Canon: Doctor Who (2005) seasons 11 - 13 + the specials. If you want a little more background of Ace before Power of the Doctor, also Doctor Who (1963), seasons 24 - 26, & some of the audios.
Ships: Ace McShane/Yasmin Khan
Media: Television
A summary of the canon: It's Doctor Who. An alien travels in time & space in a blue box that's bigger on the inside.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Ace/Yaz is the ship that I didn't expect to get bitten with half as hard as I did. That's what keeps happening to me - I should just embrace it at this point.
When I'm talking about Ace and Yaz, I'm talking about the Ace we meet in the Power of the Doctor - I feel like younger!Ace would also get on with Yaz... eventually, but the two of them would also butt heads a good deal. One of the reasons PotD!Ace/Yaz is such a fun ship to me is that Ace is a lot more... settled in herself. She doesn't need to prove anything, she doesn't need to fight the whole world the way she seems to need to when she was younger. Younger Ace and Yaz would be a delight, don't get me wrong, but I think the dynamic that really hit me is a post-Doctor Ace.
So I really love Ace and Yaz as a ship for a whole load of reasons. Some of them are, admittedly, very shallow - Ace is hot, Yaz is hot, I would like them to kiss. We know that Yaz likes older women, which... well. I mean. It's kind of funny, since Ace is so much younger than Yaz's LAST love interest, and yet. I feel like they'd still get more sidelong looks.
I really love the idea of Ace *getting* it. 7 and 13 both keep things from their companions for completely different reasons (emotional constipation versus general Machiavellian scheming), but there's that same complicated "I love you and I can't stay with you" which I think they both experienced. Ace was manipulated by the Doctor, while Yaz was more abandoned, but they've both got complicated, painful feelings towards the Doctor even as they love them.
I think it's also... Ace/Yaz as post thasmin, because Yaz knows that someone she loves can disappear forever. Someone she admires can change in ways she can't follow. The both of them know the grief of being the Doctor's close confidante (inasmuch as the Doctor can have close confidantes) and then having to go back to life on Earth. The mundanity of it must take a good deal of getting used to.
Part of it, for me, is that I feel like at least some of 13's basis of... herself is based on Ace. I know some of that is based on the cinematography - thinking of that one shot with the Doctor and the Slingshot in War of the Sontarans, which is a nice mirror of Silver Nemesis. I know that the Doctor takes aspects of themselves from their companions, and the fact that Yaz could see some of the Doctor in Ace would be... it's so much. And Ace could see bits of herself in Yaz as well - eager, excited, seen all those adventures. The recognition of the self through the other, the recognition of the other through the self.
I can also see there being a degree of jealousy between the two of them - Yaz being jealous of the way the Doctor was so... different with Ace (even the Gallifrey whatnot, if you want to go with the EU), Ace jealous of the way Yaz was trusted (that whole "you can fly the TARDIS!" exchange). I could see Ace having complex feelings about Yaz's Doctorification, being into it and not at the same time. Maybe Yaz seeing Ace's own Doctorification as well?
(The Doctor's story also reflects Ace's with the abusive mother, the outcast status, the chronologically complicated history, which only adds to Yaz's attraction to her, btw).
It's a really fun dynamic in general - the person comfortable in their place after their adventures and the person still getting used to adjusting to life back on earth.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I would love fic of the two of them fitting into each other's lives - Ace showing Yaz what it means to live on Earth as a time traveller, Yaz showing Ace some of how the Doctor's changed via what she's learned. Ace meeting Yaz's parents (that would be hilarious), Yaz getting more integrated & friendly with the rest of the Companion Support Group. Heck, if you just want to have the two of them getting a drink together and fucking/kissing/pining I'd be happy with that! I just really love seeing the two of them.
Content warnings: Age gap. Such an age gap.
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Canon: Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Ships: Una Chin-Riley/Christine Chapel
Media: Television
A summary of the canon: A Star Trek that takes place with Captain Pike, pre-Captain Kirk (although we meet him)
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Una & Christine are both very intensely characters who are invested in putting on a facade. Christine feels very much like she's doing her best to put on the "look at how much fun I am, I'm chill, I'm fun," while Una is working very hard at getting a Good Grade in being human. I love the way that they both get on each other's nerves in interesting ways - Christine has no filter, Una is so carefully constructed but easily knocked off kilter (especially by Christine). I feel like Christine's interest in genetics also makes her interesting, in a world where genetic manipulation is such a controversial issue. When she finds out that Una is an Illyrian, she literally does not care, and I think that they could really... bond over that? I could see Christine being genuinely curious about Una's various modificatiosns, and Una trying to figure out how she feels about it. Also, they're both hot and gorgeous, AND they're nearly the same height, which is a petty thing to find appealing, and yet.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd love just about anything with them, if I'm honest, as long as I got to see the two of them trying to one up each other and pull each other's pigtails. They clearly are both very intelligent & amazing in their fields, they're both also so... awkward, in different ways. Una is just better at hiding it then other people, because she's so damn competent at what she IS good at.
Content warnings: Some intense themes (mostly fantasy racism).
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Ships: Ace McShane/Yasmin Khan
Media: Television
A summary of the canon: It's Doctor Who. An alien travels in time & space in a blue box that's bigger on the inside.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Ace/Yaz is the ship that I didn't expect to get bitten with half as hard as I did. That's what keeps happening to me - I should just embrace it at this point.
When I'm talking about Ace and Yaz, I'm talking about the Ace we meet in the Power of the Doctor - I feel like younger!Ace would also get on with Yaz... eventually, but the two of them would also butt heads a good deal. One of the reasons PotD!Ace/Yaz is such a fun ship to me is that Ace is a lot more... settled in herself. She doesn't need to prove anything, she doesn't need to fight the whole world the way she seems to need to when she was younger. Younger Ace and Yaz would be a delight, don't get me wrong, but I think the dynamic that really hit me is a post-Doctor Ace.
So I really love Ace and Yaz as a ship for a whole load of reasons. Some of them are, admittedly, very shallow - Ace is hot, Yaz is hot, I would like them to kiss. We know that Yaz likes older women, which... well. I mean. It's kind of funny, since Ace is so much younger than Yaz's LAST love interest, and yet. I feel like they'd still get more sidelong looks.
I really love the idea of Ace *getting* it. 7 and 13 both keep things from their companions for completely different reasons (emotional constipation versus general Machiavellian scheming), but there's that same complicated "I love you and I can't stay with you" which I think they both experienced. Ace was manipulated by the Doctor, while Yaz was more abandoned, but they've both got complicated, painful feelings towards the Doctor even as they love them.
I think it's also... Ace/Yaz as post thasmin, because Yaz knows that someone she loves can disappear forever. Someone she admires can change in ways she can't follow. The both of them know the grief of being the Doctor's close confidante (inasmuch as the Doctor can have close confidantes) and then having to go back to life on Earth. The mundanity of it must take a good deal of getting used to.
Part of it, for me, is that I feel like at least some of 13's basis of... herself is based on Ace. I know some of that is based on the cinematography - thinking of that one shot with the Doctor and the Slingshot in War of the Sontarans, which is a nice mirror of Silver Nemesis. I know that the Doctor takes aspects of themselves from their companions, and the fact that Yaz could see some of the Doctor in Ace would be... it's so much. And Ace could see bits of herself in Yaz as well - eager, excited, seen all those adventures. The recognition of the self through the other, the recognition of the other through the self.
I can also see there being a degree of jealousy between the two of them - Yaz being jealous of the way the Doctor was so... different with Ace (even the Gallifrey whatnot, if you want to go with the EU), Ace jealous of the way Yaz was trusted (that whole "you can fly the TARDIS!" exchange). I could see Ace having complex feelings about Yaz's Doctorification, being into it and not at the same time. Maybe Yaz seeing Ace's own Doctorification as well?
(The Doctor's story also reflects Ace's with the abusive mother, the outcast status, the chronologically complicated history, which only adds to Yaz's attraction to her, btw).
It's a really fun dynamic in general - the person comfortable in their place after their adventures and the person still getting used to adjusting to life back on earth.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I would love fic of the two of them fitting into each other's lives - Ace showing Yaz what it means to live on Earth as a time traveller, Yaz showing Ace some of how the Doctor's changed via what she's learned. Ace meeting Yaz's parents (that would be hilarious), Yaz getting more integrated & friendly with the rest of the Companion Support Group. Heck, if you just want to have the two of them getting a drink together and fucking/kissing/pining I'd be happy with that! I just really love seeing the two of them.
Content warnings: Age gap. Such an age gap.
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Canon: Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Ships: Una Chin-Riley/Christine Chapel
Media: Television
A summary of the canon: A Star Trek that takes place with Captain Pike, pre-Captain Kirk (although we meet him)
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Una & Christine are both very intensely characters who are invested in putting on a facade. Christine feels very much like she's doing her best to put on the "look at how much fun I am, I'm chill, I'm fun," while Una is working very hard at getting a Good Grade in being human. I love the way that they both get on each other's nerves in interesting ways - Christine has no filter, Una is so carefully constructed but easily knocked off kilter (especially by Christine). I feel like Christine's interest in genetics also makes her interesting, in a world where genetic manipulation is such a controversial issue. When she finds out that Una is an Illyrian, she literally does not care, and I think that they could really... bond over that? I could see Christine being genuinely curious about Una's various modificatiosns, and Una trying to figure out how she feels about it. Also, they're both hot and gorgeous, AND they're nearly the same height, which is a petty thing to find appealing, and yet.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd love just about anything with them, if I'm honest, as long as I got to see the two of them trying to one up each other and pull each other's pigtails. They clearly are both very intelligent & amazing in their fields, they're both also so... awkward, in different ways. Una is just better at hiding it then other people, because she's so damn competent at what she IS good at.
Content warnings: Some intense themes (mostly fantasy racism).