User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-1166667-20130401040856

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: That makes no sense. You can say, "These ones are the same, but not those." I'd like to hear cold hard proof that Clara's a different person from Oswin or Victorian Clara. Because Oswin died in the future, and C.O.O. died in the 19th century.

We separate Rory Williams and Auton Rory, despite the former retaining the latter's memories. We have the exact same situation here.