Name:
Omo Esosa
Species:
Human
Place of Origin:
Nigeria
Father:
Adétòkunbo Esosa
Mother:
Omo Esosa’s mother
Pet:
Bingo
First Appearance:
Missing
Other Appearances:
What I Did On My Holidays By Omo Esosa
The Story & the Engine
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Omo Esosa was a resident of Lagos in Nigeria. The son of a barber, Omo enjoyed spending time at his father’s barbershop listening to stories and listening to musicians like Fela Kuti. He met the Fifteenth Doctor at the age of eleven.
When he was 63 years old, Esosa went missing, and was featured on a missing poster alongside three others who were also missing.
CHILDHOOD
Omo Esosa was born in 1954, and lived in Lagos State, Nigeria, attending Class 2G of St Cathrine Missionary Primary School in 1965. He had a dog named Bingo, and was friends with Jide and Antonia.
In that year, Omo was sent to spend the holidays with his grandparents in Etsako, which was in Edo State, a seven-hour drive from Lagos, despite his protests that he would rather stay in the city. In Etsako, Omo learned from his Granddad that fake soldiers were guarding the river for an unknown reason. Omo met and befriended a girl called Blue, helping her over the course of eight days uproot a fence put up by the guards so they could more easily reach the river to get water. There, they discovered the generator for an oil drilling operation, and sabotaged it by putting stones in it, which caused the generator to explode.
Omo was separated from Blue in the explosion, and found her injured. The Fifteenth Doctor had also found her, and explained to Omo that he could help her, but they also had to stop the forest fire caused by the explosion. The Doctor sent Omo back to the village to get help. As the villagers struggled to halt the flames with a bucket line, The Doctor appeared, flying his TARDIS over the fire while spraying water from a hose. Afterwards, Omo found The Doctor throwing pre-oxygenated seeds on the ground to help restore the forest. He told Omo that Blue was safely sleeping in her bed, and asked where to go to find answers. Omo told The Doctor to come to his father’s barbershop in Lagos.
On 23 August, back in school, Omo wrote an essay on his encounter with The Doctor. (What I Did On My Holidays By Omo Esosa)
DISAPPEARANCE
A missing person poster was made featuring Esosa alongside three other individuals: Tunde Adebayo, Obioma Okoli, and Rashid Abubakar. According to the poster, he was male and was 63 years old. (Missing) This was because he had become trapped in his barbershop by The Barber and was being forced to tell stories in order to power the Story Engine. Hoping that The Doctor would come to rescue him, he was relieved when The Doctor arrived, and tried to tell him how the stories were used. He watched The Doctor confront The Barber, before he was allowed to then escape from the shop when The Barber released his captives upon the Engine’s destruction. Back on the streets of Lagos, he forgave the Barber for his actions, giving him the shop permanently alongside a proper name, Adétòkunbo, after his own father. (The Story & the Engine)