Right. The Doctor had. Honestly, at the time Me hadn't been sure if it had worked at all or if it had been one of the Doctor's many lies. Then her time here had made Me forget all about it. She'd had other things on her mind. But the Doctor had forgotten? And remembered now? Well... that was... something.
The wall smelled like the ground under it had, so given this was a junkyard, probably fairly metallic.
"No, she is dead. She is not like your past faces, Doctor. I do not regenerate like you. Like River. Like Missy. Ashildr died. Hr body, her mind, all that she was died. You forced life back into the shell, into that body, with that Mire patch. And I was created to fill that shell. I tried to be Ashildr for a while, perhaps. But I have learned since that doing so was much the same as reducing all that she was to nothingness. She lived, she was brave, and she died for the people she loved. And in the end?"
"It did nothing, Doctor. Her love saved them for a time. Mine could not. Because I was not Ashildr. It just took me a while to realize that. Now that I know it, I will not trivialize her death, or my life, by allowing you, Rose, or ANYONE call me by her name. I am not you, Doctor. And I would not be, if I could."
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The wall smelled like the ground under it had, so given this was a junkyard, probably fairly metallic.
"No, she is dead. She is not like your past faces, Doctor. I do not regenerate like you. Like River. Like Missy. Ashildr died. Hr body, her mind, all that she was died. You forced life back into the shell, into that body, with that Mire patch. And I was created to fill that shell. I tried to be Ashildr for a while, perhaps. But I have learned since that doing so was much the same as reducing all that she was to nothingness. She lived, she was brave, and she died for the people she loved. And in the end?"
"It did nothing, Doctor. Her love saved them for a time. Mine could not. Because I was not Ashildr. It just took me a while to realize that. Now that I know it, I will not trivialize her death, or my life, by allowing you, Rose, or ANYONE call me by her name. I am not you, Doctor. And I would not be, if I could."