Tell me what you think about Jenny
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best_enemiesCross-posted at my main blog. Yeah, this is a bit OT for this comm. But my main blog is f-locked down pretty hard, and y'all are people I want to hear from, anyway. WARNING: Spoilers through the end of Nu-Who series 4.
So, Datter av Stormen has Jenny in it, and it's my first time writing her. But this isn't the Jenny from right after the end of "The Doctor's Daughter," this is a Jenny that's had adventures among the stars, somehow met up with the Doctor again, and has been traveling with him. I have some thoughts and some questions for my beloved fanfic buddies, and I'd like you to read this and add your 2 cents or 2 p as it applies individually. (No promises that I'll follow your advice. I'm a stubborn so-n-so that way.)
1) In the episode, the Doctor says Jenny is not quite a Time Lord, and we see some of that in the end where she does not regenerate after healing a mortal wound nor need to find a vessel for the excess energy like the Doctor did in "Journey's End" to prevent regeneration, although arguably the Doctor was healing far more damage, and both canon and fanon have it that Time Lords can heal, without regenerating, wounds that would leave lesser species crippled for life. So besides the healing / regeneration difference (if there really is one), what other ways would you think Jenny is "not quite a Time Lord"? I've already written that she "sensed" the Master was a Time Lord, even though she didn't know that was what she was doing. Did this bother you? I want to write that she doesn't sense which events in time are allowed to be changed and which must not be, like the Doctor says he does in "Fires of Pompeii." But should it be that she can't at all, or just that she doesn't yet because she's not old enough, or hasn't been taught to?
2) Keeping an older / more experienced Jenny recognizable as "Jenny"... Right now I've got her behaving toward the Doctor like a uni -aged child would with a loved / loving parent when the Doctor uses parent-like behavior, e.g. the "please, just shut up, you don't know who you're dealing with here" look he gives her when he interrupts her after the Master asks her name, and again when she tells the truth about the TARDIS over his lie, and also her response when he says he won't tell the Master the complete truth. The reason I've done this is to try and merge the over-enthusiastic canon-Jenny that left Messaline with one that's seen a bit of the universe and what happens when you go blundering in blindly, to merge the Jenny that was born an unquestioning foot-soldier with the nascent Time Lord who is pretty damned sure of herself and oh BTW, a clone of the Doctor, who doesn't really trust anyone's judgment but his own. Those of you reading this who have been away from home for a while and moved back in... you know what Jenny's dealing with, traveling with the Doctor. Any thoughts?
3) Anything you'd like to add about Jenny? Am I just not seeing Jenny correctly at all IYHO?
So, Datter av Stormen has Jenny in it, and it's my first time writing her. But this isn't the Jenny from right after the end of "The Doctor's Daughter," this is a Jenny that's had adventures among the stars, somehow met up with the Doctor again, and has been traveling with him. I have some thoughts and some questions for my beloved fanfic buddies, and I'd like you to read this and add your 2 cents or 2 p as it applies individually. (No promises that I'll follow your advice. I'm a stubborn so-n-so that way.)
1) In the episode, the Doctor says Jenny is not quite a Time Lord, and we see some of that in the end where she does not regenerate after healing a mortal wound nor need to find a vessel for the excess energy like the Doctor did in "Journey's End" to prevent regeneration, although arguably the Doctor was healing far more damage, and both canon and fanon have it that Time Lords can heal, without regenerating, wounds that would leave lesser species crippled for life. So besides the healing / regeneration difference (if there really is one), what other ways would you think Jenny is "not quite a Time Lord"? I've already written that she "sensed" the Master was a Time Lord, even though she didn't know that was what she was doing. Did this bother you? I want to write that she doesn't sense which events in time are allowed to be changed and which must not be, like the Doctor says he does in "Fires of Pompeii." But should it be that she can't at all, or just that she doesn't yet because she's not old enough, or hasn't been taught to?
2) Keeping an older / more experienced Jenny recognizable as "Jenny"... Right now I've got her behaving toward the Doctor like a uni -aged child would with a loved / loving parent when the Doctor uses parent-like behavior, e.g. the "please, just shut up, you don't know who you're dealing with here" look he gives her when he interrupts her after the Master asks her name, and again when she tells the truth about the TARDIS over his lie, and also her response when he says he won't tell the Master the complete truth. The reason I've done this is to try and merge the over-enthusiastic canon-Jenny that left Messaline with one that's seen a bit of the universe and what happens when you go blundering in blindly, to merge the Jenny that was born an unquestioning foot-soldier with the nascent Time Lord who is pretty damned sure of herself and oh BTW, a clone of the Doctor, who doesn't really trust anyone's judgment but his own. Those of you reading this who have been away from home for a while and moved back in... you know what Jenny's dealing with, traveling with the Doctor. Any thoughts?
3) Anything you'd like to add about Jenny? Am I just not seeing Jenny correctly at all IYHO?
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