#engagemythrusters

Gosh, as much as I LOVE the idea of a big nautolan teaching the little ones how to swim, I feel like it makes more sense for a human to at least go through the first few years of lessons and training.

(But I'm also imagining a situation where the aquatic species is initially called in and is genuinely confused at being asked to teach the cadets how to swim. 'Cause, like, "What do you mean they don't know? Do-- Just put them in the water? All hatchlings know before they even learn how to talk on my home planet... What? Oh... Oh, that explains so much... No, it's no big deal. Call me when they're older, I guess.")

However, when the underwater combat training really gears up, then I think the aquatic instructor would come in so that the cadets can learn how to: 1. Work with/against an aquatic species. 2. Handle situations where you can literally be attacked from all directions.

“Do what?” Kaz asked. His eyes did not look up from the document he stared down at.

“Make people scared of you.”

Slowly, Kaz’s eyes raised to Wylan’s face.

Here he is :] helping with the iftar preparations

I’m really on-brand and predictable tonight, aren’t I? Love this ship. Thank you so much!! (From this)

So what fucks Tish up the most is that, after the Year that Never Was, everything turned back in time. All the memories and the trauma and the pain are there, in her head and her memories, and her family’s memories, and Jack’s... but she has nothing physical to remember it by. She has scars, she knows she does, from cruel UNIT guards and careless moves around Jack whenever he was being tortured. But they’re gone. Her body is as good as new but her mind is always racing. She feels lost, unable to point and say “this is what the problem is” and she thinks it would be easier if she could have some concrete evidence. 

Lois has a scar on the bottom of her foot where she tripped over a sharp rock at the beach once. She was never particularly athletic or adventurous, always preferring to excel in school and spend nights in with family and friends, so when the mess with the 456 is over, she’s surprised that the marks around her wrists from too-tight UNIT handcuffs don’t quite go away.

So Tish and Lois, one desperately craving a physical sign that she went through something and the other needing the scars to go away, find comfort in each other. [Ben Wyatt meme] It’s about the coming together to heal from trauma and getting a mutually supportive relationship that helps you grow but also lets you have fun.

12. if you were to pair up two characters for the first time in an audio, who would they be? 

ianto and andy !! IANTO AND ANDY. oh the potential with those two. they never get scenes together and i just really want to see gareth and tom play off each other. i can’t imagine it won’t be awkward as fuck but they both have such comedic potential that i really want to see how they would be when stuck in a torchwood situation together. not to mention, tom and gareth are like the most consistent big finish actors, why have we not put them together yet? gimme.

15. funniest scene?

Gwen and Ianto with this

YESSSSSSS!!! ......In fact, it was actually them I was primarily thinking about when I made this post because they do this in Separation Anxiety which I have been rereading.... I love that fic etc.