It causes the Seeker to detach himself from people, and in the end it does contribute to Roda's regeneration, because she begins to do the same. This. And it was interesting to write this, and realising how it worked (love the song, love love the song. Have hardly listened to anything else over the last few days...).
And yet they both hold onto Jack. Quoting another comment of enevarim's: 'My Renaissance people (citing Plutarch, apparently, though this is from rapidly-taken notes) keep going on about how all opposites presuppose a third thing to bridge the gap.'
But Jack and the Seeker, the Seeker and Roda, Roda and Jack, they're always there. The Seeker never locks her out of the planet. (Remember, only she and Jack have access - the Doctor, the Master, they do not.) He still trusts her. And now I'm going to have to quote the_royal_anna about Spike & Buffy, because I always come back to this issue and it's sort of one of my templates for an OTP:
I'm a spuffy fan. Do I believe Spike is Buffy's one true love? No, hell no. For me, that's kind of the point of being a spuffy fan. I don't have any romantic ideals about this relationship – or, if it comes to that, any relationship. And these two come back to each other, again and again and again, not because it is their destiny but because it is their duty. They share enough history to owe it to each other to be there for each other.
And, goodness, such a history it is, but the relationship is never defined by that history. If anything, it is defined by the mutual acknowledgement that their history establishes the basis for the relationship, but the relationship exists always and only in the here and now. They never stoop under the weight of their history. Buffy taking Dawn to Spike in 'Villains' is one of many examples that illustrates that. There's always a back doorstep, if you like – always a place the two of them can find where they can sit, side-by-side, and put everything else behind them.
Roda going to the Seeker when mortally wounded is that *exactly*.
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This. And it was interesting to write this, and realising how it worked (love the song, love love the song. Have hardly listened to anything else over the last few days...).
And yet they both hold onto Jack.
Quoting another comment of enevarim's: 'My Renaissance people (citing Plutarch, apparently, though this is from rapidly-taken notes) keep going on about how all opposites presuppose a third thing to bridge the gap.'
But Jack and the Seeker, the Seeker and Roda, Roda and Jack, they're always there.
The Seeker never locks her out of the planet. (Remember, only she and Jack have access - the Doctor, the Master, they do not.) He still trusts her. And now I'm going to have to quote
I'm a spuffy fan. Do I believe Spike is Buffy's one true love? No, hell no. For me, that's kind of the point of being a spuffy fan. I don't have any romantic ideals about this relationship – or, if it comes to that, any relationship. And these two come back to each other, again and again and again, not because it is their destiny but because it is their duty. They share enough history to owe it to each other to be there for each other.
And, goodness, such a history it is, but the relationship is never defined by that history. If anything, it is defined by the mutual acknowledgement that their history establishes the basis for the relationship, but the relationship exists always and only in the here and now. They never stoop under the weight of their history. Buffy taking Dawn to Spike in 'Villains' is one of many examples that illustrates that. There's always a back doorstep, if you like – always a place the two of them can find where they can sit, side-by-side, and put everything else behind them.
Roda going to the Seeker when mortally wounded is that *exactly*.