the nike

Half asleep while writing this, I'm not gonna proofread unless I realize I made a big mistake that I need to fix.

I gotta say, thank you Babbel1996 on the wikipedia page for the Tardis for always saving me. Every time I go to steal a Tardis reference, there they are! Anyway Tardis with stained glass! Let her be pretty! Let her dress up! I think she would fuck it up wit symbolism and stuff in her windows and it would make the Doctor either so happy to see their love all new and cool and/or annoy them to no end not understanding what she's saying Mine don't have much symbolism ngl. The most is, maybe, having Gallifrey there. To list them off its Moon, Sun, Gallifrey, Saturn (or Uranus depending on if I'm feeling fun), Mars, Pluto, Aurora because i was running out of planets I wanted to draw, and than moon again with the north star! She gets some stickers on her too for fun.

So!!! To make stuff clear, non feathered Doctor regenerates into feathered Doctor (also known as Wife #1) (both just get called Doc). In the fic I was writing, its almost exclusively the non feathered one thats featured, but its okay cause he still dresses like a gay parrot later in the fic.

Becoming more alien is a metaphor! yay! I saw puppygurll's designs and realized that since my whole point with the doctor regenerating was him accepting that he can rely on and find comfort in someone indefinetly now, he sort of subconsciously let go of what was keeping him as an acceptable looking human, at least for this regeneration, and he gets to be more alien. Basically unmasking. Except he gains feathers. And more obvious gender stuff.

Sort of like how (and I could be absolutely misremembering Dr Who, its been a bit) a lot of the Doctor's exuberance and over the top nature is, in part, an act in some of their regenerations. And that act absolutely falls and reveals how angry and scared they are underneath it all. But at the same time that whimsy and hope is also so integral to their character, so its a balancing act.

Anyway, he regenerates from gay 80s parrot into Miss Frizzle who bites people.

My first doctor is a he/him and is, indeed, mostly a guy. Regenerated Doc is a he/him but uses mostly feminine titles (Like... wife. i'm blanking on others oh no. uh. Donna calls him sister? He teaches science and history for a little bit for plot reasons and is called Miss Doctor by his students).

I drew him some alternate outfits because I wasn't happy with his and am realizing he has the exact same fit basically as my creepypasta oc and I am once again reminded that almost all of my characters in some way or another come from one another like I'm an evil scientist with a cloning factory. Maybe I'll draw a chart one day, that'd be fun.

The companions name is Cal, he is trans and actively didn't have a name until the doctor regenerated, and instead every day just got a new name. I love matching his name to whatever their adventure is. Fun possibilities! I want to note, because this is so important to me, that he does dress up to match the time period. Technically its the Tardis dressing him. But he does dress up. I am so sad more companions don't do this, but that's okay. Once again why I love Donna Noble so much but that is a long essay for another time. He also has dog tags (sometimes a collar, depends on what I'm feeling) that do just say Return to Doctor with some medical info on them that he can't read. One's in a universal translating language thing (Psychic paper... metal? Hmm.) The other is in galifreyan. This is specifically to fuck with the master. There's also a ring and I can't remember why he has that? I'm 70% sure its from my hangover episode chapter of the fic? I dunno! Mysteries for me to relearn!

Anyway the Doctors and Cal are all self inserts (kinda, once upon a time before they took on a life of their own) and in a polycule with the Tardis and thats how it is, I don't make the rules.

For the Doctor's introduction, she wakes up after regenerating, finding herself crashed in London with no memory of what happened before. Nothing unusual sofar, but then she sees some suspicious activity at a school and starts investigating. This is where she meets her companion, Elisa!

Elisa gets bullied/outcasted heavily at her school and it has her feeling all types of low. She's alone in the girl's bathroom, crying, and a perfect next victim to add to the list of kids with a mysterious sickness that leaves them bedridden. Then the Doctor barges in with this little doohickey she'd build out of a branch. It tracks the source of an alien metal, and the source of said metal would make itself known only seconds later.

It's a Panagralid, otherwise known as a data worm! It chases after the two all over the school, but it's only visible to Elisa, so everyone thinks she's just acting up. They manage to throw it off their scent by literally throwing her school blazer with her scent at it and hiding in a closet.

The doctor catches her up to speed on what's going on, Elisa being frustrated at the Doctor for almost being excited about this horrifying thing, and they discuss what it wants. Data worms feed on information, and the females have these metal plates on their body to store info on for their young. Other species often keep and train female data worms though to obtain certain bits of information in secret (because it can cloak itself!). The doctor has all these plans to combat things, but then gets hit by a wave of post-regeneration sickness unlike anything she's ever felt before, and she briefly blips out of existence. Well, to her it was brief. in actuality she's disappeared for hours, leaving Elisa to go home alone and wonder why the data worm wants HER specifically.

Well turns out, it didn't want her specifically, and she isn't as special as she thought she was.

This trio of aliens has actually set up shop at the school and have trained the data worm to specifically harvest negativity. Apparently, negative emotions are a currency on their planet, and a human school is essentially the perfect place to farm it and become rich. It doesn't matter to them that it leaves the victim basically bedridden with exhaustion.

Anyways, I never worked out exactly how the Doctor would work this out, but it ends in the school basically having exploded and the 3 aliens picked up by space authorities. This leaves Elisa without a school and the lingering hurt still left from being called "not special". So when she sees the opportunity to sneak into the Doctor's TARDIS, she does.

This brings us to the next story: THE PHANTOM SUN

The Doctor discovers Elisa has sneaked in, which is perfectly timed with the TARDIS being dragged towards this space ship from the future. A strong gravitational pull has pulled them in and they can't leave. The Doctor is really frustrated with this because she's not keen on endangering a 15 year old with her travels, while also still struggling to figure out how she came to regenerate and what made her "blip" out of existence.

The ship itself is inhabited by Dutch people (hence why the ship looks like a collection of different styled houses)

The people on this ship are just regular people, a lesbian couple, a family with kids, an eccentric artist, some college students, two doctors and a teacher. The landlord of all these houses is this robot called Larry 4410, and it is created by the same company that build this collective space ship and ultimately the party that will receive all their rent.

Little facts aside, the space ship is also stuck in a strong gravitational pull. Well actually, they're not being pulled towards anywhere, they're stuck in space. It's like they're at the centre of said gravitational pull, but nothing's there. On top of that, something terribly strange seems to be happening on the ship. Furniture goes flying, strange texts appear burned onto the walls, and scariest of all... people seem to get possessed.

When they get possessed, you can't comfortably look at them. your eyes will start watering like you're looking at a bright light, when that's not the case... and within a few second of possession, the possessed person bursts into flames from the inside out. It is up to the Doctor to solve this horrifying mystery!

While the Doctor digs into the technicalities and alien aspect of the scene, Elisa is sat with the residents and venting to them about feeling useless. She's comforted by the family, when she wonders out loud how she can understand these Dutch people and the text on the wall. The Doctor explains that the TARDIS translates things for them, and then Elisa tells her that the residents couldn't understand what it had said before, meaning what the TARDIS had translated, wasn't Dutch. The Doctor goes to turn off the automatic translation feature, and it turns out she was right!

It's an ancient language from a planet that has been absorbed by a dying sun long long ago. This is when the Doctor puts together that the sun used to be alive, much like episode "42", and that they're literally being haunted by the ghost of a long-passed sun that used to be worshipped by a loving planet and cannot find peace after having consumed it. The doctor then teaches the residents the ancient sun worship ritual, and the phantom sun can finally rest in peace.

Suspiciously though, the person the kids have been calling "the teacher" in English, has vanished. Elisa tries to ask about it in broken Dutch, but doesn't know the actual Dutch name for "teacher". the kids help her out and ask if she means "de Meester", which startles the Doctor briefly, before she turns on the translation feature again. The Dutch word for "teacher" can also mean "master" for masculine teachers.

Yup! It was the Master all along. They would from this point on become a frequently recurring character in the Doctor and Elisa's lives, just hanging out with them and seemingly appearing obnoxiously harmless.

(They're not doing anything to the Doctor because they've already done it. The Doctor's existence already feeds their Impossible Angel, so the Master is just along for the ride!)

I also had this story idea that features another scenario with the theme "things that aren't supposed to exist, existing anyways"

These are the Kirios! They are descendants (and visually inspired by) the balhuticaris and come from a timeline in which the creatures of the Cambrian Period never went extinct!

The Doctor goes to this time period to excitedly show Elisa the start of earth life, when they get arrested by 2 Kirios. Turns out, the Kirios created a piece of technology that creates a form of time travel called "pinpoint timetravel". It can only go to 1 specific point in time, essentially putting a "pin" in the timeline and allowing Kirios to travel to it, no second earlier or later.

They do this to protect their existence and world. Their world has a lot of natural disasters and dangers, so the Kirios species is naturally wary, but when they learned that their existence is even more fragile than they thought, they decided to also guard the very start of their life on earth!

I also had some other loose ideas for this Doctor :o)

I designed various aliens for fun. I figured the guy on the bottom right would be the one to tell the Master about the vulnerability of Angels when they're not looked at, since it is a blind creature. Like, that they CAN indeed be harmed!

I also created this alien called "Xor Voncus", which is an alien created to work as a sort of hand puppet :oP its species specialises in 1 skill and then throughout the years they hone their skill more and more, until they're basically the best in the universe for getting the job done! this makes them targets, sometimes </3 when they're really just creatures of passion.

I also had this idea that this ginger cat called Jim would tag along to adventures with the Doctor, even if she didn't want it to. The TARDIS would start taking a liking to it and accommodate more and more to Jim living in the TARDIS.

Then there's also the case of the Blind Teen and the Friendly Angel. Liam and Korstmos!

Liam is Elisa's only friend and basically her handyman when she needs to get anything done without the Doctor, with him being a pickpocketer and lock picker and all. He is a sarcastic jokester type of character, always messing with people for a laugh and using his quick wit to defend himself at school.

Then there's Korstmos, a friendly Weeping Angel with seemingly no need to feed. This of course raised the Doctor's suspicions that it might be up to something, when in actuality it really isn't. It just got caught in the crossfires of what the Master was up to, having touched a human paradox and fed on their time energy. With the hunger of a wild beast no longer aching in her stomach, she found other things to do and began to enjoy the world in a whole different way. That isn't to say that she'll live happily ever after, though... She's dying. Much like the Impossible Angel, she's crumbling under the extreme pressure of all this Wrong Time Energy, it is literally killing her where she stands, veeeery slowly.