Azure is the sister of Swarm, a nihilistic being known as a Ravager, and one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Commander Stenck) in Series 13 of the revived Doctor Who, subtitled,Flux.
She is portrayed by Rochenda Sandall, who also played Lisa McQueen in Line of Duty.
Biography[]
The Founding Conflict[]
During the Dark Times, Azure and her brother Swarm worshipped Time as an entity. Azure herself would indicate that the Ravagers existed to "correct" the concept of life prevailing. The Ravagers fought The Divison and the Fugitive Doctor in the Founding Conflict, a fight between the forces aligned with Time, such as Swarm and Azure, and those with Space, who would put time under their control.
Siege of Atropos[]
Towards the end of the conflict, Swarm and Azure took control of the Temple of Atropos where Time was imprisoned. They expelled the beings known as the Mouri who guarded the Temple and allowed Time to run wild, taking millions of hostages within Passenger forms in an attempt to deter the Time Lords from interfering.
A team of Division agents who included the Fugitive Doctor and Karvanista were deployed to Atropos to capture Swarm and Azure. When confronted, the Ravagers began disintegrating multiple Passengers of hostages until the Doctor revealed that one of them contained the Mouri, which emerged and retook their positions to imprison Time once more and return things to normal. Swarm and Azure were taken prisoner by Division, who imprisoned Azure in the persona of a human woman named Anna with no memory of her past.
Flux[]
Release[]
In 2021, Division's leader Tecteun released Swarm from his imprisonment as part of a wider scheme to destroy the universe and move on to another one. Swarm immediately headed to Earth, where he killed Anna's partner Jòn and burned away her human guise to reveal Azure, whose identity was now reawakened. Now freed and active once more, Azure went to Liverpool where she captured a woman named Diane to use as a hostage, trapping her inside a Passenger.
Return to Atropos[]
Swarm and Azure travelled back to Atropos, where Azure destroyed two of the priest triangles guarding the temple. They then found Yasmin Khan and Inston-Vee Vinder in the sanctum of the Mouri. Swarm used them to reveal the Mouri, who had been quantum-locked against the Ravagers after the founding conflict, finding that two of them had been burned out by the ongoing Flux event caused by Division. Swarm destroyed the other two just before the arrival of the Thirteenth Doctor and Dan Lewis, at which point he and Azure showed them how they had forced the others into the Mouri's place where they would be forced to withstand the full force of the time vortex, which they would not survive. Swarm gave Azure the job of counting down from 10 while he prepared to unleash the full force of Time on the captives.
The Doctor pre-empted Swarm and Azure by taking the place of one of the Mouri herself and taking on the force of the time storm. After this allowed her to re-experience the siege of Atropos, she was inspired to use the same solution again and used a Passenger form to summon more Mouri. The Mouri were able to restore the temple once more, but by this point Swarm and Azure had already harnessed enough time force to continue their goals. They left after Swarm revealed that Diane, who was a friend of Dan's, was a hostage within the Passenger form.
Growing the Timeforce[]
In order to strengthen their time force, Azure gathered survivors of the Flux event to the dead world of Puzano, where she trapped them inside the Passenger form by luring them into its transportation field with false promises to teleport them to safety. The hundreds of survivors were then sacrificed by Swarm and Azure in order to harvest their spatial energy, although Diane was spared because the Ravagers already had enough spatial energy from the other victims and viewed her as insignificant, allowing her to escape later. The spatial energy they harvested in conjunction with the time force rejuvenated Swarm's pre-existing psychic connection with the Doctor into a psycho-temporal bridge which allowed them to locate her current location at Division Headquarters. Upon arriving, the Ravagers killed Tecteun after revealing they knew she was responsible for their escape before telling the Doctor that she was next.
Final gambit[]
The Doctor unsuccessfully attempted to escape from the Ravagers, but Swarm's interference with her conversion plate caused her to splinter into three duplicates, one of whom remained on the Division spacecraft. Swarm and Azure then used Division's technology to generate a second Flux event in order to destroy the universe. Their ultimate goal was to destroy Atropos using the Flux, releasing Time from its imprisonment, before using Time to replay the destruction of the universe on an eternal loop and force the Doctor to feel every dying particle as revenge for their earlier imprisonment.
The Doctor at Division Control managed to distract Swarm and Azure long enough for an Ood working at Division Control to access Division's technology and reduce the power of the Flux as much as possible. Remnants of the Flux still remained, but another of the Doctor's splinters remembered the Passenger form's infinite containment and was able to absorb the Flux remnants within the Passenger, where it later dissipated. Unaware of this, Swarm and Azure brought the Doctor's splinter from Division to Time as a sacrifice upon its release. However, Time informed them that the Flux was extinguished and as such, they had failed it. It then killed both Swarm and Azure, which Azure deemed "ascension".
