#just got thinking about eris being on his second body while narvin is still (as far as we know) on his first

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ok now i'm thinking about age and regeneration during the time war. because generally during peacetime, death and regeneration were much more predictable. barring any catastrophic accident or illness, a time lord could expect to spend hundreds of years in each of their bodies, if not more. now there's no rhyme or reason to it at all, you've got soldiers barely out of the academy on their fifth regenerations fighting alongside people a thousand years older than them who are on their second. and there are plenty of ways to kill a time lord without letting them regenerate, but what about the ones that do manage it every time but then run out? young adults functionally dying of old age -- injuries they would have survived in "younger" bodies.

and then factoring in project revenant - i don't think they explain how that affects the regeneration cycle (are they resurrected with a new regeneration cycle or just the one body?) but either way, it almost makes the idea of a final regeneration moot. almost. they can bring you back, but probably only into your most recent body. alive again, but not regenerated, not changed in the way you're used to. what body do you count that as? how do you judge your age or regeneration cycle from that point on? and it throws the age thing even further out the window when they resurrect people who died long before the war. narvin said that if his father were brought back, he'd be younger than him. so there are resurrected soldiers who are younger in actual years than their children, even if you ignore regeneration altogether.

fitting for a time war to make such a mess of aging and death