Whouffaldi

Whouffaldi is the het ship between the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald from the Doctor Who fandom.

Canon
Clara was the companion of the Eleventh Doctor, and was present when he regenerated into the Twelfth Doctor. They had a rocky beginning in which Clara struggled to reconcile the new Doctor -- who was brusque, closed off and older in appearance -- with her previous Doctor, with whom she had shared a flirtatious relationship. But their relationship blossomed over the course of two seasons together into a deep emotional connection and mutual devotion.

Their relationship formed the centre of both of their lives, despite Clara having a long-term boyfriend throughout Season 8 who she was in love with as well. Clara's boyfriend was often a source of friction between her and Doctor in Season 8, with her lying to both men in order to continue travelling with the Doctor.

Clara drew a kinder side out of the Twelfth Doctor, frequently calling him out on his callousness and slowly softening him up into a person who smiled more and even accepted the occasional hug in Season 9. They were equals within the TARDIS, but her increasing recklessness during their adventures caused the Doctor to worry about his impact on her.

Their relationship resulted in arguably the most extreme reaction the Doctor has ever had to losing a companion: he was so unable to accept it that he endured torture for billions of years in order to have the opportunity to save her, and almost caused time itself to unravel. He could only let her go after his memory of her was erased.

Series 7
After Eleven's regeneration, Clara is stuck with an older-looking Doctor that has forgot how to fly the TARDIS.

Series 8
They both arrived in Victorian London after being swallowed by a female tyrannosaurus. After a bit of Twelve mumbling because of his regeneration, he falls on the ground. After noticing Clara's behavior, Vastra decides to call her for a talk. Clara stays with the Doctor for a bit, and hears him saying words in his sleep. Clara thinks those words are about the dinosaur. The moment is interrupted by Strax, who asked Clara to take off her hat, not knowing it's her hair. Madame Vastra, with her veil on, asked her to come so they can talk. She accuses Clara to not care anymore about the Doctor because of his older appearance. Upset, Clara tells her that she is not superficial and would even date a mountain.

Meanwhile, the Doctor writes equations until he hears the tyrannosaurus. He leaves and tries to talk to her, saying that he will bring her back home. But, he doesn't have the time because suddenly, she's on fire. The Doctor goes to see what's happening by stealing a horse. The rest of the team discover that he's gone and go after him. The next day, the two meet in the restaurant, Clara think that the Doctor send her an invitation. They have an argument before noticing that everyone else wasn't breathing. They got captured by androids. After some teamwork based on trust, the two managed to stop the androids.

Back in present day, Clara is still doubting if this is the same Doctor she knew. She then receives a phone call from Eleven. The latter tells Clara to stay by Twelve's side, because of how lonely and scared he really is. After looking at Twelve, Clara finally recognizes the Doctor and gives him a big hug. Twelve awkwardly discovers that he's "not a hugging person anymore".

When Clara starts dating Danny, a math teacher, Twelve becomes more and more jealous until he has to infiltrate the school to get rid of a threat.

During the episode "Kill The Moon", the Doctor abandons Clara to make an enormous decision: whether or not to destroy the Moon (which is actually an alien egg) in order to protect Earth. This decision leads to a catastrophic fight between the two, with Clara feeling betrayed that he would leave her in such a position instead of helping out. He claims to have been allowing the human race to make its own decisions, but she tells him it was patronizing. The episode ends with her storming out after telling him to "clear off".

In the following episode, "Mummy On the Orient Express", the two have reunited for one more adventure as a last hurrah. Dressed to the nines on a recreation of the Orient Express which travels through space, the two of them avoid discussing that this is the end of their time travelling together. Both are curious about unexplained deaths on the train, but are hesitant to talk to the other about it, with both getting up in the middle of the night and standing uncertainly outside the bedroom door of the other in indecision before walking away to investigate independently. At the end of the episode, Clara receives a call while inside the TARDIS from Danny, who believes she went on this trip to tell the Doctor it was over. She lies to him that she did, then loudly tells him, "I love you," which the Doctor, standing in clear earshot, overhears. (Actress Jenna Coleman later stated at a convention that Clara was saying this to the Doctor, not Danny.) Clara then lies to the Doctor that Danny is okay with her continuing to travel with him, and, delighted, the Doctor accepts her decision to continue as his companion.

When Danny is killed in a car accident, Clara goes to extreme lengths to bring him back by blackmailing the Doctor. She orders him to save Danny while throwing the TARDIS keys into a volcano. When the Doctor refuses, she breaks down in despair and he reveals that she hasn't destroyed all the TARDIS keys as she thought -- the entire encounter had unfolded in a dream state the Doctor placed the two of them in. He then berates her for betraying him, but shocks her by agreeing to help her all the same, stating that her betrayal changes nothing.

Series 9
The Doctor and Clara grow increasingly close over the events of this season. When she is killed in "Face the Raven", the grieving Doctor spends 4.5 billion years dying over and over again to break through a wall stronger than diamond and escape the Confession Dial he has been trapped in by the Time Lords -- all to gain the opportunity to step back in time and rescue Clara from the moment of her death.

However, Clara's death is a fixed point in time, and they realize she will need to return to it in order to stop all of time from unravelling. With both Clara and the Doctor shaken by what his devotion to her has pushed him to do, they agree that one of them must lose their memories so that they can let the other go. They choose to leave it to chance, and the Doctor ends up being the one who loses his memory.

Series 10
In "Pilot", the Doctor has been working as a professor on Earth, guarding a vault containing Missy. When he has an adventure with Bill, a college-aged young woman who he has begun to tutor after noticing she was attending his lectures despite not being a student, he decides that he should erase her memory of it to protect her. She accepts this, but asks him how he would feel if someone erased his memories of them. The Doctor hesitates, and Clara's Theme plays in the background. He decides not to erase Bill's memory.

At the end of his life, directly before regeneration, the alien entity Testimony, in the guise of Bill, gives him a "gift" -- returning his memories of Clara and allowing him to greet her one last time.

Quotes
"I have a duty of care"

- The Doctor at Clara, during several points in Series 9 -"Robbing a bank. Robbing a whole bank. Beat that for a date."

- Doctor, 8x05: Time Heist -"I already have a hobby. It's you, by the way"

- Clara to the Doctor, 9x05 "The Girl Who Died" --"Clara Oswald, you will never look any different to me"

- The Doctor in S9 Last Christmas -"Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?"

- The Doctor to Clara in 8x11 "Dark Water" -

"The TARDIS is outside. [...] So all of time and all of space is sitting out there in a big blue box. Please! Don't even argue."

- The Doctor to Clara, before offering his hand to her, S9: Last Christmas

--"If you love me in any way, you’ll come back."

- Clara to the Doctor, 9x04 "Before The Flood" -"Look at you, with your eyes and your never-giving-up, and your anger, and your kindness. One day, the memory of that will hurt so much that I won't be able to breathe, and I'll do what I always do, I'll get in my box and I'll run, and I'll run. In case all the pain ever catches up, and every place I go, it will be there."

- Doctor to Clara, 9x05, "The Girl Who Died" --"Four and a half billion years? [...] No, why would you even do that? I was dead! I was dead and gone, why, why would you even do that to yourself?"

- Clara to the Doctor, 9x12 "Hell Bent" -"People like me and you. We should say things to one another. And I'm going to say them now."

- Clara to the Doctor, 9x12: Hell Bent -"Look how far I went for fear of losing you."

- Doctor to Clara, 9x12: Hell Bent -"I don't think I could ever forget you."

- Clara to the Doctor, 9x12: Hell Bent

Fanon
After watching Series 8, some fans started to ship the Twelfth Doctor with Clara Oswald. Episodes such as Mummy on the Orient-Express are seen by those who ship Whouffaldi as containing clear sexual tension. Just like Whoufflé, the actors playing the characters have a great chemistry both on screen and off screen. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman themselves ship them. Their separation brought the fans to tears, but in Twice Upon A Time, they cried again but with tears of joy as they finally got one last interaction.

While the fandom generally agrees they are soulmates, some believe they are platonic soulmates and that the Doctor ceased treating Clara romantically when he regenerated into an older body. Capaldi's casting marked a change from the younger actors who had portrayed the Doctor prior to him, and created the largest visible age gap between the Doctor and his companion in the Nu-Who era, something which changed how some fans viewed the dynamic between Clara and the Doctor. Those who ship the pair romantically argue that the Doctor has always been too old for his human companions, which wasn't a barrier to shipping until his face reflected it; that Twelve is constantly making hugely romantic statements; that Twelve and Clara have a much deeper connection than Eleven and Clara, largely due to Clara's character development; and point to the whole "4.5 billion years of suffering to break the laws of time to save her because he was destroyed by her death in a frankly psychotically codependent way" as a sign that the Doctor was clearly still in love with her.

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Trivia

 * Part of the name of this ship is derived from Peter Capaldi.
 * According to the script of The Magician's Apprentice, the Doctor was playing Pretty Woman to Clara specifically.
 * In a letter, it is revealed that Twelve called Clara "[his] Impossible Girl", just like Eleven did.
 * In Dark Waters, there is a travelling shot on Clara's book shelves. One of the books is The Time Traveler's Wife.
 * According to show-runner and writer Steven Moffat, when the Doctor tells Clara "Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?", the Doctor is saying "I love you." - "He’s surprised he has to say it. That’s the truth about him, he says lots of horrible things all the time, that’s because he assumes all the other stuff is taken for granted and it’s only in that moment Clara realises just how much he’s assuming is taken for granted, absolute monomaniacal devotion to her. He absolutely loves her."