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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 Mels 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. 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. Their first kiss was to the song and dance 'The Macarena'. When Amy met the Doctor again, she proved uncomfortable admitting her relationship with Rory towards 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.

Amy often tried to seduce the Doctor in the beilef that there was no other the reason the Doctor chose her as a companion. This happens before and after Rory's short timed first death and Amy gains amnesia towards his existence. All the flirting ceases once she learns she's the Doctor's mother-in-law. At the beginning of series 7, Amy and Rory are about to divorce proving a sort of unstability in their overall relationship through arguments shown in flashbacks. They never go through with this and remain married.

2000 YEARS OF WAITING

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Rory watching over the Pandorica

During series 5: in the episodes 'The Pandorica Opens' and 'The Big Bang', an almost dead Amy is locked in the Pandorica in 102 CE. Rory watches over her as a living plastic Roman centurion, traveling with the Pandorica all over the world. He assures all the civilizations that come in contact with the box that he would not allow them to open it, protecting his wife inside. During WWII, the Pandorica is hidden and Rory is lost to time until it is revealed that he is a working security guard for the musem the Pandorica is in displayed 2000 years later.

THE GIRL WHO WAITED

In series 6 the episode: 'The Girl Who Waited' is about how Amy waited for 36 years for the Doctor and Rory to rescue her on planet where time moves differently. 36 years after being left, we witness a much older Amy defending herself from robots that want to 'cure' her but since she is human, the medicine would kill her. When a paradox opens, Rory must choose between rescuing a younger version of Amy and an older version of Amy. Rory is upset because he was not able to grow old with Amy in a defense against rescuing the older version of Amy. Once Rory has chosen, Amy has taken the title 'The Girl Who waited'.

ROMEO AND JUILET

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Rory and Amy's shared gravestone.

In the series 7 episode: 'The Angels Take Manhatten' which takes place in 1938, Amy and Rory in escaping the Weeping Angels create a paradox if Rory dies on his own terms. In an act of love Amy decides to kill herself as well and they jump off the Winter Quay hotel roof in each others arms. Once they both awake in a graveyard, Rory notices a grave with his name on it and once Amy returns her eyes back on him he has turned into a Weeping Angel. Against the Doctor's wishes Amy blinks and turns into one as well. Soildfying both of their deaths to appear on the shared grave, unknownst to the watchers and other characters if they lived a happy life together years prior to their deaths.

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[]

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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

Amy/Rory tag on AO3
Amelia/Rory tag on FanFiction.Net

TUMBLR

ponds posts on Tumblr

Videos[]

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