Blood and Ice (comic story)

 was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2015. It featured the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald. It explored the possibility of many more alternate Clara Oswalds existing than those originally portrayed in the television series. It also saw the appearance of Winnie Clarence, a splinter version of Clara. As a result of meeting the "prime" version of Clara, Winnie becomes the first splinter to become aware of her purpose.

Part one: Blood and Ice
The Doctor and Clara are on a tour of Snowcap University, which Clara finds uninteresting. They are at a point in which Dr Audley is supposed to speak; however, she has met a delay, so to Clara's relief the tour moves outside. As Winnie and a fellow student watch the tourists, Dr Audley is apparently now ready, and the tour moves back inside.

Audley announces that this tour may be the location's final one: the Antarctic Treaty, which forbids military activity, mineral mining and the dumping of nuclear waste, is coming up for renewal. Audley also mentions that this spot is the only one which humanity cannot legally exploit or destroy for its own gain, placing the year at 2048 according to the Doctor. Snowcap University has dedicated its time to clean up pollution on Antarctica, and if the treaty is abandoned, these efforts will become useless. Consequentially, some students and staff members have chosen to stay on campus even after the end of the term, in order to conclude certain experiments which otherwise may never be finished. George Evans, another tourist, asks to speak to Dr Audley; she refuses, but Evans will not take "no" for an answer...

As the tourists ride a helicopter after the tour's conclusion, Evans discusses with the tour guide his dissatisfaction with the experience. Rather than wishing for sightseeing, Evans desired answers which he did not receive. His daughter Polly did not come home at the end of the term; Audley initially claimed she did indeed leave, before explaining that she was involved in a top-secret research project. Mr Evans eventually convinced Audley to let him see his daughter, though he could not enter the experimentation room; Polly claimed to be fine, but her father noticed something wrong in her eyes...

George Evans responded by threatening Dr Audley, which the Doctor doubts was a particularly wise move. Suddenly, Clara spots something: a man wearing shorts and a t-shirt, despite the temperature of negative fifty degrees. Closer inspection reveals the man to be frozen solid - and yet, he manages to let out a faint sound. The Doctor recognises this as impossible.

As Clara attempts to comfort him with promises of a medical centre, the man lets out quiet calls of help. Steeping up onto the helicopter, the man scratches his arm on a piece of metal sticking out from the door, bizarrely bleeding blue blood. Due to this extra weight, as well as the Doctor's curiosity about this man, the Doctor and Clara do not reenter the helicopter - fortunately for them, as suddenly, a flock of wandering albatrosses attacks the vehicle, causing it to crash.

As Winnie, Navin and Roger arrive to help, the Doctor regrettably announces that all of the helicopter's inhabitants, among them a boy named Quinn, are dead. The students recognise this name: Quinn Norton was a student who moved to Project Sub-Zero (the same project which Polly Evans was involved in).

The Doctor decides to visit Dr Audley's office, while Winnie takes Clara to her room to get clean clothes. As Clara and Winnie remove their snow hoods and goggles, and are in for a shock: their faces are identical.

Part two: Reflections
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Part three: Truth and Consequences
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Part four: Shattered Mirror
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Characters

 * Twelfth Doctor
 * Clara Oswald / Winnie Clarence
 * Paul South
 * Patricia Audley
 * George Evans
 * Polly Evans
 * Pilot
 * Quinn Norton
 * Navin
 * Roger
 * First Doctor
 * Ben Jackson
 * Polly Wright
 * Marianne
 * Mabel Clarence
 * "Poopsie"

Continuity

 * Clara recalls jumping into the Doctor's time stream when she realises Winnie is one of her echoes. She later recalls how the Doctor's entire life was being erased and the stars were going out. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
 * This story marks the first time Clara has been depicted encountering one of her echoes and it is implied that this has never happened to her before.
 * The echoes featured within the story feature throwbacks to many different eras of Doctor Who. One of them appears in the same astronaut gear from Silence in the Library. Another is dressed in the same style of dress as many of the women from The Ark.
 * Upon discovering he is at Snowcap University, the Doctor recalls his first regeneration at Snowcap Base. (TV: The Tenth Planet) He also compares the change to death. (TV: The End of Time)
 * Clara mentions her story started "one day when [she] lost the Internet". (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
 * Part 2 includes an illustration of some of Clara's splinters including the first comic strip depictions of Oswin Oswald (TV: Asylum of the Daleks) and Clara Oswin Oswald, (TV: The Snowmen) as well as previously unchronicled incarnations including an Egyptian, a monarch of some sort, a WWII military officer, an astronaut, a cavewoman and a tribal member.