Evelyn Smythe was an accomplished academician, rather closer to the end of her long career than the beginning of it. Depending on her audience, she was known as Professor Smythe, Doctor Smythe or just plain Evelyn. As a professor of history, she was naturally most interested in the TARDIS' time travel capabilities. She occasionally found that theories to which she had devoted much of her career were invalidated by actually examining history first-hand.
Her history with the Doctor was complicated, as it involved a period of time where she was the Sixth Doctor's active companion, and several visits long after she had departed. Accounts of her life, especially after her initial journeys in the TARDIS, have occasionally conflicted, suggesting some degree of meddling with her time stream.
Biography
When Evelyn met the Doctor she was a History lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. She was of interest to the Doctor due to her being the temporal nexus point that he arrived in search of. He took her back to 1554 to try to save her life. With this done she insisted that she join the Doctor on his travels as she couldn't pass up the opportunity to travel through time (BFA: The Marian Conspiracy).
Travelling with the Doctor, she met The Brigadier, Charles Darwin and the Silurians (BFA: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor / Bloodtide). She was also present during the Etra Prime incident and the Dalek invasion of Gallifrey, where she had her eye print scanned into the Eye of Harmony (BFA: The Apocalypse Element).
In 2003 London, she befriended a young waitress named Cassie and when Cassie was turned into a vampire by Nimrod, she and the Doctor set out to find a cure (BFA: Project:Twilight). By the time they returned, Cassie had been brainwashed by The Forge and it was only through persuasion by Evelyn that she could be returned to her original personality. However, before she could escape in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Evelyn, Nimrod killed her. This devastated Evelyn (BFA: Project Lazarus.
Cassie's death and the Doctor's inability to save her put great strain on Evelyn's relationship with him and caused her to need some time away from him. During this time, on the planet Vilag, Evelyn grew close to a man named Rossiter. However, she felt that she couldn't leave the Doctor for him (BFA: Arrangements for War).
Evelyn was suffering from a heart condition when she met the Doctor, something she never told him in case he refused to let her travel with him anymore (BFA: Project Lazarus). Eventually on a return trip to Vilag, Evelyn decided to leave the Doctor and marry Rossiter. The Doctor reacted badly to this and treated Evelyn badly, rather than say goodbye properly. She had hoped the Doctor would attend her wedding and give her away, but he never turned up. She had surgery to cure her heart condition, however, in actuality, the surgery had used Killoran blood to disguise the problem, and also caused headaches and short temper.
Two years later, the Doctor arrived with his companion Mel to visit Evelyn, who had been having problems with her step-daughter Sofia's ideologies. Evelyn and Mel are kidnapped soon after as political prisoners. It is soon established that although the activists, who had injected Evelyn with Killoran DNA, knew Sofia, she was not involved with their plot. The Doctor and Sofia worked together to save Evelyn's life, and although her heart condition was still not cured, Evelyn was happy and she and the Doctor made their peace at the renewing of Evelyn and Rossiter's vows (BFA: Thicker Than Water).
Personality
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