I have to say, if you ever do anything with the original concept, I'd love to see it. I can only imagine it as a chimera fic that's half serious, half purest crack, but I bet it would be shiny.
After all, if you accept the fanon (and partially canon, at least in the case of Ten's accent) explanation that the companion present at the Doctor's death partially influences his next regeneration, my theory isn't all that much crackier. NO, REALLY.
There's… something in that.
I wanted to show the first moment when they realized that for themselves.
Compact as it obviously is, I think this is actually one of the best treatments of that moment I've yet seen. ♥
Oh, God, Peri. One of my least favorite companions, but it was either her or Mel, and I think I like Mel even less.
As excruciating as I know you find her, I thought this drabble did an excellent job of saying something about her (and her influence on Six) without sounding forced or without betraying animosity toward the character (well, more than even her fans will grant that she deserves). I feel quite differently about the Six/Peri dynamic than you do, but this still captures it fabulously for me.
As deceptions go for him, it's tame.
Randomly, this is my absolute favorite of all these.
Eventually I realized this was just going way too far; even I didn't fully believe the premise. There's still a hint of it in the story, but it feels more realistically couched in the Doctor's sense of personal responsibility and love for/loyalty to President Romana.
It's very interesting to know where this chapter originally came from, though. The idea of the Doctor accepting the M.A.D. mission not because of a submissive relationship to Romana, but rather for the simpler reasons and with that as the character background, coloring it, is very compelling. It didn't come through here for me, simply because there wasn't room in the very compact format to cover the dom/sub tenor you were thinking of, but damn would I like to see a time war fic set up that way.
The idea that a dying Ten might show up at Martha's doorstep to regenerate, knowing that she'd be one of the few humans capable of caring for him, was compelling to me, and (sadly) in-character.
This was a fabulous drabble, though now I don't know whether to find it skeevy or not—I didn't when I first read it; it was just plain lovely to me. The Doctor's certainly capable of taking advantage of Martha's good nature, but it seemed an acceptable circumstance in which to do it? Anyway, brilliant chapter.
What's important about this drabble, though, is not so much Jack's presence – though it's important, and allowed me to make an awful pun based on the stupid, stupid revelation about him in LOTTL – but rather that the Doctor's final thought is of the TARDIS, the one love who's stood by him nearly his entire life.
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on 2009-03-11 02:15 am (UTC)After all, if you accept the fanon (and partially canon, at least in the case of Ten's accent) explanation that the companion present at the Doctor's death partially influences his next regeneration, my theory isn't all that much crackier. NO, REALLY.
There's… something in that.
I wanted to show the first moment when they realized that for themselves.
Compact as it obviously is, I think this is actually one of the best treatments of that moment I've yet seen. ♥
Oh, God, Peri. One of my least favorite companions, but it was either her or Mel, and I think I like Mel even less.
As excruciating as I know you find her, I thought this drabble did an excellent job of saying something about her (and her influence on Six) without sounding forced or without betraying animosity toward the character (well, more than even her fans will grant that she deserves). I feel quite differently about the Six/Peri dynamic than you do, but this still captures it fabulously for me.
As deceptions go for him, it's tame.
Randomly, this is my absolute favorite of all these.
Eventually I realized this was just going way too far; even I didn't fully believe the premise. There's still a hint of it in the story, but it feels more realistically couched in the Doctor's sense of personal responsibility and love for/loyalty to President Romana.
It's very interesting to know where this chapter originally came from, though. The idea of the Doctor accepting the M.A.D. mission not because of a submissive relationship to Romana, but rather for the simpler reasons and with that as the character background, coloring it, is very compelling. It didn't come through here for me, simply because there wasn't room in the very compact format to cover the dom/sub tenor you were thinking of, but damn would I like to see a time war fic set up that way.
The idea that a dying Ten might show up at Martha's doorstep to regenerate, knowing that she'd be one of the few humans capable of caring for him, was compelling to me, and (sadly) in-character.
This was a fabulous drabble, though now I don't know whether to find it skeevy or not—I didn't when I first read it; it was just plain lovely to me. The Doctor's certainly capable of taking advantage of Martha's good nature, but it seemed an acceptable circumstance in which to do it? Anyway, brilliant chapter.
What's important about this drabble, though, is not so much Jack's presence – though it's important, and allowed me to make an awful pun based on the stupid, stupid revelation about him in LOTTL – but rather that the Doctor's final thought is of the TARDIS, the one love who's stood by him nearly his entire life.