tardis_library | Entries tagged with ch: nyssa

Title: Before and After
Creator:

auronlu (TrakeniteTourist )
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 4458
Creator's Summary: After the Big Finish "Five Companions" Audio, the Doctor has to see his friends back to their proper places and times. Saying goodbye to one of them is more pleasant than expected, and more painful than the Doctor lets on.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken, Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, cameos by Polly Wright, Sara Kingdom, and Steven Taylor
Warnings/Notes: Sexual content , WAFF (warm and fuzzy feeling). (Might want to listen to or find a summary of the aforementioned audio if you want context, but there's not much spoiler content)

Reasons for reccing: (Wait, have I not rec'd this yet? Wow) For the Romance box on Rec Bingo. This is a beautifully done work. You can hear everyone's voices and all the little details are incredible. It really shows the Doctor and Nyssa's bond.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/2644940

romanajo123

Title: May Contain Multitudes
Creator: [Bad username or unknown identity:  ]
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1358
Creator's Summary: Three's a crowd, but it could be worse, as the Doctor finds out...
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka, several companion cameos
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Companions theme. This is an interesting idea. And it's fun trying to figure out who everyone is. :P This feels like something out of Big Finish

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/17905190

Current Mood: amused

romanajo123

Title: Chameleon Arch of Infinity
Creator:

SpaceTimeConundrum
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 24429
Creator's Summary: Why kill the Doctor to save the universe when you can simply reprogram his DNA?
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken, Irving Braxiatel, Leela, Omega, Damon,Tegan Jovanka, Hedin, The Castellan, Andred, Maxil, Borusa
Warnings/Notes: Sexual Content , "Time Lords Being Stupid"

Reasons for reccing: Monthly theme. This is a very well-done fix it for Arc of Infinity. It's a creative solution and everyone I believe is in character. The Doctor in this AU is still himself (but seems to have less inhibitions).

(Note- It helps if you have seen or at least found a recap of Arc of Infinity)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/3555143/chapters/7828652

romanajo123

Title: Can't Take Them Anywhere
Creator: Lissy Strata
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 642
Creator's Summary:Can the TARDIS crew manage at least one trip without getting into trouble?
Characters/Pairings: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, The Doctor (5th)
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Monthly Theme. This is funny and adorable. Considering Five during s19 feels a lot like a harried dad, this works.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

romanajo123

Title: This Bird Has Flown
Creator: TrakeniteTourist (

auronlu )
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 6666
Creator's Summary: A series of vignettes roughly parallelling the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa’s later Big Finish adventures, when their partnership is as natural as Four’s had been with Romana. And in much the same way, there’s a certain frisson going on that neither of them, especially the Doctor, is willing to acknowledge.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: References to sex, violence/assault, ummm... the vastness of space? Also Spoilers to: Castle of Fear, Eternal Summer, *Plague of the Daleks, Spare Parts, Renaissance of the Daleks, Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Demons of Red Lodge, *Creatures of Beauty, *1001 Nights, Fanfare for the Common Men, and *Masquerade. (* = major spoilers giving away plot twists; the rest are references to minor details.)

Reasons for reccing: For the Monthly Theme. This is honestly my favorite fic for these two. The writing and details are gorgeous and Five and Nyssa are very in-character. This really shows their realtionship well. (It is not necessary to have heard all the audios, but it helps )

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/2068407

paranoidangel

Title: The Creeping Terror
Creator:

LissyStrata
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1270 words
Creator's Summary: "Hurry, Doctor! We've got just enough time to finish our picnic before the monster gets us!"
Characters/Pairings: Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Adric, Fifth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is a hilarious fic where the group are menaced by an alien that seems like it would be in the series. Except that they notice how slow it moves. The descriptions of the group 'running away' and the way the alien moves are funny.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45518263

romanajo123

Title: Sam's New Year
Creator:

Shivver
Rating: General Audience
Word Count/Length/Size: 10013
Creator's Summary: Sam sits on a doorstep, watching the celebrants heading for the ball drop in Times Square. He isn't joining them. He has more important things to do, like figure out where his next meal is coming from.
Characters/Pairings:
First Doctor
Second Doctor
Fourth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
Eighth Doctor
Ninth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
Susan Foreman
Jamie McCrimmon
Victoria Waterfield
Leela (Doctor Who)
Nyssa of Traken
Ace McShane
Charley Pollard
Rose Tyler

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
Happy New Year! This is a wonderful read. Sometimes it's nice to see the Doctors helping in small ways: like here just making sure someone in need can make it through the night. Everyone is IC and it has just that right bit of heartwarming (and bittersweetness)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13169499/chapters/30121200

Current Mood: calm

paranoidangel

Title: Warmth
Creator:

lurking_latinist
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1223 words
Creator's Summary: Unexpectedly stranded in London and looking for work, Tegan finds a place where she just might fit in.
Characters/Pairings: Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Fifth Doctor, Adric
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is a coffee shop AU. Setting change AUs aren't usually my thing, but the characters all fit into the world, with their jobs. Their personalities and relationships are the same as they are in canon.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51688225

paranoidangel

Title: Adventures in Babysitting
Creator:

CeruleanTactician
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1047 words
Creator's Summary: Team Five attempts to take care of a baby.
Keyword, of course, being “attempts.”
Characters/Pairings: Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka, Fifth Doctor, Adric
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1980, Adric's first episode. This is fun with most of them having no idea what they're doing. And also sweet at the end.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51666502

romanajo123

Title: Sand and Water
Creator:

Chryse73
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2715
Creator's Summary: Missing scene from the MA novel ‘The Sands of Time’, by Justin Richards. Spoilers throughout.

The Doctor and Tegan have rescued Nyssa from the clutches of Nephthys and all seems well, but waking from a four thousand year coma isn’t as simple as expected...

Characters/Pairings: Fith Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: Like the Summary said, Spoilers.

Reasons for reccing: Bonus rec for 1996 (since it's when the novel was published). Sands of Time might be my favorite Fifth Doctor novel ( well, it or Cold Fusion). And this is a lovely, in-character missing scene for it. The images are detailed and vivid, and it's actually a bit heartbreaking at points.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13494452

thisbluespirit

Title: Two Hearts
Creator:

emeraldarrows
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4325 words
Creator's Summary: Reflections on the past and the two hearts of a Time Lord.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa, Turlough, Adric, Kamelion, Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble.
Warnings/Notes: Angst.

Reasons for reccing: For 1981, the year that we first met Tegan Jovanka and the Fifth Doctor, as well as for the multi-era theme. This is a gorgeous set of haunting vignettes looking at their relationship, their bond, and its impossibility. It's a beautifully melancholic piece.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9523115/chapters/21534560

paranoidangel

Title: Cheating Grief
Creator:

Heimeldat
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 3391 words
Creator's Summary: When the chaos settles after Castrovalva, Nyssa finally has time to think about Traken, and the Doctor helps her come to terms with losing her entire world.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1982, when Castrovalva first aired. It's a story of the Doctor getting to know his new self, which is interesting to see. And also comforting Nyssa. It feels exactly like something that must have happened - after all, losing your world is a pretty big thing to deal with.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43216936

paranoidangel

Title: Where I Found You
Creator:

CeruleanTactician
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1689 words
Creator's Summary: Peri meets a strange woman in one of the TARDIS gardens.
Characters/Pairings: Peri Brown, Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's an interesting pair to have meet and a logical way of having them meeting. It's sweet that they both have the Fifth Doctor in common. And fun to see how well they get along.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43029969

romanajo123

Title: Reunion
Creator: KerrAvonsen
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1759
Creator's Summary: She had expected her past to stay safely in the past, not come bounding down the hallway calling out her name. (AU)
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (9th), Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: ( I am not 100 percent sure if this counts as the monthly challenge so awaiting confirmation)

This is brilliant. Companion reunions are always fascinating and these two WORK surprisingly well. And look for a nice twist at the end I'm not going to ruin. :)

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

romanajo123

Title: Life's Little Mysteries
Creator:

auronlu
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 520
Creator's Summary: The Doctor reflects on how they came to this.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Sharing a Bed box on my Bingo card (which if I'm right, means I completed a Bingo :)) . This is beautiful and poignant, a great portrait of them and look at their bond.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/6715303

quailfence

Title: Child Swap
Creator:

dragonwings948
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 3,899 words
Creator's Summary: The Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS is going haywire without reason, and things get even weirder when she comes face to face with friends from her past. Meanwhile, the Fifth Doctor tries to calm his own TARDIS when three strangers appear in the places of Nyssa, Adric, and Tegan.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Graham O’Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Nyssa or Traken, Adric, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: My first entry for the Claim a Character seasonal challenge. I really like the Doctor meeting past companions, and this was a fun take on the idea.

Link to fic:
Link

paranoidangel

Title: Sunrise Yoga
Creator:

dragonwings948
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 551 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor has an exercise routine planned for his crew, and it involves sunrise yoga. However, getting them all to participate doesn’t go exactly as planned.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a short amusing fic that really shows the characters of all four of them.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20720963

quailfence

Title: Unrevealed Truths (The Coronation of the High Hierophant)
Creator: circular time (

auronlu)
Word Count/Length/Size: 51,331 words
Creator's Summary: On a human colony where Baroque France and classical Rome are so far in Earth’s legendary past that both are mined for “wisdom of the ancients,” the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa are swept into a fantastic world of pageantry, allegory, advanced gravitational engineering, dance and court intrigue.

The Doctor believes Nyssa has found true love. Nyssa believes she has found someone who needs their help. After the Doctor leaves Nyssa to her new life, she’s forced to embrace the masquerade far more deeply than she had intended. Will the Doctor defy the Web of Time to extricate her from the jaws of history?
Characters: Fifth Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Original Male Character
Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa
Warnings/Notes: Pregnancy. Minor spoilers for: Big Finish 1001 Nights, Demons of Red Lodge, Circular Time "Autumn," Eternal Summer, Spare Parts.

Reasons for reccing: The story has some very good descriptions, and a very interesting and well-written alien culture. There’s some good twists and turns, and overall a very enjoyable read

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7544761

paranoidangel

Title: Fallacy Somewhere (Or: If You Can't Steal a Coat from Gilbert and Sullivan, Then From Which 19th Century Librettists and Composers Can You Steal a Coat?)
Creator:

dbskyler
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 3144 words
Creator's Summary: You know, I acquired that ulster from Gilbert and Sullivan. -- The First Doctor, "Edge of Destruction."
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor, Susan Foreman, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Romana II, K9, Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Ace McShane, Grace Holloway, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Donna Noble
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Because it's funny. It has a trending theme, which leads to the reveal of how the First Doctor ended up with that ulster. Despite it all being from Gilbert or Sullivan's point of view, you can still tell which Doctors and companions are which from what they do and how their clothing is described.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/583372

thisbluespirit

Another one for the characters challenge, this time for Idris.

Title: Human Behaviour
Creator:

st_aurafina
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 1688 words
Creator's Summary: The TARDIS learned a lot from her time in a human body; that doesn't mean she knows how to put a human together again.
Characters/Pairings: The TARDIS, Idris, Eleventh Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor, Leela.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Beautiful follow up and fixit for "The Doctor's Wife", as the TARDIS picks up the pieces of herself and Idris and tries to find out how to mend a mortal. Just lovely, with perectly in-character glimpses of former inhabitants of the TARDIS.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/399648

eve11

Title: Stop All the Clocks
Creator:

Chryse73
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 497 words
Creator's Summary: A solemn day for the TARDIS crew, as they say goodbye to a dear friend.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Adric
Warnings/Notes: Major Character death

Reasons for reccing: This rec goes for Adric for my Fandom Surprise character list. I think it is a fitting and perfect encapsulation of his character in the show. Very well done by the author. Go read it. Bring tissues.

Link: Stop All the Clocks

romanajo123

Title: Felis Catus Temporus

Creator: Lissy Strata

Rating: All ages

Word Count/Length/Size: 10773

Creator's Summary:A series of unrelated one-shots in which your favourite characters become cats. Because cats.
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Amy Pond, Ben Jackson, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Clara Oswin Oswald, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, K-9, Leela, Nyssa, Peri Brown, Polly Wright, Sarah Jane Smith, The Master (Delgado), Vicki, Victoria Waterfield

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Fluff box on my Bingo card. What's fluffier than a fic where the Doctors and companions are cats! Adorable, funny, and very in-character dialogue.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=54213

romanajo123

Title: Master's Thesis

Creator:

auronlu (circular-time)

Rating: All ages

Word Count/Length/Size:42,826

Creator's Summary: When Nyssa tries to return home with the cure to a deadly plague, the TARDIS overshoots and slips back into her past, the Doctor's future. Worse, the Master is already there, taking a sinister interest in her family. Hemmed in by potential time paradoxes, there's only one person to whom Nyssa can turn for help: her best friend Tegan.

Characters/Pairings:

Nyssa of Traken Tegan Jovanka Fifth Doctor Vislor Turlough The Master (Doctor Who) Lasarti

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For my Bingo card. Box-Master. . (Set in the older!Nyssa Big Finish audios but you don't need to have listened to them first) This is exciting and in-character for everybody. An adventure that feels like an actual episode of the series; with moments (I won't spoil here) that many fans of Nyssa have been more than likely waiting to happen.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1679405/chapters/3567911

romanajo123

(L in Alphabet Soup, also because it's April 1 )

Title: Lost in Translation

Creator: Chryse73

Rating: G

Word Count/Length/Size: 568

Creator's Summary: A bit of Team Five fluff written for who_contest Drabble Contest #62 - 'Wit'.

Tegan tries to tell a joke. It doesn't go well.

Characters/Pairings:

Fifth Doctor Tegan Jovanka Nyssa of Traken Adric (Doctor Who)

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is pure fluff and silliness with the s19 crew. This author knows these characters and gets their voices perfectly.

Link:http://archiveofourown.org/works/15470814

auroracloud

Title: Nyssa of Traken
Creator:

Circular-Time)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: Tone painting (mostly) using Procreate iPad app, Nov 28, 2015.
This is mostly to chart my progress since I started art lessons.
Characters/Pairings: Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: -

Reasons for reccing: A really, really beautiful Nyssa portrait in charcoal. I'm just amazed by how stunning it is and can't say anything useful. (Also, for the Fifth Doctor era monthly theme!)

Link: Here on DeviantArt

felis

Title: The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa
Creator:

johannesviii
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, petting a Parasaurolophus on the head.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Nyssa
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Came across this a couple of days ago and bookmarked it - perfect timing for the other half of the monthly theme. Beautiful little scene where Five and Nyssa meet a dinosaur! The watercolour art and the colours are just gorgeous.

Link: https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/186405085114/for-human-nxture-the-fifth-doctor-and-nyssa

romanajo123

Title: Beauty and Folly

Creator:

auronlu (circular_time)

Rating: G

Word Count/Length/Size: 4210

Creator's Summary: After his lengthy incarceration and lengthier time trial on Planet Folly [Big Finish: "Doing Time"], the Doctor is more than usually relieved to be back aboard the TARDIS. Unfortunately, Nyssa has placed one more road block in his path.

Characters/Pairing: Fifth Doctor / Nyssa of Traken

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa are definitely two of my faves and their relationship gets a lot of development in the audios. This fi is a missing scene (specifically from the audio Doing Time, but you don't have to have heard it) that fits. The author captures their voices perfectly.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3316550

auroracloud

Title: Dreaming
Creator:

Calapine)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: 3:05 minutes
Creator's Summary: A Doctor Who Nyssa/Tegan fanvid.
Characters/Pairings: Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken
Notes: Set to the song "Dreaming" by Blondie.

Reasons for reccing: It's a lovely Nyssa/Tegan fanvid with lots of clips of them doing things together, turning to look at one another, and generally being great and friendly and cozy together, set to a cheerful, energetic 1980's rock song by Blondie. I haven't watched much in the way of vids before, but this one completely won me over.

For the monthly theme of romance! Although the clips work just as well for a gen friendship vid, if you prefer that.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAc5ACtiwbU

auroracloud

Title: DW Flowers (series of images)
Creator:

Miss-Alex-Aphey)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: -
Characters/Pairings: most female companions from both the Classic and New series of Doctor Who

Reasons for reccing: This is a whole fan art series too lovely to choose just one or two in it, so I'm going to post links to several of my favourites under the cut (since you could do that when you're fulfilling a challenge!) and from them, you can click on your favourites and, if you want, you can easily access the gallery to see even more of them. These are quite exquisite drawings of most of the female companions in Doctor Who, pictured with larger-than-life flowers chosen to match their personality, appearance, colours etc. While combining female characters with flowers may sound very traditional, the characters possess all the vividness, strength and energy they have in the series - the flowers seem to represent vitality and growth rather than any excessive fragility or some such. Many of the pictures are my favourite fan arts ever of those characters.

For my "female-centric" challenge claim before the seasonal challenge ends!

( Lots of lovely pictures of lovely female characters )

luthien

Title: There to Here
Creator:

nym_wibbly
Rating: Teen and up
Word Count/Length/Size: 7016 words
Creator's Summary: Tegan's journey takes her to places she knew she'd never go.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: I could never imagine this pairing, until I read this story. Then, once I had read it, the pairing made perfect sense, but only in the way they are together here. This story brings Tegan and the Doctor together, but in a way that preserves the Doctor's essential, alien otherness. This is such a great Tegan voice. She's such a loud "outside" sort of character but this quieter, thoughtful but unflinchingly honest internal voice works so beautifully. I love - in a slightly uncomfortable way - the way the Doctor is with her, the way he sounds and acts - I can hear him so clearly in the dialogue - but Tegan is what really makes this story. It's one that's stayed in my mind ever since I first read it, years ago.

Link: There to Here