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Imagined crossover · Magic and fantasy

What if Claire Fraser met Diana Bishop?

The time-walkers. Two brilliant, determined women who have crossed time for love, and paid for it.

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Artwork: Claire Fraser meets Diana Bishop

The pair

Claire FraserNurse who travels through the stonesBy Diana Gabaldon · Outlander · first in Outlander
Diana BishopWitch and historianBy Deborah Harkness · All Souls · first in A Discovery of Witches
Chemistry9/10
Friction3/10
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Where and when

Oxford and the Scottish Highlands
The 1960s to today, and the centuries between

The story

How they might meet
A seventeenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library mentions standing stones in the Highlands, and Diana writes to the Scottish doctor who wrote the footnote.
Why they would work
Two brilliant, determined women who have crossed time for love, and paid for it.
What each brings
Claire is a surgeon and a healer with battlefield experience. Diana is a historian and a witch with a scholar’s patience.
Where they would clash
Claire trusts science and her own hands; Diana’s magic would fascinate and worry her in equal measure.

Strengths compared

Claire Fraser Diana Bishop

DeductionMuscleRule-bendingWitHeartResourcesClaire Fraser: Deduction 8 out of 10Claire Fraser: Muscle 4 out of 10Claire Fraser: Rule-bending 8 out of 10Claire Fraser: Wit 7 out of 10Claire Fraser: Heart 9 out of 10Claire Fraser: Resources 5 out of 10Diana Bishop: Deduction 8 out of 10Diana Bishop: Muscle 6 out of 10Diana Bishop: Rule-bending 6 out of 10Diana Bishop: Wit 6 out of 10Diana Bishop: Heart 8 out of 10Diana Bishop: Resources 8 out of 10

Our own ratings out of 10, for fun.

On the page together

In print together 2011–2021Claire Fraser · 1991–2021Diana Bishop · 2011–2024200020102020

The years in which each character's books were published.

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Start with each character's first appearance.

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