God (Future Pain)

God
Affiliated with:	Sorvix
First mentioned in:	Herald of the Dawn
First appearance:	Future Pain
Appearances:	AUDIO: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood, See No Evil, Night Watch, Flight 405, Hostile Environment, Another Man's Shoes, Eye of the Storm, A Mother's Son, Day Zero
Main voice actor:	Jacqueline King

A powerful being known to the Sorvix as God came through the Cardiff Space-Time Rift in late 2010s.

Biography

Before Earth

God travelled from world to world, and its arrival was usually preceded by the Herald, who prepared the inhabitants for it. (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn, Future Pain)

The Sorvix fled from their home planet to Cardiff in late 2010s when God came to them. This time, the Herald hid from God in the body of Gwen Cooper, but it was still able to detect them, and eventually God came to Cardiff through the Rift at Torchwood Three Hub. (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn)

Arriving in Cardiff

Jack Harkness, Orr, Colin Colchester-Price fought the slug-like creature that came through the Rift. It wanted their "future pain", but thought Jack's future to be poisonous. Orr and Colin were able to defeat him, concentrating on the present and the loss of St John Colchester. However, at the same day, God appeared on Colchester's memorial service in the form of a pleasant humanoid woman, chatting with Tyler Steele. (AUDIO: Future Pain)

Still in the humanoid form, she briefly met with Brent Hayden, whom Tyler was using to cover up the Sorvix presence in Cardiff. (AUDIO: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood) She was also present when an alien predator covered the whole of Cardiff in total darkness, until Yvonne Hartman was able to trap and kill it. (AUDIO: See No Evil)

She appeared to Orr after the Black Sun came to the city and put almost everyone to sleep. She told her that she's the only one who can maintain the "night watch", and used Orr's unique powers to absorb the pieces of the Light that followed the Black Sun and latched to people's pain. Later she explained to Orr that the Light was the only thing left after the first attack of the Black Sun, after it destroyed their home planet. Orr helped to unite the Light together, and now God was able to give them a new home. She also told Orr that she wouldn't reveal herself to the rest of the Torchwood team until they start to "get along". And after that she showed Orr her true powers, declaring "God is love", and that turned Orr to a puddle. (AUDIO: Night Watch)

She later appeared to Norton Folgate on the crashing plane, telling him to remember who his "true friends" are (AUDIO: Flight 405) and again to Tyler Steele when he became homeless and suffered at the hand of the drug-injecting drones, reminding him of one person he saved in the past, but he could not remember. (AUDIO: Hostile Environment)

Behind the scenes

• Jacqueline King is credited as a "mourner" on the Big Finish website for God Among Us 1. She appeared in little scenes throughout the first three episodes of God Among Us, and only in the final episode of the first box-set her character revealed herself as God, exclusively to Orr. In the audio credits for the first box-set she is named "God", as well as on the Big Finish website starting with second box-set.