Destrii

Anatos Sinclair (son)Suyil Sinclair (daughter)Primatrix Sinclair (daughter)Xohmi Sinclair (child)

### Left the Doctor because

Hardly had time to rejoin the TARDIS team before Izzy Sinclair and her were kicked out by the Ninth Doctor to stop their deaths

## Behind the Scenes

### Final Regular Appearance

The Stockbridge Showdown

**Destriianatos**, called **Destrii** for short, was an enemy-turned-companion of the Ninth Doctor. She was a Navi of the ruling class. Like most of her species, she appeared as a turquoise or blue humanoid fish, although taller. Her ears resembled two large flaps, and she did not seem to have a nose. She also had spikes on her head and arms, as well as strange markings and fangs.

Destrii was the daughter of the ruling Matriax, whom the Horde still deferred to. However, Destrii had also been raised in the arena, fighting death duels all her life. She was feared by everyone except her uncle Jodafra, who looked like a humanoid lion. Jodafra had built a chronon capsule that Destrii had used to escape before, but the Matriax brought her back to be wed. When Destrii refused, the Matriax beat her. Pushed beyond tolerance, Destrii killed her mother. The Horde descended on Destrii, choosing her as their new leader and transforming her into a psychic energy generator as well.

The Ninth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair encountered Destrii inside a gargantuan, snake-like spacecraft known as *Ophidius* that had swallowed the Doctor's TARDIS. Destrii survived on her own inside the belly of *Ophidius* for quite a while. She was being pursued by the aliens that controlled the world-snake.

To evade pursuit, she tricked Izzy into falling asleep after singing a siren song to lullaby her. After this, she drugged Izzy with a concoction, that, after a few moments, swapped their bodies. Destrii tried to pose as Izzy and escape with the Doctor in the TARDIS, but the Doctor, observing her violent tendencies, saw through the deception. Before he could do anything to reverse the mind switch, Destrii, in Izzy's body, was apparently disintegrated by a member of the predatory, intelligent species, the Mobox. (TV: *Ophidius*)

While Izzy was adjusting to the trauma of being trapped in an alien body, she was kidnapped by representatives of Destrii's mother, the Matriax Scalamanthia of the planet Oblivion. Retracing his steps with the help of former companion Fey, the Doctor found *Ophidius* anchored in the skies above the Mobox homeworld and Destrii alive in its jungles. The Mobox could retain the patterns of those they disintegrated and reconstitute them. B'rostt, the Mobox who had attacked Destrii, had reconstituted Destrii and left her in the jungles to die, later to build a new empire on his planet. Destrii, however, was made of sterner stuff and had survived, even in Izzy's body. The Doctor took Destrii with him, determined to find Izzy and restore his companion to her rightful body.

Destrii prepared to destroy the cities of Oblivion with her newfound power but Izzy reminded her she wished to be free and urged her not to become one of the monolithic Horde. It turned out Jodafra had allowed Destrii to escape to prove his chronon capsule sound. While the Matriax and the Horde searched for Destrii, he had perfected a device to drain the Horde to power the capsule for his escape. Realising she has been used, Destrii poured her own energy and the Horde's into the capsule, reverting to her amphibian form and giving her uncle and her the ability to roam time and space.

The Doctor next met Jodafra and Destrii in North America in 1875 near the Lakota village led by Chief Sitting Bull. Jodafra had made an agreement with the Windigo to feed it human flesh in exchange for help navigating the time stream. Destrii realised Jodafra meant to sacrifice Lakota children to the Windigo,. She destroyed the equipment that supported the spirit, allowing the Doctor and the Lakota to defeat it. Enraged, Jodafra beat Destrii nearly to death, leaving her unconscious body in the snow and departing in his capsule. The Doctor found Destrii and took her to Hippocrates Base, a space station hospital, to heal. Destrii helped the Doctor repel a Zeronite attack on the base. While the Doctor acknowledged that Destrii was an "egocentric, immature hellion" with a violent streak "wider than the Gobi Desert", he also felt there was a decent person underneath. He offered her a second chance and to show her the universe if she would stick to the rules. Destrii accepted gladly.

One of their first trips together was to Earth, where Destrii wore a holographic disguise that made her look human, she accidentally offended a Chinese stallholder. She killed many Cybermen when taken aboard the Cyber-ship with the Doctor. After defeating the Cybermen, the Doctor landed the TARDIS in a field and together they walked off into the distance.

After the deaths of Fey, Chang and Hex, The Doctor would in the end force her to leave, deeming it too dangerous for her to stay. She left with Izzy, and, sharing the same body, they found common ground and eventually love together. The two married, and via Destrii's species' genetics, they were able to have four children, Anatos, a son, Suyil and Primatix, daughters, and Xohmi, a genderless child. Izzy learned of Destrii's species' near-immortality and lived on Destrii's planet as a housemaid and servant while Destrii remained the head of the house, giving orders and commanding Izzy around, but would soothe her when she was not feeling well incase she was being "too rough". Izzy had only been in Destrii's body for 126 years when her body was suddenly reverted back to a human, albeit around thirty years older. She nearly drowned underwater before Destrii took her to the shore due to her quick swimming speed. Destrii said goodbye to Izzy, and Izzy was transported back to Earth.

Decades later, Cornelius Duncan was looking at the Doctor's companions listed on the TARDIS, he found Barbara, Dodo, Polly, Zoe, Liz, Romana II, Nyssa, Izzy Sinclair, Ashley and Destrii to be relatively beautiful, later being scolded by Jericho for his remarks. (TV: *The Chainsaw Massacre*)

## Appearances

### Season 32 (The Queen of the Universe)

* Ophidius
* The Way of All Flesh
* Children of the Revolution
* Uroboros
* Olivion
* The Flood
* The Stockbridge Showdown

## Trivia

* According to Destrii and Destrii's brother, Lurmoxx, their species, the Navi, could live for up to 1400 years.
* The Navi females could get others pregnant, and the Navi males could become pregnant