I am confused.

[preserved_ginger]

I get, to a certain extent, why Doctor/Rose fandom is all over Ten II right now. He’s new, and shiny, and the possibilities are practically endless. I don’t have a problem with that. It’s very much not my ship, for various reasons, but I’m dealing.

So now we have Ten II/Rose which is really popular, and Nine/Rose which is also very popular. Both of these things are fine.

What I’m confused about mainly, and what is making Doctor/Rose fandom hard for me right now, is why nobody seems to be giving Ten (or Ten/Rose, from what I’ve seen lately) much love any more.

Without Ten there would be no Ten II, so why no Ten love?

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

I agree with someone up there who mentioned canon. That Ten/Rose is either in the past or it's AU or it's TenII/Rose.

I'm currently writing both Ten and Ten II (separate stories). I'm not giving up on ever writing Ten again. But everything I write will be either during S2, or it will be Ten on his own.

Because I'm a writer that tends to defer to canon. I like my fic to fit it.

And since Doctor/Rose is my ship, the place that ship lives is with Ten II in Pete's world. I don't love II because he's new and shiny, I love him because he's the Doctor. And if I want to write about a future for the Doctor and Rose, I'm writing it with Ten II. Doesn't mean I don't love Ten, all lonely in the 'real' world.

It's not in any way disloyal or something to Ten to like Ten II or ship him with Rose. I love Ten, I'll always love Ten. But sorry, I love Ten II just as much. He is the same man. Insofar as how I feel about the character.