Tanya Adeola

Tanya Adeola was a student at Coal Hill Academy. In 2013, (TV: Nightvisiting) when she was eleven years old, (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) Tanya was moved up three years at Coal Hill School, (TV: Nightvisiting) or possibly two, (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) due to her "outstanding examination results" and "truly extraordinary academic capability". (TV: Nightvisiting)

When she was fourteen years old, in 2016, she reached sixth form. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) Tanya was in the group of students the Twelfth Doctor asked to protect Coal Hill. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)

Tanya's mobile phone number began with 079. (PROSE: Joyride) She lived with her family in Flat 15 at Clarendon House, St James's Place, in London. (TV: Nightvisiting)

Personality
Tanya was intelligent, enough so that she was moved up either two (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) or three academic years. (TV: Nightvisiting) She also managed to begin hacking the UNIT database, though this was a work in progress and what she had, she downloaded from Reddit. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

She proved to be a caring individual, such as when she would look in on her father to make sure he returned home safe from his police work (TV: Nightvisiting) and when she comforted Ram Singh after the death of Rachel Chapman. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) She also argued with Charlie Smith over his treatment of Miss Quill. (TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart)

History
Tanya was born to Jasper and Vivian Adeola, (TV: Nightvisiting, For Tonight We Might Die) sometime around 2002. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) She had two older brothers – Jarvis and Damon. (TV: Nightvisiting)

When Tanya was little, the family went to see the Regimental Horses and Tanya mistook a puddle of horse urine for a regular puddle, she jumped in it shouting "Puddle, puddle!". This event let to her father to nicknaming her Puddle. (TV: Nightvisiting) Tanya's father was a policeman. She would look in on him at night, no matter how late it was in order to check that he was okay. This would lead to him checking on her in the same fashion. (TV: Nightvisiting) He passed away from a stroke in October 2014. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, Nightvisiting) Around this time, Tanya attended Coal Hill School. (TV: Nightvisiting)

On 19 July 2013, following outstanding examination results, Coal Hill School accepted Tanya's request to move up (TV: Nightvisiting) two (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) or three years. (TV: Nightvisiting)

Three years later, she started sixth form. Tanya struggled making friends at Coal Hill Academy, due to being younger than everyone else. The one student who offered friendship to Tanya initially was April MacLean, though Tanya wasn't entirely happy with being friends with the school's social outcast. She regularly helped Ram Singh with his homework, and in return, he would pay money into her gaming account. During one of their video calls, Tanya was attacked by a Shadow Kin. She managed to defeat it by removing all the shadows from the room. This knowledge would later help her and her friends, along with the Twelfth Doctor and Miss Quill, temporarily defeat Corakinus and the Shadow Kin at the Autumn Prom. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)

She was also friends with Sophie. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

Tanya continued to do video calls with Ram after the prom. She told him about her dad's death and how she coped with it in order to show him that she understood what he was going through after the death of his girlfriend, Rachel Chapman. She helped Ram investigate a skin-peeling dragon at Coal Hill. She later witnessed Mr Armitage being skinned alive by the dragon while trying to protect April, Charlie, and Tanya herself. She watched as Coach Dawson, who had the female dragon fused to his body in he form of a tattoo, was taken away by the male dragon to be killed. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

One Tuesday, Tanya, April and Charlie saw Amar Sai on the roof. They managed to prevent "joyrider" Viola Cummings, who was controlling Amar's body, from running a trial suicide at his expense.

As Tanya and her friends gathered in Charlie's house to decide how to find Ram, who did not come to school, her body was overtaken by "joyrider", James Banks. Miss Quill then knocked Tanya's body out. (PROSE: Joyride)

On the two year anniversary of Jasper's death, a creature called the Lankin came through the rift and took the form of people's dead loved ones. The Lankin, in the form of Jasper, tried to entice Tanya into embracing him and thus allowing the Lankin to feed on her grief. She knew that this was not her father, and poisoned the Lankin with the anger she felt when Jasper died. When Miss Quill drove a double decker bus into the trunk of the Lankin, it knocked the doppelgänger of Jasper out of the window, and in weakened state, the Lankin retreated back into the rift. Tanya later reminisced about her father with her mother. (TV: Nightvisiting)

At the time when the killer petals arrived, she became curious if Charlie appeared completely human and asked Matteusz Andrzejewski this, thinking that he would know due to their intimacy. After Ram told her that Corakinus was influencing April, she arrived in time to see April travel to the Underneath. (TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart) After going to tell Ram's father that Ram had travelled to the Underneath, and with him and April's parents they travelled to Coal Hill as the Killer Petals started to engulf humans. She received a text message from Matteusz telling her that "Shadow kills petals". She encouraged Jackie MacLean to picture April in her mind to help April find her way back from the Underneath. She then told April about Matteusz' text. (TV: Brave-ish Heart)