Editing Steven Reynart

{{Infobox Individual
|image             = Steven Reynart.png
|species           = Human
|father            = Michael Reynart
|origin            = [[England]], [[Earth]]
|only              = The Iytean Menace (game)
}}
'''Steven Reynart''' was a precocious teenager from the [[26th century]] who became a [[companion]] to the [[Time Lord]]&nbsp;[[Rollo]].

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Steven was born on [[Earth]] in [[2587]], the son of the "noted archaeologist and historian" [[Michael Reynart]]. He was a child prodigy who, by the time he turned [[15 (number)|15]], had earned "earned the equivalent of four college degrees" and had an extensive knowledge of Earth history and archeeology besides. 

One day, the [[Time Lord]] accidentally materialised [[Rollo's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] at Michael Rynart's archageological digs in [[Old Sydney]]. Having gleaned from a few offhand references that he was looking at a time-traveller, the ever-curious Steven took his chance and stowed away on the space-time vessel, remaining his [[companion]] thereafter. 

On one of their shared adventures, [[Time Lord]]s [[Rollo]] and [[Volusa]] intervened in a [[Sontaran]] incursion in the [[1800s]]. Though the Sontarans had killed almost the entire crew of a [[Royal Navy]] [[sloop]], there was one survivor, none other than David Smythe, whom they rescued; with his help, they were able to defeat the aliens. Smythe and Volusa developed a mutual infatuation, and Smythe stowed away on [[Rollo's TARDIS]] after the adventure was done, subsequently becoming a [[companion]] to Rollo in earnest and increasingly proving to be "the perfect match" for Volusa despite — or rather thanks to — both young men's abrasive personalities. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

=== The Iytean investigation ===
On one occasion, [[Rollo]] and his [[companion]]s were summoned to [[Gallifrey]] to be briefed by Lady [[Rowella]] about a new assignment. The discovery of an [[energy weapon]] on [[1980s]] [[Earth]] as an heirloom from its [[Alan Fraser|human owner]]'s Victorian ancestor [[Colonel]] [[Malcolm Fraser]] had the Invasion worried about alien, and potentially time-active, activity in [[1885]] [[London]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedep=The Summons}})

There, they discovered that Colonel Fraser had been buying a steady supply of alien artefacts from a pair of crooks called [[Jack Bannister]] and [[Bert Jenkins]], who had secretly discovered a buried [[Iytean starship]] while trying to dig a tunnel into a [[bank]] two years prior. Unbeknownst to them, the ship had been a police vessel transporting an [[Iytean]] criminal. With the Iyteans being [[symbiont]]s, the criminal had hitched a ride in Jenkins's body then transferred itself to Fraser's acquaintance [[Doctor]] [[Henry Jellicoe]], causing him to periodically lose control of his body and adopt the malevolent persona of "[[Ned Hines]]". With the help of the Colonel's granddaughter [[Julia Fraser]], and that of [[Thomas Carruthers]], the son of his old friend [[Sir]] [[Reginald Carruthers]] (who had been murdered by Hines), the time-travellers were able to unravel the mystery and eventually neutralise the Iytean as well as ensure the starship would not be rediscovered and thereby derail Earth history any further. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})

Before leaving 1885, Rollo went on one last outing in the city, and had lunch with a writer called [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], telling him about the adventure. It was only when he returned to the TARDIS and told [[Verika]], another one of his companions, about the encounter that he learned he had just inspired Stevenson to write ''[[The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]''. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedep=The Hunters Home From the Hill}})

== Psychological profile ==
=== Personality ===
Steven was talkative and "insatiably curious", interested in knowledge for its own sake. Due to his "rather sheletered upbringing" combined with his unusual intelligence, he sometimes came across as supercilious or snobbish despite himself, guilelessly "parading his knowledge before his associates" and correcting any minor error he heard them make on historical subjects. His certainty in what he had been taught led him to frequently be "slapped in the face by the reality of history" where it diverged with the accepted version of events as recorded under the [[Earth Empire]]'s dominion. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

=== Skills ===
Thanks to his ease of learning, Steven had mastered a wide variety of skills and area of knowledge by the time he turned [[15 (number)|15]]. This primarily included academic subjects Earth history and other social sciences such as economics and political science, as well as agriculture, ecology, English literature, engineering, geology, and cartography. However, he was also physically accomplished, being an expert climber and swimmer, a passable wrestler, and reasonably skilled at rudimentary construction-work and wilderness survival in both warm and cool environment. He could steer both land and water crafts competently, was a masterful player of [[chess]] and [[poker]], and also had noticeable skin at musical artistic expression, having learned to sing with a [[synbox]] for instrumental accompaniment. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

== Physical appearance ==
A "slender adolescent", Steven had short, blond hair and large hazel-coloured eyes. He usually wore a white, form-fitting jumpsuit and carried a smaii computer box on his waist. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

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