Some Thoughts on Rose Tyler

[ladychi]

I'm a Rose fan. That's pretty clear from everything you can discern about me: the sheer number of fics that star her, the large graphic on the top of my LJ -- my loud proclamations about the virtues of her character wherever I find hatas and doubters.

There's one thing I don't like about Rose, though. She's extremely difficult to write. Or am I

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[ladychi]

So by the time Rose gets there, I don't think there was anything resembling a totalitarian government. Her hardness and BAMFness is fully explicable by the effects of working for Torchwood and working to get back to the Doctor.

This is certainly as plausible as my observations. I would hope that Pete's World would be slightly more hopeful than what I argued for here.

All that said, I think writing Pete's World that way would be fascinating. How terrible for Rose, for her resentment of Ten's decision would have to include the fact that he banished her to a somewhat broken world, on top of everything else. And I think it would affect Ten II profoundly, living in that kind of place. I shudder to think of it.

I don't fault the Doctor's decision all that much -- he has spent most of his life in emotional pain -- sending Ten II and Rose to live a life together is a smart choice. That being said, he didn't really stop to ask what the world he was leaving them in was really like.

I'm not sure how that would affect Ten II & Rose's relationship, but for someone born in "blood and anger and revenge", it might take a toll, absolutely.