#but I think it's important to acknowledge like. yeah 13 will breezily destroy 3 galactic empires before breakfast

[emkini]

As much as I love talking about Thirteen being a feral serial killer bastard I do think the fact that she is also deeply compassionate is....really important not to overlook? Like the specific way in which she Cares So Much is so fundamentally important to why she’s ruthless. Thirteen is the kind of person who will commit genocide against a (perceived or factual) evil to save even one person she loves. She’s willing to be cruel to protect her favorite people and her favorite planet. She has so much kindness and so much brutality inside her and I think it’s important to hold those things in tension rather than come down hard on one side or the other

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #reminder to myself more than anything sdfghfd #this isn't to say she's always RIGHT when she's trying to express her compassion #and that she doesn't do things like push the fam away for selfish reasons under a guise of protecting them #but I think it's important to acknowledge like. yeah 13 will breezily destroy 3 galactic empires before breakfast #but she'll also do everything in her power to protect one abandoned child #and I have feelings about it!! #she's *complex* #she wants very badly to be good and is constantly put into positions where that's impossible