#eleventh doctor ganger

[doctorobjectum]

to be born is to die.

[doctorfriend79]

The Rebel Flesh

[normiedoctorwho]

The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People were like one step away from being more than just a plot twist and I’m forever bitter.

The bad guys are clones who have all the memories of the people they’re copies of and want to be those people and seen as people.

Who on 11’s tardis team went through something a little tangential to that?

RORY!

and I know his centurion days are kinda hand waved away but come on. He’s got the memories of his robot copy. OF COURSE he’d be the most sympathetic to the gangers.

[transgenderdoctorwhomst-old]

i think it is downright criminal that there's so many fics with tentoo but so few for ganger!eleven. is he not good enough for you? you dont like my boy?

anyway i yoinked him and i put him in my fun little sandbox with my other doctor clones

I ficukinf forgot to answer this ask I'm so sorry

The fandom is sleeping on him!!! Do you all hate him because 11 loves himself-ish unline 10 :( I love watching 11 and 11 interact and just completely totally vibe with each other, that they are Immediately always on the same page. Also that through there being two of them, and them lying about which one is the ganger, aspects of the doctors personality could be expressed more freely without as much of the rose tinted glasses.

If you know any good fics with him I would love to see them

[fairytales-and-folklore]

The Doctor's Ganger

Doctor Who » Eleven x Amy

Title: The Doctor's Ganger

Sequel: The Secrets They've Kept (AO3 | Tumblr)

Author: fairytalesandfolklore

Fandom: Doctor Who (Masterlist)

Relationship: The Eleventh Doctor x Amelia Pond

AO3 Rating: Explicit 18+ (a complete collection of author's notes, inspiration credits, content warnings and tags can be found on AO3)

Summary: Amelia Pond dallies with the Doctor's Ganger. It's nothing at all like she'd imagined it would be.

The Doctor presses her against the cold, jagged stone of the wall, curling his fingers around her shoulders and grinning madly. Except it isn’t the Doctor, not really. Amy can tell the seemingly minuscule differences between their touch. The Doctor she’s known for the majority of her life is kind, gentle, protective. As Amy fights with his tightening grasp, the Ganger’s skin fluctuates beneath her touch, refusing to commit to a permanent state of being.

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The Doctor presses her against the cold, jagged stone of the wall, curling his fingers around her shoulders and grinning madly. Except it isn't the Doctor, not really. Amy can tell the seemingly minuscule differences between their touch. The Doctor she's known for the majority of her life is kind, gentle, protective. As Amy fights with his tightening grasp, the Ganger's skin fluctuates beneath her touch, refusing to commit to a permanent state of being. 

It's liquid skin, and it isn't the least bit comforting. The Ganger's fingers contort, pushing her further into the wall and scraping her skin against the jagged rock. Amy glares resolutely into his sunken, bloodshot eyes, shaking terribly. The Ganger tilts his head to each side, watching her with wonder and confusion as she struggles against him.

"Why do you make me feel this way, Amy? It's not fair," he breathes. "All this time, I've wanted you…he's wanted you…no, I've wanted you. And yet there's always something in our way. You tempt me, Amelia. You've even let me touch you…before…" 

The Ganger trails off, reliving another man's memories of the feel of Amy's skin beneath his fingertips, the soft brush of her lips against his.

"Amelia," he moans, burying his face into her shoulder and delighting in the scent of her ginger curls. Liquid skin is cold to the touch, and Amy shivers, turning her face from his as he moves closer, fully intending to kiss her without permission. The Doctor frowns and his eyebrows pull together in frustration and sadness at Amy's rejection. He smashes her shoulders into the wall a bit harder than necessary, forcing her to cry out.

"Doctor," she breathes, nearly suffocating under his grip. "You're hurting me!"

"Amy," he says, loosening his grip instantly. "It's me. You can trust me."

"But it's not," she manages to choke out. "It's not you. You're just a copy."

"I'm not!" he shouts, anger flaring in his chest as he struggles to convince her. "I'm me. I'm the Doctor. Your Doctor. I fell from the sky into your backyard when you were a little girl. You fed me fish custard. I left for five minutes and you waited for me for fourteen years. We traveled the stars…Starship U.K., the Silurian's City, Vincent Van Gogh, the Angels…I remember it all." The Doctor revels in his glorious, stolen memories, clutching Amy in his arms and smiling brilliantly, as another flash of memories swims before his mind.

"And that night you kissed me," he whispers. "So many times I've thought about that kiss. And now I can finally say this without feeling foolish. We don't have to be secretive anymore, Amelia. It's just us now."

The Ganger holds Amy at arm's length, his desperate, monstrous eyes piercing hers, and now he's the one waiting for her. Waiting for Amelia Pond to kiss him again, to make his hearts explode in anticipation. Waiting for her to realize how much she loves him, too. Instead, Amy stares him down like he's an infection, shaking her head slowly, and his sliver of happiness is swallowed by three little words that rip the beat from his hearts.

"What about Rory?" 

The Doctor's smile evaporates, but this time, he's able to control his temper.

"What about Rory?" he retorts, forcing a tone of lighthearted disregard. 

"He was never really important, was he?" The Doctor asks with a playful chuckle. "Besides which, he's run off with that lovely Jennifer girl. Pity for you, but he'll be much happier now. And with Rory gone, that leaves it open for us. A brand new start. Amy, please," he begs, his lips heavy against her throat. 

The Doctor's Ganger is just as clever as the Doctor himself. The Doctor has lived nearly a millennium, but all of the same guilt-ridden, haunting memories don't register with this half-formed version. He remembers only what this body has experienced, what this skin has touched. He cares little for the pain that lies beneath his ability of powerful mental manipulation, and all of the damage it has caused in the past. His succession lies in his ability to harness such a skill. It was a little white lie. He knows he's touched a nerve, planted a seed of doubt in Amelia's mind. At this, he smiles devilishly. He'll play the cards right, say all the right words to comfort her, and she'll be his. His elation is barely controllable.

Amy feels the Ganger's skin shift against hers, materializing, becoming solid. Slowly, he raises his eyes to meet hers, pleading with her, while underneath his seemingly genuine skin, he's confident that his ruse will work. Amy reaches out to touch his fully-formed face, brushing her fingertips along his cheekbones, the bridge of his nose, his lips, and for a moment, she forgets that it's the Ganger.

"You feel so real," she whispers. His dark brown eyes flutter closed, delighting in her touch, leaning into the caress, as Amy slides her fingers into his tawny mess of hair. It frightens her how easy it is to touch this version of the Doctor, how much he feels like hers. But he isn't, and she knows that she shouldn't, but she can't control herself, and she's touching him, pulling him closer and kissing him desperately. The weight of Rory's betrayal, of what she thought was such an impossibility, sends her mad with jealousy. Amy pulls the cloned Doctor into her arms, reveling in the taste of his lips against hers as they struggle to tame a triumphant smile.

The Ganger crushes Amy to his chest in return, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist and sliding his fingers through the curls of her hair, softly moaning her name. Amy struggles at first, unrestrained tears sliding down her face, but she brushes them away and curls deeper into the Ganger. He gives her a splendidly false, concerned frown and whispers, "Amy, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, but I'm here for you. Trust me."

Amy chokes back a sob and nods fervently, pulling him closer. The Ganger isn't her Doctor, but she can pretend, for this one, impossible, stolen moment, that he is. She presses little kisses along his neck, the way she always wished she could, before she fell in love with Rory. The Ganger doesn't waste time, eagerly unbuttoning his shirt and tossing it carelessly to the floor. He even chuckles nervously as he fumbles with the clasp of her bra, lost in his act of the awkward, genuinely concerned gentleman, even though he knows he's already won.

Amy shrugs out of her trousers, sliding her fingertips into the space between his hips and the waistband of his trousers. She lets them fall, pulling him closer, pulling him into her. He's cold, terribly cold, and uncomfortable. Amy does her best to ignore the sickening feeling in the pit of her stomach that all of this is so very, very wrong. The Ganger lifts her up and Amy wraps her legs around him, inviting him in, burying her face into his chest and wishing terribly that this was Rory in her arms, instead of an imitation of her imaginary best friend. 

He moves against her roughly, awkwardly, moaning her name in a series of strangled, triumphant cries. His thrusts are careless, miscalculated, animalistic. He's nothing like the Doctor ought to be, like Amy had imagined he might be, all of her life. Rough, curious hands graze her thighs and slide incautiously through her hair. Impatient lips find her neck and shoulders, smothering them in passionate kisses. The walls of the room blur around her as she loses focus, and the jagged stone digs into the skin of her back as the Ganger moves against her. There's an inherent wrongness to it all. He's unstable, inhuman. An anomaly. An abomination.

It's over before she can even process what she's just done. The Ganger looks up at her slowly, grinning madly, his skin shifting in the light, twisting into an impossible, monstrous shape. Amy stifles a scream, clasping her hands to her mouth as her eyes scan his terrible, distorted face. The Ganger frowns and grips her shoulders tightly as a clamor of footsteps echoes in a distant corridor. 

The Ganger stares daggers at Amy as he collects his clothes and hastily dresses, rushing down the opposite corridor in the blind hope of an escape from the approaching army, and leaves her stranded and alone against the cold, serrated stone wall, clutching her clothes to her chest and silently crying. He hadn't kissed her forehead, like the Doctor would have done, or hugged her close and called her magnificent. He had simply left her behind, like she always knew he would.

[darklinaforever]

When I see people saying that Tentoo is the same as Doctor Ganger...

The Ganger is a fucking copy/clone of the Doctor made by humans from an artificial organic substance ! Tentoo comes directly from the Doctor's regenerative energy ! He is simply the Doctor !

[clanoffelidae]

One of the things I find so funny about the Gangers story (The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People) is how all the other Gangers were having existential crises and struggling to find a place for them in the world, traumatized and lashing out, and then the Flesh gets exposed to The Doctor and is like ‘babygirl I have just borne silent and ageless witness to traumas incomprehensible and almost then made beautiful by their alien geometry’

The Flesh:

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Ganger Doctor: girl stfu

and he’s so real for that tbh

[soulless-angel25]

Multiamory March 2024, Day 11 Prompt- Double @polyamships

Rose leans back as she looks between the two versions of her husband. A gentle smile on her face, the circumstances of her husband duplicating were not the best, but it was nice. (Part of her couldn't help but think back to another time there had been two versions of her husband, and being left on a beach.)

Shaking her head she focuses back in on them as they go back and forth, perfectly in sink. Out of curiosity she peers at the bond, and carefully pokes at it- the response is quick, with her husband's voice overlapping in her head as both versions speak.

Through the bond she sends them both a feeling of warmth, love. The both of them don't stop their rambling to the confused people around them, no, in fact they both seem to speed up. Grins alighting both their faces as they separately glance at he and wink. Guardians giver her strength, how is she supposed to function with two of them?

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 6x05 - The Rebel Flesh

[almostdoctor]

Wow!! Hello!!!!

It seems I now have access to this social media site? Well, can't say I understand it but hey, beats just being a pile of goop on an abandoned island somewhere

[dwimpossblog]

The Almost People

#ICYMI, here's this weekend's review of 'The Almost People', the penultimate episode of the first half of Doctor Who Series 6!

[magical-grrrl-mavis]

There have been 82 Doctors at this point!

Keep reading line because the list is so damn long.

Main Continuum

(In order of appearance)

Classic Who

First Doctor (William Hartnell 1963 – 1966, Richard Hurdnall 1983, David Bradley 2017, 2022)

Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton 1966 – 1969)

Third Doctor (John Pertwee 1970 – 1974)

Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker 1974 – 1981)

Fifth Doctor (Peter Davidson 1981 – 1984)

Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker 1984 – 1986)

Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy 1987 – 1989)

Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann 1996 movie)

Nu Who

Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston 2005)

Tenth Doctor (David Tennant 2005 – 2010)

Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith 2010 – 2013)

The War Doctor (John Hurt 2013)

Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi 2013 – 2017)

Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker 2017 – 2022)

Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant 2023)

Fifteenth Doctor (Ncutu Gatwa 2023 - ?)

Pre - Memory Doctors

(Timeless child my beloathed)

Morbius Doctors (Robert Holmes, Graeme Harper, Douglas Camfield, Philip Hinchcliffe, Christopher Baker, Robert Banks Stewart, George Gallaccio and Christopher Barry 1976)

The Other (Sylvester McCoy, 1990)

The Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin 2020)

The Timeless Child(ren) (TBA, Grace Nettle, Leo Tang, Jac Jones, TBA, Jesse Deyi 2020)

Brendan (Evan McCabe 2020)

Possible Future Doctors

(italicized parts of names are the title of that Doctor's first appearance, if I can't find a better name)

Father of Time (No Actor, 1987)

"Merlin" or The Battlefield Doctor (No actor, 1991)

The Army of Shadows Doctor (No actor, 1991)

"Fred" (No actor, 1993)

The Relic (no actor 1997, 2002)

The Storytelling Doctor (Tom Baker 1999)

The Web of Caves Future Doctor (Mark Gatiss, 1999)

The Blue Angel Future Doctor (No Actor, 1999)

The Curator 1 (Tom Baker, 2013)

The Curator 2 (Collin Baker, 2022)

Pseudo-Doctors

The Watcher (Adrian Gibbs 1981)

The Valyard (Michael Jayston 1986)

The Obverse Eight Doctor (No actor, 1999)

The Metacrisis Doctor (David Tennant 2008)

The DoctorDonna (Catherine Tait 2008)

The Dream Lord (Tony Jones 2010)

The Ganger Doctor (Matt Smith 2011)

The Spriggan (David Tennant 2022)

Alternate Realities

Dalek Films

Dr. Who (Peter Cushing 1965, 1966)

The Inferno Universe

The Leader (Jack Kine, 1970)

Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday

The Doctor (Trevor Martin 1974)

Previous Doctor (Nocholas Briggs 2008)

The Lenny Henry Show

The Seventh Doctor (Lenny Henry 1986)

What If?

The Eighth Doctor (No actor, 1997)

The Infinity Doctors

The Infinity Doctor (No actor, 1998)

The Curse of Fatal Death

The Doctor (Rowan Atkinsen 1999)

The Quite Handsom Doctor (Richard E Grant 1999)

The Shy Doctor (Jim Briadbent 1999)

The Handsom Doctor (Hugh Grant 1999)

The Female Doctor (Joanna Lumley 1999)

The Chronicles of Doctor Who?

The Doctor (no actor, 2000)

Klein's Story

Johann Schmidt (Paul McGann, 2010)

Father Time

The Emperor (No actor, 2001)

Scream of the Shalka

The 9th Doctor (Richard E Grant 2003)

Doctor Who Unbound

The Doctor (Geoffrey Bayldon 2003)

The Unbound Doctor (David Warner 2003)

The Heartless Doctor (David Collings 2003)

The New Heartless Doctor (Ian Brooker 2003)

Martin Bannister (Derek Jacobi 2003)

The Victorious Valyard (Michael Jayston 2003)

The Previous Doctor (Nicholas Briggs 2003)

The Exile Doctor (Arabella Weir 2003)

The Warrior (Collin Baker 2022)

Gallifrey - Disassembled

Lord Burner (Collin Baker 2011)

Gallifrey - Regenerators

Commentater Theta Sigma (Collin Baker, 2011)

False Negative

The Doctor (No actor, 2017)

The People Made of Smoke

The Sixth Doctor (Dan Starkey, 2020)

Unspecified Doctors

Yeah sometimes they just say "The Doctor" and don't bother specifying...

The Cabinet of Light Doctor (No Actor, 2003)

The Dalek Factor Doctor (No actor, 2004)

[almostdoctor]

Rock. I win!!

Rock, paper, scissors.

Scissors.

[bronzeagepizzeria]

A COMPREHENSIVE DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING TENTOO (PART 1)

Because unfortunately there’s a lot of stuff out there to refute.

so i guess a lot of people are watching doctor who right now because of good omens. and that, for some reason, means the tags are being constantly subjected to Certain tentoo takes so...it's meta time.

in this meta, i'll be rehashing how, exactly, tentoo is the doctor, and answering some other commonly posed objections to the pairing that is tentoo x rose.

But he's not the Doctor! Rose ended up with a copy!

First things first. The entire show revolves around the philosophical concept of Cartesian Dualism--the idea that the soul/spirit/mind has an entirely separate existence from the physical body. This is the basic principle of regeneration; when the Doctor regenerates, every organ, every cell in his body changes, and yet he remains the same man. What makes the Ninth Doctor the same man as the Tenth Doctor? There's something underlying here---the memories, the mind, the spirit. The body, has absolutely no significance.

In S6E6, The Almost People, we are introduced to the Ganger!Doctor. This is a man made out of like, slime, but he has the Eleventh Doctor's memories. Thus, he IS the Doctor. The Doctor himself says this.

In S9E11, Heaven Sent, the Twelfth Doctor is reduced to ashes millions and millions of times, and yet each time his body is 'recreated' or 'cloned', he remains the same person. Why? Because the memories persist. The soul lives on.

Here, have it straight from the horse's mouth.

"A man is the sum of his memories. A Time Lord even more so." - The Fifth Doctor, The Five Doctors, 1983

More evidence? What's the first thing the Tenth Doctor tries to do in Born Again to convince Rose that he really is the Doctor she knows?

DOCTOR: Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar...Surrounded by shop window dummies. Oh...such a long time ago. I took your hand...I said one word. Just one word...Run.

Right. He shows her that he has the same memories.

Now cast your minds back to S4E13. What does the Metacrisis Doctor say when he's trying to convince Rose he's the same man?

Therefore, according to the lore established by the show itself, his missing heart has no significance to who he is. He is the Doctor.

2. But he's a CLONE.

Okay, first of all, he's not. He's a biological metacrisis, the only one of his kind. He has only one heart, i.e, he is not biologically identical to the Time Lord Doctor.

Second, even if he was, he would STILL be the Doctor. As established above.

Third, we see a Martha clone in S4E4, The Sontaran Stratagem, and she is a far cry from what we see of Tentoo.

3. Alright so he's not a copy. He's still only A Doctor! He isn't Ten, he's Half-Donna!

So. We've established that what makes a man is his memories.

If the Doctor had Donna's memories, he wouldn't be the Doctor anymore--which makes him ending up with Rose redundant. Here's the silver lining though.

Tentoo has only ten's memories. His own memories.

'How do we know this?' you may ask. Let's examine the script of S4E13, Journey's End.

(The Daleks spin around on the spot.) DALEK: Help me. Help me! DONNA: And the other way. NEW DOCTOR: What did you do? DONNA: Trip switch circuit-breaker in the psychokinetic threshold manipulator. NEW DOCTOR: But that's brilliant! DOCTOR: Why did we never think of that? DONNA: Because you two were just Time Lords, you dumbos, lacking that little bit of human. That gut instinct that comes hand in hand with planet Earth. I can think of ideas you two couldn't dream of in a million years.

Not very likely if Tentoo had her memories, right? This happens again, in the TARDIS Coral deleted scene:

DONNA: If you shatterfry the plasmic shell....you accelerate the growth power by fifty-nine. DOCTOR & NEW DOCTOR: We never thought of that.

There we go. Canon evidence that Tentoo does not have Donna's mind/memory/thought process. Instead, we see his mind being constantly referred to as that of his Time Lord counterpart.

4. So what exactly happened during the 'metacrisis' then? Why was Donna unable to sustain the change whereas we're meant to assume Tentoo is doing fine?

What happened in JE was a two-way metacrisis.

Tentoo is a biological metacrisis, i.e his mind remained the same, but the regeneration energy in his hand picked up on Donna's human biology and grew a human body. (His body is PART human, as in the ageing part. He'll grow old, and never regenerate.)

Whereas, Donna's body remained the same; she got the Doctor's mind, becoming the DoctorDonna. She is essentially the Doctor AND Donna, at this point in time.

At one point in JE, there are three Doctors ("There's three of you?") because as proved earlier, anybody that has the Doctor's memories, is the Doctor. There is: the Time Lord Doctor (Ten), the Human Doctor (Tentoo) and the Doctor Donna.

Since Donna was a human, she could not sustain the Doctor's mind alongside her own, which is what led to it burning up. It was simply too much for a human brain to take.

Tentoo, as proven earlier, does not have Donna's mind.

5. But he talks funny.

We are shown the Doctor picking up her mannerisms. The Doctor regularly picks up things from people he travels with. He "imprints" on Rose as a newly regenerated being and is shown to pick up on his companions' accents very often.

On a more analytical level, the "Donna mannerisms" bit is obviously comedic relief in an extremely action packed episode (evidenced by the fact that he literally never sounds like Donna again throughout the episode) and isn't meant to be taken that seriously. In every other scene, he is played by David Tennant, exactly as ten.

Tentoo is the Tenth Doctor, but human. In every way that matters, he is exactly Ten.

6. But he's Season 2 Ten! He doesn't have any of the character development Time-Lord Ten does!

Erm. Yeah. You've got to watch the show again.

7. Alright. Okay. If Tentoo is the exact same man, he would get bored of a life on earth with Rose. They'd never last.

Now we've got to address a key aspect of the Doctor's arc. (Keep in mind, when I refer to the Doctor herein, I only mean the Ninth and Tenth, the ones written by Russell T. Davies.)

The Doctor always wanted to be human.

The Doctor, and the Tenth Doctor in particular, wants to be human. It’s peppered here and there throughout the first four seasons, but if you watch closely, there’s this underlying current of wistfulness in him (“I’ve never had a life like that”; “The one adventure I can never have”), not to mention the entirety of the Human Nature two parter.

I think to some extent Rose made him feel human, and it’s his alienness that’s the big barrier in their relationship. He doesn't allow himself to love her the way he wants to because of the difference in their life spans. Because he's a Time-Lord, and he has a responsibility to the Universe, and he can't be more selfish than he's being already, keeping her with him.

She makes him want to be human, to be loved and to be free to love her as he wants to. She even helps him forget, sometimes, that he isn't human. Remember his expression in The Stolen Earth when he sees her again? He is so glad to see her. In that moment, it doesn't matter that they can never be together, because Rose loves him so much she came back.

I'm reminded of a quote from Buffy The Vampire Slayer:

I know that I'm a monster. But you treat me like a man.

And then bam. The almost-regeneration. The crushing reminder that he is intrinsically different from her species, from what he aches to be. Constant and selfish and free. Human.

Giving Rose up to his other self was the most selfless, loving thing he could’ve done. His other self, who is uninhibited, unburdened from the responsibilities of a Time Lord—can and will give Rose everything she deserves.

8. Just make Rose immortal then! Happy endings all around.

Now you might say, the earlier problem could be solved simply by making Rose immortal—she’d stay with the Doctor forever and she’d never have to leave him!

Here's the thing. Being immortal is Not Good.

A constant theme throughout seasons 1-4 is that immortality is not desirable. There is a constant motif of “living too long”, whether it be from Jack, the Face of Boe (cough), or the Doctor himself.

Things are only precious and meaningful because they end—the human way of doing things? Fast, and bright, and temporary? It’s the right way.

One of the many reasons the Doctor loves Rose is because she’s human—it’s a big part of why he’s attracted to her in the first place.

Besides, an immortal Rose would mean having to outlive her family, her friends, everyone she’s ever known—who else has experienced that? Oh, yeah. The Doctor. I can’t imagine him wanting her to go through the same thing under any circumstances.

9. Rose would never accept him. She wanted the adventure too, not just the Doctor.

This is the Rose who instantly felt connected to a parallel version of her parents. Remember, this Pete and Jackie had NO memory of her, and yet, she loved them. Tentoo IS Ten.

She also constantly refers to Tentoo as The Doctor, so I have faith in her figuring it out just fine.

As for the adventure, being human doesn't mean they're suddenly going to become accountants or work in childcare or something. (Looking at you, Jenny Colgan.)

Canon (Big Finish) tells us that they both work with UNIT/Torchwood, so we know that they're out there, defending Pete's World together.

'What about the TARDIS?' you may ask. Well, the writer considers it canon that the previously linked TARDIS coral scene did take place, so we can imagine that they're out there, exploring a new Universe.

But even if they didn’t have a TARDIS, we only need to look to S1E13, The Parting of the Ways, to understand that Rose cares about the Doctor above all else.

ROSE: But what do I do every day, mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed? Is that it? MICKEY: It's what the rest of us do. ROSE: But I can't! MICKEY: Why, because you're better than us? ROSE: No, I didn't mean that. But it was. It was a better life. And I don't mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know he showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away.

Of course Rose loves the TARDIS. She just loves the Doctor more.

More evidence? S2E8, The Impossible Planet:

DOCTOR: ....They were grown, not built. And with my own planet gone, we're kind of stuck. ROSE: Well, it could be worse. This lot said they'd give us a lift. DOCTOR: And then what? ROSE: I don't know. Find a planet, get a job, live a life, same as the rest of the universe.

Clearly, she doesn't mind settling down---not if it means staying with the Doctor.

DOCTOR: I promised Jackie I'd always take you back home. ROSE: Everyone leaves home in the end. DOCTOR: Not to end up stuck here. ROSE: Yeah, but stuck with you, that's not so bad. DOCTOR: Yeah? ROSE: Yes.

Here's another conversation she has with Jackie in S2E12, Army of Ghosts:

JACKIE: No, but really. When I'm dead and buried, you won't have any reason to come back home. What happens then? ROSE: I don't know. JACKIE: Do you think you'll ever settle down? ROSE: The Doctor never will, so I can't. I'll just keep on travelling.

"I can't." Not I don't want to, or I'm not interested---I can't. Rose is in love with the Doctor, and she knows at some level that the feeling is mutual. She also knows, he will never fully act on it.

But that's alright, because she loves him so much she's made her peace with it and with his limitations.

And instead of the typical female protagonist sacrificing things for her love interest trope, we get RTD flipping it on its head and letting Ten deliver the ultimate sacrifice, perform the ultimate act of love---letting Rose go.

By doing this, he's giving her everything he never could. It's beautiful. It's heartbreaking. It's the best love story ever put to television.

Let me conclude with this quote:

“Firstly, Rose is neither shallow nor stupid. She doesn’t settle for second best. She gets the person she fell in love with. And, as a bonus, he’s now able to spend the rest of his life with her, as she with him. Secondly, the very same person who experienced the heartbreak of losing Rose for the first time now experiences joy at the prospect of a lifetime in her company. In this full sense, the Doctor who lost, finally wins.” - Paul Dawson, Doctor Who and Philosophy.

10. But the Doctor and Rose ending up together is disgusting! They were platonic!

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[transmasc-rose]

Thinking about Older Amy again. She waited 50 years for the Doctor, between the 14 years in the Eleventh Hour, and the 36 years in her episode.

And then he kills her about it.

Which! Y'know! I think this tells us a lot about what he would have done to get child Amelia back if he'd had the opportunity.

He's always blase about humans' timelines when he gets his hands on them. And he's especially willing to tinker around in Amy's life. Older Amy and the Ganger Amy both, for all intents and purposes, die at his hands.

Fucked up little guy.

[forvalkyrie]

not to get overtly sentimental but i really miss rory

i'd like to believe that he represented what the doctor strives to be. he entered the doctor's world unwillingly in both ways-- he wasn't 'chosen' first (amy was the very first companion) and his initial first impressions of the doctor. he entered the eleventh's world, despite helping him, with a sort of distrust. i mean, he did just kiss his fiancé and has been taking her to dangerous places-- of which, even eleven couldn't guarantee her safety.

but what i mean by 'what the doctor strives for' is referencing river's lil speech of what 'doctor' meant. initially meant to be 'healer', its turned into 'warrior'. and as a nurse, all rory wanted to do is help and heal people as best as he can. he carries a med pack, he bonds and sympathizes with ppl (ganger!jen and even recognizing the triumph of howie's stutter) but he was also stubbornly devoted when he really wanted to. obviously waiting for amy but also keeping compassion when the situation couldn't necessitate it (ganger!jen, even old!amy and current!amy) and understanding when he was wrong.

idk man, i just love rory so much lol