#also do you ever think abt what it must be like to regenerate a body with all this apparent history

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what are you guys' headcanons about how timelords (or maybe the doctor/master in particular since theyre always special cases) scar?

i dont have any real thoughts yet but the two times it's come up in my fics now ive sorta gravitated to the idea that maybe they dont necessarily scar in the same way that theyre regenerated like, clara voice: whys it got lines on it? it's brand new. how can his hair be all grey? he just got it.

like i think maybe they come preloaded with a bunch of scars that they didnt necessarily get but it's just like every other part of their body like "who frowned me this face"

and then along with that, the same way that their hair barely grows, maybe they dont really get scars from injuries either. unless it's special cases. ive made 13 had a scar where 12 got shot by the cyberman once bc shes so like, stuck in all the trauma from that time so it shows on her body, but like im not married to that idea

im not married to any of this. not attached at all. i dont have a good reason for 'they dont scar' except for like i said it's like hair and stuff. im asking in case anyone had some actually fun ideas/headcanons. like something a bit more nyarlothepy

i also dont think it'd be like impossible for them to scar, the example i gave was crossregeneration but also just within one regeneration i think it can happen the same way their hair can grow but i think it'd take a bit of a special occasion. something thats gonna leave a lasting effect on them you know? otherwise regeneration stuff just smooths it over makes them look new again

especially the last version of the master i feel like he might have gotten some serious scars in his time spent on earth