Dorothea Chaplet
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| Dorothea Anne[1] Chaplet | |
|---|---|
| Character | |
| Companion of | The First Doctor |
| Created by | John Wiles (Producer) |
| Gender | Female |
| Species | Human |
| First Appearance | The Massacre |
| Native Place | Earth |
| Native Time | 1960s |
| Alias | Dodo |
| Occupation | Schoolgirl |
| Known Friends | The First Doctor, Steven Taylor, James Stevens |
| Known Enemies | Various enemies of the Doctor |
| Known Relatives | Margaret (Great Aunt) |
| Base of Operations | London; The Doctor's TARDIS |
Dorothea Chaplet, usually referred to as Dodo was a companion of the First Doctor. For the extinct flightless bird, see Dodo (bird)
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Description
Dodo is a schoolgirl with a variable accent. She hates guided tours.[2] She considers herself unattractive - thinking that she's short, dumpy, and has bad teeth.[3]
Abilities
Dodo can read music, play the piano and ride a horse. She is also reasonably good at card games.[4] However, she isn't very bright.[5] She cannot speak French.[6]
History
Early Life
Dodo's grandparents are French.[8]
When she was young, Dodo climbed a huge knarled oak in the park and fell from it, cutting herself. The same year, a boy from another school had also climbed it and fallen, breaking his neck. Dodo's mother had banned her from climbing and complained to the council, which had the local trees chopped down in 1957.[9]
Dodo once went on a trip to Whipsnade Zoo.[10]
Her parents once took her to Florida, which she remembers as being "the most thrilling week of her life."[11]
Dodo's mother died, and her father may have been institutionalised following the death.[12]
Following these events, Dodo lived with her great aunt, Margaret, whom she couldn't stand. Margaret was a strict disciplinarian, determined to teach Dodo some manners,[13]
Dodo's father probably died at some point after these events.[14]
Dorothea was nicknamed "Dodo" at secondary school. Her friends in this period of her life included Janet - who once compared Dodo to Lisa Tushingham - and Shari Reynolds - a classmate.[15]
She spent most of her French lessons behind the gym learning how to kiss.[16]
Dodo listened to John Smith and the Common Men, despite thinking that they were "a bit past it"[17]
When Dodo bought a short skirt and thigh length boots this led to a row with Aunt Margaret.[18]
Dodo regularly did the shopping for her elderly neighbour Mr Miller. In March 1965, Mr Miller was murdered and replaced by an alien that decided to call itself Joseph. Joseph kept Dodo captive in the house for several days, whilst he was trying to learn about humanity. He then tried to force himself on her in the belief that this is how human being normally show affection. Dodo managed to escape, and ran into what she thought was a Police Telephone Box to summon help. Instead, she found herself aboard the Doctor's TARDIS. Unwilling to mention what had just happened to her, she made up a convenient lie.[19]
On the TARDIS
The TARDIS then travelled to New York in the same timezone, and the Doctor, Steven, and Dodo helped prevent Joseph's race from unwittingly causing chaos across the planet. [20]
The TARDIS then travelled to the far future, after the destruction of Earth. Dodo was surprised that it had travelled in time. The crew encountered the last humans from Earth, who were on a ship which was taking a 700 year journey from the now destroyed Earth to the planet Refusis. Unfortunately Dodo was carrying a cold, which infected the humans. This allowed their Monoid servants to take over the ship. The TARDIS returned 700 years later, as the ship arrived at its destination, and the crew helped broker a peace between the two groups.[21]
The next stop was in the domain of The Toymaker, a powerful entity who attempted to trap the crew in his domain by making them lose games. Eventually the three time travellers managed to outwit him. However, they then ended up in Tombstone, Texas, and got involved in the events leading up to the infamous shootout at the OK Corral. The TARDIS's next stop was the planet inhabited by the Elders and the Savages, The Elders had been oppressing the Savages, but the Doctor persuaded them to change their ways, and Steven stayed behind to lead their society.[22]
The TARDIS eventually landed in London in 1966, where Dodo was possessed by WOTAN. The Doctor sent her away to the country to recover and she decided to stay on Earth.[23]
After the Doctor
After she left the Doctor, Dodo had a series of mental blackouts. She was sent to a psychiatric hospital near Colchester and was repeatedly given shock therapy.[24]
Fourteen months after she was admitted, Dodo tried to leave. However, she was actually placed on a mixed sex ward for the severely disturbed. Within hours of this, another patient tried to rape her. Dodo fought back and accidentally killed him.[25]
After this incident, Dodo was transferred to The Glasshouse, described as a radical new centre for psychiatric treatment. The institution was secretly under the control of The Master, who repeatedly questioned her about UNIT and The Doctor. However, Dodo never gave him the information he was after.[26]
Several months after her incarceration, Dodo was released. She finds herself wandering around London, and finds a place to stay at a hostel.[27]
After some time, Dodo saw an article about mind control in Metropolitan magazine and wrote to contact the author, a journalist called James Stevens. After hearing her story, he offered her his spare room. After a few weeks, the two became lovers. Dodo later became pregnant, just as Stevens' ongoing investigations into UNIT led to him being temporarily incarcerated in the Glasshouse. Stevens escaped along with a brainwashed UNIT soldier called Private Cleary. Clearly, acting under the orders of the Master, killed Dodo in case she was able to corroborate Stevens' story that the Master was running the Glasshouse whilst he was supposedly in prison.[28]
References
- ↑ Her middle name is revealed in Who Killed Kennedy
- ↑ The Savages
- ↑ According to The Man in the Velvet Mask
- ↑ She uses all these skills in The Gunfighters
- ↑ Steven even mentions this in The Savages
- ↑ According to The Man in the Velvet Mask
- ↑ Dodo's single scene in The Massacre happens between chapters 2 and 3 of Salvation
- ↑ She says this in The Massacre
- ↑ According to The Man in the Velvet Mask
- ↑ She mentions this in The Ark
- ↑ She recalls this in Salvation
- ↑ Salvation establishes that her mother's death was three years before she boarded the TARDIS and hints at what happened to her father.
- ↑ Dodo mentions this in The Massacre, Margaret is named in Salvation, which is where her disciplinarian streak is mentioned.
- ↑ As implied in Salvation
- ↑ According to Salvation
- ↑ According to The Man in the Velvet Mask
- ↑ According to Salvation
- ↑ This is mentioned in Salvation, and happens two weeks before that story
- ↑ As seen in Salvation. The book dates Dodo's arrival on the TARDIS as the 26th of March 1965
- ↑ As seen in Salvation
- ↑ As seen in The Ark
- ↑ As seen in The Celestial Toymaker, The Gunfighters, and The Savages
- ↑ As seen in The War Machines
- ↑ According to Who Killed Kennedy. The blackouts were presumably after-effects of being possessed by WOTAN
- ↑ According to Who Killed Kennedy.
- ↑ According to Who Killed Kennedy
- ↑ As seen in Who Killed Kennedy
- ↑ All this is seen in Who Killed Kennedy
