History Fanfic / SoYouArentAsHumanAsYouThoughtYouWere

Due to mentions of the main character's theft of glass Tupperware containers ForScience, the fanwork has recieved the FanNickname of "the Tupperware AU" or more commonly, "tups."

''so you aren't as human as you thought you were'' has been on SeriesHiatus since January 6th of 2019, with an additional chapter published on May 12th of 2019.

* ForWantOfANail:

* AndIMustScream: John finds out he technically does not exist and his past was fake, merely memories given to him by something sinister. He has memories of living with his family but cannot be traced to having actually existed before 2004. He is a fake person who woke up in a body that isn't his. He has no past of his own and is condemned to die whenever the psychelock breaks and the Doctor returns.

* MusicalSpoiler: The song paired with Chapter 3 is "Omen" by Mother Mother. You can imagine there's no good omens here.

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!!Trivia:

* {{Asexuality}}: John is asexual and aromantic.
** John is first alluded to being anything but straight in chapter 3, "fuoco," where he receives - and promptly deletes - a text from his ex-boyfriend, Samuel.
** In chapter 18, "galliard," Lance Bennett hints that the reason John and Samuel broke up was because of John's asexuality.
--->'''Lance:''' ''[to John]'' Like you know what a healthy relationship is, Mr. ‘I can't keep a boyfriend because I won't put out?’
** In chapter 21, "ricercar," John's sexuality is mentioned once again.
--->'''John:''' I’m queer, Donna. What’d you expect?\\
'''Donna:''' Isn’t that like, perpetrating stereotypes or something?
--->'''John:''' Maybe, but they’re ''my'' stereotypes!

* BizarreAlienBiology: A main focus of the fanwork. Time Lords are aliens who are telepathic, possess two hearts, have red-orange blood, among other things. They also have BizarreAlienSenses and are able to sense timelines, gravitational fields, chemical compositions of substances, etc., leading to SensoryOverload in John's case, as he still has an arguably human mind and perspective.

Due to mentions of the main character's theft of glass Tupperware containers for Science Purposes, the fanwork has recieved the FanNickname of "the Tupperware AU" or more commonly, "tups."

* BizarreAlienBiology: A main focus of the fanwork. Time Lords are aliens who are telepathic, possess two hearts, have red-orange blood, among other things. They also have BizarreAlienSenses are able to sense timelines, gravitational fields, chemical compositions of substances, etc., leading to SensoryOverload in John's case, as he still has an arguably human mind and perspective.

* SensoryOverload: John regularly experience this, especially after he turns into an alien.

* PainfulTransformation: The change from human to Time Lord biology is mentally very taxing, though it mostly manifests as sensory overload.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15208397/chapters/35273690 ''so you aren't as human as you thought you were'']] is a Series/DoctorWho fanwork hosted on Archive Of Our Own, in which "John Smith," a Chameleon Arched, human version of the Tenth Doctor, lives in 21st century London as a semi-functional graduate student with a solid friendship with canon ''Doctor Who'' character, Donna Noble. The story follows John after he inexplicably becomes a Time Lord.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15208397/chapters/35273690 so you aren't as human as you thought you were]] is a Series/DoctorWho fanwork hosted on Archive Of Our Own, in which "John Smith," a Chameleon Arched, human version of the Tenth Doctor, lives in 21st century London as a semi-functional graduate student with a solid friendship with canon ''Doctor Who'' character, Donna Noble. The story follows John after he inexplicably becomes a Time Lord.

!!Tropes:

* AlternateUniverseFic: Sometime after series 3 of ''Doctor Who'', the Tenth Doctor uses the Chameleon Arch once again to turn themselves human. Instead of leaving their amnesiac self in the early 20th century with their current companion, the Doctor sets themself up to live in 21st century London, where they later meet Donna Noble.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The chapter where John and Donna go to meet Nayomi has a group of teens laugh when a barista yells "Adam!" -the social media platform where the "Adam!" video is from will not be released for several years in the story's timeline.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The previously mentioned shout of "Adam!" in the cafe.

* AlternateUniverseFic: Sometime after Series 3, the Tenth Doctor uses the Chameleon Arch once again to turn themselves human. Instead of leaving their amnesiac self in the early 20th century with their current companion, the Doctor sets themself up to live in 21st century London, where they later meet Donna Noble.

* AlternateUniverseFic: Sometime after Series 3, the Tenth Doctor uses the Chameleon Arch once again to turn themselves human. Instead of leaving their amnesiac self in the early 20th century with their current companion, the Doctor sets themself up to live in 21st century London, where they later meet Donna Noble.
* For Want Of A Nail

** John is first alluded to being gay in chapter 3, "fuoco," where he receives - and promptly deletes - a text from his ex-boyfriend, Samuel.

* {{Asexuality}}: John is asexual, and aromantic.

* AmnesiacHero: John

* AlternateUniverseFic: One where the Tenth Doctor uses the Chameleon Arc in the modern day, and meets Donna that way.

* KleptomaniacHero: John regularly steals things from his university, as well as IKEA (leading to the FanNickname for the fic, the Tupperware AU, tups for short).

* MusicalSpoiler: The song paired with Chapter 3 is "Omen" by Mother Mother. You can imagine there's no good omens here.

Due to mentions of the main character's theft of glass Tupperware containers for Science Purposes, the fanwork has recieved the *FanNickname of "the Tupperware AU" or more commonly, "tups."

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15208397/chapters/35273690 so you aren't as human as you thought you were]] is a Series/Doctor Who fanwork hosted on Archive Of Our Own, in which "John Smith," a Chameleon Arched, human version of the Tenth Doctor, lives in 21st century London as a semi-functional graduate student with a solid friendship with canon ''Doctor Who'' character, Donna Noble. The story follows John after he inexplicably becomes a Time Lord.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15208397/chapters/35273690 so you aren't as human as you thought you were]] is a ''Series/Doctor Who'' fanwork hosted on Archive Of Our Own, in which "John Smith," a Chameleon Arched, human version of the Tenth Doctor, lives in 21st century London as a semi-functional graduate student with a solid friendship with canon ''Doctor Who'' character, Donna Noble. The story follows John after he inexplicably becomes a Time Lord.