Moffat Appreciation Week || Day 5: A favourite character arc
Amy Pond
“Have you ever ran away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just... just because you could?” // “But I don’t know if I can have both. Because they pull at each other. Because they pull at me and because the traveling is starting to feel like running away.”
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I can remember it all. Every time. And you’ll still be g o n e.
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172. I know that people spend a lot of time reassuring themselves, that they must constantly go back to it like getting dressed in the morning.
— Ito Naga, I know
Bill knows her face like she knows the world: she pays attention to it, really.
Sometimes it is a source of worry or disappointment or pride or surprise, but it is familiar and close, even in its more unfamiliar aspects. Her face becomes a point of reference for understanding the world: a puddle, an expression, a canvas, an avatar, a monster. This fixed point, herself, is not rigid and limited, but elastic and expanding, drawn to the outside like branches to the sun, searching for familiarity in the unknown like clues in a mystery novel. It is, above all, intensely common. There is no other way to live for her.
Bill is questioning reality and herself constantly, but it does not come from insecurity or fear. Intense curiosity and optimism carry her like a leaf in the water. Herself is the constant, the map to the world, the language by which to read, the currents to follow, not a pilot but an itinerary.
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