I am in awe of this story, and the writing skills employed to make it so amazing. The sex itself was fabulous, and paced extremely well (moving along with enough momentum to capture the arousal involved, but slow enough to make it feel satisfying emotionally, for both the reader and Jack and the Doctor), but the ongoing mind games the Doctor was playing with himself was riveting and done so, so well.
Your choice (the Doctor's choice) of Jack to 'break in' his new body was perfect, because just as the Doctor realized, Jack would be the only person who could truly understand what he was going through, both emotionally and physically. And although it was clearly a bit hard for Jack to accept where the Doctor's mind was, it was also wonderful of him to talk about Rose while they were involved, both to ramp up the kink and to let the Doctor know that he was OK with what was going on.
I also loved the way you described the Doctor's experience of having sex for the first time as a woman. The fantasies aside (and I did smile at the room covered in mirrors), you captured both his desire and his hesitancy at the differences very well. (I found it interesting, for example, that despite a female body, he still self-identifies as male and does not particularly enjoy going down on Jack. It's a realistic and interesting quirk, and it makes me wonder if he might have Jack find them a woman to have a threesome with some time in the future so he can enjoy giving oral sex again. *g*)
The fact that this universe is technically crack-fic makes the whole thing even more impressive -- despite the premise, this is actually a very deep, emotional story, and the ending was extremely satisfying. I can definitely ship Doctor/Jack in this incarnation, and think it was very clear by the end of the story that their future together is going to ultimately involve them and not be held hostage by the ghosts of the Doctor's past. And I can totally live with that. :)
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Your choice (the Doctor's choice) of Jack to 'break in' his new body was perfect, because just as the Doctor realized, Jack would be the only person who could truly understand what he was going through, both emotionally and physically. And although it was clearly a bit hard for Jack to accept where the Doctor's mind was, it was also wonderful of him to talk about Rose while they were involved, both to ramp up the kink and to let the Doctor know that he was OK with what was going on.
I also loved the way you described the Doctor's experience of having sex for the first time as a woman. The fantasies aside (and I did smile at the room covered in mirrors), you captured both his desire and his hesitancy at the differences very well. (I found it interesting, for example, that despite a female body, he still self-identifies as male and does not particularly enjoy going down on Jack. It's a realistic and interesting quirk, and it makes me wonder if he might have Jack find them a woman to have a threesome with some time in the future so he can enjoy giving oral sex again. *g*)
The fact that this universe is technically crack-fic makes the whole thing even more impressive -- despite the premise, this is actually a very deep, emotional story, and the ending was extremely satisfying. I can definitely ship Doctor/Jack in this incarnation, and think it was very clear by the end of the story that their future together is going to ultimately involve them and not be held hostage by the ghosts of the Doctor's past. And I can totally live with that. :)
Fabulous, fabulous job. :)