“AMY: So why didn’t both your hearts stop?
DOCTOR: Only one corresponds to an Earth heart, which is what the Shakri wanted.“
– The Doctor Who Companion: Editing The Power Of Three (Return of the half-human Doctor?)
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AMY: [about the Doctor] I think he’s lonely.
RORY: But the universe is full of tough needy girls in stale relationships.
AMY laughs and punches RORY on the arm.
RORY: What? I didn’t even mean you! You’re so paranoid. Seriously, you want to watch that.
AMY: Plus he is our son-in-law.
A moment of silence.
RORY: Still too weird.
AMY: Still way too weird. Maybe he’s trying to make amends. We’ve not exactly been left…unscathed by being with him.
RORY: I don’t blame him for that. I really don’t. But is this how he makes it up to us? Taking us somewhere in history to almost get killed every few months? Couldn’t he just write us a letter?
AMY: We keep saying yes, though.
-The Doctor Who Companion: Editing A Town Called Mercy
BRIAN: You still haven’t talked to him, have you?
RORY: Don’t nag, Dad.
BRIAN: You can’t be with the Doctor forever.
RORY: Says who?
BRIAN: You both do. You’ve been cutting it back. Building a life. You said you’d had a meeting about applying to adopt…
RORY: We have, but what if we’re wrong? It’s a lot to give up. You’ve seen it, Dad. There’s so much out there.
BRIAN: And you’ll never see it all. You can’t. So don’t try. It’s better to leave the party while you’re still having fun…….I want to be a grandad, Rory. I’d be really good at it. Don’t make me wait forever.
-The Doctor Who Companion: Editing The Power Of Three
AU – The Doctor finds another version of Clara aboard the R.M.S Titanic, and quickly realizes that she has no memory of her past lives. While the Doctor uses every trick in the book to figure out the girl who was not possible, the knowledge of the upcoming tragedy is too much for Clara to handle.
↳ “No, Clara, the sinking of the Titanic is a fixed point in time, nothing you do now can change this! It has to happen!”
“Doctor, I will not have the deaths of hundreds on my shoulders for the rest of my life!”
Fictional characters who shaped my life (not in any order): Martha Jones
There’s so much to admire about Martha, both before her TARDIS travels and after. She was brave, and she was compassionate (she sobbed, actually broke down, over that one little Hath who saved her), and she loved her family a lot.
And damn, but she had a near-superhuman endurance. She walked the Earth, all alone, in the cold and the danger. I can barely handle one week of camping in a field- she was out in the elements, uncomfortable and hungry, for a YEAR! I’ve never got over my admiration for that feat. It blows my mind.
Then there’s the other stuff. She (again, near-superhumanly) put up with several months of racist behaviour in an unfamiliar land, just to help the Doctor, and she didn’t hate either him or Joan by the end of it. (Then she had to do it again in the 1960s when the Angels took the TARDIS! Bloody hell.) She rose from her hiding place when the Master started shouting for her, unwilling to put her saviours in any more danger. She laughed in the face of the man who’d decimated the planet, the man about to murder her. And much later on, after being told she was going to hell for it, she bargained with the Daleks for the fate of humanity. Something that must surely have killed her inside…
So yes. She is very, very strong. But my favourite thing about her (as sad as I was when it actually happened) is that she left. Because as awesome as the Doctor’s world is, it can still change you, warp you, chew you up and spit you out, and Martha knew that. She’d seen so much good on her travels, but also so much bad- and not just the monsters either.
Anyway. Martha Jones was offered the entire universe, and she turned it down because she knew the cost. Because she wanted to stay and help her family, because she thought she could do good elsewhere. That’s some amazing, underrated heroism, the sort I think people should celebrate more. The sort I hope I have somewhere.
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ugh. yes. BLEGH. She’s just..normal, like many of us, but at the same time she’s not, she’s brave and loyal and honest. idk, I really love her T_T
She has an INCREDIBLE amount of strength when you think about it. She spent a year not knowing if her daughter was alive or dead and came out the other side, she likes the Doctor when really she has every reason to hate him, she became best friends with Mickey (which took a huge amount of extraordinaryness on his part too), she refused to let even her recently returned dead husband make decisions for her, when her daughter went out into danger she picked up a big gun and went after her…
I love her so much. There should be a fuckyeahjackietyler. There should be several fuckyeahjackietylers!