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In a version of her timeline distinct from the one where she was called "Alice", Ace's mother was fond of watching ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' on tape. Ace herself found [[Dorothy Gale|the protagonist]]'s perpetually amazed attitude irritating. | In a version of her timeline distinct from the one where she was called "Alice", Ace's mother was fond of watching ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' on tape. Ace herself found [[Dorothy Gale|the protagonist]]'s perpetually amazed attitude irritating. | ||
A young Ace once wore [[Alice's father|her father]]'s old dress jacket to the youth club dance with someone called [[Misha (Republica)|Misha]]. She got [[Slur|called]] "[[queer]]" and the memory remained painful, coming back to her when she was referred to as "a queer fish" by a guileless stranger in unrelated circumstances. ([[PROSE]]: | A young Ace once wore [[Alice's father|her father]]'s old dress jacket to the youth club dance with someone called [[Misha (Republica)|Misha]]. She got [[Slur|called]] "[[queer]]" and the memory remained painful, coming back to her when she was referred to as "a queer fish" by a guileless stranger in unrelated circumstances. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Republica (novelisation)}}) | ||
=== Travels with "the Professor" === | === Travels with "the Professor" === | ||
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The Professor and Ace once visited [[1990s]] [[England]] only to discover that history had been [[Alternate timeline (Republica)|dramatically altered]] by an escaped [[Ithacan]] criminal known as [[LeCompte]]. Convincing [[Oliver Cromwell]] to appoint [[John Lambert]] as his successor instead of [[Richard Cromwell]], LeCompte had allowed Cromwell's Protectorate to survive for centuries, meaning that this late-20th-century England remained a totalitarian [[republic]] ruled by a [[Lord Protector]]. The Professor and Ace further discovered the truth about LeCompte's origins, and that he was actually trying to steer [[Earth]]'s technological development so that he could direct its military forces back at his homeworld in revenge for his exile. However, realising that (unbeknownst to LeCompte) the wormhole back to LeCompte's homeworld was also a [[time rift]], the Professor tricked him into his own doom by allowing him to fire the war rocket ''[[Behemoth (Republica)|Behemoth]]'' through the wormhole, laying waste to the past version of [[Ithaca]], killing LeCompte's past self, and consequently cancelling out his alterations to the timeline. Ace was horrified at the Professor destroying this version of history, aberrant as it was. ([[AUDIO]]: | The Professor and Ace once visited [[1990s]] [[England]] only to discover that history had been [[Alternate timeline (Republica)|dramatically altered]] by an escaped [[Ithacan]] criminal known as [[LeCompte]]. Convincing [[Oliver Cromwell]] to appoint [[John Lambert]] as his successor instead of [[Richard Cromwell]], LeCompte had allowed Cromwell's Protectorate to survive for centuries, meaning that this late-20th-century England remained a totalitarian [[republic]] ruled by a [[Lord Protector]]. The Professor and Ace further discovered the truth about LeCompte's origins, and that he was actually trying to steer [[Earth]]'s technological development so that he could direct its military forces back at his homeworld in revenge for his exile. However, realising that (unbeknownst to LeCompte) the wormhole back to LeCompte's homeworld was also a [[time rift]], the Professor tricked him into his own doom by allowing him to fire the war rocket ''[[Behemoth (Republica)|Behemoth]]'' through the wormhole, laying waste to the past version of [[Ithaca]], killing LeCompte's past self, and consequently cancelling out his alterations to the timeline. Ace was horrified at the Professor destroying this version of history, aberrant as it was. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Republica (audio story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Republica (novelisation)}}) | ||
The two later landed at a top-secret British research base in [[Greenland]] during [[World War II]] where they helped defeat voracious insectoid monsters, ([[AUDIO]]: | The two later landed at a top-secret British research base in [[Greenland]] during [[World War II]] where they helped defeat voracious insectoid monsters, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Island of Lost Souls (audio story)}}) and on the holiday planet [[Millanno]], uncovering the secrets of the darker half of the [[Isle of Prosperity]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Prosperity Island (audio story)}}) | ||
=== Separated from the Professor === | === Separated from the Professor === | ||
[[File:Alice in liminal space.jpg|thumb|left|After being hit by a car, Ace found herself in a liminal space between [[life]] and [[death]]. ([[AUDIO]]: | [[File:Alice in liminal space.jpg|thumb|left|After being hit by a car, Ace found herself in a liminal space between [[life]] and [[death]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Other Side (TT audio story)}})]]{{section stub}}At some point, Ace became separated from [[the Dominie|her travelling companion]]. She found herself temporarily blind and cared for in an unfamiliar place by a mysterious man named [[Dorsai]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Left Hand of Darkness (audio story)}}) | ||
She found herself separated even further from the Professor when she died in a car accident. While the Professor picked up a new companion, [[Nadia (The Other Side)|Nadia]], Ace found herself fighting to survive in a liminal space where the ghost of her [[Ace's nan (The Other Side)|nan]] urged her to pass on into "the other side". ([[AUDIO]]: | She found herself separated even further from the Professor when she died in a car accident. While the Professor picked up a new companion, [[Nadia (The Other Side)|Nadia]], Ace found herself fighting to survive in a liminal space where the ghost of her [[Ace's nan (The Other Side)|nan]] urged her to pass on into "the other side". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Other Side (TT audio story)}}) | ||
=== Renewed travels with the Dominie === | === Renewed travels with the Dominie === | ||
[[File:Dominie and Alice at Vespertine Lodge.jpg|thumb|[[The Dominie|The Professor]] and Ace at [[Vespertine Lodge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: | [[File:Dominie and Alice at Vespertine Lodge.jpg|thumb|[[The Dominie|The Professor]] and Ace at [[Vespertine Lodge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Guests for the Night (audio story)}})]] | ||
Reunited with Ace, the Professor travelled to the [[Vespertine Lodge]] in [[2036]] in search of the legendary [[Point of Stillness]]. The pair discovered that the strange [[time bubble]] effect at the Point was actually caused by a [[time prohibitor]], a "banned party trick". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Guests for the Night (audio story)}}) | |||
=== At the temple === | === At the temple === | ||
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She was given a glimpse of her and the Professor's adventures bringing down the Protectorate, and she was disturbed to realise that she did not remember anything about the event. | She was given a glimpse of her and the Professor's adventures bringing down the Protectorate, and she was disturbed to realise that she did not remember anything about the event. | ||
When she rejoined the Professor, he confessed that he didn't remember either, and moreover, had not been aware that his history had been rewritten, even though he usually did. Ace asked if a mysterious "[[Meddler (Republica)|him]]" they'd defeated in the past "after all this timeline rubbish" was to blame, while the Professor was more evasive, stating that there were others who could "meddle with things". They had a heart-to-heart about the moral weight of people from aberrant timelines, with the Professor reaffirming that "everyone mattered" even if they were native to unstable timelines. ([[PROSE]]: | When she rejoined the Professor, he confessed that he didn't remember either, and moreover, had not been aware that his history had been rewritten, even though he usually did. Ace asked if a mysterious "[[Meddler (Republica)|him]]" they'd defeated in the past "after all this timeline rubbish" was to blame, while the Professor was more evasive, stating that there were others who could "meddle with things". They had a heart-to-heart about the moral weight of people from aberrant timelines, with the Professor reaffirming that "everyone mattered" even if they were native to unstable timelines. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Republica (novelisation)}}) | ||
=== Legacy === | === Legacy === | ||
A very similar [[Ace]] travelled with the [[Seventh Doctor]] and frequently referred to him as "Professor". [[Ace's timeline|This Ace's timeline]] was fractured by the [[Quantum Anvil]]. ([[PROSE]]: | A very similar [[Ace]] travelled with the [[Seventh Doctor]] and frequently referred to him as "Professor". [[Ace's timeline|This Ace's timeline]] was fractured by the [[Quantum Anvil]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|At Childhood's End (novel)}}) | ||
The Dominie mentioned to [[Tris'Tean]] that he travelled with "a woman called Alice" in one version of his timeline, while in others, he travelled with "[[archaeologist]]s and [[android]]s", ([[PROSE]]: | The Dominie mentioned to [[Tris'Tean]] that he travelled with "a woman called Alice" in one version of his timeline, while in others, he travelled with "[[archaeologist]]s and [[android]]s", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Choice (novelisation)}}) describing the Seventh Doctor's companions [[Bernice Summerfield]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}, et al.) and [[Antimony (Death Comes to Time)|Antimony]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Death Comes to Time (webcast)}}) | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
