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| ==Biography== | | ==Biography== |
| ===Early life=== | | ===Early life=== |
| Peri Brown was born [[15th November]] [[1966]], to Paul and Janine Brown.
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| Peri's passport listed her as resident of [[Los Angeles|Pasadena]], [[California]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'') The Doctor once pointed out that in Persian mythology, a [[peri (mythological creature)|peri]] was also the name of a kind of [[fairy]] which started off evil before turning good. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'') As a girl, Peri used to read the [[comic book]] ''[[Swamp Thing]]''. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'').
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| When Peri was 13, her father Paul died in a boating accident. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Synthespians™]]'') Her mother, Janine, re-married a man named Professor Howard Foster, who already had two children of his own. Foster subjected Peri to sexual abuse. Peri never forgave him. ([[TN]]: ''[[Shell Shock]]'')
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| ===Travels with the Doctor=== | | ===Travels with the Doctor=== |
| ====First meeting with the Doctor==== | | ====First meeting with the Doctor==== |
| Peri studied [[botany]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'') and also had an interest in [[archaeology]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'') Circa [[1984]], she encountered the Doctor and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] on the [[island]] of [[Lanzarote]]. The shape-shifting [[android]] [[Kamelion]], controlled by [[the Master]] at the time, assumed the form of Peri's step-father, Professor [[Howard Foster]], and later that of the Master himself, before seizing control of [[the TARDIS]] to take her to the [[planet]] [[Sarn]] to meet the real Master. After the destruction of Kamelion and the defeat of the Master, Turlough decided to return to his homeworld, [[Trion (planet)|Trion]], and Peri joined the Doctor on his travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'')
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| ====Further adventures==== | | ====Further adventures==== |
| After a number of adventures, the Doctor and Peri met the ancient [[Egyptian]] princess [[Erimem]], who went with them in the TARDIS. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Eye of the Scorpion]]'') After Erimem chose to remain on [[Peladon (planet)|Peladon]], she and the Doctor continued on alone.
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| After contracting [[spectrox toxaemia]],and then getting accidentally getting involved in local politics on the [[twin planet]]s of [[Androzani Major]] and [[Androzani Minor|Minor]], Peri first got abducted by [[Sharaz Jek]], and, upon her escape, began to die from the disease. The Doctor saved her but, not having enough [[bat's milk]] (which acted as an antidote) to save himself, regenerated into a very different new and unstable persona ([[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]''). At the peak of his madness, the Doctor attempted to throttle Peri to death. Still, he managed to regain his wits enough that Peri accepted the change enough to continue to travel with him together. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'').
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| Peri was a bright, spirited young woman, who travelled with the Doctor because, like many of his companions, she wanted to see the [[universe]]. Although she shared a more abrasive relationship with the Doctor, there was an undercurrent of affection in their verbal sparring. Peri alternated time traveling in the TARDIS with the Doctor, with time spent in the company of a second companion, [[Frobisher]] (a [[Whifferdill]] in the shape of a [[penguin]]) and occasional sabbaticals on Earth. Peri would encounter [[Sil]], one of a race of capitalist despots known as the [[Mentor]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos]]''). She met the Master a second time, now with an accomplice, [[the Rani]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]''), and made the acquaintance of the Doctor's former companion [[Jamie McCrimmon]] at an earlier stage of his life ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') and later as a much older man ([[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]''). She also encountered the Doctor's greatest enemies, the [[Dalek]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'') Over time, Peri matured somewhat and her relationship with the Doctor became less combative.
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| ====Leaving the Doctor==== | | ====Leaving the Doctor==== |
| :''The authenticity of some following events remains uncertain, as we only have a distorted account presented by the Doctor's enemy, [[the Valeyard]].''
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| In the year [[2379]], on the planet [[Thoros Beta]], home of the despotic capitalists known as the [[Mentor]]s, Peri was separated from the Doctor. She met the warrior king [[Yrcanos]] from the primitive planet [[Krontep]], who took a liking to her. [[Kiv]], a Mentor, had Peri abducted and taken to his laboratory. The Doctor and the TARDIS was removed from Thoros Beta thanks to the [[telepathic]] summons to the [[Space Station Zenobia]], the [[High Council]] of [[Time Lord]]s, so that he could not interfere. As the Doctor watched from Zenobia, Kiv transplanted his consciousness into Peri's body, whereupon Yrcanos burst in and destroyed her body as a form of mercy-killing. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]''). Despite the Doctor's horror at learning this, the destruction of Peri's mind and her death had never actually happened. After the defeat of the [[Valeyard]], [[The Inquisitor]] revealed that Peri and Yrcanos fell in love and she decided to spend the rest of her life with him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'').
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| ===Life on Krontep=== | | ===Life on Krontep=== |
| Several contradictory accounts exist regarding Peri's future life on Krontep. According to one, Peri lived out the rest of her life there and had at least three grandchildren, a few of whom would meet the Doctor and Frobisher (though Peri had never been seen on-screen to interact with Frosbisher). ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Age of Chaos]]'') Supporting this another account shows the Doctor (in an unknown incarnation) visiting Peri in her early forties, by which time, still bitterly unhappy with the Doctor, she felt resigned to her fate. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Reunion (DWM)|Reunion]]'')
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| Another revealed that, although she did become Yrcanos' queen, Peri blamed the Doctor for abandoning her. Following another one of his regenerations, [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and Peri made peace with each other. The Doctor returned Peri to late [[20th century]] Earth. ([[NA]]: ''[[Bad Therapy]]'')
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| ==Possibly apocryphal information== | | ==Possibly apocryphal information== |
| Another account says that, while Peri and Yrcanos stayed together, Yrcanos made a career for himself in the late 20th century in the field of [[professional wrestling]]. ([[DWN]]: ''[[Mindwarp (novelisation)|Doctor Who — Mindwarp]]'')
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| Supposedly, Peri was also among the Doctor's companions drawn into a temporal trap set by the Rani. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'')
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| ==Mysteries and discrepancies== | | ==Mysteries and discrepancies== |
| *During the Doctor's fifth incarnation, Peri spent a year of her life as a guerrilla fighter while separated from the Doctor, who meanwhile headed a military organisation known as [[the Alliance]] ([[PDA]]: ''[[Warmonger]]'') ''(Where this falls in terms of Peri's personal timeline remains unknown.)''
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| *As stated above, we do not know the exact circumstances of Peri finally leaving the Doctor and whether she chose to live out the rest of her life on Krontep.
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| *Peri's relationship with her stepfather, Howard, is laced with tension, and she later reacts with fear, recalling an event where he turned out the lights, suggesting some form of abuse may have occurred. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'')
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| *The length of time Peri spent with the Doctor is unclear. Some accounts suggest her travels with the Doctor occurred over the space of months, however at least "a couple of years" passed (for her, anyway) between her first encounter with [[Jamie McCrimmon]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') and the second ([[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]'').
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| ==Behind the scenes== | | ==Behind the scenes== |
| *Using her real [[English]] accent [[Nicola Bryant]] played "Miss Brown", an obvious analogue to Peri in three [[BBV Productions]] videos in the Stranger, ''[[Summoned by Shadows]]'', ''[[More Than a Messiah]]'' and ''[[In Memory Alone]]''. Later videos in the series would make clear that the Stranger series did not take place in the [[Doctor Who Universe]] and that Peri and Miss Brown had no connection with each other. Bryant also played Elenya "Ellie" Brown, the girlfriend of [[Colin Baker]]'s character, in another BBV production, the non-Doctor Who ''[[The Airzone Solution]]''.
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| *Counting audio and televised adventures together, Peri effectively shares the longest-serving companion title — both in terms of number of stories and recorded time — with [[Ace]]. As they are tied, the title essentially alternates as new stories are released. Her nearest rivals are Jamie McCrimmon, [[Charley Pollard]] and [[Nyssa]]. Of these, only Nyssa and Charley appears to be in active use past 2007, and so they represent the only potential threat to Peri and Ace's record-breaking number of appearances. While she clearly eclipses the amount of time [[Sarah Jane Smith]] has been seen or heard as a ''companion'', Peri is easily outpaced by the ''character'' of Sarah, due to Sarah's latter-day appearances as a solo character.
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| *While Peri is supposed to be an American, her English accent occasionally slips through, and she sometimes uses phrases that Americans would not use.
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| ==Key Life Events== | | ==Key Life Events== |
| *Peri's father, [[Paul Brown]], dies in a boating accident. (Mentioned [[PDA]]: ''[[Synthespians™]]'')
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| *Peri meets [[Fifth Doctor|the Doctor]] in [[Lanzarote]] and decides to go traveling with him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'')
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| *Peri spends a year as a guerilla fighter. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Warmonger]]'')
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| *The Doctor [[regeneration|regenerates]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'')
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| *Peri meets [[Yrcanos]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]'') She decides to go to his home [[planet]] [[Krontep]] with him and spend the rest of her life with him. (Mentioned [[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')
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