History Fanfic / ChildrenOfTime

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Sally (though unquestionably a [[TheSmartGal Smart Gal]]), Beth (carries shades of TheChick at times), and the TARDIS, respectively.

->''There are things called [[ArcWords Fixed Points]] in Time. They're events--births, deaths, decisions--[[BecauseDestinySaysSo that must always happen]]. They must ''always'' happen, no matter what... or Time will start to fold in on itself. Things like the signing of the ''Magna Carta'', or Columbus's discovery of the New World... Or a certain meeting at St. Bart's, in 1881.''

* ArcWords: "Fixed Points in Time" for Season 1.

* NotSoDifferent: While the Season 1 finale served this up on [[spoiler:Holmes and Moriarty]], there are shades of this now with ''Beth'' and [[spoiler:the Moriarty clone]].

* PowerTrio: With the Doctor and Holmes switching back and forth between TheKirk and TheSpock, leaving Watson purely as TheMcCoy.

** [[spoiler:And, of course, there's Beth's AffectionateNickname for Sherlock...]]
* AuthorAppeal: See CreatorThumbprint below for the authors' trademarks.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Basically all the heroes, and lampshaded a few times.
* ConversationalTroping: Beth in particular is a troper.
* CreatorThumbprint: [[Fanfic/AStudyInRegret Holmes!angst]] and [[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Holmes!torture]], anyone?
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than both its parent works, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who.

* {{Determinator}}: The whole FiveManBand and the two Season 1 Finale villains besides!

* FandomNod: Rather a regular occurrence in-universe, alongside a few {{Take That}}s from Holmes and Watson.
* FlashbackNightmare: Introduced in the very first episode with the Doctor, picks up traction in the Season 1 Finale, and gains narrative importance early in season 2.
* GambitPileup: The first season finale (actually going straight into XanatosSpeedChess) and then the first few episodes of the second season.
** [[spoiler:Beth and Moriarty]] are the main players in both cases, with [[spoiler:Moriarty's]] gambits being elaborate while [[spoiler:Beth's]] are downright fantastical.

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:The Watsons in Season One and the Holmeses in Season Two.]]
* HeroicBSOD: An unfortunately common occurrence.

* OlderThanTheyLook: A recurring element regarding the Doctor.
** [[spoiler:Moriarty in the season 1 finale.]]

* OneWordTitle: "Gridson", "Stolen", and "Fractures".

* ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=]ThePowerOfLove: The CentralTheme -- the overriding elements of the story are friendship, [[ThickerThanWater biological]] and [[TrueCompanions spiritual family]], and enduring romantic love.

* {{Troperiffic}}: Already before the first season is even finished, and no signs of stopping...

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: They pop up with distressing frequency.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: An Arc Idea.

* ByronicHero: Holmes, oh so much.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Katherine "Kit" Bennett.]]

* DistressedDude: Something of a motif for poor Holmes throughout the season.

* {{Foil}}: Holmes and the Doctor to each other.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The season kind of runs on this.
* [[spoiler:NiceJobFixingItVillain]]
* PleaseDontLeaveMe
* RedOniBlueOni: At first, Beth's red to Holmes's blue.

** [[spoiler:This is why Kit tells Holmes to protect Watson and never mind about her...]]
** [[spoiler:And then comes "Dynamics of a Point".]]

* BrokenBird: Beth reaches a very low point early on this season, and if Season 1 could be said to be ultimately about Sherlock's CharacterDevelopment, Season 2 might well be ultimately about hers.

* DaddysGirl: Beth as noted by several people, her father's boss included. The truth is... rather more complicated

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Comprises the majority of (early) encounters between [[spoiler:the Holmeses and Moriarty]].
** Plus, this is pretty much the entirety of Beth's relationship with her dad's boss.
* RefugeInAudacity: Beth is shown to be developing this as her MO.
* VillainousCrush: [[spoiler:Moriarty's]] behavior towards [[spoiler:Beth]] is made of this trope.

* WorldWarThree: Mentioned by Beth as having been the reason for the redesigning and renaming of London.

* TeamMom: The TARDIS never rests, watching over her boys...

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* AngerBornOfWorry: One [=221B=] is devoted to this theme, Beth's concern taking the spotlight.

* {{Fanservice}}: As remarked below, it's pure shippiness... with some ''actual'' fanservice thrown in.
* GoodParents: Any story involving the Watsons and little Kathy.
* HappilyMarried: From season 2 on, it's kind of the point of the set.
* LighterAndFluffier: As a rule. After all, the original point of them is shipping... although even that doesn't exclude them from gut-wrenching angst...

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''Children of Time'' is a Literature/SherlockHolmes[=/=]''Series/DoctorWho'' [[{{Crossover}} crossover]] series, providing an [[AlternateUniverse AU]] to Season or Series 3 of Nu Who, "exploring what might happen if Holmes and Watson were substituted for Martha Jones as the Doctor’s full-time companions". The series is a collaboration by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1758544/Aleine-Skyfire Aleine Skyfire]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/3677015/Riandra Riandra]], under the shared account [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/4285380/ Wholmes Productions]].

* DeathGlare
* DeconstructionCrossover: And how!

* FandomNod: Rather a regular occurrence in-universe, alongside a few [[TakeThat Take That's]] from Holmes and Watson.

* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried: The Watsons in Season One and the Holmeses in Season Two.]]

* InHarmsWay: Something of a {{Motif}}.
* InspiredBy

* ItsPersonal
* JustInTime
* LetsGetDangerous

* LoveHurts: Definitely a running theme.

* MoodWhiplash
* MoreHeroThanThou
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

* NotSoStoic: All the dang time...

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

* TakeThat: A RunningGag.
* TropeOverdosed: Already before the first season is even finished, and no signs of stopping...
* TrueCompanions
* WalkingTheEarth
* WeirdnessMagnet

* TimeTravelTenseTrouble

* InsatiableNewlyweds
* ManBehindTheMan

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[MeaningfulName Richard Brooke]].
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]

* DramaticIrony

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Sherlock and Beth, all the time.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple

* BadDreams[=/=]FlashbackNightmare: Introduced in the very first episode with the Doctor, picks up traction in the Season 1 Finale, and gains narrative importance early in season 2.

* BigBad: Torchwood is revealed in episode 5 and rears its head again in episodes 9 and 10. (Only, at the end of episode 10, you find out who is ''really'' [[BiggerBad behind it all]]: [[spoiler:Professor James Moriarty]].)

* {{Adorkable}}: Sherlock.

* TheWarOnTerror: Alluded to, via the anti-cryptnosis organizations.

* RefugeInAudacity: Beth is shown to be developing this as her [[=MO=]].

* BadDreams[=/=]FlashbackNightmare: Introduced in the very first episode with the Doctor, picks up traction in the Season 1 Finale, and never really leaves the series.

* BrokenBird: Beth is definitely this at the start of the season, and if Season 1 could be said to be ultimately about Sherlock's CharacterDevelopment, Season 2 might well be ultimately about hers.

* DaddysGirl: Beth as noted by several people, her boss included.

* LargeHam: [[spoiler:Moriarty]] carries definite shades of this, certainly enjoying messing around with the heroes.

* NoSmoking: [[spoiler:Sherlock]] is genuinely surprised that [[spoiler:Moriarty]] smokes, since smoking is an illogically destructive habit and thus illegal in 22nd century Britain.

* RefugeInAudacity: Beth, whether facing Grayson or her number one enemy.
* SnowMeansLove: Subverted in the final episode: Literature/SherlockHolmes and [[WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury Beth Lestrade]] are already [[HappilyMarried married]] when London receives her first snowfall of the season. Sherlock looks at his bride, standing enraptured in the snow, and tells her that he's just fallen in love with her all over again.

* SnowMeansLove: Subverted in the final episode: Literature/SherlockHolmes and [[WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury Beth Lestrade]] are already [[HappilyMarried married]] when London receives her first snowfall of the season. Sherlock looks at his bride, standing enraptured in the snow, and tells her that [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he's just fallen in love with her all over again]].

* ConversationalTroping: Beth in particular is OneOfUs.

* BritishAccents: Comes up every now and then. Holmes and Watson, of course, speak have pre-BBC, pre-20th century accents, which becomes important for Beth when she's working out who they are. Beth herself can speak a decent Cockney; her family spends summers in the UK, so she's gotten the hang of that particular accent without losing her own [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Midwestern one]]. The Doctor's own Estuary accent is mentioned early on in Holmes's thoughts. Kit deliberately switches from a Midwestern accent to a middle-class London one in 1940s New Mexico.

* ConversationalTroping: All the heroes are pretty GenreSavvy, and Beth in particular is OneOfUs.

* GenreSavvy: Any main characters -- even main ''one-shot'' characters -- that are ''not'' this quickly learn.