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seveneyesoup · 2 years ago

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new who has emphasized the cybermen as a loss of personhood but they really really have not leaned into the horror of it like they could. there have even been stories of maintaining ones personhood through the conversion but what about the opposite? what about a generation of cybermen that do not hide what they used to be, whose faces are still visible, reflecting an individuality they no longer possess, but that is meaningful to the people they used to belong to? the “ghosts” of doomsday were imagined to be dead loved ones, but what if you saw their face? what if your grandfather was looking you in the face but did not recognize you. what if he offered a way to take away the pain of loss. what if the ordeal was over and the danger was done and the thing piloting his body survived it intact. what if he was right there but you could never, ever have him back. what then

#idek what i’m saying i’m just making stuff up #to flesh it out into a two-episode concept you’d probably want to have some kinda like; cyberscouts #cybermen who are like 90% corpse 10% metal who kinda go out and pretend to be human still #and then offer a solution to emotional troubles. one that worked for them #and then bam get cybered idiot #which would be the reveal at the end of the first episode; that it’s cybermen #and then the second is dealing w the cybermen #the only trouble is a scheme like that requires a degree of emotional intelligence i don’t think the cybermen have #bc the thing is they’re quite simple about that kind of thing #assimilate into the army and that’s it #an infiltration program that relies on manipulation is more out of the dalek playbook; i think #which means you might need to credit it to someone else #i suppose the master is right there; but there’s other options #hm #much to consider but not really #i just think. emphasizing how much these things used to be People would be nice #a modern suit could walk around empty but not an original one #those things needed A Body #you couldn’t escape the corpse in them and thats. that’s a good thing #bc it makes the terror of them central to the thing itself. inescapable #alternatively rather than a two-episode plot; an audio #with the reveal of who was behind it being part of a little mini arc

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