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Amy/Rory
Who: Doctor Who, actually. They’re Amy Pond and Rory Williams (-Pond?), current travelling companions of the Doctor.
Who plays them: Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill- plus Caitlin Blackwood and Ezekiel Wigglesworth play them as kids.
Why: Amy and Rory are my OTP of all time- few others come even close. They went through so much, did so much, became so much- and despite that they still remained so wonderfully, awesomely ordinary. Like us. Love isn’t always dancing through the stars- it’s also having to pay the mortgage, fix the DVD player, unblock the toilet…raise the kids…
They’re opposites in many ways: the faithless and the faithful, the healer and the fighter, the anchor and the waterfall. Yet they complement each other too- Rory’s caution and compassion coupled with Amy’s wildness and cleverness makes them into one hell of a team. (So it’s no surprise River turned out one hell of a person, either.) And they constantly save each other, defying time and space and even the Silence themselves. “She will never come back for you,” they said- but the Ponds always, always come back for each other.
They’re just a perfect mixture of looking into each others’ eyes and looking outward in the same direction. I don’t think I’ll ever love another TV couple as much as I love them.
Best moment: Old Amy, aged by a time loop, tells her husband she won’t save her younger self. “Look me in the face and say that now.” Rory says to her. He holds the time-glass up to his head, where an image of Young Amy flickers into being- Amy looks at her Rory’s stupid face, and sees herself. I love that moment, it’s so beautiful and so symbolic- Rory’s happy to disregard his own identity, always, in favour of Amy’s if it’s what she needs. He’s happy to become anything, anyone, for her. That’s why the mild-mannered nurse will always don the armour and weapons of an unstoppable killing machine if he thinks Amy wants it: so much of what he is is wrapped up in her. And vice versa.
Second-best moment: In The Big Bang, in the middle of various terrible events, Rory asks Amy if she’s okay. “Are you?” she asks. “No,” he answers. “Well, shut up then!” Amy snaps, utterly distraught. Rory says nothing…just hugs her tightly. And this was the long, long night before their wedding.
She’d rather grow up, than stay with you…
Hook’s speech to Peter, in the 2003 adaptation of Peter Pan.
Originally this.
Anyone remember The Anchor and the Waterfall, my Amy/Rory websitey thing? (I can just about remember the days when people called them ‘shrines’.) It’s been sitting there dormant for about five months now, so I made a blog to go with it. Basically, anything I post on the website, when I do eventually post something on it, I’ll also post it on that tumblr. So…it’s a good way to get pictures, I guess? There will be an awful lot of pictures and scans there. (I LOVE MY SCANNER)
Also, it is the first successful (admittedly minor) customising of a theme I’ve ever done. Yayz!
I made LiveJournal icons. Unfortunately, no-one uses them anymore. Or uses LiveJournal anymore, I suspect. This makes me sad.
Talk of the Pond’s potential almost-divorce in the first episode of Series Seven has come up again. So I thought…while I obviously don’t like said spoiler, it is plausible, and here’s why…
Everything that can shake even the strongest of marriages…has happened to them. They lost a baby, under terrible circumstances. Amy is still (I assume) dealing with at least a little guilt over killing a woman in cold blood, and possibly feeling angry that the Doctor doesn’t drop by much/lied to her about his death. (Can I just drop to my knees and plead that this actually be addressed, next series?) Plus both have careers now- Amy is a model and Rory is a nurse- which probably means they don’t even see as much of each other as before.
Add all that together and it’s a recipe for disaster. But…some people really aren’t meant to be apart, no matter how bad and complicated things get, and I think the Ponds are some of those people. Unless of course it’s a dream, a vision, Dalek manipulation, a plot to foil something or other, GANGERS, TESSALECTAS…well, you know, considering the track record so far.
Also, there’ll be a fanfic about this later.
Song: Thoughts Of Flight
Artist: Edmund- with lead singer Arthur Darvill
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Rory, Amy
Pairings: Amy/Rory
Length: 3.38
Vidder: sarah531
Summary: Rory’s song for Amy.
A/n: This is one of the songs Arthur’s band once offered for download on Myspace, before Arthur was cast in Doctor Who. It’s a perfect, perfect Who song…
