Waiting For My Life To Begin

"I suppose it is," the Doctor told her, "I haven't really thought much about it. For me, it just was what it was." He shrugged slightly. "I think part of it was just being particularly attached to that body, even more than usual. I'm not sure why. I just had vanity issues at the time I suppose. Not like the body I had when I traveled with you. I didn't even have time to think about regeneration when I had that body. It just sort of happened while I was asleep for a surgery."

“It’s nothing you think about often, I guess,” Ace replied. “Or maybe you do because you don’t die, or not like we do.” She shrugged, leaning down on her desk with palms flat on the wooden surface. “Maybe that’s something else for why I do what I do. The charity, I mean. Life is precious, you know?”

Me, 20 years from now: we're never going to get an explanation for how Ruby made it snow, are we? 😔

Ruby never intentionally made it snow, it wasn’t an alien or godly superpower she’d been born with or had inherited. Whenever Ruby would remember the night that she was left at the Church in the snow whilst the choir sang, that memory would come to life and fall around her. The reason this happened was explained by the Doctor in The Legend of Ruby Sunday, albeit in a blink and you’ll miss it moment that should’ve been written as a realisation, which is that that point in time when Ruby was left at the Church in the snow is so raw and so open in time, and so because time is memory and memory is time, that also means Ruby’s memory of it is open and as a result would be brought to life whenever remembered. The reason it only happened for Ruby is obvious, which is that out of everyone in creation, that point in time is the most important to Ruby, as being found at the Church creates an entire future like Carla fostering and adopting Ruby. It’s also the reason for Ruby’s attachment trauma, meaning it’s a traumatic memory which is extremely powerful, because it’s when she was separated from her birth mum as a newborn. Plus, Ruby would’ve given that memory so much power by how much emotion, attention, and recall she’d give it whenever thinking about that night or something connected to it like who her birth mum and dad is, and any situations that’d trigger abandonment. This is why it had so much power, as power as great as the Gods of the Pantheon, because to every individual, our memory is the most powerful thing ever.

Me, 20 years from now: we're never going to get an explanation for how Ruby made it snow, are we? 😔

Ruby never intentionally made it snow, it wasn’t an alien or godly superpower she’d been born with or had inherited. Whenever Ruby would remember the night that she was left at the Church in the snow whilst the choir sang, that memory would come to life and fall around her. The reason this happened was explained by the Doctor in The Legend of Ruby Sunday, albeit in a blink and you’ll miss it moment that should’ve been written as a realisation, which is that that point in time when Ruby was left at the Church in the snow is so raw and so open in time, and so because time is memory and memory is time, that also means Ruby’s memory of it is open and as a result would be brought to life whenever remembered. The reason it only happened for Ruby is obvious, which is that out of everyone in creation, that point in time is the most important to Ruby, as being found at the Church creates an entire future like Carla fostering and adopting Ruby. It’s also the reason for Ruby’s attachment trauma, meaning it’s a traumatic memory which is extremely powerful, because it’s when she was separated from her birth mum as a newborn. Plus, Ruby would’ve given that memory so much power by how much emotion, attention, and recall she’d give it whenever thinking about that night or something connected to it like who her birth mum and dad is, and any situations that’d trigger abandonment. This is why it had so much power, as power as great as the Gods of the Pantheon, because to every individual, our memory is the most powerful thing ever.