For one, their timestreams. If you want to make a doomed love from the start, THAT IS HOW. Like, what do you mean the first time he meets her is the last time she sees him? What do you mean she loves them so much but doesn't think that love is reciprocated?

How they're both going forwards and backwards at the same time? Every time he meets her, he knows so much about her. But every time she meets him, further on back down the line, he knows less and less. Until one day he doesn't know her at all.

When they meet in the middle they can only stop for a brief moment before going separate ways again.

The Doctor loves River so much that it hurts them. Their wife, the woman they trust with their name, which few know. River, the woman who broke time because she couldn't bear for the Doctor to die not knowing how loved he was. That the universe needs them both because they need each other.

They save each other so many times. He always comes to help when she calls.

"You're always here to me. And I always listen."

He acknowledges that he avoided the truth because it was too painful. But he admits it anyway when it matters the most. He kisses her when she's not even there, not really. And they part in that special way, because it's true, they will meet again, so the goodbye doesn't have to be permanent.

The Doctor spends 24 years with River.

She has a diary to relive every moment together.

Do you think her data ghost reads it like a bedtime story? A story that's never ending even when it's been read through over and over because it never gets old, it's always new.

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hey guys i was enbyeighthdoctor but my account got suspended so ill be posting on this back up for now (and if i never get my accounts back ill make a new dw sideblog)

i thought id post the link to my fic rec again so i can find old mutuals and because my old posts with it will be hard to find now

theres lots of different ships and non shippy fics however as an eighth doctor fan theres A LOT of ones involving him. ill also tag ships and characters that come up a lot in the rec.