tOo Many ROmAnaAs

fucks me up that romana's trauma is a known quantity that no one knows about. everyone knows that the president of gallifrey was kidnapped and tortured for twenty years. most people even from time to time connect it with that blonde cranky liberal running their planet. every main character - the doctor, leela, brax, narvin, and so on - all of them know that something happened to romana. but not one person knows what happened to romana. she has to deal with a traumatic backstory, but she doesn't get to keep it a secret. her tragic backstory is common knowledge! and yet no one understands the weight of it. not one person grasps that it fucked her up, never mind the extent to which it fucked her up. everyone knows romana has issues. but i don't think even her friends really get that there's a reason she acts in the messed up ways that she does.

@twojamie-o-clock

puts my uncomfortably wet hand on your shoulder. see here, gay boy- can i call you gay boy?

Romana: So you're telling me I have to come up with a solution all by myself to a problem I created all by myself? Romana: Well that's not fair.