Characters appearing in the Gallifrey audio series by Big Finish.
For character tropes concerning the alternate Doctor seen in series 4, see here. For tropes about Coordinator Vansell, see here. For tropes relating to Braxiatel in the Bernice Summerfield series, see here. For general TV series tropes about Leela, Romana and K9, see here.
Protagonists
Romanadvoratrelundar
The second regeneration of Romanadvoratrelundar became Gallifrey's President after returning from E-Space, replacing acting President Flavia. After having spent the first twenty years of her rule stuck in a Dalek prison, she resumed her office with a renewed desire to modernise Gallifrey and reform its xenophobic policies. To this end, she opens up the Academy to alien races — which earns her plenty of resistance from the right-wing end of the political spectrum. To make matters more complicated, her first regeneration is present inside the Matrix with her own share of secrets, and her third shows up from the future.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Fits future Romana (aka. Lady Trey) to a T. (She may want to hug everyone, but best make sure there isn't a knife present, metaphorically speaking).
- The Chains of Commanding
- The Determinator: She may not be as devious or nasty as many of her rivals, yet still manages to get most of her reforms put through.
- Future Me Scares Me: Well, Pandora does. And her past version as well, just to make things more complicated.
- Romana II is also untrusting of Lady Trey (aka. the future Romana).
- I Hate Past Me: Comes in a rather odd fashion, given her past incarnation is possessed by the will of Pandora, but it's there.
- Measuring the Marigolds: Has a habit of this, to Leela's extreme annoyance.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Leela's Red.
- What the Hell, Hero?: A couple of well-deserved instances, Madame Imperiatrix.
Leela of the Sevateem
- Voiced by: Louise Jameson
Unlike much of the other cast, Leela is a human born from the Sevateem tribe who married Andred, and spent twenty-five years happily living with him in the Citadel — though never accepted as part of Time Lord society. When all that changes, she becomes the Presidential bodyguard and close friend to President Romana. She pops into the Jago & Litefoot audio series as well, acting on behalf of the Time Lords.
- Action Girl: Doubly emphasized considering the company she's keeping.
- The Ageless: The Time Lord bio-fields on Gallifrey are enough to keep her from aging, but her years on Gallifrey — twenty-five at the start of the series — would quickly catch up with her if she were to leave the planet for good. In the Big Finish releases "The Catalyst", "Empathy Games" and "The Time Vampire" (all in the Companion Chronicles range), this eventually happens, after Gallifrey is lost in the Time War.
- Battle Butler: To Romana.
- Book Dumb: Both this and her common sense are especially obvious compared to everyone around her.
- Fish out of Water: A major source of distress. Finds her footing somewhat during the civil war.
- Fur Bikini: On being sent out on an assignment, Leela complains that she doesn't want to have to wear stupid clothes again. Romana assures her that she can stay dressed as she is. The next scene begins with her reading the mission briefing and trying to read aloud the words "exotic dancer".
- Noble Savage
- Blue Oni, Red Oni: Red to Romana's Blue.
K9 Mark I and K9 Mark II
- Voiced by: John Leeson
Given to Romana and Leela by the Doctor, the two Robot Dog units are in close contact with each other and work as a team.
- Demonic Possession: Pandora gets into both of them, with varying results.
- Do-Anything Robot: Open doors, interface with the Matrix, perform autopsies...
- Robot Buddy: Both to Leela and to Romana.
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Level 3, although the units can learn to mimick human empathy. (Not very successfully.)
Irving "Brax" Braxiatel
Cardinal Irving Braxiatel is an art collector and smarmy politician, with significantly less regard for the Laws of Time than most others around him. He gets around. Strongly hinted to be the Doctor's older brother in various stories. For his tropes in the Bernice Summerfield audios, see here.
- The Chessmaster: Oh, yes. A benevolent example, as most of his machinations here are directed to the benefit of the heroes. Not that he seems to be bothered whether they know, approve, or are aware of it at the time.
- Continuity Snarl: Inevitably becomes a living one, which turns into a major plot point after his return from the Bernice Summerfield stories.
- Evil Chancellor: Checks every item on the list... except for actually being evil. (He's far from "good", though.)
- Guile Hero
- Help Yourself in the Future: He's in regular contact with his past and future selves, and occasionally asks them to perform machinations he's not capable of in his present state.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Of the non-fatal, simply having a malevolent entity stuck in your head that will destroy you if you think about it variety. Of course, all part of the Grand Plan.
- Ice Queen: His nickname in the Academy was "the Icicle".
- Large Ham: Oh dear God...
- My Future Self and Me: He regularly spends time with his other incarnations, which is highly illegal on Gallifrey.
- Professional Killer: In "Disassembled", it's revealed that during Pandad VII's reign, he got a Burn Edict (presumably just for being that much of a git), and the Lord Burner was sent to assassinate him. Brax got the man to do some Evil Gloating, made use of the moment to kill the Lord Burner, and was promptly made Lord Burner himself by Pandad VII as punishment for being the first Time Lord in history crafty enough to escape a Burn Edict. Then, as a test, Brax was ordered to assassinate two innocents... an old man (well, old in that incarnation) and his granddaughter, harmless people, just family. Someone warned them in advance so they could steal a TARDIS and escape the planet, and then someone made sure that Pandad VII had a very nasty accident that very same day. (It was definitely an accident — confirmed by an impartial inquiry. Brax should know, as he made sure he was personally in charge of the inquiry.)
- Put on a Bus: "Whatever you or anyone else may think, I am leaving Gallifrey of my own choosing."
- The Bus Came Back: Of course it did. With grand style.
- Got back on a different bus at the end of "Disassembled", where it was also revealed that, despite it being directly stated that he had already been running the Braxiatel Collection (perhaps for millenia) and had sold it, Braxiatel had never seen Bernice Summerfield before.
- Gary Russell explains (Bernice Summerfield spoilers ahoy):
The Brax of the Virgin books and BF books and audios up to Season 11 is the Brax actually in charge of the Collection. He received the Pandora in his head and we saw glimpses of it asserting itself in The Mirror Effect. This Brax was last seen in "Escaping the Future". The younger Cardinal Braxiatel from Gallifrey absorbed the original Pandora into his subconscious. Learning of his counterpart's less than savoury exploits, this Brax hid away for some years until after "Escaping the Future". He went in search of Peter and rescued him, taking him to Legion after contacting Benny and asking her to meet him there. Just previously he had a brief encounter with Avril Fenman, and she removed Pandora from his mind and sent it back in time, placing it in Collection-owning Brax's head in time for "The Mirror Effect". So the current state of play is that the Brax in the current Benny boxsets, from Epoch onwards, is the Gallifrey series Brax, the original Collection-owning one is either dead or hiding or doing something, with Pandora in his head. - Rank Up: He manages to become Chancellor, just by announcing that he's now Chancellor and afterwards convincing Romana — with quite a lot of guile and some machinations from Darkel — that this would be a great idea.
- Renaissance Man: Art historian, politician, semi-malevolent Machiavelli. And the list goes on.
Narvinectralonum
Coordinator Narvinectralonum is the head of the Celestial Intervention Agency, following in Vansell's footsteps. He's dour, mistrusting and doesn't especially like anyone else on Gallifrey, but takes great pride in his work and tries to remain politically neutral. Also appears in the Big Finish "Dark Eyes" range, where he encounters the Eighth Doctor.
- Butt-Monkey: Loyal to his work and willing to go to great lengths to keep Gallifrey safe. Disliked by basically everyone.
- Deadpan Snarker: Possibly the only way to cope, as he spends most of his time being ordered around by his superiors to do things he politically objects to or finds completely stupid.
- Fire-Forged Friends: He very slowly comes to a mutual understanding with Leela. Starts turning into Ship Tease from series 3 onwards. (The fact that Seán Carlsen really ships it, and had a snog with Louise Jameson at a convention, certainly helps.)
- Good Is Not Nice: Consistently insults Leela (along with the other "sophisticated" locals). Overlaps with Character Development: He starts out conservative, but gradually learns to appreciate the liberal end of the political spectrum. Contrast his season 4 attitude to his dismission of temporal refugees as in his introduction.
- Insufferable Genius: He's one of the most intelligent Time Lords on Gallifrey.
- Married to the Job: He doesn't care for a private life beyond his duties to his planet.
- Mind Rape: Both by Pandora and, in "Dark Eyes 3", by the Eminence.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He's the one responsible for sending the Fourth Doctor to Skaro, inadvertently contributing to the start of the Last Great Time War.
- Rank Up: Once the Time War starts raging, he retroactively assigns himself the title of Coordinator In Extremis.
- Supporting Protagonist: Gary Russell has unambiguously stated that Narvin is the main character, that Gallifrey is his story, and that everything that happens essentially revolves around him.
Andredaselus
- Voiced by: Andy Coleman
Andredaselus is Leela's husband, a Time Lord and member of the Chancellery Guard. The two met on Gallifrey after the Sontaran invasion. He's missing and presumed dead at the beginning of the series, but the truth is a little more complicated.
- Actually, I Am Him: His confession to Leela, during the Cecilia Pollard mission, is a massive shock to her.
- Came Back Wrong: Due to severe trauma and a couple of very wrong decisions, he has a lot of trouble going back to normal after the CIA crisis has been resolved.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Of Torvald.
- Frameup: The incident with the Librarian; The Corpse Stops Here is in full effect, and Narvin and Darkel later strongly hint that they pinned the blame on Andred without convincing evidence.
- Killed Off for Real: The series Dropped a Bridge on Him at the end of series 2.
- Rank Up: He makes Castellan eventually, working alongside Maxil.
- Walking Spoiler: There's very little that can be said about him without spoiling his story arc.
Antagonists
Darkelatraquistahastrad / The Inquisitor
- Voiced by: Lynda Bellingham
Inquisitor Prime Darkelatraquistahastrad first appeared in the Trial of the Sixth Doctor in the TV series, and later became one of Romana's main political opponents. Perhaps a little too far on the conservative end of the political spectrum.
- Ascended Extra: Appeared as The Inquistor in season 23 of Doctor Who.
- Smug Snake
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite her methods and personal ambition, her point - that Romana's reforms are unwelcome and will lead to disaster - is pretty much vindicated by the end of the series. Though in fairness to Romana, it's largely thanks to the efforts of her and others like her subverting and opposing everything Romana does.
Pandora
- Voiced by: Brenda Longman
The first female Lord President of Gallifrey, who styled herself Imperiatrix: dictator. Now living on in the Matrix. The embodiment of all ambition and evil, past, present and future.
- Ambition Is Evil: To the discomfort of Brax and Darkel.
- Retcon: To explain Romana's regeneration in the main series.
Mephistopheles Arkadian
- Voiced by: Hugo Myatt
Transtemporal crook and interdimensional Arms Dealer.
- Conmen Hate Guns: Averted. As mentioned above, he really likes guns.
- Large Ham
- Lovable Rogue: Subverted. See below.
- Nice Is Not Good: A warm, appealing character. Coldly manipulates the suicide of a young girl for personal gain.
Free Time
A terrorist group, who aim to make time travel available to all races and abolish the quarantine planet set up for unauthorised time travelling asylum seekers. Perhaps a little too far on the progressive end of the political spectrum.
