Ponds

Ponds is the het ship between Rory Williams and Amy Pond from the Doctor Who fandom.

Canon
EARLY LIFE

From a very young age, Amy, Rory and Melody had been best friends. Rory had participated in the Doctor's dress-up games, and even on at least one occasion when he played hide-and-seek with them, he hid for hours while Amy and Mels neglected to look for him. Amelia was always the dominant member of her trio with Rory and Mels. Throughout elementary and middle school, Amelia unwittingly raised Mels, serving in loco parentis and lecturing her after each of her myriad discipline problems. Meanwhile, Rory submissively followed Amelia's instructions and took her mild abuse as long as it allowed him to be around her.

Because of Rory's timidity in making romantic overtures to Amy and his apparent disinterest in other girls, Amy mistakenly assumed that he was gay. In their late teens, Mels made Amy realize Rory's feelings for her, and she returned his affections. In doing so, Mels paradoxically created her own existence as their daughter. At some point, Amy and Rory began to have a relationship. They were "going out" with each other. When Amy met the Doctor again, she proved uncomfortable admitting her relationship with Rory, at least to the Doctor.

MEETING THE DOCTOR

Amy and Rory both meet the Doctor in 2008. They are in a relationship at the time. Both Amy and Rory help the Doctor defeat Prisoner Zero and warn the Atraxi never to return to Earth. The Doctor then disappears to take the TARDIS to the moon to get some new engines, and returns two years later. Sometime after this, before the Doctor's next return, Amy attends a costume party with Rory. She wears her WPC uniform, while he is dressed as a Roman centurion. She puts a snapshot of the party in a book about Roman Britain. Amy and Rory are engaged to be married on June 26, 2010. On the night of June 25, the Doctor returns to keep his fourteen-year-old promise. Amy joins him on the condition that she be back before morning, but makes no mention of her wedding.

Children
Melody Pond/River Song

Amy became pregnant by Rory on their wedding night. Due to conception in the Time Vortex, the child was partially Time Lord. Amy was kidnapped by the Silence and replaced by a Flesh duplicate. She gave birth to a daughter named Melody on Demon's Run, but Amy and Rory lost Melody to the Silence.

Amy and Rory still got to raise Melody, in a sense. Melody's Time Lord DNA meant that when she died, she regenerated into Mels, who grew up with Amy and Rory as a childhood friend. Always getting into trouble, Amy and Rory acted like her parents even as children. Mels regenerated into River Song when she was shot in Berlin in 1938.

Amy and Rory were shocked to learn that Melody, Mels, and River were the same person. After learning River's identity, they formed a family relationship. River said goodbye to her parents for the last time when they were sent to a time-locked New York.

Anthony Williams

Anthony Williams appeared in P.S., which was supposed to be a DVD extra, but could not be filmed. He was the adopted son of Amy and Rory in New York who informed his grandfather Brian of their death. Since it comes from a deleted source, its canon status is ambiguous, but it is accepted as canon by many Doctor Who fans and Ponds shippers.

Fanon
The ship is considered quite popular, on AO3 it is in the top ten most written pairings in the Doctor Who tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Amelia/Rory tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Amelia/Rory tag on FanFiction.Net

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