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arachnekallisti) wrote2010-11-10 12:54 pm
arachnekallisti) wrote2010-11-10 12:54 pm
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Because I don't still have writer's block or anything
A new meme (ganked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daphnie_1): name any character you know (or think) I might be familiar with, and I will tell you 10 things that are my own personal canon about them.
It will, at least, make my lunch hour a bit more exciting.
daphnie_1): name any character you know (or think) I might be familiar with, and I will tell you 10 things that are my own personal canon about them.It will, at least, make my lunch hour a bit more exciting.
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I'd love your take on Sherlock and Romana ~
(If only one I shall let you decide which you would rather do.)
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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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1. As a very young Time Agent, Jack learnt the hard way about the importance of paying attention in xenobiology lectures after a fling with a Vriath prince. It's a well known fact that the Vriath are genetically compatible with a wide range of humanoid species across the galaxy, and that sampling a new species' DNA allows them to emit pheromones which induce their partner's physiology to start modifying itself to gestate Vriath offspring. Jack knew this. He'd just missed the point where the pheromones work on all the target species' sexes, not just the ones that usually bear children.
2. After the above incident, Jack managed to get back to base in time to have the hybrid foetus decanted into a uterine replicator and sent to its other father's people. The Vriath royal family sent it straight back with a note to the effect that they didn't want half-human hybrids cluttering up the succession. Jack's daughter spent an extended amount of time in stasis before finally being adopted and living a quiet life as a librarian. She never managed to land her dream job at the Lux's Library, which is probably for the best.
3. Jack is quite capable of monogamy when he puts his mind to it. From a 51st century perspective, it's quite exotic; it comes over as a kind of D/s kink to put restrictions on what your partner can and can't do with their other friends.
4. Jack and Ianto had an open relationship, although Ianto was a touch insecure about it sometimes. The main reason Ianto was so miffed to discover Jack had been hobnobbing with random soldiers was that he hadn't heard about it closer to the time.
5. Jack had a bit of trouble at first adjusting to a relationship with such an obvious and thoroughgoing sub. Especially considering that his sub had demonstrated his willingness to endanger the whole human race for the sake of his last Domme.
6. Rose had something of a knack for seeing the best in people, and that was exactly what Jack needed at the time. Unfortunately, post-resurrection Jack ended up pining for Rose as much as for the Doctor, and he's been drawn to a succession of young women who believe he's a hero ever since, hoping that being believed in will give him what he needs to fix his eternal life again. Gwen is the most recent example of this; but she isn't Rose, and not even Rose was what Jack thinks of as Rose.
7. To a certain degree, Torchwood Three was Jack's rather creepy shrine to his ex-boyfriend. There was the Hand, of course, and the TARDIS coral; there was also the technical genius who had met the Doctor once in Albion Hospital, and the survivor of the Doctor's battle at Canary Wharf.
8. Jack was pulling the Doctor's leg with that whole "Face of Boe" business. The Face of Boe has, indeed, been a friend of the Doctor's for a while, but Nine and Ten never got round to discussing their angst with another last survivor of a lost species. Twelve will, though.
9. As a young Time Agent, Jack slept with Dr River Song. He has always been puzzled, since then, by how well she seemed to know him.
10. At the end of the universe, a dark-haired girl and a man in a tattered greatcoat watch the last of the stars fail. The very last light in the universe glints off the silver of her ankh, and she reaches out her hand. And Captain Jack finally gets to walk away from it all.