[Eyes harden then.] The Doctor is an exception. How do I...?
It's his species. They could in theory bring two versions of another of his same species, but he's kind of the last of his kind. It's complicated.
If another version of you were to show up, 1) the odds are crazy low, 2) they'd probably have to be so radically different you wouldn't recognize them and nor would anyone else.
If you want to learn more about those kind of hazards, you can talk to Trunks Briefs or Uai of my Torchwood teams. Tell them I sent you, and that you're not human. The Doctor's not human either, but his species is very different. They don't splinter. Ah, that's a term that is just... it's a headache to explain. Humans generally not quite reincarnation, but in the parallel universes, have chances to live out the same choices with different results or vice versa, same principle starting points, different choices. And then the unsustainable universes collapse in on themselves. So Earth has been destroyed... a lot. But the only ones that hold reality are the times it gets saved.
[Sighs and rubs her forehead.] Paradoxically speaking, the different timelines, different universes aren't supposed to touch. But Mickey and Ricky could both be here -- they're different versions of my ex boyfriend, one dated Jake, not me. Anyway. Given the sheer nature of this place, it could probably handle both at the same time, but again, they're so different from each other... [Shrug.] And the only reason the Doctor is from different points, but the same man, is because they don't splinter. His species. There's no Doctor in Pete's Universe. Or any of his species. His species and one other: the daleks, are contained ONLY to his universe. They also don't have vampires. I don't know how or who killed them all that they went extinct, but I know vampires exist in almost all the universes I've been to. I kinda doubt daleks went after vampires before everything else though.
Point is, no your future won't mysteriously show up on you. Nor your past. At most you might meet an Angelique who was -- I dunno, think of something totally crazy. But even then... probably not. There were two weeks I was stuck as a gargoyle, but another week I thought I'd stayed in my father's universe and done the heiress thing my Mom desperately wanted me to. So it'd have to be even more dramatic than that. Everything would be super different. Like I said, you're better off talking to Uai or Trunks about it though. They have experience with all of that dimension hopping and trying not to paradox yourself out of existence too and Uai's -- someone important to him is here, but young. Super young. And even though they both, he and Hana, splinter unlike Ti-- the Doctor, that's the only Hana he's got.
[Head tilt.] That's not evil. And I'm crazy possessive too. Don't assume you can't make him happy. That's what I mean about trust and respect, yeah? If he says he is happier with you, trust that. Even if it's hard to believe, let him show it with his actions, and letting him choose where he stays, yeah? I mean there are days I'd rather the Doctor was happier without me. But that's just because I'm kind of messed up, to be honest.
But if it sounds like he hasn't had a lot to laugh about? Then keep him. Give him reasons to enjoy himself, that sort of room to be silly. And trust him to care enough about both his and your happiness to do his best to work towards it too, yeah? Two-way street, like I said.
Action / Everglade
No.
[Eyes harden then.] The Doctor is an exception. How do I...?
It's his species. They could in theory bring two versions of another of his same species, but he's kind of the last of his kind. It's complicated.
If another version of you were to show up, 1) the odds are crazy low, 2) they'd probably have to be so radically different you wouldn't recognize them and nor would anyone else.
If you want to learn more about those kind of hazards, you can talk to Trunks Briefs or Uai of my Torchwood teams. Tell them I sent you, and that you're not human. The Doctor's not human either, but his species is very different. They don't splinter. Ah, that's a term that is just... it's a headache to explain. Humans generally not quite reincarnation, but in the parallel universes, have chances to live out the same choices with different results or vice versa, same principle starting points, different choices. And then the unsustainable universes collapse in on themselves. So Earth has been destroyed... a lot. But the only ones that hold reality are the times it gets saved.
[Sighs and rubs her forehead.] Paradoxically speaking, the different timelines, different universes aren't supposed to touch. But Mickey and Ricky could both be here -- they're different versions of my ex boyfriend, one dated Jake, not me. Anyway. Given the sheer nature of this place, it could probably handle both at the same time, but again, they're so different from each other... [Shrug.] And the only reason the Doctor is from different points, but the same man, is because they don't splinter. His species. There's no Doctor in Pete's Universe. Or any of his species. His species and one other: the daleks, are contained ONLY to his universe. They also don't have vampires. I don't know how or who killed them all that they went extinct, but I know vampires exist in almost all the universes I've been to. I kinda doubt daleks went after vampires before everything else though.
Point is, no your future won't mysteriously show up on you. Nor your past. At most you might meet an Angelique who was -- I dunno, think of something totally crazy. But even then... probably not. There were two weeks I was stuck as a gargoyle, but another week I thought I'd stayed in my father's universe and done the heiress thing my Mom desperately wanted me to. So it'd have to be even more dramatic than that. Everything would be super different. Like I said, you're better off talking to Uai or Trunks about it though. They have experience with all of that dimension hopping and trying not to paradox yourself out of existence too and Uai's -- someone important to him is here, but young. Super young. And even though they both, he and Hana, splinter unlike Ti-- the Doctor, that's the only Hana he's got.
[Head tilt.] That's not evil. And I'm crazy possessive too. Don't assume you can't make him happy. That's what I mean about trust and respect, yeah? If he says he is happier with you, trust that. Even if it's hard to believe, let him show it with his actions, and letting him choose where he stays, yeah? I mean there are days I'd rather the Doctor was happier without me. But that's just because I'm kind of messed up, to be honest.
But if it sounds like he hasn't had a lot to laugh about? Then keep him. Give him reasons to enjoy himself, that sort of room to be silly. And trust him to care enough about both his and your happiness to do his best to work towards it too, yeah? Two-way street, like I said.