#kenossium

Back to normal, am I? Only time I've been a man, that last body. Dear Lord... How do you cope with all that ego? T'NIA MILLER as THE GENERAL in DOCTOR WHO — Hell Bent (S09E12) directed by Rachel Talalay | written by Steven Moffat

I feel extremely awkward posting something that isn’t a summary to the story from the beginning on a practically empty blog, but we guessed it’s gonna be something like this from the beginning and did intend the blog to be about like this, so I think I can do it

I’m about to post a described drawing of Kenossium and this is a follow-down to that, but also on itself.

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If gender exists on Gallifrey, it is evidently assigned on the basis of the body — which honestly is extremely weird for a culture that focuses on the domination of mind but let’s forget that for a bit I guess ok…

A transgender/transsexual Gallifreyan with the ability to regenerate and to control that regeneration to some extent can modify their next body upon regeneration, and it can definitely subconsciously go like that too; but in other cases, if you were originally assigned female, were a cis woman, and then regenerate into a body that gets assigned male and your gender is male now, you are now a cis man. And if your gender is still female, you’re a trans woman, even if you were a cis woman half an hour ago. Etc.

The lines said by Kenossium (the General) absolutely were just Moffat’s shitty joke. But if we death-of-the-author them (and only take one half), we see that Kenossium doesn’t seem to have enjoyed “being a man”. Being a woman again was “back to normal” for her; yes, newer incarnations of Gallifreyans shit-talking their previous ones is a classic, but.

In Higginsverse, Kenossium participates in the anti-government resistance and civil war.

General Kenobi Kenossium

(Couldn’t decide which inarnation to use, so I made two versions!)

Rating: T Characters: River Song, Eleventh Doctor, Madame Kovarian, Kenossium, Rassilon Pairings: Eleventh Doctor/River Song A/N: Warning for self-harm (nothing graphic, but it’s there).  Have my weird brain child born of rewatching series nine. Summary:  “This is a prison,” she mutters. “It’s got to be a prison. And one where you’re not even really here - not that you have as much experience escaping prisons as I do, and yet - “

“A prison,” the Doctor interrupts. “Maybe.”

“Not the first,” River says. “And certainly not the worst.”

The Doctor raises an eyebrow. “Are you sure about that?”

Excerpt below:

The Doctor ignores that.  “If it was a trap,” he begins, “then what was the lure?  Memory is important, River, we know that better than anyone, considering how many timelines are tangled up inside our heads.  What do you remember?”

River opens her mouth, then closes it.  The Doctor’s gaze is boring into her, but she feels like she’s also getting stared at from the doorway.  She glances at it to see that the door remains closed, and no one is there.

“Charlotte,” she answers automatically.  “Charlotte was crying.”

“Sometimes children cry.”

River shakes her head.  What with Charlotte being the computer, she doesn’t allow herself to cry much.  At least, not in front of other people. She won’t even let River see, most of the time.  River hates that similarity between the two of them.

The Doctor claps his hands together.  “Right then! A child who doesn’t usually cry, crying.  And then you were here. Coincidence?”

“How do you know she doesn’t usually cry?”

“Dangerous for computers to get emotional,” the Doctor says, and for a moment there’s a flicker of anger on his face.  “And that isn’t very fair to Charlotte, is it? You’ve thought as much, over the decades you’ve been in there. Every time her face crumples and you wish things were different - “

River swallows.  “Every child should be able to cry.”

“Like you weren’t allowed to?”