Andrea Quill Miss " Andrea Quill " was the alias of Andra ' ath , ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) the last of the Quill . She was the servant of Charlie Smith and a physics teacher at Coal Hill Academy in 2016 . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " , " Nightvisiting " ) Biography . Early life . Quill ' s mother died giving birth to her litter , and Quill fed on her corpse for nourishment . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) She was a freedom fighter on her home world Rhodia . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Once , before the open revolt , she was put to prison completely devoid of light . Even the food was delivered in a black box through a black hatch . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) She was called the Warrior Queen ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) , and described by Charlie as " the Quill ' s leading terrorist " , though she called herself a " freedom fighter " . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) She said she once led an army . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) Miss Quill lost her partner to the war , and would forever blame the Rhodian s for it . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) When the Rhodians defeated her species , Miss Quill was enslaved as a servant and protector of the Rhodian prince Charlie before the Shadow Kin arrived . She and Charlie were rescued from there by the Twelfth Doctor , in the midst of the war . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) She was brought to Coal Hill Academy in early September 2016 , together with Charlie , where she posed as a teacher from Sheffield . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) For her human persona she chose the name Andrea Quill . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) She and Charlie lived at 1 Wellington Road , ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) in an apartment situated on the Central line of London Underground . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) Miss Quill brought with her a bracelet that held snapchats of her memories . It was made of a very light element of red colour . She also possessed an artron energy detector disguised as a pen , which enabled her to detect things and entities that had arrived through the Rift . She herself soldered two EMF readers . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) Coal Hill Academy . At night in the school she hid with a student named Kevin Williams from a Shadow Kin that materialised . Unable to use a weapon on the creature due to the terms of her enslavement to Charlie , she ordered Kevin to do it . The displacement gun killed both him and the Shadow Kin . Miss Quill continued to live with Charlie , who confronted her about Kevin ' s supposed disappearance . When more Shadow Kin appeared , she next ordered April MacLean to shoot the Shadow Kin , but she was pushed out of the way at the last second by Charlie . She assisted in making prom decorations . On the night of the Autumn Prom , she gave her gun to Charlie and witnessed the legion of Shadow Kin arrive at the school . She prepared to go down fighting before the Twelfth Doctor showed up , and , with the help of the others , dispelled the Shadow Kin . However , while she had hoped that the situation would prompt the Doctor to stay and deal with the rifts , he instead left her ' in charge ' of the group , reasoning that she could still use her brain even if she was unable to use weapons , and noting that this role would be her redemption for her role in the death of Kevin Williams . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) A week later , a robot was sent to spy on Miss Quill , disguised as an inspector from Ofsted . Quill quickly began to suspect that he wasn ' t human due to his inability to speak and his fast reflexes . She was annoyed that Charlie and his friends were more focused on a series of murders committed by a skin - peeling dragon than the inspector , so she decided to take matters into her own hands , and investigate the inspector by herself . Quill approached the inspector in the school at night and asked what he wanted . He wrote in his notepad that he wanted her , leading to her assuming he was interested in her sexually . She quickly pushed him against a wall and began kiss ing him . They were interrupted by the dragon , and chased into a classroom . Not wanting to die , Quill pushed the inspector towards the dragon . Instead of being skinned , the inspector broke apart , revealing he was a robot . Shortly afterwards , the dragon left Coal Hill through the space - time rip . Quill then gathered the pieces of the inspector and analysed them , learning it was created by the Governors . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) Miss Quill tried to forcefully get information from Viola Cummings , who at the time occupied the body of Amar Sai . She got away with the rough treatment of Amar as he did not remember anything . When Steve Hopley , Barry Taylor and James Banks took control of the bodies of Matteusz , April and Tanya to bring her and Charlie to Garry Fletcher , Miss Quill knocked April ' s and Tanya ' s bodies cold and took Charlie to investigate this Fletcher guy . When the three " joyriders " caught up with them and Banks threatened to cut Matteusz ' s throat , Miss Quill temporarily conceded to Charlie ' s pleas to submit to the " joyriders " ' s demands . After Ram sorted the situation out , she easily extracted from Steve the information about the clients of Joyriders company and how to operate the body - swapping machine . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) When the Lankin arrived though the crack in time , in took the form of her sister Orla ' ath to try and persuade her have some closure for her death . The Lankin offered Miss Quill her gun back , holding it out to her . She got Charlie to stab the creature . with a screwdriver , but it eventually dissipated . She then went with Charlie and Matteusz to Tanya Adeola ' s flat to try and stop the main root of the creature . After Matteusz found that severing the roots didn ' t work she found a double decker bus , and ran the main root over with it . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) Following Tanya ' s request , Miss Quill went with the others to check what was going on with an old stone house . She used a skeleton key to break into some of the rooms . When April was knocked unconscious by the unseen female bone spider , Miss Quill carried April downstairs . The spider materialised Miss Quill ' s fear that someone who had loved her would never forgive her . During her investigations of the basement Miss Quill was cocooned in spiderwebs and had to be cut out by April and Ram . Immediately afterwards , Constantine Oliver , the owner of the house , arrived with the police . DC Carpenter arrested and handcuffed Miss Quill , charging her for the possession of knives . As the result of efforts by Felicity , a lawyer hired by Miss Quill , the charge that stuck was trespass . Despite the probably legal consequences , Miss Quill returned to the house to rescue Tanya , who went missing , as soon as she was released . She invented a way of entangling the female bone spider in her own web . Upon learning the truth , Miss Quill used the spider to scare Oliver into relinquishing all rights to the house and returning the money . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) When the new headteacher , Dorothea Ames , arrived at school , Quill was intrigued as she came from the Governors . Ames showed her the killer petal s that were multiplying around the school and asked for her help in return for removing the arn in Quill ' s brain . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) She took Ames back to her house in order to force Charlie to use the Cabinet of Souls to kill the killer petals , but instead Quill wanted him to use it to kill the Shadow Kin . After April got the Shadow Kin to kill the petals , Quill became upset that Charlie then didn ' t kill the Shadow Kin . Later , back at Coal Hill , she took her anger out on what she thought was Ames ' car . Ames then told her that the Governors had predicted April ' s actions and the offer to remove the arn still stood . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) She put Charlie , Matteusz , Ram , April and Tanya in detention to keep them out of the way whilst she had her arn removed . ( TV : " Detained " ) Ames took her to the school hall , where she brought Ballon to join them in their journey . They entered the metaphysical engine in order to collect supplies for her surgery . The three together collected an arn pheromone in Arn Heaven to calm the arn inside Quill ' s head , and blood from the God of the Lorr in Lorr ap Thriss to unfreeze Ballon ' s hands ' shapeshifting abilities to enable him to perform Quill ' s surgery . Quill didn ' t initially believe that they could remove the arn , but by their third destination , the first Quill nest , she started to believe that they really could do it , causing the arn to begin to fight back . She confronted the Quill Goddess who she didn ' t believe in , but almost started to believe until Ballon killed it in order to take her Quill brain . He knew that everything would change for Quill is she had to recognise her Goddess , when her identity had already been formed . Their final destination was the Cabinet of Souls , where Ballon performed the surgery . Ballon managed to dislodge the arn and almost remove it but it reacted and made Quill jump , causing Ballon to rip out the arn losing her eye in the process . He used the last of his god ' s blood sample to manipulate her body to create a new eye and heal the skin . She was left with a scar following this . After beating the arn for all it had done to her , she had sex with Ballon in celebration . Afterwards , she noticed sand on the floor of the hall , and left onto the open terrain . Ames returned to tell her that only one person was able to escape the Cabinet with the metaphysical engine . She also left them Miss Quill ' s displacement gun . Ballon and Quill fought . Ballon got the gun and tried to use it against her , but it backfired and killed him . Quill buried him in the sand . The souls of the Rhodians visited her at this point and she screamed at them . Holding onto one of them , she felt pain and suddenly found her hair had grown out , as time worked functioned in the Cabinet . Rhodian souls showed her the door to the Cabinet and she left , crawling out of the Cabinet of Souls in Charlie ' s bedroom . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) She went back to Coal Hill to confront Charlie and give him her arn , saving him from an alien rock that threatened him , in what she described as her final favour . ( TV : " Detained " ) Soon after , she collapsed and Matteusz and Charlie noticed that she was heavily pregnant . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) She left for six days as part of the hibernation stage of the Quill pregnancy cycle . She woke up just after the Shadow Kin had returned to Earth ; her first act was to scream in horror at the sight of her pregnant stomach . Immediately , she asked where Charlie had put her gun , but she didn ' t get an answer . When Tanya turned up after her mother was killed , she was persuaded to go to the school with the Cabinet of Souls in order for Charlie to use it on the Shadow Kin . Arriving at the school she accompanied Tanya to the library in order to see whether or not Corakinus had killed her brothers . When Corakinus arrived , she fought him and made him retreat . After this Tanya asked her to teach her how to fight , which she obliged to . When the Shadow Kin started to invade the world , she was trapped in a room with many of them . After Charlie became king and started the arming of the Cabinet of Souls , she with Tanya started to fight the Shadow Kin . She stopped Charlie from being killed by the Cabinet along with the Shadow Kin . ( TV : " The Lost " ) Appearance . Miss Quill ' s real appearance could make humans scream . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) A part of the Lankin pretending to be her sister Orla ' ath said she wore her human appearance well . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) Personality . Miss Quill was a blunt and sharp tongued teacher , and a strong , stern woman . In class , she was blunt and condescending towards her students . She broke Charlie ' s phone when he attempted to internet search pop culture references , and mocked April when she tried to intervene . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) She believed that nobody liked her , or cared about the things she faced . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) She was also very bitter towards Charlie , likening her servitude to him as slavery due to the harsh conditions she had to face . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) In spite of this , even after she was no longer enslaved to Charlie , she saved his life when he used the Cabinet of Souls , indicating that she may have grown to care for him somewhat . ( TV : " The Lost " ) Quill believed that life tried to kill you from the moment you were born , " and the only proper response is to fight back at every moment " . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) She was willing to put others ' lives in danger to suit a bigger purpose , or , in Charlie ' s case , so that she could actively fight ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) She claimed to have no issue with avenging genocide with more genocide . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Very analytical , she displayed annoyance when people did not spot what she did , or when she had to explain what it meant . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) Miss Quill felt a need to get back into action , and despite not being allowed to use it , eventually took a gun for herself . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) Despite this , she expressed worry about forming the Coal Hill defenders to the Twelfth Doctor , stating that despite her disgust for them , they were only children . ( TV : " " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Tastes . Two things made Miss Quill ' s life on Earth passable . One of them was coffee , and the other she preferred to be kept secret . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) She enjoyed " Orange is the New Black " . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) Skills and abilities . Quill was highly skilled in melee combat and was able to hold her own and even match multiple Shadow Kin warriors in combat with nothing more than her fists , even when pregnant . ( TV : " The Lost " ) She also displayed great marksmanship , particularly with the Displacement gun . ( TV : " Detained " , " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " , " The Lost " ) She was also quite resourceful and had great analytical skills .