Thank you! I tried to stay within the canon of what we actually saw, so this is as possible a version of what happened to Adelaide as the simpler assumptions.
Yeah, the Reaper in this story exists to maintain the integrity of Time. It's brutal, but ultimately it acts for the greater good. In Father's Day they seemed to have a villainous aura and a tendency toward indiscriminate slaughter. My timey-whimey wibbley-wobbly explanation is that the wound in Time Rose created was large and messy because of the two sets of Rose and Doctor present and the fact that she was crossing her own timeline. That damaged Time badly enough to let in a lot of Reapers and necessitated the destruction of the entire earth to fix the wound until Pete set the timeline to rights. The Doctor's damage to Time in WoM was more precise and didn't cross his any personal timelines, so only one Reaper got through and it went straight to the source.
Excuse the rambling answer. It was a topic I pondered while writing this.
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Date: 2009-12-04 07:30 am (UTC)Yeah, the Reaper in this story exists to maintain the integrity of Time. It's brutal, but ultimately it acts for the greater good. In Father's Day they seemed to have a villainous aura and a tendency toward indiscriminate slaughter. My timey-whimey wibbley-wobbly explanation is that the wound in Time Rose created was large and messy because of the two sets of Rose and Doctor present and the fact that she was crossing her own timeline. That damaged Time badly enough to let in a lot of Reapers and necessitated the destruction of the entire earth to fix the wound until Pete set the timeline to rights. The Doctor's damage to Time in WoM was more precise and didn't cross his any personal timelines, so only one Reaper got through and it went straight to the source.
Excuse the rambling answer. It was a topic I pondered while writing this.