#Timeless child

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

a beacon in the darkest of nights 🕯️

12.25.2014 — 12.25.2024

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It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since I met you. For an entire decade, you’ve been my heart and soul, the comfort character and blorbo ever!

You were my friend when I had none. My hope when I was running on empty. And through you, I was able to connect with so many amazing people over the years and share so much joy with them. Truly, you’re the most timeless character I’ve ever known.

Thank you for everything, Ephemera!!🧣

[paintdoktahwho]

[supernova049]

Ruby asked about his foster mom

[claraoswalds]

THE DOCTOR + regenerating

[who-datgirl]

Y’all ever since someone said “Whittaker!Master” on here I have NOT been able to get it out of my head. I honestly kind of need it. Jodie would serve c*nt on a damn silver platter as the next Master. It canonically is not even too far fetched that The Master would regenerate Jodie’s face after the events of the forced regeneration with 13.

“Are you really so shocked I would wind up looking like this darling? Don’t flatter yourself about it, I didn’t plan to wear this face. After the forced regeneration was canceled an imprint of this body was left within me, but I have no complaints. After all, LOOK at me. You didn’t wear this with an ounce of the elegance that I do. If anything, I am doing you a favor”.

Let her slay with her outfit and makeup and give us the post-Missy incarnation we all deserve. Jodie would EAT.

[humanstein]

I can't help but draw a connection between The Dot deciding the people of Finetime needed to die and The Master learning about the Timeless Child from the Matrix and deciding that the people of Gallifrey needed to die.

Domed cities full of the safe and entitled being executed systematically.

[pluralzalpha]

Random thought: what if Theta Sigma isn't just an Academy nickname, but a designation given by the Time Lords to denote which iteration of the Doctor they're dealing with?

The Doctor doesn't know that, they think it's just a silly Academy thing. They don't know that each time the Time Lords have wiped their memory they've been given a marker: Alpha Alpha, Alpha Beta, Alpha Gamma... all the way until Theta Sigma.

[pizzacade]

The many types of Regeneration as described by the Time Lords in a self-made guidebook, alongside a note about the Timeless Child from the Thirteenth Doctor when she included it in A Short History of Everyone, with itself also included previously in her eleventh incarnation's How to be a Time Lord.

Explanation as to what type of regeneration corresponds to each Doctor's regeneration is in the reblogs.

[mister-leonn]

Two new Doctor Who headcanons for you my dear little friends:

1 - The Doctor dragged Sutekh through the time vortex, giving death to Death, spreading life accross the universe. Well here's my deal, guess who didn't realize they fixed their mistakes with destroying half of the universe? The Doctor probably doesn't see it yet but he restored the universe altogether completely erasing Tecteun's plans. On the other hand, our dear Fifteenth surely doesn't know they probably revived all the daleks and cybermen who got destroyed in the flux... But maybe also... just maybe... all the Gallifreyans as well...

2 - By biggest thought, probably a whole explanation to the Timeless Child story, (but im sure all of you figured out) The Doctor isn't exactly from another universe, thing assured, not from the next, I think the Doctor is the reincarnation of the God of Life, a god who brings life but never got to experience it, which explains the regenerations, the infinite knowledge, the telepathy, the pure passion for every living thing and the beauty of the universe. All along the Doctor was the god of life, and like death, life knows no bound through time and space, that's why they all time travel, the infinite versions of the same cranky old face who loves every living beings, the Doctor spreads life as a default mode.

[tinkerbitch69]

So bigeneration is already a contentious thing and the timeless child was a contentious thing too and believe me I get it, the doctor just being some rebel time lord who got bored and ran away is my favourite version of the character too but like

this controversial new thing could actually fix the timeless child controversy.

The doctor thinks this is the first time they have bigenerated but remember they’ve been mind wiped who knows how many times by the time lords. They could have done this before without rememebering but their new bigenerated self would still hold the repressed memories of being the timeless child and so still technically BE the timeless child right?

So what if the fugitive doctor bigenerated into a child version of hartnells doctor and that new child clone was raised on a barn in gallifrey while the fugitive doctor aka the og timeless child continued to work for the division?

If this is true, the doctor we’ve been following for the past 60 years IS essentially just a regular time lord who grew up on gallifrey and ran away and the timeless child is still a thing and we’re not rewriting the chibnall era. Plus for fan’s of that particular interpretation of the doctor the new bigeneration means our favourite version of the doctor finally gets a happy ending AND the show goes on.

This is just my headcanon but like I’m pretty sure this would make EVERYONE happy. Thoughts?

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

the Ephy week graphics were fun to make, so I wanted to share them on their own 😄🧣

the quality on the smaller ones aren’t the greatest bc I made those guys on the fly straight in the canvas lmao

(credit for the backgrounds)

[thetorturedlovergirl]

Aww look how cute they are <33

[73chn1c0l0rr3v3l]

So I've had an interesting revelation irt the Timeless Children and one of the critiques I see thrown at it a lot. And I think I've had a bit of a lightbulb moment about it.

One of the critiques I see about the episode Timeless Children is that the Doctor doesn't actually... do anything with it, she just has to witness and listen to being told about the tragedy that happened to her.

And I was thinking about how that reflects what happens to a lot of people who are learning about tragedies in their own pasts.

I couldn't do anything about the antisemitism my dad experienced, I couldn't do anything about the abuse my mother suffered. I can't change the abuse that I experienced before I can even remember it happening. Sometime the horror of finding out your history is that it's what it is - it's HISTORY, and you can't change it. You can't redo it, you can't fix it, you have to just deal with the repercussions of it.

So much of what I love about 13's era and the way Chibnall has done Doctor Who is the fact that it feels like it deals with the REALITY of stuff. No, you can't save the man who was going to die because that'll change history. No, you can't get rid of the horrible racists even though they're a blight, because that has to happen for history to happen. No, you can't go back in time and save yourself.

You have to live with it and you have to process it and you have to pick up the pieces, because sometimes you can't fix it, no matter how much you want it.

But you can keep going. You can find things that are terrifying that unseat your whole reality and sense of self, but you can still keep going. And I really love seeing that reflected with the Doctor.

[marvelmaniac715]

I can’t stop thinking about the original home universe of the Timeless Child. A whole race of beings who can regenerate their bodies at will, naturally living for millennia, with no limit to how many bodies they can have, and suddenly one of their children goes missing. Maybe the child was on the other side of the portal by mistake? Maybe it was a sacred ceremony for their people and they ended up on the wrong side? Or maybe it was a desperate effort to save their child from a brutal conflict? What sort of life would the Doctor have lived if they were never taken from home? What was the culture of their own species? Are their parents still alive? Did they have siblings? And, most crushingly of all… would the universe still be standing if a child was not stolen from their family, made to forget their home and language, and then forced to give their biological advantage to the species that ruined their life before fighting to protect that same species and having their memories erased? The Timeless Child arc is convoluted to some, but I just think it’s tragic.

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

I have had a terrible, terrible idea

Timeless Child establishes that the Doctor is not from the/this universe and is the source of regeneration. Now we have a whole season about his identity as an adoptee and the villains are godlike creatures with titles instead of names from…outside of the universe…?

Praying I’m wrong but I’m so concerned now that the Doctor is gonna be revealed to be the same type of being as the Toymaker and Maestro and that’s why regeneration is so bullshit (it’s reality warping)