Ram Singh

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

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 all on his own. 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: For Tonight We Might Die)

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)

Ram lived with his father and arrived at school the day before the Autumn Prom that April MacLean was organising. He knocked Charlie over when he saw him standing and not really paying attention. He also laughed at April when Charlie turned down her invitation to go to prom with her. On 13 October 2016, on the football pitch, he spotted one of the Shadow Kin in shadow form pass over the football pitch and into a teammates shadow. He was distracted and lost the opportunity to score so his coach made him run laps.

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.

Singh was disbelieving when he discovered that Charlie and Miss Quill were aliens. He went to the Autumn Prom with Rachel. His father tried to dissuade him from putting his girlfriend before his potential career but Ram ignores him. At the prom, Ram was nonetheless wary of the shadows and, like the others, kept an eye out for more Shadow Kin. He stuck to Rachel and the pair left the room. As Rachel told him that he didn't "need to prove anything" to her, she was stabbed in front of Ram by a Shadow Kin - spattering him in her blood - and was disintegrated.

A grief-struck and furious Singh attacked the Shadow Kin which led to him having his right leg sliced off. He then attacked the Shadow Kin with a chair when it tried to take April with it back through the cracks in space time before he 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 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 Dawson.

Ram passed off what he saw as a PTSD-related hallucination and didn't mention it. In class, the others tried to stick up for Ram when Miss Quill was harsh, he then becomes frustrated. He stormed out of the lesson and goes outside for a cigarette with one of the cleaners. They hear a noise from a dumpster but dismiss it as nothing. At that moment, the cleaner was attacked by a dragon like creature. Ram tried to help her but she was flayed in front of him; he could do nothing but run and hide.

On Skype he told Tanya what had happened, so they decided to investigate however when they did so, they found nothing but Dawson. The Coach kicked them off the school grounds in which they left. Ram confronted the Coach during school about being reassigned to the Second Team and asked for his help. He noticed the coach's tattoo move, but said nothing until he later realised, while on Skype with the others, that the dragon creature is the tattoo.

The four meet up outside school and witness the coach disposing of the skin remains of Mr Armitage and 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.

The coach ordered the dragon to kill the children or he'd cut his skin and kill the mate. Ram begs the dragon to spare them all but himself, telling it about having lost someone and maybe it could negotiate on its own terms. The dragon considered and abducted the coach, dragging him back through the time crack to presumably be eaten.

Tanya convinced Ram that he didn't have to deal with his grief alone. The same night, Ram tried practising football until his father came to talk to him. Ram finally explained everything, including his prosthetic leg, this meant his father decided to help him with practise. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

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. Ram refused to investigate despite April's insistence only to run out of the room when Rachel suddenly appeared in his room.

Ram ran out into the street and left a voicemail message for his father before he noticed the Lankin roots stretching across the street. He tried to cut one open but it re-fused itself back together after he did so. After seeing Rachel in his bedroom window he ran for it and witnessed a man take the hand of his "mother" for closure and be sucked away. After realising that many people had been affected and wrapped up in Lankin roots, he called April and the two met up.

April explained to him that her mother was paralysed when her father drove their car deliberately off the side of a motorway. Her love of folk music stems from the time before he started drinking. The two end up kissing.

On reaching Coal Hill, they discover the Lankin is coming through a crack in space time with the main root leading towards Tanya's flat. They discover Tanya'a house infested with Lankin roots with all of her family trapped and in a paralytic state. Upstairs they discover Tanya discussing with the "Heart" Lankin, her father. When the father becomes aggressive, Ram and April try to stop him but become trapped themselves. They are freed when a combination of Tanya and Miss Quill kill the main root- Tanya feeds it her anger rather than grief posioning the root and Miss Quill drives a bus into the now weakened root. (TV: Nightvisiting (TV story)|Nightvisiting]])