Character Notes: History:Tosh was born in 1975. In 1977, she and her parents moved to Osaka to live with her grandparents; they moved back to England in 1987. She attended university and graduated with distinction when she was twenty years old, and she was promptly recruited by Lodmoor Research Facility, a government think tank run by the Ministry of Defence. However, sometime around 2003, Tosh's mother was kidnapped by a group of extremists, and they blackmailed her into stealing the plans for a sonic modulator, then building one. She did so, and was arrested by UNIT. Thrown into solitary confinement and denied all rights, Tosh spent all her time in a small holding cell, contemplating her situation and worrying about her mother.
And then, one day, Jack Harkness came to visit her. He offered her the option of working for Torchwood for a minimum of five years, and revealed to her that the plans she had stolen shouldn't have worked; she had adapted them so that the device was functional. She became the second member of Jack's team, after Suzie Costello. (Torchwood Three had been all but eliminated in 2000, when the then-head of the team killed everybody but Jack.) Owen Harper was the next to be recruited, after the death of his fiancee, and then Ianto Jones. Shortly after Owen joined, he was asked to supervise the autopsy of a space pig that had crash-landed in London, but he was suffering from a hangover, so Tosh went instead. There, she met a mysterious man in a leather jacket who just called himself "the Doctor", who revealed to her that the alien pig was, in fact, not an alien at all - and then he disappeared.
Tosh also took on the duty of waking Tommy Brockless, a World War I soldier in suspended animation, once a year for a day. She grew attached to him over time, despite the teasing of her coworkers.
Like the rest of the team, she had a tendency to take alien artefacts home to experiment with them - until Suzie went slightly mad while experimenting with a resurrection glove and threatened the entire team, then killed herself. Suzie's vacancy was filled by Gwen Cooper, a former PC.
With Gwen, the team faced several new challenges, such as Ianto's partially-converted Cyberman girlfriend, a cannibalistic series of murders, and an alien that survived on orgasmic energy. Tosh eventually met and fell in love with a woman named Mary, who gave her a pendant that granted her telepathic abilities. Though this enabled her to stop crimes before they occurred, it also allowed her to overhear the less than kind thoughts of her teammates. It turned out that Mary was an alien who wanted to use Tosh to infiltrate Torchwood; Jack persuaded Tosh that she was a threat (as it turned out that she was a wanted criminal on her own planet) and sent her into the heart of the sun.
Re: Toshiko Sato / Torchwood / 2 of ?
History:Tosh was born in 1975. In 1977, she and her parents moved to Osaka to live with her grandparents; they moved back to England in 1987. She attended university and graduated with distinction when she was twenty years old, and she was promptly recruited by Lodmoor Research Facility, a government think tank run by the Ministry of Defence. However, sometime around 2003, Tosh's mother was kidnapped by a group of extremists, and they blackmailed her into stealing the plans for a sonic modulator, then building one. She did so, and was arrested by UNIT. Thrown into solitary confinement and denied all rights, Tosh spent all her time in a small holding cell, contemplating her situation and worrying about her mother.
And then, one day, Jack Harkness came to visit her. He offered her the option of working for Torchwood for a minimum of five years, and revealed to her that the plans she had stolen shouldn't have worked; she had adapted them so that the device was functional. She became the second member of Jack's team, after Suzie Costello. (Torchwood Three had been all but eliminated in 2000, when the then-head of the team killed everybody but Jack.) Owen Harper was the next to be recruited, after the death of his fiancee, and then Ianto Jones. Shortly after Owen joined, he was asked to supervise the autopsy of a space pig that had crash-landed in London, but he was suffering from a hangover, so Tosh went instead. There, she met a mysterious man in a leather jacket who just called himself "the Doctor", who revealed to her that the alien pig was, in fact, not an alien at all - and then he disappeared.
Tosh also took on the duty of waking Tommy Brockless, a World War I soldier in suspended animation, once a year for a day. She grew attached to him over time, despite the teasing of her coworkers.
Like the rest of the team, she had a tendency to take alien artefacts home to experiment with them - until Suzie went slightly mad while experimenting with a resurrection glove and threatened the entire team, then killed herself. Suzie's vacancy was filled by Gwen Cooper, a former PC.
With Gwen, the team faced several new challenges, such as Ianto's partially-converted Cyberman girlfriend, a cannibalistic series of murders, and an alien that survived on orgasmic energy. Tosh eventually met and fell in love with a woman named Mary, who gave her a pendant that granted her telepathic abilities. Though this enabled her to stop crimes before they occurred, it also allowed her to overhear the less than kind thoughts of her teammates. It turned out that Mary was an alien who wanted to use Tosh to infiltrate Torchwood; Jack persuaded Tosh that she was a threat (as it turned out that she was a wanted criminal on her own planet) and sent her into the heart of the sun.