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[grossrottie]

omg woaw that’s so sad !! (sixth doctor loses memory reblog) is there a reason you can’t go back to your old relationship after or can’t help him regain his memory?? :o is it a like you’re physically gone situation or you deliberately just choose to not help him/or he literally can’t at all regain his memories ?? that’s so interesting!!

also can you tell i’ve never watched the series ;;

- komilys :3

eeeeeee ty @komilys i love rambling abt my F/Os!! you are an absolute dear omg

Yesss there is a reason!! I looooove a bit of angst, and I was also trying to figure out how to tie all my Doctor Who (the Doctor's regenerations/versions specifically) plotlines together without making my S/I immortal. Plus, there's a few hundred years time gap between the Sixth Doctor and my next Doctor F/O in the lineup (the Tenth regeneration).

So I figured I'd make it a multi-Doctor plotline where they meet, then skip a few regenerations before reappearing!!

So it's a bit of both "physically gone" as well as "he literally can't regain his memories"!

Technically, he got mortally wounded in this plotline and he had to be reverted to a slightly younger version, therefore completely deleting all memories of his time with my S/I. Since they're undone in time rather than just blocked or repressed, he cannot ever regain them. The time together still happened but his body and mind have never experienced it.

Some rambling details about the Sixth Doctor plotline: (using coloured sections for readability bc there's a lot)

The Doctor and Forest meet by happenstance on Earth and they hit it off!!! Forest is a human who is enthralled and intrigued by this cocky Time Lord with the vocabulary of a genius, while the Sixth Doctor revels in the adoration of a silly human. There is seemingly an unrequited crush on both sides, though neither are aware of it, nor do they make a move. There is also a slight power imbalance because Forest really wants the Doctor to like and approve of them!!! They travel for six months together but then then an emergency happens on an alien planet and the Doctor gets badly injured, too injured to be able to regenerate (aka change bodies into his next form).

The TARDIS (his time travel machine) goes into emergency mode and takes Forest back home, dropping them off with no warning or explanation before disappearing back to the emergency far into the future to save the Doctor.

It manages as best it can, and it appears around the Doctor and does the only thing it can do in that moment; it reverts him to a slightly younger version (10 months or so) of himself before he was injured. Unfortunately, that is also before he met Forest.

The Doctor loses all memory of his adventures with Forest, because to him, they never happened. Even their name and face are completely erased from his mind. The Doctor is frazzled and confused while he heals up from the disorientating event. His body is fine but his mind is struggling to make sense of this weird deja vu.

The TARDIS realizes it made a mistake and attempts to fix things. It follows Forest’s timeline and brings the Doctor to a point where they should be able to reconnect.

But (somewhat similar to Donna and the Tenth Doctor in the Adipose episode) Forest and the Sixth Doctor keep missing each other by a hair. Coincides keep them apart even as the TARDIS repeatedly attempts to find them, and eventually the TARDIS gives up.

Time passes for the Doctor and for Forest, but at very different speeds. The Sixth Doctor eventually regenerates into the Seventh, then the Eighth, then the one they don’t talk about, then the Ninth, and the Tenth. Forest is forgotten. The only thing that remains is the vague stories the Doctor stumbles upon in his journeys, the comments of "Tales say that you had a companion last you visited our planet" and "Don't you remember your previous stay in our lovely Saturn Serenity Inn?" that lets him know that something is truly missing. He was reported to have travelled for some time with a partner, and yet he can't remember when, why, or who. He never visited these places. But over the next few hundred years, he repeatedly hears stories that don't add up.

Meanwhile it’s only been two years for Forest. They have no idea what happened. To their perspective, the Doctor got mortally wounded, the TARDIS disappeared with Forest in it and dropped them off at their home, the TARDIS disappeared again, and they were left on Earth with no answers. The Doctor could be dead for all they know—or perhaps they were just abandoned. Which would be worse?

They eventually try to forget about the Sixth Doctor, and they never see his face again.

BUT!!!! They stumble upon the Tenth Doctor after two years, during an alien invasion in a shopping mall.

Forest is getting a birthday cake at a local shopping centre which happens to be (by genuine coincidence) invaded by an alien species at that exact moment. Before they know it, they’re snatched by aliens, tied to some random chatty stranger, and left to squirm while the aliens scour the shopping centre for something.

Forest is mostly focused on lamenting their dropped cake until the stranger mentions something odd. He rambles that he wouldn’t be in this situation if he had his sonic screwdriver, but that he had given it to a nearby bedazzling kiosk before the invasion happened.

Over the next few minutes of confused questioning by Forest (who recalls the Sixth Doctor having a sonic lance), the stranger reveals that he didn’t always have his sonic, but that it’s been a worthy tool for the last four regenerations or so. Forest doesn’t get a chance to ask much else before the stranger wiggles from their shared ropes and grabs their hand, telling them to “run!”

Eventually they save the day together but Forest realizes over those hours that 1) the stranger is truly the Doctor, 2) it’s a later regeneration than the one Forest knew, and 3) he does not remember them.

But the Tenth Doctor seems to enjoy Forest's company, so they keep their mouth shut as they save the day together, not wanting to ruin things by mentioning who they are. If the Sixth Doctor ditched them and then completely forgot about them, why would they risk it by mentioning their past? What if a lapse of memory was all that made the Tenth Doctor want to still be around Forest? What if Forest had made a terrible mistake that cost them their relationship two years ago, and the only reason the Doctor was speaking to them was that he didn't realize it was his old companion? They don't dare remind the Doctor. They see it as a second chance and they don't want to lose it.

Aaaaaand then it's kinda up in the air!!

I haven't solidified it, but I think I'm gonna throw in another angsty 'ending' for the Tenth Doctor's plotline, where Forest gets corrupted by an alien who wants to deconstruct and alter human DNA (sorta a 'godlike entity doesn't understand or care that humans can't withstand an unravelling' theme) and then they get split into pieces along the Doctor's timeline, popping up in the next few Doctors' timeline but never remembering him or staying around for long. A bit of a reversal to the Sixth Doctor plot >:3

PHEW I rambled so much omg I hope this makes sense!!!

If you ever choose to watch the series, lmk!! I'm so curious what your thoughts on it would be :3 and THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK AAAAA ;W; It always makes my day to chat abt my F/Os!!!!!! I love piling on the angst at every turn >:3

[itsrapsodia]

in the tags of that undertale post you ask how in english we tell whether vowels are read together or as separate beats and how in english we dont use marks like dipthongs - the thing you have to understand about english is that the rules are stupid and also do not matter, so we dont know. there is no mark to tell you it is simply intuition and hearing other people say it and if you learn the word by hearing someone say it in a way not in line with the general consensus, oh well!

but for real ‘appreciation’ comes from both latin and french and the c is pronounced with a ‘sh’ sound, and in english usually if theres an i and an a next to each other, almost always theyll be read as two separate beats

so its uh-pre-she-ay-shun

theres a reason we make jokes about english beating up other languages in alleyways to rifle through their pockets for spare vocabulary

every day i grow more amazed and horrified at the english language sdkjnfsd

the "i and a next to each other almost always will be read as separate" is giving me so much psychic damage hahah. It's been a while since I was taught about hiatuses and dipthongs so i dont remember all the rules, but I remember i loved learning about it in school. Same as learning the rules of whether you write the accent in a word or dont, depending on the letter that the word ends in. There's just something really satisfying about having specific language rules that immediately tell you how a word works!

Though i guess y'all also have them, they just depend on the root language instead of having it be a standardized one!