Due (Silver)

Due in "One Man's Rubbish"

**Due** was the version of Due from the Silver World.

## Biography

Much like her elder sister Una, Due was a confident girl with a sarcastic personality. She was very close to Una, who often called her "Sister Girl," and the two of them spent most of their time together. Una was very protective of Due and would do anything to help her when she was in trouble. The sisters were friends with Melinda and Tiffany.

Una often spoke in a slang of her own invention, which Due had to translate for other people.

Due disliked Martin and called him "MM" (meaning "Martin Moron") behind his back. She didn't understand what Una saw in him. Consequently, she was delighted when Una dumped Martin and began dating Francis Zapmeister, of whom she quickly grew very fond. Francis accepted that she and Una were a package deal and did not mind Due accompanying them everywhere.

Una convinced Francis to show her and Due around the Parallax. Neither of them thought much of the Blue World with its more low-tech and uptight ethos and Una asked to be taken somewhere more exciting. Francis eventually took them to the Green World, which he had never before visited, on Ben's recommendation. Like Una, Due thought that the extremely tall trees of the Green World were beautiful. While there, she, Una and Francis helped Melinda and Mundi kill the Krellick swarm using Super Soakers in order to obtain the antidote for Ben's infection. Francis was pleasantly surprised that Una and Due had enjoyed themselves so much given the danger in the Green World and they became members of the Parallax gang.

Although she was a generally very brave person, Due was terrified of lightning. As she had goaded Martin to perform demonstrations on his mountain bike when she knew that Francis Zapmeister had put glue on the pedals, he got his revenge by deliberately preventing her from going home during a storm. She was extremely upset when Una found her several minutes later. This was one of a series of incidents across the Parallax that inspired the gang to exact revenge on the Martins.

Some time later, Una invited Francis to come to the Skinky Maze and see the DJ hologram Tangerine Alpha Man perform. When Due pointed out that the Francis of the Silver World would be there, Francis Zapmeister disguised himself as his counterpart so that he would blend in. After Francis seemingly stood her sister up, she and Una travelled to the Yellow World in search of an explanation. Due thought of it as a safari and brought numerous supplies with her. She subsequently traded them to the locals for various things. Una joked that she had finally become the Queen of the Prom.

When Due witnessed Francis sharing an ice cream with her sister's Yellow World counterpart Fortuna, she was as disgusted as Una and told him that he had blown it big time. Putting his fear of the Parallax aside, Francis followed them to the Silver World and apologised profusely. Una told her sister to watch and learn as it was valuable lesson in how to handle boys. When Una forgave Francis, so did Due.

Seeing how upset the Silver World Francis' parents were by his disappearance, Due thought that she and Una should tell them that he had been blanished by Betti but Una didn't think that it would do any good even if they believed them.

Betti eventually discovered that Veronica had been using her stave to send coded messages and decided to set a trap. She hid her stave under her hat and told her sister of her plan to send the Krellicks to the Silver World as a prelude to blandishing it. Mundi and Ben heard Betti's plan over the stave and informed Katherine. Equipped with Super Soakers, Due, Una, Ben, Katherine, Francis Zapmeister, Melinda, Mundi, Jeremy and Stefan were able to defeat the Krellicks with the help of the Mr. Short of the Silver World. A senior municipial employee who worked in Werrinup's park, he turned on the sprinklers in the park at Ben's request and the water killed all the Krellicks. Although the Parallax gang had won the battle, Betti won the war as she enacted her plan to infect the Silver World Werrinup's entire water supply with the blandishing substance. Aberrants, including Mr. Short, began disappearing.

Due and Una were convinced that they were aberrants and were worried that the same was true of their parents. Francis Zapmeister hoped that Una would be impressed and grateful that he had risked his life coming through the Parallax with a supply of uninfected drinking water so that they could avoid the effects of blandishing. However, one tank was leaky and he ended up spilling another so he only managed to bring them half a glass of water. He told the sisters that they needed to ration it and more was coming, only to learn that Melinda had already brought them a rucksack full of bottled water.

Several days later, Due and Una observed Mrs. Dunkly's declaration of a Day of Enterprise in celebration of so-called disruptive elements who exhibited discordant behaviour having been routed out of Werrinup. The two sisters objected to Enforcement Officer Garcia ignoring the mass disappearances and unsuccessfully tried to warn him that there was a sinister purpose behind the blandishing of the water.

The gang determined that Betti must be holding Veronica prisoner on an island in the Silver World as she had a boat and neither of the two portals in that world could be accessed via the water. Due figured out that the island in question had to be Circe Island as it was the only one in the vicinity to which Betti could make a round trip without refueling. Una, Francis Zapmeister, Melinda and a reluctant Ben, who was afraid of the water, travelled to the island on a sailboat in order to look for Veronica. At Una's insistence, Due remained behind and kept an eye out for Betti. Although Veronica was not present on Circe Island, Melinda found her wedding ring, which gave Ben some hope as it indicated that she had been there.

As the blandishing of their world continued unabated, Due suggested that she and Una tell their parents about the Parallax so that their entire family could relocate to another world, possibly the Yellow World. Una was worried that this could make the situation worse and told her sister that they needed to ask Ben and Katherine first.

Due helped with Ben's plan to trap Betti in the Orange World forever by hiding the true locations of its portals. First, Ben and Francis removed the stones marking one portal. While Ben and Katherine distracted Betti by getting her to chase them, she, Una, Francis, Melinda and Otto moved her tent, which she had erected over the other portal. The plan initially succeeded in trapping Betti but Katherine insisted that they return as they had accidentally left the Martin of the Blue World behind.

After Katherine fooled Betti into blandishing herself, Veronica and Otto were able to use the Reading Room to restore everyone that had been blandished throughout the Parallax, including the Francis of the Silver World and his father. Mrs. Short was overjoyed to see her husband and son again as she thought that she had lost both of them. Due, Una and Francis Zapmeister happily watched the family reunion.

## Appearances

* "One Man's Rubbish"
* "The Battle of Mundi's World"
* "The Big Sleep-Over"
* "The Martin Crimes"
* "The World According to Betti"
* "The Curse of the Incredibly Bad News"
* "Decoy"
* "Too Many Chiefs"
* "Ex-Ben"
* "Dad Meets Dad"
* "The Krellick War"
* "The Reluctant Guardian"
* "Seek and You Shall Find"
* "My Favourite Martin"
* "Cheats Never Prosper"
* "The Reading Room"
* "It Ain't Over"

## Behind the Scenes

All versions of Due were played by Genevieve McCarthy.

With 17 appearances, she made the most appearances of any version of Due.