#at 18 she went to stay with an aunt in edinburgh for an education/to potentially find a husband and she came back with a girlfriend.

[the--highlanders]

like. on the one hand I think big finish going 'uhhh yeah and then jamie and kirsty got married' feels like an incredibly lazy writing decision. as if they wanted so badly to give jamie a heteronormative return-to-real-life ending that they just cast around for the only female supporting character in the highlanders and slapped her in there, regardless of how little sense it made for the characters and their respective backgrounds

but on the other hand I am having so much fun developing kirsty's character for this fic. she's a delight but also enough of a blank slate that i can pile anything I want onto her. thank you for the opportunity mr big finish I know this isn't what you intended but here we are

#second doctor #i can literally do WHATEVER with her. who's going to stop me. there's no canon here. #so i can just be like #kirsty is twenty-seven years old. #alexander was a year younger. #she loved him. she teased him. he made her laugh. she couldn't bear to look at his dead body. #at 18 she went to stay with an aunt in edinburgh for an education/to potentially find a husband and she came back with a girlfriend. #she doesn't believe in ghosts but also she does. #she always loved riding out over her father's lands to check on the tenants but she hates walking out in bare feet. #she's a dog person and always loved her father's hunting dogs. #her estate is entailed away from her so she can't inherit it and she's basically dispossessed after alexander's death. #she's a bit awkward around kids and their 'more children than there are days in the week' are orphans of the '45 that jamie collects. #she and jamie are wlw/mlm solidarity in a marriage of convenience and just vibing together. #she genuinely does love him like family and when he leaves with two again it breaks her heart to lose another brother. #& i love her!!! i love her so much