Some Death Was A Temporary Inconvenience chapters that I've got cooking (note, cooking here means that I have actually begun writing them in the google doc)
Doctor: Probably 5, but could work with an Doctor after (and possibly including) 4. Something to do with the fact that one of the most common reasons a companion (mainly female ones) would leave is that they fell in love with someone they met on their travels and worries that sooner or later Marion is going either leave or want to leave and be unable to and later resent him. He wonders if he and Marion should fall in love so that doesn't happen. He tells a companion about this who quickly tells Marion who quickly says "he's spiraling and doesn't need to do that" Idk if this one will ever get posted because I'm worried people will get the take away that the Doctor actually has romantic feelings towards Marion or that he's directly trying to manipulate her when the side story is actually a result of me thinking about how while I don't know that I necessarily headcanon the Doctor as being aromantic, the whole "long term companion leaves after spending two (2) hours with a guy she just met and deciding she wants to stay with him and stop traveling with someone she's known for Much MUCH longer" thing feels aro-coded to me.
4 +1 involving the Doctor napping on Marion and Marion napping on him that is in FACT an excuse to discuss Marion’s relationship with the Doctor from various POV's including Two, Romana I, the TARDIS, Amy, and Marion herself for the +1 [this one is probably closer to being done than the others. I just need to write Amy and Marion]
The one where Marion is the TARDIS. OR Maybe the TARDIS is Marion. It's very much a Distortion type thing where I make Marion vaguely weird, unsettling, and eldritch. Will mostly involve a series of 100-200 word interactions with various characters
Marion settles an argument between Six and Peri. (It’s a very dumb one)
One and a half person POV involving "the Mysterious She" as I, addressing the woman with the star speckled skin as "you" concerning the events on October and November's chapters.
I've come up with more AUs since the last time this was ask
Marion Is The Tardis
So, in the AU where Marion is the TARDIS console (which with the newest episodes in mind might be very interesting. "Doctor, don't mean to alarm you just to let you know, the God of Death is hitching a ride with us." "What" "Yeah. Like I said I don't mean to alarm you..it's being dealt with" "How" "Can't say. I mean literally can'y say. Don't about it though worry").
The idea I had is Marion having a physical form that LOOKS fairly human, but is vaguely uncanny in the things that she says and does (I had an idea that she does the Janet thing where she always appears out of the corner of her eye and also that if multiple people are talking to her, they might describe her as being in different places). Her "projection" can leave the TARDIS, but it can't (or won't it's hard to tell) enter Other TARDISes.
She's possibly anchoring herself to the Doctor when he leaves. If asked if she's trapped in the TARDIS Marion asks the asker if they consider themself trapped in their body. Console!Marion is experiencing all of time all at once and her personal "present" is what she is currently focusing on (she implies she doesn't really have a choice on what to focus on at any given time and uses metaphors like looking at a particular page on a book or the rolling of dice).
Console!Marion can talk to multiple people at once assuming they are physically inside of the ship. Marion kind of helps the Doctor property pilot the TARDIS, but it's tricky.
Marion is a Time Lord and the Doctor is an odd human.
So we start out with a Patrexi named Emaeharayowen (read the name out loud). Emaehar is sat in front of the untempered schism, she sees all of time and all of space and the main thing she takes away from it is three things. The first is that the universe is full of so much beauty and wonder, the second is that the universe is full of so many creatures that want to destroy that beauty and wonder, and the third is that the Time Lord policy of non-interference allows the second to destroy the first and she can't have that.
Em doesn’t go to the museum with the intent to steal a capsule, but the woman with dark brown hair and eyes insisted and she's not one to ignore that sort of thing.
So she flies the capsule best she can (the ship likes her but it's navigation system is wacky and the previous owner used so many custom settings the manual is useless) going around a fixing things as they go wrong to keep the universe universing.
Late 1962 she investigates one such incident where aliens attempt to freeze Earth solid aided by a young girl named Susan Foreman who has also been trying to fix things. (Read the novel Time and Relative)
Crisis averted, Susan regularly goes to the junkyard where (I'm not sure if Susan calls her Miss Em or thinks her full name is her spelling her name and calls her Marion) has landed her TARDIS because she's very cool and she teaches her advanced science
one day, in November 1963, she's followed by two teachers and her grandfather Dr. John Smith who want to know where she's going off to.
The three all enter the TARDIS. Dr. Smith messes with the console trying to open the door. The TARDIS flies off and Em doesn’t know how to get back as she never set the coordinates in the first place. She just set them to take her where there was trouble.
More things happen. Susan goes home with Ian and Barabara while Doctor John stays
Em taps into the Time Vortex and so she knows when John is in danger
then one day, after an antartic incident with Cybermen and his age catching up to him, despite Em's best efforts to get him home, he dies.
From here I'm toying with a few ways to bring in other Doctor’s bc I don't want them to be full separate guys but either Em accidentally gives him a regeneration cycle trying to heal him (bc surely something like Old Age can be fixed. She can't lose John NOW, she refuses!), John is still the Timeless Child. He just got chucked to Earth instead of Gallifrey (...huh...I didn't think humans could do that...). Some kind of Reincarnation with memories where soon after the old man dies, the TARDIS takes Em to a certain time and place on Earth with a man with a Beatles haircut swearing he's her friend and having his memories. Em travels with him. Ben and Polly are skeptical and accuse her of replacing him so soon until he says something only John would know.
Don't know what else to say except her relationship with the Master can be summed up by the two of them initially being friends (agreeing non intervention is bullshit) but growing apart because his ideas of intervention would result in mass destruction. Their vibe is as such that mutiple people thing that they are divorced. He also is weirdly obsessed with and keeps trying to steal John in like a "divorced dad trying to turn the kids against the mom and get full custody" way. She flat out hated the Rani before and hates her even more when she attempts to experiment on John (she got to him before she could do much but holy shit). And I haven't pinned down her relationship with Romana, but Romana is exasperated by her but for different reasons than the Doctor.
Marion's ideal go to outfit is loose pants and a comfortable sweater with boots in colder weather. Perhaps with an overcoat. Her go to outfit in warmer weather is linen pants and a button-up or t-shirt. She also prefers suits over dresses.
Her favorite cake flavor is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing. She's not really specific about types of cakes, but she doesn't particularly care for carrot or yellow.
Marion would be most happy to receive trinkets and things that the giver claims "reminded them of her". She herself is the kind of gift giver to passively make notes of things that people enjoy and their interests and then when she comes across something she thinks they might enjoy, she'll get it for them if she can.
fun behind the scenes of a set up to a plan that hasn't been relevant since I published chapter like, three (back when chapter two was chapters two and three before I went back and combined them. I don't think any of you who are following me have been following the story enough to remember that except for maybe ihf)
the originally answer to "What's Marion’s deal" was during the events of Name of the Doctor she ends up in a Time Loop and the version of Marion you see isn't her first go around it.
Anyway, a really dumb way I forshadowed this that in hindsight there's ZERO shot would make sense to anyone but me was that chapter one featured Ten
"what does that have to do with anything?"
If you've read a lot of Time Jumper fics (and let's face it, if Celery is the first Time Jumper fic any of you have read that would genuinely shock me) most of the time the first Doctor they meet is Eleven.
So her meeting Ten first would be Foreshadowing that this isn't actually the first.
"Luna that doesn't make sense!"
"Luna that's convoluted"
"Luna what kind of convoluted game theory ass nonsense is that?"
Her face tends to break out if she tries to put anything on it other than unscented super-sensitive soap. It's the reason she doesn't wear makeup other than if she's covering up death marks.
Outside of that, would you count direct contact with the Time Vortex making her wizard high as an allergy?
A few stuffed animals, some old and well-loved books, that kind of thing. They have significance in the fact that she's had them for a while, but the fact that they're still in their her old universe isn't among the things that she's upset about, you know?
This is a piece of advice that she would have to learn for herself but "You should at least take the time to consider courses of action that don't result in you getting hurt if for no other reason than the fact that it upsets the people you care about" and also "Sometimes shit happens. It's not your fault. And you should probably tell the Doctor about the things you're reluctant to talk to them about. You refusing to come clean is just making you spiral more."
Honestly, I'm not sure that Marion really HAS a prized possession. She values people and experiences more than things. Not in the sense of like, she's some kind of monk without worldly possessions, and she has things that she owns she would be upset if she lost, but she doesn't have anything that she would look at and say "Yes! This is my prized possession."
Marion loves Valentine's Day for reasons that mostly involve chocolate. She's never been confessed to on Valentine's day, and he's never confessed to anyone else.
I need to do an outside POV for some rando meeting "Inspector Henson" because one thing that's hard to portray from Marion's POV is that her "Inspector Henson" bit is slightly offputting.
To companions, and especially, very early Doctors it's a reminder that when Marion wants to, she's good at lying and pretending to be someone she's not. She CLAIMS that the version of her that she shows you is the real her but like, would you know if it wasn't?
Meanwhile to people just meeting Inspector Henson, she comes across as kind of off. Not in a sense that they don't believe she's who she says she is or that she's covering up for the real killer, but a side effect of Inspector Henson being a carefully crafted persona the specifics of whom vary to perfectly fit the situation is that Inspector Henson comes across as very fake and like she's hiding something with that something being some level of instability.
Most likely to say something she THINKS is funny but is actually concerning.
