Trottla Doll -

The dolls were created by Madame Vastra, the Silurian detective in Victorian London, using her advanced knowledge of Silurian bio-technology and Earth's chemistry. She does this reluctantly as a necessary evil to combat a specific, horrific threat: the proliferation of Ganger technology.

| Feature | Trottla Doll | The Wire (from The Idiot's Lantern) | Autons (Nestene Consciousness) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Base Form | Porcelain doll | TV static / human face | Mannequin / shop dummy | | Target | Gangers (specifically) | Any human | All humans | | Method | Psychic lure & brain overwrite | Sucks out human face/consciousness | Gun hands / blunt force | | Fatality | Self-destructs after single use | Returns to a screen | Flames / disassembly | | Moral Complexity | High (kills potentially innocent beings) | Low (pure evil) | Low (alien invasion) | Trottla Doll

In the mid-20th century, as psychologists like John Bowlby and Harry Harlow were reshaping our understanding of attachment theory, a lesser-known but equally provocative experiment emerged from the UK. This was the Trottla Doll—a seemingly innocent baby doll that served as a tool to explore one of the most profound questions of human development: Is maternal bonding innate, or is it triggered by sensory feedback? The dolls were created by Madame Vastra ,

A smiling doll does not need anything. A Trottla Doll looks like it needs a hug. This triggers the child’s innate nurturing instincts. In role-play, the child becomes the comforter, not the one needing comfort. By "taking care" of the doll’s sadness (rocking it, giving it the pacifier), the child processes their own anxieties in a safe, external way. This was the Trottla Doll —a seemingly innocent