Don’t sweat it. Do better. Love now. And I think there’s a great deal of magic in that. Especially considering how hard their lives are, and how screwed up and covered with blood they both are. It gives them an innocence they could never regain in a regular relationship where past grievances pile up. It’s done. They’re covered. They’re clean again. So much word to everything you wrote. The whole thing is like magic, especially in how it hits my relationship kinks...
The urge here is not to be forgiven over and over so they can continue to do those things that need forgiving. But so they can move past them, become better. Become someone who goes from “The woman who murdered you,” to “Someone you trust completely.” With absolute truth. She’s earned that trust, and so has he. By forgiving and being forgiven and growing to deserve it. Not by deserving it when it’s given. Oh yes, excellent point. Reminds me of a bit in Gaudy Night, one of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels. His nephew (who's at university) has been spending far above his means, and then writes off his car. Knowing that his parents will be furious, he goes begging to Uncle Peter to save him. And what Peter does, is not lend him the money - he quite simply instructs his banker to cover all of his nephew's expenses (along with some harsh words too, mind you). But - theoretically the boy could write himself a cheque for £50,000... And it actually makes him stop, and think. I always loved that.
Yeah, that’s really a tone I haven’t liked at all in New Who. The whole “pity me” thing. I never used to have to pity the Doctor before. I always loved that he was a man who was more or less at peace with himself and his choices. Even when it meant tragedy sometimes. I am mulling over meta on this (Ten and Eleven and what they are and why Ten was so tragic etc. I think you'll like it).
Oh, briliant! I didn’t even catch that. And I was looking up a Job quote earlier today. Talk about serendipity. It literally came to me as I was writing. Hence the almost throwaway nature of the remark.
Good catch! I like that. Married forever. Not to mention sharing life energy. It honestly flowed from what I was writing. I wanted to end on a note of 'Yes, she's totally a mirror, but this is a good thing' and then... Hello epiphany. :)
Beautiful post and analysis and I enjoyed that a lot! Cheers! Thank YOU for your awesome comments! And sorry it took me so long to reply...
Re: Part 3 (because LJ is stingy with word count, and I'm not)
And I think there’s a great deal of magic in that. Especially considering how hard their lives are, and how screwed up and covered with blood they both are. It gives them an innocence they could never regain in a regular relationship where past grievances pile up. It’s done. They’re covered. They’re clean again.
So much word to everything you wrote. The whole thing is like magic, especially in how it hits my relationship kinks...
The urge here is not to be forgiven over and over so they can continue to do those things that need forgiving. But so they can move past them, become better. Become someone who goes from “The woman who murdered you,” to “Someone you trust completely.” With absolute truth. She’s earned that trust, and so has he. By forgiving and being forgiven and growing to deserve it. Not by deserving it when it’s given.
Oh yes, excellent point. Reminds me of a bit in Gaudy Night, one of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels. His nephew (who's at university) has been spending far above his means, and then writes off his car. Knowing that his parents will be furious, he goes begging to Uncle Peter to save him. And what Peter does, is not lend him the money - he quite simply instructs his banker to cover all of his nephew's expenses (along with some harsh words too, mind you). But - theoretically the boy could write himself a cheque for £50,000... And it actually makes him stop, and think. I always loved that.
Yeah, that’s really a tone I haven’t liked at all in New Who. The whole “pity me” thing. I never used to have to pity the Doctor before. I always loved that he was a man who was more or less at peace with himself and his choices. Even when it meant tragedy sometimes.
I am mulling over meta on this (Ten and Eleven and what they are and why Ten was so tragic etc. I think you'll like it).
Oh, briliant! I didn’t even catch that. And I was looking up a Job quote earlier today. Talk about serendipity.
It literally came to me as I was writing. Hence the almost throwaway nature of the remark.
Good catch! I like that. Married forever. Not to mention sharing life energy.
It honestly flowed from what I was writing. I wanted to end on a note of 'Yes, she's totally a mirror, but this is a good thing' and then... Hello epiphany. :)
Beautiful post and analysis and I enjoyed that a lot! Cheers!
Thank YOU for your awesome comments! And sorry it took me so long to reply...