30 Days of Who: Day 28
An episode idea you created yourself: Fivey Fan-season
Yes, as per my overactive everything-is-translated-to-anime-in-my-mind imagination and my fannish admiration for the original Team Fivey, I've had a lot of ideas buzzing around in my head about what I would do with them if I could make my own animated fan-season with some stuff oriented towards further character development (mostly growing Adric up a bit and getting him and Nyssa together). All of this is totally plausible as fanfic, but I'm highly doubting I'd ever get to writing any of it. It'd be nice, though.
Here are the individual stories I've mulled over the most.
The Self-Stealers:
My break-Adric-and-rebuild-him-better story (the first in a two-part loose arc), using the obligatory "haunted space station/ship" set-up. Team Fivey lands on a Mysterious Empty Space Station/Ship and goes exploring, everybody splitting up. Adric gets ambushed by a mysterious entity that gradually start to turn into him. When the rest of the team finds two seemingly identical Adrics both claiming to be the real one, they put the mysterious twins through a series of Questions Only The Real Adric Could Answer. Turns out the self-stealer is not only copying the original Adric but gradually diminishing him as well, so the real one is cast in deep suspicion when he fails to answer a series of complex formulae that the copy gets right. The nail in the coffin is the self-stealer responding to this with a certain brand of arrogant smugness that register to Five and Tegan as "yep, that's the real one alright." Nyssa, on the other hand, still suspects fowl play. After the real Adric is cast out, a span of time covers the self-stealer sabotaging things for [insert villainous motivation here] while Team Fivey discovers more about the nearly-identical corpses they keep finding everywhere. The real Adric is left wandering the station, lost in thought and literally losing his color. While his other skills are deteriorating, his sense of reason is still strong enough to acknowledge that the fact that his TARDIS-mates saw the more childishly arrogant version of him as "the real one" means that it's time for him to man up. He sets off to find the self-stealer, but his physical strength starts failing. Five and Tegan discover that the ship's logs and learn about the truth of both the ship and the second Adric (the self-stealers had invaded the ship years ago and everyone aboard was so confused/disoriented/panicked about who was real and who wasn't that they eventually wound up all just killing each other) and Nyssa finds the real Adric and gives him an I-Believe-In-You Speech, granting him that last boost of confidence he needs to face off with the self-stealer. Just when the bugger is about to [insert evil plan here], the real Adric shows up, makes some Obligatory Dramatic Speech about growing up and the value of individuality and seizing the self-stealer by the face, draining its power and returning Adric to normal, but finally setting him down the road to maturity.
War Bonds:
The second of my two major fixing-Adric stories, taking place with some other stories inbetween. For this one I figured "what's a good way to demonstrate that Adric's grown up a bit?" and the answer that came to me was "give him someone to be a mentor to." Hence, this story. Team Fivey lands on a Desolate War-Torn Planet and split off into two main plot threads: Adric again gets separated from the rest of the group by a sudden skirmish and meets a boy named Ellien who's trying to reach his older brother on the other side of the war zone. Meanwhile, one faction of the war tries to recruit Five, Nyssa, and Tegan to the war effort (Nyssa to the medical labs because of her biochemestry skills, and Five and Tegan to the soldiering ranks, which they both adamantly refuse but Tegan still goes through a gun-training subplot). Adric and Ellien bond a lot during their travels, with Adric seeing some of his old self in his young charge (notably in the "everyone shoves me aside because they don't think I can do anything right" department, leading to some major self-confidence issues). At some point, while talking about their relationships with their respective older brothers, Adric stops himself from saying that his own brother is dead, for fear that Ellien will start to lose hope. Eventually, they find Ellien's rebel tribe and rest, learning that Ellien's brother has been taken prisoner by the other side. Some stuff ensues and, thanks to Adric's influence, Ellien plucks up the courage to fight for his brother. Unfortunately, this results in him sacrificing himself to blow up an Important Bad Guy Thing before he and his brother can be reunited. The rest of Team Fivey comes in and the Doctor uses his awesomeness to finish saving the day. In the aftermath, Adric is horribly distraught by Ellien's death and blames himself, but is saved from the verge of emo by Ellien's brother Ellious. He tells Adric that he heard from the others in the rebel tribe how traveling with him had made Ellien a stronger person and thanks him, saying that if Ellien was going to die in this war at least he died a hero.
The Sky Beasts:
The obligatory "freeing the enslaved race" story. Team Fivey lands on a world populated by huge beautiful epic birds and the Human Aliens who keep them for luxury trade and airshows. The birds and Tegan seem to bond with each other quite strongly and the team learns about the world's history from two different perspectives: the birds (who were once the dominant race and A Proud and Grand Civilization and can communicate with Tegan through an empathic link), and the humanoids.
Wait a sec...I've basically just rewritten Planet of the Ood with giant birds, haven't I?
The Safe House:
The obligatory "our heroes find themselves somewhere where they must face their worst fears" story. Team Fivey finds themselves in a strange mansion where all their fears come alive, and not as illusions. The companions get separated from Five and manage to fend off the scaries enough to let them escape to a safe room. Figuring there's not much they can do for the moment, they have a bit of thoughtful bonding time (because, seriously, was there ANY of that with all three of them in the show?). Five finally finds the one remaining mansion resident (after saving him from his fear) and learns that the place is actually an experimental mental hospital gone horribly wrong. The theory had been forced-therapy by making patients overcome their worst fears, but the device that ran it was only supposed to create illusions, not make the fears physically manifest (which killed off the first batch of experimental patients). Still, they can be repelled by mental energy and Five manages to get in touch with his companions to relay the information while he sets out to destroy the device running the mansion. Things happen, good guys win, the end.
(This story probably has a GREAT number of holes in it)
Land of the Rising Sun:
Probably every "onsen episode" I've ever seen at the same time, because my brain demanded it. Team Fivey spends some time at a hot spring in rural Japan and meet some entities that might be local Japanese kami (spirits) or might be aliens with benevolent or malevolent intentions. The main purpose of this episode is to split the guys and girls up for a bit so they can have some honest mostly uninterrupted guy-talk and girl-talk, and will probably be more comedy-oriented.
Day 01 - Your Favourite Quote: Multiple
Day 02 - Your Favourite Classic Series Episode: The Mind Robber/Battlefield
Day 03 - Your Favourite New Series Episode: Girl in the Fireplace/Midnight/Vincent and the Doctor
Day 04 - Your Favourite Doctor: Ten (New), Three (Classic)
Day 05 - Your Favourite Companion: Donna (New), Romana/Leela/Ace/Jamie (Classic)
Day 06 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Adric-picspam
Day 07 - Your Favourite Piece of Music: This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home
Day 08 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Happy: Happy!Six and happy!Peri, Tennant/Barrowman
Day 09 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad: The Three Doctors
Day 10 - A Who-Related Photo That You Took: Bermuda TARDIS
Day 11 - Your Favorite Season (Classic or New): Season 7
Day 12 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Motivator-spam
Day 13 - Your Favorite Villain: The Master
Day 14 - The Villain Who Scared You the Most: The Weeping Angels
Day 15 - Favorite Who-Related Tumblr: The Stupid Faces of Doctor Who
Day 16 - Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic: The Ten Doctors
Day 17 - A Piece of Who-Related FanArt: Music of Time/OTPARDIS
Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: The Kidnappers
Day 19 - The Scene That Made Your Cry the Most: The Tenth Doctor's regeneration
Day 20 - The Character Who Is Most Like You: Any given RTD-era female companion
Day 21 - Your Doctor Who OTP: Four/Romana
Day 22 - A Who-Related Fan-Site: Doctor Who's Tragical History Tour
Day 23 - A Who-Related YouTube Video: Every Doctor Who Story: 1963-2008/Brigadier: The Unsung Hero
Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: A message from the First Doctor
Day 25 - Favorite Who Actor: David Tennant (New), Jon Pertwee (Classic)
Day 26 - Favorite Who Actress: Catherine Tate (New), Lalla Ward (Classic)
Day 27 - An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made: The Long Game
Day 28 - An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 - Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Yes, as per my overactive everything-is-translated-to-anime-in-my-mind imagination and my fannish admiration for the original Team Fivey, I've had a lot of ideas buzzing around in my head about what I would do with them if I could make my own animated fan-season with some stuff oriented towards further character development (mostly growing Adric up a bit and getting him and Nyssa together). All of this is totally plausible as fanfic, but I'm highly doubting I'd ever get to writing any of it. It'd be nice, though.
Here are the individual stories I've mulled over the most.
The Self-Stealers:
My break-Adric-and-rebuild-him-better story (the first in a two-part loose arc), using the obligatory "haunted space station/ship" set-up. Team Fivey lands on a Mysterious Empty Space Station/Ship and goes exploring, everybody splitting up. Adric gets ambushed by a mysterious entity that gradually start to turn into him. When the rest of the team finds two seemingly identical Adrics both claiming to be the real one, they put the mysterious twins through a series of Questions Only The Real Adric Could Answer. Turns out the self-stealer is not only copying the original Adric but gradually diminishing him as well, so the real one is cast in deep suspicion when he fails to answer a series of complex formulae that the copy gets right. The nail in the coffin is the self-stealer responding to this with a certain brand of arrogant smugness that register to Five and Tegan as "yep, that's the real one alright." Nyssa, on the other hand, still suspects fowl play. After the real Adric is cast out, a span of time covers the self-stealer sabotaging things for [insert villainous motivation here] while Team Fivey discovers more about the nearly-identical corpses they keep finding everywhere. The real Adric is left wandering the station, lost in thought and literally losing his color. While his other skills are deteriorating, his sense of reason is still strong enough to acknowledge that the fact that his TARDIS-mates saw the more childishly arrogant version of him as "the real one" means that it's time for him to man up. He sets off to find the self-stealer, but his physical strength starts failing. Five and Tegan discover that the ship's logs and learn about the truth of both the ship and the second Adric (the self-stealers had invaded the ship years ago and everyone aboard was so confused/disoriented/panicked about who was real and who wasn't that they eventually wound up all just killing each other) and Nyssa finds the real Adric and gives him an I-Believe-In-You Speech, granting him that last boost of confidence he needs to face off with the self-stealer. Just when the bugger is about to [insert evil plan here], the real Adric shows up, makes some Obligatory Dramatic Speech about growing up and the value of individuality and seizing the self-stealer by the face, draining its power and returning Adric to normal, but finally setting him down the road to maturity.
War Bonds:
The second of my two major fixing-Adric stories, taking place with some other stories inbetween. For this one I figured "what's a good way to demonstrate that Adric's grown up a bit?" and the answer that came to me was "give him someone to be a mentor to." Hence, this story. Team Fivey lands on a Desolate War-Torn Planet and split off into two main plot threads: Adric again gets separated from the rest of the group by a sudden skirmish and meets a boy named Ellien who's trying to reach his older brother on the other side of the war zone. Meanwhile, one faction of the war tries to recruit Five, Nyssa, and Tegan to the war effort (Nyssa to the medical labs because of her biochemestry skills, and Five and Tegan to the soldiering ranks, which they both adamantly refuse but Tegan still goes through a gun-training subplot). Adric and Ellien bond a lot during their travels, with Adric seeing some of his old self in his young charge (notably in the "everyone shoves me aside because they don't think I can do anything right" department, leading to some major self-confidence issues). At some point, while talking about their relationships with their respective older brothers, Adric stops himself from saying that his own brother is dead, for fear that Ellien will start to lose hope. Eventually, they find Ellien's rebel tribe and rest, learning that Ellien's brother has been taken prisoner by the other side. Some stuff ensues and, thanks to Adric's influence, Ellien plucks up the courage to fight for his brother. Unfortunately, this results in him sacrificing himself to blow up an Important Bad Guy Thing before he and his brother can be reunited. The rest of Team Fivey comes in and the Doctor uses his awesomeness to finish saving the day. In the aftermath, Adric is horribly distraught by Ellien's death and blames himself, but is saved from the verge of emo by Ellien's brother Ellious. He tells Adric that he heard from the others in the rebel tribe how traveling with him had made Ellien a stronger person and thanks him, saying that if Ellien was going to die in this war at least he died a hero.
The Sky Beasts:
The obligatory "freeing the enslaved race" story. Team Fivey lands on a world populated by huge beautiful epic birds and the Human Aliens who keep them for luxury trade and airshows. The birds and Tegan seem to bond with each other quite strongly and the team learns about the world's history from two different perspectives: the birds (who were once the dominant race and A Proud and Grand Civilization and can communicate with Tegan through an empathic link), and the humanoids.
Wait a sec...I've basically just rewritten Planet of the Ood with giant birds, haven't I?
The Safe House:
The obligatory "our heroes find themselves somewhere where they must face their worst fears" story. Team Fivey finds themselves in a strange mansion where all their fears come alive, and not as illusions. The companions get separated from Five and manage to fend off the scaries enough to let them escape to a safe room. Figuring there's not much they can do for the moment, they have a bit of thoughtful bonding time (because, seriously, was there ANY of that with all three of them in the show?). Five finally finds the one remaining mansion resident (after saving him from his fear) and learns that the place is actually an experimental mental hospital gone horribly wrong. The theory had been forced-therapy by making patients overcome their worst fears, but the device that ran it was only supposed to create illusions, not make the fears physically manifest (which killed off the first batch of experimental patients). Still, they can be repelled by mental energy and Five manages to get in touch with his companions to relay the information while he sets out to destroy the device running the mansion. Things happen, good guys win, the end.
(This story probably has a GREAT number of holes in it)
Land of the Rising Sun:
Probably every "onsen episode" I've ever seen at the same time, because my brain demanded it. Team Fivey spends some time at a hot spring in rural Japan and meet some entities that might be local Japanese kami (spirits) or might be aliens with benevolent or malevolent intentions. The main purpose of this episode is to split the guys and girls up for a bit so they can have some honest mostly uninterrupted guy-talk and girl-talk, and will probably be more comedy-oriented.
Day 01 - Your Favourite Quote: Multiple
Day 02 - Your Favourite Classic Series Episode: The Mind Robber/Battlefield
Day 03 - Your Favourite New Series Episode: Girl in the Fireplace/Midnight/Vincent and the Doctor
Day 04 - Your Favourite Doctor: Ten (New), Three (Classic)
Day 05 - Your Favourite Companion: Donna (New), Romana/Leela/Ace/Jamie (Classic)
Day 06 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Adric-picspam
Day 07 - Your Favourite Piece of Music: This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home
Day 08 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Happy: Happy!Six and happy!Peri, Tennant/Barrowman
Day 09 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad: The Three Doctors
Day 10 - A Who-Related Photo That You Took: Bermuda TARDIS
Day 11 - Your Favorite Season (Classic or New): Season 7
Day 12 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Motivator-spam
Day 13 - Your Favorite Villain: The Master
Day 14 - The Villain Who Scared You the Most: The Weeping Angels
Day 15 - Favorite Who-Related Tumblr: The Stupid Faces of Doctor Who
Day 16 - Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic: The Ten Doctors
Day 17 - A Piece of Who-Related FanArt: Music of Time/OTPARDIS
Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: The Kidnappers
Day 19 - The Scene That Made Your Cry the Most: The Tenth Doctor's regeneration
Day 20 - The Character Who Is Most Like You: Any given RTD-era female companion
Day 21 - Your Doctor Who OTP: Four/Romana
Day 22 - A Who-Related Fan-Site: Doctor Who's Tragical History Tour
Day 23 - A Who-Related YouTube Video: Every Doctor Who Story: 1963-2008/Brigadier: The Unsung Hero
Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: A message from the First Doctor
Day 25 - Favorite Who Actor: David Tennant (New), Jon Pertwee (Classic)
Day 26 - Favorite Who Actress: Catherine Tate (New), Lalla Ward (Classic)
Day 27 - An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made: The Long Game
Day 28 - An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 - Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy