User:JagoAndLitefoot/Romana III
The third incarnation of Romanadvoratrelundar was more ruthless than her previous two incarnations. Like Romana II, she was also President of Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon, AUDIO: Intervention Earth)
While she was commonly known as "Romana" she also used the alias "Trey" (from one of the middle syllables of her name) to avoid confusion with Romana II when the two met. (AUDIO: Renaissance)
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
In reality[[edit] | [edit source]]
Romana regenerated knowing she would need a harder personality for the upcoming War with the Enemy. As a result, she became less friendly towards the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
When she was in office, a secret society known as the Adherents of Ohm set Omega free from the anti-matter universe. (AUDIO: Intervention Earth)
During her tenure as President, Gallifrey faced its "darkest hour", and she began to clear sections of Gallifrey in order to make room to build Battle TARDISes. She personally attended the decommissioning of Quadrigger Stoyn's workstation. (AUDIO: Luna Romana)
Romana eventually became War Queen and President of the Nine Gallifreys. She dispatched Cavis and Gandar to Avalon, and eventually turned up herself to take possession of Compassion after Compassion transformed into a TARDIS, believing she could give them a tactical advantage in the war. Instead, the Eighth Doctor and Fitz fled inside Compassion. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
After a hundred and fifty years in power, she was approaching her first reaffirmation ceremony when she was challenged by former President Greyjan, an event which turned out to be part of a scheme by Faction Paradox to take over Gallifrey and rewrite its history. The Eighth Doctor destroyed the planet to prevent this. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) Marnal later showed the amnesiac Eighth Doctor these events, and it was implied that Romana was shot by Faction Paradox skulltroopers. Before she died, however, Romana sent K-9 into the Doctor's TARDIS to prevent him from destroying Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)
As a projection[[edit] | [edit source]]
A Matrix projection of Trey aided her second self after she had returned from the Axis. She offered her Capitol to her previous self, saving her thousands of years in rebuilding the planet. (AUDIO: Renaissance)
A Matrix projection of Trey later aided her second self in defeating the Daleks, who were invading Gallifrey in her past. She created a plan to trap the Daleks inside the Matrix, thus stopping them from invading Gallifrey itself. (AUDIO: Ascension)
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Romana had dark hair with a fringe, green eyes, and a tattoo of the Prydonian Seal on her left ankle. She wore pearls. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon) Cuthbert Simpson regarded Romana as "beautiful". (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy) The Doctor noted that this incarnation of Romana looked like his mother. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
As a projection, Trey incarnation appeared to have a sunny and perky disposition, and was prone to wanting to give people hugs (even her previous self, although the Blinovitch Limitation Effect made this inadvisable). Despite this, she could also be manipulative and ruthless when necessary. (AUDIO: Renaissance, Intervention Earth) She was wistful about her first self's naivety. (AUDIO: Luna Romana)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Writers involved in the War arc book of Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based Romana III's described appearance on that of the American silent film actress Louise Brooks, although upon meeting this incarnation for the first time the Eighth Doctor noted that she now looked worryingly like his mother.
- James Goss, creator of the "Trey" incarnation of Romana played by Juliet Landau in Big Finish audio stories, asserts that Romana III is not the same incarnation as Trey. Goss refers to Romana III as one among "other future Romanadvoratrelundars". (Vortex #56) However, given that Scott Handcock and Gary Russell later stated that she is the third incarnation, it might simply mean that Goss didn't base his characterization of her on the novels.
- James Goss, creator of this incarnation of Romana, uses the spelling "Trey" for her alias, although the syllable from which the nickname was derived is spelled "tre". (Vortex #56)
- Trey is the second Time Lord, after the Bruce Master as played by Eric Roberts, to be portrayed by an American actor. Unlike Roberts, Juliet Landau plays her role with an English accent.
