Subject: It would depend, I think
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Posted on: 2008-07-05 18:57:00 UTC
With the Doctor, each time he regenerates, he's a new character, with a different personality. From what I know of Romana, she's the same way. If you made large changes to Ace's character, I'd say OC. If she's mostly the same, than canon.
Personally, I'd say something like "AU canon" or "mostly canon."
Sorry for posting again so soon, but I have a question.
I am writting a Doctor Who fanfic in which an established canon character (Ace, to be precise) became a Time Lord through some deus-ex-machina genetic tweaking and then regenerated. Would Ace II, her new incarnation, be considered an OC or a canon? I need to know for labelling purposes.
Thanks for any help.
With the Doctor, each time he regenerates, he's a new character, with a different personality. From what I know of Romana, she's the same way. If you made large changes to Ace's character, I'd say OC. If she's mostly the same, than canon.
Personally, I'd say something like "AU canon" or "mostly canon."
Is Ace I part of the story?
I think I would go with Ace II is canon, like 29 year old Rose is canon.
Or, as happened in a fic I PPCed: someone wrote Jack/Ianto, but gave Ianto a sex change first.
The story technically starts with Ace II, but there are many flashbacks.
I wasn't sure if regenerated Time Lords followed the same rules as aged human characters, since Doctors One through Ten have always been referred to as separate characters.