April MacLean April MacLean was a student at Coal Hill Academy in 2016 . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " , " Nightvisiting " ) After she fired a displacement gun at Corakinus and Charlie pushed her out of the way , she and Corakinus began sharing April ' s heart , allowing her brief glimpses into his thoughts . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) At some point April began to date , Ram Singh ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) but their relationship hit some turbulence after April told Ram that she wasn ' t in love with him as much as he was with her and that she didn ' t trust how fast he ' d fallen for her . ( TV : " Detained " ) She organised the school prom . April was in the group of students the Twelfth Doctor asked to protect Coal Hill . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) She briefly became the new Shadow King , but those new powers were taken away from her after Corakinus broke the stronger link that has been formed from an anchor of her life blood . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) Biography . Early life . April was born in 1999 . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " , " Detained " ) April ' s father , Huw MacLean , was a folk singer and fiddle player . He was often away so April and her mother , Jackie , did not see him very much . At some point he began to drink a lot of alcohol and started to have suicidal thoughts . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) On her eighth birthday , Jackie got her a beautiful blue dress , which became her favourite . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) While April was 8 years old , he purposefully drove off the motorway with both Jackie and April in the car . April ' s mother was paralysed as a result , while April herself was not hurt . Her father survived and went to prison for causing the crash . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) She had to testify against him in court . ( TV : " Detained " ) After the incident , April made a promise to herself that she would always be in control , that she wouldn ' t let others dictate her circumstances . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) April took care of her mother ever since . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Coal Hill Academy . April did not have much of social life . Miss Quill once called her " the wallflower of Shoreditch " . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) On the other hand , she actively participated in various committees at school . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) When the Shadow Kin appeared at Coal Hill , looking for Charlie , the prince of the Rhodian s in exile , Miss Quill tried to get April to shoot a displacement gun at the Shadow King , Corakinus , which would kill both April and him . When she fired it at an indirect angle , Corakinus ' heart was scattered across the universe , and the two began to share April ' s . As a result , she could occasionally see into Corakinus ' thoughts , for brief periods of time . Corakinus tried taking April back through the rip in space - time after the Doctor and Tanya Adeola forced the Shadow Kin back , but Ram Singh freed her by attacking Corakinus with a chair . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) April knew Poppy from violin lessons and thought that she was nice , sweet and lonely . April was shocked by the news that Poppy stole a car and drove it into a betting shop window killing herself . It reminded her of her father crashing their car . One Tuesday , as she was walking from home to school , Steve Hopley , an employee of Joyriders company , took control of her body . Before returning control to her about half an hour later in front of the school , he used her body to binge - drink vodka . As a result , she came to Miss Quill ' s class late and completely drunk , although having no memory of drinking . She kissed Charlie with tongue when he tried to help her back on her feet , and threw up on Miss Quill ' s shoes . Later the same day April , Charlie and Tanya saw Amar Sai on the roof . They managed to prevent " joyrider " Viola Cummings , who was controlling Amar ' s body , from running a trial suicide at his expense . As April and her friends gathered in Charlie ' s house to decide how to find Ram , who did not come to school , her body was overtaken by another " joyrider " , Barry Taylor . To eliminate the immediate threat to Charlie , Miss Quill had to knock April ' s body out . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) April helped Ram after the Lankin took the form of Rachel Chapman . After arriving at Coal Hill she theorised that the main root of the creature was in the direction of Tanya ' s flat and went there . When she and Ram got there they were trapped by the Lankin and wrapped in its roots for standing in it ' s way when it tried to ensnare . She was released when Quill ran it over with a bus . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) Following Tanya ' s request , April went with the others to check an old stone house . When they were inside , she got separated from the others and knocked unconscious by the unseen female bone spider . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) She started to become more influenced by Corakinus due to his experiments to keep the heart in his body . This influence made her have extreme ideologies when Miss Shah asked a simple question in class . Huw decided to make an appearance at this time and April nearly killed him with a Shadow Kin scimitar . After Dorothea Ames told Ram to take her home , the pair ended up having sex , before being caught by Jackie . After Ram left the house , her father reappeared and , with her anger heightened by Corakinus ' influence , April tried to kill her father . However , Ram returned and his intervention helped April to regain control of herself in time to spare her father ' s life . She then used the connection to try to heal her mother from her paralysis . On completing this , she realised that Corakinus knew where she was and decided to travel to the Underneath to stop him , followed by Ram . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) She travelled to Corakinus ' palace , with the intent to fight him . Ram tried to talk her out of it but she went through with it knowing that if she defeated Corakinus she would become King . Towards the end of the fight , Jackie managed to get a strong enough emotional connection with April to create a tear back to Coal Hill . Ram ' s father and Huw went through the tear to try to get them home . Huw told April not to take a life , telling her how hard it was when he tried to take his own . Even though she didn ' t kill Corakinus , she had defeated him and became Shadow King herself . She travelled back to Earth in time to see the killer petal s taking over the world . Using her sovereignty over the Shadow Kin , she commanded them to kill the killer petals and then go back home and destroy the path that brought them to Earth . She was delighted when her mother was able stand up , proving that her attempt to cure Jackie had worked . Jackie ' s leg muscles , however , remained weak from prolonged disuse . After Corakinus was imprisoned , she lost the stronger connection with him . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) When Quill put her in detention , she left April in charge on the class . She had the key to the room they were in and opened the door and accidentally let in the meteor that contained the Prisoner . The meteor brought the classroom into no - time , no - space . After seeing the effect that the Prisoner had on Matteusz and Tanya , and hearing the confession of Ram that he believed that she didn ' t love him as much as he loved her , she took possession of the meteor and relived the moment she had to testify against her father in court . The Prisoner also made her confess that she didn ' t love Ram as much as he loved her as she didn ' t trust how fast Ram had fallen in love with her . After they had returned to Earth she went after Ram when he ran off . ( TV : " Detained " ) After the events in Class B3 , she didn ' t see much of Ram . She decided to write " The Lost " , a song about her emotions following her breakup with Ram . During a performance , she briefly felt Corakinus on Earth . Shortly afterwards Ram came to her and told her that Corakinus had killed his father . Corakinus then came to threaten her mother , but he couldn ' t do to Jackie having shadow in her veins . She knew that the closer she was the Corakinus the more she could hear his thoughts . She went to the school to find him , but first called Ram to tell her how much she loved him . She arrived in time to see that Corakinus had captured Matteusz . However , she knew that what he wanted was for her to come back to the Underneath , so she got him to release Matteusz and but herself in his place . Being this close she could read Corakinus ' thoughts and told everyone that Corakinus wanted to kill the human race . Charlie killed her as he knew that this would kill Corakinus and he would become King . After the Shadow Kin were defeated she was resurrected but in Corakinus ' body . ( TV : " The Lost " ) Personality . April considered herself to be " nice " , but her mother corrected her : she was kind . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Miss Quill commented that " God knows , [ April ' s heart ] is big enough [ to share with Corakinus ] . " ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) April found it difficult to make friends , as she believed that everybody perceived her as " fragile " . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) April was very organised . She planned a preparation party for her surprise birthday party . When Tanya and Ram went to investigate the old stone house , April packed a tote bag with all the necessities and more for them . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) Abilities . April played the violin — mostly folk music — something she only revealed to close friends , ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) as well as the keyboard . She also painted . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) After she began sharing her heart with Corakinus , April gained the ability to occasionally see into his thoughts ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) and to produce Shadow Kin scimitar s . She also had a certain amount of control over Corakinus , though he , too , would sometimes take control of April . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) She lost her Shadow Kin abilities after Corakinus ripped off the anchor that strengthened their connection . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " )