12 Characters Meme

The 12 Characters Meme (Plotty) is here.

The characters (themselves randomly selected from a Doctor Who list) are:

1. Jack


2. Eleven


3. Katarina


4. Adam


5. Liz


6. Donna


7. Sarah Jane


8. Nine


9. Ian


10. Romana II


11. Mickey


12. Mel

8 [Nine] and 4 [Adam] get stuck in a lift. What happens?

At which point exactly in Adam’s brief inglorious tenure? If they’re still traveling together, presumably they do lots of techy things to get out. If it’s after Adam gets left, I should imagine a lot of quarreling ensures. Rose finds the building maintenance people and gets the lift open.

 

Randomise a song by your preferred means (shuffle your iPod/MP3 player/iTunes/the internet). Pick out the line that best fits 2 [Eleven]?

Well, I got “Flower of Scotland,” which… I don’t know, I mean if you wrote an Eleven tries to go back for Jamie story you could use almost any line as the title, and I do now want such a story, but that’s not a line about Eleven as such. Amy is equally Scottish but it doesn’t fit her particularly well. 

 

What would be your plot device of choice for a fic involving 11 [Mickey] and 6 [Donna]?

Probably Donna’s presumably existing counterpart in Pete’s World.

 

Rec a fanwork about 12 [Mel]?

QuokkaMocha’s “Consensus in Idem,” an entry in her ongoing Doctor Who: Darker Side series featuring Mel and Six, the Valeyard, the Forest of Cheem, and mysteriously missing time!

 

Where would 9 [Ian] take 5 [Liz] on a date?

Somewhere classy and extremely normal. Or alternatively, to whatever place they are fake-dating to infiltrate, because I really can’t picture this happening organically.

 

2 [Eleven] and 4 [Adam] are now buddy cops. Do they make a good team, and is this bad or good news for nearby criminals?

The Doctor thinks Adam is unscrupulous and selfish and Adam thinks the Doctor is incomprehensibly terrifying, presumably, at this point. They do not make a good team. But they possibly do scare criminals quite badly as well.

 

Make up a summary for an apocalyptic fic featuring 5 [Liz] and 10 [Romana II]

The boundaries between universes are breaking down. At least, that’s what the woman who’s mysteriously appeared in Liz Shaw’s lab claims. She says she’s spent hundreds of years in a place called E-Space. She also says the consequences of the universes meeting will be catastrophic. Will the combined skills of two scientists from different worlds be enough to stop the disaster—or even survive it?

 

If 3 [Katarina] and 7 [Sarah Jane] were a couple, how would they meet and would it work out?

How would they meet? Time travel, presumably. Sarah spends the whole time trying to boost Katarina’s self-respect. Explaining basic feminist theory to Katarina makes a change from explaining it to Harry, I guess. 

 

1 [Jack], 10 [Romana II] and 8 [Nine] go on an epic road trip. Where are they going, who drives, and who gets left behind at the first stop?

Romana and the Doctor drive the TARDIS, thank you. Jack doesn’t mind third-wheeling a couple of very attractive Time Lords, but they might nip off alone for a bit and hope he doesn’t notice.

 

In a coffee shop type AU with 9 [Ian] and 4 [Adam], what would their establishment be called?

It would be Adam’s weird idea for one of those techie coffee businesses that processes the coffee with supplements to make you focus better or whatever. So he gets his old science teacher on board as a consultant. Adam would probably name it something meaningless but sleek-sounding, like Entropy or Epsilon or something.

 

What would the title be for a romance novel/film featuring 7 [Sarah Jane] and 12 [Mel]?

According to the Unconventional Pairing Generator, it’s called Trouble in Tourmaline, Sarah is an ex-lawyer and Mel is a psychologist. She gets involved with Sarah through wanting to fix her problems, which tracks for Mel.

 

If forced to choose, would you rather have an evening out with 1 [Jack] or 11 [Mickey]?

In-universe, Mickey. I’m immune to Captain Jack, he comes on far too strong. But it’s very hard to get past the actors on this question. Bad call, generator.

 

What's your favourite pairing (romantic or otherwise) for 3 [Katarina]?

I keep getting Katarina in memes when I really don’t know her at all. Katarina/not dying, perhaps? That seems like it would probably brighten her existence.

 

Write a snippet from a 8 [Nine], 9 [Ian] and 3 [Katarina] pirate AU. ('Snippet' here meaning 'as brief as you like'.)

 The captain’s eyes were haunted by loss. He hadn’t expected to escape burning Troy; and yet here he was, alive, sailing in the long term for a prophesied new home and in the short term for, well, whatever they could find. He clung to Katarina; some days it was all she could do to keep his dark mood away.

Ian had tried to object when he realized “wandering on the sea” in this era was next door to outright piracy. But the only answer he got amounted to “shut up and row.” If this was going to happen a lot, he thought, he would have to ask Barbara for some more historical context.

[on the list of things I didn’t expect to write today: an Aeneid fusion AU. But it works!]

11 [Mickey], 1 [Jack], 12 [Mel] and 5 [Liz] are on a talent show. Who wins?

It’s a close thing between Mel’s singing and dancing and Jack’s magic act involving objects appearing and disappearing from very strange places indeed. But when Mel reveals she can also scream the theme tune in tune, she’s got to win. Besides, this is a family show. 

 

Aliens try to make 2 [Eleven], 6 [Donna] and 12 [Mel] do it. Do they have any luck?

Eleven’s always willing to try things, but it’s unclear whether he knows what “it” is meant to be. Donna slaps him anyway. Mel is practical and escape-oriented in the moment, but later she finds herself looking at her own Doctor, wondering…. No. No. Never in a million years, she tells herself.

 

What might 1 [Jack] say to compliment 5 [Liz]?

Knowing Jack, he’s liable to say almost anything.

 

What would 10 [Romana II] hate most about 2 [Eleven]? And what would 9 [Ian] love most about 10 [Romana II]?

All of Eleven’s Gallifrey-based neuroses would annoy Romana no end. But then, if she were alive, he wouldn’t have them. Or at least he’d have different ones.

Ian would love that Romana knows how to steer a TARDIS.

 

If you had to write a crossover involving 6 [Donna] and 4 [Adam], how would it go and/or what would the crossover fandom be?

I don’t know what fandom exactly, but something terrifically mundane, probably a sitcom. You’d have to end up with some kind of comedy in which Adam’s head portal is constantly going off and Donna is constantly just missing seeing it happen.

 

Go here to generate a random poem. The second line is now the title of a fic about 11 [Mickey] and 7 [Sarah Jane]. What's the plot?

After much effort trying to find a random poem generator in 2023 that would give me a random existing poem and not something cobbled together by a so-called AI, I ended up with “The Lady of Shalott.” The second line of which is “Long fields of barley and of rye.” Perhaps… I don’t know, perhaps they have to deal with Evil In A Quaint Country Village, Mickey is far too much of a Londoner but Sarah has experience in these matters. And as a reference to the rest of the poem, perhaps something about how they’ve both spent quite a lot of time breaking their hearts over people who run off into space.

 

If 3 [Katarina] and 9 [Ian] decided to get together and pull off a jewel heist, how would that go?

Neither of them has any relevant skills whatsoever, as far as I can think. I think they’d have better luck asking for the jewels politely. 

 

7 [Sarah Jane] has got to save the world from 8 [Nine]. Is the world saved or doomed?

If the world needs saving from Nine, it’s because he’s gone all dark and scary like in Dalek—and if anyone can snap him out of that, it’s his old friend Sarah. So the world is safe.