My first Doctor was actually Four, who is universally the most popular but ranks among my least favourite. Then I saw some Six, and then some Seven, and Seven was the first Doctor I loved. (He was joined later by most of the other incarnations.) Nine I liked well enough, but I had something of a Christopher Eccleston problem. To wit: he's a fabulous, fabulous actor, no question about it, but when watching him I saw more "great actor playing traumatized man" and not the Doctor as in the same person in a different body from all the others I had seen before. This is one of the reasons why I do love Ten, btw; you can tell Tennant is a fan. (David Tennant: first time the Doctor is played by an actor who was a fan of the show throughout from his childhood onwards and can debate trivia with the best of them. Makes his audio commentaries fun. Not just DW trivia, mind; the man is a massive geek and has actually won a quiz on the show The West Wing.) There are glimpses of all the previous incarnations at different points, and yet Ten is his own man as well. Now this obviously would not be an issue for you because Nine is your first. What I also like that yes, he can be giddy, but he's actually one of the most dangerous incarnations of the Doctor around. He simply hides the pain and the anger better than the immediate post Time War Nine could. But it's there.
BTW, doesn't mean I fell for Ten on sight. I can tell you the episode - the third one of s2, which also happens to be the first New Who episode starring an Old Who companion, Sarah Jane Smith. This was when I thought "yes, the new guy is my Doctor".
Despite my like not love for Nine, I can help you out with fanfiction because I'm an anti-shipper when it comes to the Doctor (any incarnation) and Rose. (Whose treatment of Mickey was one reason why I never went from like to love with her, either, as opposed to other companions.) Which means the rare stories blessedly free of shipping them do catch my attention. *g*
So:
DW/ Deep Space Nine: in which Nine meets Jadzia Dax, and there is delicious character stuff for long-lived beings who go through various incarnations and traumatic losses:
An Element of Blank (http://www.altogetherelsewhere.net/multiverse/anelementofblank.html)
DW/ Alien: Outside In (http://www.altogetherelsewhere.net/multiverse/2006/outsidein.html)
In which Nine meets Ripley.
(Err, suddenly I realize I have no idea whether you've watched the Alien movies. If youd don't, you should still be able to follow the story.)
I myself have never written Nine, and I don't think I will (there are simply other incarnations I'm more drawn to, no offense to Nine intended); I did write Seven, Three and Ten. You might want to check out one of my two DW/B5 crossovers anyway, because it while it features Seven, you don't have to know more of DW canon than you do to understand it (he shows up at a certain point of the Earth/Minbari war):
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BTW, doesn't mean I fell for Ten on sight. I can tell you the episode - the third one of s2, which also happens to be the first New Who episode starring an Old Who companion, Sarah Jane Smith. This was when I thought "yes, the new guy is my Doctor".
Despite my like not love for Nine, I can help you out with fanfiction because I'm an anti-shipper when it comes to the Doctor (any incarnation) and Rose. (Whose treatment of Mickey was one reason why I never went from like to love with her, either, as opposed to other companions.) Which means the rare stories blessedly free of shipping them do catch my attention. *g*
So:
DW/ Deep Space Nine: in which Nine meets Jadzia Dax, and there is delicious character stuff for long-lived beings who go through various incarnations and traumatic losses:
An Element of Blank (http://www.altogetherelsewhere.net/multiverse/anelementofblank.html)
DW/ Alien:
Outside In (http://www.altogetherelsewhere.net/multiverse/2006/outsidein.html)
In which Nine meets Ripley.
(Err, suddenly I realize I have no idea whether you've watched the Alien movies. If youd don't, you should still be able to follow the story.)
I myself have never written Nine, and I don't think I will (there are simply other incarnations I'm more drawn to, no offense to Nine intended); I did write Seven, Three and Ten. You might want to check out one of my two DW/B5 crossovers anyway, because it while it features Seven, you don't have to know more of DW canon than you do to understand it (he shows up at a certain point of the Earth/Minbari war):
Brief Encounter (http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=18982)
(The other crossover is longer and very much involved in the B5 myth arc, but you really need to be familiar with s3 of New Who first.)
I do have another Nine story to reccommend for you, but I'll need longer to track it down again...