Doctor/Master (crack) theory.

[elisi]

This is inspired by The Doctor's Wife (no spoilers) and A Christmas Carol (minor spoiler), plus I borrow SHAMELESSLY from The Naming of Things by ariafic (Summary: How to become the Master. This is the best Master fic EVER.)

The Enmity of Ages...
TEEN KAZRAN: What, now? I kiss her now?
DOCTOR: Kazran, it's this or go to your room and design a new kind of screwdriver. Don't make my mistakes.
'A Christmas Carol'

Once upon a time on Gallifrey there were two little Time Lord boys called Theta and Koschei who were bestest friends. And as they grew older, Koschei realised that he was head-over-heels in love with Theta, but Theta was utterly oblivious, and also liked girls and quite clearly didn't think about Koschei like that...

Now Koschei wanted to the centre of Theta's world in every way, so he did the logical thing: Killed himself and turned into a girl. (A red head, obviously.)

This (not surprisingly) made Theta FREAK OUT, even though he was also excited and attracted and intrigued, but at the critical moment he lost his nerve and ran away to his room and began designing a new kind of screwdriver.

Gallifrey hath no fury like a Time Lady scorned, so Koschei killed herself again (out of spite) and resolved to stay male forever (that'd teach Theta not to appreciate what (s)he'd done for him!), and the friendship never recovered, although the complex feelings stayed with them always.

And the Doctor was left with a particular weakness for strong-willed red heads...

Never the End

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

=D It should not be this satisfying to have a plausible explanation for the ginger obsession, but there it is.

[elisi]

You know, the ginger thing was almost an after thought... But it was so very obvious. Plus, in the fic he turns ginger. And then everything made sense! :)