Thalira

Queen of Peladon

Thalira is the queen of Peladon, and a public figure who has been frequently linked to TCoS, being a prominent member of the band's entourage as well as being regularly purported by the press to be embroiled in amorous liasons with various members of the band, and with other connected people.

## Background

Thalira is the only daughter of the famous King Peladon of Peladon. When the King faked his own death and assumed the identity of Professor Wilfred Hobbs of Earth in the 27th Century Thalira became Queen Thalira of Peladon. She first gained galaxy wide fame when she appeared in an episode of popular time travel documentary 'Doctor Who' alongside wine and cheese connoisseur Jon Pertwee. Dr. Pertwee helped her prevent the overthrow of her planet by Martians and a Tom Baker lookalike and gain the planet's indigenous Badger People a slightly less humiliating status in society.

## Romantic Entanglements (Alleged)

At varying points over the years that TCoS have been playing, press publications such as The Daily Vortex and The Daily Neutron Star have posted very suggestive articles insinuating virtually every member of the band to be courting the monarch at some time or another, as well as a great deal of rumours from online communities, usually based on little more than loose, speculative evidence, with online chatter fuelling press engagement, and published hearsay articles further fanning the flames of innuendo in the fanbases minds. Because of this, the true extent of Thalira's connections to the band are not easy to pin down, the waters being rather murky and filled with contradictory information.

### The Sparrow

Sparrow is the only member of the band who's romantic past with Thalira has been decisively confirmed by either party, with Thalira and Sparrow having dated for a time prior to the formation of TCoS, while part of a band known as 'Fly in Girl'. The pair's breakup was well documented, as the relationship fell apart when the group disbanded following the death of their Raxacoricofallapatorian drummer. Despite this, however, it is believed to have been Sparrow who brought Thalira into TCoS' inner circle, after a night of sordid passion around the time the publicity material for Typo Central was made, rekindling their relationship, largely in secret. The resulting on-off dalliance eventually came to the pulic's attention when the band released their album Homicide and Old Lace, a collection of hitherto unreleased material, the artwork for the back cover was intended to convey this flavour of "from the cutting room floor" and as such the group used an image of a piece of scrap paper pulled from the recording studio recycling bin, over which they wrote the tracklist for the album. This piece of paper had, for some time before, been pinned to a notice board in the recording studio, and contained two hand written reminders, one to pay Sparrow's large and very overdue bar tab and the other to phone Thalira, a phrase that seemed innocuous at the time, but ignited public interest in who among the band might be communicating with the beautiful queen of Peladon, and what the nature of that communication might be. Although the official word is that the note was left for sparrow, something backed up by the note also mentioning the guitarist's bar tab, there has been much speculation that the note was intended for someone else. Despite the many other potential lovers that both Sparrow and Thalira have been linked too in the press, the two seem to still have a great deal of affection for each other, and the relationship between the pair seems to still flare up from time to time. When asked in interview on Clom FM how he felt about the many other hearts that Thalira seemed to have stolen, Sparrow got quite emotional, saying he hoped the queen of peladon's other loves would treat her right, before attempting to walk off into the sunset, walking into the large glass sliding door of the studio and hitting his head. As he recovered from this mild concussion he famously uttered "Casablanca was never like this."

### Danoftardis

Danoftardis is a famously reclusive and private person, who quite intentionally keeps his interpersonal life to himself. However this did not stop the press from making wild assumptions of carryings-on, first regarding the band's backing dancer turned Daily Vortex mole Sheeba, and then later surrounding the bassist's association with Thalira. These murmurings can be traced back to a very suggestive article posted in "The Daily Neutron Star", reporting on Dan's frequent visits to the planet of Peladon, and an incident sighted by an unnamed "eyewitness" where he was seen emerging from her private chambers "putting any clothes that were off on". Mr Oftardis has since publicly explained that his visits, including the one photographed for the article, were to discuss Thalira's involvement in the cover ensemble for then upcoming release Sgt Skaro's Lonely Tracks Club Cult, and that the only item of clothing he was putting on as he departed was his coat, which he had taken off while indoors due to his impeccable good manners. This explanation did not seem to sate the interests of the press or the fans, and further writings would subsequently pop up claiming the note on HAOL was intended for Dan, and uncited quotes about the "couple" being "happy and content with each other." would make their way into official band literature, much to the chagrin of Dan, who insisted that he had never said anything of the sort. When asked about Thalira at a press conference conducted by Bundesrat of The Daily Vortex, Dan angrily retorted "There's a figure I keep seeing passed around that Thalira is the ex-girlfriend of 80% of the band's members, if that's true then you can consider me to be the 20%." when Bundesrat asked if that meant Thalira was not an ex-girlfriend but a current one, Dan walked out of the interview.

### Doctor Gamer

Doctor Gamer, drummer of TCoS, was the editor-in-chief of the publication The Daily Neutron Star, a paper which thrived on gossip and scandal. As such, he was the one responsible for breaking the story about Dan's interactions with Thalira on Peladon. Furthermore, it has been heavily implied that the anonymous eyewitness who saw Dan emerging from the Peladonian queen's rooms was simply Gamer himself. When trying to press his bandmates for quotes on his "dandalous" article, lead singer Deborah J playfully asked what this eyewitness was doing in the vicinity of Thalira's rooms at that time of night, something which Gamer did not include in the final article. Unfortunately for the drummer, Sheeba had been surreptitiously recording the discussion, and a follow up article very shortly appeared in The Daily Vortex suggesting that it was Gamer who was on Peladon for a tryst with Thalira, and had been waiting for Dan's professional and above-board visit to conclude before entering the queen's chambers. Unhappy at this turn of events, going so quickly from peddler of gossip to the subject of it, Gamer refused to comment on this story, claiming to not want to dignify such baseless rumours with a response. Further fuel was added to this story when the single 24 Hours from Clom was released, with cover art depicting a loving postcard sent home to Thalira, a cover which was officially listed as being made by Doctor Gamer. Gamer insists that this was not a real postcard, not was the implication meant to be that it was from him, and that the fans were reading far too much into nothing. Doctor Gamer's love life is one that has seen a great deal of media attention, with a public and very sordid recurring affair with the Absorbaloff. It is unclear as to how much truth there is in the Thalira rumour and how much of it is just other disparate scandals being combined in the public consciousness.

### Deborah J

Deborah J, lead singer of TCoS, has made a reputation in the public eye for quite cheerfully and unabashedly encouraging speculation on her romantic life, taking great enjoyment in the varied rumours about her affaires-du-cœur with the likes of David Warner, Naked Colin Baker, Steven Taylor and mysterious goth lady D'arknessa Skellingbones. When inevitably asked in interview whether she had had any sort of relationship with Thalira, following the various stories about her band-members, Deborah coquettishly replied "I'm not one to kiss and tell, but let me tell you, we definitely kissed!" Given Deborah's propensity for winding people up it is entirely possible that she made this remark simply to stir up a little mischief, but the press nonetheless ran with it, and when asked about it Thalira neither confirmed nor denied the fling.

### Daleks Jones

Popular radio host of Clom FM Daleks Jones, who is known for her friendship with and frequent interviews with TCoS, made waves in the papers in the summer of 2023 when a photo was published online showing her in the Clom FM studio, with a well-filled pinboard behind her. Among the various things attached to this board, eagle-eyed fans noticed a post-it note with "Call Thalira" written above a phone number. This number was later confirmed to belong to the queen of Peladon, though she subsequently had to change it following this accidental leak. Given Thalira's renown as something of an intergalactic cassanova, media attention was soon drawn to Jones, and reporters were clamouring to get information on whether she was Thalira's latest squeeze. Jones explained that the reason that note was present in the studio was that Thalira had won a Clom FM pen in a phone-in competition on her Dalekstravaganza show, and she needed to call the monarch back to get an address to send her prize to. Daleks admitted that although she had indeed known Thalira for a while during her student years, during which time a flickering of interest had existed between the two, that was firmly in her past, revealing that she was these days very happy in a long-term relationship with one of Clara Oswald's time splinters, and wasn't interested looking for love anywhere else.

### Avon

Avon, keytar player of the Cult of Skaro, known as the quiet one in the group, is accordingly the person with whom the papers have had the least success in linking to Thalira. A frustrated Bundesrat exclaimed "Avon covers up too well, he's clean, so clean he stinks!" TCoS fans are, however, largely convinced that something must exist between the elusive Avon and the very unelusive Thalira, as one locally circulated fanzine put it "There's no way Thalira hasn't picked up Avon yet, look at him, he's an absolute dish!". There is little to suggest that this is the case, however it has been pointed out that Danoftardis' remarks about 80% of the band would seem to suggest Avon has had some history with the Peladonian queen.