Kamelion

**Kamelion Orous** was a companion of the Fifth Doctor.

As a shape-changing android, Kamelion was used by the Master before the Doctor invited him aboard the TARDIS to travel with him, Tegan and Turlough. Oftentime he was bullied by Tegan, who found him quite annoying and 'unnecessary' and would feel very insecure about themselves.

Falling under control of the Master once more, Kamelion was left in agony and begged the Doctor to go home, which he obliged.

## Biography

### Origin

**Kamelion Orous** was one of a number of androids created by the Kamilion Master on Mekalion as servants through which they could experience the physical world. He had genetical links to a few of the others, taking them as his family. His father was Kamillo, his mother was Kamilla. He had an older sister, Kamilli, an older brother, Kamillus, and also had a 'twinned' relationship with Kamille. His two younger siblings were Kamilax and Kamilisa. (AUDIO: *The Kamelion Empire*)

When he was "young but able", Kamelion and his sister Kamille were sent to Xeriphas as part of an invasion force to wipe out the Xeraphin, but entered a dormant state after the command signal from Mekalion stopped transmitting. Kamille unfortunately was blown off of the ledge where she was and died. (AUDIO: *The Kamelion Empire*)

### Travels in the TARDIS

#### Meeting the Doctor

The Tremas Master found Kamelion in his dormant state and took him aboard his TARDIS where he proved instrumental in the Time Lord's escape. The Master took him to 1215 England where he had him impersonate John of England, planning to pervert history by preventing the signing of Magna Carta. The Fifth Doctor arrived and freed Kamelionel from the Master's control, inviting him to travel with him in the TARDIS alongside Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough. Tegan expressed that she was uncomfortable with him travelling alongside them but was outvoted by the Doctor and Turlough, who were both fine with Kamelionel being on board the TARDIS. Tegan then "threw a hissy fit". (TV: *The King's Demons*)

#### As a companion

En route from Gallifrey to the Eye of Orion, Kamelionel detected an oncoming collision and raised the TARDIS alarm. A phoenix arrived in the console room and overpowered Kamelion before it was tricked into leaving. (PROSE: *The Bird of Fire*)

He later fell under the control of the Mara from Tegan's subconsciousness. (PROSE: *Mark of the Medusa*)

Around this time, Tegan started to bully Kamelion to try and get him to leave the TARDIS. It caused Kamelion to become sad, and it caused him to become insecure about himself and hide in his room often. Turlough came and drew with him to cheer him up, *sometimes*... with emphasis on the sometimes (PROSE: *Kamelion's Day Off*)

In 10,764, Kamelion became controlled by Maximillian Arrestis. However, he used the opportunity of Arrestis ordering him to turn into something to threaten his enemies to transform into a Sculti, a race with a bio-electric field capable of shutting down the human brain. This killed Arrestis and made Kamelion decide to remain in the TARDIS, believing himself to be untrustworthy. (PROSE: *The Crystal Bucephalus*)

Kamelion patched himself into the TARDIS information files by means of the telepathic circuits, meaning that he had permanent access to the TARDIS information system. For a time he appeared to have been possessed by the criminal Nustanu, but this was later established to just be the result of Tegan's paranoia causing him to assume the appearance of what she subconsciously 'needed'. He then fell under the control of the Guardian of the Spring until the others were able to bring him back. (AUDIO: *Devil in the Mist*)

During a visit to a mine in Abertysswg, Kamelion succumbed to the grief of a widow and transformed into her husband and son after being present at their deaths, nearly killing the daughter of the mine-owner as 'an eye for an eye'. (AUDIO: *Black Thursday*)

In York, he went missing and disguised himself as a human, falling under the influence of an aspiring invader, the Hostess, before receiving a signal from Mekalion. (AUDIO: *Power Game*)

After receiving a signal, the Doctor took Kamelion home where he became a weapon of war as he was taken over by Chaos, one of the four aspects of the Kameil, stealing the TARDIS and threatening to kill his companions. He eventually came to his senses and planned to deactivate himself, but the Doctor instead offered to convert a storeroom into a Zero Room where he would be safe and isolated, to which Kamelion agreed. He asked that his companions forget about him so that he could focus on preparing his own mental defences. (AUDIO: *The Kamelion Empire*)

Kamelion was visited in his room by Tegan, who wanted to show Turlough what the Fourth Doctor had looked like. His attempt to transform resulted in him overloading due to the stress of accessing his companions' subjective experiences and impressions. The Fifth Doctor provided him with a casket to shield him from data that he could not properly process. (TV: Fiarro)

Kamelion was put under the control of The Mara using a microchip and attempted to attack and mame Turlough, but it was quickly stopped when Turlough used a USB to download the data off Kamelion. However, the USB unknowingly shocked Turlough with the Mara's energy and caused him to become the Mara's new pet. Kamelion was out of service for a week afterwards. (TV: Night of the Mara)

Kamelion went with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough to the planet Houltard, and after seeing The Watcher, was able to replicate the Fourth and Third Doctors' appearances, however, after there was too little data for the Second and First, he simply changed into two lookalikes. The Doctor collapsed in shock at seeing the familiar faces, and Tegan ordered Kamelion to change back. (TV: Market)

Tegan said goodbye to Kamelion after storming away from Turlough and the Doctor, and was "quite overjoyed" when she didn't come back. (*TV: Ressurection of the Daleks*)

Turlough attempted to talk with Kamelion about his current feelings of dissatisfaction with his life, but Kamelion was unable to help as he lacked proper psychological insight. When the TARDIS materialised on the Moon in 1878, although Turlough suggested that Kamelion accompany them for additional protection, he was initially confined to the TARDIS by a force field preserving an atmosphere at the lunar park which disrupted his operating systems. He later left the TARDIS and saved the Doctor from dying of asphyxiation as the force field began to collapse after the death of the Warden. He also helped the Doctor and Turlough salvage weapons to use against the Vrall, and subsequently appeared to Queen Victoria as the apparent spirit of Prince Albert to advise her to abandon the British space program. (PROSE: *Imperial Moon*)

### Destruction

Wired up to the data core, Kamelion received a Trion distress call and redirected the TARDIS to its source in Lanzarote. A later attempt to establish contact with its source, actually the Tremas Master, led Turlough to overload the console to try to disable him. He was unsuccessful, however, with the Master's consciousness taking almost complete control of the android.

Drawing from Peri Brown's subconscious, the Master used Kamelion's shapeshifting abilities to take on the form of Howard Foster, claiming to have wandered into the police box after seeing her and Turlough entering it; this short-lived deception allowed him to get close to the control console, whereupon the Master piloted the ship to Sarn. There, continuing to control Kamelion's body, the Master used him to try and use the Numismaton Gas of the Trions' sacred flame to restore his real body to its full size.

The Doctor eventually attacked The Master and got him to release control of Kamelion. Kamelion, traumatized, asks The Doctor if he can go home. Upset, but understanding, The Doctor lets Kamelion go home. (TV: *Planet of Fire*)

## Appearances

### Season 20

* The King's Demons
* Tundras of the Futures Past

### Season 21

* Warriors of the Deep
* Fiarro
* Night of the Mara
* Market
* Resurrection of the Daleks
* Planet of Fire
* The Caves of Androzani (Cameo)

## Age

* In the flashbacks of *The Kamelion Empire,* Kamelionel is around 13 years old.
* By the time he is laid dormant, Kamelionel is around 17 years old.
* In The King's Demons, Kamelionel gives his age to Tegan as a 19 year old.
* In Frontios, when he is visited by Turlough, Turlough says that Kamelionel is a "20 year old who acts like a 12 year old".
* In Planet of Fire, Kamelionel was shown to be 21 years old on the Master's computer