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[mrv3000]

AHHH! Fic, I stab at thee!!

Rose? You are a confusing person at times. Especially during S1. With Mickey. Not with Mickey. Kinda likes the Doctor. "Available." Highly flirtatious with the Doctor. Back with Mickey but runs after the Doctor. Not with Mickey.

No wonder the Doctor was a mess about it all during S1. *cough*BoomTown*cough*

The Mickey string-along was I think one of Rose's bigger flaws, and one I have a really hard time getting my head into. I mean, I do completely get it from a meta-type standpoint, but trying to figure out the internal narrative for fic purposes that goes along with it? ACK.

Maybe I should just switch the POV to Nine, and he and I can both be confused.

ETA: This is all because of a few lines in a FLUFF fic. Yes, I am exactly that neurotic.

Comments

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was probably not a very good way to put that - the nice-guy comfortable thing, which Mickey is. What I was trying to go for was that there's love and then there's Love. Rose loves Mickey, but she Loves the Doctor. And I'm doing a really bad job of trying to get down the difference. :D

[marble-rose.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. I hope I didn't come off snappish. I think this is an interesting topic you have going, and I was trying to help puzzle through it. The reason I brought up Jimmy Stones was because you guys were talking about why Rose didn't hold romantic love in very high regard. It seems like part of the reason might have to do with her bad experience with Jimmy.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh no. And it really wasn't a good way to put it since sounds like Rose has had at least one boyfriend who wasn't the greatest influence in her past.

And there really might be something to that not necessarily holding romantic love in high regard. Rose has grown up watching Jackie having a rotating list of men in her life. Could well be a source of her abandonment issue with the Doctor, since all she's seen growing up is that men leave. It's what they do.