1) Who I ship that character with and why. Rose obviously. The why factor...it occurs to me that I didn't make it real clear how i was meant to answer this but I'm going to address it in a few different ways. I ship the Doctor with Rose because she makes him happy. I ship him with her because she makes him a better and more whole person than he can be without her. I ship them because their's is a love story for the ages, expertly told and an inspiration that TV can tell love stories. I ship them because the show does.
2) How willing I am to view the character with other people in the: -past
Well, while intellectually I know that the Doctor almost certainly has loved before he met Rose he is 900 years old after all, I can't quite get my head or heart around it. I tend to think it was so long ago that he (in many ways) isn't the same person any more. I really don't think he had a concept of this kind of love before Rose, particularly that he could feel it.
Personally I view his relationship with Susan's grandma as formal but affectionate, and his dysfunctional cat and mouse game with the Master as that but not romantic. And while he's certainly cared for his companions and some of them might have been slightly tinged with romance, he never committed his heart to it before and kept things friendly.
-present
Since the day he met Rose there has not been any one else for him and won't be for a w good while now (Ten II probably never), it's as simple as that.
-future
Again, intellectually I accept that one day he might fall in love again but he's going to have to put some distance and time (and not just TARDIS travel wise) between him and both Rose and the issues that managed to keep him from her even. Because he's not going to be over her soon (we know that from experience) but also needs to be able to move past say his wither and die issues that like I said even with Rose he was never able to realize that it was better to have loved and lost/didn't hurt less by holding back. He still hasn't gotten that aspect of love completely and it'll be a while before I would believe he could.
However, in time, as long as it isn't she who will not be named I might be able to handle seeing him love again.
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Date: 2008-12-13 10:38 pm (UTC)Rose obviously. The why factor...it occurs to me that I didn't make it real clear how i was meant to answer this but I'm going to address it in a few different ways. I ship the Doctor with Rose because she makes him happy. I ship him with her because she makes him a better and more whole person than he can be without her. I ship them because their's is a love story for the ages, expertly told and an inspiration that TV can tell love stories. I ship them because the show does.
2) How willing I am to view the character with other people in the:
-past
Well, while intellectually I know that the Doctor almost certainly has loved before he met Rose he is 900 years old after all, I can't quite get my head or heart around it. I tend to think it was so long ago that he (in many ways) isn't the same person any more. I really don't think he had a concept of this kind of love before Rose, particularly that he could feel it.
Personally I view his relationship with Susan's grandma as formal but affectionate, and his dysfunctional cat and mouse game with the Master as that but not romantic. And while he's certainly cared for his companions and some of them might have been slightly tinged with romance, he never committed his heart to it before and kept things friendly.
-present
Since the day he met Rose there has not been any one else for him and won't be for a w good while now (Ten II probably never), it's as simple as that.
-future
Again, intellectually I accept that one day he might fall in love again but he's going to have to put some distance and time (and not just TARDIS travel wise) between him and both Rose and the issues that managed to keep him from her even. Because he's not going to be over her soon (we know that from experience) but also needs to be able to move past say his wither and die issues that like I said even with Rose he was never able to realize that it was better to have loved and lost/didn't hurt less by holding back. He still hasn't gotten that aspect of love completely and it'll be a while before I would believe he could.
However, in time, as long as it isn't she who will not be named I might be able to handle seeing him love again.