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Original Sin
(Andy
Lane) |
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 Name: Roslyn 'Roz' Forrester.
Format:
Book.
Time of Origin: 30th Century.
Appearances:
Original
Sin -
So
Vile a Sin,
Cold
Fusion and Oblivion.
Doctor:
Fifth
Doctor and Seventh
Doctor.
Fellow Companions:
The
Brigadier, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Jovanka, Melanie
Bush, Ace, Bernice
Summerfield and Chris Cwej.
History:
An Adjudacator - a sort of futuristic policeman - from the 30th century,
Roz remains a rarity in The Doctor's history as one of only two
black
companions along with Anji, not meaning to be racist. Roz and her
partner, Chris Cwej, were investigating apparently motiveless murders,
with their apparently prime suspects being The Doctor and his companion
Benny,
according to mind probing of a murderer's mind. However, after finding
The Doctor and Benny, it turned out that The Doctor's voice was actually
the voice of another Doctor. The murderers were all being committed
by people who had followed the newest craze - 'body-bepping', where
a body was genetically altered, and their minds were then controlled.
The entire thing was masterminded by the Second
Doctor's old enemy Tobias Vaughan, whose mind had been transferred
into a robot's body after the Cybermen
betrayed him, and ever since, he had been utterly, utterly angry
at all aliens. However, The Doctor stopped Vaughan by trapping him
in
the TARDIS
and destroying his body, since Vaughan couldn't reach another body
in the TARDIS. However, by now Roz and Chris had been branded as
rouge
Adjudicators, so had to travel with The Doctor to stay safe.
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Just War
(Lance Parkin) |
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Roz was
highly cynical and also xenophobic, mainly because of her former partner
Martle's death at the hands of an alien, and also no-nonsense, bold and strong,
and didn't take crap from anyone. She and Chris held a very special bond,
occasionally bordering on romantic but non-sexual (though the latter was not
necessarily by their own choice). Roz became The Doctor's protector and
guardian on occasion, but was caught by her own human frailties as she realized
that she sometimes wasn't as strong as she thought she was - on her first
adventure in the TARDIS, (Sky
Pirates!) she and Chris were captured and forced to work as slaves on a
planet known only as Planet X, in a pocket dimension that obeyed a different
set of physical laws, and it took her until her third adventure with The Doctor
(Zampar)
to fully adapt to her new life as a time traveller.
However,
Roz should not be thought to be unable to cope with her new life. In 'Head
Games',
she managed to save The Doctor, Benny, and The Doctor's
old companion Mel from The Doctor's fictional counterpart, Dr. Who, and
Dr. Who's companion Jason, all
on her own, even though she failed to permanently defeat
them. She has also managed to hold her own against the Sontarans and the
Rutans at the same time
in 'Shakedown'.
and destroyed, all by herself, a stealth bomber that could
have helped the Nazis win World War Two in 'Just
War'. She has still retained her policeman side, as best shown in 'Happy
Endings' when she investigated the presence of the illegal chemical
Bloom at Benny's wedding with Sherlock Holmes, Chris having been hypnotised
by The Master to ignore the odd events. However, Roz still has a slightly
vicious
streak, once almost killing a man whom she believed to be
Abraham Lincoln's father, hoping that by killing him she'd cause a temporal
paradox to let The Doctor know where she was. (Christmas
on a Rational Planet) The Doctor stopped her, but he was still angry
with Roz for almost killing an innocent man.
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So Vile a Sin
(Ben Aaronovitch &
Kate Orman) |
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Shortly
after this, Roz had one of her most interesting adventures - an adventure where
she met another Doctor. The Seventh
Doctor's TARDIS materialized on another
planet only a short while before the
Fifth
Doctor's did as well, resulting in a rather tangled battle. An early
Gallifreyian time travel capsule, referred to throughout as simply 'the
Machine,' had been found by a human named Whitfield, whose use of it caused a
breakthrough into an alternate Universe where Gallifrey was destroyed millions
of years ago, and the Time Lords were wielders of magic known as the Ferutu.
The Seventh Doctor had arrived on the ice planet where the Ferutu had arrived,
and while Chris attempted to meet the resistance leader, Adam, Roz and The Doctor tried to hold back Medford, an agent of an organization known as
Unitatus, a descendant organisation of UNIT, believing that The Doctor was the
scout for an alien invasion of the Earth Empire. When the Fifth Doctor showed
up, he met the newly regenerated pilot of the Machine, a Gallifreyian whom Tegan
Jovanka nicknamed 'Patience', the last of the womb-born on Gallifrey, following
the Pythia's Curse. Eventually, the Fifth Doctor and Patience managed to launch
the Machine away, but Medford killed Patience by destroying the back of her
brain, and would have done the same for the Fifth Doctor if the Seventh Doctor,
Roz and Adric hadn't distracted Medford long enough for the Fifth to take him
out. The Seventh Doctor then tricked the Ferutu into destroying their entire
history, and the few left were permanently trapped in a chalk circle. As the
two Doctors left, the Fifth was left appalled at his glimpse of his future
self, someone capable of callously tricking the Ferutu into destroying their
entire Universe.
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Cold Fusion
(Lance
Parkin) |
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Roz's
final adventure was back in around her home time, at a point when her family
were high-up in society and very respected. The
situation didn't seem too difficult at first - just something
found that shouldn't have been found. However, Roz was warned by an alternate
version of
the Third Doctor, who never left Earth after his exile ended,
that the situation had gotten out of hand. At this point a student was
transformed into
a possible Doctor due to a reality explosion caused by the
destruction of an ancient TARDIS. Meanwhile, any people with psychic powers
were being turned
into monsters by the Duke Armand, attempting to take over
the throne of the planet Iphigenia with the aid of an organisation known
as the Brotherhood, one
member being The Doctor's new alternate self. The double
died since that Doctor didn't exist in this Universe, but did manage to
warn The Doctor of the
Brotherhood's plans before he died. The Brotherhood intended
to alter reality and give every human in the Universe psychic powers, but
there were so many
possible alternates that they needed The Doctor's help to
control them all. However, The Doctor was saved by a psychic version of
Chris, but Roz then got
involved in a fight to avenge the death of one of her cousins.
Meanwhile Chris and an alternate Doctor hid the real one and attacked the
Grandmaster - a force
that believed human psis could only protect themselves in
numbers, and wanted to make the entire human race psychic. However, the
alternate Doctor then
triggered a mass of reality explosions, causing all the
Grandmaster's bodies to die. However, Roz was participating in an attack
on a heavily defended dome at
the time, and, before The Doctor could save her, she was
killed in the attack. The Doctor almost broke down after he had a heart
attack at Roz's funeral and
had a vision of Death, but he eventually realized that,
despite his best
efforts, Roz wrote the last chapter of her life by herself, and now
it's up to him to decide what will happen next to him. |
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