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Here is the line-up for the Bending Time/Reality Poll! Round 0 will start tomorrow!

Round 0:

Amy Pond (older and younger) and Rory Williams (Doctor Who) vs River Song (Doctor Who)

Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) vs Amy Pond (Doctor Who)

La'an Noonian Singh (Star Trek Strange New Worlds) vs Old Joe/The Loop (Looper)

Amy Pond and Rory Williams (Doctor Who) vs The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Round 1: Side A

Michael Burnham (Star Trek: Discovery) vs Jack Joyce (Quantum Break)

Madoka Kaname (Puella Magic Madoka Magica) vs Santa Valentina (The Power Fantasy)

Round 0 Winner vs The Drifter (Warframe)

Nadakhan (Ninjago) vs Wilson "The Kingpin" Fisk (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)

Nox (Wakfu) vs Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange)

Miss Holloway (Nighmare Time) vs Satoru Fujinuma (Erased/Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)

Round 0 Winner vs Trunks (Dragon Ball Z)

Brainstorm (Transformers IDW More Than Meets The Eye) vs Tony Stark (Marvel)

Round 1: Side B

Lu Guang (Link Click) vs Michael Walters (Woe.Begone)

Jay (Ninjago) vs Rand Al’Thor (Wheel of Time)

Sofia Lee (Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II) vs Round 0 Winner

Wanda Maximoff (WandaVision) vs Nathan Dawkins (Beyond: Two Souls)

Round 0 Winner vs Clay (Hymns for the Road)

Jasmine Control (The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio) vs Alternate Future Dave Strider (Homestuck)

Gumball and Darwin Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball) vs Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Best Bending Time/Reality to Save Someone Round 0

Who did the bending?

Amy Pond and Rory Williams

vs

The Doctor

How?

(cw for suicide) Rory was saved when he and Amy decided to jump from a building together. Because a future, older version of Rory had already died that same night in the same building, this created a paradox where Rory died twice in one night. This time paradox killed the villains which were after them, the Weeping Angels, and both Amy and Rory woke up safe and alive in their own time.

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In "Heaven Sent" and "Hell Bent," The Doctor tries to save his companion Clara Oswald from her death--a fixed moment in time, one that cannot be cheated by leaving a duplicate in her place, and which cannot be prevented without dooming the spacetime continuum. Despite this, The Doctor held out under 4 1/2 billion years of torture to hold onto information about The Hybrid, which is prophesied by the Time Lords to stand in Gallifrey's ruins and unravel the Web of Time, in hopes of having leverage to bargain for Clara's life. When he escapes, The Doctor takes over Gallifrey and pulls Clara out of the moment of her death with her biological processes suspended in a time loop. He attempts to take Clara far enough away in the hope that her pulse will resume and she will not have to be returned to the moment of her death, despite potentially damaging time itself in the process. When this fails, they go to the extreme end of the universe and find themselves in the ruins of Gallifrey. The Doctor reveals his intention to erase Clara's memories of him with a neural block taken from Gallifrey, hoping that the Time Lords will not be able to find her, but Clara insists on reversing the mental block on The Doctor instead, having accepted her death. They decide to do activate the mental block together, not knowing if Clara successfully reversed it, and The Doctor admits he became The Hybrid by trying to save Clara's life. The Doctor forgets Clara, and Clara sets off in a stolen TARDIS with the immortal Ashildr, taking the "long way around" to Gallifrey (where she will be sent back to her death).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5F7cWL6So

Who was saved?

Rory Williams

vs

Clara Oswald

Best Bending Time/Reality to Save Someone Round 0

Who did the bending?

Old Joe/The Loop

vs

La'an Noonian Singh

How?

In actuality, who was saved was more likely a young boy named Cid and his mother Sara, whom Joe was hunting. Cid in his timeline grew up to become a violent gangster called The Rainmaker who was responsible for the death of Joe’s wife. However, Joe's younger self had bonded with both Sara and Cid and eventually kills himself to stop his older self from killing Sara and setting Cid on the path to becoming the Rainmaker.

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La'an went back in time to kill a genocidal maniac but he was a child when she went back and couldn't kill him. She tried so hard to stop him but couldn't.

Who was saved?

His wife

vs

Millions

Best Bending Time/Reality to Save Someone Round 0

Who did the bending?

Rose Tyler

vs

Amy Pond

How?

She ate the tardis to go save him

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The Doctor had erased himself from existence entirely in an effort to restore the disappearing universe. This worked, but it meant no one remembered him. But during Amy's wedding she felt something or someone was missing. Despite him being erased, Amy still remembered him. Amy called out for the Doctor to return, basically remembering him back into existence, and this worked and he reappeared, good as new.

Who was saved?

The doctor

vs

the Eleventh Doctor

Best Bending Time/Reality to Save Someone Round 0

Who did the bending?

Amy Pond (older and younger) and Rory Williams

vs

River Song

How?

Amy Pond had been separated from Rory Williams and the Eleventh Doctor and, due to complications with time streams, they accidentally came back to get her 36 years late. Rory manages to make contact with the younger Amy Pond earlier in her own timeline, who convinces her older self to help 'defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself' and have the both of them exist simultaneously. The three of them try to save both Amys, but eventually the older version of Amy sacrifices herself so her younger version can have a life with Rory. So in a way, this instance of time bending can be seen as both successful and unsuccessful!

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River and the Doctor were manipulated to be part of a 'fixed point' in time, where River shoots and kills him against her will. But when the moment comes, River refuses to kill him and the entirety of time collapses as a result. A whole new reality is created based around the moment she refused to kill him, with all of time happening at once and the universe disintegrating, while River desperately searches for a way to keep the Doctor alive. Eventually, she is unsuccessful in stopping the 'fixed point' and the Doctor convinces her to shoot him- by letting her know he had made arrangements beforehand and the shot isn't going to kill him.

Who was saved?

Amy Pond

vs

the Eleventh doctor

If you want a better name for that HFTR character, its kind of loosely implied they were called "Clay" (their name is never mentioned in the show, but the characters all have material themed names and "Clay" was the title of the episode they were revealed in)

You could also say "Copper's Loved-one" or something like that, since it's implied they were related to Copper (the crew later finds a photo as they start to realize they lost someone, and Copper comments that this person looks like them)

Several better options than the long description I put in the form....! Take your pick :)

Clay/Copper's Loved-one - Hymns for the Road Podcast

Amy Pond - Doctor Who (3 different instances)

Brainstorm - Transformers IDW More Than Meets The Eye Comics

Brooke Page (and you) - Monster High/Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High

Gumball and Darwin Watterson - The Amazing World of Gumball

Han-Mi - Shaperaverse/The Lost Fairy

Homura Akemi - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Jack Joyce - Quantum Break

Jasmine Control - The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio

Jay - Ninjago

La'an Noonian Singh - Star Trek Strange New Worlds

Lu Guang - Link Click

Max Caulfield - Life Is Strange

Madoka Kaname - Puella Magic Madoka Magica

Michael Burnham - Star Trek: Discovery

Michael Walters - Woe.Begone

Miss Holloway - Nighmare Time

Nadakhan - Ninjago

Nathan Dawkins - Beyond: Two Souls

Nox - Wakfu

Old Joe/The Loop - Looper

Rand Al’Thor - Wheel of Time

River Song - Doctor Who

Rose Tyler - Doctor Who

Santa Valentina - The Power Fantasy

Satoru Fujinuma - Erased/Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

Sofia Lee - Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II

The Doctor - Doctor Who

The Drifter - Warframe

Tony Stark - Marvel

Trunks - Dragon Ball Z

Wanda Maximoff - WandaVision

We will be doing Best Instances of Bending Time/Reality to save someone!

It can be just some person saving everyone or a literal god intervening.

This can be about everyone being saved or just one person.

Just because it saved someone, doesn't mean it has to be positive. It can be the villain desperately saving a loved one. Technically Thanos wiping out half the universe fits the criteria

Unsuccessful attempts can also be submitted if anyone thinks they are cool enough

Have fun!

I'm really sorry for the radio silence on my end. The truth is, the Body Swap tournament turned out way more stressful than I thought (even if it never got off the ground). Every time I want to start going through the submissions, I end up losing motivation after going through even a few.

When I started this, I was confident everyone was on the same page on what a Body Swap is, but over a third of the submissions I got have proven to me that is not the case. Either because people did not care or just wanted something that is kinda similar but not actually a Body Swap, I've gotten a lot of body sharing, possessions and unique concepts. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but it kinda killed my motivation when I knew I had to sort through and figure out what actually fit the description. Maybe someone else will have more fun with the concept or maybe I will pick it up at another time.

This isn't the only factor in my decision, but it is the only one I will tell you about.

I'm pretty busy right now, but I'm fine otherwise. A lot of projects I ahve to submit, so I currently don't have much time to run polls.