onepassingnight | 002 | iridescent |

[ The dream tonight is a rather empty one, compared to the brilliant things that people could find themselves in. A simple beach surrounded by mountains, clear blue skies and a deep blue lake, and a small picnic area set to the side. The moon can be seen, despite it being day, rippling in the water. By the waterfront is an old station wagon, and of course the Doctor. He stands with his hands in his pockets, staring out over the restless waters, with his back to the dreamer.

He seems older than normal. He doesn't look a day older, but his shoulders are sagged and his head held as if he were carrying burdens upon burdens of the universe - similar to Atlas. With a deep sigh, he tilts his head back and looks up at the sky. ]

(ooc: This is Future!Eleven for the time event! As explained in the ooc post, it means this is the Eleven we see from the beginning of Impossible Astronaut as opposed to the Eleven from The Doctor's Wife. Your character doesn't need to be affected by the event to tag him, but Eleven will be acting as if he has known your character for nearly two hundred years~ )

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It's going to be important.

[Then everything clicks.] Time travel! That explains how you know me! Duh. [He rolls his eyes. Why hadn't he figured this out before?] That's pretty cool. You do a lot of time traveling? I've done a little myself.

Wait, wait. I'm getting ahead of myself, aren't I. Anyway, I'm--no, you know who I am, right. So you are...?

Time and space is my backyard. [ He smiles. ]

I'm the Doctor.

[Impressive!] That is cool.

[He's used to people taking on all sorts of odd titles. He just has one question.] Are you an actual doctor or is that just a name?

I'm a doctor of lots of things. I use it more in the general sense of "making people better." By human standards that doesn't make me a proper Doctor, does it?

Not really. [He shrugs.] But people call themselves doctors just because they went to college for a long time. If you're actually "doctoring," the term's more applicable to you than them.

Rumor has it you lot have the term "doctor" because of me.

Huh.

[Perks up.] I've got a term that came from my name too! Some of my old friends used it. It's "getting Jacked." It means to lose everything!

...

I went through a rough patch. Also I had crummy friends.

Everyone has one of those. The rough patches... and the "crummy friends." Hopefully more of one than the other.

More of which though?

I wouldn't have had so many of one without the other.

Which other are we talking about?

Both. Either. It's why I stick to robots now. Best to just break out of the cycle.

[This is cheerful. Subject change!] So where are we, anyway?

Somewhere in Utah.

Utah, huh? Never been there before.

Well, it's not actually Utah. Dream Utah!

[He smirks a little.] That better or worse than regular Utah?

Depends on the dream, I suppose.

And how about in this dream?

It's alright.

Just "alright"? So you're neutral on the place, I guess, huh. This place you claim is going to be important. Right. [He rolls his eyes.]

Normally, when people are indifferent towards something, they don't label it as important.