Doctor Who recs
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grimorieDoctor Who recs -- mostly Rose-centric, gen and otherwise.
Fic recs
Worlds in conjunction by Marylane
The Doctor makes a slight miscalculation with consequences to Rose. Lovely, heartbreaking story. Rose standing on her own in an unfamiliar world and surviving, it goes AU and refracts again into the canon in such a marvellous, heartbreaking way. I wish Doctor Who did these sort of stories because it could happen.
Most of Marylane's stories, I've decided to put into my personal Rose canon because it happened this way.
Send-Off by Marylane
Post-Doomsday, the Doctor finally achieves the impossible. A quiet and proper send-off to Rose and her life with the Doctor:
Fic recs
Worlds in conjunction by Marylane
The Doctor makes a slight miscalculation with consequences to Rose. Lovely, heartbreaking story. Rose standing on her own in an unfamiliar world and surviving, it goes AU and refracts again into the canon in such a marvellous, heartbreaking way. I wish Doctor Who did these sort of stories because it could happen.
Most of Marylane's stories, I've decided to put into my personal Rose canon because it happened this way.
"What’s so terrible about that word?"
"Say again?"
"Forever. What’s so bad about forever?"
"It promises the one thing that can’t be done."
Send-Off by Marylane
Post-Doomsday, the Doctor finally achieves the impossible. A quiet and proper send-off to Rose and her life with the Doctor:
So many years of catching sight of men in long coats out of the corner of her eye, she’s long since learned that it’s never him.
She finds that being wrong about that is no less painful than being right.
"Hullo, Rose."
Quiet Life by Marylane
Impossible Planet AU, and yet so like Marylane's stories, still part of canon. Another 'what-if the Doctor never found the TARDIS story'. A wonderful, wonderful AU where Rose and the Doctor still live the same life they lived in the TARDIS.
It features Rose as a captain and I've always imagined Rose would be a good captain and this certainly proves it. It's so lovely a concept and the choice the Doctor has to make at the end is heartbreaking.He sits her down in the pilot seat and tells her they’ll have to be careful, avoid attention. Just to see if she’ll take the bait.
She smiles dangerously, stroking the main console of their new home in a way that reminds him of himself at his worst, and assures him that she’ll behave.
She christens it the Captain Jack.
Here There Be by
This can't be a recommendation without this story. It's a shame Rose gen stories aren't more popular because this -- I think this is the definitive post-Doomsday Rose story. It has dinosaurs, Puff the Magic Piper, personal mythologies, a believable romance and Rose -- brittle, beautiful Rose who's coping and moving on, who's trying, trying so hard to fill the shoes of the Doctor in a Doctor-less universe. She isn't perfect and all too human. And this struggling to get by Torchwood, this Torchwood that has Mickey, Jake and Rose roadtripping through Cardiff and London is the Torchwood I wanted to watch.Something snapped. "Don't you get it, you thick sod? You don't get to go back. It's over. Just pick up and move on with your life. Maybe learn something about this planet, besides popular kids' songs. Your magical dragon isn't going to take you away from all this."
We Watched the Sun Go Down On Scotland (I Watched the Moon Come Up Over You) by
After Tooth & Claw, Rose and Ten spend a quiet time in Spain, a quiet, somber piece that's both hopeful and moody. It's Rose and Ten being introspective about the monsters and wonders they face."It's not all," he says. They're sitting in a café in Paris in 1924 with rain pouring down outside, and Rose's hair is dripping wet, sliding raindrops down across her nose. "Not everything is monsters."
"More than I thought," she says, and pushes a piece of damp hair out her eyes. "I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it's how it is. It's all monsters, when you get down to it. Even people are monsters."
He can't decipher the inflection in her voice; he thinks of the way she stood, frozen, in the hallway, staring the beast down. Her wary silence after they were safely barricaded into the room, and the relief in her voice when she smiled, said, I tell you what. Fear and wonder, all mixed up together, and if that hasn't been his life -- well.
Ever so much more than twenty by
Summary: All children, except one, grow up.
Another great post-Doomsday Rose, grown-up, still cherishing her memories with the Doctor but living a great life. And, also the Doctor as Peter Pan? Really works.
Roundabout by
Absolute favorite Nine/Rose story -- through Parting of the Ways. About revolutions, change and NINE. Nine who was my first Doctor and even though I've grown to love Ten, will always be my Doctor."I know just where we'll go. Not Kyoto, not yet, but Okyto. Totally different place. Massive planet, gorgeous beaches, sun and sand and the most gorgeous sunsets you'll ever see, 'cause there's three of 'em at once -- so many colors you'll never be able to count. And then the stars -- you won't believe your eyes. Much better than this old place."
Rose looks intrigued -- but also, just for a minute, disappointed. "But -- we're going right away?"
He takes both of her hands, leaning close.
"Rose Tyler. You're in an old, manmade building on Earth in a city you've known about all your life. You even know the music. There's nothing new for you here. I could take you places you've never dreamed of -- why wait for it?"
Why wait? How can you wait? You don't have all the time in the world, Rose....
Seed Pearls by
Summary: Rose's new universe is trying to fit her in. The process isn't easy, but once in a while, just once in a while, the universe gives something back for all it takes away.
Rose and Alt!Doctor -- John Smith is the most vibrant alt!Nine I've seen. And, of course, Bad Wolf enthusiast that I am, it has loads of Bad Wolf mentions and HonorH pulls it off without making me feel like we're drowning in Bad Wolf anvils.
Vid Rec:
All the Lonely People by laurashapiro
Summary: What is the cost of a better life?
Rose and the Doctor and all the cost it takes to being with the Doctor, Rose as Eleanor Rigby. I miss my girl.
