Drabble: Period Dress

[unfeathered]

Second drabble for the meme here. This one's for seti_drd.

Title: Period Dress
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Characters: Jack, Tenth Doctor
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: Vague for all of Doctor Who and Torchwood
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: The Tenth Doctor ponders on Jack's choice of outfit
Author’s Note: For seti_drd who wanted something Doctor Who/Torchwood.



Jack always used to dress correctly for the period. He blended into the 1940s, and then into 2006, with the utmost ease. Fourteenth Century Japan was harder, but he managed…

But now… He doesn't bother any more. It's as if the years of living in the slow lane have worn down his interest in blending in. As if he got as far as the 1940s again, and just stayed there. It's not an authentic 40s look – the hair especially is far too Twenty-First Century – but it's definitely an homage to the period.

The period when he met the Doctor. Huh.

Comments

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

That's... a really good point, actually!

[unfeathered]

Thank you! :-)

It came to me the other day, actually, as part of my DW S1 thinking about things, but I wasn't sure how to make it into fic.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this! I had always thought trying to keep up with fashions that change through time would be too hard and that's why he kept the miliary look. I really like this take on why he chose THAT period though

[unfeathered]

Thank you - just a little thought that occurred to me. :-)

Who knows what the real reason was? And actually there are two possible reasons here: the getting tired of keep up, and the memory of meeting the Doctor.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

The meeting the Doctor bit is two-fold... it's also the time when he went from being a con man and self-proclaimed coward to being a hero.

And then there's the fact JB looks damn good in that RAF coat. Of course he would look damn good in just about anything....

[unfeathered]

Oooh, yes, I hadn't thought about the con-man to hero bit!

Of course he would look damn good in just about anything....

Yep! *g*

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

The thought occurs that he'd look better in just about nothing... ;)

Lovely drabble, by the way.

[unfeathered]

Thank you! :-)

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Oddly, that's exactly how I feel like at the moment (well, apart from the fact that I'm not dressing like I'm from WW2...), so thanks for this!

[unfeathered]

Glad you like it! :-)

And now I'm intrigued - how do you dress???

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I don't mind what I'm wearing as much as I used to, I realized people who know me know what to expect of me, so I see no reason to buy new fancy clothes at all ^^

[unfeathered]

Ah, I see. Yeah, I think that is a thing that happens as you get older and start to care less about what other people think.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

So with you on this one.

Though I was half expecting you to come back with 'one leg at a time...'
*sorry*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

::kicks the Doctor:: Yes, wake up, hello! I love ya. Doc, but man, you can be oblivious.

Er. I shall stop ranting at a fictional character now and say that this feels very true and I like it a lot. And I'm glad certain people seem to be getting a clue there at the end. *g*

[unfeathered]

We-ll, I'm not completely sure that's the reason... but it works for the fic!

And yeah, the Doctor's definitely oblivious to a lot of things! :-)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

It's not that I'm missing the point - though it may have a lot to do with it being Friday and therefore judo night once again - I'm totally stuck back at the image of Jack blending in with 14th Century Japan...

[unfeathered]

Well, he has got that short black fuzzy hair at that point... *g*

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're being dense, Ten.

Love it :)

[unfeathered]

Thank you! :-)

(Though possibly I was being dense too - it seems to have been far more obvious to other people than to me! Though I suppose if it had been obvious to me, I wouldn't have felt the need to write it... *g*)

[halfspokenwords.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, oh. I've now got this great moment in my mind: of Jack, after decades of fitting into the 1800s and the the early 1900s-- from various uniforms to smart suits and tailcoats and straw fedoras and all-- donning a WW2 uniform and realising that it feels like home.

And of course, by the time we see him in Torchwood, he's got Estelle-associations to the war as well.

[unfeathered]

Oh dear, I seem to have missed this comment - so sorry! (My comment notifications have not been very reliable lately.)

*grins* at Jack in a straw fedora!

Yeah, I'd forgotten about Estelle, but she would certainly come into it too.

Thank you for commenting! :-)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Well, as we know, it suits him. :)

The picture I ever looked at and really registered the hot was the userpic, so it obviously worked it's magic on me.

[unfeathered]

Oh yeah, definitely suits him! :-)

Though I do prefer the hair he has now.

That is a lovely picture... :-)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[unfeathered]

Thank you. :-)