Ram Singh

Ram Singh was a sixth form student at Coal Hill Academy. He was a star football player for the school, and was in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Rachel Chapman before she was killed. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) He was seventeen. (PROSE: Joyride)

Personality
Ram was a cocky student who, according to Miss Quill, "hears silent applause" every time he entered a room. Rachel said she liked him because, deep down, his "sporting ego thing" wasn't true. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)

He was somewhat of a bully to Charlie, (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) and refused to be associated with "geeks", making Tanya Adeola promise not to tell anyone that they did a Skype call together. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) At first reluctant to join the world-saving group, he eventually joined a Skype call, and figured out that the skin-peeling dragon was the same as the tattoo on Coach Dawson's skin. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

After Rachel's death, he didn't want to talk about it with anyone, and felt he had to deal with it on his own. Part of the reason was that people thought him to be heartbroken, whereas he was full of anger, even rage at the fact that some posh kid's problems suddenly intruded upon his life and utterly ruined it. (PROSE: Joyride)

At first, he chalked up finding Carroll's bloody body to PTSD. Scarred by what he'd seen, he even offered himself up to the skin-peeling dragon, and asked him to kill him, because he didn't want to go on. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

Biography
When he was a child, Ram's father Varun would line up footballs for him to practice with. He was so small he'd sometimes fall over them. With practice, he got better. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

On 13 October 2016, (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, Nightvisiting) on the football pitch, he spotted one of the Shadow Kin in shadow form pass over the football pitch and into a teammate's shadow. That night, he was on a Skype call to Tanya Adeola who helped him with his homework. The two of them talked about having seen the shadows before as Ram noticed one right behind her in Tanya's room. He called for help whilst Tanya tried to fight off the Shadow Kin that appeared in her bedroom before she managed to get rid of it by switching the main light on.

Ram went to the Autumn Prom with Rachel. At the prom, Rachel was stabbed in front of Ram by a Shadow Kin - spattering him in her blood - and was disintegrated. A grief-struck and furious Ram attacked the Shadow Kin which sliced off Ram's right leg. He then attacked the Shadow Kin leader Corakinus with a chair when it tried to take April MacLean with it back through the cracks in space-time before Ram collapsed due to his injury. The Twelfth Doctor later provided him with a Lothan prosthetic limb which Ram had some difficulty in using. He became a member of the group the Doctor chose to defend from any aliens who came through the space-time tears, though somewhat unwillingly. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)

After the events of the Prom night, Ram avoided talking to the rest of the group as he dealt with his grief alone. He struggled to play football with his new prosthetic and was frustrated by his inability to play anymore. When he went to talk to a coach, he found the body skinned and fled in panic whimsy re-experiencing Rachel's death in his mind. When he returned mere moments later, he found no trace of the body and was asked to leave by Tom Dawson.

Ram passed off what he saw as a PTSD-related hallucination and didn't mention it. After storming out of class, Ram went to have a cigarette with a cleaner, when the cleaner was attacked and skinned alive. Discovering Dawson disposing of the skin remains of Mr Armitage, Ram confronted him on the matter. Miss Quill suddenly crashed through a window after being chased by the dragon creature. The Coach explained the tattoo on his skin was the creature's mate and that the creature killed people for his mate to feed on as the coach couldn't get her off of his skin. When Dawson threatened to harm the mate, Ram told the dragon to spare everyone but himself, and to find a way of getting the mate back. The dragon dragged Dawson through the rip in time. That night, Ram finally explained everything to his father, including his prosthetic leg, this meant his father decided to help him with practise. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

One Tuesday, Ram suddenly found himself in the body of John O'Donnell in the building of Joyriders company. Ram tried to bluff his way out through Steve Hopley, but his boss, Garry Fletcher, saw through the bluff and locked Ram in a dark room filled with corpses of aliens. After Fletcher left, Ram managed to escape by threatening Steve to cut O'Donnell's body. He places a collect call to Tanya's house and persuades her older brother Damon to tell her to bring everyone to Swallow Avenue just off Old Street, where he will be waiting for them. On the way back to Swallow Avenue, he is spotted by Fletcher in his car. Fletcher chases him on wheels and succeeds in running the body over, but not before Steve manages to reverse the swap returning Ram and O'Donnell each to their own bodies. (PROSE: Joyride)

Ram tried to contact Tanya for help with the physics homework as he had done before but could not get through. He instead contacted April and discovered her love of folk music. Their Skype call was interrupted when knocking began on then window of his bedroom. Running into the street, Ram saw Lankin roots stretching across it. After realising that many people had been affected and wrapped up in Lankin roots, he called April and the two met up and kissed. Ram and April tried to stop the Lankin from feeding on Tanya's grief but became trapped themselves. They were freed when Tanya and Miss Quill together killed the main root. (TV: Nightvisiting)