Tegan Jovanka

Tegan Jovanka was, briefly, a companion of the Doctor during his fourth incarnation and for a longer length of time, his fifth incarnation.

Early life
Tegan was born in the city of Brisbane, Australia on 22nd September 1960 (BFA:The Gathering). She moved to London to pursue a career as an air stewardess (DW: Logopolis).

Travels with the Doctor
On 28th February 1981, Tegan was on route with her aunt Vanessa to Heathrow Airport to start her new job with Air Australia. She entered a roadside police box on the Barnet Bypass to seek help, not knowing that it was a series of nested TARDISes including Doctor's and Master's. The Master killed her aunt with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. She saw the the Doctor fall from the Pharos Project radio telescope and regenerate into his fifth incarnation (DW: Logopolis).

The Doctor tried to take her home several times. On the planet Deva Loka, Tegan was taken over by the Mara. (DW: Kinda) She was deeply upset by the death of Adric in Earthshock.

Tegan was left behind at Heathrow Airport in her home time due to a misunderstanding (DW:Time-Flight). Later, after losing her job with the airline, she returned to the TARDIS to search for her lost cousin, Colin Fraser, in Amsterdam (DW: Arc of Infinity).

On Manussa, the Mara once more possessed her the Doctor once more defeated it, finally, he claimed (DW: Snakedance) Tegan regarded the TARDIS' newest occupant, Turlough with justified suspicion (DW: Mawdryn Undead, Terminus (TV story)). Nyssa's decision to stay on Terminus to care for the Lazars affected her emotionally (DW: Terminus). She had a brief romance with Marriner, an Eternal she realized had no less interest in her than in using her thoughts and feelings to live vicariously through her. During the same adventure, she saw Turlough turn away from evil and reject the Black Guardian (DW: Enlightenment (TV story)).

Eventually, the carnage surrounding the early phase of the Dalek civil war prove too much, and she bids an emotional good-bye to the Doctor and Turlough (who by this time had reformed) in 1984 London (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks).

Life after the Doctor
In 2006, Tegan is briefly re-united with the Fifth Doctor. She is revealed to have a brain tumour (BFA: The Gathering).

Other possibly non-canonical information
One account shows that, while working again as an air stewardess circa 1985, Tegan was accidentally transported by the Doctor into his TARDIS where she helped him and Gareth Jenkins (DW: A Fix with Sontarans).

Personality
Tegan was stubborn, loud, and direct, with a no-nonsense manner and not afraid to speak her mind. She described herself as "just a mouth on legs" (DW: Earthshock). While she often bickers with them as well as with the Doctor, her strength of character keeps them together and her loyalty to her fellow crewmates is unquestionable. She was close to Nyssa, and is especially saddened when she left (DW: Terminus) The Doctor notes that she is a good coordinator, and often encouraged her with the words, "Brave heart, Tegan." Despite the strong front she adopted, her adventures with the Doctor, both thrilling and terrifying, eventually took a psychological toll.

Other information

 * Tegan was able to speak one of the many Indigenous Australian languages fluently and to make sketches (DW:Four to Doomsday).


 * Other than Aunt Vanessa (DW: Logopolis) and Colin Fraser (DW: Arc of Infinity) and an uncle named Andrew Verney, who lived in the small English village of Little Hodcombe (DW: The Awakening).


 * Before leaving Earth, Tegan had seen Blake's 7 (MA: Cold Fusion).

Key life events
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