Yvonne Hartman

## Origin

When Yvonne was a child, her father John Hartman served in the British Army and her mother, Anne Hartman, worked at the Land Registry doing acquisitions. During her school life, she worked exceptionally hard and became captain of the lacrosse team. Eventually, after passing most of her exams with flying colours, she decided to do O Level Biology - and passed.

As she grew older, she had little to no respect for her relatives. She became angry and lost all of her respect for her father especially as he had purposefully lost contact with her.

Yvonne later decided to join Torchwood in the late 1990s, where after she killed her first target, she supposedly couldn’t sleep due to the trauma of it all. A few years later, on the New Year’s Eve of 1999, she had received a phone call from Alex Hopkins, the current leader of Torchwood Three, who claimed that Torchwood was certainly not ready for what was to come in the 21st century. He had then proceeded to gun down his entire crew, before killing himself at the turn of the clock. This incident had made Yvonne determined to climb the ranks of Torchwood and become their Director.

As Yvonne rose through the ranks and became head in 2003, continuing up until 2005, she began to rebuild the institute from the ground up. She’d known about the Committee; a secretive alien organisation which had created wild conspiracies and such like.

Later on, she waited for the arrival of this infamous ‘Doctor’ however during this time she had built a new Torchwood headquarters known as Canary Wolf, she find a shift calling it a ‘ghost shift’ until The Doctor and herself really found out what was happening, she attempted to stop the shifts but her workers were wearing cyber-plugs which connected to there brain killing them as The Doctor removed them to try and override the system, however it was to late millions of Cybermen were on planet Earth along with Daleks. Despite her protests she and Jackie are taken away will the Doctor stay for questioning. Although Jackie manages to escape Yvonne is forced to go through the painful process of being converted into a Cyberman. Later while the Doctor and Rose try to start a portal send the Daleks and Cybermen back to another dimension several Cybermen head up there, hoping to retreat through the breach and regain their homeworld. However Yvonne as a Cyberman cuts them off and kills them all with a Cyberman gun, after the rest of the Cybermen are sent back through the crack in time Yvonne was left on the stairwell alone until guards found her she told them who she was, and that she meant no harm, the guards couldn’t believe it many emotional by this they saluted her for the actions she took to this day she still remains incharge.

## Weaknesses

She can be extremely reckless in many cases; for example when she shot down the Jathaa Sunglider which had flown over the Shetland Islands due to how it violated our airspace. This action alone would have sparked a war between the humans and Jathaa, but thankfully it didn’t. She’s often foolish and highly arrogant as well, her lust for power ever so slightly toppling her angelic visions of a brighter future for the British Empire.

## Skills & Strengths

Yvonne is, as she puts it, a people person. She can work people out and what their intentions are upon a single first glance. Her burning compassion for her own country will surely make a sturdy stand-off against any foreboding alien menace that attempts to invade the Earth.