EIGHTH DOCTOR IN THE NEWEST DOCTOR PUPPET EPISODE (x)
His hair, his hair, his hair! And the coat! <3
Illustration of a scene from Camera Obscura by Lloyd Rose.
It’s not a particularly exciting scene (although it does have nice dialogue), but I thought it’d be fun to try something set at night (I was wrong), and I’ve been wanting to draw Sabbath for a long time.
I’m not exactly happy with this, but I’m posting it anyway.
But this is wonderful! It really catches something of the bleak, Victorian atmosphere in Camera Obscura, and the positions of the characters, with Sabbath following the Doctor a few steps behind, feels a lot like their relationship in that book. And your Sabbath is excellent!
"Maybe my past changes when you’re not looking. Maybe on Tuesdays I’m a god who’s dressing down, and after hours I’m a mad professor who thinks he’s an alien."
— The Doctor in Unnatural History by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman (p. 177)
Rating/warnings PG. Angst.
Pairings Gen, but can be read as Eight/Fitz. Implied, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Doctor/Romana
Spoilers None, apart from the existence of the Earth arc. Also vague foreshadowing of events in Adventuress of Henrietta Street, but it is by no means a spoiler.
Summary Having been stranded on Earth the past twenty years without a purpose, the Doctor decides to help when the Spanish flu starts spreading, but trying to blend in among humans prompts realisations about himself.
Author’s notes I wanted to write something about the fact that even if the Doctor forgets his identity after The Ancestor Cell, he seems to retain all other kinds of knowledge. There are so many parts of the Doctor’s development during the century he spends on Earth which aren’t covered in canon, so I always enjoy exploring that.
Work doodle #1
21.11.12
Today’s revisited headcanon: Time War!Eight with an eyepatch. Absolutely yes.
(I might take this as an excuse to write a Time War fic which has been churning in my brain the past month…)
Intelligent Tigers
Fanart for Kate Orman’s Doctor Who book, The Year of Intelligent Tigers. Because it includes four of my favourite things. The Eighth Doctor, tigers, storms and classical music.
Kate Orman is a great writer.
(via toxis)
When I am upset about things, I think of Eight. It makes everything a little better.
Eight’s amnesia
The Eighth Doctor’s tendency towards amnesia has (for good reasons) become a bit of a running joke - I’ve lost count how many times he loses his memory in the audios and the novels (and I haven’t heard and read everything there is, and have not read any of the comics) But I was thinking - it’s implied in the film that the reason why he loses his memory just after regenerating is that the regeneration almost went wrong. “I was dead too long this time. The anaesthetic nearly destroyed the regenerative process.” What if that’s the reason for all the other instances of amnesia as well? Perhaps something really did go wrong when he regenerated, and he has some kind of brain-damage which makes him prone to amnesia.
