amberfocus | Planning Stages

Yeah, so alt!Nine is sulking now that Nine's going strong. Men! You'd think they could be happy for each other, but neither one is happy unless they're the one about to shag Rose, currently shagging Rose, or have just finished shagging Rose and are thinking ahead to the next time they get to shag Rose. So rather than bang my head against the wall that is chapter ten of Hunger Moon, I rewrote the first chapter of Andromeda Rising last night and posted it to my journal. I am changing things, a bit more than a rewrite, to accommodate some of Torchwood season 2. There are things that won't change, like Owen, but he's a very minor character in this anyway. I'm keeping Owen the way I have him in all my stories and canon can go and whistle.

Yeah, so anyway, chapter one is done. I'm always a little unsure about Andromeda Rising because it has so many original characters in it. Yes, it has Jack and yes it has Rose and the Doctor, and Martha and Dare. No wait, Dare's not canon, no matter how much I think he should be. And then there's the fact that Andromeda's only sixteen, which was such a throwaway line in To Call Our Own, but is it my fault she insisted on lying about her age? *Growls* I've made it so that sixteen is a fully grown adult by Gallifreyan standards, because it really says nothing about the young of that race. So I can make it up. But since she's a hybrid, well, I don't know. Hope it doesn't come across as squicky. Girls her age do this sort of thing all the time, lie about their age and run off with older guys. Still, it is a love story. Don't know why I didn't just change that bit a bit. But the plot bunnies work the way the plot bunnies work.

I made two banners for Andromeda Rising also. One has a very young Billie Piper and the other has a mid-thirties John Barrowman. And because I was bored I made the icon attached to this post based off a quote that Rose says about Ten in You Reap What You Sow when she's lost her most recent memories and is comparing him to his former self of "Before he was the Oncoming Storm. Now he's just sort of the Oncoming Puppy-Dog Eyes." Of course, she doesn't know how deceptive that is at that point, but still I thought that picture was perfect for it. I mean he could just shake his head in that photo and you'd go, "Who's my little Ten? Who's my little Ten? Whos' a good puppy?" *ruffles fur* *I mean ruffles hair* Okay, maybe that's just in my mind.

I'm also working on chapter two of Have and the smut bunnies are out in full force (so the reason why alt!Nine is moody). Vortex is being stubborn. My Ten muse is on vacation, I think. Maybe after Have is done it'll come out. A few people have asked me how I'm going to handle Boomtown, and I'm assuming that's because of Mickey and that little let's go to a hotel scene they have that gets thwarted when the Rift starts to open. I haven't thought too much about it. I think there's only two options really. Rose and the Doctor having a bruising fight that leads Rose to seek comfort in Mickey or she decides to go with him to the hotel to let him down easy (without sex). I'm thinking probably the bruising fight. Or maybe, oh, I could go with the whole "This was a mistake, we never should have done this," angsty mess-o-Doctor-matic bit. The whole, "I thought you could handle it but you're only a human" route. Because yes, Nine could be a jerk like that. But...but...but I want them to be happy so...pfttt! I don't know. I guess I'll see when the time comes.

Still sick. Still trying to sleep. Not winning either battle.