Theory:Timeline - April MacLean

This page lists appearances of April MacLean in the order she experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Founding of the Coal Hill defenders

 * TV: For Tonight We Might Die
 * Set during 12 and 14 October 2016. The Shadow Kin start to emerge from the Coal Hill Space-Time Rift to find the Cabinet of Souls, with April being attacked while she prepares for the Autumn Prom. Andrea Quill comes to April's rescue, but Charlie Smith interfering when she fires the displacement gun causes April's heart to be synch with that of Shadow King Corakinus, who retreats. Charlie and Quill then tell April about their true nature, including about the arn placed in Quill's head to keep her subservient to Charlie, and April tells Ram Singh and Tanya Adeola when she figures out they saw the Shadow Kin too. At the prom, with Charlie bringing Matteusz Andrzejewski as his date, the Shadow Kin return, with Corakinus killing Ram's girlfriend, Rachel Chapman, as well as severing his leg, and destroying the displacement gun. However, the Twelfth Doctor arrives to drive the Shadow Kin off, though he is unable to fully close the Rift, and he leaves Charlie, April, Ram, Tanya and Matteusz to fight off further incursions from the Rift after he attaches a Lothan prosthetic leg to Ram, naming Quill as their protector to make amends for Kevin.


 * TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo
 * Set a week after For Tonight We Might Die, during 24 and 27 October 2016, though the Coal Hill defenders have not seen Ram since the prom, as he is still recovering from the loss of Rachel and his leg, while the other defenders are adjusting to the existence of the space-time rift. Headmaster Frank Armitage is among those killed by a Leaf Dragon being controlled by football coach Tom Dawson to secure the safety of its mate trapped in his skin, but Ram convinces the Dragon to just take Dawson to reunite with its mate. Despite initially being hesitant, Ram decides to officially join the Coal Hill defenders. Quill learns that the Governors are investigating her, and April's dad tries to call her.


 * AUDIO: The Creeper
 * Explicitly set during Halloween 2016.


 * PROSE: Joyride
 * A few weeks have passed since For Tonight We Might Die. Coal Hill Academy is currently in between head teachers, setting this between The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo and Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart. Matteusz does not yet live with Charlie, setting this before Nightvisiting as well.

Defending Coal Hill

 * TV: Nightvisiting
 * Set the night of 3 November 2016. Matteusz is kicked out by his parents for being gay, and he moves in with Charlie, with both declaring their love, just before an invasion by the Lankin. April opens up to Ram about surviving her father's suicide attempt, and the two share their first kiss. Ram alludes to the recent events of For Tonight We Might Die and The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, and April is learning to play "Night Visiting" on her violin.


 * PROSE: What She Does Next Will Astound You
 * It is implied the story starts on a Monday, and then goes on for several days, at least up to the next Sunday. A few weeks have passed since The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, and Matteusz is living with Charlie and Quill, but Ram and April are not in a solid relationship, setting this between Nightvisiting and Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart. Ram's friend Neil is hospitalised with severe burns after a truthordare.com challenge goes wrong.


 * AUDIO: The Soers' Ditch
 * Set on a Saturday night. Charlie and Matteusz live together, setting this after Nightvisiting. Charlie is surprised to hear Matteusz say that he loves him, presumably setting this before Tell Me You Love Me.


 * PROSE: The Stone House
 * Set across five consecutive days from Monday to Friday. April and Ram have started dating after their kiss in Nightvisiting. Quill wonders if her students have been replaced again, setting this after Joyride. Charlie and Matteusz are comfortable being intimate via their mobile phones, setting this prior to events within What She Does Next Will Astound You. Quill mentions the Daleks, but she makes no indication that she has ever encountered one.


 * ( SEGMANT )
 * A month after Seraphin's kidnapping, Ram's phone is stolen, and his messages are posted online the following day. Charlie and Matteusz end up uncomfortable being intimate via their mobile phones and make an agreement to not do so anymore. (PROSE: What She Does Next Will Astound You)


 * TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
 * Set "a few months" after Charlie and Quill's arrival on Earth in September 2016, with Ram implying that only one month has passed since For Tonight We Might Die, which would set this around 12 November 2016. April is still learning "Night Visiting". Corakinus makes an attempt to separate his heart's connection to April using an anchor of a life blood, but only succeeds in making their connection stronger, just as April's father re-enters her life, making her more volatile and Ram growing closer to her as he comforts her, leading to them having sex for the first time. Dorothea Ames replaces Armitage as head of Coal Hill Academy, and approaches Quill about having her arn removed. April gains significant powers from her connection to Corakinus, even healing her mother's paralysis, but feels Corakinus preparing for another attack and opens a rift to the Underneath to confront him, with Ram following after her, leading directly into Brave-ish Heart.


 * TV: Brave-ish Heart
 * As Coal Hill is swarmed by killer petals, Ames and Quill try to convince Charlie to use the Cabinet of Souls to destroy them, while Matteusz urges him not to. Meanwhile, April and Ram journey through the Underneath and begin a relationship on the way to battle Corakinus. With encouragement from her father, April becomes King of the Shadow Kin when she bests Corakinus in a duel, but opts to imprison instead of kill him. Matteusz quickly realises they can use the Shadow Kin to neutralise the petals, and April is able to destroy them before Corakinus destroys the anchor, stripping April of her new powers. Despite betraying her for her own interests, Ames agrees to arrange for the arn to be removed from Quill's head after school on the following Monday, but still makes her take Charlie to parents' evening as minor revenge.

After parents' evening

 * ( SEGMANT )
 * Sometime after Ames's deal with Quill about removing the Arn, the Coal Hill defenders deal with truthordare.com. (PROSE: What She Does Next Will Astound You)


 * AUDIO: Gifted
 * Ram mentions facing Shadow Kin, dragons and "grief monsters", and the current head teacher of Coal Hill Academy is a woman, setting this after Brave-ish Heart. April begins composing "The Lost".


 * AUDIO: Everybody Loves Reagan
 * Ram and April have only just started dating, and Tanya mentions the new headteacher, setting this shortly after Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart. The events of Nightvisiting were a few weeks ago. Tanya mentions the upcoming mock exams, setting this before Mock


 * AUDIO: Catfish
 * Ram and April are a couple, setting this shortly after Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart. Also set after Now You Know…, as Tanya is now happy to assist Matteusz with homework when he asks for her help. Ram says he hasn't seen Tanya for some time, suggesting an additional setting after stories they both interact in.


 * AUDIO: Mock

The defenders fall apart

 * TV: Detained
 * When Quill puts them in detention in Class B3, the Coal Hill defenders are transported to the No-time, no-space when a small asteroid is flung out the Rift. They are then forced to confess their secrets to each other due to the influence of the prisoner in the asteroid, who also increases their inner anger towards each other, until Charlie's confession kills the prisoner and returns them to Shoreditch, where Quill, dishevelled and scarred, is waiting for them, saying it feels like "a lifetime" since she last saw them. Still reeling from what the prisoner made them say about each other, the defenders walk out in frustration.


 * ( DIARY ENTRY )
 * In the week following their entrapment in the no-time, no-space, the Defenders still haven't spoken to each other, but April has been having increasing dreams of Corakinus. (AUDIO: Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince)


 * TV: The Lost
 * "Six days" have passed since Detained, during which the defenders, apart from April and Charlie, have been avoiding each other while Quill hibernates due to her pregnancy. Having regained his title as Shadow King, Corakinus returns for revenge, killing Ram's father and Tanya's mother, just as Quill awakens from her hibernation. After they save her brothers from the Shadow Kin, Tanya has Quill teach her how to fight. Charlie uses the Cabinet of Souls to wipe out the Shadow Kin, killing April when Corakinus is slayed by a Rhodian soul, leaving Charlie as the new Shadow King, though he is spared the genocide. As he questions why he survived, April awakens in Corakinus' body.

In Corakinus' body

 * ( SEGMENT )
 * After the Chair of the Governors gets a hold of Charlie's diary, he begins making plans to restore April to her natural body. (AUDIO: Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince)