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
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)

With Bernice and Chris
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)

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
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)

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.