things about time lords that was new to me and/or i forgot about that iām now going to consider canon for basically every time lord in a fight:
Time Lords' physical forms are only fragments of much vaster multi-dimensional ones existing in a realm invisible to humans; this aspect is able to create coincidences around a Time Lord. (and everyone is so surprised by how strong they are. gallifreyans are (possibly) stronger than the hulk and captain marvel full force. k bye)
While the human eye was just a dish of light-sensitive cells, leaving the brain to do all of the processing, the Time Lord retina was capable of thinking on its own. As a result, on Gallifrey, the retina replaced fingers as the main method of communicating with machines. (a brain for the skull and a brain for each eye and just holy shit. they can feel people with their eyesssssss.) Gallifreyan eyes were better at seeing in general, as well as in the dark, as they could gather and enhance available light.Ā They could notice incredible amount of detail from distances of at least one hundred yards away,Ā as well as people that were well beyond the human line of sight.Ā Gallifreyans had incredibly precise control of their eyes (which explains a shit ton on why the doctorās eyes just get bigger when they canāt find a companion and have to resort to yelling their name. itās like that meme about yelling something to get them to respond but extreme sports edition. like extreme marco polo or waldo like holy shit).
Gallifreyans could survive some falls which would shatter the bones of humans.
If pushed from a height into a liquid, a Time Lord body was capable of protecting them, sealing up the lungs to conserve air for a short period (see Hell Bent and 12ā²s constant diving)
Gallifreyans could survive extreme cold,Ā due to having a "souped-up metabolism"; they could even withstand exposure to a vacuum for a few minutes with the only consequence being blindness rather than death.Ā They could also survive extreme heat.Ā They could even survive the subzero temperatures and extremely low pressure of vacuum for around six minutes,Ā and survive electric shocks that would be fatal to humans.Ā
Rƶntgen radiation affected Gallifreyans so minimally that Gallifreyan children were routinely given radioactive toys in the nursery. They could, at will, absorb very high doses of Rƶntgen radiation, transform it into a form harmless to humans, and expel it from their bodies.Ā Radiation of other kinds could be fatal, but even then a Gallifreyan could handle much higher doses than a normal human could, and could hold out much longer than even most terrestrial life-forms,Ā although a unique form of radiation around the Lakertyan System was only fatal to Time Lords while being harmless to humans.
Gallifreyans needed less sleep than humans, and could make do with as little as an hour.
A Gallifreyan who was severely injured without actually needing to regenerate to heal the damage would generally slip into a healing coma, and devote all his or her energy to healing the injury. While in the coma, they would appear to be dead.
Time Lords also seem to have an increased resilience to higher frequencies of sound.
Gallifreyans could be disabled by a blow to the left shoulder, which possessed a vulnerable nerve cluster.
Gallifreyans were capable of resisting attempts to disintegrate their bodies, despite being shown capable of disintegrating other organisms.
Early Gallifreyans deliberately infected themselves with the Yssgaroth taint to give themselves a biological advantage.
Time Lords occasionally displayed, or referred to, the ability to fly. (cough cough mary poppins, saxon, missy, that time lord messenger, tenth doctor when he got back to normal and cradled the master and cried after lucy shot him cough cough)
Even without regeneration, Gallifreyans had considerable lifespans. Within one regeneration, Gallifreyans could live for hundreds of years, yet look much younger than a human of equivalent age. (which means the curator in the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who is 500 yrs old in that face so like imagine young tom baker but with just the short curly cut like wow)
Physical stress could cause Gallifreyans to age.
the Time Destructor may have contributed to ageing
Gallifreyan children grew at about the same rate as humans of the same age.Ā After this point, ageing would slow, with the Gallifreyan looking like a teenager for decades. ( @girl-in-the-tardis @gallifreylegacy so basically those kids end up being like twilight minus the disco ball vampirism when they graduate college and get the highest occupation of their job. like they could be considered both the youngest president but also the oldest being visually a teenager but actually 90 yrs old. like No. 5 from Umbrella Academy)
90 is teens, 750 is middle-aged and senility age when one time lord gets over 12,000 years old (depending on the regeneration i guess???)
Gallifreyans had all the senses possessed by humans, and to generally superior degrees. Gallifreyans also had extraordinary reflexes and precision timing, literally superhuman.
In the space of four nanoseconds, a Time Lord can move fast enough to dodge shots fired at them whilst devising a plan toĀ escape. (so that trailer where 13 is like a speedster? fucking canon yāall)
Gallifreyans showed great hand-eye coordination and dexterity with a wide variety of tool and weapons.
Gallifreyans (in "younger" bodies) were, consequently, very physically able and highly athletic
A time lord perceived sounds from the TARDIS, while located several sections away in a larger spacecraft or planet.
Gallifreyans were capable of identification by taste. (see all of tenth doctor)Ā The Gallifreyan sense of smell was equal to their sense of taste.Ā They could do a chemical analysis of the air using their sense of smell.Ā On some occasions Time Lords were also able to judge what time period and location they were in by the smell of the air. (this explains that comic where rose was possessed by the ninth doctor and she basically became the ninth doctor for that strip while also talking to him out loud as he responded in her head: basically 9 was remy the rat and rose was linguini the hair-controlled human k thanks. so thatās a thing)
Gallifreyans were better at coping with sudden changes in position than humans and were harder to disorient.Ā
As well as the senses shared with humans, Gallifreyans had further senses, with at least a sixth sense. Gallifreyans had time- and spatial-related senses and physical attributes; they were able to resist fields of slow time, notice distortions and jumps in time,Ā retain perception of local time flow, including a secondary "backwards" consciousness during jumps back in time that could overwrite the one prescribed by forward time,Ā directly perceive the interstellar motions of cosmological bodies or their inhabitantsĀ ā including sensing the "shape" of the world to the extent that they were aware when trapped in pocket dimensionsĀ ā and perceive all possible timelines.Ā Due to their time sensitive nature, Gallifreyans could retain memories of negateĀ or alternative timelines. (so basically the wholeĀ āi wonāt remember thisā schtick from 50th was a sham. which explains why tenth doctor was looking for rose the second he heard bad wolf but he was on gallifrey and not earth. this boy was looking for the moment but like she just didnāt appear and then the button changed into a rose shaped one like wow ok bye)Ā The form of eidetic short-term memory, able to recall every insignificant detail of even the most moments in time (holy shit thereās no way you can win an argument with them. thatās fucking sad...for any human anYWAY).Ā on a quantum level, their brain could receive information from possible futures, possibly without even realising it consciously. (ahaha do you mean that the tenth doctor saw different futures where he saw all outcomes of doomsday which makes all those edits where heās living life with rose and donna as his sister fucking true but itās also true that canonically he went,Ā ānah, have tentoo im gonna skidaddleā and left THEM OKAY BYE AGAIN).Ā Time Lords shared a special mental connection to the structure of history. The chakras of the Time Lord nervous system could detect contours in the Time VortexĀ and also felt an instinctive gut revulsion towards fixed points in time.
The Time Lord brain was much larger and more complex than the human brain. The size differences effectively ruled out brain transplants from a Gallifreyan to a human, having one, two or three brainstems (so basically that whole plot in Get Out would have backfired so fucking hard. now that would have been a wild movie.) Time Lords could also separate the hemispheres of their brain, allowing them to multitask easily. Records on some planets indicated isolated cerebral hemispheres as a characteristic of Time Lords. Time Lords had an additional brain lobe dedicated to mechanical and other bodily functions, freeing the other lobes for intellectual endeavours. The autonomic functions could be artificially supplanted with a special device, allowing the Gallifreyan to think with their autonomic brain.
Gallifreyans could sense the presence of others of their own species, with the sense being specific enough to allow identification of one another just by sight, regardless of potential recent regeneration. (v and vin tend to turn this off because they like being surprised. surprises are fun.)
Body temperature of Gallifreyans are fucking Arctic or near Pluto levels, hence the layered clothing in the most hottest climate possible like what the fuck. it explains so much on why tenth doctor still donned that luau necklace thing because that was just a nice warm spring to him okay. which means if they get sick, you need oven gloves and a heat resistant suit. thatās what im gonna assume. like holy shit. no wonder that ice didnāt do shit for 10 in the 42 ep. good to know
Time Lords displayed the ability of touch-enabled mental manipulation; this manifested itself in a number of different ways, including hypnosis,Ā mind-reading,Ā thought sharing,Ā the ability to relieve dementia,Ā putting others to sleep, influence on others' dreams, memory erasure andĀ could also transfer knowledge quickly to another person by headbutting them. In addition, they wereĀ telepathically linked to one another and could join the entire Time Lord intelligence as one.Ā They could hold telepathic conversations over distances, but this was more difficult.Ā They could converse with each over the astral plane, although this ability required intense concentration, and an interruption might have fatal consequences for the Time Lord.Ā Their telepathy extended to less intelligent animals.Ā Perhaps because of this, they had an innate ability to understand any language.Ā In ancient times, Gallifreyans who were capable of blocking out the telepathic thoughts of other Gallifreyans were called Individuals. They usually had red-gold hair and often went on to become Young Heroes. (THATāS šš¾WHY šš¾THE šš¾DOCTOR šš¾WANTS RED šš¾HAIR šš¾šš¾ THEY šš¾ WANT šš¾ TO šš¾BE šš¾A šš¾INDIVIDUAL šš¾šš¾)Ā They were highly resistant against, if not immune to, other forms of mind control.Ā However, they were vulnerable to more powerful forms of mind control. (so basically Jessica Jones episodes 1 thru whatever episode Kilgrave doesnāt find out about Hogarth trying to inject herself with his DNA, they are immune but, episode where kilgrave injects himself with it and becomes powerful might be vulnerable to it if that same kilgrave did what cartoon kilgrave did with tony stark and used the stark tower to boost and spread his control over everyone...or you know, maybe can withstand wanda visionās control. maybe. i have to consider pythia and the karn so, itās a good 50 - 50 chance on kilgrave and wanda being able to mind control a time lord. like properly. so jot that down)
Gallifreyans (Time Lords) donāt have prostates.
