Dr. Owen Harper
Legacy Name: Dr. Owen Harper

Self-written Obituary

History
Born 14th February 1980, Owen Harper had a difficult relationship with his mother, so much that on his tenth birthday his mother declared that she did not have to like him, only love him. He does not appear to have been close to his father, either, though apparently both parents were still alive at the time of Owen's death.

In his early twenties and already a doctor, Owen was engaged to Katie Russell, who unknown to both them had an alien parasite in her brain. Though Owen did not understand this, both knew that she had a degenerative neurological condition. Before Jack Harkness arrived on the scene, the alien inside had killed the surgical team which had removed the top of her skull in surgery. Jack Harkness appeared, explained and left the scene with Katie's body, then, after which time Owen had told a disbelieved story about aliens, re-appeared and offered him a job with Torchwood Three. Owen reluctantly accepted.

"Life" at Torchwood
Owen was shot and killed by Aaron Copley, the director of the Pharm, who was in turn killed by Capt. Jack Harkness. Prior to his autopsy by Martha Jones, Jack used the second resurrection gauntlet to temporarily restore Owen to life. Although it was assumed that he would only regain consciousness for two minutes before dying forever (per how the first gauntlet worked), for reasons unknown Owen remained conscious, having been returned to a state of partial life.
Although once again conscious and sentient, Owen Harper, post-death, found he had limited bodily functions. His wounds would not heal, he could not breathe (or blow air) and he couldn't sleep. He could ingest liquids and food, but he had no sense of taste and this material did not digest and needed to be removed or somehow expelled from his body. His lack of blood flow also rendered it impossible for Owen to engage in sexual activity. Painful stimuli did not hurt, but if his body was injured it would not heal.
Due to his inability to heal, Jack was initially hesitant to allow Owen to take part in regular operations again, and in fact was forced to demote him to "tea boy" at one point, but soon Owen was back out in the field. His lack of breathing and other bodily functions proved useful to the team, such as when he was able to circumvent a heat-based alarm system and it also on at least two occasions allowed him to avoid further damage at the hands of Rift-based creatures who found him unpalatable and confusing. Owen, being a Doctor, was distressed at being unable to perform artificial respiration on a dying man due to his inability to expel breath, though by telling his tale to a suicidal woman, he was able to prevent her from throwing herself off a building.
Owen coped with his self-pity and managed to pull himself together enough to go back to work and to carry on, which included a deepening, if somewhat strained, friendship with Toshiko Sato, the teammate who had been harboring an infatuation with him since his arrival at Torchwood.

Credits & Other
Story edited fromTardis Index File
Characters, Universe, etc owned by BBC
Owen's story with Torchwood does not end here, but this is where my character is in his life, what would I be able to do with him if he was Dead-Dead? Shh, don't tell him he's going to die in a nuclear reactor.