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#& she says 'I'm not letting a manic depressive paranoid personality like you shut me up' & he objects specifically to 'manic depressive'
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#ooh I have a lot of thoughts about Six and Charley and her mysteriousness and how he responds to it
#but they intersect with my Six's Mental Health Thoughts which are extremely headcanony
#and I know a lot of the fandom would rather just kind of wall off Twin Dilemma and assume Six's proper characterization doesn't include it
#and I don't know that I blame them for that
#but I like trying to make things fit together
#and also there's no way to do that without probably misusing real-world mental health terminology
#because (watsonian) the doctor is an alien with an alien brain and (doylist) the writers do not know all that much about psychiatry
#but. at least for a bit after his regeneration he deals with paranoia right?
#like that's the term the narrative uses. (and it clearly explains his attack on peri - he's perceiving her as a threat due to delusion)
#& she says 'I'm not letting a manic depressive paranoid personality like you shut me up' & he objects specifically to 'manic depressive'
#later in uhhhh revelation of the daleks? he doesn't tell her about a real danger
#and he says 'I didn't want to burden you with what might have been a piece of paranoid speculation on my part'
#again I cannot emphasize enough how much I am talking about a fictional character with fictional problems. I do not know psychiatry either!
#I do not want to mislead
#but one of this character's problems is that he has a badly calibrated sense of danger. sometimes he sees things as threatening that aren't
#and sometimes he overcompensates for that
#and I think when he first meets Charley he is really not very sure whether he should trust the alarm bells he's hearing or not
#she seems deeply suspicious! but also nice? he wants to like her? but deeply suspicious!
#'or am I just being crazy?' he asks himself
#and so he just kind of... keeps watching her
#also unrelatedly to all that I think he kind of likes having the excuse of Mystery for doing what he does anyway which is orbiting her
#just slightly obsessing over his companion at the time even if he also occasionally forgets they're there
#(he's just very all or nothing in everything all the time)
#but yeah. you know how 11 gets about Clara and her Mystery Plotline? 6 is like that about every companion in turn anyway
#so he doesn't actually mind having the excuse of Mystery with Charley
#this is also why 6 and Clara is so compelling
#(this was a tag essay in response to lrb but I decided it was opening too many cans of worms and needed its own post)
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