Melody Pond/River Song

This model was the give away November Limited Edition from Warlord Games. As I was trying to collect the rest of the Dr Who range I didn’t have, I ended up with a few of them.

Alex Kingston as River Song

Melody is a half-human/half-Time Lord, as well as the child of Amelia Pond & Rory Williams, conceived on the TARDIS after their honeymoon.

River Song in her black leathers as she was most often dressed in.

The Tenth Doctor first met her in the Library in the 51st century, where it would be the last time for her, and it only gets more confusing from there.

They move roughly in opposite time directions, and depending on what end of the timeline they’re on respectively, they each know secrets about each other that they’re unable to talk about without creating paradoxes.

The other reason is that her mother was abducted by a splinter group of the Papal Mainframe, a religious order who nominally protected certain sections of the universe. This splinter group, led by Madame Kovarian, foretold of the Doctor’s arrival on a world called “Trenzalore”, where, due to a confluence of events, the Last Great Time War would begin anew leading to the Doctor’s permanent death.

Engaging in extremes to prevent this, Kovarian abducted Amelia, held her captive on the asteroid “Demon’s Run”, and forcibly removed Melody from her mother upon birth, the idea being to train her as an assassin who would utilize her Time Lord abilities to insert herself into her parents’ timeline as a friend called “Mels”.

Gaining intel, she would then move in and at the right time, kill the Doctor for good, succeeding in one timeline.

What Kovarian didn’t count on was Melody genuinely falling in love with him, even marrying him at a moment where his death was prevented, causing time to freeze but history to happen all at once.

River was mostly human, with some Time Lord DNA, and was conceived by her parents, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, aboard the TARDIS as it travelled through the Time Vortex.

She was then raised and conditioned by the Silence, who used her unique DNA to transform her into the first of several Proto-Time Lords, granting her great strength, a deep understanding of the complex principles of time and space, and the ability to regenerate.

She loved the Doctor dearly, and shared a long-lasting relationship with them.

River was one of the very few people who knew the Doctor’s true name.

As I said, I ended up with a few of them. I will use the one in black for Dr Who games and the others for Post Apocalyptic survivors.

On the shooting range.

5 thoughts on “Melody Pond/River Song

    • Nah the boots aren’t big enough.

      Reminds me of a true story. SWMBO and I went to see Tussards at Warwick Castle and we had to put up with this group of American line dancers following us around. All were dressed in their line dancing paraphernalia and seemed to have hyphenated names that ended in Lou! Anyway we were going through the portcullis to the shop and one of these turned to the other and looked at a sign and said Mary-Lou what are stables? From cowgirl dancers! My suspicions of their IQ were suddenly confirmed!

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