for the wip meme: I was giving other people a chance to ask first, but now I gotta ask β want to talk about a rp verse of your choice? π
:) well you explained the logistics so i'll say things I like about them!
conspiracyverse:
-i love characters interacting with alternate timeline versions of themselves. it's very character study-y. very i'm-gonna-put-this-character-in-a-jar-and-shake-it (with an identical one in a different jar for the experimental control). which events make them who they are? who would they be if this didn't happen or if that happened or if they saw their future and feared it?
-it's extra powerful because one set of them are kids, they're unformed versions of themselves, they really could be different people. are the adult versions gonna want better for them or resent them for still having all their choices left?
-i love how on one hand this theoretically has the potential for things to go better than the original timeline but on the other we are giving them so many other kinds of trauma it could easily go worse oops
-the freedom for anything to happen, no tracks of canon to follow
redemptionverse
-i appreciate how this one is high concept, not "takes ten minutes and several diagrams to explain" concept
-i love exploring how they could come back from the point of no return, from Sartia crossing a line that can never be uncrossed. and it does seem like the trauma and vulnerability Romana has post Apocalypse Element, where in canon her only friend abandons her alone on this planet where there's no one who she can be a person with, not the President (seriously, doctor, at the start of the day you thought she was dead and now you can't even stay the night to check your starved, barely standing, friend is doing okay?) is the place that has the most chance.
Romana's in such a bad place and hasn't gone through the character development of having healthier* friendships in Gallifrey, it's conceivable that she'd forgive anything just to have someone to trust and talk to at that point
*look some of those friendships may involve i-murdered-your-husband-and-confessed-and-then-we-never-talked-about-it but that still beats i-tried-to-kill-you
-how it's even messier because of the lies and manipulation involved on Sartia's end, it's all very fragile
-and of course, retelling Gallifrey and tearing our hair out trying to find in-universe solutions to canon plotholes is fun
