Whouffaldi • The Doctor & Clara Oswald Fanlisting

Splinters

Because of her interaction with the Doctor's timeline, Clara Oswald met the Doctor in many forms, each time being born and dying. She met and saved the lives of the Doctor's first twelve incarnations (excluding his war incarnation). She noted, however, that he rarely ever noticed her. However, Clara realised that not all of these splinters died after saving the Doctor, and many lived their own lives.

Her many lives and encounters with the Doctor included, but were certainly not limited to:

The First Doctor as he was stealing a TARDIS from Gallifrey. She told him not to steal the one he intended to take but the one next to it, as even though the navigation system was ”knackered”, he would have much more fun.
The Second and Eighth Doctors were both present in a park with palm trees.
The Third Doctor driving past her in Bessie. When she tried to shout his name, he turned to his rear view mirror, catching a glimpse of her.
The Fourth Doctor on Gallifrey where Clara tried to catch up to him.
The Fifth Doctor battling Omega inside the Matrix.
The Sixth Doctor walking through the TARDIS and past one of Clara's splinters; she called out to him, but he didn't seem to notice her.
She watched the Tenth Doctor while in the Library.
Clara spotted the Seventh Doctor clinging onto the edge of a cliff on Iceworld in the far future and he seemed to notice her.
As a queen or monarch of some sort.
As a Morestran.
As an inhabitant of Atlantis.
As a member of the Happiness Patrol.
As a Guardian on the Ark during the 57th Segment of Time.
As a Maori from New Zealand.
As an Egyptian, possibly a monarch.
As a military officer, circa World War II.
As a 51st-century astronaut.

At one point after Amy Pond and Rory Williams were sent to the past in New York City, an elderly echo of Clara noticed that Amy had a similar "glow" about her that the Doctor had, but Amy's was fading. She decided to follow Amy, in case she ever needed help. One Fall, when Amy and Rory vacationed at Lake Erie, Amy finally spoke to her and the echo asked her to pass on a message: "Run you clever boy, and remember..." Amy later wrote about this encounter in a foreword to an edition of her book Summer Falls, addressing it to the Doctor; her description of the encounter and her quoting of Clara leaves it unclear as to whether this echo ever actually encountered the Doctor.

In November of 1963, Constable Oswald had filled out the missing person report for Susan Foreman.

Oswin Oswald

In one of her lives in which the Doctor did notice her, she went by the name Oswin Oswald. She once claimed that the first boy whom she ever fancied was called Rory, but quickly admitted that "actually, she was called Nina. I was going through a phase."

At some point, Oswin joined the starliner Alaska's crew as Junior Entertainment Manager to see the universe. When the Alaska crashed on the Dalek Asylum, Oswin escaped down a shaft into the lower levels of the Asylum, where she was found and captured by the Dalek inmates. Unlike the other crew members of the Alaska, who were partially converted by the nanocloud into Dalek puppets, Oswin was fully converted due to her exceptionally high intelligence, something they valued over exterminating her. Due to the horror of what had happened to her, Oswin created a dream world for her human mind to dwell in, to forget the truth. Useless to the Daleks, she was locked in the Asylum. Under this life, Oswin assumed that she was surviving on soufflés in the Alaska. She also hacked into the Asylum's fully-automated systems, heavily damaging it and reducing it to a ruin.

A year later, Oswin aided the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams in finding safe passage through the Dalek Asylum. She later wiped all the information about the Doctor from the Daleks' Pathweb at one point to save him from the Daleks in Intensive Care. The Doctor attempted to rescue her until he found her and discovered she was a Dalek. The Doctor explained this to Oswin, who first nearly gave in to her Dalek conditioning by attempting to exterminate the Doctor, then broke down over what she had become.

Oswin lowered the Asylum's defences so the Parliament of the Daleks could destroy the planet and asked the Doctor to remember her as the human she once was, with her last words, "Run, you clever boy... And remember." When Amy, Rory and the Doctor escaped back to the Parliament, they found out that Oswin had erased the Doctor from the memories of all the Daleks in the Parliament as well as the Dalek inmates in the Asylum. Her efforts were later undone when the Daleks harvested information about the Doctor from Tasha Lem.

Clara Oswin Oswald

In another life, Clara Oswin Oswald appeared as a barmaid and governess in 19th century London.

Clara was born on 23 November 1866 in Victorian England. She claimed that her birth occurred behind the face of Big Ben and that the location accounted for her "acute sense of time". By 1892, she was working as a barmaid at The Rose & Crown. She also maintained a secret life (with a different accent) as "Miss Montague", a governess looking after the upper-class Latimer family after their last governess was drowned in the pond on their estate.

She met the Eleventh Doctor outside the pub's rear exit on 23 December, and they examined a snowman which had appeared from nowhere. Clara then chased the Doctor down the street when he left. The Doctor locked her in his cab and ordered Strax to get a memory worm to erase the last hour of her memory. After Strax kept forgetting to put on gauntlets, the Doctor got the memory worm himself, but then a Snowman attacked, followed by several more. Together, the Doctor and Clara caused the Snowmen to melt by imagining them doing so, and then the Doctor told Strax to take Clara back to the pub. Instead, Clara followed the Doctor to a ladder that led to a spiral staircase which took her up where the Doctor had parked the TARDIS. After knocking, Clara ran back down the spiral staircase when the Doctor came to investigate.

Clara returned to her job as a governess the next day and learned that Captain Latimer's daughter, Francesca, had been dreaming about her previous governess, who had drowned in Latimer's pond a year earlier, returning from the dead to kill her. Francesca's brother Digby suggested she needed a doctor, so Clara hurried to find the Doctor. While shouting up at his cloud, she caught the attention of Jenny Flint who took her to see Madame Vastra. Vastra and Jenny forced Clara to do the "one-word test", where she would only be allowed to use one word to answer whatever question Vastra asked. With several well-chosen words, Clara explained why she was interested in the Doctor and mentioned the word "Pond", the surname of the Doctor's former companion, as well as a clue to the mystery. Impressed, Vastra called the Doctor and told him what Clara had said. The Doctor decided to investigate while Clara went back to Latimer's house.

The Doctor arrived to investigate the pond that the former governess had drowned in and then rescued Clara and the children from the Ice Governess, who had been created from the frozen corpse of the drowned woman. He melted her with his sonic screwdriver, but the Ice Governess recovered and chased them down the stairs, where they met Captain Latimer. The Doctor claimed to be Clara's "gentleman friend" in order to explain his presence in the house before Vastra, Jenny and Strax arrived to help. Jenny trapped the Ice Governess behind a force field, and everyone hurried into Latimer's office. The Doctor quickly explained the situation and then told everyone to stay in the office and left. Clara followed and kissed him. The Doctor then confronted Dr Walter Simeon at the front door, who demanded that he give him the Ice Governess. The Doctor and Clara led the Ice Governess up to the roof, where Clara used an umbrella to pull down the ladder that led to the TARDIS. They led the Ice Governess up the spiral staircase and the Doctor tried to trap her under the cloud supporting the TARDIS. He then showed Clara the inside of the TARDIS and she commented, "It's smaller on the outside" before asking if there was a kitchen, explaining that she liked making soufflés. When the Doctor gave her the TARDIS key, the Ice Governess attacked Clara from behind. She dropped the key and was pulled off of the cloud, falling to her death in the Latimer's courtyard.

The Doctor used his TARDIS to retrieve Clara's body and the shattered remains of the Ice Governess and took her into Latimer's office. Strax brought her back to life using the resurrection device, but only for a short time. The Doctor asked Clara to become his companion and she agreed. After the Doctor and Vastra confronted Simeon in his institute and, with help from Clara's tears and the tears of the Latimer family, defeated Simeon and the Great Intelligence, Clara died with the Doctor by her side. Her last words were "Run. Run, you clever boy... And remember" — the same as the last words of the original Clara before she entered the Doctor's time stream, and, by extension, of the incarnation that the Doctor met in the Dalek Asylum. The Doctor believed that Clara was somehow "the same woman" he had met in the Dalek Asylum. After Clara's funeral, he rushed off to investigate the mystery, leaving Vastra and Jenny looking at the gravestone and its words, "Remember me... For we shall meet again", in puzzlement. In the 21st century, her grave was unknowingly visited by her original self. By that time, the graveyard had become overgrown and the grave very worn.

Winnie Clarence

Another life of Clara's was Winnie Clarence, a student, later a research graduate, at Snowcap University in Antarctica by 2048. Her name was short for "Oswin Clarence". When she was eighteen, Winnie came to Antarctica because she wanted to explore.

In 2048, Winnie rescued the Twelfth Doctor and the original Clara after they narrowly escaped a helicopter crash near Snowcap, with the two not recognising each other's appearance underneath her heavy snow gear. When Clara entered inside Winnie's room to clean up and get changed, the two got out of their uncomfortable snow gear and they realised that they were doppelgangers of one another, with Clara immediately realising she had encountered an echo for the first time. Later, after overhearing the Doctor and Clara discuss that Winnie was born to die so that the Doctor might live because of Clara splintering herself throughout time and space, Winnie, upset by what they were saying, ran off on a snowmobile. Clara tried following after Winnie but the two fell down a crevasse into an ice cavern. While Winnie tended to her injured leg, Clara told her about how the echoes were created, and Winnie revealed that she felt like she remembered some of the story already.

In the cavern, Clara and Winnie discovered the missing students had been experimented on, engineered by Dr Patricia Audley to survive in extreme cold. Along with the spy Paul South, Winnie released most of the imprisoned humans from captivity after Clara allowed herself to be captured while posing as Winnie, causing Dr Audley to drop her guard as she didn't know about the two of them.

Winnie pretended to side with Dr Audley and betray the Doctor and Clara by letting the Doctor die, and instead tricked Dr Audley into showing the Doctor the signal that caused the animals to go wild. The Doctor transmitted this signal with his sonic screwdriver, and in the confusion, Winnie threw the Doctor the key so he could rescue the remaining prisoners from their cells, stopping Dr Audley's plans. Winnie saved the Doctor's life by pulling Dr Audley into a vat of liquid ice after Audley pulled a gun on him. Dr Audley was killed, and Winnie appeared to be killed as well. Clara immediately made the decision to leave the Doctor and live out her life as Winnie, but Winnie survived when she unwittingly had a syringe of Dr Audley's experimental blue blood serum injected into her, allowing her to live inside the ice. Winnie's roommate Marianne pulled her out of the ice, where she reunited with her mother, Mabel. Clara realised that this meant that not all of the splinters died saving the Doctor, and several of them had lives of their own.