Liam the Legendary

BUT i feel like people get it mixed up. the doctor isn't orpheus. rose is. rose is always the one fighting through hell and high water for them, the one who has, multiple times, faced impossible odds to get the doctor out of proverbial hell. the doctor's position as eurydice is acceptance of his fate. that he deserves his place. but he sees orpheus fight for him and even though that doesn't change things, he knows he is loved.

the game station? bad wolf? orpheus and eurycide, but orpheus succeeds. krop tor? the satan pit? how much more obvious can you get? orpheus and eurycide but eurycide climbs out of the underworld.

but see, then you get doomsday. then you get the tragedy, and although it seems like rose is eurydice dragged to hades, you just have to ask: who fights to get back? who gets their "wait for me" in the form of missing stars and dimension cannon jumps? rose. she's orpheus, jumping universes with her own song of love leading her back to eurydice. and the doctor does turn around on the street (very orpheus, i know. the comparison writes itself) BUT then he dies! he gets shot! back to the underworld!

the metacrisis regeneration is, as mentioned before, the final death of orpheus and the reunion of lovers in the underworld. because everyone seems to forget that part is possible, if not thinly implied in ovid's "metamorphoses".

timepetals + bad wolf / religion

"and the stars look very different today..."

«Michael was protective of the frail old woman he believed her to be. So… so delicate, so forgetful, yet gently wise. He cared for her. He trusted her...»

I would love to hear more of your thoughts on the matter, moments of the book that point to it, etc

Me too exhausted to explain there's more than one Robin: Batman

Guy: oh! Did you watch the Joker movie? It was surprisingly good for a DC film haha

Me: yeah it was something

Guy: you know they really fucked up on Justice League, but I've got to say Wonder Woman was better than Captain Marvel. Like, we get it, "yay girl power." That's great but it was so over the top. It totally ostracized half of it's audience.

Me: wow really

Guy: yeah. You know, you seem pretty chill. Maybe we could hang out sometime and watch some decent superhero movies? You know, Marvel movies haha

Me: i never asked, who's your favorite hero?

Guy: Iron Man. Like Batman but richer and cooler haha

Me: you know, Batman's rule? No killing?

Guy: yeah?

Me: i have no such rule. Lindsey, I found another one. My usual, please

Lindsey, the barista: *hands me my sword*

Guy: wow that's a poor replica of the God Killer blade, it should have more- *beheaded*

Me: thank god that's over

Lindsey: yeah. Hey want to watch Birds of Prey with me sometime?

Me: oh? You mean like as... a date?

Her: well yeah... is that okay?

Me: of course it's okay! all this time, all these years, i never knew you felt that way

Her: i don't keep a replica of Wonder Woman's sword under the counter for just anyone

Me: i never thought about it that way