"Katy Manning" Iris
The "Katy Manning" Iris was the Lancastrian incarnation of Iris Wildthyme. She held herself to be a beautiful, intelligent, and independent woman, with a façade of drunkenness and carelessness so well constructed she often buried her deeper feelings of abject loneliness, in part due to her unreciprocated feelings for her old flame the Doctor, and uncertainty of her past and future. Another way she quelled her troubling emotions was her adventurous behaviour and desire to make friends wherever she travelled, an endeavor she was consistently successful in.
Like numerous of her previous incarnations, "Aunty Iris" described herself as a transtemporal adventuress and a "righter of wrongs and a wronger of rights", however this incarnation usually held a more pacifist manner of order than incarnations such as the "Jane Fonda" Iris, who travelled with a hot pink blaster on her person.
By one account, this incarnation of Iris was in her sixth body, with many more to go. (PROSE: The Golden Hendecahedron) By another account, Iris claimed to her companion Jo Jones that she was incapable of regeneration and thus in her final remaining body. (AUDIO: The Elixir of Doom) After she and her companion Panda defeated Lionel Pandeau and other versions of himself from across the multiverse, Iris told Panda that she was the only Iris Wildthyme in the multiverse. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion)
She was one of, if not the oldest, out of all her incarnations, as she had spent several long periods of time in one place, such as the passing of a decade after her falling out with Tom, (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large) the time she had spent seventy-four years in the Gallery, (PROSE: Framed) seven years living through 1972 multiple times, (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!) need to find more information to add here
This incarnation also liked to "bookmark" adventures - essentially, she would go off and have adventures, even if she was already embroiled in another. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Early travels[[edit] | [edit source]]
More info about the "Beryl Reid" Iris's adventures needs to be added. Additionally, more accounts need to be cited against the two incarnations being one and the same.
According to many accounts, it was evident that this incarnation of Iris Wildthyme was actually the same incarnation as the "Beryl Reid" Iris, so many of the "Beryl Reid" Iris's adventures are depicted as the early travels for the "Katy Manning" Iris. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns, The Plague Herds of Excelis, Wildthyme at Large, PROSE: Preface, et al.) This also remained consistent with the "Jane Fonda" Iris being a future incarnation when Panda was separated from his Iris, and briefly travelled with this "sex astronaut" incarnation. (PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love) Other accounts, however, showed that the "Katy Manning" Iris was a completely different incarnation from her "Beryl Reid" incarnation, (PROSE: The Golden Hendecahedron, et al.) with the "Katy Manning" Iris coming after the "Jane Fonda" Iris. (PROSE: Wandering Stars, et al.)
Iris helped the Doctor defeat the Sontarans when they snuck in the back door and invaded Gallifrey. She was there when the Time Lords sent him back to avert the creation of the Daleks. She once visited Frontios. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns) According to this account, Iris claimed that the last time she met the Doctor was in the Mines of Marlion with Jenny Winterleaf and the Daleks, setting this prior to her encounter with the Third Doctor and Verdigris. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns, PROSE: Verdigris)
For no reason she could remember or even guess at afterwards, Iris joined a convent on a mountain on Artaris. She was a terrible fit for the occupation. She told outrageous and immoral stories of her past adventures, smuggled in bottles of liquor, listened to loud music, offered the other nuns "day trips" on her bus, and generally made a nuisance of herself until the Mother Superior got her out by assigning her an important-sounding quest: following a legendary map to find the Relic all of Artaris was obsessed with.
Accompanied by the Fifth Doctor, the warlord Grayvorn, and Sister Jolene, Iris set off in the bus. They found the Relic in the heart of a forest, guarded by an army of flesh-eating zombies. The zombies captured Jolene and planned to sacrifice her, but the rest of the party managed to abscond with the Relic: Iris's old handbag, which she'd accidentally abandoned years ago in her own past, and thousands of years in the past of the planet. Iris and the Doctor tried to return the Relic to the Mother Superior, but Grayvorn tried to fight her for it and they both toppled off the mountain with it. Iris offered to let the Doctor travel with her on the bus, but he declined and they left Artaris in their separate conveyances. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns)
Iris returned to Artaris thousands of years later, when it was a desolate post-apocalyptic wasteland. There she met Bernice Summerfield. Immediately they got exceedingly drunk and Iris roped Benny into a scheme to pinch the Relic. Things quickly degenerated into a capture-escape routine, featuring Benny's public humiliation and Iris driving her bus into a building.
As Iris reluctantly revealed, her real motivation for stealing the Relic wasn't to wear it: it was because she knew that it represented something extraordinarily terrible. Something awful which would affect all of Artaris. Not that she could remember what, specifically, that was. She could remember some things, though, like how the entire mess started: Iris had helped broker a peace for a once-warmongering but reformed alien queen, and a faction unwilling to forgive so easily had brainwashed her. They'd been the ones to send her to Artaris with the Relic in the distant past, where she had left it. The Relic was meant to form part of a complicated explosive system, which would blow up the planet as the warrior queen passed by.
Iris was able to put the kybosh on the whole centuries-long plan with minimal effort; the Relic responded to her because of her previous experience with it. Afterwards, Iris and Benny agreed that they deserved a good party. (AUDIO: The Plague Herds of Excelis)
Travels with Tom[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris began travelling with Tom after he strayed onto her bus, not realising that it was anything other than an ordinary bus. (PROSE: Verdigris, et al.)
Iris was evidently reunited with Tom at some point. Together they helped a man investigate the murders of a number of pastiches of famous detectives. They'd all been bumped off by their housekeeper, Mrs H, who was tired of their annoying eccentricities the way they took her for granted. (PROSE: The Sleuth Slayers)
Tom and Iris spent a week on the Moon in 1590 with a delegation from England. It was a heavenly place which would be considered scientifically impossible by anyone outside the 16th century, but that didn't bother anyone but Tom. (PROSE: Minions of the Moon)
Iris kidnapped a dog from a young boy's backyard, then returned it at the front door and told him it had slipped out through cracks in the dimensions. She claimed to Tom that this would inspire the boy to become a writer of such skill he could rip through the very fabric of time and space and let in things from outside. Tom realized that he had met the boy at an older age himself. He tried to watch their first encounter on Iris's space-time kinetograph, but something went wrong and he jumped a time phase, and Iris had to rescue him. (PROSE: Beguine)
While hanging out with Anaïs Nin and June and Henry Miller in 1930s Paris, Iris and Tom defeated creatures of film and origami which wanted to steal all of humanity's words. (PROSE: Blame Iris)
Iris knew Joanna Lumley when she was a Bond girl.
Iris ensured that Barry Canley was checked into rehab, and went through with it, so that he would go on to write the book Magnificat and she could read it. When Iris later got her 2050 copy of Magnificat signed, and explained to Canley that she had been responsible for him writing it, it was in her Edith Sitwell-like body. (PROSE: Came to Believe)
Iris knew Aleister Crowley, dressed as a boy to be Merlin's page, and slew the cockatrice that infested the Pit of Mysteries.
Iris let Tom have a go at driving the bus through the space-time vortex, to the Hard Place resort positioned inside the vortex itself. However, because he was an inexperienced driver, he missed the warning signs. The elemental being which the resort derived its power from had gotten fed up of being leeched off of, and a pair of wizards were decommissioning the whole place. (PROSE: Rough Magic)
When Iris took Tom with her on a return visit to Dazzlaria, she found it much changed. Good King Jason had been overthrown in favour of New Bobbins, who had instituted many neoliberal reforms based on the information he had gained during his visit to Manchester. After Jason escaped prison, however, he was reinstalled on the throne by a reactionary monarchist movement and New Bobbins was executed. (PROSE: The Mancunian Candidate)
Iris and Tom stayed awhile in the 19th century, where Iris corrupted a couple of young women out of a Jane Austen pastiche. (PROSE: Iris and Irregularity)
Iris interrupted Medea at the point before she would, in her own story, murder her children. She took her on a tour of her own legacy, showing her the archetype she would become and the plays that would be based on her. She showed her that she could live her own life instead of becoming that archetype. With Tom's help they faked the murder, and transported her to a new life in Athens. Without the real Medea fulfilling her story, the universe had to create a new personification of Medea-the-archetype. This was Iris's real goal, and she took the new Medea travelling with her. (PROSE: The Evil Little Mother and the Tragic Old Bat)
Iris sunk the Titanic when she tried to run over a plesiosaur. (AUDIO: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme)
Leaving Tom[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris and Tom's relationship eventually became strained, so when they landed close to his native time and place (the late '90s) he went off in a fit. (PROSE: Preface, AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)
Iris studied medicine under Lister. (AUDIO: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme)
Iris fell in love with a man named Sam Gold, and they were married at the Intergalactic Song Contest. But the night of the wedding, she was whisked away by the Masterbakers of Barastabon to find the six slices of the Celestial Gateau which had been scattered across the multiverse. (AUDIO: The Sound of Fear)
A super-powerful being sent Iris on a quest to find the six pieces of the Key to the Clockworks, but she accidentally chipped the final segment, meaning the parts wouldn't fit together. (PROSE: Future Legend)
An evil version of Iris from the future, calling herself "Bianca", converted her bus into an interdimensional nightclub. The club was called, appropriately enough, Bianca's Cabaret. It was connected via wormholes to entrances in a variety of places and times, including 1930s Berlin, Astridia, and Garganon.
One evening, Bianca's show was attended by the Doctor (in his sixth incarnation, just after his trial) and (arriving separately) the erstwhile Ms. Iris Wildthyme. In Bianca's view, Iris had wasted the lives which rightfully belonged to her. She tried to manipulate the Doctor into killing Iris and extracting her remaining lives, much like the Doctor's own dark future self attempted on him. With the aid of the "pro-faction" of psychic worms Bianca aimed to bring a single moment of stability and harmony to the entire universe. Iris championed the anti-faction, which wanted to spread only violence and chaos. But both factions were beaten by their own dark, semi-real future: the shadows of the humanoid creatures they should have evolved into. To put a stop to it all, the Doctor time rammed his TARDIS into Bianca's. This threw so much doubt on the entire affair ever having happened at all that in the ruins, Bianca simply faded away. (AUDIO: The Wormery)
After running out of milk, Iris stopped off in October 1955 to pick up some more. She filched a pint from a remote house on an island in an English lake, and unwittingly became part of a murder scene. When she realized she'd forgotten to get sugar and returned (fifty years later), she found that she'd been mistaken for a ghost and blamed by the real murderer, Stanley Harris, and that she had arrived just in time to be the subject of an investigation by the TV show Most Horrid. (PROSE: Most Horrid)
Meeting Panda and reuniting with Tom[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris went on the run from "the Head", Higher Power from the outer dimensions, taking sanctuary with Robin Hood and his Merry Men. She placed all her thoughts and dreams in a Memory Crystal from the Mines of Marlion, then popped by to drop it off with Tom (for whom it had been ten years since their last meeting). This was when Iris first met Panda, who was living with Tom. Ultimately, they were forced to smash the crystal so that the being couldn't get its hands on her secrets, and Tom and Panda went with Iris to have some new adventures. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large) The first of these was Wizard of Oz-themed, and they faced the resurrected demon Asmedaj. (AUDIO: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme)
Iris once lost Mars to a Nimon ambassador in a game of baccara. (AUDIO: The Sound of Fear)
Iris, Panda, and Tom had to stop a space freighter from crashing into prehistoric Earth, though it took Iris seventeen tries to get Tom off of it in time and she accidentally left Panda there for two weeks.
The trio encountered an acupuncturist in Lowestoft who was actually one of Iris's people, retired. He'd become evil for some reason and Iris had to blow him up using only her lighter and some fireworks. (PROSE: Future Legend)
In Xanadu they met Kubla Khan, who gave them an ornate hookah, and gave Panda a set of tiny emerald roller skates. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta)
During one of their adventures, Tom fell in love with someone he'd barely spoken to and decided to leave the bus once again. (AUDIO: The Sound of Fear)
Early escapades with Panda[[edit] | [edit source]]
While Panda attended Coal Hill School, Iris resided in her bus at Putney Common. One foggy night, Panda was followed home by two teachers, Ian and Barbara, who upon seeing the inside of Iris' dusty, cramped, and smelly bus, threatened to call social services, but Iris managed to persuade Barbara over with a few drinks, and then Iris took them on adventure somewhere fabulous. (PROSE: An Unearthly Palaver)
Shortly after Tom left, Iris and Panda went to Radio Yesterday, where she was reunited with her husband Sam Gold. They foiled a Naxian invasion of the galaxy, but Sam was killed. (AUDIO: The Sound of Fear) During this adventure, Iris surreptitiously went on a date with the third Naxian from the left, Roger. Whenever Iris had an encounter with the Naxians, they would pop off for some time together, using the bus to return the moment after they left so that no one noticed. (AUDIO: The Two Irises)
Iris's mysterious superiors from the Clockworks caught up with her for stealing her bus and disabled it, so that she and Panda were stuck in 1972. She began working for MIAOW again, (AUDIO: The Land of Wonder) (the South Kensington branch) (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap) like she had in the sixties, because she figured it was her best chance at getting the technology to fix the bus. Panda stayed with her, but in an independent capacity as an investigative journalist.
MIAOW sent Iris and Panda to investigate a house where people were disappearing. They found an alien creature was using the area as fuel for its life support machine, and if they hadn't stopped it would've eventually consumed the universe. (PROSE: Apocalypse Slough)
In 1973, the Jabberwocky was discovered under the London Underground. Iris and Panda went deep into the Earth, to Wonderland. MIAOW operatives followed them and began laying waste to Wonderland, but Harriet Dodd gave Iris her feasibility generator and she was able to fix the bus. (AUDIO: The Land of Wonder)
MIAOW, Iris, and Panda discovered a plot by vegetables to take over the world by removing government figures from power. Iris got vegetabalised and they had to be rescued by Noel Coward and Marlene Dietrich. (PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow)
Until 1978, Iris continued to fend off nasties from space and other dimensions, and Panda continued to write reviews of ballets and operas and the like. But eventually MIAOW's nefarious tendencies got a bit much for her, and she stormed off. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap)
After a few months in which Iris kept bumping into her own past—there was an adventure with her other selves, the weresheep of Ambridge, and the Colonel from her days in MIAOW, and an encounter with the Cerise Guardian—Iris booked herself into the Rehab Dimension for a break. To keep all her enemies from taking advantage of her absence, Iris gave a press release to announce her imminent regeneration and left Panda with a facsimile of a male successor, "Iris Hilary Wildthyme."
When things got too much for the "new Iris," Panda summoned the real Iris. They stopped Roger the Naxian from escalating a nuclear conflict in 2108, and after they revealed Hilary's true nature, he elected to stay with Roger and help him run his disco in Malaga. (AUDIO: The Two Irises)
In New Jersey, 1903, Iris played five-card draw for three bridges, a small lake and the mining rights to Hoboken and Newark with some dogs from Dogworld. The dogs forfeited the match when one of them cheated, and the game was documented in Cassius Coolidge's painting A Friend in Need.
A century later, a descendant of the offending dog was betrothed to the princess of Dogworld, and a team of dogs attempted to eradicate all copies of the scandalous painting. The dogs, Iris and Panda, and a team of mercenaries hired by MIAOW collided in Scunthorpe. Iris had to play cards against the dogs again, for all of their lives—but she was assured of victory because her cards were marked in such a way that the colour blind dogs couldn't detect. (PROSE: A Gamble with Wildthyme)
Iris knew Agnes Inglewood in the '30s and '40s, when she had a studio on Denmark Street.
Iris visited Agnes and their friend Dana in January 1960. Panda didn't want to come so she left him in London. (PROSE: Sovereign)
Iris once spent three weeks in Heaven trying to win back the Ark of the Covenant from the angel Gabriel in a game of gin rummy.
While trying to take the bus on a shortcut through the spirit plane, Iris got into an altercation with some Ectovores who claimed she'd parked in their space at a service station. She tried to call up Hilary for help, but instead got fraudulent psychic called Hilary Mercer. (PROSE: The Unhappy Medium)
In 2008, Iris and Panda visited Jenny at the Darlington branch of MIAOW. They discovered that it was built near the Dreadful Flap, a gash in the Very Fabric of Time and Space. Iris correctly guessed that there was only one man who could be responsible: her friend, Noel Coward. They went back to the sixties to change history, but only succeeded in ensuring the Flap was created when Noel stabbed the head of MIAOW Darlington, Kristoff Alucard, with his temporal pinking shears. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap)
Iris took Panda to see her friends on the Anathema, but found it completely different. All of their mirth had been replaced with militarism, thanks to their unending, gruelling war with the heretic Apollinarian Cyrenes. Iris attempted to help the two sides find common ground in their mutual adoration of Panda, but made sure to leave before they could find out she was engineering peace. (PROSE: Battleship Anathema)
After stopping at a Scottish distillery to pick up some more gin, Iris accidentally imbibed an aqueous alien lifeform. (PROSE: And Not a Drop to Drink)
In Mexico City, 1968, Iris and Panda met Señor 105 and faced the monster Axixmiqui. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta)
Iris once fought an evil alternative universe Village People.
Iris and Panda were visiting an amusement park when its founder awoke from decades of cryogenic suspension and began making the animatronics trap visitors there. Iris killed him by pouring gin into his life support system, and thus his bloodstream. (PROSE: Why? Because We Like You)
On a planet filled with nice people who loved gardening, Iris and Panda defeated an evil stone statue and a man who lived in a clock and wanted to steal Iris's body.
In 18th century Russia, Iris and Panda helped the stranded Marlene Dietrich against the Archduke of Autumn, a renegade from the Obverse. (PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow)
Iris bumped into Fritz and his friends again at a party. When a ritual created an alternative timeline where the Spiritus Mundi destroyed the world, Panda got stuck there, and Iris and Fritz had to take the bus to get him back. (PROSE: Only Living Girls)
The police once had to drag Iris out of the Moulin Rouge (the space station near Betelgeuse, not the one in Paris). She was there with Jane Austen.
In San Francisco, Iris had to capture two humpback whales and take them back to the future.
Iris spent a night in a cell with George Orwell.
Iris had breakfast on the White House lawn with Abraham Lincoln after they fended off Martian invaders for the third time.
Iris had coffee with Napoléon on the Russian front.
Iris visited Persephone IV, a world in another dimension populated by vampire pandas. (AUDIO: The Panda Invasion)
Panda got a scratch on his nose when George W. Bush ran over him on a bike.
Iris supplied Santa Claus with Clockworks technology so he could keep up with delivering presents to all humanity's children after humans spread beyond Earth. (AUDIO: The Claws of Santa)
(Re)discovering her past[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Whilst investigating a number of strange objects that had fallen out of the sky over the North-Eastern town of Darlington, Iris attended what the locals called the "Writers' Festival"; a small convention of amateur poets. There, she met bookworm Simon, who had only attended the convention in support of his friend Kelly, who had gone off with mesmeric poet Anthony Marvelle. Hours and many drinks later, Simon walked Iris back to her bus, which she dematerialised in front of his very eyes. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
She planned on catching up with Marvelle but got worried when her bus would not travel through time. She also thought that her memories of Hyspero were deliberately removed. She became delighted when she found a pub in the middle of the desert. Shortly afterwards she decided to find Fenster and consulted with him. Fenster then took her to Saga City which had been moved to the planet from the Obverse. She started to wonder how long she had known Panda as she had memories of seeing Panda when she was a child which was before she encountered him with Tom. She was rescued from the populace by her childhood friend Dick. She encountered Eliot who told her the way to escape the city and return to the bus, using the streams that flowed to the surface. She managed to catch up to Marvelle before he opened the Ringpull, but she startled him and he dropped the Objet D'Oom which killed Euphemia. She then travelled to an alternate dimension where she was a fictional being. (PROSE: Wildthyme Beyond!)
Persued by a future Iris[[edit] | [edit source]]
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After Iris and Panda defeated the Slime-Filled Slarvians, the New Naxium Empire decided to graciously reward them on New Naxia, however they were interrupted by the arrival of a Monstron Time destroyer, which attacked them, sending them running to the Celestial Omnibus and escaping to Trull, to lay low. Ironically, they were recognised almost immediately by Iris' biggest fan, Wayne Bland II.
Wayne then deceived Iris into swapping minds with him, allowing him to inhabit Iris' body. Iris, now in Wayne's body, was left in the bar. She attempted to reach Panda over the course of a few months, but she was eventually imprisoned in the Trull Central Institute for the Criminally Insane with knowledge of the arrival of Kragoom, a sexual planet. Panda eventually visited who he believed was Wayne, and Iris tried to convince him that she was trapped in Wayne, but Wayne, in Iris' body, guilted Panda into believing him. However, this was short lived, as when Panda and Wayne left the institute, Iris' claims were proven to be true. Through a series of body swapping, Iris eventually was able to pilot the Omnibus to Kragoom, but as she was about to sacrifice herself, Wayne, who had realised his errors, rigged the mind swapping device to swap his mind with Kragoom, saving Trull. Afterwards, Iris and Panda prepared to relax but their pursuer caught up with them and they had to flee once more. (AUDIO: The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society)
Futher travels with Panda[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris and Panda once arrived at a cathedral one stormy night, meeting the young verger outside. After listening to his story about encountering a ghost, they spent the night inside the Celestial Omnibus. The next morning, they went into the cathedral, meeting the aloof bishop and Iris' enemies, the Soroptimists. After encountering the unusual ghost, they descended to the crypt at midnight, where they were trapped, time slowing down around them. Knowing that the only solution is to change the future by orchestrating the ghost from the start, this becomes reality, with the bishop actually acting upon instructions from Iris and Panda from the not too distant future, and with his help, they escape. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost)
Panda found himself trapped within the Gallery with a mysterious individual known as Mister Heart who lured him into other realities contained within paintings, Iris, for seventy four years, travelled among the paintings, influencing Panda's death in order to free him from being trapped forever. Iris and Panda escaped, only for Mister Heart to have a new painting for his collection, one of Iris and Panda in the Celestial Omnibus... (PROSE: Framed)
Iris and Panda once visited a village, throwing nightly parties and attempting to stop a gaseous villain, to no avail, and the village was destroyed, leaving only around two-dozen survivors. (PROSE: The Party in Room Four)
Iris and Panda were lured to the Zona Oscura Festival by an idea that Iris had whilst watching a documentary featuring David Attenborough the night before with Panda. Iris left Panda in Madame Moiré's Burlesque Escapade as he had become captivated by Carmen Tranquil. Iris headed to the VIP tent, passing Derek and Mavis who were quite odd. At the VIP tent, Iris was trying find Theo Possible, but the idea that Iris had had developed into a ravenous beast called Jimmy the Mandrill, who wanted to eat Iris. Jimmy and Carmen, who were actually friends, were killed by a giant falling mirrorball that Kelsey dropped on their heads, while Iris performed what she thought was her swansong with Theo. (PROSE: Party Kill Accelerator!)
Iris and Panda were turned into fiction and trapped within the bleed margin of a book. (PROSE: Untitled)
Iris and Panda attended a wine tasting, and they killed something with a bottle. (PROSE: The Panda Book of Horror)
Teaming up with Señor 105, they were sent on a quest to retrieve all the slices of the celestial gateau once again. After finding the third slice among vampiric versions of the Rolling Stones, they took it carefully back to the Celestial Omnibus. As that day was also Panda's birthday, they prepared him a surprise cake, but Iris accidentally ate the Celestial gateau, her mouth glowing bright orange. (PROSE: Deleted Scene from 'Iris Wildthyme and the Key Lime Pie 2 Time' - 'Part 3: The Stones of Blood')
When Panda sold himself on eBay, Iris tried to track him down. She looked in the Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities, but was unable to find him, even though he was there. The Boulevard was worn out and no longer functioning properly, so Iris shut it down. (PROSE: Library Pictures)
Iris found Panda at the end of the universe, with the last of the Pussyworlders. She helped them escape the universe's collapse by evacuating them to equivalent of Pussyworld in the Obverse. (PROSE: Future Legend)
Following Iris' discovery of the Celestial Omnibus' fate, she and Panda arrived at a warehouse filled with double decker buses, hunting for parts to repair the Celestial Omnibus. Things went terribly wrong when the ghost of a ticket inspector began haunting them. Iris defeated it with a strange gun, much to Panda's disappointment, as he was in the process of getting the ghost to pass on. (PROSE: Just the Ticket)
Iris participated in an auction for the TARDIS, but dropped out when she discovered that the key was still being held by the Twelfth Doctor and thus wouldn't be part of the sale. (PROSE: Buyer's Remorse)
After Panda[[edit] | [edit source]]
Seemingly by herself without a friend, Iris introduced herself to an audience. She explained that she has lots of adventures, but also admits to feeling lonely at times. She knew that her "old friend in his blue box" was no longer a bloke. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!)
An older Iris attended the afterparty of a Vince Cosmos concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1973, encountering Simon and Panda from earlier in her lifetime, scolding them for "skiving off". They had found themselves at the concert earlier that day when they found a tear in the Very Fabric left by Anthony Marvelle, thus explaining their absence relative to the earlier Iris. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris' performance of Je Ne Regret Rien with Theo Possible when Jimmy the Mandrill attempted to eat her was considered to be definitive by those who saw it, and children from generations to come would ask their parents where they were when the performance took place. It was truly a performance for the ages. (PROSE: Party Kill Accelerator!)
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
To bury her darker feelings of emotion, (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!) which even once accumulated in a desire for her life to end, (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost) she found that alcohol and constant adventure helped drive away those feelings. She claimed that she "poked maniacs, monsters, and fascists with sticks" to this extent. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!)
Iris knew she was unlucky in love, (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!) facing constant rejection from the Doctor, no matter which body he was in. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns, The Wormery, The Elixir of Doom, et al.)
Iris once claimed that she was very easily distracted. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
According to Brenda, the Iris resembled a cross between Gracie Fields and the Pendle Witches. (PROSE: A Tingle of Happiness) In the incarnation's later life, Simon thought that Iris looked more elegant, with an air of someone famous. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Iris herself believed that after all her travelling she hadn't aged a day. When someone said that she had, she said that she looked fabulous anyway, and that everybody thought so. (PROSE: Mother, Maiden, Crone)
Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris was often seen wearing a tigerskin coat, (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme) which she once wore over a silver frock. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)
Iris owned an "extraordinary" set of lilac and midnight blue jungle fatigues, which she wore along with a pith helmet and goggles, when she and her friends first ventured out into the jungle on Valcea. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
In her later life, specifically when Simon met her at the Hammersmith Odeon, he saw that she was wearing "a slinky black dress" with a "large hat shaded half her face". He though she looked elegant. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- From the first few stories featuring the incarnation of Iris Wildthyme as played by Katy Manning, there is a definite implication that the "Katy Manning" incarnation is the same as the "Beryl Reid" incarnation. For instance, in Preface and Wildthyme at Large, Iris is still travelling with her companion Thomas Daley, as if she was still the "Beryl Reid" incarnation, without any indication that she had regenerated (which she had done at the very least once, into the "Jane Fonda" incarnation). Additionally, Tom recognised Iris immediately in Wildthyme at Large, which makes little sense unless if the "Katy Manning" incarnation had had many unseen adventures with Thomas prior to Wildthyme at Large.
- The "Katy Manning" Iris sometimes refers to herself as "Aunty Iris", which Paul Magrs explained was inspired by his aunts who often told him risque stories when he was a child. (REF: Out of this World)
