#doctor who

I wanna say a big thank you to @another-arteeth and the very sweet people in the Gallifreyan subreddit for helping me translating "the timeless child" into Shermans Gallifreyan!!! This community has been so sweet and welcoming, thank you sincerly <3

"The Timeless Child makes the Doctor a godlike figure"...

How, exactly?

Godlike figures tend to have some sort of power over their abilities. They tend to use those abilities for either good or evil or sometimes just mischief, depending on which one you're talking about.

The Timeless Child was a little girl who was found by Tecteun, lost and alone, underneath the Boundary, a gateway between worlds, dimensions, universes. Later, it would turn out that this child possessed the ability to regenerate her body when mortally injured.

And so, Tecteun experimented on her child. Over and over again, through at least seven lives that we see on screen, forcing their child to burn through all of those lives, each of which could have lasted for years and years and years, just to satisfy her quest for knowledge.

And what happens when Tecteun finally manages to gene-splice regeneration and create the Time Lords? Well, if the Timeless Child is a godlike figure, surely they would stand as a leader alongside their mother, right? The founder of regeneration, together with the source of regeneration.

Except that doesn't happen, does it? The Timeless Child is drafted into a secret organization that defies the Time Lord's main directive: do not interfere. Division interferes. The Time Lords are convinced that other, primitive worlds need to be guided (translation: colonized) and they use the Division to do it so their hands can remain squeaky clean.

We don't know much about this time period, but we do know, at some point, the Timeless Child tried to leave Division. They tried to reclaim their life. And for that, they were condemned to have their entire identity erased. Their memory was wiped, they were sent away to live as what would eventually become the First Doctor, and the truth of Gallifrey's origins were buried in favour of a new creation myth.

Okay, so. Kidnapped, exploited, abused, indoctrinated. No power over Gallifreyan society to speak of, not even the power to save themselves from their mother's torture.

Skip ahead many, many years and the 13th Doctor learns about her past as the Timeless Child. Now, obviously a godlike figure would be able to do something with this, right? Defeat the Master, revive the Time Lords, restore Gallifrey.

Nope. She damn near commits murder-suicide until she's saved by Ko Sharmus and barely escapes with her life, then spends at least the next thirty years in a Judoon space prison.

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