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{{Infobox Individual
|image           = [[file:River.png|260px]]
|image       = <gallery>
|individual name = River Song
Young melody escaping.jpg|Melody
|alias           = <ul><li>Doctor Song</li><li>Professor Song</li><li>[[Cleopatra]]</li><li>Mrs. Robinson</li>
Mels in Hitler's office.jpg|Mels
|race            = [[Near-human]]
River Looks Left LKH.jpg|River
|home planet     =  
</gallery>
|appearances     = [[River Song - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]]
|alias       = [[Mels Zucker]], [[River Song]] <!-- for aliases pertaining to specific incarnations, please see those pages -->
|actor           = [[Alex Kingston]]}}
|species      = Human
{{semi-protect}}'''River Song''', previously a doctor and eventually a professor, was a mysterious [[archaeologist]]. She was also a convicted [[murder]]er who shared a close relationship with [[the Doctor]]. Significantly, she knew the Doctor's true name, which he would tell her at some point in his future. She would often greet him by saying "Hello, sweetie", whether in message or in person.
|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
}}
{{MelodyPonds}}
'''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]].


Although the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[Silence in the Library|first meeting]] with her ended in her physical death, they had many adventures, from the Doctor's perspective, afterwards. Like [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Charley Pollard]] before her, she was an example of the rare companion whose timeline was not synchronous with that of the Doctor.
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]].


==Biography==
== Biography ==
[[File:RiverInStormcage.png|thumb|left|180px|River as a prisoner at [[Stormcage Containment Facility|Stormcage]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
=== Incarnations of Melody Pond ===
River Song was an [[archaeologist]] already very familiar with [[the Doctor]] when they first met, from his perspective, in the [[51st century]]. She was, in fact, a future companion of his who would (or, from her perspective, had) travelled with him on and off. According to her, he would come to trust her implicitly, though at the start of their relationship, from his perspective, he was generally suspicious of her and occasionally almost hostile to her. Prior to her encounter with the [[Weeping Angel]]s, she was imprisoned in the [[Storm Cage Holding Facility]] for the murder of someone she described as, "A very good man. Best man I've ever known". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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]]'')


===Meetings with [[The Doctor|the Doctor]]===
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]]'')
====Opening of the [[Pandorica]]====
In the 52nd century, after recieving a phone call from [[Winston Churchill]], River escaped from her prison to try and save the Doctor from a deadly prophecy of the TARDIS exploding. After dealing at a black market for a [[Time Agent]] [[vortex manipulator]], River travelled back in time to the Roman era of Earth where she met the Doctor.


They then proceeded to Stonehenge where they searched for the [[Pandorica]]. After located it, they discovered that Stonehenge was transmitting a signal, bringing an [[the Alliance|alliance]] of the Doctor's enemies to Earth. The Doctor managed to convince the assembled aliens to back away for a time, and sent River to bring the TARDIS to him. However, the TARDIS brought River to Amy's house, on the 26th of June, 2010. River then told him the date and, realising the TARDIS was about to explode, the Doctor urged River to escape. Instead, she found herself trapped as the TARDIS came under control of an unknown external force and started to explode. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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]].


[[file:Yes.png|thumb|left|River gives the Doctor an ambiguous "yes" about her marital status. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')|185px]]
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]]'')
Inside the TARDIS, River was stuck in a [[time loop]] of the first moments of the TARDIS explosion. The Doctor, using the vortex manipulator River had acquired, was able to retrieve her and bring her back to [[1996]]. Upon joining the Doctor, River killed the [[Stone Dalek]] that was hunting them.


After the Doctor restored the universe to life, erasing himself in the process, River left her now blank TARDIS-shaped [[River Song's diary|diary]] with Amy Pond on her [[26th June|wedding day]] in [[2010]] so that she could remember the Doctor back into existence. After a breif encounter with the Doctor, River then teleported off with the vortex manipulator. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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====[[The Impossible Astronaut|America]]====
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After recieving an invitation containing geographical co-ordinate from the [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], River escaped from the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]], in order to meet him in [[United States of America]] in [[2011]]. River met the Doctor, [[Amy Pond|Amy]], and [[Rory Williams|Rory]] in a cafe in the middle of the Utah desert. The Doctor took all of them to a picnic, they then saw the Doctor be murdered by someone wearing an astronauts space suit. River, Amy, and Rory then cremated the Doctors body. They later returned to the cafe and discovered a younger Doctor, approximately two hundred years younger than the Doctor they saw die.
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They then travelled to the White House and then to Florida, to an abandoned warehouse. The Doctor then ordered River into a pothole in [[File:Vlcsnap-2011-04-24-14h25m24s168.png|thumb|River tells [[Rory Williams|Rory]] a little about her first encounter with [[The Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')]]the ground. While down there, she finds a nest of [[the Silence]], but forgets about them. Along with Rory, River then discovered a control room to a [[79B Aickman Road|makeshift TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')
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====Crash of the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]====
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Some time after the opening of the Pandorica, River was imprisoned once again, but in an earlier century. She remained so until she was put under [[Father Octavian]]'s custody. If she were to carry out the mission assigned to her she would earn her pardon. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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[[file:RiverBreaks.png|thumb|left|River breaks into the ''[[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]''. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')|185px]]
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While working for Father Octavian, River was sent to be a guest on the Byzantium ship. She infiltrated the lower levels to find the [[Home Box]], into which she carved the message "Hello Sweetie" in the [[Old High Gallifreyan]] language to attract the Doctor's attention. Meeting [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] on [[Alfava Metraxis]], she helped him defeat an army of [[Weeping Angel]]s, who had been awakened in the planet's [[Aplan Mortarium|Maze of the Dead]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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====[[The Library]]====
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[[file:DOCTORWHOx408x1410.jpg|thumb|River introduces herself to the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'')|right]]
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River's expedition to [[The Library|the Library]] was financed by [[Felman Lux]] and was chartered to discover what disaster had happened there, 100 years previously, when a cryptic final message was sent: ">>> 4022 saved. No survivors <<<". When her team ran into trouble during the expedition, River summoned the Doctor by sending him a message via [[psychic paper]]. An [[Tenth Doctor|earlier version]] of the Doctor turned up had not yet met her. Though bewildered, he agreed to help River and her team.
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River and the Doctor appeared to be very close, even considering the strong bonds the Doctor forms with his companions. She still had her TARDIS-shaped [[River Song's diary|diary]] describing her travels with the Doctor. She carried an [[River Song's sonic screwdriver|upgraded version]] of the tenth incarnation's [[sonic screwdriver]] which a later Doctor had given her.
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===Death===
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As the situation in the Library deteriorated, River realised she must prove to the Doctor that she was, or would become in his case, someone he trusted completely and with profuse apologies, she whispered his true name into his ear. The Doctor was stunned by this information, and River succeeded in winning his trust.
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[[file:DOCTORWHOx409x2538.jpg|thumb|right|River, moments before her death. ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')]]
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River physically died when she chose to sacrifice herself in the place of the Doctor in order to save Donna and the other 4022 people trapped in the Library's computer. She pleaded with him to not try and change history, not to change one moment of what is to come for them. 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]] called a "Neural Relay", which contained 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 (Charlotte Abigail Lux, or CAL) wired into its mainframe, also managed to save the data ghosts of all of River's dead archaeological team, in the process giving her company in the virtual world. River would go on to take care of the two virtual children and Charlotte in the virtual world, reading out her [[River Song's diary|diary]] of her life with the Doctor and how "everybody lives" when the Doctor comes to call. Her story ended with her telling the sleeping children sweet dreams. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'' / ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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The Doctor would later remember her death when [[Davros]] reminded him of the people who had died in his name. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
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==Personality==
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River at times enjoyed showing off her knowledge in front of the Doctor, particularly knowledge of him and his personality. She would often use the word "spoilers" in reference to her knowledge of the Doctor's future, or his knowledge of her future. River was also persistent at keeping secrets from the Doctor, especially anything which could change the future. This included keeping her personal [[River Song's diary|diary]] from him.
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River showed that she cared about other people, such as the [[Doctor]] and her team in [[The Library]], but could also demonstrate signs of mercilessness, such as killing the [[Stone Dalek]] after it had shot the Doctor and begged for mercy, showing fear of her when it learned who she was. River Song could be cheeky, but was serious when the situation called for it.
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==Relationship with the Doctor ==
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River Song's relationship with the Doctor is currently a subject of mass speculation, but with each consecutive meeting so far he appears to become more trusting of her.
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When the Tenth Doctor first met her she appeared to be someone he knew intimately (something she demonstrated when she stroked his hair and knew, just by his eyes, that he was much younger than "her Doctor" - hinting to some form of loving relationship) and seemed hurt when he confessed to not knowing her. Throughout the stories she made continual references to how well she knew him, even going so far as to tell the Doctor his real name to make sure she had his full trust - she described herself as someone who one day he would "trust completely" and that she herself would "trust that man to the end of the universe" (adding that they'd actually been). When she sacrificed herself to save the people in the Library (and spare the Doctor from doing it himself) the Doctor said there was only one time he could ever tell her his name (indicating that the Doctor himself, though unsure of details, did have an idea of who she is to him) to which she simply answered "shhh... spoilers" before commencing the uplink that would end her life. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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Upon the Eleventh Doctor's first meeting with her, he at first expressed resentment at the idea of his own future being set in stone but later warmed to River after her part in saving Amy (when she fixed the teleport) and after musing on the idea that "time can be rewritten." During the same episode, when Amy asked if she was the Doctor's wife and when asked by River if "it could by anything that simple with the Doctor" answered "yes" River refused to confirm it, simply saying Amy was "good." Later aboard the primary flight deck of the Byzantium, when the Doctor said he "could bloody kiss [her]" River responded with "maybe when you're older" - again hinting to a romantic relationship in their future once more (and possibly ruling out the idea that she is in any way related to the Doctor as some have speculated). ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'') By the end of the story he appeared to have at least some pleasure in anticipation of their next meeting.
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Upon their second meeting the Eleventh Doctor appeared accustomed to River's style of calling him and even smiled when he saw her "graffiti" on the oldest cliff face in the universe on Planet 1. He trusted River enough to send her back to the TARDIS to bring it to the Pandorica and by the end of the two parter they parted on good terms, with the Doctor considering the question of her identity more of a game to him now and something he could wait to find out (it should also be noted that this was the second time the Doctor had the chance to read River's diary but chose not to). In the same story, when the TARDIS was seen to be exploding, River Song was heard repeated saying the phrase "I'm sorry my love" - presumably to the Doctor - again hinting a romantic future relationship with the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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==Other information==
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[[file:River blows a Kiss.png|thumb|Right|River blows a kiss. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')]]
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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 having one extended trip with the Doctor and never seeing him again after parting ways.
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*River Song was a skilled TARDIS pilot (with very different techniques from the Doctor). She mentioned that she "learned from the best," but joked that the Doctor wasn't available that day. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') Later she stated that the Doctor had indeed taught her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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*Song appeared to have knowledge of Time Lord anatomy, including knowledge of regeneration. She indicated that destruction of both of the Doctor's hearts could be a circumstance after which regeneration was not possible. ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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*River Song had the ability to write in [[High Gallifreyan]], but it is unknown where she learned this. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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*River possessed pictures of all the Doctor's incarnations ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''), though she did not know the order of the Doctor's incarnations.
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*River was sentenced to prison for murdering a man described as "a hero to many" and whom she called "A very good man. Best man I've ever known". Octavian felt that the murder victim's identity was something that the Doctor "really [didn't] want to know." ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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*Before his death, Octavian told the Doctor that "You think you know [River], but you don't. You don't understand who or what she is." ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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*River told Rory that she and the Doctor are meeting in reverse order and that every time she met him, he knew her less. She feared the day when she met a Doctor who did not know her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]''))
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==Behind the scenes==
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*It is unknown where in time and space River Song originally came from.
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*In a recent interview by Digital Spy, Steven Moffat made a passing comment to the effect that River Song might turn out to be very different from people's presumptions as to who she really is.<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s7/doctor-who/tubetalk/a210033/video-steven-moffat-bonus-cut.html Steven Moffat video]</ref>
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*In [[Doctor Who Confidential]], [[Steven Moffat]] stated that we find out who River Song is in [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]].
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*Except for flashbacks, River Song has only been used in two-part stories, all of which were written by [[Steven Moffat]].
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*Steven Moffat dismissed the fan theory that River is a future version of [[Amy Pond]], or that she is [[the Doctor]]'s mother. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')
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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]]

Incarnations of Melody Pond[[edit]]

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)