Bliss

Bliss was a companion of the Eighth Doctor.

They met onboard the starship Theseus, and soon found themselves caught in the crossfire of the Last Great Time War. When she finally returned home in the TARDIS, she found that her whole life there now never existed. She was an orphan of the Time War.

Original timeline
Through biodata analysis, Bliss' ancestry was traced to the South Asia subcontinent on Earth. (AUDIO: The Conscript) She grew up on the planet Derilobia (AUDIO: The Lords of Terror) and was an alumna of Luna University. (AUDIO: Echoes of War)

Bliss studied robotics and computer science on Derilobia. She was kidnapped by the Nine, along with other companions of the Doctor, but, in this timeline, she had never met him. The Nine had received Bliss's name from River Song, who was aware of when Bliss had travelled with the Doctor and was able to explain that the change to Bliss's history was likely due to her being caught in a "complex temporal event" when she originally met the Doctor. Despite being confused at the situation facing her, Bliss was able to work with Charley, Liv Chenka and Helen Sinclair to escape her prison, reprogram the Nine's drone guards and rescue River.

Bliss claimed that she would be sure to run away from the Doctor if she met him after this, even if she had enjoyed working with the other three, but River erased her memory of this encounter once she returned Bliss home, and her memory of the event may have been erased by the Time War in any case. (AUDIO: Companion Piece)

Early life
The Time War rewrote Bliss' history. (AUDIO: Companion Piece) She was born to a mother and father in Capital City on Derilobia and lived in a house with her mother and grandfather. (AUDIO: The Lords of Terror) She graduated from Luna University, after which she studied Applied Quantum Astrotech as a postgraduate student, and was aware of the Time War, although she thought that it was "ancient history". (AUDIO: Echoes of War)

Meeting the Doctor
As a postgraduate, Bliss went on a field trip to Titan and boarded the Theseus to measure quantum fluctuations in a temporal warzone. (AUDIO: Echoes of War) She armed herself with a regression weapon and led a group of people when the Daleks attacked the ship, later meeting the Eighth Doctor and escaping with him, Jefferson, Rupa and Quarren Maguire and others in a Dalek timeship. (AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus)

The timeship crashed on a jungle planet where Bliss was effectively put in charge of leading the refugees by Dal following the Doctor's kidnapping. She tried to save Dal when Ollistra arrived with Time Lord soldiers, but Tamasan killed him and took Bliss prisoner with the Maguires. (AUDIO: Echoes of War)

On the Moon of Tenacity, Ollistra interrogated Bliss to find out if she was the renegade that she was looking for, (AUDIO: One Life) but Bliss refused to answer her questions and fled to the TARDIS with the Doctor and the Maguires when the Daleks attacked. Ollistra, however, refused to allow her prisoners to leave. (AUDIO: The Conscript)

Ollistra allowed Bliss and the Maguires to enter the TARDIS when the Daleks broke through the final defences. Upon learning that Quarren was the renegade, the Doctor tried to find a safe planet for Bliss and Rupa but, after the Daleks were defeated and Quarren erased himself from time, Bliss joined the Doctor as his companion. The Doctor told her that they would have to try to stay ahead of the Time War. (AUDIO: One Life)

Travels in the TARDIS
Not wanting her mother and grandfather to think that she was dead, Bliss asked the Doctor to take her back to Derilobia for a visit. However, they found that the Time Lords had altered the history of the planet and that Bliss' family seemed to have been erased from history, making her an orphan of the Time War. She helped the Doctor defeat Carvil, telling him that he was far worse than the Daleks, and left in the hope that there might be a way to restore her family. Until then, she and the Doctor agreed to look after one another and help out far from the battlefields. (AUDIO: The Lords of Terror)

Bliss and the Doctor visited Sto where she convinced him to hear the Twelve out when she approached them with Doctor Ogron. They went to the Planet where she and Doctor Ogron attempted to get the Ogrons to fight against the Daleks without success, instead appealing to the Crab Gods. A Dalek taskforce later took Bliss, the Doctor and the Twelve prisoner. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons)

Imprisoned on Sangrey with their memories wiped, Bliss, the Doctor and the Twelve were periodically interrogated by the Daleks before having their memories of the interrogations removed. Bliss, known as Kappa Zeta, befriended the Doctor and came to believe that she might have once been an engineer. The trio eventually escaped and recovered their memories and Bliss rounded up the other prisoners to be taken to safety by the Time Lords, after which she was told she would be joining the Doctor and the Twelve in travelling to Uzmal. (AUDIO: In the Garden of Death)

Bliss, at the Doctor's request, kept an eye on the Twelve whilst aboard the Bloodhound and found that she could not remember exactly what she was doing and escaping from when she met the Doctor on the Theseus. She was attacked by the Twelve when the Ourashima took over and later plotted the course towards the Ourashima. (AUDIO: Jonah)

Personality
Bliss enjoyed solving problems and always deconstructed and analysed situations as well as people. She saw the practical application in things. (AUDIO: In the Garden of Death)

Appearance
The Twelve told Bliss that she could do with "fattening up a bit". (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons) She was of South Asian ancestry. (AUDIO: The Conscript)

Behind the scenes
Although Bliss appeared in all of the The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One stories, she was not originally intended to be a companion and the end of One Life had to be rewritten to accommodate this change. (BFX: The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One) The Lords of Terror was rewritten to include her, making Derilobia her home planet. (BFX: The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Two)

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