You portrayed Lucy's way of life quite accurately in just a few sentences I very much see her as a [dark] Rose mirror ("For the first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all. Not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor.") - although more privileged she is still bored and stuck (this is very much a RTD thing incidentally - the Doctor is the one who comes and saves people from ordinary life). I later found out that in 'canon' (tie-in material) she met him whilst working at a publishing house, but I am still attached to my version - the way he just appears from out of nowhere, sweeping her off her feet with his cleverness and otherness. And at this point he's quite Doctor-like. Darker, of course, but the Doctor can be rude if need be. He just dazzles, pulling her in. (See the Doctor in The God Complex... ("They'd say it was their choice, but offer a child a suitcase full of sweets and they'll take it. Offer someone all of time and space and they'll take that, too. Which is why you shouldn't. Which is why grown-ups were invented.")
I loved the way he paid attention to Lucy's first name, because it meant something, and cared nothing about her family. You portrayed that in a really lovely way. And then the way he talked to her… It left me wide-eyed. *beams* Lucy is such an important name. The little girl who walked into a wooden box (wardrobe) that was bigger on the inside and a door to another world... Yet this Lucy - although she gets to be Queen - will get warped and destroyed, not saved. (Oh the importance of names...)
Her reactions were also spot-on, she seemed so light-headed and utterly entranced. Quite possibly literally.
I loved the way you showed the Master suddenly getting ideas about changing cows' brains, lol. Reminded me of Alex—like father, like son, or rather they share the same fabulous intelligence. *grins* Can I just say how THRILLED I am that you made that connection? (Also, when you get to the moment when Allison first meets Allison you'll laugh.) At the time I think I was mostly aiming for that cleverness with popular culture that the Doctor also shares.
And I adored the way Lucy couldn't get anything much of what he was saying, but he didn't make her feel stupid—it felt like a secret. Gosh, that was perfection. I have this terrible talent for writing evil people. I don't know where it comes from, but damn I just love it.
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I very much see her as a [dark] Rose mirror ("For the first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all. Not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor.") - although more privileged she is still bored and stuck (this is very much a RTD thing incidentally - the Doctor is the one who comes and saves people from ordinary life). I later found out that in 'canon' (tie-in material) she met him whilst working at a publishing house, but I am still attached to my version - the way he just appears from out of nowhere, sweeping her off her feet with his cleverness and otherness. And at this point he's quite Doctor-like. Darker, of course, but the Doctor can be rude if need be. He just dazzles, pulling her in. (See the Doctor in The God Complex... ("They'd say it was their choice, but offer a child a suitcase full of sweets and they'll take it. Offer someone all of time and space and they'll take that, too. Which is why you shouldn't. Which is why grown-ups were invented.")
I loved the way he paid attention to Lucy's first name, because it meant something, and cared nothing about her family. You portrayed that in a really lovely way. And then the way he talked to her… It left me wide-eyed.
*beams* Lucy is such an important name. The little girl who walked into a wooden box (wardrobe) that was bigger on the inside and a door to another world... Yet this Lucy - although she gets to be Queen - will get warped and destroyed, not saved. (Oh the importance of names...)
Her reactions were also spot-on, she seemed so light-headed and utterly entranced.
Quite possibly literally.
I loved the way you showed the Master suddenly getting ideas about changing cows' brains, lol. Reminded me of Alex—like father, like son, or rather they share the same fabulous intelligence.
*grins* Can I just say how THRILLED I am that you made that connection? (Also, when you get to the moment when Allison first meets Allison you'll laugh.) At the time I think I was mostly aiming for that cleverness with popular culture that the Doctor also shares.
And I adored the way Lucy couldn't get anything much of what he was saying, but he didn't make her feel stupid—it felt like a secret. Gosh, that was perfection.
I have this terrible talent for writing evil people. I don't know where it comes from, but damn I just love it.