible to hide your true race (Sora being both a vulpo and cautus but not being a vulpo nor a cautus ) so maybe Kal tsit is also from the doctor race or at least related to that race more than we think.

[@IFhiun]

The past is the past, the present is now, the future will happen in the future, so doctors in the past, present and future are different, everything can change at any time. And because the doctor's memory loss causes significant changes in a small amount of time, if his memory recovers of course he will change too, but with his experience during memory loss, His experience on Rhodes Island together will he remain who he was in the past or change it depends on who determines it, experience can change a person's character, Even though it's short, happiness is a special memory compared to other memories, so even though it's short, it can change something.

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@psepsi3865]

Loved the video even tho I'm new in the game But still great theory Imma sub for more

[@lethalshed2272]

dokutah might be one of the last humans in terra idk a lost race and he is one of the few survivors for my theory the doctor is a human

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@naragami]

Priestess...., PRTS coincidence...??? I don't think so

[@savathunthejudge914]

For the title answer. A timelord

[@DELTA-Gacha-Addict]

We all know the identity on our Doctor is Sovereign of Dawn

[@TheNapster153]

Bondrewd pre-insanity is really interesting

[@madmat8306]

Whatever it is i just hope it's not the one where the dokutah is a clone

[@spartanalex9006]

Hmm, a highly competent mystery man with little to no backstory, is distrusted by many, and has weird properties in his biology. Obviously he's Alpharius.

[@alxndrmzksm8387]

I didn't expect a WH40K reference to be here

[@spartanalex9006]

@@alxndrmzksm8387 Expect the unexpected.

[@wellethanrealinodemetria631]

hello alpharius

[@lucasstanciu3549]

Bro desperately tried not to cite the "demons" in the end of the video

[@pascalel2512]

Or maybe the dokutah races is just normal human being and the reason why dokutah races is gone cus well human, human will always some time go to war and killed off all of their races and then giving all the animal time to evolve

[@britishneko3906]

who is Dokutah? a guy with too much computation and depression

[@emmaoneill8717]

i think the doctor race is Lung (Eastern dragon )or a chimeara maybe an oni Possibly the Doctor race was rare blood with healing techniques plus leaving us last of are kind

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@sw4gsmile595]

pre amnesia doc: Im the Doctor post amenesia doc: hes the doctor not me you got the wrong guy im just here for sight seeing

[@Emirwilliamhenry4923]

Ah the gigachad human race

[@SanarySeggnete]

11:53 The Dokutah is also the Administrator lol

[@LeoSagitta]

Rhodes Island is the "ARK" and operator is "KNIGHTS" in Arknights i know this is a stretch since they shares the same K Rhodes Island is self independent walking fortress around terra, Doctor is like NOAH and what aboard the ark is operator from all races probably to avoid catastrophe

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@ularkurma]

Oh boy,the real lore just dropped

[@perzap4711]

sometimes I think the doctor is the isekai caption MTF alpha-1

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@rhodesislandpharmaceutical795]

I love Priestess

[@YaminoSeigi]

Dokutah is probably one of the few pureblooded human gifted with special powers akin to Hakuoro from Utawarerumono

[@Crelter]

chapter 11, doctor is confirmed to be one of the ancient races in terra

[@diegodiaz8276]

So basically, a real human who began immortal

[@justbot4140]

Nice

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

5:10 Okay, but who the hell putted a vampire in blood drawing duty?

[@SoundGuideline]

She's a medic and a pretty respected one, she can control herself, but Doctor's blood having such effect on her was probably unexpected by everyone as it's usually Kal'tsit who's the one responsible for everything related to Doctor's health.

[@user-jj4qy6ew4o]

Timelord !

[@hayamie3905]

imagine if dokutah is the real enemy ( just imagine :b )

[@rafaelmartinez9259]

The Vigilo event says otherwise.

[@FzSptn]

Damn, doctor is living fossil too?

[@bruhmoment7572]

Yes

[@fastranger]

the doctor is VR46

[@svolozhanin7627]

The Doktah is you, obviously, and what are you?

[@ZeroRequiemDX]

A gacha monster.

[@minhle-qd8qf]

A nobody 😦

[@Gigachimp]

Doktah

[@skulldozer1462]

A Tank

[@SoundGuideline]

A disco-cyborg.

[@toorpin3595]

The doctor is me

[@dzikenspolska2989]

endfield is not from future but past terra meybe?

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

I agree on the ancient race thing but i like to think aegirians are the closest to doktah race also something said by qaiser about arknights cathulu what if we are part of a eldritch race (also my doktah is female so two lesbian ancients lol) priestess true wife

[@durandol]

Better question, WHY is the doctor?

[@AdhwaSimple]

its DokTaH

[@TheDoctorFromArknights]

Ya mum

[@Inarimiko]

Who was*