On Katarina
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The subject of Katarina fic came up recently in Another Place. Thinking about it, I got curious, and did a Teaspoon search for her. You can count the results on the digits of both hands. Granted that her time on the show was brief and is now mostly lost, she still seems to be under-represented — particularly in this fandom, where the most obscure characters can find themselves the focus of multi-thousand word fanfics at the drop of a hat.
So, what Katarina stories could or should be written? Admittedly, there aren't a lot of gaps in her canonical timeline to insert long, plotty adventures, but that's nothing that can't be solved by a quick alternate universe or just sending a later Doctor or the Heart of Gold to retrieve her. What might she have made of the Last Chance Saloon, or the hottest night-spot in town? Or, taking the familiar high school AU, what clichéd high school is complete without its foreign exchange student?
[To save time, I created a jimmied copy of the Pairing Generator that lets you specify a character, and then keeps shuffling until it finds a pairing including that character. This probably counts as cheating. If anyone thinks it would be useful to them, I can provide a copy.]
Katarina / Winston Churchill / catching a cold
Tom Milligan / Katarina / protection
Katarina / Haresh Chandra / frozen in time
Third Doctor / Katarina / one night stand (!)
The Master (Simm) / Katarina / accidental kidnapping
Gita Chandra / Katarina / a desert island
Harry Sullivan / Katarina / life, the universe, and everything
Vislor Turlough / Katarina / The TARDIS / culture shock
Katarina / Frobisher / Harriet Jones / hell
The Dream Lord / Mr. Smith / Katarina / London
Polly Wright / Katarina / Larry Nightingale / worthless
The subject of Katarina fic came up recently in Another Place. Thinking about it, I got curious, and did a Teaspoon search for her. You can count the results on the digits of both hands. Granted that her time on the show was brief and is now mostly lost, she still seems to be under-represented — particularly in this fandom, where the most obscure characters can find themselves the focus of multi-thousand word fanfics at the drop of a hat.
So, what Katarina stories could or should be written? Admittedly, there aren't a lot of gaps in her canonical timeline to insert long, plotty adventures, but that's nothing that can't be solved by a quick alternate universe or just sending a later Doctor or the Heart of Gold to retrieve her. What might she have made of the Last Chance Saloon, or the hottest night-spot in town? Or, taking the familiar high school AU, what clichéd high school is complete without its foreign exchange student?
[To save time, I created a jimmied copy of the Pairing Generator that lets you specify a character, and then keeps shuffling until it finds a pairing including that character. This probably counts as cheating. If anyone thinks it would be useful to them, I can provide a copy.]
Katarina / Winston Churchill / catching a cold
Tom Milligan / Katarina / protection
Katarina / Haresh Chandra / frozen in time
Third Doctor / Katarina / one night stand (!)
The Master (Simm) / Katarina / accidental kidnapping
Gita Chandra / Katarina / a desert island
Harry Sullivan / Katarina / life, the universe, and everything
Vislor Turlough / Katarina / The TARDIS / culture shock
Katarina / Frobisher / Harriet Jones / hell
The Dream Lord / Mr. Smith / Katarina / London
Polly Wright / Katarina / Larry Nightingale / worthless