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Companions of the Third Doctor

I was gonna argue that Yates is more of a Gryffindor than a Slytherin, but he’s more of a Slytherin than Jo or Liz or the Brig or Benton, so I won’t complain.

Still, if he had a choice, I think he’d pick the bravery and chivalry House.  Though he’s very loyal and that can be a problem for him, too, going too far for loyalty or for what he believes is right.  The whole idealist bit.

Slytherin is a little off for him because he’s fundamentally lacking in ambition.  His ambition is pretty much… protect the Earth and the people he loves, do what is right.  He doesn’t expect anything in return, and doesn’t want anything for that matter.

But then again he is posh and privileged, in his way.  Plus, he’s adept at spying and deceit.  When brute bravery isn’t enough, he’s the one that UNIT goes to to pretend to be a man from the ministry or a hippy or whatever else they need.  He has the cunning to accomplish what needs to get done, and he will do what it takes, even if it means he has to live with himself afterwards.

SO MANY MIKE YATES FEELS.  Story of my life

nilamarthiel:

whatthefoucault:

#Fffff Mike you hypocrite #I’ve never seen such a ‘wileish’ display from a bloke #You should be ashamed #Is that how you got such a respectable firing from UNIT? #Did you use your wiles on the Brig? #Oh I can’t wait to listen to the commentaries #dsfdfsdfsdf #Mike Yates #Sarah Jane Smith #Doctor Who #Classic Who

whoa wait what serial is this are sarah jane and mike trying to woo the same guy what’s happening here

Not sure if you ACTUALLY wanted an answer to that but it’s Planet of the Spiders and… sort of? They are both trying to divert attention from their Terribly Sneaky Acts, and accomplish this by distracting him with shiny objects and flirtation.

…Though actually, if we’re factoring in the novels (which are dubiously canon, contradict each other, but are quite good mostly), Paul Cornell’s Happy Endings makes your statement SURPRISINGLY ACCURATE. It’s set in UNIT’s future and has older Mike Yates who apparently is living with Tom (the guy in the green sweater in these GIFs - Cornell has said it was meant to be him) in what I like to call THE COTTAGE OF BEES AND SODOMY. No, really:

‘Absolutely, sir.’ Mike Yates pressed the fedora hat that concealed his bald patch further down on to his head. It was in danger of being blown off by the force of the air. His long hair blew out behind it. ‘By the way, Tom sends his regards. I’ve got some of our honey for you in the baggage.’
‘Very kind,’ said the Brigadier.

Happy Endings is the book where Yates is explicitly coded as gay (though in my headcanon he’s bi, whatever) and it makes me RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY you don’t even know. There are so many good bits - the poem in the beginning implying HE kind of fell for Dr. Jones, too; the scene where Yates is chatting in polari to a gay chap named Alexander and someone gets uppity at them and Alexander sets him the fuck down with his “count yourself fortunate that you have never needed a secret language” line - I don’t even. Here look at this excerpt:

‘…Are the people of Earth quite ready for this?’
‘As long as they’re applauding, sir.’ Yates plucked a pair of round, orange- tinted sunglasses from his pocket and propped them on his nose. ‘It’s when they start screaming that we’re in trouble.’
The Brigadier looked at Yates’s spectacles for a moment. ‘For some of us,’ he muttered under his breath, ‘I suspect that date is long past.’

AHAHAHAHA, the Brig called him ‘screaming’, GET IT. As in screamingly homosexual. It’s funny and way a bit awkward and honestly if Mike were out later in life you just know that the Brig would try to be understanding but he would occasionally make HOLY AWKWARD jokes like this.

Wow I better stop this has just become a Rose Has Feels About Happy Endings post.