#she's part of it too dw
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whoop!! based on this post hehe
#too terrified to post in that thread i'll just sit here in my little corner Thanks#yea it's the 19th but the way things seem to be going i might not be able to post this next year :P#lgbt+#wonder woman#my art#superman#batman#superbat#superwonderbat#she's part of it too dw
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🫵 leg liker
#sorry I flipped my canvas too much so kiki's hair is backwards. she just chose to part it on the opposite side today dw about it#my art#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#namari#kiki floke#kikimari
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Something I think about a lot is how the 13th Doctor clearly has dyed-blonde hair. She has visible dark roots. This can mean two things: Either Time Lords can just... regenerate with funky, non-natural-human hair colours (perhaps like how Time Ladies always seem to regenerate into a full beat of makeup..), OR that the regeneration energy of 12 to 13 fried her otherwise naturally brown / black hair into a blonde.
Of course, the latter leads to so much potential. Does the Doctor now have to upkeep her dye job? Does she disappear sometimes for "five minutes" only for Yaz to stare disapprovingly at her grown-out roots? Has any of the Fam ever taken her to a hair salon or does she bleach her hair in the TARDIS console room with a jug of water and some totally-safe-don't-worry Space Bleach that nearly sets the console on fire when she bumps into it? Where is all the art of 13 with dark hair?
I need answers.
#doctor who#dw#thirteenth doctor#yazmin khan#13th doctor#I NEED COMMUNITY INPUT#Jodie looks so fucking good with dark hair too#if you haven't seen her with her natural brown hair please google it#I love it#How dare she go blonde for the doctor and make it harder for me to cosplay her#idle thoughts#anyway if the first part is right I DEMAND to see a time lord with neon dyed hair
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absolutely wild number of responses to my post about mrs flood insisting that she’s clara oswald, as if she hasn’t spent half her time on screen so far explicitly threatening the doctor?? come on guys. if she was clara she would have fucked that pretty boy already
#doctor who#dw spoilers#fifteenth doctor#clara oswald#empire of death#mrs flood#she’s also too tall#the short energy is an essential part of the clara
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"... Because Gary wanted a Fifth Doctor and Nyssa story, I was handed the added bonus of all the unfinished business over Adric. At last a chance for long-suffering Nyssa to really lay into the Doctor -with the utmost Trakenite decorum, of course. And after that verbal bloodbath, I thought she should throw a complete wobbly and go off on a vendetta after the Master. No such luck. In fact, Gary made me tone down her tirade about Adric too, since it had been covered in earlier stories. Probably sensible. I didn't want to eclipse the Doctor. The story and script had been going well, until I realised that by the end of the third episode, I'd said it all. The events for the finale were all in place, but the Doctor needed extra motivation, otherwise his final showdown with the Cyberplanner was just going to be a standard run of the mill ending. It was time for the Cybermen to get personal, so I decided to really turn the knife. If the Doctor was here at this crucial moment in the Cybermen's evolution, he had to have played a vital part in their birth. So I let him inadvertently provide a final solution to the tissue rejection problem that has always defeated Doctorman Allan. From the beginning, every Cyberman that the Doctor has ever met or fought, has had a section of the Doctor's own brain structure copied into its design. So who did kill Adric? No wonder Peter Davison’s performance sounds so spectacularly angry."
-Marc Platt, Spare Parts
#SO much to unpack here#'I thought she should [...] go off on a vendetta after the Master.' YES PLEASE#'Gary made me tone down her tirade about Adric too since it had been covered in earlier stories' uh no??? Let Nyssa Go Off#marc platt#spare parts#'so I decided to really turn the knife' YEAH U RLY FUCKING DID#dw lb#big finish lb#big finish
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Is this a deliberately suggestive af joke that managed to fly over my head for 10+ years or am I just a child
#if it is a joke#and the bit is intentional#it only endears Tentoo to me more#if that was even possible#because she says she got the best part of him#and my dudes like lmao not bloody likely#anyway I recognize I might be reading into it too much#but this just caught me for the first time and I had to rewind#doctor who#tenth doctor#tentoo#metacrisis tenth doctor#doctor donna#donna noble#dwedit#rtdedit#dwgif#dw#rtd era#journey’s end#metacrisis#David Tennant#catherine tate#brotp#bring back tentoo
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Star Flower, loner, Medic of SkyClan
She/Her, cis bisexual
Mother: Turnip
Father: One Eye
Adoptive Father: Skystar
Siblings: Unnamed, all deceased.
Design notes:
-She is styled after the Pokemon, Ogerpon
-The plants are a physical part of her body. They grow out of her.
-She is the physical embodiment of The Blazing Star.
Story notes: [Abuse CW]
-She was born as a normal kitten to a traveling band of rogues who loved to trade and spread their music. Unfortunately, this band died out to a plague, one that nearly took her own life. Desperate to save his family, her father Carrot traveled to a set of tunnels in Sanctuary Lake rumored to house a reality-bending god. He asked the god for a cure, and the god asked for his eye in return. They made the exchange, and he retrieved a glowing, golden, five pointed flower. However, he was too late to save most of his family, so the entire cure went to his surviving kit. He wasn't expecting her to survive the night given her fragile state and the dubiousness of the exchange...
-But the next morning, she was perfectly fine- great, even. If a little... odd... were those buds growing on her paws...?
-It only got stranger from there. When Carrot ended up finding more cats suffering from the plague, just a few calming purrs from his kit seemed to have them ripe and ready to go the next morning. Carrot understood then what had happened- his kit had become the cure herself. And cats were starting to look towards them more, started begging for her healing, for anything. And Carrot had lost everything... wasn't it time to start winning stuff back?
-And so, the pair became One Eye and Star Flower, for recognition's sake. The two formed their own small group, filled with cats Star Flower had healed. Star Flower loved to spread her magic where she went, to save cats from the brink of death and be showered with their love and appreciation. They felt like they owed a great debt to her, and she enjoyed that.
-She was very close with her father, even if their relationship could be strained. One Eye loved her, but to an extent, he also used her. He grew arrogant in his success, believing he had become the accomplice to a god, and began to hold that over cats who fell sick. He grew desperate for control and Star Flower was his key to that.
-One day, however, her father's group encountered the early clans. They were just beginning to settle down, work out their new rules, and declare borders. But what caught the group's attention was the near murder of a young kittypet, almost mauled to death by proto-SkyClan's leader, Skystar. Unable to heal wounds with her magic, Star Flower managed to bring the cat to a twoleg, who took her away.
-Appalled by the cruelty, Star Flower took a great interest in Skystar's group, and witnessed several of his other crimes against his cats and the other groups. As did One Eye, who, seeing the early signs of a plague, had an idea to put this cat and the other leaders in their place.
-One Eye and Star Flower joined the group, with One Eye acting as a curious loner, flattering Skystar with praise. Skystar enjoyed his company, and so One Eye grew in the rank rather quickly. He also took a great interest in Star Flower and her abilities. After murdering Tom, who insulted the cats and attempted to attack them, One Eye took the chance to take control over the group, overpowering Skystar and using Star Flower's power to keep the remaining cats in line- everything is going to be okay, you'll get your cure... if you stay in line and do as One Eye says.
-This went on for a moon, of Star Flower holding her magic over the heads of her clients to keep their loyalty towards One Eye. She would be lying if she said she didn't feel pride at it all at helping her father.
-Ultimately, One Eye was overthrown and killed when Skystar came back with reinforcements from the other clans. The rest of the rogues they'd accumulated ran off, and suddenly, Star Flower was alone. She'd never been without her father, and running would mean abandoning his grave, which she didn't want. But... this place had been a home to her for some time now, and she needed a place to stay. SkyClan had taken all of the available territory in the area, anyways, and she was in no shape to brave the other territories or twolegplace. So she offered her power to SkyClan as a peace offering and asked for shelter in return.
-Skystar was still sore from the event, but he couldn't deny that having Star Flower as an asset would be beneficial to him in the long run. And around this point, his son Thunderstar had disowned him and split off ThunderClan from SkyClan. He felt that he was losing allies, losing family, and he latched on to desperate Star Flower very quickly- as a cat who would never disobey him.
-Skystar takes Star Flower under his wing as his new child, her new ward, instating her as a medic. And because she is loyal to a fault, she won't disobey a new leader so similar to her father. And so, he pushes her to do humiliating things in front of the camp, ranging from general chores like tick baths, to forcing her to run laps around camp with an injury if she took too long to work her magic. He would take out his frustration from gatherings on her and berate her over the most menial things. He would make her withhold her power to help anyone in the clan who had displeased him. And if Star Flower ever tried to stick up for herself, all he had to do was remind her of what she did, how she helped torment his cats by holding a cure over their heads to help out her father.
-This went on for years, Star Flower becoming more and more despondent. One night, there was a particularly stressful gathering, in which Skystar got into a territorial dispute with Thunderstar over a pack of dogs ravaging the territories. He lost the dispute, came home, and immediately took it out on Star Flower, shouting at and attacking the molly for "taking too much food she didn't deserve". And something in Star Flower finally snapped, and for the first time, she didn't save a life- she took one. And another. And another. As many as what remained in Skystar's soul. She was discovered taking his very last life in his nest, while she was wondering if she could pin it on the dogs. She escaped the camp, and wandered the territory for the rest of her life.
-Unfortunately, while she finally won against Skystar in the moment, it was history who decided the victor. Sparrowstar declared that they couldn't let a tragedy like this happen ever again, and doubled down on banishing rogues. Every rogue-born cat was looked at with suspicion from then on, and as the decades began to pass, Star Flower's story became twisted and bent. As the story is told, a rogue had infiltrated SkyClan's camp asking for help, but had manipulated and charmed the leader with her prowess and rose in the ranks just high enough to take him out and attempt to claim his spot. Her story was used as a cautionary tale against rogues, warning cats against those who would infiltrate the camp and rot it from the inside. Eventually, even her true name was lost to time...
Rotten Flower, Warrior of The Dark Forest
Skystar didn't hesitate to throw her in the depth of the Dark Forest when she died. She wears her mask constantly, trying to keep away from the sickness of the muck. She's embraced the false myth made about her, claiming to have killed a founder for power and prestige. But in reality, it's been so long that she's forgotten her family, her power, her name. She barely even remembers Skystar himself. Though she's admired in the Dark Forest for her achievements, she doesn't hang around anyone, and acts hostile to those who approach her.
Perhaps someone can help her remember who she truly is...?
#changing up the way I do these! wanna make it a bit more clear this is all an au#might go back and update those older posts#anyways...i blorbo'd her. i know everyone likes making her a femme fatale and thats awesome and cool and great if you do that#but man... in canon shes so tragic. shes not allowed to be a person. just a tool for one eye then an object for clear sky#shes treated as evil for warning her dad about an ambush and shes gotta humilate herself for forgiveness. like... man. i wanted to lean int#that. like shes still screwed up for helping her dad use her magic to control people especially during the plague but she didnt deserve thi#also dw she DOES leave the dark forest. she escapes. homegirl does get better#star flower#warriors#wc#warrior cats#dotc#dawn of the clans#skyclan#dark forest#razorverse#anyways i may revise this overtime.... i dont want this to just come across as like. starf suffering hour#she had good parts of her life. i kinda want to make her and bumble friends#edit: i retooled star flower to be skystar's adoptive daughter once thunderstar disowns him#i wanted to play with the original text but. that sort of thing just skeeves me out way too much sorry. so im gutting it#you already know he sucks. i dont want to do any more than that.
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save me ladyklok save me
#as fond as i am of the fashion ppl bring out for ladyklok i think if we're talking genderbent dethklok they'd dress the same#these guys are very attached to their singular simple outfits and i respect it immensely#i gave lady murderface a bit more hair bc 1) im projecting 2) it's the kind of thing i think og murderface would feel insecure about#were he a woman (if he doesn't already)#that random patch of neck hair is MINE and it deserves rep o7#smth about lady skwisgaar (? i gotta come up with a better way to talk about em) really brings out like. the prissy femme in skwisgaar#that already existed to some extent. i think it's like 70% just how i draw her (and og skwisgaar tbh)#the diva remains yknow#anyway toki thinks she's straight wants to marry a man but i see right through her#were she enrolled in public school every time students were asked to carry chairs she was taking as many as possible i just know it#anyway i think i had the most fun w mf and pickles. 1) drawing murderface is just delightful tbh 2) i love old women ty pickles mwah#transfem pickles could very well be balding as well. i made the combover a little more ambigious in that respect#anyway ily receding hairline women. everybody w receding hairlines you are normal dw about it#mtl#metalocalypse#ladyklok#dethklok#toki wartooth#skwisgaar skwigelf#william murderface#nathan explosion#pickles the drummer#also ladyklok (as in the tribute band ladyklok)'s designs are pretty rad too#little things like changing the texture and parting of hair is just. it's nice like those are distinct ppl in dk cosplay#skrunkart
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what do we think about pet store workers team xen
#for the pet thing i had a bit ago#neved doesnt work with them hes just a delivery driver for some of their supplies. he mostly helps out with his wifes orphanage#idk if clear kieran and eden are around too or not though im not thinking that hard about it#jenner used to work there too but he quit and works for something at home#hes like a stay at home dad now or something#cassandra is either part of corporate or shes just the evil mayor of gdc still and has no affiliation to them idk#she still has something going on with madelis no matter what though#eli and sharon work part time and ren is like the guy who gets them coffee or something. runs delivery too maybe#regina comes in sometimes too to flirt with nastasia when she can but thats like a side thing and completely unrelated#btw zepto is like a clay figure zetta made and is either alive or just a figure. you decide#sorry i was trying to think of something rejuv related to draw and ended up thinking a little too hard about the pet thing. my bad#pokemon rejuvenation#if you have no idea what im talking about with the pet thing its just rejuv but they have weird looking pets instead of pokemon#and i guess technically a modern au. whatever. melia still has the power of god and anime in her. dont worry about it#zetta isnt a clone though hes just a guy. idk where he comes from but hes jenners son and melias older brother#im not drawing madame x im sorry. but know she really does show up to her store wearing all that and never takes it off. + the uniform#oh and nastasia still just straight up has deoxys. dw about it
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It's actually very funny that 13 could barely stand Sarah in Eve of the Daleks considering that Sarah was the Yaz metaphor in this situation.
And also funny that Yaz found the Doctor metaphor, Nick, kinda creepy.
It says something that Yaz appeared to like Sarah and 13 likes Nick.
#dw shit#i mean the not liking sarah thing is Partly bc she's more pushy than Yaz in general#but Also because 13 already was too far gone for Yaz when Yaz started getting pushy and could never dislike her lol#and the Yaz finding Nick creepy thing is part of my unwritten dissertation on how the Gender Thing was working in 13's favour a lot of the#time it's just she had no Clue and only noticed it when#it Wasn't working for her#like Yaz would have reacted to a male doctor in twwfte a Lot differently#Najia would have also and so on and so on#and the doctor is ofc clueless to all this bc they don't give a flying fuck about it all#anyway#i went off on one here#also this post Seems random but i just put an eotd gifset in my queue so it's not actually
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Lord of the Flies, Gluttonous Queen, Prince of Filth, Prince of Decay, Goddess of Ekron, Lord of Slander, Queen of Pestilence and Famine, The Rotting One
I Solomon said unto him: “Beelzeboul what is thy employment?” And (s)he answered me: “I destroy kings. I ally myself with foreign tyrants. And my own demons I set on to men, in order that the latter may believe in them and be lost. And the chosen servants of God, priests, and faithful men, I excite unto desires for wicked sins, and evil heresies, and lawless deeds; and they obey me, and I bear them on to destruction. And I inspire men with envy, and desire for murder, and for wars, and sodomy, and other evil things. And I will destroy the world.” - The Testament of Solomon
#oc: bael roach/beelzebub#dw i got you her first name is pronounced like belle#it's spelled bael to be close to the hebrew name of ba'al zebuv#she's so special to me i love writing characters like her#she's a bit narcissistic and has her own brand of a chaotic tantrum throwing temper but she can be REAL creepy sometimes#she's also a big party girl who's always overdressed for the occassion#and since beelzebub is the sin of gluttony she's constantly eating drinking and smoking in my mind#the funniest thing about me that even tho i have entomophobia i like insect imagery and symbolism with my characters#and well she's literally beelzebub she can basically control any kind of bugs and stuff#i also like the living hive concept a lot so yeah.... there're bugs living inside of her body#i mostly picture her with cockroaches flies skull moths and mantises crawling around her shoulder and face a lot#she's like gru with the minions she can tell all of them apart and remembers everything about them#she's not part of any fandom but i ship her a lot with woland their dynamic would be crazy#two chaotic iteration of the devil stirring the pot but since woland is more composed and calculated he'd balance her over the top#and dramatic mess of a personality out quite well#they'd crash each others parties and stuff and have a heated banter but actually wouldn't lay a finger on each other#in fact if you remotely try to insult or dare i say hurt one of them the other would go and whoop your ass bc they're offended#also fun fact i love the idea that the rest of the seven deadly sins were once high ranking angels who betrayed heaven for lucifer#so it'll go the same for my girlie too#i headcannon that she still has her wings but they turned into a more insectoid kinda thing#my moodboards :3
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dr who s3e03 gridlock commentary save me. save me dr who s3e03 gridlock commentary
#“it makes martha part of the world and she joins in singing but it makes the doctor *break* the world” I am chewing glass i am in your WALLS#because the doctor is so alone and they fully just cannot comprehend the blind faith that ties the motorway together. i think#so they dont sing along. but martha can and does!#the drivers have faith in their hymns. martha has faith in the doctor. who does the doctor have faith in? no one. anymore. probably#he trusts martha with his life yeah but his life is nothing to him#and he hardly knows her because he was too busy pushing her away#“she must mean an awful lot to you” “hardly know her. i was too busy showing off. and i lied to her. couldn't help it just lied. BYE THEN"#is SUCH a line . fucking deranged . tenmartha nightmare toxic qpr situationship speedrun (It has been 2 days.)#anyway#seagull.mp3#dw#DR WHO GRIDLOCK YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!! TO ME!!#fully just dropping this wall of tags and going the fuck to sleep . bye
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People nowadays are so used to get what they want from TV writers that when they are wrong they throw tantrums like toddlers.
#misc#me too i wanted her to be some special woman#but it's good to be reminded about ordinary people#mind you I see some plot parts that remain obscure and it's frustrating#but im certainly not pissed about the ordinary mother part#like the whole point of making theories is to stimulate imagination#not being right#i don't want a writer to change their plot just cause i want my theory to be the right one#oh and also#i grew up with the chosen one trope#but opening myself to new stories#it really got old#and not just because it's being overused#but cause it kinda feed individualism and shit#also it makes no sense in dystopian worlds to have one girls destroying the system by herself#that's what capitalism wants you to believe#but we need more community stories#anyway i lowkey derailed from the original post lmao#this was originally about dw as you can guess#and like i said yes some stuff is frustrating#like ruby making snow isn't explained at all and it's??? meh#but the reveal about her mother is great imo#obviously you can disagree#but people complaining especially about the 'she's just a random woman' part#when it has been rtd writing dna the whole time????#rose tyler the ordinary human looking into the tardis to save the man she loves#and not being able to handle it without risking dying cause you know she is an ordinary human#martha jones saving the world spreading stories with the help frop the resistance all across the world#donna fucking noble the most important woman in the universe#being the most ordinary forgetful woman also risking her whole life for a power her human body cannot contain
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was i happy about a kate episode? yes
did i spend most of the runtime going "oh she would not fucking say that"? also yes
#idk i think rtd misunderstands the purpose of a lethbridge-stewart/stewart#he's trying to make them too much in line with the doctor's morals#when the best part of the character (be it the brig or kate) is that they're a foil to the doctor#also she hugged too much#dw spoilers#kate lethbridge stewart
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also very funny because even’s only reference for time lord regeneration = pronoun changing is missy because missy was doing A Performance so they are continuing to refer to thirteen with he/him because without being told to stop, they are pretty sure nothing needs to change. but also they have no idea how to bring up if the doctor would want them to stop because again. they can only use missy to explain themselves. and missy is Kind Of A Sore Subject Right Now.
#they also dont realize right away that they Should have wondered this hntil like hours of the rest of the companions calling the doctor#‘she’ and ‘her’. and even finally goes 🤨 Did He Not Tell Me This One Purpose? Or Am I Right And They’re All Wrong?#i mean the answer is that everyone is right because the doctor doesn’t give a shit#but i think even p consistently continues to use he/him for thirteen.#there’s a part of them that *is* sort of possessive over having known the doctor longer than the rest of them. the clara instincts in them.#they relaxed around bill but now there’s too many new people and the doctor is literally calling them her ‘fam’ and i think even is twitchy#about that. they want seniority rights. just a little. just an acknowledgment.#its not something theyd ever say out loud but like it is there in their subconscious influencing them. a little pride and selfishness about#knowing the doctor before thirteen. before twelve.#it’s not. insecurity in their place exactly. so much as it is just not liking new people in *their* space. talking to *their* doctor like#they know him.#dw oc
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Thirteen and yasmin are insane because watching the show it feels like the doctor is genuinely incapable on some level of truly loving yasmin- even to the extent that she fell in love with previous companions.
Hear me out, (this is a bit of a crackpot theory) something about this regeneration, something in the way she seems to be built as a direct reaction to twelve's late-season unabashed emotionally vulnerability- the way he held onto the pain and emotions and held on HARDER when they hurt, and now thirteen wont even pick them up.
Somewhere in those few seconds of regeneration, the regeneration itself must have latched onto the previous doctor's lingering thoughts- all those thoughts, a whole lifetime thinking about how much everything HURT- of much EASIER it would be to just AVOID all of that to just IGNORE it how he didn't HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT. But regeneration is a bit of a tricky process isn't it? You're usually lucky enough to get the right amount of arms and legs. You'd probably have pretty poor luck if you tried politely explaining"I'm just kind of grieving pretty hard right now and my life sucks ass usually and my desire to not suffer and irrationally blame my emotions themselves for this is actually a pretty common response so please don't overreact and make me incapable of proper emotional expression and connection with the people in my life please that'll actually make this WORSE not BETTER." I mean seriously good luck trying to explain those concepts to splitting timelord cells, I can't imagine they're great with conversation.
So the twelth Doctor's dying and one of his last thoughts is "man if I cared about people less I'd suffer less" and the thirteenth doctor is born (in a sense) woth that thought at the forefront. And she still cares!- so, SO much, but... it's.. different. It's not quite CLICKING. anymore. Things that WERE easy or at least DOABLE before just AREN'T now. Or at the very least they feel WRONG. Like walking around in someone else's shoes. In an old coat that doesn't quite fit. In an old face. And then the universe dumps the doctor right into the lap of 3 new companions with no clue about space or aliens or the doctor or any of that. No idea of what the doctor was like before- of what she is capable of now or WAS capable of before, and she doesn't tell them either.
And so she's walking around and she's keeping this ravine of distance between herself and everyone and everything in a way she never has before and there's no one there to call her out on it, but she pretends! She pretends it's not there! And she's really, REALLY good at it this time- maybe because twelve regretted not being better at it himself, even (but that's a different thought). And sure the companions call her out on it, yasmin in particular calls her out on it A LOT, Ryan, too- but they still don't realise the EXTENT to which the Doctor is (failing? refusing?) to connect with them because they have ONLY EVER met THIS DOCTOR and so they don't realise how drastic the difference is. They lack the proper knowledge to REALISE what is even truly going on with the doctor. But the doctor is still the doctor aren't they. And these are still their companions. And frankly, they're still kind of a dick.
So despite their sudden inability to connect with their companions on a level the doctor has never experienced before, and despite these new companions personalities being so unique and their journey with the doctor being so hectic that the doctor and all of them keep chafing and slipping out of the same old Doctor-And-Companion molds that the doctor keeps trying to shove them all into, the doctor wont stop trying to make these old molds fit! And honestly that never ends up being a huge problem for any of them. It's just kind of an interesting aspect of the doctor- a fascinating way that they sort of dehumanize their friends, by just plopping them in a mold and replacing them when they wear out. Because of course you still care for them! But by giving them a ROLE in your life that can just be REPLACED as opposed to letting them exist as a PERSON in your life once they're gone? That makes things easier. That makes the grief easier to bear.
ANYWAYS. back to the yasmin thing. If you remember the Yasmin thing. So. Yasmin falls in love. Of course she does. And the doctor notices. Of course she does. She's old and more people have been messing with her head than usual but she's good with noticing things no matter what else changes about her. And she doesn't say anything. Because she's a timelord! And Yasmin will die, or fall in love with someone else, or turn into a cyberman, or experience one of the infinite possibilities of horrors or wonders in all of time and space that will tear them apart and the doctor will be left alone again, so what's even the point!
Except then Ryan and Graham leave. And then the Timeless Child arc happens. And it wouldn't hurt to feed into it a little would it? Just to keep Yasmin around? Just to keep her from leaving? It wouldn't hurt right? I mean Thirteen could love Yas! She does! Of course she does! Yas is her fam! Her companion! The only one who's stuck with her through it all!- who keeps calling her out, coming back for her, saving her, taking care of her, helping her- and she's grateful! And she cares about Yas! That's not so different from love, right? And love would make Yas stay! And it'd be easy! It'd take what?- a date? Two? Probably! Humans like dates! And romance! And flirting! She can do those! In all honestly she HAS been doing those- (She gets incredibly posessive of anything that becomes part of her tardis, her world, her home, and well, yasmin has been there a long time. And flirting is fun! And a sort of socially acceptable way of staking a claim isn't it? Not to mention the doctor isn't great at denying themself anything that gets another being to feed their ego.) So she leads Yas on a little. Drops hints here and there. She doesn't really know if she means them or not but she knows that she wants Yasmin to stay, that she can't even imagine Yasmin leaving. And that's love right? Or close enough anyways.
So she decides that she loves Yasmin and that she and Yasmin are "together" in a way and decides not to question it further. Because she's placed yasmin in a new companion mold and herself in a new doctor-companion relationship model, and everything's as it should be! and yasmin has no other point of reference for the doctor, so she settles for what she's given. Decides "this is all she can give. She abandoned Ace and Tegan seemingly without a second thought and didn't even apologize- I guess this is how it's always been, with every companion. That's fine! I can handle this! It's worth it for her." And in the meantime The Doctor is sitting there on the other side of the console fully aware of the fact that this is in fact NOT the limits of her affection, but she's HAPPY, or at least as happy as she will allow herself to be with Yasmin.
Yasmin though. Yasmin WANTS more, she DESERVES more and Thirteen KNOWS this, but Thirteen puts her own desire to both keep Yasmin at a distance and avoid desciphering her own feelings above Yasmin. Eventually, Dan calls the doctor out on this. Pretty much just telling her "You KNOW that she likes you. Do SOMETHING about it." The doctor doesn't say anything but does, in a later episode, sit down on a beach and make a wish with Yasmin. "I wish this would go on forever" both meaning she hopes yasmin stays with her forever and that their relationship never progresses. She has everything she needs from yas- which, for the doctor who with previously loves (i am intentionally NOT specifying romantic interests) became OBSESSED with them to the point of not just self-destruction, but universe destruction? Potential INTER-universal destruction in the case of Rose? How could THAT doctor- because YES this is a DIFFERENT DOCTOR, but this is still THE DOCTOR- ever be satisfied with the disconnected relationship she has with Yasmin if she was in love with Yasmin? If she felt THAT WAY about Yasmin? Like she had for all those comapnions that had come before Yasmin that The Doctor had fallen in love with?
#While all of the doctor's previous relationships DID have hard limits and boundaries#that hurt and limited the relationship and companions in a way that resembled thirteen and yasmin's relationship#at the end of the day thirteen and yasmin still felt like strangers when they parted on screen#at least from the perspective of the viewer#And that too- THE DOCTOR LET YASMIN GO#like yeah the doctor has let companions go before#but they have always had to have been PRACTICALLY RIPPED AWAY from the doctor first#The doctordonna killing donna. Rose Tyler trapped in another universe burning up a sun to say goodbye#and then 10 leaving himself with her because he thought it'd be kinder to give her a life with him (however she felt about that).#Clara. nearly tearing up the universe getting yelled at by Me AND Clara and then having a memory-wiping device backfire on him#And The Doctor just let Yasmin go.#okay.#doctor who#dw#thirteenth doctor#yasmin khan#also I get kind of annoyed when people try to paint 13 as not being the huge asshole to yasmin that she was in their dynamic#because she WAS a DICK#she LED YASMIN ON and she KNEW IT#and that's MY FAVORITE CHARACTER FLAW OF HERS#IS THAT SHE'S A SELFISH ASSHOLE WHO PUTS HER COMFORT#AND EMOTIONAL AVOIDANCE ABOVE THE FEELINGA ND SOMETIMES LIVES OF LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE#they just wont allow women to suck. let her suck. she sucks. she's an asshole. let her be an asshole.#twelve was not out there on screen every episode vaping fat clouds and flipping off everyone for you to decide#that 13 was the second coming of the eleventh doctor and a present hand-delivered to you by chibnall#to woobify the doctor again#twelve was all hard edges and rusty nails that were TRYING to giving you tetanus.#that did not get flushed down the drain with thirteen. she just put a blanket over it and asked you to ignore it#and kicked it every time it made a weird noise#also twelve was totally vaping and flipping people off onscreen and she also said FUCK too you can trust me I was there I promise.
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