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=== Memories of a young blonde === | === Memories of a young blonde === | ||
{{main|Blonde girl (Dead Romance)}} | {{main|Blonde girl (Dead Romance)}} | ||
A [[Blonde girl (Dead Romance)|blonde girl]] born on [[15 August]] [[1948]] was seduced by [[Chris Cwej]] when he arrived on the [[Earth]] of a [[bottle universe]] having been sent by [[Great Houses|his employers]] to prepare it for their colonisation. His mission was to open the bottle and allow for their invasion, Chris needed to [[ritual]]ly murder three people at specific times and places within the bottle [[London]]. However, he could not bring himself to kill the bottle's intelligent inhabitants, so he created three separate clones with a [[cloning tank]] and provided them with extracted copies of the blonde girl's memories. | A [[Blonde girl (Dead Romance)|blonde girl]] born on [[15 August]] [[1948]] was seduced by [[Chris Cwej]] when he arrived on the [[Earth]] of a [[bottle universe]] having been sent by [[Great Houses|his employers]] to prepare it for their colonisation. His mission was to open the bottle and allow for their invasion, Chris needed to [[ritual]]ly murder three people at specific times and places within the bottle [[London]]. However, he could not bring himself to kill the bottle's intelligent inhabitants, so he created three separate clones with a [[cloning tank]] and provided them with extracted copies of the blonde girl's memories. | ||
These clones were made on the basis of a human [[prisoner from Dellah]] who, according to Chris, was a standard human template. When pressed on the matter, however, he was unwilling to elaborate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') According to one account, however, these were [[clone]]s of Chris's own [[biodata]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Christinas (short story)|The Five Christinas]]'') | These clones were made on the basis of a human [[prisoner from Dellah]] who, according to Chris, was a standard human template. When pressed on the matter, however, he was unwilling to elaborate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') According to one account, however, these were [[clone]]s of Chris's own [[biodata]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Christinas (short story)|The Five Christinas]]'') | ||
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Christine escaped the bottle and entered [[virgin reality|Cwej's "real" universe]]; after being dropped off on [[Ordifica]], she visited [[colony]] worlds including [[Shristostophon]], [[Gardener's World]], [[Hai Dow Seven]], [[Lubellin]], [[Shatner's Climax]] and [[Ultra Caprisis]]. Christine eventually visited [[The Homeworld (Dead Romance)|the ruins of the Homeworld]], where she wrote most of [[Dead Romance|her autobiography]] before heading towards [[Dellah]]. At the time, she believed she was 23 years old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') Christine later sent a letter to [[Bernice Summerfield]], which she received when she took a post at a [[University of Vremnya|university]] on the planet [[Vremnya]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'') | Christine escaped the bottle and entered [[virgin reality|Cwej's "real" universe]]; after being dropped off on [[Ordifica]], she visited [[colony]] worlds including [[Shristostophon]], [[Gardener's World]], [[Hai Dow Seven]], [[Lubellin]], [[Shatner's Climax]] and [[Ultra Caprisis]]. Christine eventually visited [[The Homeworld (Dead Romance)|the ruins of the Homeworld]], where she wrote most of [[Dead Romance|her autobiography]] before heading towards [[Dellah]]. At the time, she believed she was 23 years old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') Christine later sent a letter to [[Bernice Summerfield]], which she received when she took a post at a [[University of Vremnya|university]] on the planet [[Vremnya]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'') | ||
Wondering what she would do next, Christine speculated that she could ask the [[All-High God|Gods of Dellah]] if they would help her up into the [[ | |||
Wondering what she would do next, Christine speculated that she could ask the [[All-High God|Gods of Dellah]] if they would help her up into the [[Bottle universe#Recursion: the Eighth Doctor in a bottle|"next universe up"]], reasoning that she had "done it before" with Cwje's employers. Indeed, Christine, now called Eliza, would appear to be in [[N-Space|the main universe]] by [[War in Heaven|the War]]'s fiftieth year. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)|The Eleven Day Empire]]'') | |||
When still in the bottle universe, Christine had recurring [[nightmare]]s about being trapped in an old house, filled with [[shadow]], which was populated and maintained by a family of dusty [[skeleton]]s. Though she always tried to escape at the start, she would consistently become lost in the shadows, and by the end of the dream she would have forgotten why she wanted to leave, having become one of the family herself. She always woke up with her fingers in her mouth, checking if she still had lips. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') | When still in the bottle universe, Christine had recurring [[nightmare]]s about being trapped in an old house, filled with [[shadow]], which was populated and maintained by a family of dusty [[skeleton]]s. Though she always tried to escape at the start, she would consistently become lost in the shadows, and by the end of the dream she would have forgotten why she wanted to leave, having become one of the family herself. She always woke up with her fingers in her mouth, checking if she still had lips. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') | ||
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At some point, she joined [[Faction Paradox]] and took on the name Eliza in homage to one of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s victims, as she described herself as a "born victim". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)|The Eleven Day Empire]]'') Little Sister Eliza was in the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] when Little Brother [[Porsena]] joined, and she explained to him that it was only blackened by soot because the original [[London]] was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'') | At some point, she joined [[Faction Paradox]] and took on the name Eliza in homage to one of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s victims, as she described herself as a "born victim". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)|The Eleven Day Empire]]'') Little Sister Eliza was in the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] when Little Brother [[Porsena]] joined, and she explained to him that it was only blackened by soot because the original [[London]] was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'') | ||
Eliza had attained the rank of [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] by the time that ''[[The Book of the War]]'' was published | Eliza had attained the rank of [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] by the time that ''[[The Book of the War]]'' was published in the War's fiftieth year. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=Faction Paradox}}) | ||
Eliza once attended a meeting with four other versions of herself: [[Christina Cwej|Tina]], [[Kirstine]], [[Labcoat Christina|a labcoat-wearing Christina]] and [[Glasses Christina|another version who wore glasses]]. During the meeting it transpired that each alternate version of Christina was holding the universe together and that [[CERN]] had been involved in hunting them down and stealing their [[biodata]] which threatened to recombine them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Christinas (short story)|The Five Christinas]]'') | Eliza once attended a meeting with four other versions of herself: [[Christina Cwej|Tina]], [[Kirstine]], [[Labcoat Christina|a labcoat-wearing Christina]] and [[Glasses Christina|another version who wore glasses]]. During the meeting it transpired that each alternate version of Christina was holding the universe together and that [[CERN]] had been involved in hunting them down and stealing their [[biodata]] which threatened to recombine them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Christinas (short story)|The Five Christinas]]'') | ||
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* Christine Summerfield | * Christine Summerfield was unique amongst the main characters of the [[New Adventures]] following the release of ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', as she did not meet Bernice Summerfield within the story where she served as the main point of view. While ''[[Deadfall (novel)|Deadfall]]'', ''[[The Mary-Sue Extrusion (novel)|The Mary-Sue Extrusion]]'', and ''[[Return to the Fractured Planet (novel)|Return to the Fractured Planet]]'' were all told almost entirely from the point of view of somebody other than Bernice Summerfield, Benny was still a central character within the stories. | ||
* Upon her introduction in ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'', Christine Summerfield was identified as a cloned human with dark hair based on the genetics of a human [[prisoner from Dellah]]. While never expressly identified, the prisoner was implied to be the absent protagonist of the series, [[Bernice Summerfield]], who was under the influence of the [[All-High God]]s while on a mission to rescue her cat. Much was made of the connection between Christine and her seeming namesake, Bernice Summerfield. Throughout the novel, she speculated as to her seemingly unwarranted attachment to the Summerfield bloodline, once remarking that she felt an "urge to go looking for the remains of Bernice Summerfield", whom she later described as "the closest thing [she has] got to family." Likewise, Christine speculated that "when the sphinxes had made everyone inside the bottle, [she] had been inspired by this Bernice person." This speculation was summarily rejected by Chris, who denied any similarity between the two Summerfields. When Christine discovered that she was a clone, Chris responded aggressively before telling her that she was simply "a standard human template." | |||
* While ''[[Barnyard of the Cyberons (short story)|Barnyard of the Cyberons]]'' introduced [[Christina Cwej]] with the understanding that she was the first female Cwej, ''[[The Five Christinas (short story)|The Five Christinas]]'' later asserted that Eliza was another, despite ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'' stating she was a clone of "a standard human template", a Cwejen with the imprint of "[[Chris Cwej|someone else]]". By that account, this would make Christine Summerfield the first female [[Cwejen]] to appear. | |||
=== Character notes by Lawrence Miles === | === Character notes by Lawrence Miles === | ||
Another twentysomething Faction recruit. Born and raised in the twentieth century, so more relaxed than Justine (but probably just as messed-up). London girl. Closer to Justine than anyone else, although that isn't saying much. Seems to have very little faith in the Faction's methods. Goes along with them anyway. Unwilling to risk stepping out of line, despite a noticeable cynical streak.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030817000534/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/scripts.htm Script of ''The Eleven Day Empire'']</ref> | Another twentysomething Faction recruit. Born and raised in the twentieth century, so more relaxed than Justine (but probably just as messed-up). London girl. Closer to Justine than anyone else, although that isn't saying much. Seems to have very little faith in the Faction's methods. Goes along with them anyway. Unwilling to risk stepping out of line, despite a noticeable cynical streak.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030817000534/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/scripts.htm Script of ''The Eleven Day Empire'']</ref> | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
