Where's Clara?

Selective Indie Twelfth Doctor RP blog. Please read the guidelines. As should be obvious, Mun is a massive Whouffle/Whouffaldi fan. This is a sideblog of thelawsoftimearemine and uses iwillhold-clarashand for outgoing follows and asks. Incoming follows, asks, and messages should be directed here instead. Tracking: iwillholdclarashand "I am not a good man! I'm not a bad man. I'm not a hero. I'm definitely not a president, and no, I'm not an officer. You know who I am? I… am… an idiot! With a box and a screwdriver. Passing through. Helping out. Learning. I don't need an army. I never have. Because I've got them, always them, because love is not an emotion. Love is a promise..." "Clara Oswald. I want Clara Oswald, safe, alive and returned to me, immediately. You bring her back, you do that. You do that now. Unharmed… Unhurt… Alive. I saw what happened. I was there. And I’m hoping, for all of our sake, that it was a trick. Because if Clara Oswald is really dead… then you’d better be very, very careful how you tell me. Who’s going to tell me? Who’s going to go first? All the power Davros had is mine. Everything he had, I have. Who is going to tell me that Clara Oswald is really dead?"

[iwillholdclarashand]

timetravelingclara‌:

Free rein of their destination? While she knew it was likely an attempt to make her feel more comfortable, she wouldn’t shy away from the offer.

“I want to stay on earth,” she explained slowly. She didn’t want to get his hopes up and she didn’t want to overwhelm herself, either. Besides, there were a million different places she’d never been right there on her own planet and she had 1001 Places to See. “And in this time. Present day. Right now.”

She mulled over destinations in her head as she took another bite of orange chicken, stirring the rice beneath it absentmindedly. The gesture seemed to help her think because a moment later she was gesturing with the chopsticks, speaking up after she’d swallowed her food.

“What about Italy?” She asked. “I’ve always wanted to go to Italy. There’s so much history there and there’s practically a million things to do. We certainly wouldn’t be bored.”

No space travel, no time travel. It might have been nice to attempt something a bit more adventurous, but really he’d been expecting this. He’d said himself that someplace comfortable was a good idea after all, and in no way could he blame her under the circumstances. Truthfully he wasn’t even sure how he would cope with jumping right back out there where she would be in more danger. 

“That’s fine, Clara, plenty of amazing things to see right now, right here on this planet,” he replied easily.

He watched her think it over, taking a bite of his own food as she played with hers. He smiled again when she reached a decision. “Italy is a great choice,” he confirmed “Anywhere more specific?”

[timetravelingclara]

Breakthrough //

Clara Oswald still had nightmares about ravens sometimes. She still flinched when she saw them outside, which made her feel a bit like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, but it was becoming easier and easier to shove her shaking hands into her pockets and hurry away from the feathered beasts when she saw them. It was certainly an improvement from breaking down.

The Doctor, faithful as ever, hadn’t left her side. He’d helped her sort out her life, ensuring that everything remained normal and the news of her “death” didn’t spread. He comforted her through panic attacks and depressive episodes until she began to feel more and more like herself, like the Clara she’d been before the incident.

They were seated at her kitchen table picking at some Chinese takeaway when she stuck her chopsticks in the box of fried rice.

“I’ve been thinking,” she began, munching on a piece of orange chicken, “that maybe it’s time we go someplace. Not a planet, or anything, but... someplace in the TARDIS.”

[iwillholdclarashand]

The Doctor found himself surprised at how relatively easy he had found it to settle into life in Clara’s flat. By now he would have imagined that he would have gone completely stir-crazy, and he had, to some degree. The thought of rushing off into the TARDIS to see the universe was never too far from his mind. But so far such feelings had been quickly dismissed.

Part of that was that his need to be there for Clara overwhelmed everything else, part was that his own need to constantly reassure himself that she was alright was still nearly constant even months later. But a huge, wonderful part of it was just the sheer joy of being with Clara. Exploring their new relationship and getting to know her on an even deeper level than before was as fulfilling as exploring any distant world. Nearly all of it had been at least a bit hard at first, the emotional honesty, the constant physical affection, but he’d never been so happy to have pushed through his discomfort with something.

Nevertheless, his face lit up with a huge grin when she, for the first time since trap street, suggested she might be ready for a trip in the TARDIS.  He calmed himself, not wanting to overwhelm her, while she was taking this enormous step. “I think that’s a wonderful idea, Clara. We can stick to someplace comfortable.” He thought about it a moment. “Why don’t you pick?”

[thelittlescrimshaw]

Me: wow I’m way too attached to fictional characters

Me: *sees y’all send death threats to writers because you didn’t agree with their decisions*

Me: never mind I’m attached the healthy amount

[askthepandoranhero]

My pain is irrelevant. Your safety is more important.

[mikelpen]

“Steven Moffat had the Doctor murder another Time Lord; he obviously doesn’t understand Doctor Who.”

Setting aside the obvious poor reading here that the Doctor committed murder (not that his assault of the General is not a big deal, but come on), the scene in question is concrete proof that Moffat understands Doctor Who very well. The impact of the scene relies on the audience’s understanding that the Doctor coldly shooting down another person is an act that goes against the Doctor’s ideals. It’s “out-of-character” because the Doctor is being driven to perform “out-of-character” actions by his attachment to Clara. These character extremes are whole point of the Series 9 climax, and the single motivation for the Doctor and Clara to part ways.

Of course, this scene also proves that Moffat understands Doctor Who, because it is not actually out-of-character for the Doctor to go to extremes or take things too far. This has been an aspect of the Doctor’s character that has been hugely focused on ever since the show returned in 2005.

You can point to bits of dialogue that are evidence of the Doctor’s pacifism and refusal to do harm, but when the Doctor repeatedly commits violence and causes harm, you can’t claim that he is out of character when he does so.

The Doctor tries to express and live by certain ideals. The Doctor does not always live up to these ideals. The Doctor sometimes fails.

[wackd-archive]

Are these the same fans who’re complaining that Moffat made it so he didn’t  genocide all the Time Lords forever 

[mikelpen]

Oh the delicious irony. Cognitive dissonance even.

[now-that-i-thought-of-you]

There’s a big difference between who the Doctor says he is and what he actually does. Between who he is and who he tries to be. He can go on all day about how he’s the man who never would, but the fact is he has before and he probably will again. I think in S8 and S9 we reached the point in Moffat’s run where he was able to illustrate precisely who this character is in a way he has been working up to his entire tenure: He’s not actually the Doctor. There’s no such thing. It’s just a name he calls himself, a label, an ideal. The point is not and has never been that he is a god or a hero, or that he has a perfect moral compass. He can be cruel and he can be cowardly and he can make horrifying choices sometimes. That is who he is. And honestly, in a lot of episodes, we hang out with that guy—not the Doctor, but the imperfect Time Lord who ran away. The point is that on a good day, if he tries very hard, he’s the Doctor. Much like how love is a promise, goodness is a choice.

[anotheruserwithnoname]

The First Doctor was going to crush a caveman’s head with a rock in the second or third episode of An Unearthly Child back in 1963.

The Third Doctor fires a laser gun at an Ogron in Day of the Daleks.

The Fourth Doctor gasses Dr. Solon to death in The Brain of Morbius.

The Sixth Doctor basically murders Shockeye in The Two Doctors.

The Ninth Doctor callously watches Cassandra due in The End of the World and refuses to do anything about it.

Moffat? He has the Twelfth Doctor intentionally aim to regenerate, not to kill, when he shoots the general, though given his sanity slippage (to borrow a term from TVTropes.org) and his desperation to save the woman he loves he could have shot the General dead. And there’s no indication the General suffered from the experience; if anything it was a relief for her to get “back to normal” (her words).

The critics refuse to recognize that the Doctor was in love with Clara. They refuse to acknowledge he spent 4.5 billion years trapped in the anger stage of the Five Stages of Grief (his body may have rebooted but the Doctor says he remembers it all every time he realizes what “BIRD” meant). They refuse to acknowledge that he holds the Time Lords responsible for the fact Clara died screaming.

If this was any other TV show, Rassilon would be dead, the General would be dead, the city would be a smoking ruin and the Doctor would have left Ashildr to die with the universe. I agree with @mikelpen, Hell Bent showed us that Moffat has mastery of characterization over the Doctor and his companion.

[thedoctorispan]

12: I hate being touched.

12: The last time I touched someone, I was knocking them out.

Vastra: Clara is literally hugging you right now.

12: This means nothing.

[tequilabumbum8]

Hell Bent

“You have gone too far. You have broken every code you ever lived by.”

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“And you’re willing to risk all of Time and Space because you miss her.”

So… don’t tell me Clara isn’t the most important person to the Doctor. First there’s what he did in Heaven Sent: he let the Time Lords torture him and he repeatedly died for 4,5 billion years just to have the possibility to save Clara.

Then he had that possibility in Hell Bent and he took it. He chose to break every code he ever lived by. And he risked all of time and space for HER. You know… all of time and space doesn’t just mean “all of time and space”, of course it means “everything” including every other person he cared for and loved. Just for Clara. He sent Rose to another universe. Two times. He didn’t go back in NY for Amy and Rory. Yeah I know it was a problem for the TARDIS but he accepted that without trying. And everyone says “the Doctor loves River”; well I have my opinions on that but without explaining those, let’s take it for true(and a well written relationship, which it’s not): it’s bearable for the Doctor to risk River’s existence if that is part of saving Clara Oswald.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, it’s today’s tea.

[jennacolemanfans]

[marvella15]

#in every one of these moments he is thinking ‘i love you’ ‘i need you’ ‘don’t leave me’ #it’s just the more time passes the more it’s written on his face #you can see how deep his love for her grew through this set #whouffaldi #‘stay with me’ (via @elloette)

[iwillholdclarashand]

theagentturnedwanderer‌:

“I know you’re right…” Stopping her words short she shook her head a smile replacing them on her lips.

“Shall we?” she asked, keeping her voice low. Not eanting to drag attention to them. Though there were a few people on the edge of town sending curious glances their way. But in her travels with the time lord she had gotten used to them fairly quickly. It was better than being looked as a tool that was for sure.

Seeing the smile back on her face reassured him. “Yes, let’s,” he replied, looking back and forth from her face to what he could see of the town before settling on her with a smile of his own.

[iwillholdclarashand]

theagentturnedwanderer‌:

She rocked from foot to foot. The nervous energy building up in her again as she knew she couldn’t move through the town as quickly as she had in the woods without some looking at her weird.

“Farnfoss,” she answered, not knowing where the name came from but knowing that it sounded right. “It… seems smaller than what I remember.”

He gave her a worried look again, noticing the change in her demeanor. “Farnfoss,” he repeated. “Well, it has been a while since you were here.”

[myrcella]

- I’ll bring U.N.I.T, I’ll bring the Zygons, gimme a minute, I’ll bring the Daleks, and the Cybermen. You will save Clara, and you will do it now, or I will reign hell on you for the rest of time. - You can’t.

[jaeausten]

Lizzie! You’ll never guess what just happened in town. I bumped into some ladies, I stopped off at that lovely milliners we have in Lambton and we were having the most civil conversation until I mentioned I was Mrs Darcy’s sister, at which point they turned their backs on me and walked away. I marched straight up to them and I said I wasn’t in the slightest bit ashamed of you!

[freelydifferentluminary]

In my opinion, Lydia Wickham outshines Elizabeth in this mini-series. Even with little makeup, Jenna is gorgeous.

[myrcella]

It’s the – sidearm of the President’s personal security. There isn’t a stun setting…

[who-girl-deactivated20260402]

Whouffaldi love!

[iwillholdclarashand]

theagentturnedwanderer‌:

“As much as you do most of the time,” she teased, slowing down to keep her steps even with his. For once her short legs not being a disadvantage.

After a few rows of trees she found them at the curve of a short hill.  Out from under the shade of the trees, the sun of this planet baking down already even though it seemed to only just be rising or setting. Below them lay what looked as if it was a town from earth only the buildings were more curved than cubical. A few vehicles moved around the outskirts but nothing like what she had seen on the home planet of humans.  The sounds of it’s people going about their day reached her ears.

For a moment she didn’t give mind to her safety. Only started to step down the hill, hoping to blend back in among the people she had come from.

He laughed at her reply. Fair enough he thought. He continued following her closely until they were in sight of the town below. He took it in with interest, he really wasn’t all that familiar with her home planet and he wanted to know more about where she came from. Noticing her already making her way down the hill he hurried to catch up. “So, where are we then?”

[stevenrogered]

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Keep in mind that, technically, all this occurs while Clara is supposed to be on her first date with Danny. She’s just met somebody who she initially thinks might be her descendant. And yet she’s still flirting with Twelve. I remember Peter saying there would be no more flirting … he never said anything about Clara not flirting with the Doctor!

[iwillholdclarashand]

theagentturnedwanderer‌:

Her toes curled in the grass as she bounced up to the balls of her feet, turning her head in every direction too see which way the town was. When it was clear thatf that wouldn’t work, the woman closed her eyes and trusted her nose. Withing a moment she took a sharp turn to the left.

Wiggling her fingers, and begining to step she opened her eyes. “C'mon you said it is myh turn to lead…”

He followed behind her eagerly, happy to let her take the lead for once and excited for her to show him around her home. “So, you know where yo’re going, then?” he asked a bit teasingly, unable to resist the atmosphere of her infectious joy.