[ Apparently they’re both jerking each other around in circles of confusion. It’s not so much the stunning comment that the Doctor stops the Doctor’s brain from working. Appearances, or rather, attractiveness in particular, never really seemed to register with him. With how often Time Lords changed their appearances, those that did choose to partake in things like romance, rarely, if ever, focused on the physical characteristics of someone.
No, what gets him is the wedding ring comment. He looks down in confusion at the gold ring on his finger that he rarely takes off. Ah, right. He’d forgotten about that. Hm.
A prickle of guilt (easily identified because it’s an emotion he feels and swallows often) stabs through him momentarily at the thought of forgetting River, before he brushes it off. After a not very graceful recovery, he clears his throat, shoving his hand a little deeper into his coat pocket. While he’s clearly embarrassed too, he only sounds gruff because he can’t help but feel like he’s done a disservice to River and Clara by continuing to wear this. Not that he thinks that Clara remotely cares about him in that sense. ]
Companion. Companion is the easiest way to describe it. I’m not married to her — that’s someone else who’s gone.
[ Another time traveller whose relationship with him was equally nebulous and odd. ]
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No, what gets him is the wedding ring comment. He looks down in confusion at the gold ring on his finger that he rarely takes off. Ah, right. He’d forgotten about that. Hm.
A prickle of guilt (easily identified because it’s an emotion he feels and swallows often) stabs through him momentarily at the thought of forgetting River, before he brushes it off. After a not very graceful recovery, he clears his throat, shoving his hand a little deeper into his coat pocket. While he’s clearly embarrassed too, he only sounds gruff because he can’t help but feel like he’s done a disservice to River and Clara by continuing to wear this. Not that he thinks that Clara remotely cares about him in that sense. ]
Companion. Companion is the easiest way to describe it. I’m not married to her — that’s someone else who’s gone.
[ Another time traveller whose relationship with him was equally nebulous and odd. ]