#chapter things

Here are my favorites.... Yes I know who I swiped some of them from. They decided to believe that it slander and now they can stay salty.

Upper Triad

Oh look, it's all a political prowess of Gallifrey and absolutely none of the chill. These are the chapters everyone hears about and for good reason, they got all of the political power. Unfortunately for everyone they also got absolutely no chill and tend to be a little on the extra side.

Prydonians

This is definitely the chapter of the single person debate teams. They absolutely also did create a 15-page cited paper on why your opinion is trash and will show it to you without you asking. This is the political science group and they are as smart and cunning as they are extra, I'm pretty sure this is why this chapter creates more Lord Presidents and Renegades than any other. The chapter colors are Scarlet and burnt orange, just like the planet. Lord Rassilon founded this chapter and I'm certain he's just down for this.

Arcalians

This chapter will absolutely go poke it with a stick to see what happens. The curious and science loving group. These nerds and their Patrexes homies Are absolutely the ones creating and running the experiments. Arcaleans though me not have the most practical experiments and are probably just curious. Yes, that is a watermelon full of c4 and no, you do not get to ask why..... Colors are green and brown and I could get them lost in a forest on Earth, not that the founders Lord Omega would be there (hint - he's still in the lab with the Techs).

Patrexean

There is so much glitter in This description. This is the engineering, music and artistic group. They absolutely produce some of the most practical things on the planet and some of the most absolutely jaw-droppingly bizarre. I am quite certain that they would be the group 100% cheering on the guy who did a series of overly engineered glitter bombs for porch pirates. The colors they ended up with are heliotrope and yellow and nothing will convince me that this was not part of a prank where the other decided they were going to melt Lord Rassilon's eyes out of his head. I am quite certain it worked and now we all get to look at it.

Lower Triad

Oh look, I found all of gallifrey's chill.... In the lower Triad. Go figure, heat does rise and chill. Things do tend to sink unless it's ice.

Dromeian

Everybody's favorite group of archaeologists and librarians. Don't piss them off, they will never forget it and it will live on in archives forever... Essentially. This extraordinarily goth looking group was founded by Patrician Aperion and they are probably completely finished with everybody's bullshit. A tendency to wear spiky boots, and the chapter colors being nothing but grays is not helping. At least this chapter has the record sorted and potentially at least one spray bottle for when over enthusiastic academy student is overstating their welcome.

Cerulean

This would be everybody's favorite group of hippie nerds. It's like solar punk became an entire chapter and they dress in nothing but blue. Lady Lasluine is most likely the one that kept everyone from absolutely demolishing each other. I am very certain it is the Cerulean chapter that makes sure that snacks are available for everyone and that people actually eat and sleep. There's nothing like a bunch of hyper focused nerds who forget that sleeping and eating is actually necessary. For what this group likes and political power, they definitely know how to network and socialize.

Scendeles

Gallifrey's favorite group of blessed little math nerds. Honestly, this is the chillest group of people you will ever meet, they just vibe... Very consistently. Somehow the chapter that probably manages everybody's checkbook also has the least political power. I am pretty sure that they are all also music nerds as the Venn diagram between music, nerds and math nerds tends to be less of a then diagram and more of a slightly out of focus circle. Patrician Pandak started this chapter and I refuse to believe that they bankrupt themselves, however, I somehow managed to believe that their founder can read lips and likes heavy metal.

The upper Triad on Gallifrey most certainly did require lower Triad supervision about 90% of the time.

Let's all face the fact, while the upper Triad got all of the power on Gallifrey they inherited precisely none of the chill. The lower Triad, traditionally being seen as less politically important but still important for the all of the day today background activities that made life on Gallifrey actually work correctly inherited 90% of the chill that the planet has to offer its people.

Prydonians absolutely needed Ceruleans to remind them that it was okay to calm down, relax, and to remind them that they should probably take a breather from the fifteen page cited essay explaining why their latest political opponent was absolutely Incorrect and why they were correct. Although they normally wanted and used their power to help others, and would always know exactly how to word every single essay they often forgot what lunch time was and that although they did not need much sleep, they actually did need sleep.

Arcaleans deffinately needed Dromaneans for their ability to remaining calm in all sorts of chaos and remind them that it is only science and not screwing around if someone is recording and archiving and organizing all of the results. Both chapters are inherently extremely curious, although one is definitely more interested in organizing and archiving results and the other just might forget to do so while I did intentionally blowing the thing up(alm9st never intwntionally, of course). And of course Ceruleans come in to remind the scientists and the archivists that Lunch is ready and they both need to eat too.

Lastly, Patrexeans and Scendeles go together quite nicely as there is plenty of beauty in patterns formed by interesting equations. Also it takes a lot of stability to deal with and organize hyperactive Patrexeans, even Patricians of this chapter have a lot of energy to burn (the Other in my time line was also Lord of GlitterBombs.... so pranks and energy that needs a bit of stability). And of course everyone still needs to be reminded to sleep and eat by their favorite Cerulean.

So... I was looking for a gif for something completely unrelated and found this...

Menti Celesti help us.

Although Gallifrey is always portrayed as being extremely serious, and Gallifreyans actually do take themselves rather seriously, any real look assemble reveal a planet of nervous nerds.

Please understand I'm referring to this entire planet as the planet of nerds in the most affectionate way possible. Time Lords, the class that is truly in charge of all of the things on Gallifrey, only achieve their status I completely graduating the Academy. That is actually this particular culture has made it to where only people you're on Earth qualify as having their post graduate degree are capable of holding positions. Although there were issues with accessibility at the Academy, there was a lot of emphasis on infodumps and info dumps were a way of life.

Like all nerds, Gallifreyans like to organize themselves by interests and talents, so the chapter system was a major thing. No matter how far to the academy a person got, they definitely had their speciality's and their majors, mostly those that valley in two categories that were defined (or at least predicted) by their chapter. most people would wear predominantly if not only their chapter colors, I imagine because it would make them feel like they belong and it also helps pick out who's been have which conversation with. It would be very silly to info dump on a random Arcalean how awesome the aesthetics of your new football, unless you already were friends.