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|individual name= River Song
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|image=[[Image:River Song.jpg|250px]]
Young melody escaping.jpg|Melody
|alias=
Mels in Hitler's office.jpg|Mels
|race=[[Human]]
River Looks Left LKH.jpg|River
|home planet=unknown
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|home era= [[51st century]]
|alias        = [[Mels Zucker]], [[River Song]] <!-- for aliases pertaining to specific incarnations, please see those pages -->
|appearances= [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/ ''[[Forest of the Dead]], ''[[Journey's End]]'' (archival footage)
|species      = Human
|actor= [[Alex Kingston]]
|species2    = Proto-Time Lord
}}
|species3    = Data ghost
|job          = Archaeologist
|job2        = Detective
|job3        = Writer
|job4        = Assassin
|affiliation  = The Silence
|affiliation2 = Luna University
|affiliation3 = Felman Lux Corporation
|birth date  = [[52nd century]], [[Demons Run]]
|death date  = [[51st century]], [[the Library]]
|spouse      = The Doctor
|spouse2      = Ramone
|spouse3      = Hydroflax
|spouse4      = Stephen Fry (in-universe){{!}}Stephen Fry
|spouse5      = River Song's second wife{{!}}second wife
|spouse6      = Jack Harkness
|grandparent  = Tabetha Pond
|grandparent2 = Augustus Pond
|grandparent3 = Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
|grandparent4 = Rory Williams's mother{{!}}Rory's mother
|mother      = Amy Pond
|father      = Rory Williams
|adoptive brother = Anthony Williams
|sibling      = Lake (The Lady in the Lake)
|sibling2    = Rindle
|sibling3    = Tarn (The Lady in the Lake)
|sibling4    = Stream (The Lady in the Lake)
|sibling5    = Creek (The Lady in the Lake)
|sibling6    = Wadi
|sibling7    = Beck (The Lady in the Lake)
|sibling8    = Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)
|sibling9    = H-One
|sibling10    = H-Two
|sibling11    = O (The Furies)
|adopted child = Kamen Vers
|adopted child2 = Charlotte Lux
|origin      = [[Demons Run]]
|first        = Silence in the Library (TV story)
|appearances  = {{appears}}
|actor        = Alex Kingston
|other actor  = Harrison and Madison Mortimer
|other actor2 = Sydney Wade
|other actor3 = Maya Glace-Green
|other actor4 = Nina Toussaint-White
|clip        = The REAL Melody Pond - Doctor Who - A Good Man Goes to War - Series 6 - BBC
|bts          = Introducing the Pond Family - Doctor Who Confidential - Series 6 - Episode 13 - BBC Three
}}
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'''Melody Pond''' was the child of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. She was a "[[Child of a TARDIS|child]] of the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]", born mostly [[Human]] with some [[Time Lord]] [[DNA]]. She was transformed by [[the Silence]] into the first of several [[Proto-Time Lord]]s, and had the ability to [[Regeneration|regenerate]].


Professor '''River Song''' was a [[Human|human]] archaeologist. She is assumed to have an unusually intimate relationship with the Doctor, since she was the only person known to know his real name.  
Melody was named after her parents' childhood friend, '''[[Mels Zucker]]''', who was in fact secretly her second incarnation gone back in time to ensure her parents got together. Regenerating once more into her third incarnation after being shot by [[Adolf Hitler]], she became best known as [[Professor]] '''[[River Song]]''', and married the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]] in his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]].


==Profile==
== Biography ==
===Biography===
=== Incarnations of Melody Pond ===
River Song was an [[archaeologist]] from the [[51st century]] already highly familiar with [[the Doctor]] when they first meet (from his perspective). She was, in fact, a future companion of his who traveled with him off and on. According to her, he trusted her implicitly. River's expedition to [[The Library|Library]] was financed by [[Felman Lux]] and was chartered to find out what disaster had happened there, 100 years previously, that had caused 4022 people to "die" or disappear. When her team ran into trouble during an expedition to a deserted library, it was only natural that River should try to summon the Doctor by sending him a message via [[psychic paper]]. [[Tenth Doctor|The version of the Doctor]] who turned up had not yet met her. Though bewildered, he agreed to help River and her team.
During her first incarnation, Melody was a [[Melody Pond (Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut)|little girl]], who had been kidnapped by [[Madame Kovarian]]. She harvested Melody's embryonic [[DNA]] in order to [[clone]] more children like her. This resulted in the creation of River's clones, the [[Proto-Time Lord|Proto-Time Lords]]. The clones referred to one another as siblings. The first batch consisted of seven clones named [[Lake (The Lady in the Lake)|Lake]], [[Rindle]], [[Tarn (The Lady in the Lake)|Tarn]], [[Wadi]], [[Creek (The Lady in the Lake)|Creek]], [[Stream (The Lady in the Lake)|Stream]], and [[Beck (The Lady in the Lake)|Beck]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'') The second batch of clones included [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]], [[H-One]], [[H-Two]], and [[O (The Furies)|O]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Dinner with Andrew (audio story)|My Dinner with Andrew]]'', ''[[The Furies (audio story)|The Furies]]'') Like River, the clones had [[Binary vascular system|two hearts]] and the ability to regenerate; however, the exact amount of regenerations each of them had was random. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'')


River and the Doctor appeared to be very familiar, even considering the strong bonds the Doctor forms with his companions.  She keeps a worn and battered diary whose cover looks very much like the TARDIS doors, apparently  a journal of her travels with the Doctor. She carried an [[River Song's sonic screwdriver|upgraded version]] of the [[sonic screwdriver]] which "her" version of the Doctor had given her.
After escaping from the Silence, Melody had made her way to [[New York City]] and developed a terminal illness, but knew she could "fix it" by [[Regeneration|regenerating]]. She was living homeless in an alley when she finally succumbed to her ailment in January [[1970]], and regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')


As the situation in the Library deteriorated, River realized she must prove to the Doctor that she is (or will become) someone he trusts completely and with profuse apologies, she whispers his true name into his ear.  The Doctor is stunned that she would know this information, and River succeeds in winning his trust.
Now under the name of [[Mels Zucker]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mels at School (short story)|Mels at School]]'') and residing in [[Leadworth]], Melody grew up once more, now alongside her parents. She became Amelia and Rory's close childhood friend, ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') Upon meeting the [[Eleventh Doctor]], Mels held him at gunpoint and made him take her to "kill [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]". There, she was caught in a crossfire between him and the ''[[Teselecta]]''. She got the Doctor to promise to marry her, and revealed her true identity to the three of them. Beginning to regenerate, Melody reflected on her last regeneration, and told her parents she was glad she had found them, before she exploded with [[regeneration energy]].


River died physically when she chose to sacrifice herself in order to stop the Doctor from sacrificing himself in order to save Donna and the other 4022 people trapped on the Library. She pleaded with him to not try and change history, not to change one moment of what is to come for them.
Shortly after regenerating, Melody began examining her new body. Unbeknownst to her, both the Doctor and her parents were already acquainted with this new incarnation, who more commonly used the name [[River Song]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')


After saving all the trapped people, the Doctor realized his future self must have given her his sonic screwdriver for a reason.  Inside he found a [[data chip]], which contains River's [[Data Ghost]]. The Doctor saved her by uploading her into the virtual world contained in [[The Library]]'s data core.  [[CAL]], the library's data core controlled by a human girl wired into its mainframe, also managed to save the data ghosts of all of River's dead archaeological team, so she would have company in the virtual world. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]/[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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River Song seemed to take shorter trips with the Doctor, living a more or less normal life between trips, rather than have one extended trip with the Doctor and never see him again after parting ways. The future doctor told River Song his name because he knew that she would end up in the library and would have to tell the past doctor his name so that she would trust him.
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When [[Davros]] said to [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] that ''"Everywhere you go there are always deaths"'' River appears in a flashback, as the Doctor has flashbacks over those who have died during his travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journeys End]]'')
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* River Song meets [[the Doctor]] for the first time
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* River Song and the Doctor travel to the End of the Universe
 
* The Doctor, with a new haircut and a suit, visits River Song and takes her to see the Singing Towers of Darillium. He gives her his [[Sonic Screwdriver]].
 
* River Song sends the Doctor a message on the [[Psychic paper]], asking him to come to [[the Library]].
 
* The Doctor, whilst travelling with [[Donna Noble]] comes to the Library in the 51st Century and meets River Song for the first time, when they face an infestation of [[Vashta Nerada]] within [[the Library]]. River Song proves to the Doctor how important she will be to him by uttering his name in his ear.
 
* River Song sacrifices herself to save the Doctor and the Library.
 
* The Doctor beams River Song from a [[Neural Relay]] in her sonic screwdriver into the Library's Data Core.
 
* River Song's brainwaves live on in the virtual world inside the Data Core, containing [[CAL]] and [[Doctor Moon]]. She is reunited in this virtual world with her crew mates, [[Proper Dave]], [[Other Dave]], [[Anita]] and [[Miss Evangelista]], whose brainwaves must have also been added to the Data Core.
 
==Behind the Scenes==
*It is possible, though unlikely, that River Song is a reference to a song from the 1973 ''Tom Sawyer'' movie soundtrack.
*At Comic-Con 2008, the character's creator [[Steven Moffat]] let slip that River Song has met other incarnations of [[the Doctor]].
*According to a quiz in ''The Sun'' newspaper, River Song is the Doctor's wife.
*It is implied that she has had a sexual relationship with The Doctor.
 
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Latest revision as of 11:56, 2 April 2024

Melody Pond was the child of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. She was a "child of the TARDIS", born mostly Human with some Time Lord DNA. She was transformed by the Silence into the first of several Proto-Time Lords, and had the ability to regenerate.

Melody was named after her parents' childhood friend, Mels Zucker, who was in fact secretly her second incarnation gone back in time to ensure her parents got together. Regenerating once more into her third incarnation after being shot by Adolf Hitler, she became best known as Professor River Song, and married the Time Lord known as the Doctor in his eleventh incarnation.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Incarnations of Melody Pond[[edit] | [edit source]]

During her first incarnation, Melody was a little girl, who had been kidnapped by Madame Kovarian. She harvested Melody's embryonic DNA in order to clone more children like her. This resulted in the creation of River's clones, the Proto-Time Lords. The clones referred to one another as siblings. The first batch consisted of seven clones named Lake, Rindle, Tarn, Wadi, Creek, Stream, and Beck. (AUDIO: The Lady in the Lake) The second batch of clones included Brooke, H-One, H-Two, and O. (AUDIO: My Dinner with Andrew, The Furies) Like River, the clones had two hearts and the ability to regenerate; however, the exact amount of regenerations each of them had was random. (AUDIO: The Lady in the Lake)

After escaping from the Silence, Melody had made her way to New York City and developed a terminal illness, but knew she could "fix it" by regenerating. She was living homeless in an alley when she finally succumbed to her ailment in January 1970, and regenerated. (TV: Day of the Moon)

Now under the name of Mels Zucker (PROSE: Mels at School) and residing in Leadworth, Melody grew up once more, now alongside her parents. She became Amelia and Rory's close childhood friend, (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) Upon meeting the Eleventh Doctor, Mels held him at gunpoint and made him take her to "kill Hitler". There, she was caught in a crossfire between him and the Teselecta. She got the Doctor to promise to marry her, and revealed her true identity to the three of them. Beginning to regenerate, Melody reflected on her last regeneration, and told her parents she was glad she had found them, before she exploded with regeneration energy.

Shortly after regenerating, Melody began examining her new body. Unbeknownst to her, both the Doctor and her parents were already acquainted with this new incarnation, who more commonly used the name River Song. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)

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Proto-Time Lords
Original
First batch
Lake / Lily • Rindle • Tarn • Stream • Creek • Wadi • Beck
Second batch
Brooke • H-One • H-Two • O
The Proto-Time Lords were created by Kovarian on Demons Run, clones of the original: Melody Pond.
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