#dialogue-only fic my beloved i love this format. its so fun and ambiguous.
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Drabble 52/366 - Doctor Who
“I thought she- she would regenerate.”
“She might have, if you’d stopped.”
“I didn’t know- I thought- Don’t touch me!”
“I see what the Doctor enjoys about this now. Fun new learning experiences around every corner.”
“I didn’t- I didn’t want to.”
“No one made you.”
“She had a-”
“And it was pointed at me.”
“…It was pointed at both of- of us.”
“Optimistic and delusional. So cute. You really are one of his.”
“He would never have- Never.”
“You believe that—”
“—I said don’t—”
“—when you’re standing on the planet he destroyed?”
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“Get your hand off of my face.”
#bechdel test but its just ‘can even and the master have a conversation thats not dancing around their opposing ideas of who the doctor is#and the images theyve created of him in their own minds’ and they just fail every time because they’re terrible#dialogue-only fic my beloved i love this format. its so fun and ambiguous.#dw oc#drabble-a-day#drabble-a-day 2024#doctor who#i said ambiguous is fun but like for full effect i think you do have to read the last few lines thinking of like.#the master gripping even’s chin and forcing them to look at gallifrey. which is really a pointless gesture because they can’t Not look at a#planet they are literally on. its surrounding them. but its a bitchy powerplay to emphasize what he’s saying.#even. of course. does not like being made to look at things that might change their idea of who the doctor is. even does not like change.#especially not in people. people - to even - should remain the same so that they feel solid and safe.#unfortunately. this is the one thing people can’t actually do. especially when you want them to stay as a someone they never actually were.#(<- things both even and the doctor have to learn about each other for very different reasons eventually lmao)#(we’ll get there. maybe. one day.)
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