Ye olde Who.

[luchia]

For crossover info, I'd reeeeeeeeally love it if someone could tell me the following!


1. Gallifrey! What's it like, aside from "blown up now"? I've only seen the flashbacks from...season 3 of New!Who? Whichever was Martha!season. My brain is failing me.

2. There has been mention of an academy so I obviously need to know at least the basics about that. And possibly if the Doctor's class' valedictorian is ever mentioned...

3. Season 1, episode 2, The Doctor's all super-time-knowing with the Fans Of Doom. Is that a normal Time Lord thingy? Because I am saddened by it happening ONE TIME in canon and it would be nice to add to Things I Won't Say Yet.

4. Anything weird/unique to know about famblies?

5. How young can a regeneration go? Are there any sort of rules about it?


And that's about all for now, and thankyouthankyouthankyou for help. Really. Because I refuse to go onto Wiki because it'd spoil me and SURE, the questions are spoilery, but only in a cultural way! Which is much more acceptable. ♥

Also if someone could direct me to the Tin Man mood theme I would...I dunno. I'll draw a picture on my tablet for once, although it'd probably end up japanimationish. 10 years of practice has ruined me.

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[misos-marked.livejournal.com]

*uses wrong but somehow appropriate account*

1. Ye olde Gallifrey was a bureaucratic NIGHTMARE full of pompus ceremony and really, really silly costumes. There waa a time long long ago when the Time Lords gathered up beings from various points and space and time and had them BATTLE TO THE DEATH in a foggy quarry in Wales the Death Zone. Kinda like the Roman colliseum games but with Cybermen.

FROTHING RANTING ABOUT YE OLDE TIEM LAWDS: Also they were a bunch of snooty twats who were all "No, rest of creation, you cannot has time travel. Not yours." and they had this whole "We will observe all of the cosmos ever but NEVER INTERFERE" and that really irked the Doctor, which is why he stole the TARDIS and went on the run in the first place. Lesse, they put Two on trial and made him regenerate into Three while also wiping his companion's memories of all their travels with them, they exiled Three to Earth for a few years which really pissed him off, tried to frame Four for assiasinating the president but APPARENTLY you can get out of trial by BECOMING president so he totally ran and won and then ran away again, they kept trying to get Five to live up to his presidential obligatiosn, they put Six on trial AGAIN, they didn't do anything to Seven on telly and I won't even get into what they did to Eight because there's three continuities and it's brian-breaky. And I know I left things out.

Conclusion: they kinda sucked.

2. Short answer: we know NOTHING. We know the Doctor flunked out his first time through (Romana loved pointing that out) but there's no valedictorian or whatever mentioned. The Doctor (and the Master, and the Rani, and Romana) were all of the Prydonian chapter, which has a rep for producing devious troublemakers and rebels (NO SHIT). Anything else I write will be ripped from this wiki entry (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Gallifreyan_Chapters) so have at. It's like Hogwarts but REALLY NOT.

3. Far as I know the Fans of Doom were a one-time thing. Which is lame. n the other hand you can make up whatever fanon you want to work with and thus become a Proper Whovian!

4. According to the novels, Time Lords reproduce using genetic looms. Or, for sane people, when a Time Lord and a Time Lady love each toehr very much they have hawt sexings and there's a kid. This is one of the things fandom has been wanking about for DECADES. One had a granddaughter he traveled around with and we're pretty sure she was his LITERAL granddaughter, two said his family "sleeps in his mind", the books gave the Doctor a wife named Patience, Eight said he was half-human on his mother's side in the movie, and then Ten delcares that he was a dad once. And we see wee!Master.

Conclusion: sorry, asexualist LOOM people, I think Time Lords have a mummy and a daddy and possibly siblings.

5. Short answer: we don't know a damn thing. Make it up! \o/

Now someone else is going to come along and tell me how wrong I am.

Also: mood theme (http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/kseda/TM%20mood/). I protest several of the image choices and will one day make replacements.

[kseda.livejournal.com]

...aaand I just read over all of that and have decided that I am insane. Also that I justd ropped a bunch of 40-year-old spoilers on you. *headdesk*

[luchia13.livejournal.com]

THAAAANK YOU, KISSY~! ♥

And wtf weaving?!

[blackletter]

This site has just about all Doctor Who/Time Lord/Gallifrey info compiled (culled from TV, books, audio--the works). It doesn't summarize episodes, so it shouldn't be particularly spoilery. It just gives the canon facts, all color coded according to source. (Some sources are arguably more "canon" than others.)

Half the canon info contradicts the other half. (Looms? Granddaughter?) So when in doubt, or when unhappy with the "canon", make stuff up.

One of my favorite Doctor Who fandom quotes: "Everything is canon; nothing is canon."

[blackletter]

(Sorry, I meant to reply to the parent post...)

[kseda.livejournal.com]

S'okay! I only spent a couple seconds wondering why you were responding to something from my RP journal, then I figured it out! *facepalm*

[luchia13.livejournal.com]

I just read that whooooole thing, aside from the timeline, because a timeline of a time-traveling society is a terrifying thought.

I LOVE THE FACT YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN OLD CHICK SAY "YOU CAN HAS TARDIS!" BEFORE YOU'RE A TIME LORD. Oh man. And I thought the new stuff was crack, good god, how wrong I was.

So anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH~! ♥ ♥ ♥

[duct-tape-fairy.livejournal.com]

misos_marked covered pretty much everything BUT, the Doctor regenerating into someone as young as Tennent is unusual in his personal history - although the Master pulled off what might be the biggest jump when he went from Nice!Professor to Evil!Master.

And I'd also add that yes, the Time Lords were frequently pompous jerks. The Tardis was stolen from a repair shop (which is why it's stuck as a police box, the chameleon circuit is fried) and the Doctor was basically on the lamb from them for large chunks of the original series.

[luchia13.livejournal.com]

(Psst. misos_marked = kseda's Turlough RP journal.)

So regeneration into a BABY wouldn't happen. That's both good and bad, because it would be soooooo tempting to write some crack drabble where the 12th regeneration is into a BABY. And then the whooooooooooole thing starts over again and time remains a ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff. ♥

[duct-tape-fairy.livejournal.com]

Wellllll.... probably not. You could probably do some crack aliens/the master/espresso-made-him-do-it thing but it would be highly irregular. So... do it AFTER Robin Hood and the rest of the epic list.