Fic: The Boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne

[np_complete]

Title: The Boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne
Rating: G
Characters: Alt!Pete Tyler
Spoilers/Warnings: Through Season Two
Summary: In those days if you were unemployed for more than six months, and you were a bloke under twenty-nine without other claims on you, you were conscripted into the Territorial Army.
A/N: I always wondered how

Comments

[kaffy_r]

This is now my personal head canon for alt!Pete, who I love almost as much as I loved Rose's dad. And because I have a brother who fought mild dyslexia,before getting on very well in life, I'm standing up and cheering even more. (You also manage to sketch in some really telling illustrations of Pete's world, and I always love world-building like that.) This was great!

[np_complete]

Oh, thank you so much!

It made so much sense to me once I thought of it: alt!Pete was not only a tremendous business success at a relatively young age (alt!Jackie was about forty, so Pete was probably about forty-five), he was also able to transition fairly smoothly into the role of military leader. This suggested experience and training that the original Pete never had a chance to get.

It wasn't hard to guess that the original Pete had never been educated to anything like his capacity, and untreated, undiagnosed dyslexia presented an explanation for how a man with so much native ability could have had so hard a time getting his life started.

[clocketpatch]

That was some lovely word-building and character backstory. I really enjoyed this fic.

[np_complete]

Thank you very much! I enjoyed writing it!

[papilio_luna]

I know things have been nuts for you, so I'm really happy that you found time to participate.

An interesting bit of very plausible head canon here! And I always have a soft spot for fics that explore the decidedly more military world that we see in Age of Steel.

[np_complete]

It makes sense when you think about it, doesn't it? Original!Pete is a screwup, yet is bright enough to figure out, in "Father's Day", what must have happened, and what he has to do. He's good with people, good at figuring them out. But why do his business ideas always come to nothing? Why can't he hold down a job?

Some day I'll figure out what happened to the Vitex company without Pete Tyler to buy them and make them a huge success. :)

[glory_jean]

So glad to see you writing again. I like this view of alt!Pete. You do have wonder what made the difference in his life's path.

[np_complete]

Thank you! I hope there will be more writing, but I've said that before. :(

Glad you liked the story!

[a_phoenixdragon]

This is what happened. THIS. RIGHT. HERE.

Thank you...

*HUGS*

[np_complete]

Oh, thank you! I'm so glad you think so!