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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

[jedi_of_urth]

There have been a lot of good points raised about this already, so I'm probably just restating other points.

But I get the impression that Rose and Mickey had pretty much always been in each other's lives in one form or another and I think that made it hard for them to hammer out the details of where their relationship was at but easy to assume it would always be there. I think the psychic paper calling him her sort of boyfriend was about right, she didn't know where they stood but he kind of was still her boyfriend since they'd never exactly broken up.

Also, Mickey never really seems to be at the forefront of Rose's mind. Like in Aliens of London, she's been back for several hours by the time Mickey comes over, and it's not as if she'd gone over there, or apparently asked Jackie how Mickey was, otherwise she might have known the situation before he came in.

It's compounded by the fact that I think at least part of Rose did think it would be "just ten seconds" probably not exactly, but a short enough time that she wasn't stringing him along for months while she was off gallivanting around the universe. She didn't think about what would happen if they got it wrong by a year again, she wasn't exactly prone to making allowances for unexpected consequences. In Boom Town when she realized what was happening, she *was* keeping him on hold with no guarantees when or if she would come home much less what sort of relationship they might have if she did, she realized he deserved better

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

But I get the impression that Rose and Mickey had pretty much always been in each other's lives in one form or another and I think that made it hard for them to hammer out the details of where their relationship was at but easy to assume it would always be there.

Yeah - he's always been a friend of the family it would seem since he was running around in Father's Day.

In Boom Town when she realized what was happening, she *was* keeping him on hold with no guarantees when or if she would come home much less what sort of relationship they might have if she did, she realized he deserved better

Yeah, true enough. I guess another way of looking at it is that Boom Town was the warm-up for AoS. These two people have a *long* history with each other, and while they both seem to know that it's not going to work between them, it's extremely hard to let go of that. For either of them.