TORCHWOOD/DOCTOR WHO: Couple meme...

[fajrdrako]

I was reading the LJ of atheneunknown and I saw that a couple of weeks ago she had a 'couples survey' meme. It was meant to be about one's real life, but I thought it would be more fun to apply it to slash couples of one's choosing. Imagine your favourite slash pair as a couple living together, or long-term lovers living apart, and fill in the blanks.

So, first: Jack and the Doctor.

1. Who eats more?
Jack. The Doctor eats less, and usually only to be sociable, and only when he feels like it - he doesn't get hungry often, as humans do.

2. Who said "I love you" first?
Jack - first, most easily, and most often. The Doctor, if he said it at all, said it well into the relationship and in an extremely offhand fashion. He would expect Jack to know he loved him anyway. But Jack isn't the mind-reader in the relationship.

3. Who is the morning person?
The Doctor is pretty much indifferent to time of day. There are no mornings on the TARDIS, unless it is always morning. Jack is a morning, noon and night sort of person, wherever he may be.

4. Who sings better?
Jack. But they actually both sing beautifully. The Doctor sometimes sings exotic alien songs that wouldn't sound like music to us.

5. Who’s older?
The Doctor, by more than 700 years.

6. Who’s smarter?
The Doctor. So he says. Often. Jack figures if he's smart enough to stay alive for 900 years and more just by being quick-witted, he's probably right.

7. Whose temper is worse?
Equal. Jack shows his more easily, and gets over it. The Doctor is slower to anger, but when he's angry, he's colder and harder and holds grudges for longer.

8. Who does the laundry?
The TARDIS. If Jack and the Doctor should be stuck on a barbarian planet with insufficient technology, they share the chores equally. They are both conscientious about it - and make sure the other is, too.

9. Who does the dishes?
See the answer to #8. They both like eating out.

10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
"Right" and "wrong" are relative terms. They each sleep, if they sleep at all, wherever they wish.

11. Whose feet are bigger?
The Doctor's.

12. Whose hair is longer?
Depends who had the last haircut.

13. Who’s better with the computer?
Each believes himself to be better, but Jack is just beginning to learn about Time Lord technology.

14. Do you have pets?
There's a pterodactyl at Torchwood, does that count?

15. Who pays the bills?
Whoever happens to have local currency, or is near an ATM with a sonic screwdriver at the right time. Jack believes that "paying the bills" is a quaint and antiquated concept. The Doctor never quite understood about bills in the first place. He thinks 'bills' have something to do with 'mortgages' and he'll have nothing to do with it.

16. Who cooks dinner?
The TARDIS. See the answers to #8 and #9.

17. Who drives when you are together?
If it's the TARDIS, the Doctor does. Jack always wants to pilot it but the Doctor is afraid they'll end up in even worse trouble than usual. If they're visiting Earth in the 20th or 21st century, Jack drives, because the Doctor doesn't realize how badly he does it.

18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?
Usually the Doctor, sometimes Jack, depending which of them thought to acquire local currency or a facsimile thereof.

19. Who’s the most stubborn?
The Doctor. No question.

20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Jack. The Doctor is never wrong. But sometimes the Doctor manages to look sheepish.

21. Whose family do you see more?
Sore point. There are no living families. Haven't been for a long time.

22. Who named your pet?
N/A

23. Who kissed who first?
Jack kissed the Doctor first. The Doctor liked it.

24. Who asked who out?
If asking a person if they want to stay on the TARDIS is the equivalent of asking someone out, then the Doctor did. If suggesting going to a 1940s night club with slow dancing and Gershwin music is the subject, Jack did.

26. Who’s more sensitive?
Each thinks it's himself. They're both wrong.

27. Who’s taller?
Both are 6'1" in current Earth measurement.

28. Who has more friends?
Living? The Doctor has had longer to accumulate friends, but they are not as long-lived as he is. None of his Gallifreyan friends are alive. Jack, who makes friends wherever he goes (or tries to) wins in quantity, but not quality.

29. Who has more siblings?
The Doctor once had a brother. I think we're back to 'sore point'.

30. Who wears the pants in the relationship?
The Doctor. Jack defers. Though if you take the question literally, taking into account Jack's frocks and the Doctor's Gallifreyan robes as well as their trousers - they are equal opportunity fashionistas.

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

this was hysterical! Loved #8 and how many refer back to it!

If they's visiting Earth in the 20th or 21st century, Jack drives, because the Doctor doesn't realize how badly he does it.
Considering how poorly he steers the TARDIS (he gets to where they're going, within a year or so...) why does this not suprise me/

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to do.

For some reason, I always get a kick out of the references to Jack's wild driving - mostly in the Torchwood novels, though there are hints of it in the show.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of the books. In my mind The Doctor would be a terrible driver because he'd believe rules down apply to him, while Jack's not a good driver because he's a hot shot.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Jack's not a good driver because he's a hot shot

Well, of course! And I'm sure speeding is too much fun to pass up. I bet he was dynamite with the Chula warship, too.

The books talk about how Jack drives any way, and anywhere, he wishes, using his Torchwood authority to get away with it. He doesn't even have a driver's license and the others are unsure how much he actually knows about the rules of the road. There's a funny scene where Owen and - Gwen, I think - are talking about what a great idea it would be to have a Torchwood helicopter. Jack says it would be difficult to find parking spaces for a helicopter. Tosh points out that since the last place he parted the SUV was in the front lobby of a bank, parking spaces aren't actually high on his list of priorities.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

lol! One of my local libraries has FINALLY bought a TW book so I'll actually be able to read one.

I loved the chula warship, it was beautiful and so graceful in space.

and I've always wondered about Jack and a liscence, if he had one wouldn't Gwen's cop buddy have been able to find out info on it (in the beginning of "everything changes" when she couldn't locate anything on JAck other than his 1941 disappearance)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

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<i.One of my local libraries has FINALLY bought a TW book so I'll actually be able to read one.</i>

Good. My libraries don't have any of them - I haven't got around to requesting the purchase. Must do that.

I loved the Chula warship, too. Especially its invisibility factor.

That's right - if Jack had a license, or citizenship papers, or a passport, or anything like that, there'd be a record. There isn't one. Jack is officially a non-person. I have a suspicion this must be one of the reasons he lives at Torchwood - so there's no need to have a personal address.

I suspect he might, in cases of need, have false papers or forgeries - does he still have some psychic paper on hand? But we don't see him using this, just his Torchwood ID, so I suspect it's sufficient to almost all purposes.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he has false papers of ALL sorts. I'm not sure he has the psychic paper he used back in "Empty Child" (Everything he had on him was 'defrabicated' and I doubt he stopped long enough in the TARDIS to pick anything up once he saw the Daleks) but he certainly could have sppropriated some somewhere....

I DO wonder, however, if has papers etc in modern UK but erased their existence from the record books somehow. After all, he's lived from 1869-2007 but there's no record other than his 1941 first time around visit? (that came out sounding weird, I hope it made sense)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

(Everything he had on him was 'defrabicated'

He still had his TARDIS key, though you're right, it's unlikely he still had the psychic paper. Unless he was able to go back and get it in the defabrication room - ? Not impossible, but still unlikely.

I DO wonder, however, if has papers etc in modern UK but erased their existence from the record books somehow. After all, he's lived from 1869-2007 but there's no record other than his 1941 first time around visit?

He may have papers under many different pseudonyms which he no longer uses. We know he used the name "Captain Jack Harkness" twice in the 1940s: the time he met the Doctor in 1941 and the time he met Estelle in 1944. Beyond that... He could have used that name, or others.

Taking the novels as canon, I accept (because it's a detail I like) that Jack has no driver's license. As for other records - faked or erased from the record - we'll just have to see if any hint of them appears.

Obviously, however he has handled it, Jack has been very careful to stay out of the reach of officialdom.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

This had to have been a lot of fun to do! XD XD XD

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, it really was.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Heee!

I really liked 15 - He thinks 'bills' have something to do with 'mortgages' and he'll have nothing to do with it.

Seems very Doctorish.

I'm kind of tempted to do it for some pairings myself - only I have a feeling all the answers would end up being "hmm, depends on the fic".

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of tempted to do it for some pairings myself -

I think you should!

only I have a feeling all the answers would end up being "hmm, depends on the fic".

Maybe so, but it would be fun to see what you come up with.

[magika83.livejournal.com]

LOL, this was too funny! Will it perhaps inspire a fic or two? ;-)

26. Who’s more sensitive?
Each thinks it's himself. They're both wrong.

Loved this.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Will it perhaps inspire a fic or two?

I can hope so!

So glad you liked it.