megabadbunny:The Doctor had initially felt a surge of relief when he realizedjust how much of his Ti

megabadbunny:The Doctor had initially felt a surge of relief when he realizedjust how much of his Time Lord visual, auditory, and olfactory capabilities hadremained after the metacrisis, but as the days wore on, it became apparentthat, in many ways, such heightened senses were more of a hindrance than a help. He was alwayshungry or thirsty or hot or cold or sleepy, Time Lord senses hijacked by ahuman body and human needs. He smelled a whiff of chocolate from someone’s 99Flake half a block away, he suddenly wanted to eat. He heard someone filling uptheir cup with water, he suddenly wanted to drink. He felt Rose’s hand brushagainst his, triggering his newly formed, tender and raw nerves, sending anot-unpleasant ticklish jolt up his spine, and he suddenly wanted to kiss herrotten.Well. The desire to kiss her wasn’t sudden, per se. It hadbuggered at the back of his brain since his ninth incarnation, peeking out frombehind the curtains sometime between a Slitheen invasion and a very frustratingconfusing conversation about dancing. It had been a quiet wish in a safe space,easily pushed aside, left humming pleasantly in the background noise of histhoughts for years. Physical intimacy was so far removed from the Time Lordreproduction process, practically bred out of his species in an attempt to curbthe number of immortal children roaming round the universe, that he had longregarded kissing and sex as unnecessary, and therefore ignorable(though he found himself touching Rose in other ways more than was strictlyneeded; even as a Time Lord, his tenth incarnation had itched to hug her andhold her hand and maybe, perhaps, sometimes even cuddle a bit). But now the urge to hold, to kiss, to touch was growingstronger, more difficult to push away, matching in intensity his needs to dobasic things like eat, drink, and sleep.She had become aphysical necessity.He’d always appreciated Orwell’s writing but never held sucha visceral understanding of that particular passage until now.***(a redraw; the passage and art for which i would like to dedicate to the super-talented @lvslie, who always leaves such nice replies on my stuff and has such nice quiet backgrounds that they’ve inspired me to stop leaving my backgrounds so blank all the time <3) -- source link

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