sleeper is so fucking heartbreaking. not even the sex jokes balance it out. the ‘murderous alien desperately wants to be human/believes they’re a human until they discover that they’re not and haven’t been for a long time’ trope has been done like 7 times in doctor who but it gets me EVERY TIME!!!
the scientist from victory of the daleks. dalek oswin. cyber-bill. auton rory. sleeper beth… and, in a way, john smith, ruth, and professor yana. they just want to be human. they just want to be able to love. they just want to help… tragedy in its purest form. the universe had other plans
after about half a year I've finished my complete venom read-through and I've been reminded how much I love sleeper... they are so silly and funny and weird. i've seen some people in the past complain about how often the writers keep them as a cat, which is fair (i'm reeeally not fond of the whole dog-body thing they did with the symbiote. eh), but i am proposing that sleeper simply discovered gender euphoria in the form of becoming a little beast. me too, sleeper