Meet Rose (short story)

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Meet Rose
Main character(s):	Rose Tyler
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T Davies
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Annual 2006
Format:	Short story
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Meet Rose was a prose story published in the 2006 Doctor Who Annual. Paired with Meet the Doctor, Meet Rose was one of two prose pieces submitted to the Annual by then-showrunner Russell T Davies.

As the title implied, it served to familiarise the readers with the character of Rose Tyler, giving a lot of detail about Rose's life prior to meeting the Doctor.

Plot

Born in mid-1987, Rose Marion Tyler soon lost her father to a car accident at a wedding on 7 November, so her mother, Jackie Tyler, had to raise Rose by herself, residing in Flat 48 of Bucknall House, in the Powell Estate. Rose had dreams of travelling, and while she didn't get far, when she was thirteen, she managed to get to France on a school trip with her "best mate", Shareen Costello — they tried to flunk off, but were caught by the police and sent home, along with their teacher, Mrs Kissock, who had to accompany them. A year later, when Rose was fourteen, she began going out with Mickey Smith, and a year after that, when she was fifteen, she was suspended from the Jericho Street Comprehensive for three days after convincing the school choir to go on strike. In September, she dumped Mickey as she had fallen in love with Jimmy Stone, and she moved into a bedsit with him, dropping out of school. It ended in heartbreak, five months later.

To repay her debt, she first began to work as a clerk in the Christmas Shop on Clifton's Parade, and six months later, Jackie pulled some strings and Rose got a job at Henrik's Department Store, and she worked hard, despite how "boring" the job was. Then, one day, her life — and Henrik's — blew up when she met the Ninth Doctor. She found that the universe was just so much larger than her mundane life, and she went off travelling with the Doctor, to

Characters

(In order of appearance)

• Rose Marion Tyler
• Rose's father
• Jacqueline "Jackie" Tyler
• Shareen Costello
• Mrs Kissock
• Noosh
• Geoff Moon
• Ninth Doctor

References

• Rose was born on 27 April 1987.
• The wedding that Rose's father died at was of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark.
  • The wedding took place outside a local church.
• The Powell Estate is located in London, SE15 7QO.
• Jackie made a living, doing hairdressing from home.
• The intended destination of the school trip was Musee de Lourve, but Rose and Shareen caught a train to Parc Asterix, where they attempted to get onto the Menhir Express.
• After the France incident, Jackie would still take Rose on holiday to Tenby on the South Wales coast every year.
• Rose's GCSEs were fairly good, as she got one A, two Bs, four Cs, and a D in science.
• Jimmy Stone was twenty years old, playing bass guitar in a local band called No Hot Ashes. He was known as "Fittest Boy" on the estate.
• After her relationship with Jimmy collapsed, Rose was left £800 in debt, and Jimmy moved to Amsterdam with a woman called Noosh in a camper van. Mickey forgave Rose.
• Jackie called in a favour from Geoff Moon, an ex, to get Rose a job at Henrik's Department Store.
  • While the job "bored her to tears", Rose felt she had a duty to pay her mother rent and "earn her way in the world."
• Sometimes, after eating chips, Rose would have to was the smell of grease out of her jeans.

Notes

• to be added

Continuity

• Rose's father was killed in a car accident. (TV: Father's Day)
• Rose was born in 1987. (TV: Father's Day, Rise of the Cybermen)
• Rose and Shareen missed out on seeing the Mona Lisa after they flunked off. (COMIC: Art Attack)
• Mickey Smith also lived in the Powell Estate. (TV: Rose, PROSE: Rose)
• Rose got into a relationship with Jimmy Stone. It didn't go well. (TV: Rose)
• Clifton's Parade is a place in London. (TV: The Parting of the Ways, Rise of the Cybermen)
• Rose worked at Henrik's. (TV: Rose, PROSE: Rose)
• The Doctor has two hearts. (PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask, TV: The Mind of Evil, et al.)