to ship or not to ship

[fan_eunice]

Internet, I have a problem. I have no idea if I ship Eleven/Amy or not. This should not be a problem. You know me, I ship everything. And I love them both, separately and together, just about more than I've loved anything in a long time. We're talking Tennant's fashion choices and Hugh's shaved head level of love here. I REALLY LOVE THEM A LOT, OKAY. So what's the problem here?

It's Eleven. I have mentioned before he actually does feel very old, very ancient to me. And parental. Like, in general, not Amy specific. I love this. I love this a really, really, REALLY, (and one more in caps and italics in case the first three didn't convince you), REALLY, lot. Like, I see him dandling the human race on his knee and tucking in, and telling bedtime stories, and sneaking extra cookies, and being really proud when the humans bring home an A on the test, and that "Nobody human has anything to say" moment in Beast Below was totally that time humans got drunk at a party and accidentally ran over the neighbor's dog and crashed the car into a tree and he was SO DISAPPOINTED.

Are you seeing my problem here? There is chemistry to spare between Eleven and Amy and they are adorable and sparky together, and they give each other looks and UST and I'm like...YES PLZ. And then...*waves hands around* SO TORN.

Comments

[fan_eunice]

Oooooh, interesting. It's funny, when I think about my personal canon in those terms it's more who I kinda want him to have sex with and not who I think he actually did, 'cause that number is...um...zero to me (except Romana, possibly).

Oh shit...I think I am a closet asexualist who just...'ships a lot? Contradictions, I has them.

[ellen_fremedon]

I'm not an asexualist, but there are whole incarnations of the Doctor that I think may well have been celibate. (Three is certainly not asexual, but I'm also not convinced he actually had any sex; ditto Seven.) And whole incarnations that I think may well have been asexual. (Possibly Six, though it's hard to tell; probably Two, though he would have made an exception for Jamie if Jamie had ever asked.)

But my personal canon has little to no effect on what I like to read; I will happily read fic about pairings I'm quite sure never 'really' got it on.