Leela of the Sevateem

Basic Stats


Canon Point: (expanded explanation) Season 6; Gallifrey - Just as the Matrix is shutting down when she and Narvin are trapped inside. She's legging it for the Matrix partition door.

Age: (expanded) So. This is a little weird. When she left the Doctor to marry Andred, she had to be maybe nineteen or so, and was on Gallifrey for 25+ years. During her travels to help find a cure for the Dogma Virus, she began to age as she was off the Prime Gallifrey. This left her senses failing, her hearing diminished, and her hair graying until due to events in an alternative Gallifrey, she drank vampire blood as part of Borusa's Hound creation process. This restored both her youth and enhanced her senses. It also restored her sight as she had been rendered completely blind during an attack where she saved CIA Coordinator Narvin's life. She could be in her mid to late fifties or her two-hundred and fifties, but she definitely doesn't look like it, now. Leela is fairly sure she's old and that is that. Numbers, to her, are pointless.

River Power:(expanded) Emotional Form; rage/anger triggered, energy based. This usually manifests as some sort of fire form, or light that flickers under her skin when she gets riled, though she's popped light bulbs before. There are more than a few facets to this ability, some of which only manifest for certain people and are built around the level of rage she feels if they are threatened, though it may manifest as a light based non-harmful aura/form. Her full powered rage form has yet to be unlocked, but will essentially become a complete energy form with her usual fire color as well as the non-threatening aura/form that is more colorful. Because she tends to lose herself to the rage itself, her full form that retains most of its higher function will be one that incorporates the emotion drawn from the part of anger that stems from love. Her non-balanced forms can be just bad news as it's a Leela shaped fiery mess/aura or if she is all light/non-threatening aura (as in passion), she may become intangible as she becomes all energy. For example; too much anger, too much fire, too much passion, too much light/energy. Leela, herself, would say that she is always angry. And she has a great deal to be angry about of late and in her life before she landed in the river. She is rage and sorrow and love wrapped in a warrior's heart.

Leela says it feels as if it is a creature that resides within her, burns in her blood and heart, but fully accepting it as a part of herself, rather than a thing to control, is what lets her gain full access to what she is capable of doing. When she does this, she will be able to use the energy to fuel energy around herself and others as a defensive barrier. Honestly, it's all in how the power is accepted and used.

Appearance


Leela is about five foot six inches tall, with reddish brown hair and blue eyes. She's very athletic and appears to be in her mid to late twenties. She generally wears her stitched animal skin outfit with her knee high boots, but has worn other clothes besides that onscreen. She prefers articles of clothing that are easy to fight in. Her hair is generally kept loose or on occasion pinned up (as it is in ringlets when she goes to early Earth time periods).

Since she's been in NYC for awhile, and has graduated Police Academy, she has been able to adapt to New York City's fashion sense - helped along by a few friendly classmates who went out of their way to get her on the right track. Fashionable Leela is rather fashionable.

Personality
"'He ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times.' -- Leela, Imperiatrix"Though everyone ever on Gallifrey refers to her as  The Savage, Leela of the Sevateem is incredibly, at or near genius-level in the brains department. Maybe she gets her words and metaphors mixed up like alphabet soup, but she is brilliant nontheless. She's sorta fish-out-of-water on Gallifrey, especially after Andred goes missing, but she makes her life work within the incredibly overly complex bullshit that is Time Lord society. She's Romana's Savage, her bodyguard, her  friend. She's loyal and fierce, wild and wily, and she will not hesitate to kill if the situation warrants it. Others have called her reckless, but if there's tracking needed, or a crime to be solved, or a situation that needs to be handled in a non-Time Lord capacity, Romana sends  Leela. She'll never really turn her back on the people she calls friends, even if she's hurt and angry or feels betrayed.

Leela is the sort of person who runs by instinct rather than careful thought, and her instincts are generally correct. She doesn't trust easily, but when she does finally trust someone, she'll generally risk her own life to keep them safe. She's a warrior, which means violence is generally her first reaction and the one she's most gung-ho about. If it involves a brawl, either she started it or she was just happy to get a crap ton of punches in.

Mostly, her goal these days is keeping her friend and President as well as Gallifrey safe. Her life on the Time Lords' planet has been one of momentary happiness with her husband, strife, struggle, and war, more war, a Time Lord virus, torture, more fighting, moments of hopelessness followed by determination and will to overcome, more fighting, near-death, more near-death, bickering with Coordinator Narvin, losing people she cares about, and eventually saving the planet she's come to (reluctantly) love. She does all of this to protect her friends because that's who Leela is. She is, at her core, a protector and a warrior, but she's also gained a great deal of wisdom through all of her adventures on Gallifrey and beyond. In the end of everything, when she is finished with life, all she really wants is to be reunited with Andred in whatever comes after death. Until then, she'll kick ass, take names, and then kick more ass.

History
Welcome to a great deal of history. Fifty years of it. Bits you can ignore based on  Gallifrey  canon are; No baby with Andred, Lungbarrow is a pile of ridiculousness, no looms, there are too many comics of dumb. Basically, we're going by Gallifrey  canon,  here.

Notable Things:  (Links taken from the Tardis Wikia, mostly)
 * Leela and K9 Mark I have been on Gallifrey since The Invasion of Time.
 * In  Square One, Leela is pretty much is a giant badass and helps put an end to stupid Monans being stupid, people getting killed, and crazy time loops. (Oh and Flinkstab is a giant baby and also an asshole grabby hands killer. On one of the loops, she kills him and it's fantastic.)
 * Leela, eventually, finds out her husband has regenerated and suffering from severe post-regenerative trauma after spending six months as shittyass Torvald, who was a giant dick. She has issues forgiving Andred that last until his death despite his attempts to win back her heart.
 * Leela was blind for a good long while, long enough that she just about accepted it, even if it left her more than a little bitter. Despite her blindness, she still managed to drag an unconscious, terribly wounded Narvin back to the base for medical help. The blind, in her culture, were considered a burden. Leela did everything possible to make herself not a burden and managed to take out a great deal of enemy soldiers in a relatively confined space...without her eyes. Can I please stress how crazy badass that is? Yes?
 * Leela was, briefly, President of Gallifrey. She hated it, but was basically blackmailed into it. Also, in that universe her alternate self apparently held the Key of Time. Damn, gurl.
 * She withstood some crazy nasty mental torture by an alternative version of herself who was  bugfuck evil . This included having her memories plugged into her evil self's head (which made her alt!self blind, yeah...I laughed).
 * For awhile, Leela was incredibly pissed off at Romana to the point that she refused to speak to her. For months. It got better, but it took a long time for her to forgive Romana for what she perceived as betrayal. It got pretty rough between them to the point where it was  Narvin  playing go-between.
 * When Narvin tried to talk her out of drinking Vampire blood to gain the abilities that could a) kill her b) regress her into a base animal instinct that she might not recover from, in order to track Romana down, they had a fantastic moment of CR. It was fabulous. Especially when she told Narvin she trusted him and that he'd come a long way from the backstabbing bastard she knew before. Earlier in the series, Leela had threatened to cut his throat. Actually, she's threatened to kill him on multiple occasions. It's almost a running joke, now.Tumblr mtfreqMTGs1r1us7io1 500.jpg
 * Leela and Narvin destroyed a  Dalek  together. Narvin jumped it, Leela basically smashed it up, and it was glorious.