Who is Clara Oswin Oswald?? My Who Theory

With all the theories rolling around about who Clara is, I decided to throw in my 10 cents worth. Most Doctor Who fans agree that she is going to be a pivotal part of the climax in the 50th anniversary special due out in November 2013. Several people have theorized that Clara is the daughter or great grand daughter of Doctor Who from a previous version of himself. Possible, but none have really shown a good timeline of how, and keep in mind that the Doctor Who story line goes forward, seldom reaching to far into previous versions or series for content. Grabbing story lines from the past and linking them to a future episode would appeal to us who have seen the whole series, but would tragically confuse any new watcher.

So my theory will grab on to the last series(season) and explain why and how I think Clara is the daughter of Doctor Who and River Song. First lets look at River Song, its shown in past episodes that she can re-spawn like a Time-Lord, a side effect of being conceived in the Tardis.. naughty naughty Rory and Amy.. Ha Ha. We also know that because her parents were human, her bio signs always read as human, even though she was part Time-Lord. River Song was a baby, then sent back in time to become the best friend of Amy Pond & Rory Williams while they were in school, then was killed in Nazi Germany and re-spawned into the River Song (Alex Kingston) we are all familiar with. As of today we don't know where River is, though presumably back in prison or off on yet another adventure. We also know that she and Doctor have gotten frisky, so it is reasonable to think that she may have gotten pregnant. Now although we all love the beautiful adventurous and kick ass personality that IS River Song, can any of us seeing her raising a child, or carrying a baby in a papoose while off on an adventure.. NO! So I would guess that while she's off somewhere, whether prison or adventure, her child would be in the care of someone else. Now here's why Clara doesn't know her mother.. As we all recall, the day the Doctor first met River, she sorta died and her essence was downloaded into a computer where she could continue living in a way, but the then older River, would never return home to her child, and Clara would have been raised by someone else.

Now who knows what the effects of River Song and the Doctor producing a baby would be, but because of Rivers human DNA is plausible that Clara would also always have human bios signs. But how does Clara end up in different times and always near the Doctor?? Well here's my thoughts.. Clara lives her life normally as a human, but when she dies, instead of re-spawning into a new face like her mother and father would, she instead retains her skills (computer programing, languages, etc), physical appearance & basic personality then re-spawns randomly into a different time period past or future, like a computer being hard drive wiped & then rebooted in a different location.

Because shes the Doctors daughter, the first time she died and re-spawned into a new time period, it set off a sort of temporal flare gun that the Tardis recognized and started sending him to where she was. Now if you're wondering why she didn't re-spawn when the Daleks took control of her, its because she didn't really die till the end of the episode.. her spirit, life force, essence, or whatever you want to call it, remained in control even though she had been physically transformed. But when she did die she was mind wiped and sent backwards in time where the Tardis homed in on her.

I also believe that at the point of her death or for only the first few moments of a new life, she remembers everything and is able to leave the cryptic messages for the Doctor to discover. The cryptic messages obviously being a trait adopted from her mother, River Song, who once carved in the side of a mountain the very first words ever written in all of existence.

This theory also explains why The Doctor is so attached to Clara, and why he feels such guilt over her deaths. He doesn't conscientiously realize it but he's having a fathers reaction to her. Anyways those are just my thoughts