#lkh

The woman who kills the Doctor (11933 words) by Hvis_og_bare_hvis Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Doctor Who (2005) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Eleventh Doctor/Mels Zucker, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Eleventh Doctor & Amy Pond & Rory Williams & Mels Zucker Characters: Mels Zucker, Eleventh Doctor (Doctor Who), Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Rory Williams, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Heavy Angst, Murder, Child Murder, Harm to Children, Self-Sacrifice, Healing, Eventual Fluff

Summary: The Doctor, Mels and her (still oblivious) parents are celebrating the survival of their latest adventure when accidentally, a shot is fired. Mels is hit fatally, which makes coming clean and telling Amy and Rory who she is a sudden matter of urgency. Which isn't even the worst news: She doesn't suspect yet that regenerating will weaken her resolve to go against her programming and let the Doctor live. And unfortunately, neither does he

I published the lkh rewrite with girlfriend/boyfriend Mels x Eleven I wrote about half a year ago!

[ID: gif of Mels and the Doctor in front of the TARDIS. She says "I'm their best mate" and he answers "Then why don't I know you? I danced with everyone at the wedding." end ID]

Because of course, the Doctor should have known (& dated) Mels long before lkh takes place. So I made her a companion. Which would lead to quite a different situation in the actual episode. Quite a tad more angsty but also Mels gets to make her own decisions and not just the ones the plot demands of her <3

I also got rid of 1940s Germany because why include nazis when you can do without, right? Instead, we're getting a nice spaceship because when the Doctor dies, there should be stars.

(Warning/Explanation: There's a lot of blood in this one. And for some reason my mind produced a bunch of child extras, so the 'Harm to Children' tag is there for psychological damage due to witnessing multiple people being killed. The 'Child Murder' tag refers to a kid accidentally shooting Mels.)

song jaeil + kids

daleks in manhattan

circa 1930

more ten and martha!

just more of your usual doctor who balancing a critique of american capitalism with...pigs and human daleks???

i know i’m watching martha out of order but i’ve already been reminded of how she had her own proper development, like her confidence isn’t where it will be even a few eps later in family of blood and just i love her

when i was putting together the list of episodes i was like huh daleks in new york in the 30s i don’t really remember that

probably bc it was not very memorable lol

evolution of the daleks

circa 1930

there’s just so much potential subtext here that is just all over the place re capitalism and pigs and daleks and the 30s

god tallulah i love her too

ten really was just like let me carry all my burdens around with me all the time and reference them often

like no disrespect cuz #youneverforgetyourfirstdoc

interesting having just had ascension of the cybermen where time lords being evolved are part of villainy versus here where time lord dna is part of the solution

i do really love the end--like i love it with all docs--where they’re facing down something inevitable like a person’s death and they’re like hell no not today

cuz sometime you just need that extra fight against the universe

let’s kill hitler

circa 1938

gosh they really don’t know what to do with this period in history do they

other than the fact that this ep was filled with a lot of things that rub me the wrong way like casual sexism and n*zis for shock value

i’d like to appreciate every single actor on this ridiculous show for acting the heck out of whatever is happening here

i mean kingston is having the time of her life being melody and the child of gillan and darvill here 

smith got to have a dramatic doc death scene (and god his physicality!) 

gillan as the robot version as herself

so yeah i’ve got one more 1938 and let’s see where that lands

the angels take manhattan

circa 1938

the 30s are for new york

wow we actually delivered on this one

weeping angels always a hit

like all the pulling on the heartstrings moments with less of the confusion that i associate with this era

wow i’m just now realizing how often the companions get questionable endings 

a lot of them are bittersweet where they end up in an irreversible but not altogether horrible situation esp given the alternatives (rose, the ponds, clara, bill)

and some are just brutal (donna!!!) (i mean the other ones r brutal in addition to bittersweet but donna!!)

anyway saying goodbye always hurts!!!!