#essentially finding out parts of his childhood made me go ‘omg if the great intelligence hadn’t fucked with your memory you totally would’v | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

moreaugriffins · 2 years ago

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I love The Forgotten Son, because Brigadier (tho he’s still a colonel when this is set) goes back to his home village, and realises he remembers basically none of his childhood, and the other soldier he’s with asks “did you have a traumatic childhood?” And Brig’s like “nope. Definitely not a traumatic childhood. I remember basically nothing but it must be because of something else”

Then the rest of the book proceeds to show that Brig did indeed have a traumatic childhood that slowly comes back to him

(Ofc, it’s the dr who universe, so the memory loss is alien stuff, but still)

#classic doctor who #brigadier lethbridge stewart #“I didn’t have a traumatic childhood #*vaguely remembers his village and knows he should have memories of places but just doesnt*#*finds a carving of his father’s initials and someone else’s’ and proceeds to have a nightmare unlocking past memories*#*proceeds to have a few memories resurface*#*his old friend also telling him other memories that he doesn’t remember but should*#*finds out he witnessed his brother die* (Also doesn’t remember having a brother - alien stuff)#(Also his dad died during the war - also also his mum became very religious and I daresay a bit distanced from Alistair because she got #trauma but it was the 40s so she got no help)#(also Alistair saw a ‘ghost’ as a kid and so did his brother James and Alistair slowly kinda lost his brother #(brother getting an ‘imaginary friend’ and becoming closed off etc))#essentially finding out parts of his childhood made me go ‘omg if the great intelligence hadn’t fucked with your memory you totally would’v #repressed most of this because yeesh’#but he’s the brigadier so he handles this all remarkably well #I say - pretending he didn’t basically kill a person out of anger for messing with his mum

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