Fic: Beyond the End of Time
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kerravonsenYes, instead of working on stuff I was supposed to be working on, the Muse wanted to write something completely different. So here it is...
Title: Beyond the End of Time
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kerravonsen
Words: 400
Universe: Doctor Who
Challenge:structuralism challenge #2 "future tense"
It will be like magic to them -- but then, it always was, wasn't it? So alien you will be, with a mind formed by different nature, different laws. As they swim through their aether, how could they comprehend what you were? Loneliness will be second nature to you by then. Second nature, indeed. The natural laws of the next universe will drive you to the edge of insanity, but you will weather it. Are you less than Yog-Sothoth or Saraquazel?
You will guide them in their firefly lives, so bright, so short. You will be just, and your vengeance will be terrible.
You will truly be the Lonely God.
They will worship you, and it will never be enough. Others will arise, the new overthrowing the old, and growing old and calcified in their turn. You will emerge again, and spawn a thousand heresies in your wake. You will be banished, but you will never die. It will be far, far too late for death by then. Like Omega you will be, mind without body, for only mind can survive the death of universes. You will be spoken of in whispers, sought out, brought back by arcane mysteries.
You will grow weary, so weary. Sleep will be your only solace. You will strike down those who wake you, for their presumption at disturbing your rest. Your name will be anathema, your time declared an age of darkness. You will be sought by those of evil intent, and they will die.
One day, you will be woken by a child's cry. Her sorrow will touch you, and remind you of those gone long before, of how you loved them. You will weep for what was lost, and remember that long before you were the Lonely God, long before you were the Oncoming Storm, you were the Doctor.
One who heals. One who learns.
You will sing to her a song you sang, many aeons ago, to your granddaughter. The child will hear you. Her body will glow with the colours of wonder. She will sing back to you, songs of her own, new songs. For as long as there are singers, there will be new songs.
You will recall what you had forgotten in all the death, the evil and the hatred, in all the things you fought against; the one thing, the most important thing of all.
Love never ends.
Notes:
The Missing Adventures novel "Millennial Rites" by Craig Hinton is where Saraquazel comes from (and it also features Yog-Sothoth, but that being first appeared in the 2nd Doctor adventure "The Abominable Snowmen", though I don't recall that it was given any name there other than The Great Intelligence).
Title: Beyond the End of Time
Author:
kerravonsenWords: 400
Universe: Doctor Who
Challenge:
structuralism challenge #2 "future tense"It will be like magic to them -- but then, it always was, wasn't it? So alien you will be, with a mind formed by different nature, different laws. As they swim through their aether, how could they comprehend what you were? Loneliness will be second nature to you by then. Second nature, indeed. The natural laws of the next universe will drive you to the edge of insanity, but you will weather it. Are you less than Yog-Sothoth or Saraquazel?
You will guide them in their firefly lives, so bright, so short. You will be just, and your vengeance will be terrible.
You will truly be the Lonely God.
They will worship you, and it will never be enough. Others will arise, the new overthrowing the old, and growing old and calcified in their turn. You will emerge again, and spawn a thousand heresies in your wake. You will be banished, but you will never die. It will be far, far too late for death by then. Like Omega you will be, mind without body, for only mind can survive the death of universes. You will be spoken of in whispers, sought out, brought back by arcane mysteries.
You will grow weary, so weary. Sleep will be your only solace. You will strike down those who wake you, for their presumption at disturbing your rest. Your name will be anathema, your time declared an age of darkness. You will be sought by those of evil intent, and they will die.
One day, you will be woken by a child's cry. Her sorrow will touch you, and remind you of those gone long before, of how you loved them. You will weep for what was lost, and remember that long before you were the Lonely God, long before you were the Oncoming Storm, you were the Doctor.
One who heals. One who learns.
You will sing to her a song you sang, many aeons ago, to your granddaughter. The child will hear you. Her body will glow with the colours of wonder. She will sing back to you, songs of her own, new songs. For as long as there are singers, there will be new songs.
You will recall what you had forgotten in all the death, the evil and the hatred, in all the things you fought against; the one thing, the most important thing of all.
Love never ends.
Notes:
The Missing Adventures novel "Millennial Rites" by Craig Hinton is where Saraquazel comes from (and it also features Yog-Sothoth, but that being first appeared in the 2nd Doctor adventure "The Abominable Snowmen", though I don't recall that it was given any name there other than The Great Intelligence).
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:30 pm (UTC)I must admire you - i have never been able to write future tense, but this turned out very nice!
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Date: 2007-06-06 08:54 pm (UTC)Actually, I hadn't thought of that!
I must admire you - i have never been able to write future tense, but this turned out very nice!
Thanks! It kept wanting to slip into present tense; I've never written future tense before!
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:36 pm (UTC)I think Yog-Sothoth originally comes from Lovecraft, by the way.
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Date: 2007-06-06 09:11 pm (UTC)Ah, that explains it.
Oooh, I like that a lot.
Thank you!
The idea for this was a coalescing of a number of threads, prompted by the "future tense" challenge: Ten's behaviour at the end of "Family of Blood", where he was acting like a vengeance-is-mine kind of god, combined with the "Lonely God" epithet, and also wondering, as I tend to do, what things would be like if roles were inverted -- in this case, if the Doctor himself was, in the eyes of the universe after this one, the kind of "old god" that he himself had fought in his own time...
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Date: 2007-06-07 02:18 am (UTC)I don't even like writing in the present tense.
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Date: 2007-06-07 03:22 am (UTC)I don't even like writing in the present tense.
I usually don't either. Which made it very much a challenge, since it's definitely not how I usually write.