#ninerose is such a foundational basis for tenrose and i don't understand why there's apparently ship wars?

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

been thinking about that scene in rose where nine looks at himself in the mirror ("could be worse," he says). there's so many ways to interpret this. rtd cheekily says he just had a haircut, others interpret it as him being fresh off a regeneration. but since it's implied he's been traveling as nine for a while now, I actually like to think that in all that time he could never look at himself because of what he did during the time war. to me that's such a rich interpretation, that the day he meets rose is the day he can finally look at himself in the mirror