Fictional characters give me nonfictional feelings, and other cautionary tales

[haveloved]

I don't know what it is about who_contest, but thus far most of my fics for there have been angst for Amy and Rory. I may have been iffy on Series 6, but some really fascinating moral problems came out of it for them, and there's still the situation with River to consider. When the prompt for this challenge, first trip, got released, for some reason it gave

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[haveloved]

I've come to think that, too, that Moffat hasn't really thought it through. I feel like he thought about "LOL GUYS WHAT IF THEIR KID WAS THEIR CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND SHE'S OLDER THAN HER PARENTS AND IT'S FUNNY. GUYS. YOU GUYS." and not about all the consequences, which unnerved me more and more as I wrote. It's a truly horrific situation for them all and I wish he'd spent more time on that. (I especially wish Rory hadn't been ignored so much; it was always treated like Amy's feelings were the only ones that mattered when it came to Melody. Granted, she spent more time with Melody, but it was Rory's child, too. Amy was in captivity, but Rory had tough times as well; he had to go through three months of searching for her, never having known his wife was pregnant in the first place, and never having known his wife was not actually his wife... that had to be hard on him.)

Honestly, almost everything I've written for the Moffat era is me trying to do one better on Moffat's utter lack of backstory and character depth. Rory's my sweetheart, Amy and River are characters I disliked initially that I've come to love for different reasons, but I can't say I like the way he's written them, and I wish he'd given us more backstory, more information about their families (does Rory even have a dad? Can we learn anything about his mum besides "Dusty Springfield fan"?), more anything. But this is why I write, really. Both to spend more time with the characters and to give them the treatments they hopefully deserve.