Catherine Endicott

From Relativespace

Catherine Endicott is a fictional character in the [Relative Space] RPG. Catherine was formerly known as the Rani, and is a renegade Time Lord and convicted criminal, exiled by her own people.

Catherine is written by Violet. The PB for version 1.0 was Lisa Snowdon; the PB for version 2.0 is Gillian Anderson. Catherine Endicott is Violet's creation; however, the Rani is the intellectual property of the BBC and the producers and writers of Doctor Who.

Catherine version 1.0

Contents 1 Basic Character Information 1.1 Entry Point 1.2 Physical Description 1.3 Personality 2 History 3 Additional Information 3.1 Random Facts 3.2 OOC-only Character Information

Basic Character Information

Entry Point

Catherine is post-canon. When she entered the game she was two regenerations past her last canon appearance in Time and the Rani.

Physical Description

Five feet, three inches. Slender but not at all overly skinny; curves in all the right places. Ginger. Fair-skinned, and freckled. Blue eyes.

In her first incarnation in Relative Space, Catherine was five feet, ten inches, brunette, brown-eyed, medium-complected, and very slender for her height.

Personality

The initial version of Catherine was cold, remote, haughty, impatient, manipulative, and had a difficult time seeing past herself. She was calculating and willing to play people to her own benefit, whether it was to garner information or charm someone into taking her side in something. She did genuinely respect Mike Norton and had no small affection for him but she was completely unwilling to show any sign of it, believing that those sorts of things made one vulnerable and clouded one's judgment.

The Catherine Relative Space characters first met had been softened from her original self by her association with Mike, and would wind up losing a few more of her rough edges with her unexpected relationship with the Fifth Doctor.

After her regeneration, due to what she believes is imprinting from the Fifth Doctor, Catherine is somewhat more good-natured. She readily shows affection to those she's closest to and concern for others. She is slightly more patient and tactful than before, though her language, particularly when mad or insulting, has taken a turn for the worse.

What remained constant from one incarnation to the next is her intelligence, resolve, fearlessness, ambition, competitiveness, and determination to get her own way the best way she knows how. She still has a quick temper, sharp tongue, and very high opinion of herself.

History

After her last canon appearance the Rani continued on in much the same vein as she always had, travelling through time and space and taking advantage of people and situations to further her scientific research. Many of her experiments went unnoticed; for those that did and had bad outcomes, she generally managed to stay one step ahead of the Time Lords.

An experiment at the request of the government of the C5-Z54 binary system would prove to be her undoing. Changes made to the genetic code of the humanoid inhabitants of that system were meant to increase the power of their military by making its members more resistant to pain and giving them more stamina. An unforeseen mutation in the genes, amplified through reproduction, led to a generation of children born without the ability to feel pain or fatigue. When children across three planets began dying due to the lack of these necessary abilities, the Time Lords put the Rani on trial for crimes against lesser species and homicide by gross negligence. She was convicted, and sentenced to exile for an indeterminate term, possibly for the rest of her lives.

She was forced to regenerate, and dropped off in London in 1987. Her TARDIS was more than just disabled, it was made dormant, and the connection between him and her broken. Her memory was selectively erased in order to keep her from planning any sort of escape. The High Council made no arrangements for her life on Earth other than to stipulate that any experimentation be done on willing subjects and with the aim of improving life for the planet's inhabitants; she decided it was in her best interest to lie low and pretend to be a native. To that end she stole the identity of Catherine Endicott, an infant who had died in a house fire some years previous. She set herself up as a biochemist and also quickly became an expert in computers and telecommunications.

In 1990 she moved to San Francisco, purchased a house on Cole Street near Golden Gate Park, and leased the offices that would become the worldwide headquarters of Decadyne Enterprises. What started out as a loose association of scientists and tech geeks swiftly grew into a successful and profitable multi-national corporation whose research and products benefitted millions worldwide. Catherine retained control of the company but also kept her position as chief research scientist.

In 1998 an intern named Mike Norton landed a full-time position after completely re-coding one of the company's flagship products. Taking note of his brilliance, Catherine mentored him and soon made him her trusted assistant, assigning him work on "salvage" suspected to be alien technology. These items were in fact harvested from her dormant TARDIS; with her memory gutted Catherine was unable to remember what their functions were or how to restart her TARDIS. Assuming that her exile to Earth would be permanent, Catherine turned her back on what she could remember of her life as a Time Lord, and began to consider herself human. To this day she becomes greatly annoyed when referred to as "The Rani."

She received a communicator when Protocol Twelve-dash-Seven was activated. She chose to maintain her masquerade as a human scientist until she was discovered by the Tenth Doctor and outed to the rest of the group. This made things even more difficult than they already had been, particularly with Mike, who felt betrayed at finding out his mentor was a convicted mass murderer; and with the Fifth Doctor, whom she had more or less begun dating without ever telling him who she really was.

She was forced to regenerate after a violent attack by the Master. She had stabbed him to thwart his plans to steal the Fifth Doctor's remaining regenerations; he retaliated by fatally injuring her. This incident only served to strengthen the bond between Catherine and the Fifth Doctor.

She willingly offered her TARDIS for The Tenth Doctor's (alt) and Reinette's use once Chuck revived it. She was instrumental in having the Zero Room reinstalled in the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS, after convincing Mike to calculate block transfer calculations--a talent she fears may have caused the Master to take an interest in him, leading to his abduction. The Master later murdered Mike, completely crushing Catherine.

At the same time, she was lured into her former TARDIS and taken prisoner by the Tenth Doctor (alt). He intended to drop her off on an uninhabited planet to keep her from harming anyone else and to keep the rest of the group safe. He was convinced of Catherine's reformation and set her free instead. Because of this abduction Catherine missed out on most of the events surrounding the Time Bubble initiated by Dalek Sec.

Shortly after the Time Bubble was eliminated Mike turned up again, from further back in his own timeline than his death. Defying any rules or potential paradoxes, Catherine brought him to the present. He was with her when she discovered the Eiffel Tower had vanished, and rescued her, briefly, from the Mara which had possessed the Fifth Doctor. During that time Catherine and Mike became lovers.

Additional Information

Random Facts

• Proper Gallifreyan name: Ushasalrosaithagothetham
• Catherine attended the Academy with The Doctor and The Master. According to their memories she barely tolerated their presences there; she has hinted more recently that she may have been secretly fond of the Doctor and unable to cope with the Master's tendency toward theatrics.
• Catherine believes that part of the reason she has been dealt with so harshly by the High Council--banishment from Gallifrey for the mouse experiment in her youth and exile to Earth after her conviction--is the lower esteem in which the few women on Gallifrey are held by the males, particularly men in power. She bristles at any suggestion that a woman is being taken advantage of or bullied by man, such as her immediate defence of Rose Tyler (alt 01) in the face of her father's arrival.
• Until the Fifth Doctor came along Catherine viewed Mike as her only family. She has worked to help him better himself through education and professional opportunities. She feels responsible for him, knowing he has no other family, and she loves him very deeply. After her in-game regeneration that love took on a more romantic bent.
• Two years ago Decadyne bought out a rival company. There was a huge party to celebrate the acquisition. The alcohol flowed freely, and for once, even their CEO took advantage. Office scuttlebutt suggests the open bar might not have been the only thing she took advantage of that night, once she helped her very drunk young assistant back to his place, but everyone was far too scared of Catherine to ask either her or Mike about it.
• Catherine suspects the reason other Time Lords were unable to sense her existence in the universe is linked to the death, more or less, of her TARDIS.
• She offered to go home and fight in the Time War, but she was rebuffed. Until the communicator turned up she believed herself to be the last surviving Time Lord, which also contributed to her view of herself as an Earthling more than a Gallifreyan.

OOC-only Character Information

• Catherine is making a good show of the whole "we can't live our lives based on what might happen" routine for her Doctor's sake, but inside she's completely guilt-ridden over Mike having been murdered by the Master. She feels she put him in danger by making it known that he was capable of block-transfer calculations.
• She is completely weirded out by her relationship with the Doctor. She loves him, without question, but is annoyed with herself for letting him get the best of her. She also lives in abject fear that he's going to change his mind about the whole thing at some point, which is why she's been working so hard to hide the remaining personality traits she thinks he might object to. She's also worried he'll figure out that the whole thing started because she was trying to manipulate him into helping her but it quickly backfired on her when she found herself trusting him and being attracted to him halfway through that first conversation over tea.
• The office scuttlebutt from two years ago? Totally true. One time only, never happened again; in fact, Catherine never even spoke of it or acknowledged it happened at all. This is most likely the source of that mad crush Mike had on her in the start of the game.
• Deep down inside she actually enjoyed knowing the things her company did helped people, but she's not bloody likely to ever admit to it.
• The aftermath of the experiment that led to her conviction and exile actually shook her, deeply. For once she actually regretted what she had done and had tried to start work on countermeasures but she was arrested before she really had a chance. She's even less likely to admit that she was sorry than she is to admit she sort of liked helping Earth people.
• Flirted with Rassilon because, srsly, he's the most powerful Time Lord ever, and she had to prove to herself that she could hold her own with him. Actually, Catherine tends to approach most interactions, at least initially, with males by flirting. She thinks it tips the balance of power in the interaction to her side.