Taffy

Taffy was a reformed criminal who was integral to the Plan to create a post-history existence for humankind.

## Taffy

### Aliases

The Thief
The Cavalry
Beet
Firefly
Sliver
Amanda Hughes
Gretchen Larsson
Andrea Wier
Tachi
Jonna Antonia
Sarte
Azara
Melinda Vandermeer
Tabitha Kohl
Pinecone
Sylvain Friedmann
Schmidty
Anne of the High Plains Clan
Neptune
Alaina Meyer
Lizbeth Kleen
Border Collie
Salamander
Purple Lightning
H.T.G.
Kristina Marinara
Sara Danielewski
Jane Odinson
Beck
Cobalt
Azure Priestess
Angel
Demon
Wallpathia Stegner
The Coming Storm
Dervish
Babs Kundera
Azalea
Pumpernickel
Lora Weber
You Again
Winebottle
Crumpkins
Tamara Wittgenstein
Cerulean Menace

## Early Life

The woman known as "Taffy" was born in a city named Munich following a global conflict called in that timeline World War III. She was orphaned at age seven when her reality was artificially merged with another timeline. Her own apartment building was bisected during the schism that connected her reality with the other timeline. The newly neighboring city was from a later point in relative time and from a timeline that had not experienced the global war that had hindered economic development in Taffy’s original world (though an earlier conflict is likely responsible for the remapping of the city’s streets into numbered grids) so the older, war-torn city was isolated behind a dividing wall and its populace relegated to second-class status. In the wake of this economic exploitation and cultural isolation, Taffy carved out a niche as a criminal and thief-for-hire.

By her late 20s, she had a reputation for efficiency that made her much sought after by those interested in hiring her for her skillset and by law enforcement on both sides of the dividing wall. During one of her heists, a security guard was killed by an accomplice, forcing her into hiding. When she resumed her illegal activities, she was more selective about both whom she worked with and who she worked for.

The Doctor and The Engineer infiltrated her timeline after learning of the existence of a biochip processor in the adjacent version of the city. Their associate Willis developed contacts and eventually contracted Taffy to steal network hardware from a computer data center, but the real goal of the operation was to gain access to the other side’s security protocols so that The Doctor and The Engineer could open a dialogue with the agency in control of the biochip.

After negotiations with the authorities failed and Willis abandoned the project, The Doctor and The Engineer hired Taffy to steal the biochip. During the operation, The Doctor and The Engineer were detained, but their capture was revealed to be part of a ruse by Taffy to compromise security. Impressed by her ingenuity, The Doctor and The Engineer recruited her to help them advance their project to transplant humanity to the other side of the Cataclysm.

## Working for the Plan

Taffy became an important part of the Plan and an integral member of the project. Essentially the “third in command,” she was a part of every major field operation after joining the team. While The Doctor, The Engineer, and The Custodian worked together in the Akasha, Taffy managed the Torus and began laying the ground work for multiple field teams in different timelines. She would often infiltrate timelines with personal and resources needed for the project and assess the best way to recruit and access those assets. On at least one occasion, The Doctor and The Engineer brought in their own alternate timeline selves to assist her in these endeavors, though it is unclear how long she worked with these alternate versions of the The Doctor and The Engineer.

When Willis helped operatives from the UEB seize control of the Torus, Taffy feigned a shift in her allegiance long enough to subdue Willis and free the Doctor so they could escape the Torus and regroup—eventually returning to retake control of the facility.

At another point, Taffy volunteered to investigate and infiltrate a region of space-time that the Akasha had failed to penetrate. There, she discovered a compound of ziggurat-like structures housing the Refugee’s device to reintegrate fractured timelines. She eventually realized that this technology was responsible for destroying her home timeline, but remained committed to the mission and did not try to exact revenge on the Refugee, continuing to pretend to be one of his loyal disciples. When The Doctor and The Engineer arrived, she led them into the Refugee’s control room so they could convince him to deactivate his device.