Lack of Two: Discuss, please!

[thisbluespirit]

It's a funny thing, because ask anyone who's a fan of Classic Who, or the whole series, who's their favourite Doctor, and Patrick Troughton usually comes high up the list, but looking at the categories on Teaspoon, not only is Two the most under-represented Doctor in the BBC's archives, but also fic-wise. (One is next, then Six.) The one is probably related to the other, and, of course, somebody's got to be least, but maybe we could come to his rescue? Two is a rather marvellous Doctor, after all...

Any thoughts? Any Second Doctor era bunnies, or 'wishes' running about? (You can click on the character tag to see what ideas have already been left here).


(And while I'm around - there's still a day before the second Prompt of the Month #2 closes at the end of tomorrow. )

Edit I liked akashasheiress's suggestion for inspiration, a lot, so I went to the DW Random Pairing Generator for some completely random suggestions for whom Two should meet (I'm not throwing them out as ships, but as general prompts here):
Duplicate Tenth Doctor (a.k.a., Handy) / Second Doctor / 500 year diary
Second Doctor / Braxiatel / dreaming
Second Doctor / Ian Chesterton / ice
Romana I / Second Doctor / friends with benefits
Jack Harkness / Second Doctor / in the dark
Vincent van Gogh / Second Doctor / crossing over
Brigadier Winifred Bambera / Second Doctor / bad hair day

I'd particularly like to see someone pull off the last, but I can imagine the one with Jack has potential for hilarity.

Then I used the new threesomes option for further inspiration:
The War Chief / Victoria Waterfield / The Celestial Toymaker / teasing
Steven Taylor / Evelyn Smythe / Zoe Heriot / asking for a favor
The Valeyard / Zoe Heriot / Rose Tyler / dragons
The War Chief / Gita Chandra / Second Doctor / honesty
Duplicate Tenth Doctor (a.k.a., Handy) / Omega / Second Doctor / Aztecs
Tenth Doctor / Second Doctor / Nyssa / tourists in time

And then I looked for some Two-era folk prompts, too. For some reason the RPG was disturbingly keen on Polly/Ian... (And it was reluctant to produce many Zoe prompts today. Random is the word, of course.)

Princess Astra / Victoria Waterfield / vampires
Victoria Waterfield / Roz Forrester / defying gravity
Victoria Waterfield / K-9 / telling a story
Colonel Robert Dalton / Jamie McCrimmon / guns
The Master (Roberts) / Jamie McCrimmon / running
Ian Chesterton / Polly Wright / sonic screwdriver
The War Chief / Polly Wright / the Cloister Bell
Ian Chesterton / Polly Wright / legends
Polly Wright / Winston Churchill / weapons
Ben Jackson / Third Doctor / memories
Leela / Ben Jackson / seeing things differently
Ian Chesterton / Ben Jackson / love
Polly Wright / Ben Jackson / unexpectedly
Owen Harper / Zoe Heriot / lost in space
Steven Taylor / Zoe Heriot / detective work

I think I'd quite like to see Ian and Ben having a chat about life, love, the universe and everything. Somehow. And, as for Polly and Winston Churchill with weapons - I think the planet might implode, while Princess Astra and Victoria fighting vampires definitely sounds like a must...

♥ the RPG.

There, does that help, or does it make things worse?

Comments

Re: via two_love

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, yes - he's too awesome for fanfic? :lol:

You make a good point, though - I have a tendency to write least for my favourite Doctors, and that might easily be a part of it.

And didn't Doctor Who Magazine always used to ask anyone who'd written a Two novel how it was writing for the 'difficult' Doctor? I'm not entirely sure that last bit isn't sort of self-perpetuating myth, though.

But Two being Too Awesome would work as an explanation... :-D

Re: via two_love

[biichan.livejournal.com]

He intimidates me and I've written more Two-fics than most people!

I actually have a lot of Two-fics that I've started and never finished. There's one that's post-S3 Two/Martha which got jossed by canon and a Two/Romana (which takes place during 6B for him and the Gallifrey audio era for her). And one of the Two/Jamie fics I wrote ("Lacuna", the 6B one) is actually supposed to be part of a trilogy, except I never wrote the other two parts. (One of the parts would have been Two/Master! Delgado!Master, actually. I don't buy into the War Chief Master theory.)

Re: via two_love

[thisbluespirit]

It sounds like what you're writing is what everyone else in this post is asking for!

I hope Two behaves and stops intimidating you, then - they all sound reaslly interesting. (And there's always AU if canon's got haywire, isn't there? :-D)