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artan_eter was watching it.
I have realised something important about the Doctor.
The Doctor is one of the Good Folk.
Consider:
He lives in a space that is larger within than it appears from the outside.
He has a distinct code of rules for behaviour that humans do not always understand.
He is quite touchy about having his rules broken.
Those who venture into his realm (or are kidnapped, as happens occasionally) have wild and complex adventures and are returned home at a time that does not linearly match what they experienced.
He is mutable, complex, difficult to kill, and, well, fey.
His sense of humor is sometimes wacky and sometimes cruel.
His magic can be as capricious as he is.
He is kind of fascinated with humanity and will prod at it to see what it does.
I'm sure there are other things, that's just what I have at the moment.
And of course in what way he's of the Good Folk changes by incarnation - some darker or more malicious in overall flavor, some more lighthearted and trickstery - but always he's kind of like that.
This thought brought to you by watching Hartnell's First Doctor cackle semi-malevolently at Susan's schoolteachers trying frantically to pry open the TARDIS from the inside.
artan_eter was watching it.I have realised something important about the Doctor.
The Doctor is one of the Good Folk.
Consider:
He lives in a space that is larger within than it appears from the outside.
He has a distinct code of rules for behaviour that humans do not always understand.
He is quite touchy about having his rules broken.
Those who venture into his realm (or are kidnapped, as happens occasionally) have wild and complex adventures and are returned home at a time that does not linearly match what they experienced.
He is mutable, complex, difficult to kill, and, well, fey.
His sense of humor is sometimes wacky and sometimes cruel.
His magic can be as capricious as he is.
He is kind of fascinated with humanity and will prod at it to see what it does.
I'm sure there are other things, that's just what I have at the moment.
And of course in what way he's of the Good Folk changes by incarnation - some darker or more malicious in overall flavor, some more lighthearted and trickstery - but always he's kind of like that.
This thought brought to you by watching Hartnell's First Doctor cackle semi-malevolently at Susan's schoolteachers trying frantically to pry open the TARDIS from the inside.
