Thirty Days of Doctor Who: Day Twenty-One

Day 21 – Your Doctor Who OTP

I am not really OTP about the Doctor and most people, even by my very loose standards of the term. Sure, I ship him - with Romana, the Master, Cameca, Reinette, River Song, etc. - but with a single exception I don't think he should spend the rest of his live(s) with anyone. No, my first OTP is ...

Doctor/TARDIS

There she was, minding her own business in the repair yard, when some idiot who had NO IDEA how to fly her and didn't even acknowledge her sentience at first stole her away from Gallifrey. No wonder she refused to go anywhere he wanted for the first few centuries. And yet, after that unpromising beginning, she's become his truest companion. Over time they've bonded, and no matter how much rough treatment he puts her through or how often she lands him in the worst possible situations, they are true to each other. Everyone else may leave the Doctor eventually, by choice or not, but the TARDIS never will.

But of course not all Doctor Who 'ships involve the Doctor. There are a few others I'm very fond of.

Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright

Even from the beginning, you can see that there's a spark between Ian and Barbara - if there wasn't, he might not have gone along with her 'let's follow our student home!' plan in the first place. Yet it's during their travels in the TARDIS that they really bond and ultimately find true love. Extended canon holds that they got married after returning to their own era, and I refuse to believe that anything else could have happened. Maybe they told everyone at Coal Hill they eloped and went on a very long honeymoon.

And of course in the modern era we have ...

Amy Pond/Rory Williams

( This one has spoilers for Season Five, of course. )

Finally, there's ...

Jack Harkness/Everyone

Because you know he 'ships it, too.

( The rest of the days. )