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Doctor Who Fest: day 9

↳ goodbye: companion death’s

Disgustingly Cheesy Stucky AU #3

Wherein Steve and Bucky live across the hall from each other, and Steve keeps “losing the keys to his apartment” whenever Bucky is around. It’s pretty annoying at first, like having some stray dog follow him around. Even after they have sex Bucky wants Steve out right away. But after a while the big loveable jerk starts to grow on him. 

“I’m happy we met,” Bucky mumbles one night as they’re falling asleep, practically incoherent. 

Apparently this is what I do between cliffhanger episodes.

As always, this pattern is free, in accordance with the Night Vale Code of Ethics. If you see someone selling it, let me know. If you make one yourself, show me, and I will make high pitched noises of adoration in your general direction. And don’t forget to throw money, so very much money, at Commonplace Books.

I wanted to draw scenes from the different countries Cecil visited in A Memory of Europe and ended up with this awkward-looking photoset bc i didn’t plan ot the sizes at all

What really made me think this is how Carlos knows he’s not from Night Vale, but he doesn’t remember ever arriving. That’s basically how most children of immigrants feel. We don’t remember arriving because maybe we were born in the US, but we still know this isn’t our original home, or original home is whatever country out parents left. So Carlos’ story already begins with this narrative.

And now, with this new development, he’s set up roots in this new community, but what he knew all along is true, he’s not from Night Vale, not really. Which is kind of true for us, as much as we set up roots in the US, we’re not from here, not really. Even if it’s the only home we remember ever having, the universe (read: society) will consistently remind us that we’re outsiders.

And now, with the gates closed and with Carlos in this other desert, he’s effectively been deported. Maybe his papers will be figured out and he’ll get to come back to Night Vale to be with Cecil (maybe they end up getting married to prove to the universe that Carlos belongs there *wink wink*).

Romana’s is the only on-screen regeneration we ever see that isn’t the result of trauma.  And, if we choose to take it at face value, it also doesn’t seem to have been painful, inspired no post-regenerative brain-crazies, and allowed her both remarkable fluidity and remarkable control over the end result.  This is probably not five or six wasted regenerations, but a single regeneration carried out very deliberately and carefully.  (And given that Lalla Ward is the only one who speaks, she may just have been messing with him this whole time).

This may be our only glimpse of a normal Time Lord regeneration.  The Doctor’s certainly aren’t.  Like, he does it wrong every single time - he has no idea what it’s like to regenerate on purpose.  Presumably on Gallifrey they don’t tend to get irradiated by giant Spiders and such all the time - they’re probably scheduled long in advance when being old and doddering starts to get tiresome.  We see two regenerations that don’t take place on the very point of death (but are nevertheless still trauma-induced).  In each case, the person involved has at least some control over the end result, and comparatively little pain and minimal post-regenerative brain-crazies.  It’s super interesting.

Now, I have an independent headcanon that Time Lords only reach the age of majority after their first regeneration.  Which means that the First Doctor is literally a dumb kid.  And it would mean that Romana’s regeneration at this time is a decision to become an adult.  (Also Mary Tamm was pregnant and therefore unable to appear in her own regeneration scene without raising awkward questions about shenanigans in the TARDIS)