#did i accidentally predict SvS? APPARENTLY

[rosesisupposes]

Doctor Who AU

I can’t find the original post, but it was by @alltimevirgilant back when they were darknightvirgil so it’s BEEN A BIT

But I still love this idea so here you go

Andy wrote:

" So Thomas is the Doctor. And for a while there, he just decided to stay inside the TARDIS. For idk how long, but weeks, at least. For every time he’s feeling a particular emotion while he’s inside the TARDIS and it’s very strong (so we’ll have anxiety for V, confident for R, proud for L, happ for P and selfish for D) the ship sort of… records it? Records the moment, the memory and the feeling. So Thomas finally leaves the TARDIS for smth, maybe find a new companion (aka Joan or Talyn or Valerie or Terrence or any of his friends really) and when he comes back, he finds five different versions of himself there. Which are all the sides. So he has to deal with that, plus his companion is just like… “there are six of you?? this should be good…” "

And in December ‘18, I wrote the following:

Thomas as a Time Lord has very strong emotions, obviously. I like the idea that he’s like Nine/Eccleston a bit- he’s just survived something huge and traumatic and is trying to recapture his idea of what it means to be The Defender again. He accepts Ro, Lo, and Pat as himself the fastest, because he sees in them traits he wants to associate with himself.

As a Time Lord, Thomas would have a title besides his name. I chose The Defender - if there's one thing he is really good at, it's protecting his friends and family, and even us, the famders, that he doesn't know personally

The others sides, D & V, well... they take longer. He knows that he has been anxious and scared, but doesn’t want to remember those times,.

It’s actually his companion Joan who connects with Virge first. They bond, and Joan is able to be a calming, straightforward friend to this weird anxious clone of the Defender. It’s through Joan's (and then Talyn’s) influence that Thomas stops pushing Virge away, and accepts this Anxiety Defender as just as much himself as Morality, Logic, and Creativity.

Dee is a different story. It’s not just that Thomas doesn’t want to associate himself with selfish feelings- he outright denies that he’d been at all selfish in this recent conflict. I like the idea that perhaps the Defender is "the last Time Lord" - both he and The Doctor survived the Time War, but neither is aware of the other.

But Dee is bitter at being denied and pulls terribly disruptive pranks around the TARDIS trying to force them all to pay attention to him. Talyn is the first to accept him because they think the pranks are honestly kinda funny. They bring Lo and then Ro around, through pointing out how clever and creative Dee must be to pull these bouts of mischief off. L & R realize Dee isn’t an alien or an imitation- he’s just as much a copy of The Defender as they are. He has the same brain, the same spirit. He's just... selfish, and conceals information from the rest of the TARDIS' passengers.

Pat/Morality isn't a fan of this secretive kiddo who keeps being mean to his other kiddos. Plus, being selfish and secretive is wrong

Thomas/The Defender denies him the most. Even as Lo and Ro try to bring him around, he steadfastly denies that he could have possibly had such a strong feeling of selfishness to manifest another being.

Then, the TARDIS and its passengers lands in the middle of a war-torn, hostile planet. There are multiple warring factions, and none of them are entirely in the right. The Defender, his Sides, and his companions all try to make in-roads with the groups, separately and together, by appealing to their better natures.

Virgil points out how much safer it would be if they were to all lay down arms - but he's ignored, because “there's no way those other bastards would go along with it”

Logan demonstrates how illogical the very source of the conflict is - but his words go unheeded, because really “it's just THEM that's the problem, we'd stop fighting if only it wasn't for THEM”

Roman appeals to their sense of honor and how much more they could do if they worked as one - but that's just a daydream, because “THEY would steal everything we own! THEY have no honor!”

Patton tries his hardest to tell them all that fighting is just wrong, and they have so much in common - but the factions roll their eyes in dismissal at such naivety

Joan and Talyn tell stories of disagreements they'd had with friends growing up, even disagreements between each other when they've diverged artistically - but “you humans could never understand OUR fight!”

The Defender gets quieter and quieter as he watches all these arguments get shut down. He gets flashbacks to the Time War - is this inevitable? Has he been wrong to trust in the better nature of all beings?

He finally lashes out in anger, yelling at all the factions at once, telling them they're a disgrace. Almost as one, all the factions start to turn on these intruders

Surrounded by hundreds of battle-ready aliens, separated from the TARDIS, Thomas and his companions are terrified. They've burned through all the goodwill and patience, and nothing they've tried has worked

Just as Thomas  is attempting to hide all six companions and sides behind him, the TARDIS lands in front of them and Deceit leaps out

He lectures the factions on how really, “this was all an elaborate scheme.”

“Ssssurely you could tell - this was just a plot to get you all on the same side!

Look at you - you have a common enemy. You use the same weapons, have the same righteous anger. This is what my friends have been telling you all along - you have so much more in common than you care to realize.”

The aliens are taken in enough for Deceit to get all his companions to safety in the TARDIS.

As they take off, Thomas takes Deceit aside. "What were you talking about? None of that was on purpose. We just... failed"

Deceit shrugs. "Selfishness isn't always malicious. Sometimes selfishness looks like self-preservation. Sometimes it looks like self-defense."

and then there's a big-ol group hug

Pat realizes that Deceit's quick thinking kept all his kiddos safe. Thomas realizes his doesn't have to be ashamed. He accepts Dee as part of him, and an important part to boot.

(and they all Dooooo-Weee-Ooooo'd happily ever after)