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edwardian_adventuress) wrote2030-04-05 05:48 pm
edwardian_adventuress) wrote2030-04-05 05:48 pm
Audio Clips (audio canon spoilers)
(A few borrowed from my Eighth Doctor journal.)
Clip #1: First Meeting (Storm Warning)
Background: Just what it says on the tin. Our lovely young adventuress has been caught stowing away on the airship R101, posing as one of the boys on the crew, and finds herself running right into the Doctor. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Clip #2: "Of course I loved you!" (Scherzo)
Background: It's a long, long story. When the Doctor saved Charlotte "Charley" Pollard from a painful burning death in the R101 airship disaster, he messed with Time. Her existence when she should be dead was a rip in the Web of Time that eventually ended up with this universe being threatened with being destroyed through an infection of Anti-Time. The "Neverpeople" gave the Doctor an option to end it: kill Charley. He refused, saying he loved her and couldn't just shoot her, no matter what the consequences were. Instead, to save the universe, he chose to land his TARDIS around the casket containing the Anti-Time bomb, infecting himself and his ship for a while. This drove him mad for a short time and turned him into the Gallifreyan boogeyman, Zagreus.
In the end, Zagreus was held in check, but only just. If he was left to his own devices, Zagreus could get control again and destroy the universe. To save the universe from himself and what he held within him, he traveled into the Divergent Universe where the Anti-Time came from. With no time in the new universe, the Doctor's sense of Time was essentially gone, leaving him disoriented, frightened and alone...or so he thought. Thought to be safe in their universe, Charley had instead stowed away in the TARDIS to be with the Doctor. And thus, bitterness, anger and unthinking words ensued.
Clip #3: "Dear Doctor..." (The Girl Who Never Was)
Backstory: This one is very wibbly wobbly, timey wimey. Just before this story, a fellow companion named C'Rizz ended up dying right in front of them. Charley was devastated, but the Doctor was resigned, and ended up asking her where she wanted to go next once they got back into the TARDIS. Appalled by his seemingly uncaring reaction to a companion's death, Charley decided that it was time they parted ways. Meaning to take her back to Singapore on New Year's Eve, 1930 as he promised a long time ago, the Doctor ended up accidentally taking her to Singapore just as the clock struck midnight on New Year's Day, 2008. While the Doctor tried to figure out what was going on, Charley went to the Sinapore Hilton to leave him a letter, intending to just ditch him. Instead they end up together in one last adventure where they end up on the same battleship in 2008 and 1942.
The Doctor ends up getting controlled by a man who was half-converted by the Cybermen. When Byron pulls the plug on the Doctor, Charley thinks he's dead, but he's actually in a self-induced coma. Things happen and Charley ends up being left on the ship with the TARDIS heading back to 2008. The mind control ended up wiping the Doctor's memory of everything that had happened, so when he goes to find where Charley had gone off to, he is given the letter Charley wrote before the whole mess started, making him think that she'd simply walked off. And thus, they part ways.
Clip #4: Meeting Six (The Condemned)
Background: After ending up stranded on the warship that the Cybermen had sent to the distant future, with Eight thinking that she'd simply left his company (due to that memory loss of a few hours from the Cyber control on his mind), Charley eventually found herself on a desert island, sending out an SOS signal in hopes that someone would find it. Remarkably, the Doctor found the signal...but not the Doctor she had hoped to see.
Clip #5: The Virus (Patient Zero)
Background: Because Charley was still a blot in time (though now no longer a dangerous one that was involuntarily ruining time) the TARDIS refused to protect her from illnesses as she normally would for the Doctor and his companions. That's when Mila, a girl infected with a virus by the Daleks who had stowed away on the TARDIS all the way back in the Doctor's early days, infected Charley with her virus to try to take over her life and become Charley in her place. (LONG story, just go buy the audio. ;) )
Of course, the unfortunate coincidence was that this was around the time when Six had become quite suspicious of Charley (who was lying to him to keep him from knowing his future) and had demanded to know who she was and what she wanted with him.
Clip #6: The False Memory/A Final Goodbye (Blue Forgotten Planet)
Background: With Six traveling the universe with Mila (posing as a cured Charley), the real Charley has been out helping a bunch of giant virus-hunting robots called the Viyrans who have cured her and promised that, for her help with their mission, they would help her find the Doctor and get back with him. When they find him on a future Earth who had been driven mad by the side effects of a "cure" the Viyrans tried on them, the usual hijinks ensue. Mila, sorry for what she'd done to Charley, ends up sacrificing her life to save everyone. But now, the Doctor knows too much. The Viyrans need to wipe his memory of the viruses and their mission. Knowing the Doctor would resist until they decided to kill him, Charley decides that she knows exactly what will make him agree to have his memory wiped.
Clip #1: First Meeting (Storm Warning)
Background: Just what it says on the tin. Our lovely young adventuress has been caught stowing away on the airship R101, posing as one of the boys on the crew, and finds herself running right into the Doctor. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Clip #2: "Of course I loved you!" (Scherzo)
Background: It's a long, long story. When the Doctor saved Charlotte "Charley" Pollard from a painful burning death in the R101 airship disaster, he messed with Time. Her existence when she should be dead was a rip in the Web of Time that eventually ended up with this universe being threatened with being destroyed through an infection of Anti-Time. The "Neverpeople" gave the Doctor an option to end it: kill Charley. He refused, saying he loved her and couldn't just shoot her, no matter what the consequences were. Instead, to save the universe, he chose to land his TARDIS around the casket containing the Anti-Time bomb, infecting himself and his ship for a while. This drove him mad for a short time and turned him into the Gallifreyan boogeyman, Zagreus.
In the end, Zagreus was held in check, but only just. If he was left to his own devices, Zagreus could get control again and destroy the universe. To save the universe from himself and what he held within him, he traveled into the Divergent Universe where the Anti-Time came from. With no time in the new universe, the Doctor's sense of Time was essentially gone, leaving him disoriented, frightened and alone...or so he thought. Thought to be safe in their universe, Charley had instead stowed away in the TARDIS to be with the Doctor. And thus, bitterness, anger and unthinking words ensued.
Clip #3: "Dear Doctor..." (The Girl Who Never Was)
Backstory: This one is very wibbly wobbly, timey wimey. Just before this story, a fellow companion named C'Rizz ended up dying right in front of them. Charley was devastated, but the Doctor was resigned, and ended up asking her where she wanted to go next once they got back into the TARDIS. Appalled by his seemingly uncaring reaction to a companion's death, Charley decided that it was time they parted ways. Meaning to take her back to Singapore on New Year's Eve, 1930 as he promised a long time ago, the Doctor ended up accidentally taking her to Singapore just as the clock struck midnight on New Year's Day, 2008. While the Doctor tried to figure out what was going on, Charley went to the Sinapore Hilton to leave him a letter, intending to just ditch him. Instead they end up together in one last adventure where they end up on the same battleship in 2008 and 1942.
The Doctor ends up getting controlled by a man who was half-converted by the Cybermen. When Byron pulls the plug on the Doctor, Charley thinks he's dead, but he's actually in a self-induced coma. Things happen and Charley ends up being left on the ship with the TARDIS heading back to 2008. The mind control ended up wiping the Doctor's memory of everything that had happened, so when he goes to find where Charley had gone off to, he is given the letter Charley wrote before the whole mess started, making him think that she'd simply walked off. And thus, they part ways.
Clip #4: Meeting Six (The Condemned)
Background: After ending up stranded on the warship that the Cybermen had sent to the distant future, with Eight thinking that she'd simply left his company (due to that memory loss of a few hours from the Cyber control on his mind), Charley eventually found herself on a desert island, sending out an SOS signal in hopes that someone would find it. Remarkably, the Doctor found the signal...but not the Doctor she had hoped to see.
Clip #5: The Virus (Patient Zero)
Background: Because Charley was still a blot in time (though now no longer a dangerous one that was involuntarily ruining time) the TARDIS refused to protect her from illnesses as she normally would for the Doctor and his companions. That's when Mila, a girl infected with a virus by the Daleks who had stowed away on the TARDIS all the way back in the Doctor's early days, infected Charley with her virus to try to take over her life and become Charley in her place. (LONG story, just go buy the audio. ;) )
Of course, the unfortunate coincidence was that this was around the time when Six had become quite suspicious of Charley (who was lying to him to keep him from knowing his future) and had demanded to know who she was and what she wanted with him.
Clip #6: The False Memory/A Final Goodbye (Blue Forgotten Planet)
Background: With Six traveling the universe with Mila (posing as a cured Charley), the real Charley has been out helping a bunch of giant virus-hunting robots called the Viyrans who have cured her and promised that, for her help with their mission, they would help her find the Doctor and get back with him. When they find him on a future Earth who had been driven mad by the side effects of a "cure" the Viyrans tried on them, the usual hijinks ensue. Mila, sorry for what she'd done to Charley, ends up sacrificing her life to save everyone. But now, the Doctor knows too much. The Viyrans need to wipe his memory of the viruses and their mission. Knowing the Doctor would resist until they decided to kill him, Charley decides that she knows exactly what will make him agree to have his memory wiped.