Drinking Fountain

Drinking Fountain
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Earth
First appearance:	Paradise Towers
Appearances:	WC: 24 Carat PROSE: Reclaiming Kroagnon
Main actor:	Catherine Cusack

Drinking Fountain commanded the Blue Kangs living in Paradise Towers by the time of the Paradise Towers Massacre.

Biography

As the Blue Kang Leader

Drinking Fountain as the leader of the Blue Kangs. (TV: Paradise Towers)

Drinking Fountain followed Melanie Bush and Pex throughout Paradise Towers and eventually confronted them. Mel asked her to explain who Pex was and she told the story of how he had avoided going to war by hiding aboard the Kang ship. She allowed Mel to go free but continued to taunt Pex.

Sometime later, Drinking Fountain led her Kangs into the Red Kang brainquarters and proclaimed victory over them. However, the Seventh Doctor convinced them to work together to defeat Kroagnon and Drinking Fountain went with him, Bin Liner and Fire Escape to the basement. There they watched Kroagnon use corpoelectroscopy to take over the Chief Caretaker's body. The Doctor was attacked by a cleaner but Drinking Fountain and the Red Kangs pulled him free. They then fled to Floor 304.

There they allied themselves with the Rezzies, Caretakers and Pex and attacked the cleaners. After Pex sacrificed himself to kill Kroagnon, Drinking Fountain joined in a ceremony in his honour. (TV: Paradise Towers)

Later life

An older Drinking Fountain became a businesswoman. (WC: 24 Carat)

After contacts between Paradise Towers and the rest of human society were reestablished, (PROSE: Reclaiming Kroagnon) Drinking Fountain eventually became the CEO of Blue Kang Travel, and oversaw the refurbishment of Paradise Towers, which she converted into a hotel. Decades after their first meeting, she was reunited with Melanie Bush on the set of 24 Carat, Bush's reality television series, and pitched her a business proposal to sell package holidays. She claimed that the cleaning robots now underwent rigorous safety attempts, but after she admitted that a pool attendant and a decorator had been killed in the last year, Mel rejected her proposal. (WC: 24 Carat)

As one of the surviving eyewitnesses involved in the Paradise Towers Massacre, Drinking Fountain was involved in the public controversy, decades on, over whether the Massacre had really happened and whether Kroagnon really was responsible. After security footage showed that the murderous forces had been seemingly commanded by the Chief Caretaker "rather" than Kroagnon, Drinking Fountain tried to explain corpoelectroscopy, but was widely ridiculed because the word had no recorded usage in human science, and was eventually pressured into retracting the statement. (PROSE: Reclaiming Kroagnon)

Behind the scenes

Drinking Fountain was never named on-screen in Paradise Towers, and Catherine Cusack's credit on all four episodes reads only "Blue Kang Leader". Her name was first given in Stephen Wyatt's novelisation of the story.