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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Carolyn Fry
Canon: The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: Right after being speared in the back and being carried off.
Number: 022

Setting:

The universe of Riddick is one where humans have long discovered faster-than-light travel and colonised hundreds of planets. It is not a sleek and clean universe, however. Despite the obvious advancement, technology lingers at the same levels used in current times, with most operation and engineering done in a hands-on manner and computers limited to information and base controls. Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous, and people implement a medical system known as 'cryosleep' to put themselves into an unconscious state during long trips.

Various human sub-species have evolved, adapting to the environments of some planets, though the majority of the universe's population are still Earth-standard human. Alien lifeforms have been encountered, but are usually limited to animal-level intelligence and form.

There is no mention of a central government or justice system, but there is a long-standing and corrupt industry of prisons and mercenaries/bounty hunters, with mention of law-keepers such as marshals and some planets holding their own laws and governments. There is rarely mentioned 'Company', known to employ something of a military force, as well as slaves and criminals to do jobs (for a price) and help maintain lucrative operations such as mining.

Things are generally very hand-to-mouth, with people scrabbling for any money possible, prospectors looking to try and claim what land they can, mercs taking jobs with little scruples. Corruption, slavery and general nastiness are rife and operate unchecked. Religion is widespread, with Islam being the most prominent faith remaining from Earth, with New Mecca as a large and prosperous city. Cults are a widespread occurrence, often fanatical with very strange belief systems and rituals, and have been the cause of many wars across the universe.

Taken from here with permission.

History:

A merchant vessel, the Hunter Gratzner, heads for the Tangiers system when it is hit by meteorites, waking everyone on-board up from cryosleep. The captain of the ship is dead and as the docking pilot, Carolyn Fry attempts to land the ship safely as they plummet toward the second planet in the M-334/G system. In order to balance out the ship, Fry begins to purge everything, including the passengers. The navigator of the ship, Greg Owens, argues that they’re responsible for their lives. Fry says that she’s not going to die for them out of “sheer fucking nobility” and attempts to purge the rest, but Owens stops her. The Hunter Gratzner ends up crash landing on the desert planet, the back end of the ship tearing off.

When Fry comes to, the passengers are helping each other out of their pods. One man, Johns, has been transporting a dangerous criminal known as Riddick on the ship. Noticing that Riddick is missing from his pod, he goes looking for him. Upon finding his gun, he reaches for it, only for Riddick to grab him around the neck with his ankle restraints. John hits him until they both fall and recaptures Riddick, who is stunned from his drop from the ceiling. Riddick is then bound to a pole inside the wreckage of the ship.

Fry discovers Owens impaled by some sort of metal instrument and begins apologizing to him when he suddenly jerks awake. She tries to pull him free but it’s too close to his heart, and Owens shouts at her not to touch that handle – the same thing he was shouting at her when she was trying to purge the passengers. There are no painkillers, all having ben in the back of the ship that tore off. Fry orders the other survivors away and she sits with Owens while he dies.

The passengers – two “prospector types” (Zeke and Shazza), an antiques dealer (Paris), a Muslim Imam and his three acolytes, a young boy (Jack), and Johns – look around, taking stock of their situation and looking at the rest of the wreckage. They notice that the air quality is thin, and also notice some stone pillars nearby. Fry comes out to join them after Owens dies and they thank her for saving their life. Fry doesn’t correct them.

Back inside the ship, Johns fills Fry in on Riddick, saying that he just escaped from a maximum security prison and that his choice would be to lock him up forever. The survivors then find what they can, including alcohol. The Imam says that all deserts have water and that it only waits to be found. Meanwhile, Riddick has noticed that the pole he’s attached to isn’t entirely secure and escapes. Johns discovers that he’s missing and everyone arms themselves with what they can. They also put together small oxygen tanks – and it’s then that they discover the planet has three suns. Their search for water is going to be a hot one.

Their search is also in Riddick’s direction. Johns leaves a gun behind for Zeke, Shazza, Paris, and Jack, and then the rest of the survivors head out to search for water in the direction of the blue sun. Riddick is watching them, but they don’t see him. Johns nearly ends up shooting Carolyn when she comes up behind him to ask if he’s seen Riddick, but they do see trees – or something that looks like trees. Back at the crash site, Zeke is digging a grave for the dead near the pillars while Paris keeps watch. Jack sneaks up behind him, already seeming to hero-worship Riddick.

Unfortunately, the trees are actually the bones of some large creatures. The entire planet appears to be dead. The party walks through the boneyard, unaware that Riddick is there as well. Fry pauses near what appears to be a massive ribcage and Johns approaches, offering her some of the alcohol to drink. He says that she probably should have stayed at the ship and Fry says she wanted to get away, only for Johns to say he’s never seen a captain so ready to leave her ship. Fry attempts to deflect, saying she think they should keep moving, and Johns asks what Owens meant about not touching the handle. Johns says it’s just between the two of them and Carolyn admits that she’s not the captain and that she tried to purge the passengers and Owens stopped her. Behind her, Riddick cuts off a chunk of Fry’s hair and smells it before blowing it in the wind. Johns sets his baseball cap on Fry’s head and they continue on.

One of the Imam’s acolytes finds a toy robot in the dirt and they show Fry, calling her ‘Captain’. When they continue, they find an abandoned settlement and discover that there was water there. Carolyn finds a solar-powered observatory while the Imam, his acolytes, and Johns find the source of the water. Fry notices something else – an emergency ship that they can use to get off the planet.

Back at the crash site, Paris hears something and goes down to where Shazza and Jack are working. They didn’t hear anything, but the noise repeats itself. The three of them get ready to attack, thinking it’s Riddick, but it’s another passenger. Unfortunately, Zeke also thought it was Riddick and shoots him three times in the back. Back up on Paris’s seat, Riddick is helping himself to some alcohol.

At the abandoned settlement, Fry is looking at the ship. There’s no power, as it’s been laid up for years. While she begins to say she thinks they could adapt it to the Hunter Gratzner’s power, Johns tells her to shut up because he thought he heard gunshots.

Zeke drags the unfortunate late passenger to the grave, only to notice that there’s a hole in the side of it that he didn’t put there. He jumps down to check it out, only to discover that it’s a tunnel. Riddick is watching him, but something grabs Zeke from the inside of the tunnel and drags him in, splattering the outside of the hole with blood. Shazza, who ran toward the grave when she heard the shots, looks up and sees Riddick watching her. Riddick attempts to flee only for Johns to arrive and trip him. They fight and Johns pulls off Riddick’s goggles, exposing his eyes to the light. Shazza gets in on it as well, though Carolyn attempts to hold her back, and Riddick is knocked out.

Fry attempts to interrogate Riddick, asking where the body is and if Riddick will tell her about the sounds that he told Johns he heard. He doesn’t say anything and Fry informs him that there’s a debate as to whether or not they should leave him on the planet. Riddick begins to speak, talking about whispers that tell him to go for the sweet spot and talking about the taste of human blood. Fry doesn’t have any patience for it and asks if he’s going to shock her with the truth now, and Riddick says that he’s not the one they have to worry about. Fry gets Riddick to show her his eyes and Jack pops up, asking how he can get eyes like those. Riddick says you have to kill a few people and get sent to a slam where they tell you that you’ll never see daylight again, and then you have to pay a doctor 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shinejob on your eyes. Carolyn yells at Jack to leave, and Riddick says Jack’s a cute kid before continuing, saying he didn’t kill Zeke. Riddick tells her to look deeper in the hole.

Fry goes to the hole, Johns following her telling her that he thinks Riddick is just trying to spook them all. Johns asks if Fry is trying to prove something and she doesn’t answer. She does, however, head into the hole with a flashlight and a rope that the Imam is holding onto. She finds herself inside a cave beneath the pillars, which have holes in them to let some light down. Fry also finds Zeke’s foot and hears something moving through the cave – probably whatever killed Zeke. She heads up through one of the pillars to try and escape when her light is knocked away from her, the creatures in between her and the tunnel she came in through. She starts shouting and Jack is the one to hear her, the survivors breaking through the pillar to pull her out. She starts swearing and says that it was stupid and that she doesn’t know what the fuck is in there, but that it got Zeke and nearly got her – just in time for something to grab onto her rope and yank it back. She’s nearly pulled back inside, saved by Johns and the Imam grabbing her and Johns cutting the rope.

Johns goes to talk to Riddick, who makes him a deal. Riddick helps them, works with them, and does what Johns says. In exchange, Johns will cut him loose and say that Riddick died in the crash. Riddick says he’d ghost him, if he were Johns, and Johns shoots him free. Riddick takes his gun and points it at him, pissed off, but doesn’t shoot him. He takes the deal and takes his goggles before heading out.

The survivors collect one power cell and other supplies and head for the settlement. Shazza and Johns talk about Riddick working with them, telling Jack that he’s not allowed to talk to him. Paris drops a bottle of his alcohol and goes to get it, but Riddick picks it up. Paris introduces himself and Riddick shakes his hand, introducing himself as well before drinking the rest of the bottle. At the ship they’ve found, Fry works on adapting the electrical while Riddick points out that they can take the ship to the shipping lanes and wait to be picked up. Johns sends him away from the skiff and off to look around for something they can use to patch up the wings. Meanwhile, Jack finds a squeaky lizard toy and some hairclippers, while the Imam and his acolytes get the water working. At the ship, Fry says they need five more cells from the crash in order to launch. Shazza goes to fix up an old solar-powered Sand Cat. Riddick finds the Coring Room but can’t get inside, and Johns calls him back. One of the Imam’s acolytes, however, finds a way in through the side.

The survivors, minus the acolyte in the Coring Room, go to drink some water and discover that Jack has shaved his hair off and found a pair of goggles in an attempt to emulate Riddick. They also discover that the settlement likely belonged to geologists who are now probably dead. The question is what killed them and Zeke, and in the Coring Room, the acolyte finds the answer. They go to find him but they’re too late, finding the smaller creatures that attacked him and his mangled body.

After the acolyte is buried, they rest of the survivors look down into the pit of the coring room. Inside are skeletons. Riddick hypothesizes that the other buildings weren’t secure, so they ran to the Coring Room and locked it from the inside, but forgot to lock the cellar. Shazza attempts to apologize to Riddick by giving him her oxygen tank, which he eventually takes. Johns points out that the creatures seem to stick to darkness and that they should be okay if they stick to daylight, but Fry discovers the last dated sample – twenty-two years ago that month. She heads back to the observatory and discovers that there was an eclipse, blocking all light from the planet.

Johns tells Fry how Riddick escaped when he says they should wait to get the power cells. It turns out Riddick can pilot and hijacked a prison transport. Johns tells Fry that the only way they’re safe is if Riddick believes he’s home free; Johns still intends to turn him in. Johns says that they bring the cells back up at the last possible moment and that he’s not going to give Riddick another chance to grab another ship. He then leaves, only to pause, apparently having a headache and shaking. Riddick is sitting outside the skiff, shaving his head and saying shaking that way is a bad sign in the heat.

Riddick heads into the ship where Fry is testing the systems, saying it looks like they’re a few shy of the power cells. He points out that it’s strange that they’re not doing a test with all the power and Fry confirms that she got the “quick and the clear version” of Riddick’s escape. He asks what Fry thinks and Fry tells him that he scares her. “That’s what you want to hear, isn’t it?” She attempts to go back to work but Riddick says he’s been meaning to catch up with her alone. He proceeds to tell her that Johns is a mercenary, not a cop, and that’s why he’s keeping Riddick alive – because he’s worth twice as much. For some reason he gets up in Carolyn’s personal space while he tells her this. Fry ends up snapping, telling Riddick not to waste her time, and Riddick tells her that they’re all going to tear each other apart when the dying starts. He also tells her to ask Johns why he shakes so much – and to ask why Owens had to scream so painfully before he died. Then he leaves.

Fry does as Riddick told her, going to find Johns and confront him. He’s injecting morphine into his eye, because that is apparently how drug-taking works in the spacefuture. Fry asks who Johns really is, and he confirms that he’s not a cop and that he takes the morphine. Johns says it’s not a problem, and Carolyn yells at him, saying it becomes a problem when he lets Owens die the way he did. Fry starts talking again and Johns grabs her by the arm, making her feel the piece of shiv that Riddick left in his back. He sits back down and Fry leaves, Johns throwing the fact that she looked after herself first right back at her. When she heads out, however, she sees something: the eclipse is starting.

The survivors get in the Sand Cat and head back to the crash site. Everyone but Shazza and Paris head to get the power cells; Shazza stays with the Sand Cat while Paris heads for part of the ship that held cargo to get a few things. There’s not enough sunlight to power the Sand Cat anymore however, and out of the pillars come the small, juvenile creatures. Everyone runs for the piece of the ship that Paris is at with Riddick and Shazza taking up the rear. They hit the ground and the creatures pass over them, and Shazza then makes a run for it. The creatures grab her and rip her into pieces in front of them all, carrying her off. Riddick makes it to the ship and they lock themselves inside as the adult creatures break out of the pillars.

Inside the crashed ship, they take stock of their situation. They have a few flashlights and Paris has his lighter. There’s also a cutting torch – and the creatures know where they are. They’re breaching the hull. Riddick tells Johns to go first because he has the big gauge, and Johns tells Riddick to go check because he’d rather piss glass. Paris attempts to leave only for everyone else to stop him. They all head through into another part of the ship – apparently just in time, because a spike goes through the wall just behind the Imam, nearly impaling him. Riddick has found the torch and opens up a hole into another spot and everyone else follows, blocking the hole off as Riddick starts to move through the ship, using his eyeshine to see in the dark. There are creatures in there with him, and they end up grabbing another one of the acolytes. Riddick flees back to the others, momentarily blinded by the flashlight and falling. Johns shoots the creature behind him. They realize that light actually physically hurts the creatures, and they find another spot in the ship.

They have a cutting torch, two handlights, any sort of alcohol over 45 proof to burn, and some flares. Fry says that they stick to the plan, getting the four cells back to the skiff and leave. They’ll have to carry the cells, since the Sand Cat is solar. Johns doesn’t think the eclipse will last, but the Imam says it is a “lasting darkness”. Johns still wants to wait for the sun to come up, and Fry says she’s sure someone else said that while they were locked in the Coring Room. Johns says they need to think about everyone and attempts to use Jack as a smokescreen for his fear. He and Fry begin to argue and she ends up calling him 79 kilos of gutless white meat. Johns moves as if to attack her and Riddick gets in the way, tapping his “personal grooming appliance” near Johns’s groin. The Imam then speaks up, saying this solves nothing, and they agree to move back to the skiff – with Riddick leading the way, since he can see in the dark. The power cells and some glowing tubes are collected from the ship and put onto a makeshift sled to be dragged, Riddick warning that the creatures know their blood now.

Fry tells everyone that all they have to do to live through this is stay together and keep the light burning. She then goes and finds Johns, asking if he’s ready. He says that Riddick is going to leave them all out there to die, and Carolyn asks what’s so valuable in Johns’s life that he’s worried about losing. Riddick overhears them. Then they head out. The light keeps the creatures at bay, but one of the flashlights falls. Jack slips free from the glowing tubes – and the light – to get it. One of the monsters dives for him and the Imam pulls Jack to safety while Johns fires at them. Paris panics and crawls away, breaking the setup of glowing tubes. The creatures kill and eat him, fighting with each other for the meat.

They keep moving only to realize that they’ve crossed over their own tracks. Riddick explains that he circled to buy himself time to think. Riddick makes them listen – they creatures are up ahead in the canyon. He then reveals something else: Jack is actually a girl, and she’s menstruating, drawing the creatures to them with the scent of her blood. Carolyn comforts her before saying they’re going to have to go back. Johns then says he’s staying outside and reveals that Fry nearly killed all the passengers. She tries to hit him but Johns easily overpowers her, the Imam then stepping in. Johns takes them all forward. He and Riddick speak up ahead of everyone else, and Carolyn has the other passengers hang back. Johns wants Riddick to kill someone to use them as bait and suggests using Jack, saying he’ll keep the others off Riddick’s back. Riddick doesn’t like that idea and knocks the flare out of Johns’s hand. The others leave the sled and move away as the two men fight in the flarelight. Riddick draws first blood on Johns and the creatures kill him.

Riddick catches up to the other four, who were heading back to the ship. The Imam asks where Johns is and Riddick asks which half. Jack is upset and Riddick tells her not to cry for Johns. He also tells them that if they have any choice, they’ll all die fast. Riddick figures out that the creatures likely have a blind spot before the Imam asks if they should pray together. This leads to Riddick’s little rant on God, and then they move on into the canyon. Riddick tells them all to keep Jack between them and that he’ll take the cells. This concerns Carolyn but there’s not much of a choice, and despite how heavy the cells are, Riddick drags them all. Something blue starts falling down onto them and despite Riddick telling them not to look up, they do – the creatures are killing each other and the blue stuff is blood.

They then reach a part of the canyon that has caved in, bones blocking the way after being knocked down by the Sand Cat earlier. The last remaining acolyte is injured as they try to get through, Riddick moving on. Jack tries to follow only for a monster to try and attack her, and she ends up beneath a large bone as the creature tries to break through it. Carolyn tries to get the creature away from her using light, but it keeps trying to break through, Carolyn’s flashlight eventually broken. Riddick turns back and attacks it and manages to kill it. The five of them continue, only for the injured acolyte to collapse – and then it starts to rain. With their only light source being fire, save for a small light on Riddick’s back, it looks like they’re going to die… so Riddick starts laughing.

Carolyn asks if they’re close and Riddick says they can’t make it. The acolyte is suddenly dragged off by one of the creatures, leaving the four of them. There’s a crevice nearby and Riddick has Carolyn, Jack, and the Imam hide inside as he continues on with the cells to get to the ship. The three of them pool the alcohol into one bottle to keep it burning, but they don’t think Riddick is coming back. As the light burns out, creatures moving around outside and trying to get to them, several glowing organisms appear on the ceiling. They quickly collect them into bottles and Carolyn goes after Riddick. Sure enough, he’s inside the ship, but he opens up the back for her upon seeing her through the viewscreen, saying that she has a strong survival instinct and that he admires that in a woman. Carolyn says that she promised the Imam and Jack that they’d come back with more light and asks if Riddick is afraid. He laughs. Carolyn tries to convince him to come back with her and when that doesn’t work, tells him to give her more light for them and she’ll go back by herself. He doesn’t give her much, just the small light that had been on his back.

Riddick says he has a better idea than going with Carolyn – that she should come with him. He tells her that he will leave her there and she starts to sob, saying she can’t. Riddick outstretches his hand and says no one will blame her for saving herself. He ends up helping her up off the ground and urges her up the ramp into the ship. She’s up at the top of the ramp when she pauses, thinking back to the way she tried to purge the passengers, and ends up tackling Riddick and shouting that she is the captain of this ship and that she’s not leaving anyone behind. Riddick flips her over and puts his shiv to her throat, telling her to shut up before asking if she would die for them. She says she’d try for them and he says she didn’t answer him, and she says yes, she would die for them. His answer to this is to pull back and take his goggles off, saying it’s interesting.

Carolyn and Riddick come back to the cave, prompting Jack to say she never had a doubt and the Imam saying that there is his God. They make their way to the ship, following Riddick. At one point they all end up holding hands (this isn’t me embellishing things, that actually happens). Riddick helps them over the ledge to get to the ship, Carolyn leading them, but he gets left behind without any light. Jack and the Imam get on the ship but Carolyn waits. Riddick has a face-off with one of the creatures, staying in its blind spot, but another appears and he has to draw his shiv. He’s injured in the fight that follows which slows him down. Despite the urging from the Imam, Carolyn goes to find him with her bottle of glowing light and helps him up, trying to get him back to the ship. She tells him that she said she would die for the others, not for him – and then a creature impales her from behind and drags her away from Riddick’s arms into the darkness, leaving Riddick behind shouting “Not for me!”

Personality:

From the very start of the movie, Fry’s main characteristic is her strong survival instinct. She’s the first one out of the cryochambers and she tries to purge the passengers in order to keep herself and Owens alive. She leads the search for water and she asks those who have more experience with things for their opinion instead of trying to do it all herself; for example, when dealing with Riddick, she listens to Johns and when dealing with Johns, she listens to Riddick. It’s her plan to leave the wreckage of the ship and use what light they have to get to the skiff and leave the planet. She also leaves Jack and the Imam behind in the crevice to go after Riddick with her bottle of bioslugs, even though they were working on filling up another bottle. She didn’t want to take the chance of Riddick leaving them, and it actually prompts him to say that she has a strong survival instinct.

Despite this survival instinct, Carolyn is protective and nurturing towards those she’s close to. She obviously respected Owens, saying that he was at his best during the crash when things were at their worse, and despite his stopping her from purging the passengers, she sits with him while he dies. The painful way he died leads to her anger when she discovers that Johns has morphine with him that he’s been taking to feed his addiction. When it’s revealed Jack is a girl, she’s initially angry but, when Jack is obviously upset and scared, quickly switches to wrapping an arm around her and trying to soothe her. After Riddick attempts to get her to leave the planet with him, leaving Jack and the Imam behind, Carolyn reveals that she would die for them. Despite how dangerous Riddick is, despite how he nearly left them there, Carolyn ends up going back for him after hearing his shouts. This leads to her dying for him, as well.

Her closeness with the survivors of the crash leads to guilt over trying to kill them to save herself in the first place, which may have been a contributing factor to how close and protective she became over them. There’s a great deal of conflict between Carolyn’s survival instinct and her more protective instincts throughout the film. It takes a lot of pushing from Riddick for Carolyn to realize and admit out loud that she would die for the passengers that are left – some of it literal pushing. Even then, she doesn’t say she would die for Riddick; in fact, she says the exact opposite, despite having gone back to help him in the first place and then dying for him. Carolyn actually shows more trust toward Riddick than any of the other characters, with the exception of Jack, whose faith in him is blind instead of cautious. It’s possible that her conflicting feelings about dying for Jack and the Imam vs. Riddick are a result of who needs her. Jack and the Imam need her to be a leader, while Riddick just needs some help getting to the ship – help he wouldn’t have needed if he hadn’t gone back with her in the first place.

Fry spends a great deal of the movie saying that she’s not the captain, that she’s not the one in charge. Eventually, however, she realizes that she is. She comes up with plans, she tries to do what’s best for all of the survivors, and when she tackles Riddick to the ground instead of leaving with him, she shouts that she is the captain of the ship and that she isn’t leaving anyone behind. She’s a reluctant leader, forced into the role by others and by their circumstances, but she does the job well. She rallies the others and when things are dangerous, such as when looking for Zeke’s body or going after Riddick to the skiff, she sends herself out instead of any of her people. In addition, she doesn’t like it when her orders are questioned or ignored without reason – she snaps at Johns for saying they should wait on getting the power cells until he explains the circumstances of Riddick’s escape. Even then, she tells him that he’s dancing on razor blades. The decision to wait is not one that she likes, but she lets Johns make it, thinking he knows best since he’s dealt with Riddick more than any of them.

Carolyn is by no means a fearless leader. She tells Riddick that he scares her, though she does then add that she thinks that’s what he wants to hear. Still, she shows obvious fear when encountering the creatures, and other times when Johns and Riddick intimidate her. Despite her fear, she pushes on. She’s brave instead of fearless, setting her fear to the side in search for answers – and Fry likes answers, even to tough questions. She gets close enough to Riddick to see his eyes, despite how dangerous he is. She discovers some of Riddick’s abilities by talking to Johns, and Riddick reveals the truth about Johns to her later, which she then goes to Johns to confirm. Despite the both of them being able to kill her, she stands up to them both – though she’s quickly knocked down when it gets physical, their size and strength differences don’t stop her or her quest for answers. Carolyn is also the one who notices the dates on the coring samples and connects it with the model of the system, as well as the person who found the skiff by noticing the light reflecting off of it. This combined with her pilot ability suggests that she’s detail-oriented and able to draw conclusions from small amounts of data.

In her search for answers, there’s one thing Fry won’t put up with, and that’s bullshit. If you’re being an idiot, Fry will call you out on it. If you’re being a coward or trying to scapegoat someone else, Fry will call you out on that, too. Her reaction to bullshit and stupidity tends to be anger, calling Johns a “79 kilos of gutless white meat”, yelling at Paris when he goes off and manages to get himself killed, and yelling at Jack for her deception. Carolyn has no patience for people who waste her time or who won’t own up to things, especially their own weaknesses. This is especially true if it interferes with her survival or the survival of the people she cares about.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Carolyn’s only real ability is the fact that she is trained as a pilot. She seems to be good at it, able to crash-land the Hunter Gratzner without everyone onboard dying in a fiery explosion. She’s only human and she’s really not great at fighting, at least not against Johns or Riddick. Over her time in canon, she is thrust into the role of reluctant leader and is actually pretty good at it.

Inventory:
1 baseball cap, blue
1 bottle full of bioslugs
4 bioraptor claws
8 bioraptor teeth
1 utility belt
Appearance:

Carolyn Fry is played by Radha Mitchell. She is 5’ 5 ¾” and wiry with short, slightly wavy blonde hair and blue eyes.
Age: Based on the age of the actress at the time Pitch Black was released, 27. Further research indicates that she's 25.

AU Clarification: n/a

SAMPLES
Log Sample:
Truth be told, Carolyn Fry wasn’t expecting to open her eyes again. The last thing she remembers is something impaling her from behind, blood dripping down into the mud. She’d grabbed for Riddick’s hand but her grip had slipped, wet from the rain, the strength of the creature pulling her away into the darkness. She hadn’t screamed; it had been futile at that point, and the last thing she needed was for her death to be in vain, for Jack and the Imam to come running out into the darkness. But she’d heard it, as the raptor carried her away. Riddick, a convicted murderer, shouting -- “Not for me!”

If it weren’t for the tube down her throat and the new scar through her stomach when she opens her eyes in medical, she could almost convince herself that it had all been a dream. The gravity couches aren’t the pods for cryosleep, though – close, but not the same. She’s deposited on the ground with everyone else, retching – there’s blue goo covering her but at least it’s not blood, but she can still feel where the creature grabbed her, can still feel the rain that had poured down and the mud under her fingernails. She can still see Shazza being ripped apart, can hear the screams from the people she was supposed to protect as they were eaten alive, and she knows that it happened to her, or that it will.

Coughing, Fry pushes herself up off the ground, one hand going to her back. There’s no entry wound, just a scar – a scar that shouldn’t be there, because she shouldn’t have healed from that. There’s something on her arm, though, and she scowls, hand moving from her back to rub at the numbers. There’s no pain there, either, even though if it’s a traditional tattoo there should be. Another question. People are moving around though and she follows, only to smile – a bit weakly, but all relieved – when she realizes where they’re heading.

Showers. After being in a crash and a desert planet, after rain and mud, she’s never been so happy to see a shower in her life. She’s not willing to stay under the stream of water for too long though, and she washes up quickly – it’s not hard, with short hair. Then she follows the crowd again, heading into the locker room, and starts to look for her locker. Maybe that will hold some clues, and maybe she’ll run into one of the others here.

Maybe. She’s not getting her hopes up.

Comms Sample:
[ The video is turned on, showing a woman with short blonde hair with a serious expression on her face. Her arms appear to be crossed over her chest, number obscured by the way they’re settled. ]

My name is Carolyn Fry. I am [ and here there’s a slight pause, her posture straightening ] the captain of the Hunter Gratzner and a pilot. I’d like information on the layout of this ship, the shuttles, the chain of command, and everyone’s experiences here. I want to know what I’m dealing with, or at least be as well-informed as everyone who’s been here for a while.

[ There’s another pause here. ] Thank you.

[ locked to Riddick: ]
As much as I hate to admit it, you might be the best source of information I have on this ship. Are you going to tell me what I want to know or should we roll around in the mud again?