Subject: Future/past self interaction shouldn't need much.
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Posted on: 2013-08-14 03:48:00 UTC

Except for a few weird continua like Timecop, past selves and future selves are able to interact, though the extent varies from continuum to continuum because of pre-established concepts and occasionally the individual continuum's magic rules, if time travel is caused by or a product of some form of sorcery. The Doctor's done it before, usually in Classic Who. He often restricts himself to interacting with only one version from each regeneration, though, because it's easier for the viewers to tell them apart that way. The Eleventh just hates the idea of interacting with other versions for some reason, but he's got all kinds of crazy time-superstitions that are never really backed up. I'm thinking most of those are just him being paranoid.

Still, the latent paradoxicality of a school existing across multiple time periods and bringing alternate versions of characters from varied points in time and space, coupled with the numerous semi-incompatible ways Doctor Who has handled the effects of time travel over the years, would definitely cause plothole-spawning problems, and it has comedy potential, so don't think I'm disparaging the concept.

By the way, if you could find some way to work in the Davros-versus-Davros concept from the last time the Doctor WhOFU was brought up, that would be awesome.
For clarification, that would be the Dalek Emperor!Davros from the later stages of Classic Who and the mutilated!Davros from New Who constantly fighting over who deserves to be the true creator of the Daleks. Imperial Daleks would fight for the former, Vault Daleks for the latter, in a combat of increasing scale that would almost certainly cause the WhOFU students no end of trouble.

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