companions + central conflict
donna noble
someplacetobethatsnotonthemap:
Female companions and their Hogwarts Houses
Man, how do you figure Amy as Slytherin? Like, I’m legit interested.
River & Donna
I just had a moment of fridge horror. In SITL/FOTD, River knows who Donna is and what happens to her. And the look on her face, and the quaver in her voice, just got a lot more excruciating for me. Because River knows exactly what it is like to have your memories stripped from you, your identity forcibly shaped by others. And she can’t do anything to save Donna from that.
I can only imagine how River reacted when the Doctor told her what he did to Donna. I hoped she slapped him well into the next century.
I wrote a fic about River doing exactly that several years ago. It was inspired by River’s FotD line, “Not one line, don’t you dare!” But until this post I never really thought about River’s heartbreaking reaction about Donna’s fate in the context of her own abusive and traumatic childhood with Kovarian and The Silence. Which in turn gives even more gravity to her “Not those times! Not one line, don’t you dare!”
There’s a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive… wormhole refractors… You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold.
“Never cruel or cowardly. Never give up. Never give in.”
In the 61st century, the Shadow Proclamation recruits a group of women from different periods to form an elite squad: the Department of Objective and Covert Temporal Oversight through Respondent and Warranted Humanitary Operations, also known as D.O.C.T.O.R.W.H.O.
