No problem with asking for two! I'll do Romana now, since I've been trying to work on fanfic with her recently and hence have Thoughts about her, and I'll get round to Sherlock later on.
1. Up until she met the Doctor, Romana was fairly certain that she was going to spend the rest of her life as an academic historian on Gallifrey. She'd even started work on a thesis on the role of Omega in Gallifreyan history, and at one point considered switching her subject to the Doctor. 2. Romana has always been somewhat determinedly philistine, and has never had much time for Art. Back when Braxiatel was her tutor, he used to try to get her interested in art history, without much success. 3. Romana likes being in charge. In all situations. Topping Four was an absolute nightmare, but Eight was a wonderful sub. 4. Romana spent several centuries in E-Space turning the remains of the Tharil civilisation round, before it occurred to her that she could probably do the same thing back at home... 5. War with the Daleks was not her idea. Unfortunately, the Celestial Intervention Agency and the Doctor had already fired the opening shots. Romana rather resented being forced to fight a vast messy conflict that her predecessor had started. 6. She left her K9 in E-Space, and still misses him rather. She'd quite like to have a companion, but tends to find humans a bit short-lived and parochial. 7. It was her idea to bring back the Master. She'd met him before and never really liked him much, but she had to admit that he was a good, ruthless plotter when the Doctor wasn't involved. 8. Having brought back the Master, who ran away when the Time War went bad, she then didn't really have a leg to stand on when the High Council wanted her to reconstruct Rassilon from Matrix data in the same way. 9. By the end, the only viable strategies for winning the Time War were either deploying Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction, or allowing the Daleks to take Gallifrey and then time-locking the planet into the Moment. Romana, faced with the decision between destroying her own people and destroying the rest of the universe, opted to let Gallifrey burn. Romana never got to push the button on Gallifrey herself, because Rassilon found out what she was planning and arranged to have her removed from power. The Doctor had to carry out the plan involving the Time Lock for her. As far as he knows, she will always be still on Gallifrey, trapped in the Moment. 10. He's wrong.
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Date: 2010-11-10 05:47 pm (UTC)1. Up until she met the Doctor, Romana was fairly certain that she was going to spend the rest of her life as an academic historian on Gallifrey. She'd even started work on a thesis on the role of Omega in Gallifreyan history, and at one point considered switching her subject to the Doctor.
2. Romana has always been somewhat determinedly philistine, and has never had much time for Art. Back when Braxiatel was her tutor, he used to try to get her interested in art history, without much success.
3. Romana likes being in charge. In all situations. Topping Four was an absolute nightmare, but Eight was a wonderful sub.
4. Romana spent several centuries in E-Space turning the remains of the Tharil civilisation round, before it occurred to her that she could probably do the same thing back at home...
5. War with the Daleks was not her idea. Unfortunately, the Celestial Intervention Agency and the Doctor had already fired the opening shots. Romana rather resented being forced to fight a vast messy conflict that her predecessor had started.
6. She left her K9 in E-Space, and still misses him rather. She'd quite like to have a companion, but tends to find humans a bit short-lived and parochial.
7. It was her idea to bring back the Master. She'd met him before and never really liked him much, but she had to admit that he was a good, ruthless plotter when the Doctor wasn't involved.
8. Having brought back the Master, who ran away when the Time War went bad, she then didn't really have a leg to stand on when the High Council wanted her to reconstruct Rassilon from Matrix data in the same way.
9. By the end, the only viable strategies for winning the Time War were either deploying Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction, or allowing the Daleks to take Gallifrey and then time-locking the planet into the Moment. Romana, faced with the decision between destroying her own people and destroying the rest of the universe, opted to let Gallifrey burn. Romana never got to push the button on Gallifrey herself, because Rassilon found out what she was planning and arranged to have her removed from power. The Doctor had to carry out the plan involving the Time Lock for her. As far as he knows, she will always be still on Gallifrey, trapped in the Moment.
10. He's wrong.