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The one, [[The Nth Doctor|the not-]][[Big Finish Doctor Who|so-only]]. The Doctor received a lot of [[Character Development]] throughout the EDAs, making him a much more complicated person than he was in the TVM.
* [[Absent
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: He was very attractive to begin with, yet is sometimes described to sound younger, taller, and thinner than he was in the TVM.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: In normal canon, he's pretty much overtly bisexual and occasionally effeminate. In the [[Alternate Reality Episode|Obverse]] segments of ''The Blue Angel'', he likes cooking and old movie soundtracks and his [[Ambiguously Jewish]] [[Jewish Mother|Mother]] seems to take a particular interest in his love life.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Quite overtly so; he has implied romantic relationships with both men and women, and at least one character noticed.
{{quote| '''Sam''': ...The way he looks at certain people. Women and men. But he never acts on anything. <ref>(He does eventually, but not yet, and it's pretty much never clearly stated.)</ref>}}
* [[Bizarre Human Biology]]: ''The Blue Angel'' features an [[Alternate Reality Episode]] in which the Doctor's [[Ambiguously Human|theoretically human]]. He has two hearts, no navel, and an unusual aversion to the cold. It's probably related to the fact that [[Half
* [[Born Lucky]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] at [[The Quiet One|surprisingly-great length]] by Sabbath in ''Camera Obscura''. The Doctor apparently doesn't like to talk about it, apparently because, for one thing, Sabbath can come up with more examples than he should know and the Doctor [[Laser
{{quote| "[[Big Damn Heroes|Rescuers turn up.]] [[Shur Fine Guns|Weapons jam.]] Your companions, who, [[Gentleman Snarker|if you will forgive me, don't strike me as more than usually competent]], save the day. [[Delayed Explosion|Buildings explode immediately after you find the way out.]] [[Walking Disaster Area|Cities fall]] just as the TARDIS dematerialises''[...]'' Electrical currents short-circuit. [[Evil Genius|Evil masterminds]] [[Idiot Ball|make foolish errors.]] <ref>(Since Sabbath's quite adept at catching the [[Idiot Ball]] despite his supposedly impressive intellect and is [[Enemy Mine|usually]] the Doctor's enemy, this is either [[Self
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: This is the Doctor we're talking about. He's a bit crazy, but he gets the job done.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: ''"So that's what he keeps us around for, [Sam] thought, blowing out a long cloud of smoke. He can't think in a straight line without us."''
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* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Innocent Fanservice Guy]]: He seems to consider life clothing-optional, although recognizes that the preference is for clothing. Good thing he's [[Mr. Fanservice|attractive]].
* [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]]: Usually [[Blue Eyes|blue]] (sometimes described as [[Icy Blue Eyes]]), but sometimes [[Gray Eyes]] or [[Green Eyes|green]]. [[Depending On the Writer]] and his own mercurial personality, a lot of the associated characteristics of each eye color apply.
* [[Laser
* [[The Mentally Disturbed]]: His mental health is somewhat variable. He's usually sort of a high-functioning [[Cloudcuckoolander]], but he has moments of being certifiably insane. ''The Slow Empire'' plays this for [[Black Comedy|fairly dark humor]] and mentions that after developing [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]], he occasionally couldn't distinguish between TV and reality, and so had attacks of being able to be [[Driven to Suicide]] by the [[Crapsack World|utter depressingness]] of ''[[Eastenders]]'' <ref>(suggesting, incidentally, that the boredom of [[Walking the Earth]] alone turned him into a bit of a [[Daytime Drama Queen]])</ref>, and due to watching [[Superman]] he got some odd ideas about [[Clark Kenting|disguises]] and "the relative position of the trousers and [[Underwear of Power|underpants]]". He also seems to think that someone who was having a nosebleed four days ago may still need a handkerchief. He even had what may have been a momentary [[Axe Crazy]] blackout in ''City of the Dead''. In ''The Blue Angel'' he has an alternate self who apparently suffers from schizophrenia, completely averting [[Funny Schizophrenia]]; it's reasonably understated and not [[Played for Laughs]] at all. <ref>(Also, his POV in ''The Blue Angel'' is occasionally written in a subtly strange way — for example, he tends to bring something up which doesn't make a lot of sense without further explanation and then drift away from the topic, which is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorder symptom of schizophrenia].)</ref>
** [[The Mad Hatter]]: In ''Eater of Wasps'', Anji asks him rhetorically if he's insane. He replies that he "must be". However, he seems to go back and forth on this.
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* [[Team Chef]]: Very much so. While Fitz is also said to be a competent cook, it seems the Doctor's an accomplished chef. In ''Camera Obscura'', he stress-bakes a Lady Baltimore cake, although he just worries more because of its "very complicated icing"; in ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers'', he makes a massive picnic for his friends and is said to hold several dinner parties in his flat; his [[Alternate Universe]] counterpart in ''The Blue Angel'' also makes a large meal for his visitors and frets over ruining the potatoes. Mind you, this doesn't include small moments when he happens to just carry food with him (apples, bits of candy, etc.) to give his companions on a moment's notice.
** [[Through His Stomach]]: That said, the Doctor only seems to cook for his [[Nakama]] and people he cares about. In ''Timeless'', he makes Anji a very nice omelette but immediately after won't do the same for the current [[One Shot Character]], claiming to be bored with cooking.
* [[Telepathy]]: He sometimes responds to things his companions are only thinking, or [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|seems to]]. It doesn't seem to have any more [[Misapplied Phlebotinum|practical applications]] than making everyone a little unsettled.
* [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]]: Which he never quite gets over.
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Actually, this is pretty much how he fights. Maybe because he [[Technical Pacifist|doesn't like to fight]], he doesn't even seem to really know how. However, he's really quite [[Muscles Are Meaningless|disproportionately tough]]. In ''To the Slaughter'', he lifts a woman in an office chair over his head. In ''Frontier Worlds'', he kicks someone in the head and [[Epic Fail|stubs his toe quite badly]].
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The Eighth Doctor's second companion and the one who stuck with him the longest, originally introduced in ''The Taint''. Fitz was born in 1936 to a German father and an English mother in London. His entire life was a bit of a [[Trauma Conga Line]], but he maintained a cheerful, laid-back attitude despite it. He met the Doctor in 1963, when he was 27. He's an easy-going but intensely loyal guitarist whose personal timeline [[Cloning Blues|got a bit confusing]]. He's possibly the longest-running companion in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' history and was in a [[Big Finish Doctor Who|BFA]] in Summer 2009. [[Trope Overdosed|He's Trope-tastic.]]
* [[Action Survivor]]: He starts out this way -- he didn't even really want to go with the Doctor that much, but he didn't really have [[You Can't Go Home Again|any other choice]]. But eventually he embraced the whole adventurer thing. He still has almost all the additional traits mentioned under the trope, though: [[Perma Stubble|stubbly]], [[Non
* [[Affectionate Gesture to The Head]]: He ruffles the Doctor's hair at the end of ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'', and does the same thing to Anji in ''The Book of the Still'', making her angry. It seems like he might be more comfortable showing affection this way than by hugging, since he tends not to initiate hugs.
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: He's sort of a bookish geek with some kind of crush on the Doctor, and he thinks he's cool and sometimes is.
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** [[Burger Fool]]: When we meet him, he's working at a plant shop and surreptitiously harassing an old woman who tries to compare a lawn gnome to a [[Lord of the Rings|hobbit]] and [[Gannon Banned|gets it wrong]]. He's [[Brilliant but Lazy|too clever for the job]], but [[Dismotivation|can't get his act together enough for anything better]].
* [[Big Eater]]
* [[Bi the Way]]: Implied from his very first scene onwards. Mentioned in ''The Blue Angel'', when he admits via internal monologue that [[If
** His relationship with George Williamson has quite a bit of [[Ho Yay]] as well.
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: German and French sometimes.
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'A planet where the party never stops. I was born to land here.' }}
* [[Chew Toy]]
* [[The Chick]]: He's [[The Klutz|clumsy]] and [[Non
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: He'll ogle almost anything female, in addition to fancying the Doctor and coming pretty close to betraying interest in quite a few other men. But he has a definite penchant for falling in love with people who are even more troubled than he is and trying to fix their problems. And he reserves a particular dislike for men who bully women.
* [[Cleopatra Nose]]: Well, Sam doesn't exactly think so.
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* [[Cowardly Lion]]: It's surprising just how much time he spends shivering. Also, he once had to rescue the Doctor from the living personification of [[Future Me Scares Me]], not to mention his own scary and almost [[Axe Crazy]] future self and a bunch of other scary and menacing types, and expressed relief that the sprinklers had gone off and no one would notice that, [[Bring My Brown Pants|well...]] But he's still constantly risking life and limb for others or a good cause, even though he thinks he's a coward.
* [[Daydream Surprise]]: Who's this private eye all of a sudden? Fitzwilliam Fort? Do we know him? Oh, yes, we do!
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: He's "died" at least twice (three or more if you count [[Future Me Scares Me|Father Kreiner]]). Once, he only survived because the Doctor, Anji, and the TARDIS loved him very, very much and believed in him. [[
* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: [[Double Subversion|Double Subverted]]: his mother [[Death By Origin Story|dies in his first book]]. However, she became psychotic after his father died, so she couldn't raise him, and once he was of age he had to take care of her. However, they were still apparently very close and he still misses her years later. The advice she gave him when he was younger is part of what made him such a [[Nice Guy|good person]].
* [[Designated Monkey]]: [[Depending On the Writer|In the Lance Parkin stories, at least.]]
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* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Girl of the Week]]: He has a girlfriend in about half of the novels. [[Cartwright Curse|It basically never lasts.]]
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: [[Everybody Smokes|He's from the 1960s]] ''and'' halfway [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fits]] the "sexy", "cool", and "tough" criteria.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: With [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|one big carrot on the front]].
* [[Gray Eyes]]: Although his eyes are described as his most attractive feature on a couple of occasions, none of the symbolism...er, ''suits'' him.
* [[Hell
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With the Doctor, except for the fact [[Bi the Way|neither one is heterosexual]].
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Anji assumes he's only [[The Hedonist|interested]] in things he can "drink, inhale, play, dance to or [[Curse Cut Short|–]]", but she's only pointing this out because he suddenly seemed to have developed an interest in science while in [[Victorian Britain]]. He's also generally a bit of a [[Bookworm]], and enjoys reading [[Useful Notes/Existentialism|Sartre]].
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* [[Non Action Snarker]]: He once [[The Klutz|fell down]] what seemed to be a [[Pit Trap]] and [[Sarcastic Clapping|clapped sarcastically]] when the Doctor fell in after him while trying to rescue him.
* [[Perma Stubble]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Not only does he like children, he seems to care a lot about animals, and not just the [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Fitz is in about fifty books. In the eighth, he apparently dies (he's actually brainwashed by a cult and becomes Father Kreiner, but we'll ignore that bit for now) and the Doctor implants his memories into a clone of a clone of a clone (etc.) of the original Fitz. It's this duplicate who remains the Doctor's companion for the rest of the EDAs.
* [[Sad Clown]]
* [[Sarcastic Devotee]]: Less so as his relationship with the Doctor improves, although it never quite lets up, as he has at least a modicum of common sense and [[Absent
* [[Serial Romeo]]: He generally falls head over heels with each new love interest, but he'd almost always still rather keep traveling with the Doctor, and if he starts getting any ideas about settling down [[Cartwright Curse|catastrophe generally strikes]], so it never lasts long.
* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Apparently, the fact Fitz is very much this trope is a bit of a bad influence on the Doctor. On the other hand, his good upbringing comes out in the fact that he seems to distinctly prefer minced oaths, and would rather use "shag" as a swear word than drop the f-bomb.
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* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Yes, his name really [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Fitz]] him. Sure, he's [[Never Heard That One Before]]. His last name is still a nuisance, but less of an entertaining one — in recently-post-WWII England, having a German surname is apparently enough to make him worry about getting his head kicked in, so he goes by Fitz Fortune when first introduced. It's mentioned that, since "Fritz" is such a [[Stock Foreign Name|stereotypical German name]] that it's used to refer to all Germans, the other kids used to call him "Fitz the Fritz". This also leads to [[Gannon Banned|newbies who see the German surname, get confused, and call him "Fritz"]].
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: Since he's an [[Artificial Human]], he can impress computers with his brain, generate anagrams, play guitar and do crossword puzzles better than he used to, and maybe some other things not even worth mentioning. Apparently, his thoughts have a "deeper structural underpinning" which computers really dig, or something. Considering the fact he's the closest thing you can get to being an [[Erudite Stoner]] without ever being implied to be on any illegal substances, this is kind of funny.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: When he was a child, he was stung all over by wasps and is thus scared of basically all bugs. Subverted in that he pretty much keeps his composure in ''Eater of Wasps'' which, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|as you may guess]], is about evil wasps.
* [[Wife Basher Basher]]: If you bully women in front of him, he's likely to [[Non
=== Laura "Compassion" Tobin ===
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* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: It's quite touching when she demonstrates the ability to feel happiness that doesn't come from ''schadenfreude''. When she {{spoiler|becomes a TARDIS and gains a Randomiser}}, she ends up "on a damp grassy hillside, having her face licked by a giant singing butterfly. Nice, for a while." By her standards, that's a big deal.
* {{spoiler|[[Rape As Drama]]: Well...sort of. In a very obvious [[Shoot the Dog|metaphorical way]] that one of the characters [[What the Hell, Hero?|points out]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Spaceship Girl]]: And ''how'' — she eventually turns into a walking, talking ''TARDIS''!}}
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Subverted. She sometimes seems to show her softer side, but if it's ever genuine, she does an amazing job of denying it afterward.
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* {{spoiler|[[Put On a Bus To Hell|Put On A Bus To Purgatory]]: See above. Debatable.}}
* [[Unfazed Everyman|Unfazed Everywoman]]: Moreso than any other companion.
* [[Unusual Dysphemism]]: Once addressed the Doctor as "You useless [[Curse Cut Short|otterfu-"]] To be fair, he was being quite useless.<ref>But definitely not doing [[But You Screw One Goat!|that other thing]].</ref>
* [[Waif Fu]]
* [[White Collar Worker]]: She's a futures trader, and so good at it that when she tries to [[Time Travel for Fun And Profit|cheat]] by taking notes from the ''[[British Newspapers|Financial Times]]'' of the future, she finds it's just unnecessary because she could've predicted all that anyway.
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* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]: He manages to save the Doctor at one point in an unintentional and [[Organ Theft|rather unconventional]] way.
* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Occasionally, and combined with [[Sophisticated As Hell]] to fairly odd effect. He picks up the phrase "been there, done that" from Anji, but his speech patterns are almost always quite formal, and he sometimes uses idioms which are very obviously [[Older Than Radio]].
* [[Anti
* [[Author Avatar]]: There are certain similarities between him and Lawrence Miles, the author who came up with him, in terms of appearance and personality. Not that Miles is an amoral destroyer of universes... but they are both clever, introverted, and cynical.
* [[Badass Normal]]: He is somehow capable of {{spoiler|ripping a heart out of his chest}}, then doing nothing about the big hole in his chest before he makes a dramatic exit while carrying a fully-grown woman. Also, he can throw off the effects of a [[Tranquilizer Dart]] through sheer willpower. And he once threatened to [[Fingore|break someone's hand]] just by squeezing it very hard. He didn't go through with it, but there's no reason to believe he couldn't have done so if he'd wanted to.
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* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: Heavily lampshaded when Fitz, Trix, and Anji make a short film about [[Previously On|the plot developments so far]]. Trix, playing Sabbath, declares:
{{quote| "Working as I am for unspecified higher powers, the nature of my misguided plans remains frustratingly obscure, [[Evil Laugh|ha ha]]!"}}
* [[
* [[Expy]]: Of the Master. He's far from the same character with the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]], but they have a lot of similar personality traits, such as [[You Make Me Sic|pedantry]], [[Man of Wealth and Taste|a fondness for elegant dark clothes]], [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkiness]], etc.. They both function as a recurring villain who often [[Enemy Mine|collaborates with the Doctor against a more immediate menace]], occasionally [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|of their own making]]. In general, their relationships with the Doctor are quite similar: they often get along civilly, are [[Not So Different]], and have a ton of [[Foe Yay]], despite the fact they're, you know, arch-enemies. Also, Sabbath was originally supposed to have been [[The Man Behind the Man|working for the Daleks]], something the Master's done once or twice. Where the Master had Ogrons (ape-like aliens) as henchmen, Sabbath just has regular old apes. Interestingly, Lawrence Miles, who came up with Sabbath, objected to Sabbath's gradual drift into [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Suspiciously Similar Substitutehood]], as he intended the character as more of a [[Darker and Edgier]] version of the Doctor.
** Larry intended [[What Could Have Been|Sabbath to take the Doctor's place as the hero]], turning into him via the Doctor's biodata or...something. Thankfully, that didn't happen.
* [[Fascinating Eyebrow]]
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* [[Kavorka Man]]: His kavorka powers seem to work on [[Narrator|narrators]] just as well as on attractive women, considering the poor narrator's [[Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|three-paragraph]] tortured attempts to make him sound good-looking upon his introduction:
{{quote| His face was pale and fleshy, but not at all unattractive as he entered early middle age. In his youth he was, [[Urban Legend Love Life|allegedly]], a master of seduction...}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: He wastes basically no time doing this. He starts out ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' giving the impression he's going to be hardly antagonistic enough to count as a [[Friendly Enemy]]. And then he rips out the Doctor's heart. Also, since he considers himself [[Above Good and Evil]], he doesn't hesitate to kill if doing so has sufficient utility. In ''The Last Resort'', [[The Heart|Fitz]] has to talk him out of stabbing a [[Innocent Bystander|nursing mother]] who wanted to kill him for seemingly having killed her husband but probably wouldn't have been able to anyway.<ref>Although generally when he does gratuitously vicious things like that, it's implied that it's part of some [[Batman Gambit]] that tends to almost [[Failure Is the Only Option|but not quite]] pay off by the end. For example, he probably hadn't actually killed the woman's husband, but he wanted Fitz to think he had, and coming across as [[Ax Crazy]] would play into that.</ref> And in ''The Domino Effect'', an [[Alternate Universe|alternate version]] of him even {{spoiler|goes ahead and shoots a particularly innocent and [[Woobie|woobieish]] [[Barrier Maiden|barrier person]]. [[What Do You Mean
* [[Large Ham]]: In sort of a quiet, mysterious way, anyway.
{{quote| '''Anji''': ''[...]'' a posturing ham like Sabbath. If he pulls that sinister, mysterious act on me again –}}
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* [[Stout Strength]]
* [[Sue Donym]]: Close enough, anyway: almost all his aliases are terrible, obvious, and related to his usual pseudonym, such as Holiday, Mistletoe, and Mr. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton G.K.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday Thursday] (the [[Genius Bonus]] just makes it worse).
* [[Super Not
* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: Justified: they're not idiots, they're apes, and it wasn't his idea to hire them.
* [[Ubermensch|Übermensch]]: He certainly seems to be aiming for this trope, in a less [[Omnicidal Maniac|mindlessly destructive]] way than the typical villainous [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]. He's surprisingly charismatic, considers himself [[Above Good and Evil]], and thinks the Doctor is [[Good Is Old
{{quote| ‘You think of yourself as Time’s Champion, Doctor. You believe everyone should subscribe to your cosy, libertarian values. [...] The universe would be a nice, safe place if only everyone followed your proper, civilised code of conduct. [...] You couldn’t be more wrong. Everything you believe is a lie. You’re an anachronism, a leftover from a previous reality – I see that now[...] You don’t hold the solution to anything any more – you’re part of the problem. The sooner you step aside, the better for all concerned. A new history is coming!’}}
* [[The Unfettered]]: Yeah, we've kind of gone over this already. He's pretty clearly against taking pointless immoral actions, but morality isn't going to stop him achieving his goals. His morality contrasts with his conduct; he's much more straitlaced than the Doctor, who likes bothering him with immature humor.
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]
* [[Wild Card]]:
{{quote| '''Anji''': So, Sabbath will be up to another of his dopy schemes, desperate to ally himself with the next nasty to come slinking out of the vortex with a bunch of hollow promises. <ref>([[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]? You suspect that Anji wants to explain to him that no one buys the evil cow when they can get the evil milk for free. They're just going to break your heart again! Villainous dating advice from Anji Kapoor...)</ref>}}
=== [[Faction Paradox]] ===
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* [[Powers As Programs]]: A strange sort-of-inversion in that the Faction makes extensive use of biodata (the importance of which was established in ''The Deadly Assassin'') in the "rituals" that fuel their technology.
* [[Skeletons in The Coat Closet]]: Their armor is carved from the bones of [[Time Paradox|impossible]] creatures, as seen [[media:armour.jpg|here.]]
* [[Timey
=== Beatrice "Trix" MacMillan ===
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* [[The Hedonist]]: For her, saving the universe is ''almost'' as important as money, clothes, and chocolate.
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Master of Disguise]]: Usually with a dose of [[Wig, Dress, Accent]].
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: She's a cute, quirky, mysterious, larcenous young woman {{spoiler|who [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|falls in love with Fitz because he's]] [[Nice Guy|dependable]]. But despite being a bit of an [[Every Man]], he's also already quirky and adventurous and, unlike her, has his life together about as well as can be expected. In short, it looks like the normal guy is going to be fixing up the weird girl's life, and they try to settle down together and use [[Time Travel for Fun And Profit]] to be rich yuppies.}}
* [[Mysterious Past]] / [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Because she lies her head off about it all the time.
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