The Osgood App - Two Wake as one.
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Name: Chicklet
Age: Adult
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Character Information
Character Name: Petronella Osgood (hereafter only known as Osgood, because who would ever admit to the name Petronella?)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Please note, this app both is and is not for two people, who are the same character.
Character History:
Osgood was once a single person. She was a woman who was more than a little bit of a fan girl of the Doctor, in his own world. She came to work for Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, at UNIT, in hopes of being a little bit like the Doctor. She builds devices that helps keep the peace and stop those who would bring war from being able to do so.
And then in the midst of crisis, her dream came true. She got to meet the Doctor. And as it did for so many people (Lorna Bucket, for one) that adventure changed her life. Forever.
They wound up dealing with a race called the Zygons; shape changers who wanted to settle on earth and would do so by force. Thanks to some timey-wimey fun, instead of one Doctor being there to settle the matter, there were three. Which put them one up on everyone else, like Osgood and Kate who each was themselves and had a Zygon clone.
Osgood had been terrified when a Zygon had taken her form, sure she was about to be killed. Instead, the Zygon stole her inhaler, to sell the part, and left.
Kate... or the Zygon of Kate... was ready to destroy London and kill everyone in it, rather than let the Zygons use it as an invasion point, or rather than let the humans stop the invasion. Again, rather hard to tell which was which, and that was kind of the point.
So, to save London, and both races, the Doctors made it so that no one in the room could remember if they where Human or Zygon, to create a perfectly fair peace treaty. Both Kates stopped the detonation at the same time, and with the psychic link created between a Zygon and the person they are copying, they all reached a perfect understanding. No one knew which of them was which.
Except one Osgood had an inhaler, and the other didn't. Out of sight of everyone else - not that it mattered, no one else knew which Osgood had the inhaler - she passed it to her double. Then the Osgoods both knew which they were.
And found... that knowing changed nothing.
Each Osgood wanted the same thing, to live in a world at peace where people are free to live and love and work without fear.
After the treaty was signed, and the immigration began, and memories returned, all the other Zygons chose new forms, new faces. But not Osgood. And the Doctor saw this, and secretly tasked her - both of her - with a secret mission. She was given the Osgood box. "and if you've been paying attention, you'll be able to guess why." It is the fail safe incase the peace is broken. Against the Nightmare Scenario. Three Doctors, you had to know the name would be needlessly over dramatic.
The Osgood box was hidden, and both Osgoods went on to work for UNIT, happily creating devices of peace. And things were as fine as they can be working for a secret government agency... until the day that the corpses started rising from the ground as Cybermen. Osgood, of course, had files on not just all of the Doctor's regenerations, but also all his foes; Daleks, Cybermen, The Master, Weeping Angels... She worked with UNIT to figure out how to undo this, ultimately failing, but trying. When the lab had to be moved to the plane, one of her stayed on the ground, one of her went on the plane, using the psychic link to keep teams in both locations aware of what was going on, never telling anyone which of them was which - though everyone was a little too busy with the current crisis to care just then.
And then......
Meeting the Doctors was a dream. Meeting the master, Missy, was a nightmare. Missy was trussed up and secure, with guards behind her. But UNIT wanted someone else there, someone they could trust to catch any hints or clues in her mad ramblings. Half from curiosity, and completely because she was trusted, Osgood wound up doing her lab work in the section of the plane where Missy was being held, doing her best to pretend to ignore her. Frankly, she thought it rather stupid to put Missy right beside the Tardis, but no one asked her opinion on that and space was limited.
Pretending to ignore Missy failed, when Missy taunted that she would give her the very information she was there to get. So she played along, thinking she had the upper hand, because she could send all the information to her sister who could transmit it to Kate ASAP. But ultimately, Missy was, as she claimed to be - bananas. Her big secret was a death threat, one she delivered on. One Osgood dead. As far as Missy knew, she was just another lab drone there for her personal twisted amusement. Didn't even leave a body that could become a cyberman. Just a pile of ash and a pair of glasses.
On Earth, the other Osgood was not prepared for the shock of pain that came with the death of her "sister". She got a cemetery plot for her, after it was all over, sort of a subtle thumbing her nose at Missy in the end. The grave stone was black and expensive, the only words upon it were "My Sister", the only one to mourn was Osgood. And still she never said which she was.
I'm Osgood.
And then a Zygon went rouge. The Nightmare Scenario. She messaged the Doctor and found herself at the heart of a storm, both sides wanting to know which she was, sure that would tell them her ultimate loyalty. But even to the Doctor, who she idolized for so long, her only answer ever was "I'm Osgood."
The leader of the Zygon rebellion called herself Bonnie, and took the form of the Doctor's current companion - Clara Oswald. Yes, the names are irritatingly similar. Using that form, she found the Osgood box.
Remember how the Osgoods said if you were clever you could figure out why it was called the Osgood box?
There were two boxes, one blue, one red. She no longer cared if she won or not, she was backed into a corner, and she was going to go down fighting. Each box had two buttons, one marked truth, one marked consequences. In the red box, one button, they were told, would detonate the nuke under the black archive. One would release a bio weapon that would kill every Zygon on earth.
In the blue box, one button would unmask every Zygon in the world, showing their true red and puckery form. The other would take their ability to change forms, rendering them pure human forever.
Truth. Or Consequences.
The Doctor starts in on Bonnie, using his best weapon, his speech. He asks her what she wants, forces her to think about what would happen if she won, where would she fit into the new world she wanted to make? How would the new world look any different than this world? Why did she expect anything to be fair? Why would she even want it to be? He begged her to break the cycle, to not just be mean and hurtful because people hurt her and were mean to her. (for the canon blind, yes, this speech witnessed by Osgood, and delivered to Bonnie is ultimately important to who Osgood is/will be at Wake.)
He made Bonnie question. But her back was to the wall. Every answer she felt like she was almost attacking herself, driving herself back. There were no good answers to his questions, and she felt like she had no choices....
"This is not a game, Kate! This is war! This is scale model of every war ever fought, right there in front of you!" was what the Doctor said when both Bonnie and Kate were ready to take the 50/50 chance of saving their people, when they both still thought the Doctor would break and tell them which button to press.
Truth or consequences.
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who is going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream. And burn."
At this point, the director had the camera focus on the pain in Clara's face at that thought. As if to remind the audience of two important things:
1) Clara is a school teacher who has cared for children as long as she can recall.
2) Bonnie is still psychically linked to Clara, hearing all she hears, feeling all she feels.
"How many hearts will be broken? How many lives shattered? How much blood will spill until everybody does what they always going to have to do from the very beginning? SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
And then he goes to Bonnie, and we can see the conflict on her face, the doubt, even as she says she won't change her mind. She even finally says why. "You think they'll let me go? After all I've done?" Bonnie os terrified, and that makes her seem stronger because she thinks she has no choices left. (And yes, I promise this is vitally important to Osgood, how Bonnie thinks and feels.)
She wanted so desperately to believe it when the Doctor said that he forgave her, but like all people who think themselves unredeemable, she was sure it was because he didn't understand, didn't know how horrible she truly was.
When the Doctor's words got Kate to close her box, to step back from the line she was drawing in the sand, Bonnie rifled though Clara's mind, trying to figure out if the Doctor meant it, if he was telling the truth... about the pain, and about forgiveness. She knew the Doctor is loved and respected, could he really have done so much worse, and was he truly forgiven?
And in Clara's mind, she found all she needed to know about the Doctor. She understood, finally, what the Osgood box really was. This creation of his and Osgood's, this ultimate weapon created by two people so dedicated to peace.
"It's empty, isn't it? Both boxes. There's nothing in them. Just buttons."
"Of course," the Doctor replied. "And you know how you know that? Because you've started to think... like me."... "No one should have to think like that," he said to Bonnie. "And no one will. Not on our watch." It was inclusive, an offer, a chance for her to help protect the peace, rather than to push for war.
When Kate pointed out that now that they knew the boxes were empty, that they couldn't forget that, the Doctor informed her that she's said that... the last 15 times. Telling Osgood, Bonnie, and Clara pretty clearly why Kate Lethbridge-Stewart was not trusted the way Clara was, the way Osgood was... and now... the way Bonnie would be. He then triggered the room's memory wipe, wiping everyone'e memory of the showdown, except himself, Clara, Osgood, and... Bonnie.
Osgood helped make everyone who had passed pout comfortable in a way that made it clear that she'd been on this ride with the Doctor before. This wasn't her first Nightmare Scenario.
"You didn't wipe my memory."
"When they wake up, they won't remember what you've done," he told Bonnie.
"You're going to protect me." She wanted to believe it, but... couldn't. Not yet.
It was Osgood who told her, "You're one of us now," with more foreshadowing than anyone quite realized.
Bonnie still said she couldn't understand why they would forgive her. The Doctor said that he had been where she had been. That he too had been faced with a box, so sure he was right, backed into a corner... and that Clara had gotten into his head, like she was in Bonnie's through their link. She stopped him. She helped him find a better way.
And Bonnie called off the invasion. We then see the episode move to the Tardis, to the Doctor and who we presume to be Clara and Osgood, as he offers Osgood the thing that she always wanted. He invites her to join them on the Tardis.
She tells him that she wants that. "More than anything." But she knows she has to stay. To guard the boxes. To keep the world safe.
He sends Clara into the Tardis then asks her again, tests her again. "I need to know. Which one are you?"
"I'm Osgood."
"Human, or Zygon?"
"I'll answer that question one day. Do you know when that day will be?"
"The day nobody cares about the answer," came the completion from her voice. But not from the Osgood standing before him. The one who stepped around her, to join her. Once again, there are two Osgoods. And no way to tell if the one he had been speaking with, that he offered the Tardis to was the Osgood he's traveled with and trusted...or Bonnie.
"Zygella?" he asked, why he's been calling Bonnie on and off.
"Osgood," she said, firmly.
"But...which...one of you....?" he asked, sputtering a bit.
"Osgood," they said together.
"It doesn't matter which of us is which."
"It only matters that Osgood lives."
"And nothing's going to stop us."
"You're a credit to your species," He told her. Clearly looking to see which would reply and how.
"No," one said.
"We're a credit to both of them," the other finished.
And then one of the highlights in her life - "Oh, and you should know," the Doctor told her, "I'm a very big fan."
Osgood is still his biggest fan, and she still wants to travel and have adventures, but she knows she needs to stay, to watch over Unit and the peace treaty, and she knows that traveling with him, he will never stop asking her which she is.
So, in summery - Osgood is Osgood, is a Zygon who was part of the initial invasion, and is Bonnie who was Clara. Mentally, emotionally, in all ways that matter, she is all of those. Physically, she is two of the three and will never tell which two it is. She could well be two Zygons.... Or a human and a Zygon.
Character Personality:
Osgood is brave. She doesn't think she is, but she is. She has her inhaler on her at all times, to take a hit when she feels too scared, but it is as much psychosomatic as it is physically helpful. When she has no time to be scared, her asthma little bothers her. It really seems to be more of a tic than a medical need. It helps her to do what she knows she needs to do, and once she takes that puff, there is no further hesitation. She can run with the Doctor and not lose her pace.
She's clever, and a little blunt at times. She told the Doctor flat out, after Bonnie tried to kill him, that if she were trying to take over or end the world, killing the Doctor would be her first priority. She also has no hesitation in speaking her mind, even if it's a bit rude, to her hero. "Sonic specs? Isn't that a bit pointless? Like a... visual.... hearing aid?" Her first question after a crash that nearly killed them was to question his having a union jack parachute. She is a fan girl, yes, but that doesn't stop her from mouthing off.
Or teasing. At the end of Inversion the two Osgoods poke fun at the Doctor, teasing him about his expression and stuttering. The Osgoods have a sense of humor, and like to share that fun with each other. They welcome others into the joke, but don't always explain it. They enjoy talking in turns, using their mental link to complete each other's sentences and thoughts.
She also can be analytical when she needs to, sometimes because she needs to to help save the world, and sometimes to keep herself sane. "You're talking nonsense to distract me from being really scared. It's one of your known character traits." She says it calmly, without her inhaler, using the familiarity of files and knowledge as much as his attempts at humor, to keep her balance. Also, when he tells her not to look at his browsing history? She totally does, and doesn't hide it.
Every adventure with the Doctor, Osgood has grown and evolved, the links among the Zygons, the things she's learned with the Doctor, the new responsibilities she's taken on, she is constantly growing and changing. She was a bit of an awkward geeky timid girl when we first see her. When the two Osgoods were the only ones who knew which was which, both grew up and evolved, and she became more confidant. And then more when they were charged with the care of the Osgood box. She matured more when she lost her "sister" to Missy, and then had to do things on her own. She learned that her sister wasn't her crutch, that they had grown together, not dependent.
In the end, it wasn't the Doctor that realized that the only way that Bonnie could truly be forgiven and trusted was to be an Osgood, it was Osgood. She had the emotional maturity to make that choice, the confidence to make that offer. She might have gotten a bit more willing to tease after that, because all Bonnie was - which included a copy of Clara - was in her, and thus was in Osgood. Both of her.
Osgood is in some ways like a child or teen as a character, because she is undergoing that same evolution of character, she is growing up still, some ways, with a core personality, yes; but also habits and tics and quirks that are still being tried on, and possibly discarded as she finds who she is now. It is a journey she loves. It is the greatest ride.
Powers and Abilities: Communicating between the two Osgoods. In theory one or both of them can transform to Zygon form - red monster looking thing with suckers - and from there into other people. No reason she would ever do it. Her whole thing is BEING Osgood. And if it ever happened? it would be after it no longer mattered to anyone which she was. She didn't do it, didn't admit to which she was when the Doctor demanded an answer to save their lives. She won't do it easily if at all.
Samples
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Network:
[The camera fades in on two of the same women. Each was wearing a number of odd articles of clothing, one had an insanely long multi-coloured scarf. The other a bow tie. They were each playing with the fake sonic screwdrivers from Goth Donalds.]
"Hello," one said.
"I'm Osgood."
"As am I."
"Now that we're here."
"Awake, apparently," [She adjusted her glasses.]
"I thought I should introduce myself."
"Ourselves."
"And I wanted to also say..."
"If anyone ever tries to pull anything again like they pulled last night?" [The parties involved know who they are...]
"As the Doctor would say...."
"Run."
"just run."
[She cut the feed.]
Third Person:
Osgood looked at the glass, to what could have been a mirror. The face was identical, the hair, the glasses, the height, the body. But the clothes were of a type, rather than an exact match. But in all ways that matter, Osgood was looking at herself. Both of her smiled. She reached over and fixed her hair, as her hands adjusted her scarf.
"Alright then. Going West."
She nodded. "Going South."
Both of her turned to pick up note books and pens to take notes on whatever they found there. They wanted to map as much of this places as they could, to know as much as they could, to be prepared for the reality storms everyone keeps talking about. The only way to help the Doctor keep everyone safe was to understand the baseline. Then they could figure out what was changing and how to handle it.
Besides, this place had the most interesting people.
"Meet for lunch?"
"Goth Donalds?"
"Of course. What better place to see them?"
They smiled at each other, in perfect understanding. They both turned to the low table, to the photo that could be either of them, that was both of them. They each lit a single candle they bended into existence as soon as they learned how. They set the lit candles down. This adventure, all the adventures, they were for her. Her sister.
Osgood.
One last look at the photo, they both turned away doing a final check. Note book, pen, back up pen, fake Sonic. Inhaler. Glasses.
Set they turned and walked out, ready to explore their new home. A world without a Nightmare Scenario.
Name: Chicklet
Age: Adult
Personal Journal: Chicklet
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: plurk: ChickletLARP, aim: BardessOokami
Current Character(s): Gabriel Agreste/Papillon, Clef
Character Information
Character Name: Petronella Osgood (hereafter only known as Osgood, because who would ever admit to the name Petronella?)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Please note, this app both is and is not for two people, who are the same character.
Character History:
Osgood was once a single person. She was a woman who was more than a little bit of a fan girl of the Doctor, in his own world. She came to work for Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, at UNIT, in hopes of being a little bit like the Doctor. She builds devices that helps keep the peace and stop those who would bring war from being able to do so.
And then in the midst of crisis, her dream came true. She got to meet the Doctor. And as it did for so many people (Lorna Bucket, for one) that adventure changed her life. Forever.
They wound up dealing with a race called the Zygons; shape changers who wanted to settle on earth and would do so by force. Thanks to some timey-wimey fun, instead of one Doctor being there to settle the matter, there were three. Which put them one up on everyone else, like Osgood and Kate who each was themselves and had a Zygon clone.
Osgood had been terrified when a Zygon had taken her form, sure she was about to be killed. Instead, the Zygon stole her inhaler, to sell the part, and left.
Kate... or the Zygon of Kate... was ready to destroy London and kill everyone in it, rather than let the Zygons use it as an invasion point, or rather than let the humans stop the invasion. Again, rather hard to tell which was which, and that was kind of the point.
So, to save London, and both races, the Doctors made it so that no one in the room could remember if they where Human or Zygon, to create a perfectly fair peace treaty. Both Kates stopped the detonation at the same time, and with the psychic link created between a Zygon and the person they are copying, they all reached a perfect understanding. No one knew which of them was which.
Except one Osgood had an inhaler, and the other didn't. Out of sight of everyone else - not that it mattered, no one else knew which Osgood had the inhaler - she passed it to her double. Then the Osgoods both knew which they were.
And found... that knowing changed nothing.
Each Osgood wanted the same thing, to live in a world at peace where people are free to live and love and work without fear.
After the treaty was signed, and the immigration began, and memories returned, all the other Zygons chose new forms, new faces. But not Osgood. And the Doctor saw this, and secretly tasked her - both of her - with a secret mission. She was given the Osgood box. "and if you've been paying attention, you'll be able to guess why." It is the fail safe incase the peace is broken. Against the Nightmare Scenario. Three Doctors, you had to know the name would be needlessly over dramatic.
The Osgood box was hidden, and both Osgoods went on to work for UNIT, happily creating devices of peace. And things were as fine as they can be working for a secret government agency... until the day that the corpses started rising from the ground as Cybermen. Osgood, of course, had files on not just all of the Doctor's regenerations, but also all his foes; Daleks, Cybermen, The Master, Weeping Angels... She worked with UNIT to figure out how to undo this, ultimately failing, but trying. When the lab had to be moved to the plane, one of her stayed on the ground, one of her went on the plane, using the psychic link to keep teams in both locations aware of what was going on, never telling anyone which of them was which - though everyone was a little too busy with the current crisis to care just then.
And then......
Meeting the Doctors was a dream. Meeting the master, Missy, was a nightmare. Missy was trussed up and secure, with guards behind her. But UNIT wanted someone else there, someone they could trust to catch any hints or clues in her mad ramblings. Half from curiosity, and completely because she was trusted, Osgood wound up doing her lab work in the section of the plane where Missy was being held, doing her best to pretend to ignore her. Frankly, she thought it rather stupid to put Missy right beside the Tardis, but no one asked her opinion on that and space was limited.
Pretending to ignore Missy failed, when Missy taunted that she would give her the very information she was there to get. So she played along, thinking she had the upper hand, because she could send all the information to her sister who could transmit it to Kate ASAP. But ultimately, Missy was, as she claimed to be - bananas. Her big secret was a death threat, one she delivered on. One Osgood dead. As far as Missy knew, she was just another lab drone there for her personal twisted amusement. Didn't even leave a body that could become a cyberman. Just a pile of ash and a pair of glasses.
On Earth, the other Osgood was not prepared for the shock of pain that came with the death of her "sister". She got a cemetery plot for her, after it was all over, sort of a subtle thumbing her nose at Missy in the end. The grave stone was black and expensive, the only words upon it were "My Sister", the only one to mourn was Osgood. And still she never said which she was.
I'm Osgood.
And then a Zygon went rouge. The Nightmare Scenario. She messaged the Doctor and found herself at the heart of a storm, both sides wanting to know which she was, sure that would tell them her ultimate loyalty. But even to the Doctor, who she idolized for so long, her only answer ever was "I'm Osgood."
The leader of the Zygon rebellion called herself Bonnie, and took the form of the Doctor's current companion - Clara Oswald. Yes, the names are irritatingly similar. Using that form, she found the Osgood box.
Remember how the Osgoods said if you were clever you could figure out why it was called the Osgood box?
There were two boxes, one blue, one red. She no longer cared if she won or not, she was backed into a corner, and she was going to go down fighting. Each box had two buttons, one marked truth, one marked consequences. In the red box, one button, they were told, would detonate the nuke under the black archive. One would release a bio weapon that would kill every Zygon on earth.
In the blue box, one button would unmask every Zygon in the world, showing their true red and puckery form. The other would take their ability to change forms, rendering them pure human forever.
Truth. Or Consequences.
The Doctor starts in on Bonnie, using his best weapon, his speech. He asks her what she wants, forces her to think about what would happen if she won, where would she fit into the new world she wanted to make? How would the new world look any different than this world? Why did she expect anything to be fair? Why would she even want it to be? He begged her to break the cycle, to not just be mean and hurtful because people hurt her and were mean to her. (for the canon blind, yes, this speech witnessed by Osgood, and delivered to Bonnie is ultimately important to who Osgood is/will be at Wake.)
He made Bonnie question. But her back was to the wall. Every answer she felt like she was almost attacking herself, driving herself back. There were no good answers to his questions, and she felt like she had no choices....
"This is not a game, Kate! This is war! This is scale model of every war ever fought, right there in front of you!" was what the Doctor said when both Bonnie and Kate were ready to take the 50/50 chance of saving their people, when they both still thought the Doctor would break and tell them which button to press.
Truth or consequences.
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who is going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream. And burn."
At this point, the director had the camera focus on the pain in Clara's face at that thought. As if to remind the audience of two important things:
1) Clara is a school teacher who has cared for children as long as she can recall.
2) Bonnie is still psychically linked to Clara, hearing all she hears, feeling all she feels.
"How many hearts will be broken? How many lives shattered? How much blood will spill until everybody does what they always going to have to do from the very beginning? SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
And then he goes to Bonnie, and we can see the conflict on her face, the doubt, even as she says she won't change her mind. She even finally says why. "You think they'll let me go? After all I've done?" Bonnie os terrified, and that makes her seem stronger because she thinks she has no choices left. (And yes, I promise this is vitally important to Osgood, how Bonnie thinks and feels.)
She wanted so desperately to believe it when the Doctor said that he forgave her, but like all people who think themselves unredeemable, she was sure it was because he didn't understand, didn't know how horrible she truly was.
When the Doctor's words got Kate to close her box, to step back from the line she was drawing in the sand, Bonnie rifled though Clara's mind, trying to figure out if the Doctor meant it, if he was telling the truth... about the pain, and about forgiveness. She knew the Doctor is loved and respected, could he really have done so much worse, and was he truly forgiven?
And in Clara's mind, she found all she needed to know about the Doctor. She understood, finally, what the Osgood box really was. This creation of his and Osgood's, this ultimate weapon created by two people so dedicated to peace.
"It's empty, isn't it? Both boxes. There's nothing in them. Just buttons."
"Of course," the Doctor replied. "And you know how you know that? Because you've started to think... like me."... "No one should have to think like that," he said to Bonnie. "And no one will. Not on our watch." It was inclusive, an offer, a chance for her to help protect the peace, rather than to push for war.
When Kate pointed out that now that they knew the boxes were empty, that they couldn't forget that, the Doctor informed her that she's said that... the last 15 times. Telling Osgood, Bonnie, and Clara pretty clearly why Kate Lethbridge-Stewart was not trusted the way Clara was, the way Osgood was... and now... the way Bonnie would be. He then triggered the room's memory wipe, wiping everyone'e memory of the showdown, except himself, Clara, Osgood, and... Bonnie.
Osgood helped make everyone who had passed pout comfortable in a way that made it clear that she'd been on this ride with the Doctor before. This wasn't her first Nightmare Scenario.
"You didn't wipe my memory."
"When they wake up, they won't remember what you've done," he told Bonnie.
"You're going to protect me." She wanted to believe it, but... couldn't. Not yet.
It was Osgood who told her, "You're one of us now," with more foreshadowing than anyone quite realized.
Bonnie still said she couldn't understand why they would forgive her. The Doctor said that he had been where she had been. That he too had been faced with a box, so sure he was right, backed into a corner... and that Clara had gotten into his head, like she was in Bonnie's through their link. She stopped him. She helped him find a better way.
And Bonnie called off the invasion. We then see the episode move to the Tardis, to the Doctor and who we presume to be Clara and Osgood, as he offers Osgood the thing that she always wanted. He invites her to join them on the Tardis.
She tells him that she wants that. "More than anything." But she knows she has to stay. To guard the boxes. To keep the world safe.
He sends Clara into the Tardis then asks her again, tests her again. "I need to know. Which one are you?"
"I'm Osgood."
"Human, or Zygon?"
"I'll answer that question one day. Do you know when that day will be?"
"The day nobody cares about the answer," came the completion from her voice. But not from the Osgood standing before him. The one who stepped around her, to join her. Once again, there are two Osgoods. And no way to tell if the one he had been speaking with, that he offered the Tardis to was the Osgood he's traveled with and trusted...or Bonnie.
"Zygella?" he asked, why he's been calling Bonnie on and off.
"Osgood," she said, firmly.
"But...which...one of you....?" he asked, sputtering a bit.
"Osgood," they said together.
"It doesn't matter which of us is which."
"It only matters that Osgood lives."
"And nothing's going to stop us."
"You're a credit to your species," He told her. Clearly looking to see which would reply and how.
"No," one said.
"We're a credit to both of them," the other finished.
And then one of the highlights in her life - "Oh, and you should know," the Doctor told her, "I'm a very big fan."
Osgood is still his biggest fan, and she still wants to travel and have adventures, but she knows she needs to stay, to watch over Unit and the peace treaty, and she knows that traveling with him, he will never stop asking her which she is.
So, in summery - Osgood is Osgood, is a Zygon who was part of the initial invasion, and is Bonnie who was Clara. Mentally, emotionally, in all ways that matter, she is all of those. Physically, she is two of the three and will never tell which two it is. She could well be two Zygons.... Or a human and a Zygon.
Character Personality:
Osgood is brave. She doesn't think she is, but she is. She has her inhaler on her at all times, to take a hit when she feels too scared, but it is as much psychosomatic as it is physically helpful. When she has no time to be scared, her asthma little bothers her. It really seems to be more of a tic than a medical need. It helps her to do what she knows she needs to do, and once she takes that puff, there is no further hesitation. She can run with the Doctor and not lose her pace.
She's clever, and a little blunt at times. She told the Doctor flat out, after Bonnie tried to kill him, that if she were trying to take over or end the world, killing the Doctor would be her first priority. She also has no hesitation in speaking her mind, even if it's a bit rude, to her hero. "Sonic specs? Isn't that a bit pointless? Like a... visual.... hearing aid?" Her first question after a crash that nearly killed them was to question his having a union jack parachute. She is a fan girl, yes, but that doesn't stop her from mouthing off.
Or teasing. At the end of Inversion the two Osgoods poke fun at the Doctor, teasing him about his expression and stuttering. The Osgoods have a sense of humor, and like to share that fun with each other. They welcome others into the joke, but don't always explain it. They enjoy talking in turns, using their mental link to complete each other's sentences and thoughts.
She also can be analytical when she needs to, sometimes because she needs to to help save the world, and sometimes to keep herself sane. "You're talking nonsense to distract me from being really scared. It's one of your known character traits." She says it calmly, without her inhaler, using the familiarity of files and knowledge as much as his attempts at humor, to keep her balance. Also, when he tells her not to look at his browsing history? She totally does, and doesn't hide it.
Every adventure with the Doctor, Osgood has grown and evolved, the links among the Zygons, the things she's learned with the Doctor, the new responsibilities she's taken on, she is constantly growing and changing. She was a bit of an awkward geeky timid girl when we first see her. When the two Osgoods were the only ones who knew which was which, both grew up and evolved, and she became more confidant. And then more when they were charged with the care of the Osgood box. She matured more when she lost her "sister" to Missy, and then had to do things on her own. She learned that her sister wasn't her crutch, that they had grown together, not dependent.
In the end, it wasn't the Doctor that realized that the only way that Bonnie could truly be forgiven and trusted was to be an Osgood, it was Osgood. She had the emotional maturity to make that choice, the confidence to make that offer. She might have gotten a bit more willing to tease after that, because all Bonnie was - which included a copy of Clara - was in her, and thus was in Osgood. Both of her.
Osgood is in some ways like a child or teen as a character, because she is undergoing that same evolution of character, she is growing up still, some ways, with a core personality, yes; but also habits and tics and quirks that are still being tried on, and possibly discarded as she finds who she is now. It is a journey she loves. It is the greatest ride.
Powers and Abilities: Communicating between the two Osgoods. In theory one or both of them can transform to Zygon form - red monster looking thing with suckers - and from there into other people. No reason she would ever do it. Her whole thing is BEING Osgood. And if it ever happened? it would be after it no longer mattered to anyone which she was. She didn't do it, didn't admit to which she was when the Doctor demanded an answer to save their lives. She won't do it easily if at all.
Samples
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Network:
[The camera fades in on two of the same women. Each was wearing a number of odd articles of clothing, one had an insanely long multi-coloured scarf. The other a bow tie. They were each playing with the fake sonic screwdrivers from Goth Donalds.]
"Hello," one said.
"I'm Osgood."
"As am I."
"Now that we're here."
"Awake, apparently," [She adjusted her glasses.]
"I thought I should introduce myself."
"Ourselves."
"And I wanted to also say..."
"If anyone ever tries to pull anything again like they pulled last night?" [The parties involved know who they are...]
"As the Doctor would say...."
"Run."
"just run."
[She cut the feed.]
Third Person:
Osgood looked at the glass, to what could have been a mirror. The face was identical, the hair, the glasses, the height, the body. But the clothes were of a type, rather than an exact match. But in all ways that matter, Osgood was looking at herself. Both of her smiled. She reached over and fixed her hair, as her hands adjusted her scarf.
"Alright then. Going West."
She nodded. "Going South."
Both of her turned to pick up note books and pens to take notes on whatever they found there. They wanted to map as much of this places as they could, to know as much as they could, to be prepared for the reality storms everyone keeps talking about. The only way to help the Doctor keep everyone safe was to understand the baseline. Then they could figure out what was changing and how to handle it.
Besides, this place had the most interesting people.
"Meet for lunch?"
"Goth Donalds?"
"Of course. What better place to see them?"
They smiled at each other, in perfect understanding. They both turned to the low table, to the photo that could be either of them, that was both of them. They each lit a single candle they bended into existence as soon as they learned how. They set the lit candles down. This adventure, all the adventures, they were for her. Her sister.
Osgood.
One last look at the photo, they both turned away doing a final check. Note book, pen, back up pen, fake Sonic. Inhaler. Glasses.
Set they turned and walked out, ready to explore their new home. A world without a Nightmare Scenario.
