regeneration angst sucks. really really sucks.

[timepiececlock]

I swear. As soon as episode 13 of Dr. Who airs, if they have the regeneration scene (no off-screen death, dammit! I need closure and emotional payoff!), I'm going to make a Nine/Rose icon that says:

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."


And then I'm going to scamper ofF to the land by the river with bailunrui and gwynnega, and I am never leaving, because it's Eccleston is the doctor and always will be la la la la SHUT UP la la CAN'T HEAR YOU!

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[gwynnega]

I'm really hoping that next season they'll do a "Two Doctors" kind of ep where Nine shows up and he and Rose can go off happily hand in hand into the sunset.

::is thankful that it is canonically possible for the earlier Doctors to show up after they die::

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You're right!

OMG! That's our happy ending! It's really a happy beginning!

Like... a younger version of Nine shows up and Rose runs off with him, though he doesn't really know her. She just insists that she's coming. And they have many adventures, and he falls in love with her, and they live our the rest of her life happily.

And then some time later after he eventual death, the Doctor goes to pick up the younger Rose, knowing that doing so starts the chain reaction that kills him later, because she was with his future self.

That explains why they were so close from the start, so comfortable around each other. He already knew her older self.

It, like so totally should be canon.

And the best part?

Even if it doesn't happen on screen, there's no canonical reason it can't happen off-screen, after whenever time Rose leaves Ten (assuming she leaves and isn't killed off.)

Dude, I don't know if you realize this but you have TOTALLY made my day with this line of thinking.

[gwynnega]

Dude, I don't know if you realize this but you have TOTALLY made my day with this line of thinking.

Happy to alleviate a little of the regeneration anxiety! :-)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thanks, it helps!

And you know, this is actually going to fic places in my head. Like... the Doctor shows up randomly where Ten and Rose (and Jack?) happen to be (insert reason here), and Rose stops him, makes him talk to her, realizes he's a younger version that hasn't met her yet, and convinces him to take her along, knowing that she only has so many possible years with him before she has to send him off to go after her younger self.

But then say many years down the line whatever kills older!Rose has to do with the Nestene Consciousness (though it's not at fault, just involved somehow), and the Doctor backtracks and finds the Nestene Consciousness on 2005 Earth...where he meets younger!Rose... and at first he tells her to stop following him because he doesn't think it's wise to mess with the timeline by bringing her along when she should meet him later, but then he remembers that she ALREADY knew him, and besides he really wants to see her again... and ta da! We've reached present timeline.

[gwynnega]

The only problem with the "younger version of Nine" idea is that it seems as if he's pretty recently regenerated in the first ep (because he looks at himself in the mirror as if it's the first time he's seen himself with the big ears). But what with alternate timelines etc., I'm sure that could be finessed...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hm. Yes, that does pose a problem.

Do you know if there's canon about alternate timelines, and what canon has to say about that?

[gwynnega]

You should watch "The Five Doctors" (or read a synopsis of it). That'd give you plenty of ideas, I bet! :-)