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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The pair
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
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On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- OutlanderDiana Gabaldon · 1991 · Claire Fraser's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- A Discovery of WitchesDeborah Harkness · 2011 · Diana Bishop's first appearanceBuy on Amazon