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Valarie Lockwood was a companion of the Eleventh Doctor.

Biography

Early life

Valarie lived at 49 Gibson Avenue on Research Rig 6 with her mother, Patricia Lockwood. Like all humans on Earth in the 54th century, she was fitted with a neural interface at the age of three and later elected to have her limbs replaced with robotic versions (AUDIO: The Inheritance) and to be fitted with a universal translator. (AUDIO: The House of Masks)

Supported by her mother, Valarie attended university (AUDIO: The Inheritance) where she met a girl named Lemon-Drop, whose name she found unfortunate. (AUDIO: The House of Masks) She went on to become a cyberneticist. (AUDIO: The Inheritance) Her father died after being hospitalised. (AUDIO: Spirit of the Season)

Valarie attended very few parties and those that she did attend were organised by the Fulcrum Corporation, having the same piped music and branded presents. She and her mother both dreamt of livelier parties. (AUDIO: The House of Masks) They hosted dinners with Daniel and Simone Simpson, who were friends of theirs. (AUDIO: The Inheritance)

Meeting the Doctor

Valarie with the Eleventh Doctor. (AUDIO: Geronimo!)

Whilst spending time with her mother and Daniel and Simone Simpson, Valarie met the Eleventh Doctor as he homed in on her plasma cutter whilst trying to disarm a bomb. Arabella Hendricks tasked her with assisting him in finding a cure for the Darinthian Blight, which went on to kill Dan, Simone and Patricia. Valarie and the Doctor learnt that Hendricks was responsible and thwarted her, with Valarie saving the rig from being destroyed by her bombs.

The Doctor took Valarie to the hospital and left her a note assuring her that he would be back in ten minutes. She recovered from her wounds, arranged her mother's funeral and began the grieving process, during which she gave away everything that her mother had bought during the "Buy to Live" scheme. After two weeks, the Doctor returned and gave her the chance to join him in his search for Clara Oswald, an offer which she enthusiastically accepted. (AUDIO: The Inheritance)

Travels in the TARDIS

Early adventures

Valarie answered the TARDIS telephone to a stranger asking for help, after which the ship was hijacked (AUDIO: The Inheritance) and took her and the Doctor to late 18th century Venice. Dressing up in era-appropriate clothing, Valarie went with the Doctor to Lady Sicura's masquerade where she met Captain Tomasi and ultimately destroyed his power diverter to keep him from killing the hostess, instead empathising with her grief. The Doctor told Valarie about his role in ending the Time War and offered to take her home, but she said that he was stuck with her. (AUDIO: The House of Masks)

In the TARDIS, Valarie asked about the extent of the ship's capabilities and learnt of the Doctor's marriages to Elizabeth I and a woman who killed him, as well as the fact that Queen Victoria wanted him dead. She felt his life made no sense, but assured the Doctor that she was ready for the dangers of the universe. (WC: The Eleventh Doctor Returns)

The Doctor and Valarie landed in a spaceship in the 57th century and entered a time loop created by a time spider to protect its eggs. Valarie helped the Doctor when he was bitten and attempted to destroy the eggs with coolant before witnessing the spider's ability to rewind time within the loop. She frightened the spider and allowed herself to be bitten prior to the loop resetting to ensure that she would be targetted instead of the Doctor, helping him resolve the loop. This succeeded, although Valarie almost died as a result of the toxin, and they departed with conflicting memories of their time on the ship. Back in the TARDIS, they received another call from the woman and the TARDIS crashed. (AUDIO: The End)

The explosion of the TARDIS caused Valarie and the Doctor to be, thanks to the telepathic circuits, beamed into Jeremy Castle's computer where they appeared to Ellery Quest through narrative media and claimed to be inside his mind, not wanting him to know that he was a fictional character and that they wanted him to erase the Doctor's biography from the computer to prevent the knowledge therein being used to cause the TARDIS's explosion. When Quest learnt the truth, Valarie helped him complete the narrative and was, with the Doctor, restored, although she could not understand why they could change time in this instance but not save her mother. (AUDIO: All of Time and Space)

Valarie during her adventures. (AUDIO: Short Trips: Volume 12)

After having an argument about the Web of Time, Valarie and the Doctor made up. She asked the Doctor if they could go to Paris in 1832 to comfort Évariste Galois, whom she had met in a negated timeline. Although she could not remember him, she felt a bond with him and kept him company in the hospital following his fatal wounding in a duel. (AUDIO: The Galois Group)

Valarie and the Doctor arrived on Medrüth and offered to take Hoster, Roanna and Wyler away from the Yearn, but the TARDIS was stolen by the Yearn just as the other Medrüthians were. Valarie developed a romance with Roanna and the Doctor suggested that she might want to remain with her, but she felt that she barely knew her and, after the Yearn were taken away by the TARDIS, she gave Roanna the number of the TARDIS telephone should she ever have an emergency or need somebody to talk to. They kissed before parting ways. (AUDIO: The Yearn)