tardis_library | Entries tagged with ch: romana i

Title: Short Skirt/Long Jacket
Creator

purplefringe
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 3:26 minutes
Creator's Summary: She is touring the facilities and picking up slack
Characters/Pairings: Romana I, Fourth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1978 what could be better than this excellent tribute to Romana I?

Links: Dreamwidth

lurking_latinist

Title: Rewind and Repeat
Creator:

nostalgia
Rating: T
Word Count/Length/Size: 1926 words
Creator's Summary: Going to dinner with someone outside of the proper sequence of events is not a risk to be repeated.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Romana I, Tenth Doctor/Romana II, background Fourth Doctor/Romana
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: This is the sort of bizarre, topsy-turvy, slightly messed-up, very sad romance that only time travel can give you. A post-Time-War Tenth Doctor meets Romana--the one still travelling with his former self. Is it cheating to go out with a future version of your partner behind the current version's back? Regardless of whether you think it is or isn't (the characters aren't sure, either), there's still only one way this can end, and it's sad and beautiful.

One of the things I love about science fiction is how it can make our metaphors literal. Who hasn't thought, in the midst of grief, "If only I could go back, if only I could see them one more time, have one more day with them, say the thing I never said?" This fic explores those longings in a really moving way.

And my favorite aliens kiss each other.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33199978

lurking_latinist

Title: Hearts and FLowers
Creator: JJPOR
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 973 words
Creator's Summary: Love triangles can be a terrible thing, especially when one of the corners is a tin dog.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Romana I
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing:
There are surprisingly few actual straight-up Fourth Doctor/Romana I fics. I'm not entirely surprised--I used to headcanon that they didn't get together until between Destiny of the Daleks and City of Death--but, well, *gestures at icon*. But my goal is to rec fics for as many different versions of this pairing as possible, so I wanted to start here.

This fic hits a lot of the notes I love: it's funny, it's sweet, it's restful in the way this pairing can only be when Romana doesn't have the weight of a world on her shoulders yet, it's got K9 in it, there's that hilarious quasi-culture-clash between a Time Lord who's crazy about Earth and a Time Lady who thinks he must be crazy full stop. They're both shy about their feelings in their very different ways but they end up managing to communicate. Partially via poetry.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=35588

romanajo123

(Alphabet Soup M!)

Title: Meet Me At Midnight

Creator:vvj5

Rating: All Ages

Word Count/Length/Size: 2031

Creator's Summary: “They always want you to go alone when you're walking into a trap. Have you noticed that?”

Characters/Pairings:Harry Sullivan, K-9, Leela, Romana I, Romana II, Sarah Jane Smith, The Doctor (4th)
Notes/Warnings: None

Reasons for reccing: These scenarios are In-character and brilliant. (favorite is Sarah Jane) The author captures the iconic feel of Four's era and these feel like actual Missing Scenes. (although honestly the Doctor never quite learns from these experiences)

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=61022

thisbluespirit

Title: Like Nobody's Watching
Creator:

Andraste
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 5568 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor has been dancing for a long time.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Barabara Wright/Ian Chesterton, Jamie McCrimmon, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Second Doctor, John Benton, Third Doctor, Romana I, Fourth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Fifth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Sixth Doctor, Melanie Bush, Seventh Doctor, C'Rizz, Eighth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Beautiful, thoughtful, and heart-warming multi-era fic in which the Doctor dances with his companions across all his incarnations (up to the point when this was written). It's a light and fun read, but explores various relationships with depth, accuracy and heart, and everything comes together in deftly circular way at the end.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50581

thisbluespirit

Title: La Vie Boheme
Creator: Doctor Tam | Solo By Choice
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 2075 words
Creator's Summary: A non-linear character study: "He composes a symphony for accordion and dog whistle, goes pike fishing in the Thames, and gets a sunburn on his nose. After all, the universe isn't his responsibility."
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Leela, Romana I, Romana II, K9.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Wonderful, funny, and bittersweet non-linear look at Four, and the events and people that make up his incarnation. It's lovely, and the out of order nature of it is completely perfect, both in the bits that make it funnier and the bits that make it hurt the harder.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=28459 (Also on ff.net here.)