Roz Forrester

Roslyn Sarah Forrester (usually known as Roslyn Inyathi Forrester or just Roz Forrester) was an Adjudicator-turned-companion of the Seventh Doctor.

Biography
Roz was born in 2935 to an aristocratic family. With her Adjudicator partner Chris Cwej, Roz was on the police force of 30th century Earth, at that time divided into the Overcity and the Undercity. (PROSE: Original Sin)

Her clan name was Inyathi, which was iXhosa for buffalo. (PROSE: The Also People)

Roslyn was a rebellious child. She ran away from her father's Palace on Io several times before she finally left for good - when she joined the Guild of Adjudicators. Her father sent bodyguards to protect her while she was an Adjudicator, but she kept arresting them for loitering and threw them in jail. After she did this several times, her father finally withdrew them. (PROSE: Dependence Day)

Life as an Adjudicator
Konstantine was Roz' Adjudicator trainer, (PROSE: The Also People, The Death of Art) with Roz serving as his squire for some time. (PROSE: GodEngine) Roz once received punishment detail from Konstantine for a minor dress code violation, resulting in her spending three boring months observing the mystic con Rhan-Te-Goth. Rox determined that Goth was using hypnosis to distract his audience while two telepath assistants scanned their minds for credit-chip information and arrested him for that as well for accessing banned literature by Ludwig Prinn, Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt, and H. P. Lovecraft. This incident prompted Roz to read Lovecraft texts in the Adjudicators' Index Pugatum. (PROSE: The Death of Art)

Roz graduated as an Adjudicator in 2955 on Ponten IV. (PROSE: GodEngine) For fifteen years, she served as squire to Adjudicator Fenn Martle. They were lovers for most of that time. (PROSE: Original Sin)

When Roz was twenty, she and Fenn Martle investigated the use of a hypnoleptic drug derived from an extract of the human pituitary gland amongst the Fnarok population of the Overcities. (PROSE: Oblivion)

One time, Rox and Martle were traffic patrolling when they noticed a man throwing his pet ditz off a walkway. Roz confronted the man, but he denied killing the animal. Roz knew that she had no evidence to convict the man on, so she asked for his identification and ate it after he gave it to her. The man was thus fined for not having an ident and again for perjury. (PROSE: Original Sin)

Chris and she were investigating a murder case in the Undercity in 2975 when they encountered the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield. They helped the Doctor defeat his old enemy Tobias Vaughn. (PROSE: Original Sin)

With Bernice and Chris
Roz and Chris' first adventure with the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield brought them outside reality to the System. (PROSE: Sky Pirates!)

While tracking down Karne on the planet Megarra, Roz stumbled something called "the Project". It was so secretive that the people who informed her of it were killed instantly. As she needed to track down Karne, Roz swore that one day she would return to learn the truth. (PROSE: Mean Streets)

While in 1940s Britain during World War II, Roz had a romantic relationship with a lieutenant in the British Army named George Reed. He proposed to her, but she decided not to stay with him. She kept the engagement ring. (PROSE: Just War)

After Bernice
When the Carnival Queen began manifesting in reality, the Doctor gave Roz an amaranth to counter the Queen's unreality. Separated by gynoids in 2012 Arizona, Roz fell through time to the town of Woodwicke in 1799 New York. Roz was stranded here for some time, making a living fortune telling, until she decided to assassinate local business owner Samuel Lincoln to get the Doctor's attention by preventing the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The Doctor found her before she killed Lincoln and was disappointed, telling Roz that Samuel wasn't even Abraham Lincoln's ancestor. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)

When the TARDIS was arrested on Thrantas, Roz and Chris partnered with two local police officers on an offworld case. (AUDIO: The Trial of a Time Machine)

The trio took a break by living in 1996 Australia for a couple months, during which Chris and Roz grew closer. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)

Roz helped the Doctor in his investigations on Scientifica and met Adric. Later she, tried to get into the scientific pyramid, but couldn't do so initially. Chris devised a way to get her in there and she rescued Adric by accident. She started the ignition system for the Machine. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)

Roz and Chris joined the Doctor and Bernice after seeing the corruption and manipulation rife on Earth in their time. She thought something was wrong with Gabriel Tyler when she saw him as black whilst his mother Winnie Tyler was white. She knocked out Mr Thomas when he arrived at the Tylers' flat. She worked out that Gabriel and Steven Jericho's psychic distress had called the N-Form. She was asked to stop Eva Jericho was removing Steven from the hospital, but was knocked out and arrived on time to see Steve die in the hands of Gabriel. (PROSE: Damaged Goods)

Roz died in battle in 2982. She was buried in the Umtata Reclamation Zone on 1 September, a bright and sunny day. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

Other realities
A younger version of Roz met Bernice Summerfield, Chris Cwej, Jason Kane, and the Schirron Dream when all timelines began collapsing due to Randolph Bane misusing an amaranth. (PROSE: Oblivion)

Personality
Roz was a strong believer in justice. In order to arrest someone who she couldn't prove had committed a crime, she swallowed his identification tag, so she could arrest him for not having the proper identification. (PROSE: Original Sin) Between herself and Chris, she believed that she held the brains, and often took charge in tasks they had been given by the Doctor. (PROSE: Shakedown)

Roz distrusted telepaths. She was very protective of her privacy. (PROSE: Sleepy)

She did not trust the Fifth Doctor when she met him, as she felt the fact that he seemed so trustworthy was suspicious. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)

Skills
Roz could speak some Swahili and Xhosa. (PROSE: The Also People)

Behind the scenes

 * The history of Roz's family is explored in the short story collection Decalog 4: Re:Generations.