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Fixing Donna Noble
Nov. 15th, 2015 04:15 pmNOTE: Donna is a widow. Her husband was killed in an accident shortly after Big Bang 2
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Donna fused with the Doctor during the Biological Metacrisis (Journey’s End). During the battle with Davros, Donna was electrocuted which fired her synapses, causing them to work overtime and unlocking the new Time Lord portion of her brain. Due to the fact that human/Time Lord Biological Metacrisis has never happened before and Time Lords and humans are not biologically compatible, the Time Lord portion of Donna’s brain began to burn up the human portion of her brain, causing HER to burn. The Doctor locked it all away (being as he couldn’t erase it) and told Donna’s family that if she ever remembered even for a second anything about the Doctor that the lock would release and she would burn. He also included a failsafe in case anything were to happen. This failsafe would knock her unconscious before she could remember too much and begin to truly burn. (The End of Time)
The lock does not apply to dreams. Anyone could make Donna remember anything about the Doctor and she wouldn’t burn, so long as she was in the dream world and the other party had access to Donna’s dreams. The TARDIS, sensing the End of Days is near, begins making preparations to pull a suicidal move and force Donna to remember and take the lock into itself. It begins contacting Donna through her dreams, telling her to be at a mortuary on a certain day at a certain time. Then, while the Doctor, Amy, and Rory (and possibly River) are off having adventures, teh TARDIS would travel to the same Mortuary that Donna will be at, transfer its vortex matrix into a human corpse (a la The Doctor’s Wife, albeit willingly this time), kiss Donna (a la The Parting of the Ways), thus taking the Time Lord bits into a TARDIS-inhabited corpse and releasing the now-completely human Donna from her mind-prison. The corpse then begins to break down, prompting Donna to bring it to the TARDIS (which has powered down due to the vortex matrix being inside the corpse). After the corpse completely breaks down, the vortex matrix (along with Donna’s Time Lord bits) gets released back into the TARDIS. Donna is left unconscious on the floor in the TARDIS’ main control room. The TARDIS, now back in full control of itself, takes the unconscious Donna with it back to where the Doctor left it. Roughly halfway through the flight, Donna wakes up and memories begin coming back.
The Doctor and his companions are off having adventures while all this is going on. Once they’ve finished with their adventures, they make their way back to the TARDIS and the Doctor is shocked to discover Donna sitting on a rock just outside the doors. Donna already knows all about the Doctor’s regeneration and the ensuing adventures because she and the TARDIS are temporarily telepathically linked (more than just the basic telepathy that allows the TARDIS to translate virtually any language instantaneously). Amy and Rory have no idea who Donna is and are shocked when she walks right up to him and slugs him in the face and starts swearing at him in rather creative ways. She then breaks down sobbing and demanding to know exactly why he would force her to forget everything about all their adventures when she was clearly so important that Dalek Caan would drive himself mad by flying directly into the Time War to release Davros and manipulate Time to bring her and the Doctor together at precisely the right points in time. He explains that it was the only wy to save her after the Biological Metacrisis occurred and that if he let her die, her family woul have never forgiven him and possibly tried to kill him (or at the very least expose him to the masses, prompting all kinds of nasty government research that would best be avoided). She tells him that she would rather have died than go back to her boring, everyday life.
The Doctor then becomes suspicious (as the initial shock of seeing Donna outside the TARDIS on some random alien planet has by now worn off) about how exactly she COULD be standing there when all of her memories were locked away and she couldn’t remember without burning. The TARDIS then takes advantage of its temporary psychic link with Donna and explains through her exactly how everything was put together. The Doctor then puts two and two together and gets four and realizes that the universe is being threatened (AGAIN) and it’s up to him and his merry band of companions to fix it. Amy and Rory are then introduced to Donna properly and they all travel off to pick up the other members of their merry band.
Whew!
Edit 12/17/18: I'll probably come back and tweak this at some point, when I've had more time to think about it. Davies really did Donna, and all the ladies really, a huge disservice. And we're not even gonna go into Moffat and how he treated female characters. I'm liable to blow a gasket if I did.
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Donna fused with the Doctor during the Biological Metacrisis (Journey’s End). During the battle with Davros, Donna was electrocuted which fired her synapses, causing them to work overtime and unlocking the new Time Lord portion of her brain. Due to the fact that human/Time Lord Biological Metacrisis has never happened before and Time Lords and humans are not biologically compatible, the Time Lord portion of Donna’s brain began to burn up the human portion of her brain, causing HER to burn. The Doctor locked it all away (being as he couldn’t erase it) and told Donna’s family that if she ever remembered even for a second anything about the Doctor that the lock would release and she would burn. He also included a failsafe in case anything were to happen. This failsafe would knock her unconscious before she could remember too much and begin to truly burn. (The End of Time)
The lock does not apply to dreams. Anyone could make Donna remember anything about the Doctor and she wouldn’t burn, so long as she was in the dream world and the other party had access to Donna’s dreams. The TARDIS, sensing the End of Days is near, begins making preparations to pull a suicidal move and force Donna to remember and take the lock into itself. It begins contacting Donna through her dreams, telling her to be at a mortuary on a certain day at a certain time. Then, while the Doctor, Amy, and Rory (and possibly River) are off having adventures, teh TARDIS would travel to the same Mortuary that Donna will be at, transfer its vortex matrix into a human corpse (a la The Doctor’s Wife, albeit willingly this time), kiss Donna (a la The Parting of the Ways), thus taking the Time Lord bits into a TARDIS-inhabited corpse and releasing the now-completely human Donna from her mind-prison. The corpse then begins to break down, prompting Donna to bring it to the TARDIS (which has powered down due to the vortex matrix being inside the corpse). After the corpse completely breaks down, the vortex matrix (along with Donna’s Time Lord bits) gets released back into the TARDIS. Donna is left unconscious on the floor in the TARDIS’ main control room. The TARDIS, now back in full control of itself, takes the unconscious Donna with it back to where the Doctor left it. Roughly halfway through the flight, Donna wakes up and memories begin coming back.
The Doctor and his companions are off having adventures while all this is going on. Once they’ve finished with their adventures, they make their way back to the TARDIS and the Doctor is shocked to discover Donna sitting on a rock just outside the doors. Donna already knows all about the Doctor’s regeneration and the ensuing adventures because she and the TARDIS are temporarily telepathically linked (more than just the basic telepathy that allows the TARDIS to translate virtually any language instantaneously). Amy and Rory have no idea who Donna is and are shocked when she walks right up to him and slugs him in the face and starts swearing at him in rather creative ways. She then breaks down sobbing and demanding to know exactly why he would force her to forget everything about all their adventures when she was clearly so important that Dalek Caan would drive himself mad by flying directly into the Time War to release Davros and manipulate Time to bring her and the Doctor together at precisely the right points in time. He explains that it was the only wy to save her after the Biological Metacrisis occurred and that if he let her die, her family woul have never forgiven him and possibly tried to kill him (or at the very least expose him to the masses, prompting all kinds of nasty government research that would best be avoided). She tells him that she would rather have died than go back to her boring, everyday life.
The Doctor then becomes suspicious (as the initial shock of seeing Donna outside the TARDIS on some random alien planet has by now worn off) about how exactly she COULD be standing there when all of her memories were locked away and she couldn’t remember without burning. The TARDIS then takes advantage of its temporary psychic link with Donna and explains through her exactly how everything was put together. The Doctor then puts two and two together and gets four and realizes that the universe is being threatened (AGAIN) and it’s up to him and his merry band of companions to fix it. Amy and Rory are then introduced to Donna properly and they all travel off to pick up the other members of their merry band.
Whew!
Edit 12/17/18: I'll probably come back and tweak this at some point, when I've had more time to think about it. Davies really did Donna, and all the ladies really, a huge disservice. And we're not even gonna go into Moffat and how he treated female characters. I'm liable to blow a gasket if I did.
