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WEEKLY DRABBLE/SKETCH CHALLENGE ONE HUNDRED

Nov 14, 2011 13:16

Hello, yes. Welcome to the ONE HUNDREDTH WEEKLY DRABBLE/SKETCH CHALLENGE*! On this day, the day of the ONE HUNDRETH WEEKLY DRABBLE/SKETCH CHALLENGE** we have decided to do something different. This idea largely courtesy of x_los. We would like the com to collectively write/draw:

ONE HUNDRED DRABBLES AND/OR SKETCHES. I have a lovely table that I yoinked ( Read more... )

weekly drabble/sketch challenge, fanart, drabble

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Death dragonofmemory November 15 2011, 00:01:18 UTC

((Mem is cheating slightly, since the majority of this was something that was cut from another fic I wrote. However, I liked it too much to disregard completely and this gives me a reason to bring it out. <3 ))The Doctor almost couldn't remember a time when the Master wasn't afraid of death. When they were sixteen, Theta managed to get his hands on the blueprints to a primitive form of time travel that some alien race had created to manipulate the vortex. Primitive, but working, and it was enough to give them a rudimentary knowledge of how to build their own long before they were allowed to do so ( ... )

Re: Death blackrose42 November 15 2011, 02:04:52 UTC

I love this! Very realistic, I can really believe this happening.

Re: Death dragonofmemory November 15 2011, 02:23:30 UTC

Thanks! I think Time Lords are very sheltered from death in general, so it was fun playing with a little culture shock.

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Re: Death dragonofmemory November 15 2011, 03:39:24 UTC

*blushes* Thanks! I was a little worried about the framing, to be honest. The original bit felt naked without the rest of the fic and it seemed to need some sort of frame. So I tried Ten and the funeral pyre and Eight/Nine with the Time War before settling on Five and Planet of Fire as the one that seemed to suck the least. I wasn't sure if it really worked though. ^_^;;;

Re: Death narwhale_callin November 16 2011, 00:54:48 UTC

Very nice. Somehow this small little drabble manages to carry a lot of emotional weight, especially at the end. Well done!

Re: Death dragonofmemory November 16 2011, 03:38:24 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. XD It's nice to keep things short, every once and a while.

Re: Death aietradaea November 16 2011, 04:51:42 UTC

Oh, wow... I love this - the idea that young Time Lords are so cut off and sheltered from what goes on in the rest of the universe, that they take their own ability to regenerate for granted so much that seeing it not happen could terrify them like that...it's not often you see the cultural mindset of Time Lords properly being explored.

And maybe this incident could have had something of an impact on the Doctor too - the first seeds of deciding not to just stand by and watch what goes on out there... Well, that's what I'm getting out of that last paragraph, anyway.

Re: Death dragonofmemory November 16 2011, 12:47:38 UTC

Thanks! I've often wondered what the Doctor thought when he first saw a real death. I mean, if he's expecting to regenerate, death isn't something a Time Lord can really understand off hand. I also like imagining him having to explain it to Susan. XD

Oh, I think it definitely had an impact on the Doctor as well.

Thanks again for the comments!

Re: Death aietradaea November 17 2011, 22:22:13 UTC

Oh yes, that would have been an interesting talk...especially if Susan was too young to have been to the Academy and learned properly about other worlds. :/

Very welcome for the comments! :)

Re: Death badflameb November 17 2011, 22:04:14 UTC

Love. Just plain love. That last line broke my heart a little.

Re: Death dragonofmemory November 17 2011, 22:27:30 UTC

Thanks!

Also, yay for chocobos!

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