Tragic Comedy | Doctor Who/Narnia fic for Kerravonsen

[wingedflight21]

Title: Tragic Comedy
Fandoms: Doctor Who/Chronicles of Narnia
Author:  wingedflight
Recipient: kerravonsen
Rating: K+
Word Count: 1,009 words
Spoilers: Doctor Who: placed after “Planet of the Dead” but only the vaguest of spoilers. Narnia: entire series. My fanfic: “To Be Left Behind.”

Summary: The Doctor understands how old and worn she feels; he knows the ache of loss as

Comments

[rthstewart]

I love the recurring theme of tragedy and comedy. Wonderful. They live, so technically a comedy, but how can it be a comedy with so much death? A lovely story.

[wingedflight21]

Thank you! It's funny how writing one line about tragedy vs comedy managed to take over the entire theme of the story. :P

[kerravonsen]

She runs a finger along the metal rail of the console and wonders how Shakespeare would choose to depict their story.

The thread of melancholy through this is evocative. Thank you.
This story is a song of dusk.

[wingedflight21]

Thank you! It ended up much more melancholy than I had expected or intended, especially compared to the first one, but once I was on this path it was pretty near impossible to get off, heh.