Characters / Children of Time

Note: This is the Character Sheet for the Fanfiction Children of Time. All Spoilers are unmarked!

The Heroes

The (Tenth) Doctor

• Badass Minds Think Alike: Quite often with Holmes.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Boy, and how.

• Future Me Scares Me: We find out that the Doctor is very, very afraid of the Valeyard...
• The Insomniac: Whenever the Doctor's sleeping habits are brought up, it's because he's not sleeping. He consistently blames it on several centuries of collecting personal demons.
• The Kirk: To Holmes's Spock when he's not in that role himself.

• Non-Linear Character: Is this towards Holmes and Watson, since he knows basically how the rest of their lives are supposed to play out.
• Papa Wolf: Moriarty notes this trait and throws it back in the Doctor's face:
  "And now you wish me to pay the price... because I touched your companions."
• Really 700 Years Old: In "Smith and Holmes", he tells Holmes that he's probably more in the vicinity of 1200 years than 900, confessing that he's "been" 900 for a while now.
• Shipper on Deck: Quite blatantly, of Watson/Sally and Holmes/Beth.
• Stepford Smiler: Much to the exasperation of his Companions, who would much rather that he simply deals with his pain rather than pretend that it doesn't exist.
• Team Dad: Quite often, he comes off less The Leader and more this. Moriarty calls the Companions as the Doctor's children, his "Children of Time" — yes, from thence, we get the title. Holmes acknowledges that it is indeed true.
• Tranquil Fury: Gets this at times, but it's more like "Barely Restrained Fury".

Sherlock Holmes

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Type 2 for Beth and Watson to be spared. What makes it so scary is that this is Sherlock Bloody Holmes begging.

• Cannot Spit It Out: Can't even understand his feelings for Beth, let alone spit them out.

• Character Development: To the point where the entire first season really revolves around it.

• Defrosting Ice Queen: Forms a large part of the dynamics between him and Beth once their relationship takes on romantic undertones, both before and after his captivity.

• First-Name Basis: With the Doctor (sometimes) and Beth. And Sally.
• Good Is Not Nice: Shows a growing tendency towards this from episode 8 through Season 1 up through the finale. See Sugar-and-Ice Personality.

• I Did What I Had to Do: Holmes's rationalization for deeds ranging from handcuffing Beth to a cab door to his Deal with the Devil. Really, his rationalization for a lot, in general, rather like the Doctor...

• Knight in Sour Armor: Certainly gives off vibes of this in the second half of Season 1 (at least before he jumps off the slippery slope — and afterwards, as he travels with Beth).

• Love Redeems: It's Beth's unwavering determination, fueled by love, that helped him heal from self-inflicted and Moriarty-inflicted damage. It's important, however, to note that it's his love for Beth and his love for Watson that helped to resolve the issue of Frozen Time — the other side of the coin was Watson's love.

• Mr. Fanservice: Um, yes. Especially when seeing him through Beth's eyes — we're definitely getting Jeremy Brett vibes, there... See Tall, Dark, and Handsome below.

• Oblivious to Love: By the time he finally starts to figure out Beth's feelings for him... he still will only believe that it's simple infatuation, and it's right before everything goes to hell.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Beth once asks Sherlock about Irene Norton, and he tells her that he truly only ever respected The Woman. Beth is the first and only woman he has ever been interested in.
• The Spock: Quite often this to the Doctor's Kirk, but switches when the Doctor gets less sympathetic.

• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Slips (arguably back) into this at times, somewhere between the "cool and collected" and "once you get to know them" types, and he's still pretty dorky and cute just below the surface.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome/Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: According to Beth. She loves him for who he is, but she's not adverse to Eating the Eye Candy while she's at it.^note The author who writes Beth is a hardcore Jeremy Brett Fangirl.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Starting in the TARDISode "The Courtship of Sally Sparrow", he gets progressively worse with each episode to the point where you start to wonder if he's become a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
• Took a Level in Kindness: The first half of season 1, and then the twelfth episode.
• Waistcoat of Style: Beth finds the shirtsleeves look very attractive. Sherlock is more than happy to oblige her.

John H. Watson, M.D.

• Badass Bookworm/Beware the Quiet Ones: Especially "Watson and Sparrow". The man turns the tables on a mugger, for crying out loud!
• Break the Cutie: In "The Dying Detective".

• Knight in Shining Armor: Sans the armor... sans the knighthood... but still. It's pretty apparent throughout the series, especially in "Watson and Sparrow".

• Morality Chain: Moriarty tells Watson he is this to Holmes, because Holmes is quickly spiraling into darkness without his Watson.

Beth Lestrade

• Always Save the Girl: Well, Detective instead of Girl... Beth's driving goal in the finale.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Props to her for doing it several times — the Great Detective didn't want to acknowledge the first subtle few...
• Ascended Fangirl: Very similar to her point of origin, Beth meets and works with her hero.

• Brainy Brunette: A tomboy and a Bookworm... and she probably reads TV Tropes...
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Just doing what I had to do.
• Kid Hero: Fifteen when we first see her, seventeen later on.
• The Leader: Essentially, of the Baker Street Irregulars during Frozen Time.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Very much a Type 2. Any time her loved ones are threatened, watch that defiance disappear.

• Break the Cutie: Dear heavens. Having been handcuffed, insulted, and threatened with physical harm by Holmes, she still comes back to rescue him, only to find that he's done a Face–Heel Turn. And this is after all the crap she's been through thanks to living in a terrifyingly dangerous world... not to mention surviving a sexual assault from Moran. It only gets worse with the end of "Every Good Fairytale," the middle chapters of "Together Or Not At All," and into season 2...
• Bound and Gagged: We'll just say that Beth has more instances of being restrained than any other character (including our Distressed Dude of a protagonist) and leave it at that.
• Broken Bird: After the showdown at Torchwood: she's just survived two intimate assaults — one an invasion of her entire mind and the other a second sexual assault — and she wants nothing more than to end her pain.
• Brutal Honesty: Calls Holmes out on his actions and attitudes.
• Canon Immigrant: In-universe. From a spin-off to spending time with the canonical Holmes and in the Canon, no less.
• Character Tics: Bites her lip an awful lot. Plus, any kind of serious compliment will make her blush, as she's unused to being praised. (And Holmes can really make her blush in general...)

• Damsel in Distress: Despite her Action Girl status, she's only seventeen and all her training has been unprofessional (though coming from professionals) and unsystematic. So, no, a seventeen-year-old girl, no matter how tall and athletic, isn't going to beat men like a powerfully-built tiger hunter and soldier.

• Devoted to You: When Beth explains her love for Holmes, she consistently claims that she can't remember not loving him. Justified in that she was raised to be an obsessive Sherlockian by her dad (and encouraged by her older brother).
• Distaff Counterpart: To both Holmes and Watson, depending on which of her relationships is being analyzed. She is very appropriately the Holmes to Sally's Watson; but when it comes to her relationship with Holmes, she's rather like a younger, American, female Watson.
  • Carries on into the next season, but at least she rather shares the trait with her husband.

• Establishing Character Moment:
  I was referring to your involvement in that incident on the playing fields, when you defended one of the smaller freshmen rather handily with your fists. That courage and compassion are two of the many things which make you the woman whom I have grown to love, without even realising I was doing so.

Family-Unfriendly Death

• The Hero's Journey: Over the course of her first six episodes. (The start of season 2 indicates that her journey is actually far from over.)

• I Am Not Pretty/Just a Kid: The former is more implied than stated outright, but the latter is word for word in one conversation with Holmes. Having been bullied a lot at school and growing up with several brothers, she really has low self-esteem which eventually causes Sherlock pain. All that she's ever willing to concede is that she's smart, and that simply because of her grades.
• Iconic Item/Chekhov's Gun: Beth's locket that she never takes off. Moran steals it and sends it to Moriarty as proof to Holmes that Beth had been Killed Off for Real.
• In Harm's Way: Constantly. Which bothers Sherlock greatly in Season 2, especially once he realizes that Moriarty is after her as much as he is after Sherlock... perhaps even more so.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: A good kid with big blue eyes... and the other characters can almost always read her by paying attention to her eyes. Later counts for What Beautiful Eyes! with Holmes.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Beth puts up with a lot from Holmes, some of it down right wrong. She puts up with it, anyway, because she knows something's wrong and, by her own admission, she wants to give him "a little sunshine".

• Lineage Comes from the Father: Justified. How else can you have a family line of Inspector Lestrades without the continuing surname Lestrade?
• Little Miss Snarker/Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Sarcastic at fifteen, sarcastic at seventeen and (a 5'11" brunette).
• Love Before First Sight: Beth has known about Sherlock Holmes for literally as long as she can remember, and has loved him pretty much as long. And then she falls for her fencing instructor...
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A slightly calmer version of this for Holmes, often via Drama Queen (which is really more put-on than a natural part of her personality).
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Five brothers and one sister. As Beth herself snarks, it explains a few things. She gets one more sister in-between later on.
• The McCoy: To Sally's The Kirk.
• Messianic Archetype: Actually carries strong shades of this, despite not being The Chosen One (as Holmes and Watson are revealed to be for their own era). She gathers to herself True Companions, and though she is by far not the oldest or even wisest person in her makeshift family, she has something of a leadership role thrust upon her. She faces persecution in that she is constantly on the run for her life and also has to protect her innocence in a world that does not favor virginity in attractive young women. She sacrifices her safety to save a man (and, by extension, the entire world), and that sacrifice does end up saving that man's soul. And, yes, she comes Back from the Dead in a very literal way.
• Ms. Fanservice: Check the illustrations. Not to mention... some M-rated scenes with Holmes...
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Holmes's reaction to seeing her in makeup for the first time: speechless.

• Reckless Sidekick: Averts this until Holmes is kidnapped, due to her Always Save the Detective mentality.
• Refuge in Audacity: A staple — if not the overwhelming majority — of her M.O. Moriarty lets her go because of one very audacious speech she makes.
• She Is All Grown Up: In the two years since her first encounter with the Doctor, Beth has done a lot of growing up... and Holmes does notice...
• Shipper on Deck: Enthusiastically supportive of Watson and Sally.

• Stepford Smiler: Usually for Sherlock's benefit.
• Supporting Protagonist: Whenever Holmes's actions take center stage, Beth is this, playing the Sidekick while avoiding being The Watson.
• Sweet Polly Oliver/Wholesome Crossdresser: Pulls a Sweet Polly Oliver to be able to walk at will in Victorian London, and only ever acts like the gangly adolescent boy most people would mistake her for. It's long after Holmes first meets her that he finally sees her wearing much more feminine clothing... and is very pleasantly surprised.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: With her late BFF. You can guess which one she is.
  • Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Doesn't mean that she's not a romantic or doesn't like to wear dresses, though.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Levels up between appearances in the series (the space of two episodes, but two years in her timeline) to Badass Bookworm for the start of the finale.
  • Levels up further during Frozen Time.
• Tsundere: Type B. Does her best to be a good friend to Holmes, very much in love with him but convinced that he'll never return her feelings. However, when he starts angering her, it doesn't take much for her to slip into "tsun" mode.

• Buffy Speak: Has an excellent vocabulary but sometimes descends into this when she's really at a loss, or is trying desperately to lighten the mood a little.
• Catchphrase/Unusual Euphemism: "Zed!"
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Played with. The norm for her as she's a teen and a good kid. Entirely dropped, however, when the chips come down. Gets as close as she'll come to a Precision F-Strike with What the Hell, Hero?
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Does this when she gets really serious, whether quiet or heated.

• Walking Spoiler: Used to both comedic and angsty effect.
• Well Done My Dear: Is initially this towards Holmes.
• When She Smiles: Sherlock tells Beth she has no idea what her smile does to him.
• Wife Husbandry: Let's see: the hero she's had a crush on all her life ends up being her fencing instructor, and then thanks to separate timelines, when they marry, the age-gap between them loses two years. Still two decades between the two, but she is an adult for all intents and purposes when she says her vows.

• Worthy Opponent: Actually considered to be this by Moriarty, of all people, who acknowledges her quick thinking, courage, tenacity, and powers of persuasion.

Sally Sparrow

• Ascended Extra: She's the one-shot non-Companion everyone wants to see spend more time with the Doctor. Well... Doctor who?

• Break the Cutie: From about mid-"Watson and Sparrow" on to the epilogue, the story is rather a Trauma Conga Line for poor Sally, who loses a best friend and two potential lovers in less than twenty-four hours, and then must wait indefinitely (from her POV) for one of said love interests to return to her.

• Cool Big Sis: Is this for Beth.

• Foil: To Beth in several ways, being a few years older and more mature, while sharing similar traits like Born in the Wrong Century, Plucky Girl, etc. Also, though Beth is a Sixth Ranger accepted by Holmes and Watson, Sally is a Sixth Ranger accepted only by Watson. Sally somewhat acts the part of the Holmes in "Watson and Sparrow" while investigating the Weeping Angels with Watson; Beth consistently acts the Watson (not The Watson, but the intelligent Sidekick the real Watson truly is) to Holmes when they're on a case/adventure together. Not to mention, Sally has a sweet if fast-paced courtship with Watson before marriage, having to wait only a year to be reunited with him; while Beth faces a long, painful road towards being accepted as an adult, let alone a Love Interest, by Holmes, and has to wait two years before reunion early on in the relationship (whereas Sally only had one year to wait, which itself was more painful than Beth's first wait...).

• Team Mom: To the Baker Street Irregulars.

The TARDIS

• The Big Girl: 'Cos, let's face it, she's the transportation, literally.

• Conservation of Ninjutsu: The Heart of the TARDIS, lampshaded by Holmes's thoughts.

• Light Is Good: Her physical heart.
• Mama Bear: Just try to hurt her thief or harm her passengers in any way, really. Go on. Try it.
• Non-Linear Character: Invoked by the Doctor when trying to explain the TARDIS's plane of existence and perception of Time to Holmes.
• Shipper on Deck: Appears to ship both Watson/Sally and Holmes/Beth, going to great lengths for the four of them (despite her one-time attraction to Holmes).
• Team Mom: Has strong shades of this towards the Companions.

The Watson compudroid

• Ridiculously Human Robot: Even more so than in the original story.

The Villains

Professor James Moriarty

• Back from the Dead: Although technically, he never actually died...
• Badass Bookworm: He's rather more willing to get his hands dirty now than he was previously.
• Came Back Wrong: Time-sensitive and aging in reverse...
• Character Development: He's undergone this in the two-decade (for him) interim since Reichenbach, and it certainly has not been for the better. And he gets worse still.

• Cursed with Awesome: A human brain coupled with sensitivity to Time itself — Holmes marvels that Moriarty never went mad from enormity of it. Of course, the price that Moriarty really has to pay for that gift is Merlin Sickness...
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments, though all of them dark.
• Determinator: Boy, is he ever.

• Drunk on the Dark Side: All too quickly discovers that he enjoys inflicting pain, which becomes a big element of his characterization throughout the rest of the finale.
• Evil Tropes: D'ohhh boy.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Entirely deconstructed — Moriarty appears to understand Good only all too well, and uses that understanding to horrific effect.
  • Evil Gloating: Does this when he's got heroes in his clutches, purely for sadistic purposes.
  • Evil Is Petty/Kick the Dog: Too many instances to relate.
  • Evil Laugh: Not often, but when he does laugh, it is when he has won.

• Evil Virtues: Holy crap, yes. It's worth noting that Moriarty has a lot of virtues he believes in, while dark!Holmes seems to believe in nothing at all.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's ever so pleasant and polite while mind raping you, corrupting you, and ripping your heart to itty-bitty shreds.
  • Though there are times when you think that he just might mean what he says when he makes a comment within a fifty-mile radius of being positive.

• The Ghost: Becomes this in Season 2, there being just enough difference between him and his clone.

• Hidden Villain: He's there from 1870 to 1895, watching Sherlock Holmes grow into the detective he's meant to be, waiting, biding his time 'til Holmes crosses paths with the Doctor...
• It's All About Me
• Karmic Death: Beth shoots him. Beth. The girl who had to go through Hell, live in it, and die in it as a result of his manipulations... and then was mind raped by him.
• Knight of Cerebus: Things were already getting very dark. But this man shows up, and everything goes to hell.
• Lean and Mean
• Manipulative Bastard: Basically, the moment he opens his mouth, run, because this man can twist your heart up, puncture it multiple times, shatter it into a million tiny pieces, and then grind those pieces into dust. And then he'll make you want to do what he wants.
  • Consummate Liar: As Watson puts it, he tells the truth with just a little bit of falsehood.

• Merlin Sickness: Drives his Character Development and Evil Plan.
• Non-Linear Character: Makes the most of his knowledge of past and future.
• Obviously Evil: "My dear Watson... Please understand: I no longer make any secret of who and what I am."

• Seven Deadly Sins: The only two of which Moriarty is absolutely not guilty are Gluttony and Slothfulness. Envy, Greed, Lust, Pride, and Wrath all come into play in his motivations and Character Development.
• Shadow Archetype: Plays one to both Holmes and the Doctor.

• Staying Alive: Hand-in-hand with his Determinator status.
• Terms of Endangerment: Loves to call Holmes "my dear Holmes" and "my boy", and addresses Beth in an equally familiar and equally disturbing fashion.

• Will Not Tell a Lie: He almost never does lie; by and large, what he tells Holmes is mostly true. Sometimes Metaphorically True, but not often.

Colonel Sebastian Moran

• Attempted Rape: He set his sights on Beth, and they stay there.
• Blood Knight: Incredibly sadistic, having no problems with shooting or raping a girl just because.

• Dirty Old Man: Basically, whenever he so much as looks at the young woman defying him and his boss, it's with an apparently insatiable desire for her body (as well as for her screams).
  • It's implied that he's a serial rapist.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. It's more that he expects certain standards from the heroes, even if he doesn't adhere to them himself.
• Faux Affably Evil: His treatment of Beth. The feigned affability is absolutely terrifying.
• Hero Killer: He assassinates Mycroft and would have killed Beth when he was supposed to, as well, had he not taken the time to mess with her.
  • And he still ends up killing her, although accidentally.
• I Was Beaten by a Girl: Played with.

• Loves the Sound of Screaming: He makes it chillingly clear.

• Smug Snake: He has some traits of being a Magnificent Bastard... but his record of success in the finale screws over what chance he might have had of reaching magnificence.

the Plasmavore

• Adaptational Heroism: The canon plasmavore, assuming she's meant to be the same one, was rotten to the core. Even with needing to drink blood to live, she was completely unapologetic about her kills, and she attempted to destroy half of all life on Earth out of spite. The fic's plasmavore never goes that far, and ultimately pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
• The Atoner: Her character carries shades of this in "Every Good Fairytale".
• Broad Strokes: The Doctor describes plasmavores as internal shapeshifters in "Smith and Jones". Oh, but where's the fun in that?
• Cursed with Awesome: She can take any sort of female human form she chooses... but she needs to feed on blood in order to do so, in order to even live.

• No Name Given: She is known only as Mademoiselle and Madame. The one surname she uses in the entire season is obviously fake.
• Seven Deadly Sins
  • Envy: A subtle theme for her, but she once envied the human capacity for companionship whereas she and the rest of her race have to live apart from each other lest they attract attention and endanger themselves.
  • Gluttony: Her addiction to, ironically, alcoholics.
  • Greed: All her power and possessions only serve to make her crave more.
  • Lust: Like a classic vampire, she quite enjoys mixing sex with her meals. Even worse, a perfume courtesy of Torchwood allows her to toy with abruptly-hormone-addled men.
  • Pride: Tries to seduce the Great Detective just to be able to say that she did.
  • Sloth: Being exposed to compassion gets her to think, but she doesn't bother to follow her own musings through to conclusion, a.k.a. Heel–Face Turn.
  • Wrath: Also like a classic vampire, her rage lies beneath a thin veneer of calm, and she is truly animalistic in her wrath.

• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subverted. After her failure in EGF, Moriarty gives her one last chance to redeem herself, making her part of his plans to corrupt Beth.

The Moriarty clone

• Affably Evil: He'd much prefer getting along with the Holmeses.
• Ambition Is Evil: Plays into this trope far more than his predecessor — not having to face a strange and unnatural death as he did before, he really is The Unfettered to focus his energies on whatever he wants.
• The Chessmaster: Plays both sides of the fence like nobody's business.
• Cloning Gambit: Not only is he the product of one, but he also tells Beth that he can do this again and again, as many times as necessary until he has accomplished his goals. However, the intended Badass Boast fails in an epic way when Beth can only express horror for him, and "something nearer to pity" than she's ever felt for him before.
• Consummate Liar: Part and parcel of the "playing both sides of the fence" bit.

• Even Evil Has Standards: He'd rather see his favorite couple alive and healthy than not, thank you very much.

• Know When to Fold 'Em: If a situation is not going his way and looks to be more trouble than it's worth, he'll back off and allow the Holmeses to have the scene, damaged though it might be...
• Manipulative Bastard: At least Sherlock's watching his step this time around...
• Meaningful Name/Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Apparently, none of the higher-ups have ever seen "The Reichenbach Fall"...

• Smoking Is Cool: It's actually very much illegal by this point in time, and Sherlock is surprised that Moriarty indulges in such a dangerous habit. Moriarty smokes normal cigarettes but rather like a Film Noir character, possibly on purpose.
• Stalker with a Crush: Blatantly this towards Beth, which unsettles her and angers Sherlock.
• Terms of Endangerment: Is still doing this with the Holmeses, although rather less maliciously than before. See Affably Evil above.

Martin Fenwick

• Ax-Crazy: Whereas the cartoon never explored it in-depth, the narrative specifically describes him as being insane.

• Evil Laugh: More of an insane laugh, but still.
• Mad Scientist: Let's see... creating an illegal clone of Professor James Moriarty to be your slave, are you? That will go over well...

Supporting Cast

Kit Bennett aka Kathy Watson

• Badass Bookworm: Kit Bennett, PhD.
• Big Good: Shaping up to be this.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She's introduced in episode 4 and doesn't show up again until episode 11... and in an unexpected way...
• Chekhov's Skill/Chekhov's Boomerang: Her Healing Factor.
• Dead Girl Junior: Named after her mother's best friend.
• Expy: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a PhD., has met the Doctor before he meets her, has poor relations with her current boss, is a Time Lady, uses a burst of regenerative energy in defense, reveals her identity to the Doctor without doing so to his Companions or the audience, and gives both the Doctor and Holmes a vague but heartfelt warning about the future. Unlike River, however, she does not flirt with the Doctor, has no guilt or regrets in facing him, and does not die in the Doctor's first adventure with her.
• Extra Parent Conception: The TARDIS allows the Time Vortex into Sally's womb at conception.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Regenerative abilities actually induce an Oh, Crap! moment.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
• Have We Met Yet?: Holmes eventually chastises Watson for not realizing that she knows them in their future and her past.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Her number one priority is to protect the Doctor and his Companions. With good reason — her very existence will be a paradox if they don't survive.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She's not much the leader type when we first meet her (just like her dad, she has no problems with following someone else's lead), but she's got a Time Lord's mind.

• Meaningful Name: Both Kit and the Doctor put some significant emphasis on her real name, Katherine.
• Mysterious Past
• Older Than They Look: The Doctor senses this, though she remains as much a mystery to him as she is to Holmes and Watson. Turns out, she's a good hundred years old.
• The Reveal: She gets three.
  • "I'm a Time Lord."
  • Plus her full identity to the Doctor, though this is in fact a reveal/unreveal. See The Unreveal below.
  • Sally gets pregnant with a special child. Wonder who that could be...? Confirmed by Sally's choice of name and Holmes's and Watson's separate and tragically different reactions to the news.
• Silk Hiding Steel
• The Unreveal: Her full identity and the exact nature of her connection to Holmes and Watson. She tells the Doctor, but neither the Victorian men nor the audience are told.
• Walking Spoiler:
  • She knows all three men, but they don't know her yet.
  • Tells the Doctor that the Daleks will never change — she's from his future, and she knows what becomes of them.
  • Her information is pretty generalized up until her reveal/unreveal, and even after that, the warning that she gives is sympathy for whatever is going to befall the three protagonists in the future.

Nikola Tesla

• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With George Westinghouse.

• Mad Scientist: Well, he is the archetype, after all...

George Westinghouse

• Team Dad: For the girls and the Irregulars — so much so that he walks Beth down the aisle at her official wedding.

Jeremy Brett

• Badass Bookworm: Actually carries shades of this. He does try to think and analyze a situation as Holmes would.
• Distressed Dude: He is totally the damsel in distress of his episode.
• Gentleman Snarker: Gives back as good as he gets.

Mrs. Hudson

• Moment Killer: She does have her moments.
• Team Mom: Rules the roost at 221B.

Mycroft Holmes

• Aloof Big Brother: As per Aleine Skyfire, completely averted.

• Sherlock Scan: Sherlock and Watson are automatically in trouble as soon as they come home from adventures with the Doctor, because Mycroft can do the Sherlock Scan better than his brother can! And he can scarcely understand what he's seeing...
  • He has the same problem in Frozen Time, unable to make any sense of who Beth is, except for her love for Sherlock.

The Irregulars

• The Lancer: Will to Beth.

• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Will is veeery similar to Wiggins, the original leader of the Irregulars.

Chief Inspector Grayson

• Sour Supporter: Puts up with the Holmeses only because they get good results.

Michael Lestrade

• Babies Ever After: Played with. He got started on having a full set of kids before he even made it to being Inspector Lestrade.
• Born in the Wrong Century: Has shades of it, anyway, which is where his daughter gets it from.
• Parents as People: Beth went and got married as a teenager without ever so much as telling her parents about it. Michael is... not happy, to say the least.

• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Particularly noteworthy is his height, being a couple of inches taller than his 6'+ son-in-law.
• Team Dad: For the Holmeses & Co. Eventually.

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