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tiamatschild) wrote2015-10-20 10:00 pm
tiamatschild) wrote2015-10-20 10:00 pm
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OC October: Agape of Chalcis
Agape of Chalcis, Doctor Who
Agape is that much maligned being, an original Companion. But she's not the Doctor's companion, she's Susan Foreman's! She and Susan wander around time and space, generally extremely lost, often with other people along as well, attempting to tend and nurture and heal an underage, undersized, and extremely traumatized former child soldier TARDIS, one of the few survivors of the Time War. There is a lot of tea drunk, a lot of places to stay begged (when the TARDIS panics it tends to kick them out and then shrink so small no one can get in), and a lot of weird mysteries to be investigated and days to be saved.
Agape is from third century Syria, and when she's at home, rather than off on a mission of mercy sanctioned by her abbot (who honestly wasn't that sure what was going on, but was pretty sure that Susan needed Agape's aid and labor as much as her prayer) lives in the gatehouse of a monastic house of women within the See of Chalcis. In the third century there were no nuns in Christian monasticism, just monks, and Agape is a monk. She's one of the less cloistered ones within her house – she runs the gatehouse and that necessitates a fair amount of contact with the outside world. That doesn't throw Agape the way it throws some of the others, and that is the reason it's her role. It's how she met the Doctor and Susan the first time she met Susan, and how she met Susan again some months later Agape's personal timeline, and some centuries later, Susan's personal timeline.
I haven't fully worked out exactly how it happened yet, but Agape got pulled into the Doctor's initial encounter with the entity that about two thousand years later (its timeline) was calling itself Fenris. There were haemovores and tests of faith and unpleasant revelations all around (the Doctor had just recently run from Gallifrey, and Susan was a very young child – he couldn't find anything he believed in to hold them back). The Doctor used Agape and someone she felt responsible for utterly ruthlessly, was as thoroughly horrible about it as you can imagine a pre-Barbara Wright Doctor being. (He also wasn't calling himself that.) He then suppressed parts of her mind so she couldn't give him away. Badly. Not from malice, exactly, but because he didn't care particularly about her, barely saw her as a person – she wasn't Susan and she wasn't him, and he was afraid of everyone and didn't really see Not Time Lords as proper people yet. And also because he's a very very very bad telepath and didn't actually know what he was doing.
This is part of why Susan, when she met Agape again, wanted her to come along.
Agape is that much maligned being, an original Companion. But she's not the Doctor's companion, she's Susan Foreman's! She and Susan wander around time and space, generally extremely lost, often with other people along as well, attempting to tend and nurture and heal an underage, undersized, and extremely traumatized former child soldier TARDIS, one of the few survivors of the Time War. There is a lot of tea drunk, a lot of places to stay begged (when the TARDIS panics it tends to kick them out and then shrink so small no one can get in), and a lot of weird mysteries to be investigated and days to be saved.
Agape is from third century Syria, and when she's at home, rather than off on a mission of mercy sanctioned by her abbot (who honestly wasn't that sure what was going on, but was pretty sure that Susan needed Agape's aid and labor as much as her prayer) lives in the gatehouse of a monastic house of women within the See of Chalcis. In the third century there were no nuns in Christian monasticism, just monks, and Agape is a monk. She's one of the less cloistered ones within her house – she runs the gatehouse and that necessitates a fair amount of contact with the outside world. That doesn't throw Agape the way it throws some of the others, and that is the reason it's her role. It's how she met the Doctor and Susan the first time she met Susan, and how she met Susan again some months later Agape's personal timeline, and some centuries later, Susan's personal timeline.
I haven't fully worked out exactly how it happened yet, but Agape got pulled into the Doctor's initial encounter with the entity that about two thousand years later (its timeline) was calling itself Fenris. There were haemovores and tests of faith and unpleasant revelations all around (the Doctor had just recently run from Gallifrey, and Susan was a very young child – he couldn't find anything he believed in to hold them back). The Doctor used Agape and someone she felt responsible for utterly ruthlessly, was as thoroughly horrible about it as you can imagine a pre-Barbara Wright Doctor being. (He also wasn't calling himself that.) He then suppressed parts of her mind so she couldn't give him away. Badly. Not from malice, exactly, but because he didn't care particularly about her, barely saw her as a person – she wasn't Susan and she wasn't him, and he was afraid of everyone and didn't really see Not Time Lords as proper people yet. And also because he's a very very very bad telepath and didn't actually know what he was doing.
This is part of why Susan, when she met Agape again, wanted her to come along.
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