You think Clara Oswald is a tragedy because you think that travelling with the Doctor changed her and made her too reckless and proud, that she got in over her head and flew too close to the sun; I think Clara Oswald is a tragedy because she was trapped in a world that felt unbearable and she didn’t even understand that or the possibility not to feel that way until she met the Doctor. I think it’s tragic how when you meet someone who feels like the only person in the whole universe who understands your deep seated feelings of loneliness and alienation, you can’t help but mirror each other to the extreme. That sometimes lost people who find each other can’t give each other what they need, no matter how much they might want to. That they would still try, of course they would. That sometimes people’s self-destructive impulses will feed into one another despite their best intentions. That the love was there, but it didn’t change anything. That the love was there, and that’s what changed everything. We are NOT the same.
