lyricwritesprose:

mistress-carnage:

isagrimorie:

I’ve been seeing a lot of the Doctor, Thirteen specifically being referred to as ‘soft’ and ‘pure’ and I know for some those are just joke-y labels.

New fans coming in are seeing the happy and smile-y, socially awkward Thirteen so I hope new who fans just coming in won’t be too shocked and angry when the Doctor eventually acts like a jackass.

Because they eventually will.

All Doctors have that in them, they’re the same person. They strive and choose to be kind and nice but sometimes they also fall off their own scale and become really, really angry.

They lash out, and can be, on occasion, be more terrifying than the villains they’re fighting.

As we saw in The Tsuranga Conundrum when the Doctor is hurt, panicked, and afraid they can be incredibly tunnel visioned and selfish. They’ve healed from the Time War and the 900 year seige of Tenazalore, but there’s still scar tissue there (witness her sorrow for the Former Assassin Species, she knows what it’s like to feel that way), and we saw that at this point in time the Doctor can’t take any loss.

She’s practically more dependent on the TARDIS than her other regenerations. Just having the TARDIS towed away where she parked her might trigger another panicked reaction from Thirteen.

So losing anyone she considers fam, might be the most terrible thing to happen. To her, and the universe at large.

(‘I will reduce a solar system to cinder for anyone I loved.’).

The Doctor is capable of the darkest action, they try not to but someone who is literally in a dictionary definition of genocide is not someone to be trifled with.

Unfortunately, the Doctor can also lash out against people they love too.

So… I just hope new fans also realize the Doctor can be a dick, it’s a part of them they’re trying to overcome it, and be a better person but it’s still there hidden under all the layers of bouncy smiles.

TLDR, Thirteen looks like a cinnamon roll but push comes to shove and you really get her furious, she can actually kill you. Or worse.

The Doctor’s Fate Worse Than Deaths punishment are legendary, and a lot wish the Doctor killed them instead.

(Seriously, for a heroic character their body count is… a lot. I think they’re body count is more than anyone in fiction I know).

It’s quite sick of me but I’m looking forward to this in later series.

I’m looking forward to this because I think it’s part of what makes the Doctor a fascinating character.  She has a lot of the characteristics of a villain.  In fact, the main thing that makes the Doctor not a villain is choice.  Each individual choice she makes.

And sometimes, she doesn’t make the right choice, and the villain side of her shows through, and I think that’s fascinating.  It speaks to my view on ethics.  Good isn’t something you are, good is something you try to do—complete with screw-ups.