Dark Water (comic story)

 was a Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story published in 2014.

Summary
In the style of a TV advertisement for an energy drink, a Cyberman promotes the drinking of dark water to force any resurfacing emotions back down, and generally restore a failing Cyberman to peak efficiency. When the Twelfth Doctor bursts in and declares the whole thing an abomination, the Cyberman retorts that dark water is "abominably good".

Characters

 * Cyberman
 * Twelfth Doctor

Worldbuilding

 * Dark water is made up of liquid isotopes.
 * The organic parts of Cybermen are referred to as "parboiled, reanimated corpses".
 * The "salesman" Cyberman claims that dark water will help cure ailments which allegedly affect all Cybermen at one time or another: their exoskeleton "losing its luster", their reanimated flesh looking "a little gray", and "some of [one's] vestigial emotions poking through [one's] unfeeling carapace".
 * Drinking it instantly dissolves both despair and organs.

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