Five minute fiction: While Standing On One Foot 1/1; Ten/Rose; reunionfic, babyfic; MPAA-G

[scarfman]

Title: While Standing On One Foot
Author: scarfman
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Genre: reunionfic, babyfic
Summary: But, there's 900 years of stuff!

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"Weeeeeell," said the Doctor, "three-quarters human, actually."

Rose stared at him for the duration of the time it took her to digest this, then punched him.

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Comments

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

*applauds* Bravo, sir! Bravo!

[leighleighla.livejournal.com]

...

*cracks up laughing*

Agreed. Bravo.

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

Just like your comics, this is an utter riot, while still managing to be cute a paint a larger picture.

The Doctor's a bit of an evil bastard, isn't he?

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Fantastic!

[bokunotherapy.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'm just being really, really stupid, but I fail to understand the larger implications of this, and have been thinking around it for about ten minutes now. xD Can anyone help?

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

That Rose's baby would not be HALF human, it'd be THREE-QUARTERS - cos the Dawktah is half human himself. :D

[momentslast.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered how that works... I mean I get it but I dont. :D

*shrugs* I'll ask my dad later :D he's an old school fan moreso than me (me only having been born in 89 and whatnot) :D

to scarfman: awesome. i love it.

[scarfman]

The Doctor says he's half-human in the 1996 movie, "on my mother's side". Many fans consider it one of his tall tales, but the Master also says the Doctor's half-human, deducing it from the Doctor's retinal pattern. The Doctor also tells Grace that he can change his "species", but "only when I die", so there's a healthy argument that only his eighth incarnation is half-human. Many fans and, unless I'm mistaken, all licensed continuations and tie-ins ignore or refute it. I've always used it in my fanfiction, for the (it seems to me elementary) reason that ignoring or retconning it cuts off questions that lead to story possibilities, but accepting it creates questions that lead to story possibilities: primarily, "How the hell does a Time Lord come to have a child with an Earthwoman?"

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

...unless I'm mistaken, all licensed continuations and tie-ins ignore or refute it.

Marc Platt's novel Lungbarrow had weird things to say about the Doctor's heritage. I can't remember off the top of my head whether humanity was part of it or not.

[scarfman]

I've read the e-book of Lungbarrow on the BBC website and I don't recall that it allows for any possibility of combined human/Time Lord heritage. Platt's introduction to the e-book version reminds us that Lungbarrow was the last Virgin Publishing New Adventure featuring the Doctor in his seventh incarnation before Virgin lost the license for original novels to BBC Books 1996, but it's not clear whether he'd seen the 1996 movie to have been influenced by it. He does note that the ideas had been knocking around his head since 1988 when he'd hoped to, you know, actually write them for the tv series; so I doubt, even if he saw the movie, that it influenced this work much.

[04nbod.livejournal.com]

wasn't there a plan for a mcgann series if the movie had done well where his father was a gallifreyan and his mother was a victorian earth woman named penelope.

i think the looms in lungbarrow are largely ignored though

[scarfman]

"Plan" may be too strong a word; "hope" might fit better. The Earth woman named Penelope as the Doctor's mother, or at least her implication, has been an element of BBC novels I haven't read. That her name is Penelope is no doubt derived from the Doctor's father being named Ulysses in several of the proposed movie treatments that led up to the 1996 McGann movie, an element which the movie finally produced didn't incorporate. But I've read the paperback book about those treatments (Lofficier, The Nth Doctor) and I don't recall that his mother figured in them.

As for the New Adventures looms, they figure in much fanfiction. But it seems obvious to me that 21st century televised Doctor Who has rejected the premise that Time Lords don't follow normal humanoid biological and social patterns (normal, that is, in terms of the general audience's expectations); "I was a dad once" and so forth.

[randomdent.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha. Brilliant!

[hergrace.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
Good stuff..

[dave7.livejournal.com]

Haha... hahaha... *mems*