Archive of Our Own

Notes:

This is a comic I drew back in 2023 (when I used to go by the alias "bonesofbeskar) based off my delusional headcanons about this rare?crack?ship.
I wanted to depict Dottore suffering a love boner for Lisa that trascends time and his own convictions. They start a relationship with no labels, but he grows insecure and later on formally asks her to be his girlfriend. Lisa rejects him (she's attracted to him but their ideals are too drastically different). She had just returned from an expedition to the desert (something that I didn't want to draw or else it gets too long for my sanity), and Zandik notices a change in her demeanor (Lisa gets her vision and is cursed). He eventually finds out by running tests on her body without her knowledge.
Lisa decides to leave and Zandik makes a vow. He always looked for knowledge to enhance the human condition and undoing Lisa's curse is a new goal to prove himself. His hate towards the Gods and Visions is amplified. They're both now cursed.
Lisa knows what he's done, she doesn't reject their reunion because it's futile to reason with him. In the end, she doesn't need the help of a potion to deeply "fall asleep".

Title is from the poem by Charles Baudelaire.