thewildlings:
You can help too if you like.
Wrong, Amy…
…You’re worth ten men!
amy pond
“I don’t care that you got old. I care that we didn’t grow old together.”
#I’M CRYING ANYWAY BECAUSE #THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT #IN THE DOCTOR’S WIFE AMY’S STILL INBETWEEN HER S5 SELF AND HER S7 SELF #WHEN SHE SEES OLD RORY SHE PANICKS SHE’S TERRIFIED#THE MERE THOUGHT THAT SHE KEPT RORY WAITING ALL ON HIS OWN AGAIN #EVEN THOUGH IT WASN’T REALLY HER FAULT #AND WHEN SHE SAW HIS SKELETON SHE HAD A FULL ON BREAKDOWN #SCREAMING ”NO” #SOBBING #BARELY EVEN MANAGING TO SAY HIS NAME #AND WHEN HE POPS OUT BEHIND HER ALL CONFUSED TO SEE HER CRYING IN THE EMTPY CORRIDOR #SHE YELLS AND RUNS STRAIGHT AT HIM AND HUGS HIM SO TIGHT AND HITS HIM AND SHE’S SO SO RELIEVED BEYOND RELIEF #BUT IN S7 SHE’S OLDER #SHE’S CALMER #THOUGH STILL CLEARLY PROFOUNDLY SHAKEN BY WHAT SHE SEES #BUT SHE KNOWS RORY’S RIGHT THERE #AND SHE’S NEVER GONNA LET ANYONE TAKE HIM AWAY FROM HER #NEVER AGAIN #NOT AFTER SHE HAD TO GIVE HIM UP #SHE’S AMELIA WILLIAMS #AND WOW I COULD KEEP ON GOING FOREVER OKAY #MY BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL OTP
fandom is still like “amy pond and clara oswald aren’t normal people” and i’m sitting here like. sure, maybe their pasts aren’t as broad or relatable as being out of school without a job, but y’know what? people with abandonment issues exist. people with loved ones who mock and dismiss their experiences exist. people who want to travel but can’t for whatever reason exist. people without guardians or parents exist. people who get called crazy exist. there are kids out there with aunts who leave them alone at night and there are kids, teenagers and adults who feel like outcasts. there are people afraid to say “i love you” because the people they love and trust always leave
and okay maybe these don’t apply to everyone. that’s cool, i don’t relate to being a temp after all. but people who relate to these things exist. so however you feel, these characters are important to people and you don’t get to tell those people the’re wrong. because chances are they’ve been hearing that all their lives
Anonymous said: my problem is that the eleventh doctor only chose to ask amy and actual!clara to travel with him because of their mysteries. amy’s house was ‘too big with a crack in her wall’ and clara had echoes, they were the reasons he asked them aboard, he says so to amy in TPO and we know why he asked clara, that’s right there in the episodes. and i feel like the eleventh doctor wouldn’t ask ME, an ordinary girl to travel with him, it makes me feel like shit, that he wouldn’t be interested in me :(
I know this will appear profoundly odd to you, but Amy is actually the one companion who makes me feel like it could be me there. The Doctor took her with him because he realised, or had a suspicion, about what happened to her and her family – but there’s no need to see this in a literal manner of “you have to have a crack in your wall to make the Doctor travel with you”. A lot of Amy’s character and story works in metaphors and for me that’s one of those things.
Because, really, he saw someone who was strangely out of place. A big house, a small girl. Damaged even, a life being devoured, pieces being taken she didn’t know she was missing. Grieving losses she couldn’t remember. She can be brave, she can fall on her feet, but she’s still misunderstood, still afraid of being abandoned, still scared too trust. She’s the most intrinsically flawed of all the companions, because she can’t not be.
He didn’t “take the best”. He took the most lost.
And maybe that’s a little messed up, but that is way closer to me than all other companions combined.
I’m really sorry if it makes you feel sad that you can’t find yourself in this, but you really need to understand that what you should feel like is incredibly grateful that another companion can do that for you. And grant me Amy Pond.
(And grant others Clara Oswald, who actually is an ordinary girl and whose echo the Doctor offered to take travelling long before he realised her connection to the girl in the Dalek Asylum.)
I like Nine just fine, but he would never, ever have taken me as a companion. I’m not good in bad situations, I would’ve been a Julia, or a Penny, or at worst an Adam. I am not ‘the best’, and in truth I always rather deeply resented that only being ‘the best’ would win you travel and adventure and respect. (Because even then this wasn’t applied across the board: Martha does everything Rose did and then some, and for six episodes she’s still firmly told by the Doctor ‘nope, you’re just a passenger.’)
I was SO GLAD when that changed, I really was.
Amy Pond + violence
She defaults to violence and weaponry from the very beginning — our introduction to adult!Amy is her cricket bat — but she’s not always effective. Gradually she gets more dangerous, but doesn’t think about what that means until she kills a human* being. After that she moves away from automatic/reckless violence.*probably
This is one of the things I find most fascinating about Amy: she’s BY FAR the most casually violent companion of New Who.