I have a question about the Scendeles chapter because I’m super confused?? What are its colors? TARDIS wiki states that it’s “light pink to a darker shade of red” but everywhere else I’ve checked uses brown/beige???
holy shfuck anon you’re RIGHT
And these are both from the Ancestor Cell even!!!! Fanon strikes yet again in yet another place it shouldn’t. Okay so my educated guess about what happened is thus: several years ago someone decided to make a headcanon/aesthetic post about the Scendeles chapter without having read The Ancestor Cell. Instead they hopped right on TARDIS dot wiki, searched up Scendeles, and found the page in the second screenshot. They then made an inference about what “subdued” means without doing any extra research (like at minimum going to the general Chapter page), and figured “hm I think bronze is a good subdued colour, maybe with gold highlights?” and smacked that Post button.
Since the Cerulean/Dromeian/Scendeles chapters count as obscure knowledge, a good mass of people (myself included) learnt about the chapters from Tumblr instead of picking up the initial facts from The Deadly Assassin and the bulk from The Ancestor Cell, Lungbarrow, et al. This isn’t a bad thing, and is how many many people are introduced to the EU as a whole, except for the blatant Scendeles misinformation running rampant on this website and infecting young, impressionable minds.
From that first fan post, people making other Chapter posts would probably try and find more scraps of canon from the individual Chapter wiki pages, roll onto Scendeles and find “subdued” with nothing else, and keep rolling with bronze/tan/brown. Hell, if you search “Scendeles” on google images over half the relevant results use the wrong colours, and if you look up fuckign “Scendles” all of them are. There’s even a Roblox guy wearing incorrect Scendeles getup.
To be fair, in The Deadly Assassin and some other Classic Who episodes on Gallifrey, some people sport yellowish/tan robes that don’t seem to fit in with the other Chapters’ designated colours. However, we also all assume everyone’s ceremonial robes are identical, like uniforms, and not more akin to a fancy dress or suit you bought to wear to the symphony, like I think they’re meant to be.
Still tho. My dear anon, you’re doing some great work out here, uncovering the Truth. I’m actually THRILLED Scendeles get pinky red and not fuckign tan or bronze
