{"id":274020,"date":"2013-06-07T01:20:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/07\/ninth-doctor-headcanon\/"},"modified":"2013-06-07T01:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:20:36","slug":"ninth-doctor-headcanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/07\/ninth-doctor-headcanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Doctor Headcanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ninth Doctor Headcanon<\/a><\/p>\n

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gallifreyburning<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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gallifreyfieldsforever<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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the-girl-who-was-sherlocked<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When the Ninth Doctor first asked Rose to travel through time with him and refused, the Doctor accepted that and moved on. He traveled through space and time, saving the universe, all lonely for years thinking \u201cI wish Rose could have been here.\u201d Eventually, he goes back to a few seconds after he left Rose and says \u201cBy the way, did I mention it also travels in time?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose never knew how long the Doctor waited for her.<\/p>\n

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I think this makes sense. In the episode\u00a0Rose<\/em>\u00a0you see all those photos of Nine at the assassination of Kennedy and at the Titanic (on his own). But also in that episode\u00a0he\u2019s checking his reflection in the mirror like he\u2019s seeing it for the first time, so he can\u2019t have been long regenerated. So maybe he does all that stuff in the time before he comes back and says \u201cDid I mention, it also travels in time?\u201d<\/p>\n

which makes that line even more powerful because this time he wouldreally\u00a0<\/em>want her to say yes, because he knows what it\u2019s like without her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s interesting are the events the Doctor (theoretically) chose to visit during that time between when Rose (theoretically) first said no, and when he returned to extend the invitation a second time. Nine was photographed\/drawn near the Titanic, Krakatoa, and the Kennedy assassination. All horrible catastrophes with tragic loss of life, all catastrophes that caused profound change in human history, catastrophes that (if Pompeii and Bowie Base One are anything to go by), would likely qualify as\u00a0fixed points in time.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This leads me to believe that\u00a0the Doctor was nearly in the throes a Time Lord Victorious breakdown as a result of the Time War and Rose\u2019s rejection.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>He was dancing around the edges of these fixed points, likely looking for a way to save lives and prove to himself that he wasn\u2019t a vile person. To prove to himself he could make a difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To prove to himself that he\u2019s worthy of having someone brave and clever like Rose as a companion.<\/p>\n

And Nine (obviously) doesn\u2019t save Kennedy\u2019s life or stop the eruption of Krakatoa, but in the episode \u201cRose\u201d we find out he DOES save one family originally scheduled to travel on the Titanic by convincing them to delay their trip. A\u00a0small measure<\/em>\u00a0of redemption.<\/p>\n

Enough so that the Doctor summons the courage to return to that dark London sidewalk and casually lean out the door of his TARDIS like no time had passed at all, like he hadn\u2019t been scrabbling in the wake of Rose\u2019s rejection. And then he said the words he\u2019d practiced alone in his console room dozens of times, with the exact amount of calculated swagger he\u2019d rehearsed:\u00a0\u201cBy the way, did I mention it also travels in time?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ninth Doctor Headcanon gallifreyburning: gallifreyfieldsforever: the-girl-who-was-sherlocked: When the Ninth Doctor first asked Rose to travel through time with him and refused, the Doctor accepted that and moved on. He traveled through space and time, saving the universe, all lonely for years thinking \u201cI wish Rose could have been here.\u201d Eventually, he goes back to a … <\/p>\n

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