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By several accounts, the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Ace]] had a unique '''timeline''' which was heavily interfered with on multiple occasions, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'', ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'', ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassins (audio story)|Assassins]]'') leading to it being fractured across multiple [[Possible future|possible timelines]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]'') The similar-looking woman named [[Alice]] was known to have a fractured timeline as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Republica (novelisation)|Republica]]'')
By several accounts, the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Ace]] had a '''unique timeline''' which was heavily interfered with on multiple occasions, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'', ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'', ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassins (audio story)|Assassins]]'') leading to it being fractured across multiple [[Possible future|possible timelines]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]'') The similar-looking woman named [[Alice]] was known to have a fractured timeline as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Republica (novelisation)|Republica]]'')


== Known meddling ==
== Known meddling ==
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Ace and the Doctor visited the last resting place of the [[Wraith (At Childhood's End)|Wraiths]], interdimensional beings that existed in multiple timelines simultaneously, and the home of the [[Astingir]], where unbeknown to her, the Doctor planned to check on the [[Quantum Anvil]] - a temporal possibility engine created by the Astingir in their war with the Wraiths which shattered the time streams of the latter into infinite potential outcomes leaving them intangible. He hoped Ace would make contact with the Anvil, enabling her to act as an emissary with the Wraiths. After being grabbed by the Wraiths when she stood too close to their containment, Ace made contact with the Anvil which imbued her with the ability to commune with the Wraiths. She also saw her life splinter into different outcomes, seeing multiple different possible timelines of her future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'')
Ace and the Doctor visited the last resting place of the [[Wraith (At Childhood's End)|Wraiths]], interdimensional beings that existed in multiple timelines simultaneously, and the home of the [[Astingir]], where unbeknown to her, the Doctor planned to check on the [[Quantum Anvil]] - a temporal possibility engine created by the Astingir in their war with the Wraiths which shattered the time streams of the latter into infinite potential outcomes leaving them intangible. He hoped Ace would make contact with the Anvil, enabling her to act as an emissary with the Wraiths. After being grabbed by the Wraiths when she stood too close to their containment, Ace made contact with the Anvil which imbued her with the ability to commune with the Wraiths. She also saw her life splinter into different outcomes, seeing multiple different possible timelines of her future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'')


By [[The Doctor's reality (Death Comes to Time)|one account]], Ace's travels with the Doctor ended with his apparent death during his battle with [[Tannis]]. However, Tannis had declared that the Doctor's actions would rewrite time, ([[WC]]: ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]'') with most accounts indeed agreeing that these were not the circumstances of the Seventh Doctor's death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
In[[The Doctor's reality (Death Comes to Time)|one possible course of events]], Ace's travels with the Doctor ended with his apparent death during his battle with [[Tannis]]. However, Tannis had declared that the Doctor's actions would rewrite time, ([[WC]]: ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]'') with most accounts indeed agreeing that these were not the circumstances of the Seventh Doctor's death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')


During their attempt to create [[Council of Eight's universe|their own reality]], the [[Council of Eight]] sought to weaken the Doctor's timeline by killing his companions prematurely. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') The Seventh Doctor learned of Ace's death in advance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prime Time (novel)|Prime Time]]'') Shortly after Ace was murdered by [[George Limb]] in [[1959]], temporal disruptions from Limb's flawed time machine created a version of Ace from a slightly divergent timeline as various realities collapsed together. This Ace continued travelling with the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Loving the Alien (novel)|Loving the Alien]]'') Many of the Council's alterations were undone following their defeat by the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'')
During their attempt to create [[Council of Eight's universe|their own reality]], the [[Council of Eight]] sought to weaken the Doctor's timeline by killing his companions prematurely. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') The Seventh Doctor learned of Ace's death in advance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prime Time (novel)|Prime Time]]'') Shortly after Ace was murdered by [[George Limb]] in [[1959]], temporal disruptions from Limb's flawed time machine created a version of Ace from a slightly divergent timeline as various realities collapsed together. This Ace continued travelling with the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Loving the Alien (novel)|Loving the Alien]]'') Many of the Council's alterations were undone following their defeat by the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'')
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According to Ace's memories, shortly after her exposure to the Quantum Anvil Ace declared she was leaving the Doctor. After returning to Earth, she founded [[A Charitable Earth]] and years later encountered the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'')
According to Ace's memories, shortly after her exposure to the Quantum Anvil Ace declared she was leaving the Doctor. After returning to Earth, she founded [[A Charitable Earth]] and years later encountered the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)|At Childhood's End]]'')


By another account, Ace first encountered the Thirteenth Doctor, along with [[Yasmin Khan]] and [[Graham O'Brien]], when she was embroiled in [[the Master's Dalek Plan]] in [[2022]], having not seen the Doctor in three [[decade]]s, {{Dhawan|n=the Spy Master}} suggesting that she'd been "ditch[ed]." She later acknowledged her and the Seventh Doctor's falling out and apologised to an [[AI hologram (The Power of the Doctor)|AI hologram]] of him, but he assured her that they were "ace". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') This timeline was also distinguishable from others in that:
By another account, Ace first encountered the Thirteenth Doctor, along with [[Yasmin Khan]] and [[Graham O'Brien]], when she was embroiled in [[the Master's Dalek Plan]] in [[2022]], having not seen the Doctor in three [[decade]]s, the [[Spy Master]] suggesting that she'd been "ditch[ed]." She later acknowledged her and the Seventh Doctor's falling out and apologised to an [[AI hologram (The Power of the Doctor)|AI hologram]] of him, but he assured her that they were "ace". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') This account of her timeline was also distinguishable from others in that:
* 1) Ace remarked that she'd never learned how to pilot the TARDIS when she learned some skills in other timelines. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'' , [[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You Are the Doctor]]'')
* 1) Ace remarked that she'd never learned how to pilot the TARDIS, when she learned some skills in other accounts. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'' , [[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You Are the Doctor]]'')
* 2) Ace states [[Survival (TV story)|the last time she saw]] the Master he was [[Cheetah Person|half-cat]], but had multiple other encounters with him in other timelines. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'', ''[[Stop the Pigeon (short story)|Stop the Pigeon]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Cat and Mouse (comic story)|Cat and Mouse]]'', ''[[Crossing the Rubicon (comic story)|Crossing the Rubicon]]'')
* 2) Ace states [the last time she saw the Master he was [[Cheetah Person|half-cat]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'', but had multiple other encounters with him in by other accounts. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'', ''[[Stop the Pigeon (short story)|Stop the Pigeon]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Cat and Mouse (comic story)|Cat and Mouse]]'', ''[[Crossing the Rubicon (comic story)|Crossing the Rubicon]]'')


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Revision as of 14:44, 29 May 2023

By several accounts, the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace had a unique timeline which was heavily interfered with on multiple occasions, (PROSE: Interference, At Childhood's End, Sometime Never..., AUDIO: Assassins) leading to it being fractured across multiple possible timelines. (PROSE: At Childhood's End, AUDIO: Signs and Wonders) The similar-looking woman named Alice was known to have a fractured timeline as well. (PROSE: Republica)

Known meddling

Fenric was the initial augmenter of Ace's timeline, positioning her into a Wolf of Fenric. In a process similar to but more intentional than the Eighth Doctor's alterations to Sam Jones's timeline, the Seventh Doctor undid Fenric's manipulations using temporal equations. As these equations were done instinctively, Ace's new destiny didn't go quite as the Doctor expected. (PROSE: Interference)

Ace and the Doctor visited the last resting place of the Wraiths, interdimensional beings that existed in multiple timelines simultaneously, and the home of the Astingir, where unbeknown to her, the Doctor planned to check on the Quantum Anvil - a temporal possibility engine created by the Astingir in their war with the Wraiths which shattered the time streams of the latter into infinite potential outcomes leaving them intangible. He hoped Ace would make contact with the Anvil, enabling her to act as an emissary with the Wraiths. After being grabbed by the Wraiths when she stood too close to their containment, Ace made contact with the Anvil which imbued her with the ability to commune with the Wraiths. She also saw her life splinter into different outcomes, seeing multiple different possible timelines of her future. (PROSE: At Childhood's End)

Inone possible course of events, Ace's travels with the Doctor ended with his apparent death during his battle with Tannis. However, Tannis had declared that the Doctor's actions would rewrite time, (WC: Death Comes to Time) with most accounts indeed agreeing that these were not the circumstances of the Seventh Doctor's death. (TV: Doctor Who)

During their attempt to create their own reality, the Council of Eight sought to weaken the Doctor's timeline by killing his companions prematurely. (PROSE: Sometime Never...) The Seventh Doctor learned of Ace's death in advance. (PROSE: Prime Time) Shortly after Ace was murdered by George Limb in 1959, temporal disruptions from Limb's flawed time machine created a version of Ace from a slightly divergent timeline as various realities collapsed together. This Ace continued travelling with the Doctor. (PROSE: Loving the Alien) Many of the Council's alterations were undone following their defeat by the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: Sometime Never...)

After abandoning her on Earth during the Last Great Time War, (AUDIO: Soldier Obscura) Irving Braxiatel meddled in Ace's timeline as early as her travels with the Doctor. This meant Narvin was unable to track either of them down. (AUDIO: Assassins) Braxiatel also altered Ace's memories. (AUDIO: Soldier Obscura)

Outcomes

Ace's contact with a Quantum Anvil showed her multiple future outcomes of her travels with the Doctor. (PROSE: At Childhood's End) These included:

According to Ace's memories, shortly after her exposure to the Quantum Anvil Ace declared she was leaving the Doctor. After returning to Earth, she founded A Charitable Earth and years later encountered the Thirteenth Doctor. (PROSE: At Childhood's End)

By another account, Ace first encountered the Thirteenth Doctor, along with Yasmin Khan and Graham O'Brien, when she was embroiled in the Master's Dalek Plan in 2022, having not seen the Doctor in three decades, the Spy Master suggesting that she'd been "ditch[ed]." She later acknowledged her and the Seventh Doctor's falling out and apologised to an AI hologram of him, but he assured her that they were "ace". (TV: The Power of the Doctor) This account of her timeline was also distinguishable from others in that: